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Have you ever seen a red paper umbrella? It has a bamboo skeleton like water and an umbrella cover like water. The umbrella cover is engraved with the phrase "the nearest flower" and embroidered with green Chinese paintings. ......

After Jia Pingwa's The Wasted Capital and Chen's White Deer Plain, another blockbuster exploded in the literary world-a new writer of Shaanxi Power School!

In 2004, the most popular literary novels in China Internet Literature Forum also triggered the phenomenon of Tan Yi and red paper umbrella, which brought an unprecedented wave to the Internet.

The Red Paper Umbrella is Mr. Tan Yi's ten-year masterpiece. It is a traditional literature sword-testing network, backed by millions of paratroopers, which shakes Jia Pingwa's dominant position in Shangzhou literature and detonates the third artillery of Shaanxi Army's eastward expedition.

This is a legendary novel, which expresses true feelings and love in a magical way. This book is always immersed in strong subjective feelings and narrated with its passionate aestheticism. In the process of reading, readers often realize that the author often can't control his writing state, so Red Paper Umbrella can easily infect readers with sad and beautiful stories, gorgeous and fanatical emotions, delicate and profound words. After reading the whole book, you will find all characters and plots, all life and death hates, all life and death loves and hates, all languages and emotions are crystallized, and only the word that can resist all time and space erosion and variation can remain in your mind: love.

Tan Yi's novel "Red Paper Umbrella" is set in Shangzhou, which is located in the hybrid zone of Central Plains culture and Chu culture, and is permeated with ancient and mysterious cultural charm. The novel spans from the late Qing Dynasty to 2 1 century, involving five generations of merchants, and describes the joys and sorrows of nine women with red paper umbrellas in their previous lives and later generations, as well as their love entanglements. A large number of classical images in the novel also create a flowing classical charm; Using free structure and modern expression techniques, through gorgeous and fragrant language, the blend of classical and modern is realized, which highlights the unique artistic extensibility and artistic tension. ISBN:978750 154245 1

Word count: 532,000 words

Page count: 475 pages

Printing time: June, 5438+first printing in 2005 10.

Version: 1 2005 10 month

Print run: 00000 1~ 100000 copies.

Pricing: 48.00 yuan

Paper: paperback 1. Mysterious cultural background.

In the novel Red Paper Umbrella, the author Tan Yi carefully designed the plot, but at the same time, it permeated with ancient and mysterious cultural charm in the outline of the novel background and the rendering of the cultural atmosphere. The novel presents readers with a panoramic view of Shangzhou with profound cultural background by showing many folk customs and landscapes such as the umbrella shop workshop in the south of the Yangtze River, the wet rainy city, the scenic Shangzhou City, the Heishizhai bandit cave in the mysterious forest, and the ancient town deep house with small bridges and flowing water.

Shangzhou has been a mysterious place since ancient times, located at the intersection of Central Plains culture and Chu culture. Since the Warring States period, Chu has a strong tradition of witchcraft culture. It is recorded in History of Han Geography that "Chu people believe in witches and ghosts and worship obscenity", and when folk sacrifices are made, witches "make songs and music to enlighten the gods". This witch song is a combination of music and dance, with a warm and lively style and full of romantic atmosphere. A long history and profound cultural background have given birth to a warm, strange and romantic Chu Feng Chu rhyme. The unique charm of Chu culture of Chu people makes its folk customs diverse and colorful.

The change of Shangzhou's geographical position makes the Chu style in Shangzhou culture more intense. Songs of the Chu is the condensation and crystallization of Chu culture. Open "Songs of the South", and you will encounter a fascinating mysterious atmosphere. Chu art is mostly related to offering sacrifices to gods, full of strange romantic colors, so the customs of Shangzhou are deeply influenced by witchcraft culture. Its mystery can be seen in the elegant demeanor of Qin and Han Dynasties: people in Qin and Han Dynasties believed in the existence of souls and hoped to live forever. Hanwu in Qin Huang is a typical example, so alchemists who worshipped gods, cultivated the skills of Huang and Bai, and made elixirs came into being. At the same time, the spread of exotic mysterious things greatly contributed to the spread of witchcraft, all of which were immersed in folk customs and passed down to this day, forming the mysterious cultural and psychological characteristics of Sanqin.

