"Plum Rain Eve"｜A gentle and delicate heart song

"The Evening of the Plum Rain" is a representative work of the New Sensationist writer Shi Zhecun. The plot of the article is relatively simple. In the dusk of the plum rain season, a married man sends a stranger to a woman for a journey. , and the story of psychological description and speculation unfolds from it.

The novel describes the protagonist "I" as a young married man who does not resist the rain and even likes to walk back in the pouring rain with an umbrella. The protagonist "I" met a girl without an umbrella on the way home late in the rain one day. Instead of going straight home, "I" got close to the girl by some strange means and gave her away by being courteous to her. A journey. During this journey, "I" would look at the girl from time to time, and every time I looked at the girl, "I" would have waves in my heart. The more I looked at the girl, the more familiar she looked, and finally I thought of "my" first love. Girlfriend, and then his thoughts flipped repeatedly between his first girlfriend and his wife at home. Finally, he broke up with the girl and returned home still feeling lost.

The storyline of the novel is very simple, but the simple storyline contains a lot of psychological activities and inner struggles of the protagonist. This is also the most successful part of the novel. Through the characterization of details and the description of psychological activities, the protagonist "I" is portrayed more vividly and very realistically. The author Shi Zhecun is a representative figure of the neo-sensationist writers in the early 1930s, and his psychological analysis was deeply influenced by Freud's psychosexual analysis theory. Freud's early personality structure divided personality into three levels: consciousness, preconsciousness and subconsciousness. In his later period, he further proposed a new theory of personality, proposing that personality is composed of three parts: id, ego and superego. The id refers to the original innate subconscious structural part, which contains some instinctive impulses that are closest to animal nature in human nature. It operates on the pleasure principle. The ego refers to the structural part of consciousness, located between the id and the superego, which supervises the self and provides appropriate satisfaction. The novel also stems from the struggle and contradictory emotions arising from the "I" self and the contradictions between myself. In the early stages of contact with a woman, "I" was moved by the opposite sex outside of marriage, felt that she was a "beautiful object", and kept approaching her and offered to give her a ride. These were all caused by "I" driven by the subconscious mind My thoughts. And when I feel admiration for her and "I" defend myself in my heart and think of my wife who is waiting for "me" to come home and look for excuses to come home late after returning home, these are the inner feelings of "I". The result of my negotiation and conflict with myself. When "I" fantasizes about women, the author seems to intentionally portray the deep conscious activities of "I" and the struggle between id and self. "I" peeked at the girl through the umbrella handle, and the girl suddenly transformed into "my" first love in my eyes. On the surface, it is an illusion caused by "my" emotional dislocation, because the girl's face and God are as beautiful as first love in "my" eyes. So "I" transformed the girl into my first love. But in fact, it is an activity of the character's consciousness. The person's preconscious enters his subconscious and follows the feeling of "I". Because first love is very beautiful in "I"'s mind, but after marriage, "I" follows myself and chooses to let it sleep in my consciousness, and the beauty of the girl awakens the beauty of first love and myself deep in my heart, so Only then will the girl be regarded as his first love. During this period of time, the author had more than just his own self in his consciousness. "I" was worried about meeting acquaintances on the street, and suddenly saw his wife's melancholy eyes at the counter next to him. This reflects the inner self of "I", my self. I asked me to seize the happy time with girls, but my self told me that I was already a married man, so as a gentleman, my behavior would be blamed by my wife and the society. Therefore, here It is the place where the id and the self are intertwined and fighting, and it fully reflects the inner struggle and contradiction of "I". In the end, the girl left amidst such self-conflicts. After breaking up with the girl, the sadness and loss that occurred when returning home reflected the dissatisfaction of the self and the unsatisfied ideas of "I" deep in my heart.

When I first read "Mei Yu Xi" and didn't understand Freud's psychological theory, I thought the protagonist "I" was a bit funny. He longs for the opposite sex outside of marriage and desires beauty, so he will choose to get close to that woman, but at the same time, he also wants to keep his marriage, family and social status, which creates some tangled conflicts and struggles. In order to make his relationship with the woman more legitimate, he thought the girl was his first love and changed her name for him. As the inner drama continued to play out, I felt that the protagonist was a bit weak and ridiculous. But there are many people like "me". In this chaotic world, we will all have our desires and yearnings, we will also have conflicts between rationality and sensibility, we will experience all kinds of entanglements and contradictions, and finally return to life. , go back and come back again.

The success of "Plum Rain Eve" lies in the vivid portrayal of the protagonist's psychological activities, inner conflicts and entanglements, and the vivid portrayal of the conflict between the id and the self. But what makes it more successful is that it shows us some things that many of us will experience in our lives and a stage that we need to go through. And it uses a clear and refined article to describe it, so that more people can understand it. to such a thing. The secret of "Plum Rain Eve" lies in the author's painting of a clear and elegant heart and the performance of a gentle and delicate heart song.