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The age of red romance

The age of red romance

By danielle carsonPublished 3 years ago 4 min read

"The Colonel's Daughter" is one of the representative works of the famous writer Wang Hailing. Its original name is "Bloodiness Romance III, The Day the Roses are blooming". My initial understanding of it was from the TV series with the same name. This has nothing to do with too much snow moon wind flower, but they are surprisingly consistent fantasy that one day can also meet their own Jiang Shian. Love in that era is very beautiful, perhaps not complete into a form, but incomplete into another kind of perfection. I think that true love is just like Kang Shi-an and Han Lin, which is based on mutual encouragement and mutual support.

Jiang Shi 'an is the leading actor in the movie. He is from an ordinary soldier with nothing to a division commander step by step. His personal military career has been a rapid rise, which of course has a lot to do with his personal struggle and efforts. At that time, Han Lin is in love with Peng Zhan, he did not have any special feeling, succumbed to the pressure of his father Jiang Shi 'an had to marry a few years older than his family's rural girl Cuihua wife, just like most arranged marriage, they are no love, for a pair of children Jiang Shi 'an to maintain the marriage in name only, and then met Han Lin after he said very painful: I have lost the right to love you. Han Lin personal marriage feelings of the road is also unusually bumpy, and Peng Zhan combination and break up, let her physically and mentally exhausted. As time passed, Han Lin found her true feelings in the middle age. She finally realized her love for Jiang Shian. In 1998, Han Lin and Jiang Shian stood on the same side in the flood fighting work. Together to recall the past years, two people are full of emotion, but relatively silent.

Marriage is not the only form of love, this is one of my feelings after reading this work, just like the two of them, obviously love each other, but because of a variety of moral and responsibility, they will not choose to marry, I think this is a success of the daughter of the senior colonel, the beauty with defects is the most inspirational. Like the broken arm of Venus, incomplete to her perfect without any damage, but there is a kind of heart-palpitating beauty. In an exclusive interview Wang Hailing talked about how the lead characters in the book did not follow the idea that lovers should end up together, saying that they could not be together unless the cui-hua disappeared. "How could Han Lin destroy the happiness of such a helpless woman as Cuihua for her own love, even if it was only material happiness? Neither can Jiang Shi 'an. They are both responsible people and their values dictate that they will not seek their own happiness at the expense of others' pain. Would the two of them be happy if they joined and let one weak person take care of everything?"

Han Lin and Jiang Shian are both intellectuals. Their upbringing and moral responsibility stop them from the sacred marriage hall. Jiang Shian's wife Cui Hua is a rural woman with no culture, and she is not a pleasant character. But think from the other side, she can not choose to have no culture, which is determined by the environment she grew up in. After becoming a "military wife", she carefully take care of her father-in-law, pull a pair of children, inside and outside the top, fully support and cooperate with her husband's work, for Jiang Shi 'an to provide a stable "rear". The success of Jiang Shian later Cui Hua. Later, Han Lin came to visit Cuihua personally, from the heart, Han Lin is guilty and unbearable, this is also later they just become a big omen of spiritual partner.

Han Lin is too smart, too rational, she said: intelligence is the source of misfortune. Lao Tzu is right, "no worries about learning"! Han Lin is a talented intellectual woman, which is an advantage in her creation, but not so optimistic when she applies it to life. A woman should be confused when confused, too smart, see through all, don't have to shape in color, confused sometimes is a good thing. As she looks at Peng Zhan's derailment, the treatment method is too rational, so it pushed him farther to a certain extent, the pursuit of perfection of Han Lin is so smart over the line.

There was another key point, which Hanlin later lamented: Her sacrifice had to be premised, and she was like a sober investor weighing how she should love. At that time, Han Lin also like Jiang Shian, but did not have the meaning of in-depth development, family opinion, vanity, secular forces and so on are limited to her, so she will not put Jiang Shian as one of the choice of spouse, but the young she can not predict nothing Jiang Shian will be a great achievement, become an outstanding general. In fact, as the original says: where in the world is there any pure love? All love is the result of weighing all kinds of conditions, talent, temper, character, achievement, age, occupation, money and even nationality, race, health, depending on what you care more about. Of course, the emotions of the temperament are not included in it. All these factors can not be summed up in the feelings of temperament people, optimistic is not necessarily good, do not see good is very good. I wish I were the latter.

What is marriage? With all these factors weighing and reweighing, Wang hailing wrote the other ultimate in sexual relations, which is "human nature". Therefore, there is no so-called ambiguous or passionate paragraph in this work. At most, there is a hug at the end, but many readers often cry during reading. Human nature, is such a great existence, so in the end their love sublimated into a Platonic bond, and this bond will continue to the end of their lives.

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