Born in such a cultural atmosphere, Tan Yi was naturally influenced by the mysterious characteristics of Sanqin culture and nourished by the rich local folk culture. Therefore, Red Paper Umbrella has a strong rural folk custom and the concept of Buddhism, Taoism and ghosts. Tan Yi seems to have grasped the essence of mysticism in China's traditional culture. Through the infiltration of mind and emotion, he infiltrated and blended in emotional memory, integrated into an aesthetic experience of emotion and life, and injected red paper umbrella.

Drawing lessons from the witch and ghost culture in Shangzhou, the novel describes the secrets of ghosts and gods, fate, reincarnation, divination, geomantic omen, Buddhism and sexual intercourse, and creates various mysterious things such as gorgeous red paper umbrellas, strange jade butterflies and magical red flower rings with the help of hallucinations and mysterious consciousness. It not only repeatedly writes about supernatural things and supernatural phenomena, but also describes the entanglement between generations of people and ghosts. For example, Hu Yudie became a ghost floating in the peach blossom forest, and the strange green light from the evergreen tree where Jade Butterfly was buried blinded the eyes of the bride Yu Qiang. Jiao Rui's precious wardrobe was dusty for many years. When she reunited with her old lover, it instantly turned to dust. A parrot named Green Lip makes Sargam Qiu Xiao learn to speak ... The novel crosses the boundary between life and death, not ending with the physical death of the characters, but with the immortal "ghost" after the death of the human body. The mutual concern and collision between generations and ghosts show the extreme alienation of pure love, homosexuality, abnormal love and ghost love, which makes the secular dispute between men and women's love and lust break through the limitation of time and space and extend to the ghost world. The mysterious atmosphere of death, the eternal tension between life and death, and the mysterious curse born of love all integrate the power of fate into endless lingering love and give it a new interpretation, so that imperfection sets off perfection, separation embodies harmony, and despair turns into hope, thus awakening people to pursue the highest and purest feelings, personality, humanity and ideological essence of human beings. The description of ghosts and supernatural legends greatly expands the expression space of the novel, and the fatalism contained in it makes the witch culture very vivid. This is actually the author's grasp of the spirit of Shangzhou folk culture. Mysticism undoubtedly adds a strange color to this novel, and makes its aesthetic implication have philosophical interest beyond time and space.

In addition, the author has also made in-depth excavation and detailed research on Shangzhou customs, folk crafts, operas, costumes, embroidery, weaving and dyeing, and rich folk customs. For example, the ancient traditional folk culture, such as the making technology of paper umbrella, the weaving and dyeing technology of cloth, the programming skills of local operas and needlework, has been described in detail, which has increased the cultural connotation and knowledge connotation of the works. The author created a mysterious and romantic Shangzhou for us with spiritual words and the strange love story of Shangzhou. The thick culture accumulated for thousands of years flies into the charm of tang style charm in the novel, which makes the red paper umbrella delicately apply gorgeous cultural lipstick to Shangzhou, a face where ancient and modern times meet, and makes it a watcher of ancient civilization in Shangzhou. This kind of cultural charm, in the works, seems to be just a smile looking back at the historical moment, but it is enough to make people lean into the city.

2. The lingering theme of love

The novel takes an old umbrella shop in ancient Shangzhou as the background, uses red paper umbrellas as the carrier, and uses romantic techniques that transcend the boundaries of time and space and the concept of life and death of ordinary people. Through the life course of several generations, it depicts the joys, sorrows and love entanglements of nine women attached to the red paper umbrella in the past and future generations, including sad love, family ties that are hard to give up, persistent same-sex love, abnormal love in the world of mortals and lingering ghosts. With powerful words, the author describes how passionate men and women and their children can't help struggling in the tide of times and destiny. Yulong Gu, Xiao Taohong and Yu Qiang interpret the legend of the ancient umbrella shop. The ancient umbrella shop in Shangzhou was reduced to ashes by lightning, and the owner of the umbrella shop that attracted bees and butterflies was burned to black charcoal in Taohua Forest. Yoko, Sang Mei and Umbrella Lang once again reappeared the historical tragedy. Umbrella Lang became a victim of the war. Although the umbrella shop was destroyed, the debt of love accumulated over the years. Shang's trace and love can never get rid of the shadow and troubles of the family, nor can they get rid of the mysterious cover of the red paper umbrella. Under the cover of a graceful and charming red paper umbrella full of fate and sadness, the characters seem to be hidden behind the mysterious veil of history, but they are attractive and exposed. From the warlord era of the Republic of China and even the fate of the characters in modern life, it verifies the bitter and happy days of a pair of passionate men and women and their rebirth when they renew their love. The whole novel tells the rolling world of life like a poem and brings readers a wonderful world of love.

