Reflection on Women's History (I): A Book of "They"
A book of "them"
China's traditional culture has always attached great importance to "one yin and one yang is the Tao", and the so-called male is yang and female is yin. Men and women are components of society. Only when yin and yang are balanced can society develop harmoniously. Whether it is the feudal society with male supremacy or the modern women's liberation movement, it seems that "writing for women" is still a thing that cannot be put on the table. There are a vast number of cultures left over from ancient times, and most of the books specifically aimed at women are books such as Biography of Women, which pay attention to women's three obedience and four virtues. Many women are buried in the dust or written by others. Women are half of the yin and yang poles, and this half deserves attention.
This "History of Women" is a pornographic book specially written for unknown women with knowledge and philosophical thoughts. Author Yang Dian, a writer, guqin artist and painter, comes from a musical family, and has written Personal Paper, Qin Martyrdom and so on. Jumping words is like plucking a string, one string and one column, which has the tenderness of a poet and the wisdom of a writer. It adds a magnificent color to this book.
Most of the women recorded in Women's History are neglected women. "Especially those women who have really existed and been ignored, try to write from the perspective of women." As the saying goes, there must be a great woman behind a successful man. The value created by men also includes the unknown contribution of women behind their backs. In history, it is men who shine brilliantly. It is worth noting that "the more cruel the big era and the big environment, the more it is often reflected in the little girl." Why to write about women is obvious.
Big times, focus on small things. Yang Dian takes poetry as the carrier and combines various writing techniques to reproduce the joys and sorrows of women living in empty or dark places on the earth as much as possible, as well as the ups and downs of their lives. Their tears, sadness, sadness and smiles, as well as their red crisp hands, cherry mouths, snow-white wrists and small waists, are all reflected in the gears of time and will not let them go with the wind.
Will not go with the wind, there are still many young lives falling. Chastity has always been a curse on ancient women. In Xun and Gong Xun, a woman whose husband is dead should be chaste, and if the deceased is an emperor, she should be buried. Among those who keep chastity, some self-destruct their looks (cut off their noses, gouge out their eyes, cut off their hair, etc.). ), some live alone in the attic (no one has been seen since her husband died), and some even go on a hunger strike and throw themselves at each other. Among modern women, there are women who jump into the sea collectively, young women who voluntarily marry water ghosts, and even commit suicide by burning charcoal with scientific and cultural knowledge. In foreign countries, Marta Halle, a beautiful spy who was tortured to death, lost her mind in a mental hospital. "The first half of her life is art and love, and the second half is darkness." The talented female sculptor Camille? Claudell ... a woman's life, who can tell? Is it lucky or unlucky to be born a woman? In the concept that brothers are brothers and women are like clothes, how innocent are those women who are insulted and hurt?
In poetic style, it is female beauty and female sadness. In his concise words, it is the nature of compassion. Introduce your personality without losing your concern. Write about a woman who releases her nature because of "* * *" and understands life like a monk who rescues epilepsy through love and desire. This unique way of writing expresses the feelings of millions of women. Women are history and poetry.
Reflections on the history of women (II): Only women can understand poetry.
When I first read Yang Dian, I opened the history of women, just like Grandma Liu who strayed into the Grand View Garden. I saw many miracles between the pages. The author's style is light, but the lines are heavy. Yang Dian said that the book named "History of Women" not only included the original intention in the Book of Rites, but also included the real female representatives in historical facts at all times and in all countries, regardless of their identities and irrelevant identities, which disrupted the order of time and space and was "confused". This way of writing makes Yang Dian's "History of Women" more antique, close to the popular notes of Ming and Qing Dynasties in form and spirit, and melts fleeting inspiration into the carrier of poetry, which is both a poem and a story, and a vivid portrayal of women.
Yang Dian's understanding of women is by no means classified as rouge powder as traditional, nor is it too high, but as he said, "eternal women lead us to find another way". Looking at the whole history of women, it can also be called an attempt to find another way. In order to better express the true feelings of the world, Yang Dian chose to write about women, and indiscriminately chose various famous heroines or unknown lovers. Both female writers and female killers have a place in Yang Dian's works. The style of the poem is in harmony with femininity, and the jumping and emotional language describes the trivial life state and delicate feelings of women very aptly. Although it is a short poem with exquisite words, it still shows a rich life story and a rather heavy background of the times. In the process of reading Women's History, the reading of annotations is also essential, and the combination of parallel prose is not procrastinating and vague. This arrangement is naturally very clever, and it is summed up in the book as "because only women can understand poetry."
