In recent days, the hit drama "Flowers" directed by Wong Kar-wai and starring Hu Ge, Ma Yili, Tang Yan and Xin Zhilei has frozen the story in Shanghai in the nineties of the last century. 
Drunk gold fans, modern neon, some people use thunderbolt means to overcome obstacles in the business field, and some people dream of returning to the Yellow River Road every night, and they handle the "no sound" just right. can be counted, but it is still the best looking for men and women to eat and drink, and the food and color are also, no matter how cold people and stereotypical things, they can soften and warm up in a plate of dishes, and those often ignored market gas once it rises, it is the sun by the window. When it comes to eating, Wong Kar-wai's camera is also very good, slowly paddling over and shaking it for you, always before you open your mouth, there are thousands of words, and before you have time to eat, there are feelings on the side of the bowl to show your freehand. Otherwise, it would not have just finished a few episodes, and "Pork Ribs Rice Cake" would become famous, and everyone wanted to take a bite to see if they loved pork ribs more, or liked rice cakes more, and also tasted Miss Wang in the play, between heartbeat and frustration, what kind of sorrow and farewell would there be. 
TV series "Flowers" Miss Wang has a famous saying, saying that no matter how delicious things outside are, they are always not comparable to pork rib rice cakes. It's easy to define sex in one sentence, no matter what delicacies you have, I only recognize this bite. There is no other reason, because every time she talks to Po about something, she eats this bite. We are used to seeing a person obsessed with a certain taste, and on the surface it is a mistake in the mouth, but in fact, there is always a person behind it. Human nature is like this, everything is not separated, through the five senses to the end, and the end is all the heart. A plate of pork ribs rice cakes witnessed this part of the journey between Mr. Bao and Xiao Wang, only Mr. Bao knew that Miss Wang would come to eat pork ribs rice cakes when she was sad, and only he would eat rice cakes by herself when Xiao Wang ate pork ribs, and if she ate both, he would watch. There is indeed a "pork rib rice cake king" in Shanghai, named Xiandelai, which has been open for 100 years. The fried pork ribs are tender and juicy, crispy when you bite into it, and the golden rice cakes are dipped in the sauce, soft and glutinous and sweet. It's delicious, but you can understand it in an instant, pork ribs rice cakes, and in the end, pork ribs are pork ribs, rice cakes or rice cakes, even if they are in the same plate, they are still distinct. Although this time-honored brand in Shanghai did not appear in "Flowers", it still exploded!Recently, there was a long queue at the store. With the continuation of the TV series "Flowers", a number of Shanghai delicacies, including pork rib rice cakes, chicken feet and feet, and Dingsheng cakes, have aroused the enthusiasm of citizens and tourists. In the play, one of Miss Wang's favorite delicacies is pork rib rice cake. 
Stills from "Flowers" It is rumored on the Internet that "Flowers" has been on the air for a week, and pork rib rice cakes have become the top search stream on the takeaway platform, and the search volume has skyrocketed. The characters in the play ate with relish, which also made the audience salivate, and found the same food, and some citizens immediately placed an order for pork rib rice cakes, "Healthy eating has become popular in recent years, and I really haven't eaten such a 'calorie bomb' for a long time, but in the TV series, I saw Miss Wang eat so deliciously, and I couldn't control it." "Data from Ele.me shows that the takeaway orders of Shanghai delicacies such as pork rib rice cakes, chicken feet feet, Dingsheng cakes, and fried dun zi have increased to varying degrees compared with before the broadcast. Among them, the search volume of pork rib rice cake has increased nearly 7 times, and the number of takeaway orders generated has skyrocketed by 240% compared to last week. Among them, the most prestigious "freshly obtained pork rib rice cake" has the largest growth rate. 
"In the 90s of the 20th century, as long as pork rib rice cakes were mentioned, Xianlai was definitely the only choice, and it left the memory of that era in the city. In the interview, a citizen said. Why is it authentic?The author understands that Xiandelai requires stores to strictly follow the standard process for cooking, no matter how busy the business is. When the oil temperature is 200 degrees Celsius, put the pulped pork ribs flat down in the pot, use the posture of pulling the hand to make the ribs more evenly heated, quickly remove them after frying for 30 seconds, trim them for later use, and fry them at a high temperature of 250 degrees Celsius for 20 seconds, so as to fry a piece of crispy pork ribs on the outside and tender on the inside. 
The script of "Flowers" is based on the long-form Shanghainese of the same name by Jin Yucheng, the executive editor of the post-50s "Shanghai Literature", which was published in "Harvest" magazine in 2012 and caused a sensation in the literary world. In 2013, Jin Yucheng won the 11th Chinese Literature Media Award and the 1st Lu Xun Cultural Award for "Flowers". "Flowers" has been praised as one of the best Shanghai** in history, and has even been compared to Zhang Ailing and "Dream of Red Mansions". 
