When I was in college, there was a famous article in the Chinese textbook "Songs of the Chu·Nine Songs": "Ghosts of the Mountain". It's about a woman who will never get old, dressed beautifully, but has been waiting for a son who will never return in the deep mountains where the sun is not seen. Some call this woman a female ghost, some call her a goddess, and some say she is a mountain god and a ghost. Pick a few sentences that I think are particularly pictorial: The rest of the place is secluded and the sky is never seen, and the road is dangerous and difficult to come back alone. The table is independent on the top of the mountain, and the cloud is on the bottom. The night is dark and the day is dark, and the east wind is blowing the rain of gods. Staying in spiritual practice and forgetting to go home Picking Sanxiu in the mountains, Shi Leilei and Ge Manman. I feel sorry for the son and forget to go home, and I have no time to spare when you think about me. Translation: I can't see the sun in the deep bamboo forest. I came late because this road is really difficult and dangerous. Standing alone and then reaching the top of the mountain, the clouds and mist dissolve and float under the feet. The day was dim and dark like night, the east wind swirled, and the gods rained. Leaving only the goddess, I completely forgot to leave, what can make me look as bright as a flower forever when I grow old day by day? I picked the longevity zhi grass in the mountains, and the rock Leilei kudzu vines coiled around. Complaining that the young master forgot to come back, do you miss me? Don't you have time to come find me? In fact, no matter who she is, the sentence "Do you miss me?" has crossed 2200 years and opened up the mood of all the crazy men and women in the world. The teacher assigned an interesting homework after class: to continue or rewrite "Ghost of the Mountain". After writing the first short story in my life, I wrote many ghost stories one after another: the white-haired flower spirit who was betrayed for thousands of years in the deep mountains, the fish spirit who went ashore to repay her kindness and turned into a brothel woman, and was beaten to death by her lover in a modern city The catwoman... At that time, I just graduated and didn't have a job. I wrote on Tianya, and then I was busy and became an eunuch. (Also tragically sprayed by netizens) Recently, I want to go back to my old business and write ghosts. After watching "Dumpling" and "Bridge of Life and Death", I was anxious to share a writer. At night, people eat wind and moon, and ghosts eat people. Li Bihua.
Hong Kong talented woman. Write ghosts, write color, a good hand.
"Farewell My Concubine", "Green Snake", "Rouge Button", "Bridge of Life and Death", "Dumplings" and "Seducing the Monk" are all her works.
In "Farewell My Concubine" Liyuan, Cheng Dieyi's obsession with Duan Xiaolou is about a man's love for a man.
The classic rewrite of "Green Snake", Green Snake falls in love with Bai Suzhen, and talks about women's love for women.
"Rouge Buckle" The prostitute and the young master meet to swallow opium to die, but the heartless man lives for a hundred years and talks about the love of men and women.
"Pan Jinlian's Past Life and Present Life" is also a classic rewrite. It tells the story of the reincarnation of Pan Jinlian, a prostitute through the ages, who falls into the entanglement of three men similar to Wu Dalang, Wu Song and Ximen Qing, and tells the story of women's ups and downs in love...
As a screenwriter, her writing style is very visual, and many movies have been made:
How does it feel to look at these posters? Secret, love, desire. Yes, the rushing feeling alone is addictive enough. secret. The first is the mysterious setting. Just say "Dumpling", which redefines "rejuvenation". Mask, laser, or facelift? No, women are nourishing from the inside out—eat dumplings, and fetuses make stuffing. After Mrs. Fu finished eating, she immediately fascinated her husband who was looking for flowers and asking willows everywhere, but she hadn't touched her husband for a long time. Broken leg and cast in plaster, still wanting to stop and grabbing it is turning clouds and rain. And strange people. The one who made the dumplings, Aunt Mei. A former obstetrician and gynecologist, with smooth skin, slender body and neat movements. The age is unknown, but in short, she is a temptress, so young that she is called a "living sign". (The film deliberately used the camera to close up her plump and erect breasts many times to build up strength for the story behind) Eroticism. Next, the bombardment of lust. Of course, the first thing that catches the eye is the color. The first time: Fu Tai's husband answered the phone with a pang and promised to celebrate the 15th wedding anniversary. Why are you panting? Don't ask, Mrs. Fu knows it well. The film fills the gap here: a slender, snow-white ankle vibrates violently in rhythm, hanging from a thin platinum chain. What's more, following these words to appease Futa, the young girl threw her underwear at him coquettishly.