After reading this book, the most unforgettable ones are not the legendary women who have gone down in history, such as Shi Pingmei, who was once called the Four Talented Women in Women's Liberation with Zhang Ailing, who died young due to depression, or the female leader of the Boxer Rebellion in the late Qing Dynasty, or the once famous "Shadow Princess" Raventhal, who was "the most beautiful woman in Germany" in Hitler's eyes. Compared with these shining brilliance and violent falls, the silent struggle of ordinary women has a deep and slightly sad poetry. In The History of Women, Yang Dian wrote about women who committed collective suicide more than once. Proudhon said, "Love is death". For women between ignorance and awakening, suicide has become a tragic life gesture. Yang Dianyi wrote "Golden Blue Dream", referring to the "youthful" women in Hui 'an, Fujian during the Republic of China. In the dead of night, when the bright moon was in the sky, she thought deeply about her own death and then resolutely died with her sisters. Another poem shows that in Hong Kong at the end of last century, women died of charcoal burning one after another, similar to the secret political party active in Italy in19th century. However, these women who committed suicide "never understood nationalism or cared about chemistry or Italy, but they are revolutionizing for the freedom of inner secrets."
In the history of women, we can experience a blend of ancient and modern, unconstrained beyond the region, or an extraordinary moment, which permeates the poems about women, with lingering sound and pleasant fragrance.
Reflection on Women's History (3): A light comb of thousands of women's history
The history of thousands of women in Qian Qian is gently combed.
-Reading Yang Dian's History of Women
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This book with a peach cover is called A History of Women. It is on the table. It's only two days from knowing to holding it in your hand. The paper in the book is crisp, the font is small, and the layout is simple and elegant, which makes people feel at ease to read. One afternoon and one night, the 347-page History of Women poured down, and for the next few days, my brain was pounding and pink and bloody. I wonder, how curious do you have to be about the opposite sex before you need to clean it up with books? Especially when the author is more prominent as a painter and pianist? Writing books is generally because: there are doubts to be solved; Have something to say; Profit. Why the author? "Female history" refers to the names of ancient female officials; Descendants of the Middle Ages generally refer to knowledgeable women; In modern times, it can also refer to the history of women. This set of original 108 lines was deleted to 10 1 when it was published. Which is the point?
"Women's history is full of pictures, and the books are colorful and different", which is the first sentence in the book and the first article of "Sex maniac". In this article, the author lists the ancient celebrities such as Shangguan Waner, He Shuangqing and Princess De Ling. List famous foreign women like Andreyeva; There is a "she" interspersed in the middle, which may be the person around the poet: "I take her elegant sitting posture as my politics"; In other words, return to self: "You are against the system and I am against myself"-this model is about the model of women's history: classics, official history, unofficial history, and strange girl's biography in anecdotes; Comment on An Extraordinary Fragment of foreign women: A glimpse of a "she" in memory; And the author's inner track in the process of reading classics and writing a history of women.
Describing these lines as a biography or comment on a woman's history (sometimes men come and go, but their behavior is strange) is a rude description of Yang Dian's intentions and words. Throughout the book, the first thing that makes the author curious is the people and things he chooses: people, mostly celebrities with unruly fate, arrogant grandmothers, female spies, and women suppressed by various forces and names; Things, but also selected some strange things: Yi, tail crime, hate guns; It seems that the author thinks: "Good is only repetition, and evil is creation." From the perspective of writing books, "housewives" are the same, and women outside the family are different. Choose a different book.
What is new and unusual is the style that Yang Dian chose or created. Its structure consists of two parts: text and notes. The text consists of historical materials, allusions, quotations and poems. Written in different lines, the words and meanings are basically the same, that is, what you see and think, just say it directly. Classified as "poetry" by critics, the author himself seems to agree with this classification and confidently thinks that "narration is lyric". What is more extensive, complicated and time-consuming than the text is the comments after each frame of the text, which not only indicate the source and comments of the materials, but also the author's understanding and re-creation. For example, on the seventh page, the entry of "Wu Tingyan" is like this ... In my opinion, such as Gorchak, Chiang Kai-shek, Wang Jingwei, Li Chengwan, Wu Tingyan (family), Emperor Baoda and Cambodian Lang Nuo, there is a sequential and inheritance relationship, and it is by no means an independent phenomenon. Studying them is the knowledge of a generation. "These crosses are not limited to annotations, but provide a perspective for the author to study and understand such problems. These annotations enrich and broaden the connotation and extension of poetry, making each poem stand at the center of historical materials at all times and at home and abroad, "just like a utopia built among girls." Because of its rich indexes and annotations, History of Women is not an exaggeration to call it the natural history of women, and can be read as "another history of women".