Tang Xianzu put forward "the deepest feelings" in the inscription of Peony Pavilion: "I don't know what feelings are, but the feelings are endless, and the living can die and the dead can live. Those who are born without the dead and die without resurrection are not affectionate. " In order to express his "deepest feelings", he used the bizarre plot of rebirth and resurrection in Peony Pavilion. Tan Yi and Tang Xianzu have similar values and emotional orientation. Although Red Paper Umbrella also describes the rise and fall of an umbrella shop and the history of Shangzhou from the side, showing people's social life in different historical stages, the author simply outlines the complex social and historical content and the background of family rise and fall, focusing on "love". With fiery and passionate words, the book tells one sad love story after another, which not only contains the affection of giving up constantly, but also inserts pure and sincere deformed love and even same-sex love from time to time, and even the love-hate relationship between people and ghosts who travel through time and space in unknown so.

There are no characters and plots throughout the book, but simply arrange the development of events in a simple time and space order, and build the whole novel building with lingering love as the cornerstone. All kinds of bizarre connections between characters' fates are constantly developing, changing, breaking and renewing in the eternal love of life and death. In order to express "the deepest feelings", the author even deliberately used the method of dislocation of fate to cruelly separate the two people who met in this life, so that the couple who were originally the most soul mates abandoned them. This deliberate pattern of lovesickness emerges endlessly in the book. As a result, the reader shed the coldest tears in his heart again and again, waited again and again, felt the aesthetic feeling of tragedy in the incomplete love again and again, and felt the shocking emotional power in the constant emotional plunder. This is the place where the red paper umbrella most easily touches the readers' numb hearts in today's world of mortals.

3. Classical image and classical charm

A large number of classical images are used in The Red Paper Umbrella. Gorgeous red paper umbrellas, strange jade butterflies and magical red garlands are hidden from each other in the plot of the novel, prefixed with suffixes, and echo each other, creating a flowing classical charm for the whole work. The red paper umbrella is the most touching and impactful core image in the book. The red paper umbrella was originally a classic traditional image in China culture, which was deeply loved by literati and artists. The red paper umbrella that runs through the novel is said to have been lost in Shangzhou, but in Tan Yi's works, the "red paper umbrella" is vividly "made". It is not only a shelter from the wind and rain, but also a mysterious image attached to love and fate: bright red symbolizes a beautiful woman, the texture of paper symbolizes the beauty but fragility of love, and "umbrella" symbolizes "scattering", which indicates one sad ending after another. The hero and heroine under the red paper umbrella began to fall in love because of the umbrella. Love finally "broke up" and fate was over. When the umbrella is opened and closed, people gather and disperse, and the joys and sorrows of the world gather and disperse on the umbrella. Although red is bright, it has a strong bloody flavor, which reveals the tragic emotional fate of the characters in a deep mystery: the first appearance of the red paper umbrella made the founder of the umbrella shop in Business still drift away for his beloved woman. Although she won the beauty after several hardships, she had to leave her hometown to start a business in Shangzhou. The bad luck brought by the red paper umbrella was constantly fulfilled by the hardships of the descendants of the merchants.

