Liu Jinyun's Nirvana | Theme | Appreciation | Summary
Author brief introduction Liu Jinyun, a contemporary playwright in China, whose pen name is Jinyun. 1938 was born in Xiong county, Hebei province. I like drama since I was a child, especially influenced by the drama in my hometown of Caotai. 1959 was admitted to the Chinese Department of Peking University. During this period, he created and performed some small plays and became the backbone of Peking University Drama Troupe. 1963 She and her classmates jointly published her first one-act drama "On the Eve of Graduation" and published it in Beijing literature and art. After graduation, I worked in Changping County, a suburb of Beijing. He has served as a middle school teacher, deputy secretary of the commune party Committee and deputy director of the county cultural and educational department. After being transferred to the Propaganda Department of Beijing Municipal Committee from 65438 to 0979, he was keen on literary creation. Years of rural life and work experience laid a solid foundation for his later creation. The Story of Spring published by 1979 won the script award of Heilongjiang Art Magazine. The following year, Wang Lao Da, a collaboration with Wang Yi, was published in Beijing Literature and won the 1980 National Excellent Short Story Award. 1982 transferred to Beijing People's Art Theatre as a screenwriter. 1984, Renyi premiered The Journey between Daughter and Prince Fu, and won the Beijing Excellent Drama Award. In the same year, she published A Journey to the Daughter of a Mountain Village in October magazine, and won the first prize of 1984 Beijing National Day essay writing, the literary prize of October magazine, and the second prize of Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture in selecting excellent scripts. 1986, Beijing Renyi premiered Jinyun drama and many modern tragicomedy Nirvana, which was a great success. Continuous performances/kloc-more than 0/50 performances, and the venue was full. The script won the 4th National Excellent Script Award and 1986 Beijing National Day Essay Honorary Award, and performed for 100 times. 1988 participated in the first China Drama Festival. He also wrote more than a dozen short stories about rural life. 1988 won the excellent screenwriter award of the first revitalization drama by China Drama Research Association. He is currently the deputy director of the Art Committee of Beijing People's Art Theatre.
Several modern plays, premiered by Beijing People's Art Theatre, 1986. The real name of the hero in the script is Chen Hexiang, because his father won two acres of land in a bet with others, ate a puppy alive and lost his life, and got a dog name. Before liberation, Mr. Dog worked as a long-term laborer for the landlord Qi Yongnian, and suffered a lot. After the war of liberation started, the land of the Central Plains was filled with war, and people were forced to leave their homes and flee everywhere. Only dogs are obsessed with the golden crops everywhere and are reluctant to leave. He risked his life and happily harvested 20 acres of sesame seeds from the landlord Qi Yongnian. He left his wife in the war and ended her life. Dog owners have suffered for most of their lives and dream of changing with Qi Yongnian. Wear robes and mandarin jackets, eat pickles and soak sesame oil like Qi Yongnian. After liberation, the dog owner had his own land, got the chrysanthemum green horse, tied it to a cart and moved into the high gate building of the Qi family. He also married a beautiful young widow Feng Jinhua. Now, he has everything he dreams of. The prosperous days didn't satisfy his desire. Dog owners who are committed to the goal of getting rich regard Qi Yongnian's landlord life as the highest ideal of life. Greedy land possession made him greedy and unscrupulous. When his friend Su Jiali was in trouble, the dog didn't reach out to help him, but took advantage of the danger and bought his land at a very low price. However, the good times did not last long, and a vigorous agricultural cooperative movement began. The dog's land and chrysanthemum are collective. He is full of resentment, but he is helpless. In order to persuade dog owners to obey the collective, team leader Li Wanjiang took pains to do ideological work, and Feng Jinhua also constantly persuaded her husband. In this way, dogs can only join the red ranks. Land and livestock are collective, but this person's heart has become a mess. It can be said that dog owners who regard soil as their life are crazy about land. His creed is "with land, nothing can exist, without land, nothing". This is a good day that is getting more and more prosperous and suddenly goes up in smoke. The heavy blow of this gain and loss made him crazy and running around. I don't even recognize my own wife. I'm still chanting Ju Qing and his big oblique angle in my obsession. In his illusory world, the ghost of the landlord Qi Yongnian haunts him all the time and laughs at his poverty. Where can dogs stand such humiliation? He will never forget the tragic scene of being hung from the gatehouse and beaten when he was working as a long-term worker for Qi Yongnian. He vowed to win Qi Yongnian. However, the reality is cruel. All the burdens of the dog family are on Feng Jinhua's shoulders. Hunger and poverty forced her to steal corn in the field, and the captain Li Wanjiang caught her. In the rainy field at night, "thief" and "catch thief" confided to each other, which produced a feeling of love. The mad dog made Jinhua miserable. In the days of poverty, he had to find a backer to live and take care of the dog. So Jinhua and Li Wanjiang became relatives. The dog still remembers his dream of land, and he went to Fengshui Slope alone to reclaim wasteland. But when the crops were ripe, I didn't expect Li Wanjiang to bring someone to cut his capitalist tail again. In this strong * * *, the dog's madness has worsened. Dog's daughter-in-law and Qi Yongnian's daughter Qi advised Gong's father to leave before the Feng Shui slope, but the dog refused. In the stalemate between the two sides, Feng Jinhua stood in the position of the dog owner and rebuked Li Wanjiang's behavior. The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee brought warmth and hope to farmers like Chunfeng. Li Wanjiang got on the horse again and returned the land certificate to the dog. The property of the past returned to him, and before you know it, his madness resumed. Just as he was preparing to make a comeback and build a white gate building like Qi Yongnian's home, he never imagined that his wishes clashed with those of his son and daughter-in-law. Encouraged by the policy of reform and opening up and invigorating the economy, son Chen Taihu and daughter-in-law Qi saw the grand prospect of rural development and decided to do something big. First of all, they plan to demolish the Gaomen Building, expand the access road, develop township enterprises and open dolomite factories. These ideas were strongly opposed by dog owners. In his eyes, this gatehouse is the "frontispiece" of his family. If it is torn down, it will ruin his whole family business. However, after all, he can't argue with his son and daughter-in-law. The poor dog's dream of land was shattered again. Anger, pain and despair welled up in my mind. Finally, those trembling hands lit a match, and he personally burned the gatehouse regarded as his daughter, and also burned his decades-long dream of land.
