Roufu Diji

Chapter 17 Epilogue: Human Love is Old and Easy to Sad

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1.read

After reading the final version of "Rou Fu Di Ji", it was already the beginning of autumn in 2005.When I opened the first paragraph of "Rou Fu Di Ji" on the Tianya Forum two years ago, the green shade of early summer was spreading calmly; now the pagoda trees are falling outside the window, and the end and the beginning seem not far apart.And it was two years in a blink of an eye.Two years is enough for a person to experience some ups and downs and changes, to meet some people, and to be separated from some people.In this age of impatience, novels published on the Internet are either quickly obliterated and forgotten, or they are quickly published to realize commercial value. "Rou Fu Di Ji" was completed after two years, which is an anomaly.In the past two years, there have been lively discussions with netizens flocking to post, and there have also been silences when the author wrote a pen lock post.At that early summer, I am afraid that no one thought that we would experience two years of time, quietly maturing between interaction and introspection.

Among the amateur novelists who use the Internet as the publishing medium, Milan is a fairly traditional maverick, with rigorous materials, dense text, and tireless polishing and scrutiny. He is not an impromptu writer born of passion.At the same time, she is an author in the Internet age, adhering to the spirit of sharing and interaction. The serialized posts of "Rou Fu Di Ji" often become a salon of gossip from all over the world. Netizens with different knowledge backgrounds freely express their opinions on characters, plots, and words. All that aside, her posts tend to be a buzzing saloon.Milan is an enthusiastic and modest salon owner, but she maintains an independent will to create. Others’ eloquent rhetoric and diligent reading expectations can’t really influence her writing. As a reader, I can’t fully understand the impact of interaction on the Internet on Milan. What kind of important and subtle influence does her creation play, she is by no means a traditional novel author who writes books behind closed doors, but she does not create for the sake of online fame and online reading pleasure.She kept a certain amount of silence in communication, and her writing was both her own exploration and an experience shared with everyone—reminiscent of what Roland Barthes called the ideal form of writing: both passive and active, both sociable and independent .

"Rou Fu Di Ji" is a process, both for the author and the readers.Many readers like me have been thinking about this story over the years, and read it online in different corners of the world. At this moment, I silently think about it and suddenly think back. Ji's reading memory.Re-reading the whole story gives me a feeling of accumulation. The years quietly seep into the novel, and the process inside and outside the text interacts subtly. As time goes by, some riddles are guessed by us, and some are unexpected. Surprises turn into emotions. Ridiculousness becomes tragic, and indifference becomes mournful——The theme of "Rou Fu Di Ji" is not the sadness of love, nor the rise and fall of the times, but the changes of life. It narrates the process of growth or decline, ruthless or Between impermanence, it reflects the lingering and eternity of life.

2.imaginary

Therefore, "Rou Fu Di Ji" is not strictly a historical novel, but a fantasy dream that modern people read through history.The mind of the writer is constantly switching between history and imagination, between established records and blank suspense, between the dead and the eternal reincarnation.From the end of Xuanhe in the Northern Song Dynasty to the beginning of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty, it is a famous history of pain in ancient China. The prosperity is extremely prosperous and the current situation changes drastically.Modern people go through those long and complex historical materials, imagining the displacement, honor, disgrace, joys and sorrows of those living individuals in that era.The original historical records are either technically detached, or have different interests but are inconsistent. After getting rid of the shackles of historical research, it is the freedom of the novel.

The author did not avoid the blood and embarrassment of the Jingkang Rebellion, and the feeling of being separated from the millet is so old and easy to be sad. "Rou Fu Di Ji" has elements of fiction and imagination. Fiction is devoted to the reality of literature and to the real pain and embarrassment of the "eternal present world".The author tries his best to create a real texture in the novel. On the premise of completing the context of the story structure, he tries his best to pursue the truth of history. Wenjianlu", and even "Three Dynasties Beimenghuiyao" and "Songhuiyao".Most of the characters and events in the foreground of the story are collations and retellings of historical materials. Milan’s news media background enables her to have the ability to summarize efficiently and fluently. .The characters in the background of the story, the jade box like purple sesame, the honest and careless Gao Shirong, the literary and elegant Zhao Kai...all have their own fantasies and difficulties, and each has deep and complicated sorrows and joys. struggling.

The protagonists Zhao Gou, Roufu, Wanyan Zongjun, and Yingfu in the close-up main line are not the historical Song Gaozong, Roufu Diji, Eluguan, and Empress Wu. They each performed the corresponding deeds recorded in historical materials, bearing and embodying the author The ingenuity of the design, from the swing in front of the Huayang Palace in Bianjing to the fan in the Deshou Palace in Lin’an, has spanned Zhao Gou’s life, from a lonely boy to a lonely old man, usually the loneliness under the cover of prosperity, how many lost and found during the period, Gained and lost again, how much thrilling and unbearable to look back.The sigh in the state of the world is like Nalan Xingde's famous sentence "If life is just as it was first seen, what is the autumn wind and the sad painting fan. Waiting for leisure to change but old people's hearts, but old people's hearts are changeable.".The sigh of rise and fall is Zhu Xiaozang's "No peace will be remembered forever, but only Taiping and youth".However, these ancient sentences cannot fully describe the reading experience of bystanders.

