Five Comments on the Novel Chess King
A Review of Chess King
Those years of obscurity and suffering have finally passed, which has become an incurable pain in people's hearts. Acheng is a witness, so he can outline the tragicomedy of that era of extreme material and spiritual scarcity with faint brushstrokes. Wang Yisheng is the protagonist.
Chess fans have never humiliated their titles from beginning to end. Every time he plays ball, he has to play several games with others. Chess belongs to Wang Yisheng. He looked at the overall situation at the time of Chu and Han dynasties, and he was unstoppable and strategizing. Chess has even become the meaning of Wang Yisheng. In an era of poverty and turmoil, what he still sticks to is his pure obsession with chess. His obsession with chess and his persistent concern for it are the rebellion against the times behind his "image blindness". He built a quiet time and space in the depths of his soul, facing the noisy world. Unlike most educated youth, he was not confined to that deformed era. He took a personal leave to go out and play chess with others, putting his obsession with chess above material life.
Acheng did not mold Wang Yisheng into a "selfless, reactive, nameless" perfect person. Wang Yisheng's reason lies in his caution about "eating". The hard life since childhood has made Wang Yisheng extremely pious and meticulous about food, but he is not limited to food and clothing, he is limited to the details of life. Perhaps this is Wang Yisheng's detachment.
Ni Bin's growing background is very different from Wang Yisheng's. He grew up in a pleasant environment, and is a character trapped by the times in Acheng's works. His compromise with officials seems to be the epitome of his compromise with the times. In that impetuous era, young people who should have lofty ideals only got a pair of precious chess pieces and some calligraphy and painting, and got the ambition to mobilize. However, we have no position or responsibility for Ni Bin. He just wants to find a clean place to live. The only regret, perhaps, is that he was locked in the ideal by the era when black and white were reversed.
Reflections on the novel Chess King
I like playing chess since I was a child. When I first heard about the novel Chess King, I couldn't wait to enjoy it. After reading it, a wonderful feeling came to my mind. The world in Chess King is so strange, but there are some similarities. It seems that an old friend changed his clothes and thought backwards, only to find that young people have different lives in different social backgrounds, but the pure spiritual wealth belonging to young people will not change.
What has changed is the way of life.
The beginning of Chess King is to send "me" to the train to jump the queue, and there is a strange feeling at the beginning. For jumping the queue, I can only see some clues from the materials and literary works, but all the works describing young people in the early 1980 s are based on jumping the queue. It seems that jumping the queue was the trend at that time, and now young people even have few channels to jump the queue. This is the first difference.
"This farm is in the mountains, and its job is to cut down trees, burn mountains, dig holes and replant trees. When not planting trees, plant some food. Due to inconvenient transportation and insufficient transportation, oil for lighting is often not available. At night, it will be dark, and everyone will get together to talk, which is far and wide. Also, because we often cut off the tail of capitalism, life is very hard. Often everyone has only five yuan of oil a month. When the dinner bell rang, everyone ran like a fly. Boil the cauldron first and then put the oil in it. There is little oil, only a few big flowers float on the soup. If you fall behind, you can only eat clear water pumpkins or clear water eggplant. There is no shortage of rice, and the state supplies commodity grain at 42 Jin per person per month. Without oil and water, digging mountains is not a light job, so the more you eat, the bigger it is. I have nothing, after all, like begging. I earn more than 20 yuan a month. Nobody cares at home, and I don't have a girlfriend. I bought cigarettes to learn to smoke, but the more I smoked, the more fierce I became. "
The original text of this novel vividly describes the harsh living environment at that time, but at the same time, its narrative style is optimistic. No complaints, but full of happiness. If you throw a child into this environment, it is definitely a "wood!" It shows that the young people at that time, in the environment that was not rich enough at that time, trained the "iron skeleton", were not afraid of suffering, and lived an optimistic life; Although many young people are strong now, they can't compare with the past as a whole. This is the difference created by different environments.
"In the rainy season, everyone hurried up the mountain to dig bamboo shoots and catch frogs in the ditch, but there was no oil and they often ate stomach acid."
