Shi Tiesheng: I have always believed that truth is on the side of women since I was a child.

01

When I was reading the prose of a female writer, I once wrote a thought:

Especially today, we should often listen to women's voices, because the world is confused by men's thoughts and orders.

I grew up believing that truth was on the side of women.

I don't think, I believe.

This confidence may be because of the mother, or it may be because of love. No matter because of mother or because of love, it is always because of art.

A woman's mood, feelings, and haunting views are the essence of art.

For example, when a child is born and a tired man comes home, the origin and return of art are particularly clear.

I think this is not looking at art in terms of men, it is the discovery of art in the picture of ambitious human beings suddenly falling into confusion.

Therefore, the opposite of women is not men, I am talking about men, is the ambition to forget nature and home.

I sometimes think of Jia Baoyu and agree with his sadness, that is, the sadness of masculinity for women. In fact, it is the sorrow when practical utilitarianism expels beautiful dreams, and it is the sorrow when rigid rules extinguish wishful thinking.

02

Strong man

I often hear people talk about "strong women" and reveal derogatory remarks in their tone.

"woman" is originally a beautiful word (both men and women will think so). Why does adding a strong word in the middle become unpopular?

Is it not good for a delicate woman to be stronger?

Isn't it good for fragile women to be stronger?

Isn't it good for loving women (or women's kindness) to be stronger?

And the infatuation of women is more intense. What's wrong with that?

To tell you the truth, I don't like "strong woman" either. Even the image and pronunciation of these three words make me feel cold and disappointed.

Therefore, I think that the word "strong" does not indicate strong, strong or strong, but implies the other side of the word "strong"-coercion, rape, coercion, coercion, persuasion, imposition, and so on.

That refers to the female "strongman", the strongman, the robber, "only listen to a whistle, a group of strong men jump out of the forest to block the way."

However, the behavior of robbers is not limited to taking people's property and lives, but also those who seize people's freedom, will, power, wealth and fame.

However, most of this kind of "capture" is carried out covertly, naturally or even openly without a whistle.

So, because this kind of "grab" often acts as a "give" illusion, such as taking over, such as arranging instead, for example, making all thoughts on holiday with the hard work of one brain, which seems to be a burden for others, but actually deprives people of freedom and will.

The way to distinguish between "giving" and "seizing" is to see if there is a "strong" word in it. But those who are forcibly taken can go to the government to complain, while those who are forced to give have a hard time to say.

However, after suffering, the word "strong woman" was coined to vent the anger of being robbed.

So why is there only the word "strong woman" but not "strong man"?

Men must not secretly rejoice, which in no way means commendation, which is really a great shame.

The implication is about: men do not have to say-they are all strong men! Or what's more: men are synonymous with strong men, and this "strength" only needs to be specifically pointed out in women.

It may be overstated, but it really shows what kind of picture the male culture that has always been dominant is. It is to govern things by strength, to govern the world by strength, and to govern people by strong. In the final analysis, it is a powerful culture with the strong bullying the weak.

So Jia Baoyu pinned his hopes on women. So Jia Baoyu's sadness (if women also want to become a "strong man") is even more understandable.

03

Water, Green and Peace

The shape and spirit of a woman reminds people of water, green and peace.

Water, green and peace are the foundation of life and the unique beauty and glory of the earth.

But today, under our feet, in front of and around us, water, green and peace are becoming increasingly rare. While hatred and war never stop, the arrogant male culture is becoming more and more arrogant with the help of the success of science.

The success of science has brought us a lot of good things: comfort, convenience, abundance, longevity. But at the same time, it also gives us at least two bad things: the unstoppable desire for pleasure and the irresistible plunder of nature for this.

I am not a saint, but I am probably a hedonist. Why should people suffer for themselves?

But in pleasure, I often think: should there be an end to human pleasure? if not, the earth will inevitably be plundered by human beings one day, leaving countless bones buried in a desert.

Some people compare the runaway population growth to the cancer of the earth, which seems to be very appropriate.

Cancer is an originally harmonious physiological structure, suddenly there is an uncontrollable surge of cells, so that killing others also ushered in the end of their own.

I often think that cancer is a warning given by God to all mankind (not just to smokers).

The cancer is not over, and AIDS comes again. If cancer is a warning from God that population growth is out of control, AIDS is much like a warning to hedonism. (by the way, I think the word "AIDS" must be misused. The disease is not caused by love, but by pleasure without love. Is promiscuity and drug abuse love?)

It is also very appropriate to compare endless pleasures to the AIDS of the earth.

AIDS destroys the body's own immune system in greedy pleasures, resulting in loss of disease resistance and self-repair ability and death.

Similarly, because of the uncontrolled pleasures of human beings, the water on the earth is being polluted, forests and grasslands are decreasing sharply, and the ecological balance (peace in nature) is irreparably destroyed in the frenzied development of human beings (a protracted war against nature), causing the earth to become sick and getting worse and worse because of the loss of its disease resistance and self-repair ability.

I think of it this way: water, green and ecological balance may be the earth's own immune system.

We should hear "God's warning" clearly.

Like a man who wins or loses on the battlefield, think about what we have done. Like a man who goes home from the market, think about whether it is enough for us to bring back money.

We heard God's warning-it's possible that women will tell us:

We not only need material wealth, we also need love, beautiful dreams and homes, clear water, strong green, peace, peace between people, peace between people and all things.

So we need not only science but also art, and we need to look back and look back where men's ambitions have been frustrated.

This is the "God's revelation" that women convey to us.

Because a woman's mood, feelings and haunted vision, itself is the place of art.

(THE END)

Shi Tiesheng (1951 Mei 2010)

Chinese writer and essayist

Born in Beijing in 1951