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If you haven't read this book, you can read the following introduction from Baidu Encyclopedia. If you have, you can bypass it.
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when the spring comes, the snow, even if it is crystal white and free from dust, will eventually melt in the warm sun and disappear into the invisible. After a short flowering period, cherry blossoms have experienced desperate splendor, leaving only dust to cover up the sadness of cherry blossoms.
For Qing Xian and Becco, their doomed love itself is doomed to vanish in an instant, just like a cherry blossom with a short flowering period. After its branches are gorgeous, it would be better for the cherry blossom to turn into rain in an instant, but also for eternal silence in "death".
This is the theme of Chun Xue, so Yukio Mishima's Chun Xue is still not divorced from the mainstream emotional trend of Japanese literature. The brightest thing is the darkest, and beauty is the ultimate sorrow.
Qing Xian and Becco sacrificed their families and lives for love, which coincides with the choices of Koichiro Kumi and Riko Matsubara in Paradise Lost. Although they are a pair of aristocratic youths in Taisho era and a pair of ordinary people imprisoned by marriage in modern society, they all regard the ultimate dissipation as the most perfect eternity, and death and silence are the most fiery and far-reaching destination for them.
As for Chun Xue itself, this self-exile that goes against the imperial orders and the situation adds a rebellious color: the elegance of the aristocratic family, which has been regular for years, is actually hypocritical-Qing Xian grew up in a privileged aristocratic family and knows the arty ideas of his father and mother, but his generosity and compassion are undoubtedly a "sting" to his parents.
Mingming and Becco were childhood friends, but they never avoided admitting their love for Becco. Even if you want people to show their true intentions, pretend to be arrogant. The flame of their love burned in their hearts secretly until the emperor promised Congzi to marry the prince, knowing it well, but pretending that it had nothing to do with them. After the Emperor's approval, Qing Xian and Becco, who were equally proud, truly understood their love for each other and found the opportunity to release them.
"I am madly in love with Becco."
"This is absolutely impossible."
Being madly in love but impossible is doomed to be stubborn. After a long silence, it finally deviates from the whole world and is released. Before they were sentenced to death, she would rather escape into an empty net. He would rather drag a sick moth to the fire and see her for the last time. Even if he died in the end, he would not restrain all his passionate feelings and follow the meaning of the family and the emperor to live an ordinary life without love or hate.
The national character of the Japanese is also reflected. It can be summed up in six words: "If you don't do it, you will never stop". Even if it is short, it should be gorgeous.
There is a similar description in Chrysanthemum and Knife: The Japanese don't surrender easily, of course they are very loyal to the monarch and patriotic. Would rather commit suicide than defect. However, once they are captured and surrendered to other countries, they will be loyal and loyal to the new Lord, and there will be no second thoughts. Something like this.
Compared with the famous Kawabata Yasunari's works, Yukio Mishima's works both contain some tragic colors in Japanese literature, but of course they are different. As far as Chun Xue is concerned, this novel also contains a lot of philosophical thoughts. As a law student, I am deeply impressed by some thoughts of this country: < P > I am only ignorant of learning, but I still feel ignorant when I pay attention to this passage.
Another example is the religious thought contained in this book: at the end of the full text, when Ben Duobang visited the gate of Yuexiu Temple (similar to hosting), the gate told the story of Indra.
In Kawabata Yasunari's works, the figure of philosophical thoughts is not very common. In retrospect, there are more simple and ethereal snowfields, silent smiles, or hot springs with flowers and birds, and the words are permeated with some innocent and beautiful atmosphere.
As a digression in Kawabata's Snow Country, there is a sentence describing the voice of the hostess's leaves: "
The voice is clear and melodious, and the beauty is almost sad
"-it's also a good translation, but it's too beautiful, and the beauty is sad-just as all the grand banquets seem to have a sense of silence, and the joys and sorrows are in a certain degree one.
In Chun Xue, apart from Kiyoshi Matsuzaka and Becco Ayakura, several other characters, such as Benduo Fanbang, Liao Ke, the old maid of Becco family, Kiyoshi and Becco, are also distinctive. They don't describe the reasons for the limited theme.
Let's go back to the theme of Chun Xue-the elegance advocated by Qing Xian and Becco's aristocratic parents is not elegant to Qing Xian and Becco, but hypocritical and filthy.
only pure and fiery feelings, even if they are shocked by the secular world, can never be realized and destined to be destroyed, is true elegance.
the so-called elegance means breaking the ban, and it is the supreme taboo to offend. The choice they made in person is to gracefully move towards emptiness, to give birth to sadness from emptiness, and to eternity from an instant.