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To be honest, I can't understand it at all, but it is undeniable that this book is wonderful. Maybe it's because I'm just a student and can't understand that suffocating love. Or maybe it's because I am a post-2000 generation who grew up in a prosperous, powerful and beautiful China. I cannot see through the harsh world and the social environment at that time. Without experience, everything is just empty talk. But I also understand a lot, the first is to achieve success, the second is to work hard, the third is to be self-improvement, and the fourth is to be cautious. Every transaction and step in life requires us to be down-to-earth and choose carefully. Do not enter the siege of the Dark World. It is not advisable to be confused and confused. Optimism and cheerfulness are blessings. Come on! [Make faces]
I like the text of "The City Besieged" very much, "The night is like paper dipped in oil and turned into a translucent body; it is embraced by the sun and cannot be distinguished. Perhaps it is intoxicated by the sun, so the night after the sunset is also red. When the red fades away, the sleepers in the cabin also wake up with tired sweat." This description has a strong atmosphere of drunkenness, but there is no trace in the text. A few simple lines of scenery and line drawings can fully convey the atmosphere at that time. Mr. Qian Zhongshu's writing power is really amazing. I can't help but be amazed when I read it.
The name "Besieged City" is good. It not only talks about marriage and the workplace, but also talks about everything. The besieged city comes from the shackles of the heart. The things we are unwilling to reveal and tightly hidden are exactly those we are unable to maintain. What we are afraid of losing and what we want to strive to break through are probably the same thing. This kind of thing is in a besieged city, like looking at flowers in the fog, half charming and half hazy. In the end, you don't know what your heart desires. Therefore, it is quite right to say that The Besieged City is a new version of scholarly history. It is full of wonderful writing, and every word and deed is sarcastic, like steel nails driven into every sore spot.
Let readers reflect on the various dilemmas in society and interpersonal relationships, as well as the choices and compromises people face in the pursuit of freedom and happiness. The writing style of the novel is fluent and beautiful, the language is humorous, and it is endlessly memorable. It reveals people's deepest desires and struggles, allowing readers to find resonance in the story. "Fortress Besieged" is not only a literary work, but also a mirror that reflects the psychological dilemmas and practical problems prevalent in modern society. The characters in the novel are lifelike, the plot is twists and turns, full of irony and humor.
Fang Hongjian is a fake doctor who returned from studying abroad. He is a person who has extensive knowledge but not mastery and has done nothing. He encounters obstacles at work. This is a siege in his career. He is more game-oriented in love, falling inexplicably in love with the female doctor Su Wenwan, but what he likes is Tang Xiaofu. He eventually marries Sun Roujia, whom he does not deeply love, and writes the story of the siege of love. After marriage, she and Sun Roujia had a long-term quarrel and eventually broke up. This was a siege of marriage. Life is surrounded by sieges. People inside the city want to get out, and people outside the city want to get in. Life is a besieged city. We are constantly pursuing happiness and joy, but we often face various failures and contradictions between ideals and reality. However, we should enjoy those happy processes. Even if it is painful, we don't have to be too sad. We should face reality optimistically. We should fully understand reality and human nature, not to be happy with things, not to be sad with ourselves. There should be a soul that is not confused in the heart, not trapped in emotions, not afraid of the future, and not obsessed with the past.
What kind of twists and turns did the emotional life and spiritual pursuits of the intellectuals of the Republic of China, represented by Fang Hongjian, have in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War? What is revealed in the siege is not only the factional struggle in the university, but also the intrigues among professors, using laughter and curses to cope with social unrest, using love to pursue, and using male love and female love to cover up frustration and depression. This is a panoramic view of the spiritual outlook of a specific social class, but at the same time it also describes the joys and sorrows of this era.
Mr. Qian Zhongshu uses a variety of interesting rhetoric and bitter irony to form the unique humor and intelligence as well as sophistication and vitriol in the language. Mr. Qian Zhongshu accurately captures the human characteristics of the intellectuals he describes in the book, whether it is blindness in love, mutual temptation and trust crisis in marriage, as well as intrigues and even mutual pressure among intellectuals at work. It shows the sentimentality and irony of life in a besieged city. Whether it is love or marriage, an intimate relationship that looks happy and happy to outsiders. Still doing organized work, a way of life that looks decent to outsiders. Mr. Qian Zhongshu has explored the various aspects of life from a unique perspective. Not everything is perfect as expected, and unsatisfactory is the normal state of the world.