Besides the red paper umbrella, the author also chose the jade in the traditional image of China-the jade butterfly and the jade red garland. A pair of Jade Butterflies is not only a weapon for Hu Yudie to retaliate against Yulong Gu, but also a love witness of Shang Zidan and Yulong Gu's wife Shang Yuqiang, and has become a token of mutual recognition between Shang Han and Shang Zidan. On a string of red garlands handed down from generation to generation, each piece of jade represents a woman's life; A pair of pipa buttons records the love and affection of three generations, three pairs of men and women and a pair of twin brothers. Each of these antique and charming elves has a simple and exquisite texture, embodies a few beautiful loves, is deeply infiltrated by rich emotions, and nourishes extraordinary aura and mysterious power because of absorbing the elves of love. They not only play an important role in the development of the plot, but also present a mellow classical charm because of the emotional accumulation at different levels. These ornaments with rich traditional colors are gems of different shapes carefully inlaid by the author in this gorgeous novel, which glow with strange and mysterious classical colors in the whirlpool of emotional rapids.

It is worth noting that an obvious feature of the author's image choice is his preference for red, which highlights the author's red complex. The author's colorful rendering of a series of images such as red paper umbrella, red flower ring and red fox love makes the meaning of the whole work present a distinct traditional color. In the cultural consciousness of China people, red represents joy and enthusiasm. It is gorgeous and full, and has always been admired by the people of China. The author's description of paper umbrella craft, flower mother embroidery and fine needle and dense thread clothing is quite romantic and artistic. As a result of borrowing a large number of classical images and poems, the works are full of poetry, and the ancient rhyme brought by classical images and poems makes the works communicate with traditional culture and China's history in a subtle way, so that pure love acquires cultural connotation, and the works naturally carry more connotations.

All these reflect the relationship between this novel and traditional culture and folk culture, and deepen and expand the whole work in the historical dimension, thus enriching the emotional world described by the author. Therefore, compared with similar works, Red Paper Umbrella has a rare cultural charm and is quite readable, which is probably an important factor for it to cross the boundary between traditional literature and online literature.

Fourth, the creative style of blending classical and modern.

First of all, it is a free structure and modern expression.

The structural feature of Red Paper Umbrella is modern freedom, even with the structure of the most popular magic novel in online literature. The lingering love story and endless melancholy mood of the novel are all under the command of the author's free and easy thoughts, completely obeying the author's theme expression needs, and letting the characters live and die in their own thoughts. When we read the Red Paper Umbrella, we seem to see that all the characters in the book have become umbrella bones. They are all attached to the umbrella handle of fate, and they are always close at hand when the seasons change. They are intimate for a while and go to the ends of the earth for a while. People come and go in cloaks hung in the snow, and umbrellas are frequently bathed in the storms of the times. After the gorgeous umbrella cover was opened again and again by the author, it became the love of all the characters in the story. Is the umbrella cover broken? -There's no way to be elegant. The poem "Frost Dawn" on the umbrella beats the dawn and dusk in the fleeting time for a long time. The strange fate changes of the characters in the novel make the word "love" transcend life and death, span time and space, and interpret the lives of several generations in the life trajectory drawn by the "red paper umbrella". The location of the story changes frequently, even it is difficult to connect and splice, but the author skillfully and naturally constructs the quiet Shangzhou with the bustling Dalian, exotic Japan and China inland in harmony. On the clue, the author vaguely outlines the background of the turmoil in the Republic of China, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the founding of New China, the "Cultural Revolution" and the reform and opening up, all of which are difficult to organize organically without modern expressions. The novel does not even have a complete and coherent plot. It arranges the development of events in the order of combining time and space, and promotes the organic connection between the fate of characters at an unexpected speed. In the novel, you can see events, people and places clearly, but you can't predict the fate of the characters. It has changed, even if it is a little bit of dislocation, it can cruelly separate two people who meet in this life. In addition, the author broke the boundary between time and space, crossed the field of life and death, and his imagination was very wanton. This narrative method gives the author the greatest expression space for his understanding and experience of emotion, showing a distinctive modern style. This makes the sad story condensed under the umbrella of red paper deeply immersed in the author's strong subjective color, showing a strange and mysterious story structure.

