"My grandfather lived in the small town of Hulan River. When I was born, my grandfather was already over sixty years old. When I was four or five years old, my grandfather was almost seventy."< /p>

"My yard is desolate. It is covered with snow in winter and full of wormwood in summer. When the wind comes, the wormwood makes a sound. When the rain comes, smoke rises from the tops of the wormwood. There is no wind. If there is no rain, we will live quietly with the door closed. "This is Xiao Hong's Hulan River.

I got to know Xiao Hong because of one of her photos. In the photo, she was wearing a black coat, a knee-length skirt, and the then-new women's shoes. She smiled slightly, but her eyes showed an unspeakable melancholy. Just like her in "The Legend of Hulan River", so lonely and desolate.

The highest evaluation given to Xiao Hong by the literary world is "Literature Goddess", which seems to be an accurate description that distinguishes her from contemporaneous female writers such as Zhang Ailing, Ding Ling, and Bing Xin. Xiao Hong is like Luo Shen, talented, cold and independent, but she always falls into a helpless fate, which is pitiful.

When Xiao Hong wrote "The Biography of Huhelan", it was when the Chinese nation was experiencing aggression. She started brewing it after the July 7th Incident, started writing it when Shanghai fell on August 13th, and completed it in Hong Kong in December 1940.

The past few years are the epitome of Xiao Hong's misfortune: he was displaced in the war, deeply mired in love, his hometown fell into the hands of the enemy, and he even died without anyone around him.

She longs for warmth and love and has been pursuing it, but reality and life will never let her get what she wants. As she said: "The prospect of the future has been placed in front of me, and I will be lonely." , melancholy for life!"

Countless dark memories are running around. For Xiao Hong, the coldness and paleness of reality has already penetrated the dreams of the girl in the past, and blood overflowed.

In "The Story of Hulan River", Xiao Hong is lonely. A little girl who became sensible very early, planted small cucumbers and large dwarf melons in the back yard every year, and played with some butterflies, grasshoppers, and dragonflies every spring and autumn, but in winter she could only grow in the dark and dusty back yard filled with old things. room for recreation.

Her grandfather was her only companion in her lonely childhood. In the early morning, I would imitate the Tang poems dictated by my grandfather in bed. During the day, I would pester my grandfather to tell those stories that I was tired of telling.

If there is any sudden splash in this ordinary life, it is simply that the Hu family’s reunited daughter-in-law is sick, and the Hu family dances every day; or Feng Waizuizi suddenly has Got a wife and son.

This lonely life may be the source of her lonely mood throughout her life. The more vivid it is, the more desolate it is, just like the song in the pink room in the work. Unwilling to accept the situation, she was too "bright" in that gray and dark era, and she was out of place.

From the age of 19 to her death at the age of 31, Xiao Hong lived in each city for no more than one year. When living in a city, she often has to move several times.

Wandering has become Xiao Hong’s fate in her short life. That time, the destination of Xiao Hong's escape was Hong Kong, where she wrote the work "The Story of Hulan River" that can be described as "moving".

In "The Story of Hulan River", Xiao Hong created a pinnacle work of "memory style" with her skillful recall skills, lyrical prose style, and heavy yet light writing style.

Mao Dun once commented on Xiao Hong's "The Story of Hulan River": "It is a narrative poem, a colorful folk painting, and a string of sad ballads."

Hu The gray tone dyed by Lan He stretches out, the tragedy is close to the body, and the coldness makes people feel indescribable pain in the silence.

On the banks of the Hulan River, which was "born here and grew up here", the fire clouds were turning and changing shapes, and the moon in the sky was dancing on the river, but it could not hide the desolate silence.

I can't describe my feelings when I read "The Story of Hulan River" for the first time. How many nights did I wet my pillowcloth with tears for her. What kind of suffering have you experienced in your life to make the words desolate through the paper.

Perhaps it is because Xiao Hong has lived in the Hulan River, a remote town since childhood, that Xiao Hong has connected his flesh and blood with it. In this way, she cut open the memories of love and awakened the black truth. The skin was cut open, and a pool of pus and blood flowed out.

Compared to the foolish man and woman in "The Field of Life and Death". The souls of the ignorant people of Hulan River are deeply imprinted with history and culture. Faced with a large mud pit covered with layers of silt that brings disaster to them, people would rather find ways to take a detour, or take pleasure in watching "cars and horses, drowning chickens and ducks".

The daughter-in-law of Little Reunion was put into boiling water and scalded to death by "kind-hearted" people just because she "didn't feel shy at all when meeting people" and "twirled her eyes." The good Sister Wang turned into a "bad woman" just because she chose to marry a poor peasant, and eventually died in constant ridicule...

The trap used by victims of traditional culture He held on to his own shackles and went to kill others, and while he was bleeding, his hands were stained with the blood of others. However, this cruel behavior was carried out with an extremely sincere and kind attitude.

The novel ends with a down-and-out mill worker struggling to survive in this cannibalistic world, refusing to be swallowed up by a big mud pit.

The plain and low-key line drawings reveal toughness and stubbornness. Perhaps this is Xiao Hong's temperament that is fused to his bones.

If Xiao Hong's "The Field of Life and Death" "for the first time vividly and boldly exposes the body of life, letting it dance among the chaotic breeding animals and the silent and gloomy slaughterhouses and graveyards," then However, "The Story of Hulan River" drives the meaning of life and death out of people's vision, and writes an "almost nothing tragedy" when people are more indifferent to life and death.

At this time, Xiao Hong's feeling about life seems to have gone beyond the simple boundary of life and death, and is thinking more deeply about emptiness and desolation. Like the wandering souls of the dead, death has already been touched.

However, apart from her works, what moved me even more about Xiao Hong was the "ambition of Nora" she showed in "The Story of Hulan River", the independence of Nora who ran away in Ibsen's novel Confused, following your heart.

Lu Xun asserted in "What Happened to Nora After She Left" that after Nora ran away, she "either fell or came back." However, Xiao Hong, the runaway Nora, basically preserved her original purpose and lived independently.

Some people may say that "The Story of Hulan River" is too gloomy, but people who cannot clearly see the warmth and coldness of life cannot be said to have lived it. At the end of her life, Xiao Hong revisited her childhood life and wrote "The Story of Hulan River" to find a home for her soul.

Hulan River, an unspeakable memory, comes to an end in the endless confusion. What she writes is a bright desolation, as well as a transparent view of life. For Xiao Hong, a strange woman who has passed away for many years, reading "The Biography of Hulan River" is the best memorial to her.