After watching the movie, I love and hate the male protagonist. If the male protagonist has ambition, backbone, is not so timid, finds a good direction for his efforts, and continues to cultivate himself, he will not be tied up in the siege of career, nor will he jump into the siege of love and be unable to extricate himself. In fact, as long as we have faith and ambition and don't be surrounded by the self in our hearts, there will definitely be no siege that will hinder our steps.
The siege belongs not only to Fang Hongjian, but also to everyone. It is the epitome of human society and the shackles of reality. The stories in the besieged city have been happening every day since ancient times, and the desires outside the besieged city have never stopped since the birth of civilization. The siege is a shackle that cannot be cut off in the human heart, and it is also a mysterious shackle that society restrains the human heart. It is rare for us to encounter such a good book again, which clearly explains the basic rules for people who walk upright to survive in the world. Maybe you and I both understand that certain roads are destined to lead to that airtight city, but that is an unsolvable road that cannot be turned back. Either stop and be annihilated, or you have to keep moving forward. Finally, we were in the siege, watching the people outside scrambling for the first place despite the obstruction.
Marriage is like a gold-painted birdcage. The birds outside the cage want to live in it, and the birds inside the cage want to fly out. Therefore, there is no end after marriage and separation.
As I listened, I fell in love with Fang Hongjian. He was useless, cowardly, awkward, but also true and cute. The people in the besieged city are forcing themselves step by step towards desperation. Isn't that the case for us?
I prefer the first part of "Fortress Besieged", which describes the desires of human nature. Whether it is the male protagonist's physical honesty or spiritual longing, it is written in detail and true. This is in line with the most primitive side of human nature. Later, this longing and fanaticism are cooled down, which not only makes people feel a kind of unwilling but powerless pain, but also makes people empathize. Hongjian's bumpy career path after that was the personal experience of most people, and it was a normal part of life. Indomitable quarrels in the family, arguments about you not letting me and I not letting you, were also commonplace in real families. She not only lamented that at the beginning of marriage, she had all the beautiful longings to dress up the marriage as beautiful and warm, but halfway through, the marriage seemed to be a battlefield filled with gunpowder smoke, leaving only coldness and fleeing, describing the real current situation of many people, as if writing about others, and also seemed to be writing about oneself. There is another reason why I like this book. Mr. Zhong Shu is good at using metaphors to write vivid, lively and humorous language. Sometimes I feel like I'm on the scene, and I'm "trapped" in it, and I'm intoxicated with it. I'm truly a master of language! But I think there are some parts of this book that I don't quite agree with. For example, the love between Xiao Fu and Hong Jian ended suddenly and unexpectedly, and the love with Miss Sun started very hastily. I secretly thought that there was a lack of preparation and care in these places, which made me feel a little bit scattered. I wonder if you all feel the same way, and welcome your criticisms and corrections.
When I was in school, I read "Fortress Besieged" because of its reputation and found it boring. Then when I read "Fortress Besieged", I couldn't believe that I couldn't read such a famous book, but I still didn't like it. Now that I am middle-aged, I read "Fortress Besieged" again and found it meaningful... I read books, listen to books and watch TV series...
When I was in high school, I had just come across these classics. After hearing about the reputation of Fortress Besieged, I forced myself to read them. Although I could appreciate some of the fun at that time, it was difficult to understand deeply many of the contents. I watched it again this time. At first I just felt admiration. But later when I wrote about the life after marriage with Roujia, I couldn't help but marvel. I saw many places and suddenly recalled that I had read these words many years ago (about ten years). The text has not changed, but the person who reads the text has changed from a high school student in Shandong to a "senior student" who has been studying in Shaanxi and Hunan for more than ten years. There is quite a feeling of "the flowers are similar every year". The charm of famous books also lies in the fact that different stages of life always lead to different understandings. I wonder what kind of situation I will be in when I read this book again next time?