As a realistic tragicomedy, Nirvana, the owner of a dog, is appreciated in a broad historical background. With great pen power, the author reproduces "typical characters in typical environment" in a concentrated and true way. The profound typical significance of the work lies in that Mr. Gou's life experiences, including his ex-wife's death, his second wife's remarriage and his madness, are not only his personal fate, but his bumpy experiences represent the fate of millions of farmers in China. His narrow backwardness and attachment to the land are the epitome of China's farmers' consciousness for more than 2,000 years. At the same time, it reflects the historical changes of rural areas in China to a certain extent and contains rich social contents. The author described the dog's obsession with the land with great pen and ink. China is a big agricultural country, and land is the best way to reflect the interests of farmers. The playwright firmly grasped the essence of things and accurately grasped the dog's personality characteristics. Mr. Dog has recognized a dead principle all his life: "The land is grass, where there is land, there is root, and where there is land, there is hope." "If you don't pay attention to farming, you will forget that loess produces gold, and how much money you catch is also a waste." His joys and sorrows are tied to the big bevel, gourd mouth and feng shui slope. It is not difficult to imagine that their father and son would rather lose their lives than give up their land. This infatuation with the land has formed his contradictory character of simplicity, diligence, ignorance and narrowness. He has worked in the home of the landlord Qi Yongnian for decades, suffered human suffering and hated the landlord's guts. He will never forget being hung upstairs in Qijiamen and being beaten, thinking, "One day I will hang you upstairs and play on the swing." He warned his son, "Remember the feud of the Qi family and don't see the Qi family." He also dreams of the day when he and Qi Yongnian can change their heads and live a rich life like him. However, when his ideal is realized, his desire is also expanding. The land, Qijiamen building, yard, chrysanthemums and green horses are all his, but he still feels that they are not enough. Especially when Qi Yongnian's ghost was secretly fighting with him, he vowed that "I can't beat him to pray for Yongnian ... I will die in this cold spring!" " Therefore, even if Qi Yongnian only has a small seal, he will try his best to get it. We find that dog owners and Qi Yongnian have striking similarities in their love for land, frugality and materialism. But there is a big difference between lifestyle and wealth. In the eyes of dog owners, chrysanthemum green, big bevel and Qijia high gate house are sacred and inviolable private property. He can't accept it anyway. These things that belong to him belong to the collective heap. Especially when his son and daughter-in-law wanted to tear down the gatehouse and set up a dolomite factory, his spiritual world completely collapsed. He shouted, "tear down my gatehouse and take my heart." The image of Mr. Dog has the simple and thrifty virtues of farmers, but also the narrow, selfish and greedy side of small producers. The hatred and jealousy of the landlord Qi Yongnian, their similarities and differences are the root of the dog's complex thoughts and feelings. Once a dog struggling out of poverty leads a good life, it can no longer stand the blow of gain and loss. His spiritual world is empty, short-sighted and closed-minded. He will never believe that there is any new mode of production and lifestyle to replace his chrysanthemum, big corner and big hall. In anger and despair, he personally lit a fire, and he and the gatehouse that hindered the progress of history "Nirvana". Here, the author writes the inevitability of historical development with realistic creative techniques. Any old ideas and ideas will eventually "nirvana" with the old things. Playwright Jin Yun has a profound experience of rural life. He loves farmers and knows them well. Therefore, the image of farmers in his works is very authentic from language to life. In artistic conception, both the setting of drama contradictions and the depiction of characters are valuable ideas. In addition, it has symbolic significance in the description of the ghost in Yongnian, the illusion and obsession of the dog owner, and the handling of the high gate building. The intervention of these modernist artistic techniques is undoubtedly of great help to reveal the character and the historical capacity reflected by the works.