Novels have a large capacity, reflecting the depth and breadth of life far more than other styles, so authors often use omniscient perspective, or sometimes use the limited perspective of the third person to narrate. Although this makes the narrative grand and more historical, on the other hand, it also seriously weakens the personality of the novel. The Red Paper Umbrella does the opposite, giving up history and individuals, and giving up broadness and benevolence. As far as narrative perspective is concerned, Red Paper Umbrella mostly adopts the limited perspective of combining narrator and role, selects the individual perspective of the protagonist who is deeply in love, and promotes the plot evolution from subjective experience, which is very colorful; Only when it is necessary to explain the development of the plot from an omniscient perspective does this make the book shrouded in a strong narrative subjective color. Fragments and sad love stories in the novel are mostly developed from the female perspective, based on the different experiences and consciousness of several generations of women, and the novel is constructed with the most gorgeous, romantic, gentle, fragrant and painful lens language. Therefore, this novel has delicate characteristics, which enables readers to deeply grasp women's desire for emotion, their true feelings for lust, their expectations and disappointment for men ... Therefore, the men in the novel are all small and pale in front of women who are willing to die for love and die alone: the ancient Yulong who abandoned the chaos at the beginning, the generals who chickened out at the critical moment, and even the ancient houses who dared to do things.

Therefore, the creative freedom in this novel is purely personal, and it gives vent to a unique philosophical thinking. Tan Yi's free writing has the essential characteristics of typical contemporary avant-garde art. This narrative method allows the author to understand and experience emotions, so as to obtain the maximum expression space. Although simple emotional expression can fully vent the author's emotions and arouse readers' soul ripples, it also hinders the in-depth presentation of the content to some extent.

Secondly, it is rich and colorful classical language style. Although the story background of the novel spans several times, the author pays little attention to social history. The classical charm of the book is not purely from the historical background, but more from its rather classical language characteristics and classical poems quoted in many places. According to the author, the first half of this novel is about past life, and the second half is about present life. In terms of time, the upper part belongs to the end of ancient times and the lower part belongs to modern times. However, even in this modern world, the author still uses one sentence to interpret the main plot: "The four seasons of monsoon rain are autumn, looking at the world of mortals, who is exposed to frost and dawn." The author deliberately draws lessons from the language style of classical novels and adopts romantic, aesthetic and classical language when expressing and revealing ideological themes. Its characteristics are like gorgeous silk, with Leng Yan's patterns and delicate texture, Leng Yan's colors and dazzling visual impact, and unique classical mystery. These languages are gorgeous and beautiful, bejeweled, soft and fragrant. The author's mastery of language is so easy, just like breathing in the morning. Good writing has a kind of control and conquest. It can manipulate readers' emotions and consciousness, influence or change readers' thoughts and concepts, and condense a group of loyal readers in a certain range. Tan Yi's language style is full of infatuation and passion beyond classicism, lonely but not indifferent, secular but not vulgar, gorgeous but not extravagant, profound but not difficult, classical but not aloof, and has a strong perspective impact. The extreme feelings and emotions contained in the author's writing are very easy to impress the audience, which is also an important reason why Tan Yi's writing has tyrant-like manipulation. Therefore, some critics say that Tan Yi's ci is a brocade of Shangzhou, full of gorgeous double suicide, passion, lingering and pain, and a glamorous Shangzhou ghost. Many online readers also praise its writing charm. Indeed, the language of the red paper umbrella is like a flower with words, which can arouse the pain of past and future generations. It has the most colorful colors in the world, and flowers are charming and narcissistic. It seems to be a century-old wine, too. With arsenic and poppy added, people soon got drunk.

Readers who read this novel for the first time will feel vaguely that the author should be an old gentleman with a wide robe and big sleeves. In the ancient study, it took ten years to write it with a pot of charcoal fire and a furnace of incense. In order to understand the meaning and emotion of this classicism, Tan Yi bought a red paper umbrella and put it on the computer to create a harmonious creative environment between classicism and modernity. "ask how the world is, and teach people to live and die together." Whenever he goes to the cemetery at the foot of the mountain for a walk and thinking, this ancient poem pops up in his mind. He often fantasizes about the scene of the undead from the most affectionate to the gorgeous double suicide. He spoke to him with his heart, and the life and death, love and hate of the characters came out at once. Once, from a classic and distinctive tombstone, he suddenly found that the inscription was engraved with the poem "Looking at the world of mortals from afar, who will be stained with frost and dawn". At that moment, Tan Yi, who was in the world of red paper umbrella characters, burst into tears, thinking that the owner of the tomb was destined for him. From this poem, he shaped the stories of "Zhong" and "Autumn Dawn" in the novel.

