I finally finished reading "Fortress Besieged" on the first day of the Lunar New Year. It seemed to be a summary of the past and a new beginning. Regarding Qian Zhongshu's "Fortress Besieged", we are familiar with the classic saying "People in the city want to escape, and people outside the city want to rush in." If you read this book just for this sentence, there is no need to waste time. To read this 250,000-word book, you only need to search classic quotes about the siege on Baidu. However, what is gratifying is that I still read some new gains this time. 01 One of the gains: Why read classics

“Fang Hongjian was confident that his friendship with her would end here, just like two parallel straight lines, no matter how close they were to each other or how long they stretched, they would not fit together. Come together and become one.”

I have read this metaphor of a relationship as two parallel lines in many emotional articles before, and I secretly admired the author at that time. Well, until I read "Fortress Besieged" today. 》Only discovered that it was not what the authors thought of themselves.

When I was in college, I just read some miscellaneous books, including romance novels, historical books, and of course some magazines. Mostly for the purpose of passing time. Then I started writing, hoping to improve my writing skills step by step. Then start reading some famous classics. However, when I saw some classic "passages" or classic quotes, I discovered that those I had seen in miscellaneous books before turned out to be from "classics". Those people were not much better than me, but they were just I just read "three or five more" books than you.

I remember Zhang Ailing said in "Rumors" that why she reads classics is because even if the theme is outdated, reading the story several times may bring out new ideas. Calvino also wrote an article "Why Read Classics" which you can find and read.

"Another quality of classics is their ability to transcend time, space and cultural differences, making every reader feel inspired and say something you wanted to say but couldn't."

?02 Harvest 2: The most practical secret of love

Those who are in love may wish to read more, the pages about Su Wenwan and Tang Xiaofu’s scheming. You will find that falling in love is really a technical job. Su Wenwan seemed to like Fang Hongjian a little bit, but she lived a very realistic life and was extremely powerful. This can be witnessed from the fact that she later married Cao Yuanlang.

Tang Xiaofu really liked Fang Hongjian, but she was too unworldly and too idealistic. "The person I love, I want to be able to occupy his entire life. Before he met me, he had no past and left a blank space waiting for me -" This is Tang Xiaofu's declaration of romantic love. It seems that in the real world, finding a person like this It's hard for people.

"Everyone knows that women are unwilling to spend money to buy books. Men are willing to buy sugar, clothing materials, cosmetics, and give them to women, but they are only willing to lend her books and not buy them as gifts. Women also Don't ask him to give it away. What's the point? Once you borrow a book, you have to return it. A book can be used as an excuse for contact twice, and there is no trace of it. Once a book is borrowed, it will be a big problem. ”

This paragraph is a truth that has been tested in practice. Many romance novels and college students have practiced it and it is invincible.

?03 Harvest Three: Fang Hongjian is you and me, but you must not become him

I remember when reading the book "Fifteen Years of Wanli", the book mentioned When studying a work, you should pay attention to the theme, story structure, character description, presentation and interweaving techniques of the work, rather than studying whether the characters are moral and appropriate. Because the characters themselves are fictional and created by the author, there is no need for moral judgment and it is meaningless.

Therefore, I don’t want to judge Fang Hongjian’s morality. However, many things that happened to this character are as familiar to you and me around us.

This novel uses humorous language to write about Fang Hongjian’s career, marriage and love. Fang Hongjian was an extremely humble little man, with many traces of modern people in him. Yang Jiang mentioned in the postscript that Fang Hongjian was based on two relatives of Qian Zhongshu. One was ambitious and talented, and was often full of complaints; the other was arrogant and liked to brag and sing. There is no attractive plot in the whole novel, it is just a mess of trivial matters. If it weren't for Mr. Qian's extremely humorous language and subtle metaphors and irony, it would be difficult to read it carefully.

Fang Hongjian is uneducated, has no opinion, no ability, etc. Therefore, instead of attributing his life to the environment, it is better to find the reasons from himself, so we should read more about his unbearableness and then warn him Own.

?04 Harvest 4: Find opportunities by yourself, find happiness by yourself

Miss Bao is an unpopular character in the novel, and the author also gave her the surname "Bao" which means " The "abao" of "Abalone Restaurant". I specifically searched on Baidu and found out that Abalone Restaurant is a fish shop where you can buy pickled fish. However, Miss Bao seemed happy. She clearly knows what she wants, has a fiancé, and is flirting with Fang Hongjian. It seems that her philosophy of life is "find opportunities by yourself, find happiness by yourself." It seems that she is happy every day. The philosophy of life is correct, but it seems that the way she uses it is a bit disagreeable.

If you read it carefully, Sun Roujia seems to have the same philosophy of life. She tried her best to marry Fang Hongjian, as if she wanted to find stability in the war.

But after all, there are too many unsatisfactory trivial things in life, and she can't do anything about them. She is an articulate, independent and scheming girl. She understands that her family background is not very good and she has nothing to rely on. She also understands Fang Hongjian clearly. She scolds him for always relying on Zhao Xinmei, but in her heart she hopes that he can Live a good life with him. She is indeed using all her energy to find opportunities and happiness for herself. However, the irony is that Qian Lao spent 50 pages describing all the chores and quarrels after she and Fang got married, full of sadness and helplessness about life. .