It is self-evident that writing itself has the function of cleaning and healing, and it is two-way, and only the writer can understand it. I don't know how many years it took from the beginning to chapter 108, but I obviously feel that the fashionable and angry author at the beginning is looking for the object he wrote from the periphery and the surrounding circles, and is also looking for a breakthrough to understand another gender. When describing, interpreting and reorganizing the "history of women" at all times and at all times, the author not only enriched or deconstructed your original female image, but also became more and more immersed and humble in the huge index and speech, showing sympathy and pity in the narrative. Yang Dian's writing style is sharp, accurate and malicious, with some sharp pornography of "Yamato" (instead of * * * in the Southern Song Dynasty). In his works, his pen difficulty and inner kindness make it possible for those ill-fated women with ambiguous reputations to be understood. The strange events described from his personal point of view seem to have been reopened in ancient books and surfaced.
I have known Yang Dian online for many years. Gradually, I know that he was born in a musical family. He studied violin, guqin, Chinese painting, calligraphy and seal cutting, and practiced Tai Chi since childhood. I have never seen boxing before, and several other arts are excellent. It seems that he takes turns to release his talent in these skills every day and releases a batch of works every ten and a half months. From a distance, this way of life is very similar to that of China literati a hundred years ago: reading and ploughing in the rain-reading and writing at the same time, and writing is a part of daily life. Just like planting in the field, as long as it is carefully treated, it will bear a batch of fruits every once in a while. The chapters of Women's History are probably selected from the complicated characters. It is close to reading, close to the author, but not necessarily close to the reader. After all, writers standing on the sixth floor are unlikely to let readers on the third floor get close. There are three reasons for writing a book. It is better to believe that women's history is for profit than to write a book. But can there be a fourth reason for writing a book? Writing (including playing the piano and painting) is just spending time with a beautiful thing? In fact, the author's strong memory of extensive reading and inferences, coupled with the timely capture and powerful writing of the mood at this moment, is living a life, that is, getting along with time gracefully.
The first sentence of the last song "Carrying Baskets" is: "The history of women is far-reaching, and the books are colorful and strange", which is only two words more than the first sentence. This consistent layout makes women's history circle, as if the author's heart also circles-from "Goat" to "Holding the Basket" is the return of mood and content. Creative people always spiral up, and it has been seen that the author has been "gnashing his teeth" of masculinity.
Finally, I have some doubts: Does Yang Dian know anything about Chinese medicine besides piano, chess, calligraphy, boxing, novels, poems and TV plays? Ancient literati generally read medical books and prescribed medicines for themselves and their families ... I have to ask if there is any chance.
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In Suzhou
Book reviewer profile:
Yang Mu (1964 ——), a contemporary poetess and writer, was born in Jiangsu and now lives in Hainan. Member of Chinese Writers Association, the fifth director of Hainan Writers Association. He is currently the chairman of the trade union of Hainan Geology and Mineral Construction Co., Ltd., mainly engaged in novel creation and published many poems, such as Floating Island and Couples Dancing. Won the second prize in the novel category of the 9th China Population and Culture Award.
Reflection on Women's History (IV): Every woman is a history.
Yang Dian is good at painting, reciting poems and composing poems, and playing the piano well. He is a madman in Wei and Jin Dynasties who walked out of ancient paintings. And this madman, instead of thinking that "there is no one to talk about", is willing to be the commentator of Dai Li skirt, which is somewhat like Cao and Li.
The History of Women is a unique collection of essays. The term "women's history" has the historical meaning of both intellectual women and women. Throughout the book, it is like Yang Dian's extensive reading notes and an epiphany. In modern poems and miscellaneous notes with informal style, short sentences are connected, fragments are mixed, and they are full of quotations and metaphors, just like the woman in the poem orally, and everyone's temperament can be seen. Yang Dian, who was far behind, wrote the whole story in notes and explained it.