The limitations of self-awareness and the complexity of human nature If you don't know you are wrong, you always think that others are wrong.
There is a book that I have heard from others for a long time. Every time we talk about marriage, we always can't help but mention the sentence in the book, "People outside the city want to get in, and people inside the city want to get out" to describe people's views on marriage! What touched me the most in the book Incident 1: Fang Hongjian applied for a fake degree certificate. Seeing this, I can't help but think of Hassan in "The Kite Runner" who was bullied for winning the kite competition for Amir. However, Amir hid behind and witnessed everything that happened, and finally spent his life saving and redeeming himself. Fang Hongjian in the book deceived everyone with fake certificates for the sake of his own dignity, and he was always worried that his lies would be exposed. In fact, this kind of thing happens to everyone more or less, but the size and severity of the matter are different. I don't know if such a lie is a white lie? I have always been thinking, if the lie is exposed and all the aura of Fang Hongjian disappears and people laugh at him, will he have the courage to bear the consequences? What about the people around him? Can the so-called father-in-law who provided him with study abroad expenses accept it? The Fang parents who are proud of him? Pursuing his wife Sun Roujia? Including his friends and colleagues? What would happen if he suddenly discovered that he was a big liar? What if Fang Hongjian was replaced by myself? What would I do? Different people have different decisions on how to deal with things, and naturally the results are different. No matter what kind of results your decision leads to, as long as you can be responsible for the results of your decision, I think it is the best decision; in "The Kite Runner", Amir couldn't cross the door in his heart, and spent his whole life redeeming himself for his wrong decisions. In the end, he had no regrets, but after all, the decision he made in the past was too costly to repay in his life! After reading some books, I suddenly discovered that the darkest points and the brightest points of human nature are actually the same. Whether it is modern or ancient, what traps us is always our conscience. Incident 2: Love goes round and round, and the one who ends up walking hand in hand with us is not necessarily, and in most cases is not the one we love the most in our hearts. The song "Legend" goes like this: "Just because I took one more look at you in the crowd, I can never forget your face again." One look is a lifetime. Such a beautiful love should only exist in heaven, and if it exists on earth, it is also a legend. But no matter what, we should treat every relationship with passionate feelings and just live up to each other! Incident 3: This sentence in the book "Marriage is like a besieged city. People outside the city want to get in, and people in the city want to get out." No matter what the marriage is like, only those who have experienced it are qualified to comment! This book is popular at home and abroad precisely because of this sentence, which also expresses the marital status of most people. But this sentence is said from the perspective of a bystander. People who have not experienced it will never understand it. This is one of the reasons why so many people choose marriage. So accept all arrangements in life. When you meet someone you like, fall in love boldly and face it bravely. Past experience is just a reference for us. Flowers are afraid of withering 🥀 Aren't they going to bloom? It seems that no flower will miss its flowering period. Although I am in the city, sometimes I have the urge to run outside the city, but there is also fun in the city. Otherwise, it will be a lifelong regret to circle around the city and never know the scenery in the city... Compared with other people's experience and the perspective of a bystander, I prefer my own feelings, which is the real life of being immersed in my own life.
A besieged city - the sweetness and happiness of life are surrounded, so people outside the city want to squeeze in; but it is not just sweetness, there are also quarrels and discords, sacrifices and failures, so people inside the city want to escape. The castle that isolates the inside and outside is like a layer of sugar coating, making people outside the city yearn for it, and it also covers the bitterness inside, making people inside the city hesitate. However, both marriage and life are a social process of adaptation and adjustment. There are no two identical leaves in the world, and there are no two people with the same mind. Therefore, how you treat a besieged city is how you live a good life.
I only read the beginning several times before being interrupted by other things, but I still applauded every time I read it. It is so wonderful and detailed, and I finally finished reading it in one go this time. It's so harsh! How ironic! So humorous! What a joke! So show off! So cute! This "egg" is really unique and delicious, no wonder people want to see who the divine hen is! In describing the psychology and performance of various interactions between people, flesh-and-blood characters are vividly presented. Mr. Yang Jiang wrote in the postscript that these characters are fictional, but they also come from all kinds of people in life. When I read it, I also saw the shadow of myself in the book. Seeing Fang's life after marriage, I really feel depressed. I wonder if Tang Xiaofu and Fang Hongjian were together, would they still be under siege? But what didn't happen can only be speculated on.