* "Flowers" The highlights of the TV series "Flowers" must be known to the audience, but the beginning of the original ** "Flowers" makes readers "immediately stunned". Go to the attic alone, preferably at night. At the end of "The True Story of A Fei", Tony Leung rode a horse to find a horse, the hero was dark, counted the banknotes under the electric lamp, counted them, put them in the inner pocket of the suit, counted them again, took out a deck of playing cards, opened them to take a closer look, and then found a pair. Next, comb your hair, divide your hair into three or seven parts, comb it in the mirror, your whole body is straight, your bones are slow, and finally, turn off the lights. No, this half a minute is the taste of Shanghai. If you don't believe it, the head sticks out of the dormer window, ah night, the layers of roofs, the crying cavity of "Bentan", the neon is eye-catching, the bones turn into light beads, soft red, and thousands of flowers are like the sea. In the 60s, the radio was the edict of Lunyin Yu, ordered to be cautious, and the Yasheng was prosperous, and then reproduced the "city light" of the Shanghai night, with a trace of Suzhou Creek moisture in the wind, the taste of pickles and soup and yellow croaker, and the smell of yellow croaker in the pickle soup, heard a repeated female voice in **, and went to Paris with you, and went to Paris with you. There was a new tenant on the other side, a small robe hanging from the window, eyes raw, black tiles, a few white wings fluttering. In the 80s, Shanghainese people were smart and opened a new small restaurant, digging three feet into the ground, with an extra storefront and an extended attic. At this stage, Zhapu Road, Yellow River Road, etc., this kind of two-layer structure is common, and Jinxian Road is the same, it is inconvenient to look up when entering the store, a few jade legs in the railing, or Feng Zikai's so-called "meat legs" are hanging high, and you can hear the upstairs talking, coupled with the poorly ventilated oil wok, the man feels that the warbler is swallowing, and he has no mind to eat wine. The ancient Roman poets had a saying, and if you are not profane, you cannot make people laugh. 
Wong Kar-wai's "Flowers" The most amazing thing about "Flowers" is its language, which is all short sentences, which is very effective. The difference between a short sentence and a long sentence is that a long sentence of 100 words may only need to say one situation, but a short sentence of 100 words may say more than a dozen. Take one of the passages as evidence: four people, agreed to have dinner together, and then went to Nanjing Road, the black pagoda left, moved forward, went down, and merged with the hazy wall lamps, cigarette butts and starlight. Another example: Miss Mei on this day, she smiled lightly, vomited gently, a meal, three people, talked very happily, very happy. These clips are all about trivial things, all aspects of people's lives, quarrels, love, broken shoes, divorce, etc. After all, they are all activities of small people, and Jin Chengyu's narration is plain and unhurried, which is very reminiscent of the scene of a messy aunt in a Shanghai alley, wearing pajamas and pajamas and pouring a night pot. 
Poster "Flowers" But the pattern of "Flowers" is very large, the love, hatred, sorrow, joy and sorrow of the little people are naturally driven by external forces, and develop, otherwise how can the life of ordinary people be so tasteful, full of ** conflicts and climactic layout?"Flowers" is a typical two-line narrative, with two lines of the protagonist when he was a child and when he grew up. When I was a child, the line spanned the whole of the "Cultural Revolution" movement decades ago, and when I grew up, this line was the early stage of reform and opening up. At the end, the two lines merge, and the fate of all people gets an ending, which is not very satisfying, and everywhere you see a faint pathos. In this movement, the bourgeois family is always the first to be impacted, and the changes and contrasts before and after naturally occur are the greatest, and the combination of simple heart and complex surroundings collides with tragic tragedy. At the end of the article, although they have been rehabilitated, people's psychology has changed, and it is another mess in order to compete for family property. Therefore, it is not only childhood and youth that have been lost, but also the piano and gold bars that cannot be recovered, as well as the warmth in people's hearts at the beginning. This is a kind of thought ambushed in the ** plot, Jin Chengyu did not break it, but the sentences of the characters' quarrels exposed these. 
* "Flowers" may have been formed in the censorship environment for a long time, I was quite surprised by some of the "out-of-line" expressions in "Flowers", if according to the previous standards, this must be a problem**, talking about the great leader called "** also mentioned the crash many times, after all, this is also a key point in the change of the fate of some people in **. After reading this book, a friend complained that the book was full of plots of this man ** messing around, and he didn't like it. However, I think the depiction of many of these scenes is also extremely amazing. For example, Miss Wang said that when she returned to Shanghai from Changshu, Shoutou Hongqing still revitalized the "eight-character policy of agriculture", based on agriculture, cultivating rice and wheat, rushing to plant seedlings, single-season rice, double-cropping rice, and deep cultivation night and night, which made me dizzy. There is not a single yellow word in the whole paragraph, which makes people laugh when they read, but they understand what this is really about. 