"(I) said to everyone:" Break up and quit. Everybody don't go back. Help me see if there is anything to eat on the mountain and get some. People on the mountain came down and killed two snakes. "
These two paragraphs give me an illusion, as if that hard environment is not an experience, but a paradise where I can do whatever I want. Since there is no condition for me to eat, I will create conditions for myself to eat well. In Wang Xiaobo's "A maverick pig", it is also mentioned that the educated youth was "slaughtered" for shopping, so he put down the appropriate money without authorization and ran away with things. These experiences are really desirable, but as a modern young man, I certainly have no chance.
Apart from the hard living conditions, another difference makes me very concerned. At the beginning of the novel, Wang Yisheng and my parents are gone. Such a situation is rare in modern times, but it seems quite common in those days when they talked so indifferently. This background setting gives me an unpredictable feeling as a modern young man. What was the family relationship at that time?
In the early 1980s, many children had incomplete or no parents, and almost all families were not only children. Coupled with the psychological influence of son preference, the family composition at that time was definitely very different from now. Under this difference, how did young people at that time view family ties?
"I froze, looked at my hand and said," where are my parents? They are all dead. "My classmates beautified my story. I was a little patient and said, "My family is dead, but you have a story. " "
I was disrespectful when I told the news of my parents' death, but I could obviously feel a feeling of sadness. I think my inner activities are very complicated.
What remains the same is pure stuff.
Since it is called chess king, chess is naturally the highlight. And chess is just a symbol, it should represent the passion in the hearts of young people.
He stopped his cigarette in the air, touched his face and said, "I'm crazy about chess." When I played chess, I forgot everything. " It's comfortable to stay in chess. Even without chessboard and chess pieces, I can play in my heart. Who's in the way? "I said," What would you think if you were not allowed to play chess or didn't want to play chess one day? He looked at me strangely and said, "impossible, how is that possible?" "I can do it in my heart! Take my head out? You always say the impossible. " I sighed,
Wang Yisheng has a nickname "chess nerd", and his enthusiasm for chess can be reflected in every detail of the article. This touching quality will not change in any era.
There are many descriptions of his love of playing chess in the novel, but the description of his efforts to practice chess is very brief, but it should be noted that his achievements in playing chess are inseparable from his efforts, which cannot be ignored. Only by liking, being willing to drill and working hard can we achieve such results.
It is the quality of young people in any era to love a career and have a pursuit. In the 1980s, young people could not be exposed to many activities. They can only indulge in playing chess and reading. Modern young people are exposed to all kinds of new things. They may be obsessed with music, art, sports and literature. No matter what they are obsessed with, young people have an impulse and a power of self-transcendence. This vigorous force is like grass buds breaking out of the ground, roots drilling and cracking boulders, and there is a dazzling flash. Because I am a young man, I understand.
Another important clue in the novel is Zhang Yisheng's love between mother and child, a wordless chess game that moved me to tears.
"I have put my feet on the bed all my life, sat on a plate, held my wrists with both hands, looked at the ground and said," My mother can't watch me make money. My family supported me to go to school until the first day of junior high school, and my mother died. Tell me before you die. This street says you are a good chess player, mom. But mom can't hurt you at chess. How can I succeed in chess? This is not your job after all. Mom can't watch you finish junior high school. I told your father to finish it no matter how difficult it is. "In high school," mom asked, "that's for college." Our family doesn't need to go to college, and your father is dying. Your sister is still young. When you finish junior high school, you will earn money, and your family will depend on you. Mom is leaving. She left you nothing all her life. She just picked up someone else's toothbrush handle and ground you a chess set. ? Then he asked me to take out a small cloth bag from under the pillow and open it. It's a little big, polished like ivory, but there are no words on it. Mom said,? I can't read I'm afraid I can't carve correctly. Take it, carve it yourself, and play chess, because mom loves you. ? How difficult it is for our family. I never cried. What do you care about crying? I can't stand looking at this chess game without words. " "
I suddenly realized that my left hand was still holding the chess piece, so I reached out to Wang Yisheng. Wang Yisheng was stunned, as if he didn't recognize it, but there was a noise in his throat. Suddenly, he spit out some mucus with a "wow" and said, "Mom, mom today."