The legendary and tragic atmosphere in the novel, the writing style of sacrificing love and downplaying politics, and Tan Yi's maverick personality are similar to Zhang Ailing in some respects, but their writing styles are quite different. Zhang Ailing's description is watching the killing in the clouds, while Tan Yi's description is self-immolation, one cold and one hot, but they all point to the desolate background. Tan Yong tells stories with enthusiasm, delicacy and aestheticism, decorates the love between men and women in Shangzhou, and embellishes and enriches the magnificent, aestheticism and euphemistic personality style of Shangzhou literature. The novel "Red Paper Umbrella" also dominates the overall situation with a unique lyrical posture, wandering between classical and modern, exerting its unique artistic extensibility and artistic tension, striving to create a nationalized traditional aesthetic feeling, and letting contemporary people understand the essence of modern thought after refining and filtering in the familiar and unique aesthetic enjoyment.

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Wandering between classical and modern;

The Artistic Tension of Red Paper Umbrella

Sun Liuxin

(College of Literature, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450075, China)

Tan Yi's novel "Red Paper Umbrella" is written in Shang State, where the Central Plains culture and Chu culture meet, and is permeated with the strong ghost culture of Shang State, which is full of ancient and mysterious cultural charm. The novel spans from the late Qing Dynasty to the present, involving five generations of businessmen, and describes the joys and sorrows of nine women who stick to red paper umbrellas and touching love stories. The frequent appearance of classic images in novels constitutes the flow of classic charm. The free composition structure and modern expression techniques show the unique artistic extensibility and artistic tension of the novel. Through gorgeous and romantic words, the classic and the contemporary world are harmoniously integrated in the novel.

Keywords: "red paper umbrella"; Shangzhou literature; Tan Yi Tan Yi, originally named Xiaoyi, 1969, was born in Danfeng County, Shaanxi Province. My mother loves literature and opera, and she is Jia Pingwa's primary school Chinese teacher. Influenced by his mother, Tan Yi loved literature and art since childhood and was obsessed with writing. I have been the general planner of an advertising company and the editor of Girlfriend and Shenzhen Youth magazine. Since 1995, he has published many literary works in October and other periodicals. Published the novel Red Paper Umbrella in 2005. In addition, Tan Yi personally wrote 20 episodes of TV series Kansai Infinite Knife, Tears Turn to Gold and 40 episodes of TV series Red Paper Umbrella, Dragon and Phoenix Horse.

Shangbeizi of Tan Yi's novel Red Paper Umbrella

Chapter 1 Red Love

Chapter II Green Clothes and Purple Clothes

The third chapter is annoyed by flowers

The fourth chapter tired to find fragrance

Chapter V The Red Wound

Chapter VI The Story of the Cemetery

Chapter VII Green Lips

Chapter VIII The Past Years

Chapter 9 Phantom of the Opera

Chapter 10 Drama Times

Chapter 11 Hidden dreams

Chapter 12 This life has been disconsolate

Chapter 13 The Vicissitudes of Mo Wen

Underclass life

Chapter XIV Divorce leads to chaos

Chapter 15 Shang Mark's Novel: See you through your life.

Chapter 16 Jean-Marc's novel: My mother's house, the pain I saw.

Chapter 17 Shang Mark's Novel: The Cherry Valley of Father and Lover

Chapter 18 Jean-Marc's Novel: Returning to Cherry Valley

Chapter 19 I want to be a horse

Chapter 20 It's difficult to send a brocade book to Xi Yifei

Chapter 21 Love of Red Fox

Chapter 22 tearful double drop

Chapter 23 The Covenant of the Century

Preface to the publication of the novel Red Paper Umbrella

Open a red paper umbrella and touch a heart.