Stills from "Flowers" The author Jin Chengyu was born in Shanghai, and is quite proficient in Shanghai culture, especially the grasp of the atmosphere of life in the market, which is also one of the highlights, including the use of Shanghai dialect colloquialisms, you can get a glimpse of one or two. For example: "Tao Tao smiled and said, Shoutou, good story, why do you want to tell it separately, I don't wear a long shirt or a folding fan, it's not Suzhou storytelling, Yangzhou commentary "Pi Wu Spicy", what do you do with a hard appetite, I can meet this kind of person, I am deflated." Of course, there are many tragic characters in the book, but I personally think that the saddest one is Shuhua, a bourgeois intellectual who logically belongs to a bourgeois family and lives a petty bourgeois life, and is the object of criticism by the movement. The temperament of this person makes people look up, and the fragments of life are also vinyl records, ** and poetry, and there is a letter she wrote to Hu Sheng that highlights the image of this character: We don't have to contact each other anymore, the older we get, the more lonely we feel, it's normal, born independently, and die independently. People and people can't communicate with each other, the good and bad conditions in the world are no longer worth laughing at, and life is a desolate journey. That's all I have written, and I don't have to reply to this letter. The understanding of life is more and more limited by the people and the times, but it is precisely because of the historical burden on his body and the cognition that he is incompatible with the times that Shuhua was finally assigned to the Northeast to cut the queue, where he married a farmer, and almost went crazy after giving birth to a child, which is a completely different image.
Author Jin Chengyu **There are two characters in the ** that make people sigh, one is the grandmother who told and told the story of her grandmother's escape from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Heavenly King Mansion with gold, and the other is the innocent Betty who searched for the piano, **The two disappeared in the middle of the period and have not appeared since. There are actually two contrasts here, one is that it was after 1949, and Grandma still remembered the fake story when long hair was rampant, and the other was that the innocent Betty suddenly drowned in the crowd and there was no trace of her. The so-called contrast, the taste of which needs to be savored by the reader. There are such intriguing plots everywhere in Jin Chengyu's book, and the more you think about it, the more you can understand the sadness in it. After the reform and opening up, I read a lot of small books about the "reflection" movement in the past, and some of the details were quite heavy to read. I found that most of the works in the modern Chinese world, especially the ** category, except for the tasteless youth**, are mostly mentioned in the post-movement era. One reason for this is that the current dominant group of writers is mainly those who have experienced it, and they have the power to interpret, evaluate, and retell it through their own experience and reflection. Including people like Mo Yan and Jin Chengyu. It may be a mistake to say that, but my personal feeling is that way. And their generation is a person who has inherited the tradition before the movement, such as Jin Chengyu's **, you can read the Shanghai flavor in Zhang Ailing's works. Even Hong Kong's Huang Biyun** can read this taste. And including after Jiang Fangzhou's generation, the clear point is that the tail of the post-80s generation and beyond, it may be due to age and experience, the accumulation is not enough, I even think a very important deep reason is that the traditional is broken, and the taste is almost invisible.
The streets of Shanghai are stylistic and linguistic innovations, but in terms of the form and content of their works, the style of the new generation is more inclined to Westernized narratives, which leads to the inadaptability of their works. Native people have developed a problem of adaptation, which is the modern disease of our generation. I may be a bit harsh in this view, but I feel that an environment and the language that has been dependent on it for a long time are a symbiotic and mutually supportive relationship, and the environment provides the material and narrates in a specific language, and foreign monks are not necessarily good at chanting. Perhaps, this situation arises not because the current generation has lost its traditions, but because it has lost them, and the experience of their generation is too poor to tell the stories that have existed for a long time in our ancient lands. At most, the most you see them doing is traveling around, writing travelogues, or talking about psychological problems, or writing beauty reviews and storage tips, or even writing game guides, and then what?And then there's nothing.
* "Flowers" I don't even know who to blame, and it's a question of who is to blame for this situation. Taking 10,000 steps back, if the current "lying flat" generation of new young people can be said to be living in a new era, then this is not a new era that suddenly appeared. Take many people as an example, when they were young, they were still playing with mud, catching cicadas, fishing, and picking wild fruits, and now they are mobile phone AI Internet of Things, which can be regarded as an era of rapid change, and there are always some aspects worth thinking about. "Chaozhongcuo, Zhangtai, Yang Liuyueyi", Song Cai Shen, Zhangtai, Yang Liuyue, Yiyi. Fly to send spring back. The courtyard is long and quiet, and the garden is dark and red. The flowers before the court are gone, and after the clouds are gone, things are not people. There is only a tear in the chest, sprinkled all over the stump branches.