I have always felt that there is such a mother at home, and I feel unexpectedly kind when I think of Zhang's sorry expression when he has no money to buy chess for his son. I think of Zhang grinding his teeth and brushing his handle alone under the oil lamp after falling asleep. If she really can't afford it, I'll try to get her something. All mothers in the world are not like this, and such feelings are still the most beautiful in the world at any time.
Zhang Yisheng's feelings for his mother are naturally full of gratitude, tenderness and understanding. Although every mother and son will have contradictions, they will eventually resolve and become pure mother-child love.
Although different times, different backgrounds and different cultures have led to different lifestyles of two generations of young people, what remains unchanged is the inner passion and gentleness of young people, which will last forever.
After reading chess king.
Chess king, and a pair of chess handed down from family. Before his mother died, he used a toothbrush to grind out a little white, round and almost transparent pieces and put them in the chess king's bag. Perhaps, at that moment, it was like the chess king crying: "mom, son, today, mom."
That piece may not be as valuable as the ebony piece of Ni Bin's family, but it was carved by a mother.
"The night is deep, opaque. Wang Yisheng has fallen asleep. However, it seems that I can still hear voices in my ears, torches are brightly lit in front of me, and villagers are walking in the forest with iron faces and firewood on their shoulders, singing and babbling. I smiled and thought, I'm not an amateur. How can I know it's so fun? The family is ruined, and the flat head is hoed every day, but it has its own real life inside. Knowing is luck and happiness. Food and clothing is the foundation, and human beings have their own, which is what they are busy with every day. Being trapped in it is not very human in the end. When the tiredness gradually came up, I fell asleep with the curtain. "
The chess king came to an abrupt end here, and there was no smell of ending. There is only a feeling of self-acquisition, self-satisfaction and self-satisfaction.
In fact, it's not just a life on the chessboard! In words, in music, between laughter and scolding, that place, you never forget, is it not the "king"? I'm afraid it's just my own "king".
Our life will definitely not experience that turbulent era again, and human nature will definitely not be suppressed like that, but the persistence and cherish of dreams is what this "chess king" should tell us most.
What will happen to me if my youth is like that in Chess King?
Comment on Chess King
When I first saw Chess King, I was shocked and thought that Mr. Lu Xun had been resurrected. I haven't read Acheng's other novels, so I don't know much about his language style. When I read Chess King, I sighed: What a good book!
In fact, imitating Mr. Lu Xun's tone of writing made me want to continue reading at first sight. Personally, I like this cold and deductive style of writing.
"The station is too messy, and thousands of people are talking. No one noticed the temporary red cloth slogan. This slogan was hung many times, and the words and paper were broken. One quotation song after another in the loudspeaker made everyone panic even more. Several of my friends have been sent away by me to jump the queue, and now it's my turn, but no one has come to see me off. My parents had some stains before their death, and they were knocked over at the beginning of the movement and died. There are aluminum brands on the furniture, so it is natural to take them all away. Although I am a person, I am not an only child and have not been included in the policy of staying in the city. I wandered around like a wild wolf for more than a year and finally decided to leave. The place I went to has a monthly salary of more than 20 yuan, which is very desirable. I fought for it and actually approved it. Because the place we are going to is adjacent to other countries, and there are international countries struggling besides class, we are not from a good family, so we are not at ease in organization. I won trust and power. Needless to say, I am happy. More importantly, how can a person spend more than 20 yuan a month? But no one came to see me off, so I got on the train first, trying to find a place to sit down, leaving tens of millions of people on the platform to say goodbye. "
However, this kind of writing style that resembles Mr. Lu Xun is not what surprises me about Chess King. I like Chess King because the author can deduce the most fundamental things of human nature through a chessboard: the supreme desire for spiritual victory and the basic desire for survival. These desires are simple, common and basic. In that unknown youth, they did not make public, but shocked my heart.