What kind of women can enter history or be interpreted? Women's works at all times and all over the world give all kinds of answers. Yang Dian's concern is not only about the famous women of past dynasties who are full of anecdotes, but also about "whether they are intellectual women, legendary women or unknown folk women, women who are insulted and discriminated against, or women around them", which can be included in this essay. His selection criteria, in the words of Englishman clive bell, are "meaningful forms". Just as a painter chooses a model, the beauty and ugliness of the five senses are second, and the variety and charm of gestures are more important. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Vermeer's Girl with Pearl Earrings, Renoir's Little Irene, and so on. In other words, the women in the book may not be amazing or brilliant, but they must be moving. They may remind readers of a fragment of their own life, a book they read, someone they met, their dreams and aspirations, and some disillusioned but real existence. As a result, those women came out of the book and entered the readers' hearts because they were moved.
Najrita gently guarded her husband Manjiestam who was as scared as a bird. Their duet is like a picture of mother and son, telling a woman's delicacy and tenacity. Housewives have their unknown joys and sorrows. The gentleman vowed to sweep the world, and Yang Dian said, "The size of a single kitchen and the size of the universe cannot be swept away." The prototype of the hit TV series "The Legend of Mi Yue" is also the heroine among women. She uses sex as a metaphor for politics and knows how to govern the country and the people. Hui 'an women who committed mass suicide in the Republic of China seemed helpless and passive, but they were also fighting against ethics in their own way. No one cares about the car accident of a two-year-old girl, which has caused countless moral quarrels. People who turn a blind eye to it, Yang Dian put forward the word "the walking dead".
The same fate and similar ideas can make two people appreciate each other and transcend time and space. It's not just the sound between people and readers in the book. Yang Dian often connects the stories of two or more women in one place. Hu Lancheng's Japanese lover and Southern Tang Dynasty, female poets Gu Taiqing, Zhang Ailing, Shan Zu, Zheng Fan, female cook, female disciple accompanying the garden ... are interspersed with quotations and comments, just like the response through time and space, and the readers' sighs and regrets seem to be heavier and deeper.
Some familiar names often appear in pairs with another person's name, such as Mrs. Wei, Wang Xizhi's first teacher, Chen Yinque's wife, Lu Xiaoman to Xu Zhimo, and countless dead ladies and maids. But they are not subservient to men, they have their own achievements and contributions, which are enough to make people look askance. The clouds that cover the sky cover up their names, but they can't cover up the well-known "brushwork" in the book, and they can't cover up the peerless elegance between the eyebrows and eyes-Yang Dian wants to make a biography for the boudoir in an upright manner. Let them tell their own stories. They are so passionate and obsessed, perhaps mixed with desires and weaknesses, but it is a real woman's story, a real history, because it is rich and complete, and because it is true and moving.
There are more than 100 articles, and I can't finish telling the story of a woman in the world, so I add a lot and have endless aftertaste. The author's daughter's childish words are witty and agile. As a conclusion, it said: both today's female history and the future female history are brewing beautiful sentences, such as the flowing river of history.
There are always people in the boudoir, and I don't want to be forgotten. Every woman is a history, and the acquaintance is a bookkeeper.
-b don't read Yang Dian's history of women.
Reflection on Women's History (V): A women's life history is also a tragic history.
The Chinese character "She" is a new word, which was created by Liu Bannong in the early vernacular Chinese. Women in history are so insignificant that there is not even a word to refer to them. They are hidden in the shadow of male chauvinism and disappear into the main body of history. Fortunately, they are abundant in number and rich in color. Finally, they can leave some red in the historical manuscript, which also makes Yang Dian's History of Women have traces to follow.
When I first read about Yang Dian, I was surprised. I thought that in a corner of this modern city, a middle-aged man moved his lamp to his seat, burned incense and played the piano, and participated in Zen calligraphy and painting, but it seemed to come through. However, his thoughts were never tolerated in ancient times. He said, "In a sense, our patriarchal world is no longer worth writing about. The more cruel the big era and the big environment, the more it is often reflected in the little woman. " The word "Women's History" was originally an ancient female official, and later it generally refers to intellectual women, while Yang Dian's "Women's History" is an authentic female history book. It's just that this history book is eclectic, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, intertwined with serious unofficial history, involving hundreds of women. There are no famous women like Wu Zetian and Li Qingzhao among these hundreds, because they have been rendered clearly enough by literature and film and television. Yang Dian just wants more neglected women to develop under his pen and ink.