I haven't experienced it deeply yet, but I'm afraid that the words inside will come true [Thinking]
I am Fang Hongjian in reality, I have no opinions of my own. I didn't like studying, so because of my parents' expectations, I reluctantly went to college and got a diploma. Like him, he doesn't want to mention his "bought" diploma; like him, he can't lie and package himself as confidently as Han Xueyu; like him, he will start to pay attention to someone because of the booing from the people around him; and like him, he will blame himself for his incompetence, but he doesn't know how to change... I have basically experienced the previous siege and cannot change it, so I like the marriage part in the article the most, because it always reminds me that people like me cannot enter the siege of love and marriage, because their endings are destined to be tragic.
I am honored to read it, and I feel deeply about it. I will not hesitate to correct my mistakes: I originally thought that the married life of Fang Hongjian and Sun Roujia, who had traveled abroad in the tide of the times, was the happiest existence. They were close friends and partners. Even now, they still sincerely admire those with high academic qualifications. Marriage is indeed not a matter of two people, but of two families. Mutual respect and sincere acceptance of both families may also be one of the secrets of a happy marriage. A marriage with a low education level may not be unhappy, and a marriage with a high education level may not be happy. Scholars must be down-to-earth and study hard. Social relationships at work are inextricably linked. Only by handling the relationship well can we survive in the torrent of history and bear responsibility in marriage relationships. Life often doesn't work according to common sense, and we must have the ability to start from scratch.
There are quite a lot of truths spoken, and I really like them all. The sentence "I'll have to endure today's hardships first" is very subtle. I endure hardships every day, and I also grow. "Fortress Besieged" is different from other books I have read. It is not so boring for me to read, but it gives me some happiness^_^
The descriptions in "Fortress Besieged" are very detailed and vivid, covering all aspects, not boring, and make people immersed in it. "The Besieged City" depicts the change in a person's attitude towards marriage. Before falling in love and getting married, one always maintains a sincere and passionate expectation for marriage, like an ignorant child learning to walk by climbing. However, in life after marriage, under various pressures from family and other aspects, it becomes constant quarrels, boredom and boredom, making marriage truly become a besieged city - people outside want to come in and people inside want to get out. Qian Zhongshu has described the problem of marriage relationship in a delicate way, so that our thoughts on marriage relationship are no longer single and harsh. We can distinguish right from wrong through understanding love and marriage from many aspects, just to prevent us from getting lost, to find someone who truly loves you among all living beings, to get married, and to avoid being trapped in a siege.
I don't understand. Mr. Qian has passed away and has no heirs. Who collected the copyright fees and whose pocket it went into?
I also need to break through the siege that is surrounding me at this stage, which is expected to take five months. After I succeed, I have to make full preparations to stand up and break through the next siege. When I break through one siege after another, I have become the person I want to be.
The writing is really good and full of life philosophy. I think I will have to read it several times to understand it!
I couldn't stop reading it, the writing was so delicate, vivid and touching, I was fascinated by it, couldn't put it down, and even forgot to eat and sleep! The first time I read Mr. Qian's masterpiece, I was so attracted that I couldn't put it down!
Ahhhh, there are so many women, why do I knock Fang Hongjian and Zhao Hsin-mei! ! ! Can't go back [crying]
I have only read more than 100 pages, and I feel that Fang Hongjian is quite interesting. That sentence of "I would rather be a loser than a rice bowl", I later realized that it was because I was begging for money at the gambling table or on purpose [laughing and crying] maybe it was because I was thinking about fur clothes, but I was indeed very proficient in hiding my clumsiness. It's even funnier if the "headache" is the lady, Fang Hongjian was completely dumbfounded🤣
People outside the city want to get in, and people outside the city want to get out. They want what they can't get, and their desires are endless. The walls surrounding a city are often built by ourselves. We have been studying since childhood, taking high school entrance examinations, college entrance examinations, and postgraduate entrance examinations. We are always pursuing "going ashore". We should not follow the trend like Fang Jianhong, clarify what we want, and do what we really want to do.