The second time: After the rejuvenation of Mrs. Fu, she was impatiently on the hospital bed. There is an even more incredible third time: My husband went to Aunt Mei and pretended to threaten: I heard that you have illegal activities here. However, after a plate of dumplings fell, he was full of energy and lustful, and he and Aunt Mei vented each other like livestock. But only color, too vulgar. I'm not talking about lust. lust. Under the background of sex, the desire of the human heart. The story of "Dumpling" revolves around the word "youth" that desires . Futa's husband loves young bodies. He quit the entertainment industry at the age of 25 and married his wife with peace of mind. To the young girl with the thin platinum chain that made him gasp. And Aunt Mei, who made him angry. youth? Aunt Mei is the most "young". When he was most unconscious, he saw a photo of Aunt Mei when she was young: 20 years old, taken in 1988, in her 60s this year. Soft for a second. Guess what Aunt Mei said: The numbers are false, you see my body is real, you touch, you touch the real thing... The rich husband's state is back.
It means that he really only wants a young body. Yes, not to talk about virtual feelings, this is not a kind of "real"? It takes strength to remain "real". So he eats live beads to keep his face day after day. (Egg hatchlings that already have heads, wings, and feet in the eggs are called "live beads")
And what about Aunt Mei? Greed for power. She is a mainlander and yearns for legal status in Hong Kong. For this reason, she gave up her first love, a literary man, and went with a pork seller. The book describes her disgust for this husband:
Just as he was talking, the fat man had already scooped up a bowl of soup with added ingredients and killed it "gulugulu". Yue Mei washes the dishes by herself. Leng Bu's pair of greasy and smelly hands and fleshy body hugged and pressed tightly from behind, wanting to "rectify the Fa on the spot". He has no culture, but is full of sexuality. For a man who has no love at all, he begs for pleasure, and she socializes, it's just a routine.
She is too utilitarian to use any means for the purpose, so when she shows her face, she is flattering. Originally, she only wanted to earn money from the rich, but she did not expect to meet Mr. Futai while earning money, who was a strong rich man after a long drought. She is naturally happy. Obviously, she's simpler. Don't talk about love, only talk about needs.
The most complicated is Fu Tai. She is inseparable from her husband's captivity, and she has fantasies about love. So she went from an ignorant girl to a timid rich woman to a vicious woman. But time and time again, her husband was reluctant to give alms, and she couldn't shine a ray of light in her powerlessness. Wei Wei also held it fiercely, even at the bare bones of his fists. Eventually turned into a perverted woman. The film version has details that the book does not have. Futa watched him in the waves, burning with anger, and dropped a whole row of hatching eggs. Unexpectedly, one actually stuck out the newborn's head. The always timid rich woman actually used high heels to make up her foot - as if she was no longer afraid of the unborn life, and madly sucked. It also foreshadows her disgust with her husband's desire for "youth". The dumplings wrapped with the fetus not only nourished her face, but also fattened her desires. As soon as the desire rises, his face shows a fierce look. There are two interesting intertextualities in the story of Futai's desire for youth. After finally eating a 5-month-old "superior" fetus, she rejuvenated her husband so that she didn't even go to the company. At a respectable banquet, she stinks all over her body. This is the bad fruit. She ran into the bathtub, curled up helplessly and aggrieved, crying in the corner of the bathtub. Isn't the naked, curled up posture exactly the same as the fetus she swallowed? Those weak and deceased fetuses seemed to be swallowed up by her, but they actually swallowed her mind and everything she had in another way.
There's one more place, at the beginning. It was the first time Mrs Fu sneaked into the dilapidated old town to ask about Aunt Mei. The camera captured an old lady plucking her facial hair twice. For the first time, among all the living beings in the neighborhood, some people play cards for money, some people tease birds for fun, and some people pluck their faces for beauty. And what does Futa choose? The camera uses the old lady who pulls her face as the foreground again, and gradually focuses on the rich lady who is looking around. It also hints you in the language of the mirror: what she chooses is youth.
Then you can see how the response at the end of the film. Fu Tai is really "rejuvenated", but it is only memories that rely on Li Bihua's brushstrokes and the director's shots. Everything went back to Fu Tai's 25-year-old wedding night. The bridesmaids coaxed her to make a wish. She smiled and piled up a face full of collagen and said:
I want him to love me forever. I want to be happy forever. I want to be young and beautiful forever.