It seems that women are not good at mathematical reasoning. Who can believe these books were written by a 27-year-old woman? Wang was a female mathematician, sage and poet in Qing Dynasty. "I know astrology, accurate calendar calculation, engineering poetry, medical science and painting, and even meteorology." Not only is there a saying that there is abundant rain, but we can also use chandeliers, round tables, mirrors and other tools to realize the eclipse of the sun and the moon, and even write a "order to bury the classics and reveal the differences" to question that ancient Feng Shui is deceptive. It is said that there are as many as 64 volumes of her works, but most of them are lost. She deserves the word "genius", but this genius is too unknown compared with her peers Zu Chongzhi and Zhang Heng, which is related to her female identity? Nothing to do with this? Or is it because she stayed in history for too short? He died at the age of 29, but the fate of genius?
There are countless neglected women in the book, Rainbow Yizhen. Lin Haier, the leader of "Red Lantern" who bravely fought against foreigners, Camille Claudel, a French female sculptor whose talent was envied by her lover Rodin, Eugenia, a Soviet female pianist who admired the leader but told the leader that "you committed a heinous crime in front of the people and the country", and more than 4,000 "meanest women" who were gathered on the grassland by Wokuo Terrace for men to carve up at will ... Such a complicated female history is extremely simple. You should know Yang Dian's scholarly family. Since you were a child, you have read widely and made countless notes on miscellaneous history. Without detailed notes, it is difficult for ordinary people to understand this history of women.
Yang Dian's female history has no value choice. Talented people, deviant people, shocking people, poets, * * *, spies, killers and artists rarely comment, but they all list historical facts. No matter what kind of woman, the ending is actually loneliness, madness, suicide, sudden death, exile, or disappearance, and few people are perfect. I want to go too. How can a woman who obeys the rules, keeps her place and teaches her children be recorded by scholars and known to us? No, even ordinary women may be incomplete because of chastity, martyrdom, looting and other reasons. Just because they are too "normal" and their names are unknown. Women's life and death are so uncontrollable. On the title page of Beauvoir's The Second Sex, the philosopher Kierkegaard wrote: "The greatest misfortune of women is that they don't know it is an misfortune", but do they really know it?
Perhaps it is this "misfortune" and misery that touched Yang Dian's Zen mind and let us see these submerged women. This is not only a woman's life history, but also a woman's tragic history.
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Reflection on Women's History (VI): Only red makeup is left in the book.
This is a strange book. First of all, it is very strange in genre. If you only read the book title, you will think that as long as one is as easy as others, it is another prose style, but it is not. Every article is like a poem and not like a poem. Although arranged like modern poetry, it is not completely abstract, and many articles have narrative elements. As the author himself said, "The genre involved in this book includes notebooks, essays, news, esoteric biography, dialogues, dramas, ancient poems and even short stories. Deconstruct the cultural motif and social phenomenon of "female history" from a diversified perspective. But the main temperament of this book is still to follow the style of poetry and notes. " Read more articles and you will know that choosing this genre is the easiest way for the author to express himself. Each article is a theme, once classified: or eulogize individual women, such as Sai Jinhua, You Jinni and Dong Xiaowan; Or describe women's behavior, such as sex, double suicide, cooking, etc. ; Or extract the understanding of women from Buddhist scriptures, biology, philosophy, etc ... all-encompassing, even the methods of quoting and annotating ancient poems are used, not to mention the feelings that the author wants to express. If you want to write in detail, you can even write a book on the subject. From this point of view, it is most appropriate to stop with poems and notes.
Secondly, the strangeness lies in its content. Since the rise of postmodernism, the criticism of grand narrative and grand history has never stopped. Questioning these male-dominated historical narratives from the perspective of women's history is one of the most commonly used methods. This is a "small" narrative, and the author only writes about those little-known women to avoid suspicion. However, not being famous does not mean that those things have not happened. Perhaps it is through these strange girls and anecdotes that we have never heard of that we have a deeper understanding of the extraordinary courage, talent and suffering of women in China and even the world.
"Zhou Li Tianguan Women's History" says: "Women's history is in charge of the queen's etiquette, in charge of internal affairs, and in charge of internal affairs after imperial edict." It is the earliest source of the word "female history". Later, this word no longer specifically refers to female officials, but generally refers to general intellectual women, which happens to be the abbreviation of "Women's History" and is used in this book as a pun. Author Yang Dian, a contemporary writer and guqin artist, learned to keep his writing quiet and ancient. However, in the article, the author takes the historian Chen Yinque (who wrote Liu Chuan in his later years) as an example, saying that "writing a book is only about praising red makeup", which is naturally a tribute to women, more like a woman's ambition, which may be a criticism that male writers can't get rid of when writing about women.