Wen San who walked through the wolf smoke.
When you first see the topic, you may be a little confused. But if you have read Du Liang's "Wolf Smoke Beiping", you should know this maverick and impressive character.
A rickshaw driver who lives at the bottom of society, Wen San, is a line that the author runs through from beginning to end. He witnessed the vicissitudes and changes of the eight-year War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the three-year civil war and more than 40 years after the liberation of Beiping. Wen San is like Ah Q in Lu Xun's pen and Camel Xiangzi in Lao She's pen, with a little numbness, a little ignorance, a little cleverness, a little funny, and a little sad and lamentable. The inferior nature that Bai Yang said was fully reflected in him. is such a small person, but it was used by the author to thread the needle, telling the cruel struggle between the Japanese, the puppet, the state, and the Communist Party during the Anti-Japanese War, and reproducing the national quality in the war and the various states of life in the troubled times.
As a grassroots person, he thinks that his behavior and actions are natural and normal, and everything else is sick and unreasonable. In him, he has not only the simplicity and kindness of the toiling masses, but also the character of being reckless and getting by when he is weak. When bragging, he likes to call himself "Master Wen", but when he is beaten, he immediately kneels down and pretends to be his grandson;When I met a patriotic female college student holding an anti-Japanese fundraiser, I was immediately dominated by an emotion, and my face suddenly turned red, my two small eyes were shining, and my whole body shivered from time to time. As soon as his head was hot, he took out the two yuan given by the shopkeeper Chen, hesitated for a moment and put away another dollar, and then threw the one in his hand into the donation box without hesitation.
Especially that mouthful of Beijing**, the vulgar market slang, the ugliness of the scoundrel and the forbearance, numbness, selfishness, and ugliness of the national psychology are all displayed in front of you, let you mourn their misfortune and be angry, I am the one who is the master, and what can you do with me. It is precisely because of his funny performances that it seems more life-like and more real. In addition, Xu Jinge, the military commander, Fang Xuelin, the underground worker of the Communist Party in Beiping, and Lu Zhongyong, the descendant of Zhengbai Banner, Bai Lianqi, Xiao Jianbiao, who played black and white, and Jinfa, the son and grandson of Tianjin gangsters, etc., all of the lifelike characters truly reproduce the social life and appearance at that time.
Wen San's body fully showed the Jingyouzi under the roots of the imperial city at that time: bragging: he always boasted about how good his kung fu was, especially after drinking two taels, he was even more full of trains. Showmanship: Several chance encounters with the Kuomintang military commander have become his capital and pride for showmanship, which makes him believe it. Real-time business: When you encounter something that is really fatal, you will immediately pretend to be a grandson. From time to time, he also slapped his swollen face and became fat, and he was stunned to pretend to be a "master", and his selfishness and vanity, blind arrogance, spiritual victory, and spectator psychology and other disadvantages can be seen at a glance.
When I was learning to drive for a while, I met an old Beijinger. is only twenty-four or five years old, but his old Beijing accent, habits, style, accent, and manners are so similar to Master Wen. He thinks that those of us who came to Beijing later are all outsiders, that the entry of outsiders into Beijing has caused prices to rise, that we are all in other places, and that our old Beijing (not yet the new Beijing) is a mouthful, and so on, which opened my eyes. I really experienced Wen Ye's pie (a bite of Beijing**), Wen Ye's handsomeness (whether the clothes are worn out or not, they feel good and messy), Wen Ye's Beijing plot (how we in Beijing began to tell the story of old Beijing before I moved), Wen Ye's tolerance (let you outsiders come to Beijing, but you have to admit that we are old Beijing) and helpless (taking the subway is too expensive to take the bus) and so on.
*The content involves a lot of content such as the geography, customs, slang, costumes and other customs of old Beijing, and is a rare good work to understand the humanities, geography and history of Beijing. But it is precisely because the author pays too much attention to these contents that the other characters except Wen San do not seem full enough, and the plot is not compact enough. is slightly inferior to "Bright Sword" and "Blood Romance".
This article is a personal opinion only, please forgive me if you are offended).