And these three -- none of them came to fruition.
Because she can't be young forever, so he won't love her forever, and she's just not happy anymore. This seems to be just a love story, and it can go a little deeper and become a philosophical topic: Is looking forward to eternity always lost?
Of course, this is just one of Li Bihua's desires. In her story, you can find a common phenomenon. People are always greedy and greedy. But all you have to do is tear open the human skin fiercely, and you can see the sinister, bloody human heart at the end of the darkness. For example, the most common ones written by Li Bihua:
Scumbag.
The men in her books are rarely good. Like before, the husband of Fu Tai mentioned in "Dumpling". He is a man who will always love only twenty years old, but women revolve around him. In the end, Futa became vicious. In order to wait for the rejuvenation of a 5-month-old fresh fetus, she asked the girl wearing a thin platinum chain to have an abortion at a high price; Aunt Mei's den was destroyed by the police, and Aunt Mei returned to the village to live, without the nourishment of the fetus, and gradually became ugly and old. ... Only the realistic and salty man was safe. The spring dream is still awake, and another woman can do it - of course, preferably a girl.
But there are also scumbags who end up scary. In "The Woman Who Eats Brine Ducks", the "mother adore him... He is strong and handsome, with a black eagle tattooed on his chest... He is pain-free and has a big chest. He is fast and accurate when cutting goose, even A Chaoshan man with a black eagle tattoo that also spreads his wings to fly" disappeared after the affair. When all the neighbors thought that this man had abandoned his family and children, "I" got married, and my mother carried a small bucket of the more delicious brine as a gift: Your father is inside... and in "The Demon Pillow", hiding the front Her girlfriend's old belongings, and her weak man who privately helped her, was found by the suspicious current girlfriend and left in a loud noise. My girlfriend had insomnia every night. She found a medicine pillow in an unknown grocery store in the alley, and she fell asleep when she touched it.
In every night's dream, her boyfriend always grabbed her to vent frantically. Later, when she woke up, her hair fell and fine lines crawled on her face, and she turned her head back to her dream. In the throes of desire, the man asked: Aren't you afraid of death? Answer: Not afraid. Later, the girlfriend's friends and even the police received the man's distress text message. When breaking into the door, the woman hugged the pillow and smiled sweetly, stiff. After checking again, it turned out that there was a lot of shoveling that night. The man was stabbed to death by his girlfriend and put it in a compression bag and put it in the closet - and never left. A woman also dreams of death, because of guilt. pity. The man in the dream is an old demon, not a boyfriend. After all, her boyfriend forgave her and found someone to save her.
These modern Liao Zhai-style ghost stories are like the strange novels I read when I was a child in a Chaoshan home with a strong religious atmosphere. Many years later, those mysteries are still buried in my heart, becoming a magical freedom like a tree hole. It's hard not to wonder, how did Li Bihua write so many treasure-like stories? But she was only a legend in the arena and disappeared.
She said: Don't be so curious about my appearance, I'm the kind of person who is put in the crowd and is not easy to be recognized in particular. There is nothing to describe. It’s good for me to keep a proper distance from people and things outside. I don’t always remember my influence. I don’t think about how many people are reading your writing. Fang Cai can really write in a dashing and unrestrained manner.
There is a little story. Back then, she also went to Cannes with the crew of "Farewell My Concubine", and everyone left behind pictures of her youth, but she still didn't show her face and insisted not to disclose her photos, life experience, and age. And all I can find is her background: she grew up in a big family, her grandfather in the countryside was very rich, she had four wives, and a concubine. His father made Chinese medicine and lived in his grandfather's property, so Li Bihua grew up in an old-fashioned building with a high roof and wooden stairs, and had heard of many old-fashioned personnel struggles. These few strokes may be able to spy on the secrets of those people in her writing. The old hearing and the free imagination have formed the ghost world that she will write in the future. In her own words: When writing, I really entered such a world, and if I speak a little more mysteriously, it seems that someone is using my hand. to write. Hey, it's Xuan.
In an era of entertainment where everyone is making gimmicks, for fear that others will not remember. There is actually an author who has become her novel, a mysterious and mysterious secret. cool. The world is full of emotions, and the hearts of the people are all interesting and beautiful.
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