The full text of A Night in beginning of autumn by Yu Dafu | Appreciation | After reading it

Yu Dafu

The dark sky, where stars are scattered like chess pieces. More violent wind, whining in the high place. There are not many pedestrians on the road, but they are constantly. When the car passes by, or when the wind falls, a gust of yellow sand always turns up on Asfa's way off. It's when you don't feel hot in your light clothes. The lights on both sides of the road that never go out at night have lost their brilliance compared with the first half of the night, and the doors of various shops have been closed.

they walked silently on the road. The one in the back is wearing a semi-old summer cloth dress, and the one in front is wearing an unfashionable white silk gown. The two of them were friends. The one wearing a foreign dress was visiting a fellow countryman on his way home, and the one wearing a gown came back from a comrade who was going to the United States. They met by chance on the road. Both of them are unemployed.

"where are you going?"

after a while, the man in the dress asked the man in the gown.

The man in the gown didn't answer. He walked silently for a while without turning his head. He asked the man in the foreign dress,

"Where are you going?"

people wearing foreign clothes don't answer, but silently walk along the tram line. They were walking to a tram stop when the last tram back to the garage came. The man in the gown paused for a moment, waiting for the man in the dress behind. When the man in western-style clothes walked slowly to the side wearing a gown, the stopped tram left again.

"Why don't you take this tram back?"

the man in the gown asked the man in the dress. The man in foreign clothes didn't answer, but his feet kept moving forward slowly, followed by the man in long gown.

they came to a fork in the road. The man in the foreign dress stopped for a moment. The man in the gown approached the side wearing the western-style clothes, and his feet didn't stop, but he continued to move slowly. People wearing foreign clothes followed and asked,

"Why don't you go back in this fork road?"

They went silently, and their shadows gradually drifted away from the fork in the road, becoming smaller. After a while, their shadows were completely swallowed up by the night air. At the fork in the road, it was windy and turned into yellow sand. The more violent wind, whining in the high place. As soon as the bus came, the yellow sand turned up at the fork road. It's night in beginning of autumn.

Appreciation In the spring of 1923, Yu Dafu was unemployed in Shanghai, and poverty followed him like a shadow. He said: "since last winter, my feelings have only been melancholy." I had great hopes of working as a laborer in Russia. I had once had it, but my brother held me back in Beijing. I hold the concept of nothingness. On the Yangtze River, there were things that lingered for death, but my gentle and unwise woman advised me to stop. Tomb-Sweeping Day sent a woman back to Zhejiang that day. I wanted to get drunk and commit suicide on a moonlit night, but several friends told me to wait. I have been waiting for half a year, and now my heart is still as depressed as it was six months ago. " So he sighed: "I didn't understand thoroughly until this golden sentence of Life is a prison without bar said by an English satirist." Life is a prison without a fence. )

The night intoxicated by the spring breeze was written on July 5th, 1923, and The Night in beginning of autumn was written at 12: 11 on August 8th of the same year.

Through the monologue of Yu Dafu quoted above, and comparing this article with the famous article "A Night Intoxicated by Spring Breeze", it is needless to say the situation and mood of the two unemployed people in Lu Yu.

Yu Dafu called such people "redundant people", that is, "redundant people". Their basic characteristic is "how much they hate", and their knowledge is not used by the country; There is no money in the bag, which is the inevitable result of unemployment; "It's useless in the world", and we haven't found a fighting post yet. Therefore, Yu Dafu once said: "I am really a surplus, so I am completely useless to the society."

One of the characteristics of this novel is that there are only questions without answers, or only rhetorical questions are used instead of answers. There is "words" but no "right" in the text-never forming a "dialogue". Because the answer is redundant, the general answer is too shallow. "Where are you going?" If the answer is, "Where can I go? I have to go home. " What's the charm? Therefore, not answering is deeper than answering, but we seem to hear the answer: poverty makes their lives lose their support, and where is the future and destination of life? "Life is useless in the world, and death is harmless to people"; "I don't have a talent, but I have no way to serve my country." Where can I go?

"Why don't you take this tram back?" You don't have to answer. Because the "zero surplus" has nothing, two sleeves of autumn wind and a few empty bags. "Why don't you go back into this fork?" Go back to the slum of Deng Tuolu in A Drunk Night in the Spring Breeze, and be a "resident of a free prison"?

This leads to another feature of this novel: the author repeatedly exaggerates the nonstop "walking" and the nonstop "walking" in the boundless future-"silently going forward"! Although the wind, yellow sand and night will engulf them, from "the night when the spring breeze is intoxicated" to "this is the night in beginning of autumn", they hold the resentment of "how much they hate in their hearts" and constantly seek. In silence, these two friends are connected with each other, and they are "involved" in taking the road ahead, otherwise one of them might have drowned in Huai Sha.

Yu Dafu's painting is an excellent sketch of the remnant of the old society. On the "beginning of autumn Night", the silhouette of a wandering man with urban knowledge lingers in the street. What awaits them is a harsh winter!