It’s easy to understand. Duke Huan of Qi, the overlord of the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period, had such a glorious career in his life, but later he was locked up in an abandoned palace. A small hole was dug in the wall. Someone stuffed him some food through the hole every day, but he eventually starved to death. .
Qin Shihuang swept through the six kingdoms and unified China. It took 720,000 people to build his mausoleum for thirty-eight years. The beauties collected in Epang Palace in the three hundred miles are like clouds and their smiles are like flowers. But when he died during the parade, Hu Hai, Zhao Gao, and Li Si hid him among the dead fish for fear of leaking the news.
Qin General Meng Tian and Meng Yi were from Mengyin, Shandong. Their ancestors defected to Qin from Qi and led the army to fight out of the Central Plains and destroy their mother state Qi. Meng Tian was worshiped by the First Emperor as the best general in the ages. He filled ravines and built the Great Wall from Gansu to Shanhaiguan in Liaodong.
My younger brother Meng Yi was also worshiped as an internal official by Qin Shihuang, and he was extremely favored. His glorious achievements shine like the moon. However, Zhao Gao assisted Hu Hai in usurping the throne, killing Fusu first and then Meng Tian. Meng Tian said, "I have a heavy army of 300,000 men. I can rebel, but I will not rebel because of my righteousness, so I died."
Prime Minister Li Si, needless to say, in order to win favor, he did not hesitate to use greedy words and persecute his fellow student Han Fei. He also helped Qin II, the youngest son of the First Emperor, usurp the throne and persecuted Fusu and his court officials. Later he was arrested by Zhao Gao. He and his son were led out of Jin's head by the executioner.
Li Si said to his son: Holding the yellow on the left and holding the blue on the right, can we father and son still do it? It means that I really want to go back to the countryside in the past. I hold a yellow dog in my left hand and a goshawk in my right hand to hunt birds. It feels so comfortable to go hunting in the mountains. But is there still that chance?
In all of these, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" created by Marquez uses magical realism to shape the century-old life history of Aureliano and Colonel Boone's family in the town of Macondo. Among them is this famous saying -
All the brilliance in life must be repaid with loneliness in the end - Yes, Duke Huan of Qi, Qin Shihuang, Meng Tian, Didn't the Meng Yi brothers, Li Si, and the traitor Zhao Gao, who later regarded a deer as a horse, use their final and violent deaths to compensate for the brilliance of their lives?
So, Marquez concluded: No matter where you go, you should remember that the past is all false. Memories are an endless road, and all past springs cannot be restored. Even the most wild and tenacious love, in the final analysis, is nothing more than a fleeting reality, and only loneliness is eternal.
It’s funny that when Meng Tian died, Qin II planned to let him go, but Zhao Gao didn’t allow it. Afraid that Meng Tian would kill him if he survived, he sent his servants to kill Meng Tian. Meng Tian said, "I, the third generation of the Meng clan, have expanded the territory of the Jun family for thousands of miles and have been loyal to me. Why do you have to die for me!"
He asked Yichen to convey his words to Qin II, but Yichen said that my mission is that you must die, and I cannot convey your words. So how stupid is Meng Tian? He doesn't know that the change of ownership is a conspiracy, but he thinks that he presided over the construction of the Great Wall. He may have dug out the dragon's veins, which led to the disaster of annihilation.
That is suicide!
So, when Marquez was living in France, living in a small attic and writing this book "When I Was Alone", he couldn't even pay the rent and often went hungry to write the manuscript. Once the novel was published, It immediately became popular all over the world and was published again and again. Even he himself said: Don’t read my book anymore! How come 70 to 80 million people read this book?
That’s because he didn’t know that his book hit everyone’s pain point and had to arouse a scream in everyone’s soul! For example, you hate those people so much and fight with them for so long, but in the end you become like them. Nothing in this world is worth the price of such sinking!