On the train of educated youth going to the countryside, the dialogue between the author and Wang Yisheng (chess king) is very interesting. Wang Yisheng is a real chess fan. He is not interested in other things, but he has some hobbies about eating. So the author told him the story of hunger and loneliness, as well as the story about eating in the book. Wang Yisheng thinks that the food in the story doesn't suit him. He thinks eating is to fill his stomach. "How can I solve my troubles? Only chess. "
This is the chess king's attitude towards eating, an attitude that he is more interested in besides playing chess, which shows that material desires play a very light role in his life.
Later, the chess king told the author about his experience in learning chess and revealed the chessboard that the chess king wanted to express, that is, life:
"I (Chess King) asked him about world trends. The old man said that chess is only a few pence, and the chessboard is so big. It is nothing more than a different way, but you can see it clearly at once. I don't know much about the world. The posters are fresh every day. Although you can see something, you can't delve into it. If you don't put all the pieces on the table, you can't play this game. "
In the poor years of educated youth in rural areas, Chess King met a southerner named Ni Bin, who played chess very well. The difference is that Ni Bin is a family with rich family resources and considerable assets, while Chess King's mother died early and her family was poor. These two men are good at playing chess.
People who also play chess have different attitudes towards chess. Ni Bin is "playing", but the chess king is regarded as a spiritual honor or disgrace.
Later, the educated youth went to the region to participate in sports meetings, including a chess game. Chess king went late and didn't sign up. Ni Bin gave a family-owned ebony chess to a leader, so it is said that Ni Bin can stay in this area and the chess king is expected to participate.
But Chess King refused. He thought it was selling himself to play chess. His method is simple. He didn't take part in the competition, but he wanted to challenge the top three winners. As a result, on that day, ten winners had a one-on-one match with the chess king.
This game has surpassed the small chessboard and is a contest between will and spirit. After the wheel war, Chess King won 9 sets. Finally, the champion came out to make peace, and the chess king agreed with his last strength.
The chessboard carries a person's dream.
Comment on Chess King
The author describes the chess king from the perspective of friends, and Wang Yisheng explains it with psychoanalysis. His id surpassed himself most of the time. From the beginning of the story, Wang Yisheng petitioned a passing classmate to play chess without saying goodbye to his sister. His desire to play chess has surpassed his family. He can play chess without eating, which is beyond his healthy living habits.
Wang Yisheng's living conditions at home are poor, and his mother needs to pick up garbage and do odd jobs to support her children. When food, clothing, housing and transportation are not satisfied, playing chess has become a luxury of life. He went out to play chess and came home. His mother knelt before him and said, "Little ancestor, I'm counting on you!" " If you don't study hard, mom will die here. In that era when personal desires were suppressed, he was blocked by his personality for a long time, especially after going to the countryside. He often asked for leave from the farm to go out to play chess, and was rated as "poor performance", which led to his inability to sign up for the competition in the future.
Wang Yisheng could not meet the social norms at that time, and the educated youth who normally went to the farm would not take such a long vacation to be lazy. They need to practice their duties after receiving the 20 yuan salary from the government. In fact, he is not on the farm half the time. In the era of * * *, living in his way is the smartest. Many people are injured and disabled in order to join the party and become models. I don't agree with his laziness, but he protects his id. There is no denying a person's desire. When he was young, he finished his studies first and then played chess. On the farm, there are no conditions for working and playing chess, which limits the play of talent. Wang Yisheng's taking time off to play chess is also based on the impulse of the ID.
It was not until Wang Yisheng went to "my" farm and played three games of chess with Foot Egg that the new character relationship gave Wang Yisheng room to live. Because of Zudan, he knew about the general sports meeting. Zudan complied with Wang Yisheng's request and invited the top three players to compete with Wang Yisheng. Wang Yisheng's talent can only be brought into full play under the traditional character relationship in China. He didn't break the original rules of the game because of his own desires. He always refused the kindness of feet and eggs.