As a female author, Milan's design and grasp of the characters' emotions are delicate and subtle.But the emotional entanglement between the characters in "Rou Fu Di Ji" is not the usual golden wind and jade dew and flowing water and high mountains.The devil Mephisto sang: "Who can get what he wants, this question is so sad." In "Rou Fu Di Ji", no one's dreams can be realized, emotions can find a destination, and love remains pure. No one can be in love with each other. Find peace and happiness.This fate comes from the times, and also from the inescapable selfishness, greed, hypocrisy, arrogance, and vindictiveness of the human heart.The author also has feminine cleanliness, restraint and restraint in the design and handling of emotions.The seemingly taboo love between Zhao Gou and Roufu is that each other regards each other as the perfect self in fantasy, and there is no real understanding and resonance. They changed each other in the ups and downs of the Jingkang Rebellion. The blueprint in my heart shaped the other party back then, and the result was naturally disappointment and despair.Yingfu may fall in love with Zhao Gou because of her understanding, but her love can never be reached because her understanding is becoming clearer. The understanding of love has turned into a strategy and a sharp weapon in the power game.Zong Jun and Rou Fu couldn't get rid of the "brave alien" who played with and enslaved the spoils of war.The changes of the times gave the characters impossible encounters and encounters in the Qingping era, and their retention and containment of each other is like a mockery of God's will.

Of course, the story structure of "Rou Fu Di Ji" is not all for emotion. On the contrary, the emotions of the characters are born in a broader era of elegy. Love and hate are not as pure as the love of children. Clumsy, absurd, pointless life.There is no preconception of moral judgment in the design of characters, and it is by no means a combination of moral nihility. All kinds of characters grow in the tide of the times, presenting contradictions and harmony, colorful and polymorphic.For example, the protagonist Rou Fu, the novel is named after "Rou Fu Emperor Ji", Rou Fu runs through the main line of the story, she is a rare bright character in the novel, in the upside-down world, she is always the bright light of life And heat, Roufu's love for Zhao Gou is a girl's romantic ideal of a hero, unwilling to believe that her nation has been exhausted to be slaughtered, her ideal was pure and bright at first, but the blood and death of Jingkang's shame soaked Eager upward life, enthusiasm and purity become high and fierce, hope ends in despair.The scheming and prudent infant also has intuitive sensibility, and the regret of his life may be that he did not make any mistakes; Zhao Gou was favored by the times, and opportunities gave him the possibility to realize his ambitions. He seized power and gave up responsibility.No one aspires from the beginning of the story to become what it will be at the end. Readers can appreciate or despise it according to their own life experience and knowledge background. However, pity is inevitable in appreciation, and sympathy is often accompanied by condemnation. After the fate of "God's will is always high and difficult to ask", there are complicated worldly situations.

The same is true in the design of auxiliary characters, such as Webster. Webster is not a positive image. In the plot, she bowed to the enemy and directly led to the death of Rou Fu. However, the author did not describe her as a simple hypocrisy and indifference. Thin.Her experience is more or less comically absurd, and there is still an inescapable nostalgia in her betrayal and degradation.Under the teasing and ridicule of fate, her pursuit of advantages and avoidance of disadvantages, and her self-deception under the cover of the death of others are the inescapable selfishness, weakness and incompetence of ordinary people, making it impossible for readers to face the darkness in their own souls from above. she scolded.

3.history

It is not uncommon to see novels with the Jingkang Rebellion as the background. Most of these novels try to describe the author's interpretation of that period of history, but the uniqueness of "Rou Fu Di Ji" is that the author's ambition is not to interpret history , to build a model of the era that has been compensated by imagination.It is easy to refer to Huang Renyu's "Bianjing Remnant Dream" with Roufu Diji as the protagonist. Huang Renyu explained: "Novelists, "fiction" fiction also, history only pays attention to how the facts unfolded. Take into account whether it should be carried out in this way.Huang Renyu's Rou Fu and Milan's Rou Fu are obviously not the same characters, and they are both inseparable from the historical Rou Fu, and the novel has its own embrace under the framework of history.

The author does not intend to pursue the responsibility of each character in the collation and retelling of historical materials, and to implement a historical causal chain based on moral judgment; instead, he uses history as a framework to construct a story of the characters' survival and change in such a dramatic era.The author's focus is on the eternal emotion in the world - when responsibility and power come suddenly, or even greater responsibility and power come first, how life slowly decays and becomes unrecognizable - the dilemma faced by various characters in the historical situation And torment, is the eternal world. "The present is a moment in which the future goes back to the past." Readers are lost in the past, the present and eternity. What they contemplate and reflect from reading include thoughts about history and sighs about life.

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