"Taozhi Yaoyao" narrates the half-life self-esteem and forbearance of a woman named Yu Xiaoqiu in the Shanghai market. Her youthful beauty is considered a symbol of dazzling restlessness in the eyes of others. And her life experience is also a topic of gossip among countless people in the market. Under Wang Anyi's almost detailed and cumbersome realistic approach, an unusual girl in a Shanghai alley unexpectedly walks out on a difficult but pure life path; and the world of Shanghai's small citizens is no longer the background of the story, but becomes a flesh-and-blood life itself.
Reader comments
The author's writing is very good, and the story slowly tells the first half of Yu Xiaoqiu's life - a girl who grew up in a family that never received father's love, and almost no mother's love or brother's and sister's love. In that era of family influence and people's abnormal mentality, she grew up happily without being affected by the environment. Although she and He Weimin sadly broke up, that time was still joyful and happy after all... The final ending confirms that sentence - good people are rewarded.
Wang Anyi's articles are always very smooth, with few ups and downs, but they are always gripping and make you want to stop. The life of a little person always twists and turns in the cracks of the bricks in the corner, which makes people sigh.
This book is full of life, and Wang Anyi writes the stories in Shanghai alleys very realistically. I really like the description of Yu Xiaoqiu's mother in the book. "The rustling voice can go up and down." It made me imagine a very special female image. It is really not easy for Yu Xiaoqiu to find her own way despite growing up in such an environment. Her story made me feel the difficulty of life and the beauty of human nature. 🤗
Xiaoqiu's childhood is described in plain sentences, a childhood that even his father didn't know about. Just like me, I was afraid of the big brothers and sisters in the family, because they were very harsh, but there will be karma in the end...
Yu Xiaoqiu's character seems to have a very big heart, capable of accommodating many seemingly painful situations, without complaining, and still living a positive and optimistic life!
When I stood at the intersection of life today, with smoke and ghosts everywhere, I practiced calligraphy, listened to books, and reread this novel on a broken afternoon. My heart was filled with pity for the heroine who lacked love since she was a child. She was good-looking but not sentimental. It was a love affair that ended without a problem. After all, fate did not treat her badly and allowed her to marry her brother-in-law. Happy rest of life.
Everything is a trick of fate, and is controlled by the shadow of fate. Assuming that her boyfriend is not a scumbag, and that they are a husband and wife, and they are heartless and love each other, and that her sister does not die in a childbirth accident. Assume that she is not kind and takes care of the children and the elderly. How could she and him be together?
In this life, I no longer expect to get anything from anyone in reality. But if you meet a lover and eventually get married, I sincerely wish you the best. Compassion comes from understanding.
The Shanghai-flavored novel is none other than Wang Anyi [Blowing Kisses]
This seemed to be an ordinary thing that happened in the neighborhood. The father was imprisoned for corruption due to being invited to banquets by his admirers many times. The mother gave birth to a little daughter a year later. Because the biological father was unknown, the little daughter grew up amidst rumors, and she developed her forbearance and perseverance. Faced with my mother's indiscriminate slap in the face, my sister's indifference, my brother's occasional unprovoked beatings, and my lover's breakup when they fell in love and talked about marriage, it seemed that everything was destined, and it seemed that everything was being tested by fate, but obviously there was a better thing waiting ahead!
It's a good read. I haven't read an old-school novel in a long time.
Ordinary people cannot comment on the works of famous writers. Anyway, they are very good, delicate, true, profound and realistic.
My preferred way of writing?
It's very beautiful, the kind that you can't stop watching.
I really like the heroine
When I saw Xiaoqiu finding a good home at the end of the novel, I burst into tears. Many women of that era were like this, right? Submissive, kind and hard-working, but as strong as a weed.
A true representation of human nature. The city life is full of flavor.
Everyone is everyone. From the plot to the text, there is a light beauty, which is really not comparable to those online articles. Worth reading again and again.
When I read the middle part, I was a little afraid to read further, fearing that such a beautiful life would fall into the mud and be trampled. Fortunately, it landed as smoothly as water. There was no sudden death, no beauty, no ups and downs. A normal life with hope, the life that the audience likes and falls into the clichés is what we should look forward to.
Very touching, detailed description
Ordinary and ordinary life!
The words are gorgeous and watchable.
The world has passed in a hurry again, with many joys and many sorrows, but in the end they all passed away.
I had forgotten about seeing it a long time ago. I used to like Wang Anyi's works very much, but now I no longer feel the same when I look at them.
Xiaoqiu didn't get love, she didn't get a good job, she even lost her beauty. Time failed her.
She also has no father, and it seems she will never know who he is.
I also think the ending is good. The relationship between her and He is also so good. It's very foundational.
A vivid historical picture of the story told by parents
The writing is very good, and the helplessness and fun of life are well portrayed.
It's really beautiful, and the description is so detailed that it makes me want to write.
The writing is really good. I really like Xiaoqiu in the book. She is diligent and optimistic, and she chooses to do good in the difficult years. Thank you to the author for writing such a good article!
The author's writing is very good, and the story slowly tells the first half of Yu Xiaoqiu's life - a girl who grew up in a family that never received father's love, and almost no mother's love or brother's and sister's love. In that era of family influence and people's abnormal mentality, she grew up happily without being affected by the environment. Although she and He Weimin sadly broke up, that time was still joyful and happy after all... The final ending confirms that sentence - good people are rewarded.
Wang Anyi's articles are always very smooth, with few ups and downs, but they are always gripping and make you want to stop. The life of a little person always twists and turns in the cracks of the bricks in the corner, which makes people sigh.
This book is full of life, and Wang Anyi writes the stories in Shanghai alleys very realistically. I really like the description of Yu Xiaoqiu's mother in the book. "The rustling voice can go up and down." It made me imagine a very special female image. It is really not easy for Yu Xiaoqiu to find her own way despite growing up in such an environment. Her story made me feel the difficulty of life and the beauty of human nature. 🤗
Xiaoqiu's childhood is described in plain sentences, a childhood that even his father didn't know about. Just like me, I was afraid of the big brothers and sisters in the family, because they were very harsh, but there will be karma in the end... Yu Xiaoqiu's character seems to have a very big heart, capable of accommodating many seemingly painful situations, without complaining, and still living a positive and optimistic life!
When I stood at the intersection of life today, with smoke and ghosts everywhere, I practiced calligraphy, listened to books, and reread this novel on a broken afternoon. My heart was filled with pity for the heroine who lacked love since she was a child. She was good-looking but not sentimental. It was a love affair that ended without a problem. After all, fate did not treat her badly and allowed her to marry her brother-in-law. Happy rest of life. Everything is a trick of fate, and is controlled by the shadow of fate. Assuming that her boyfriend is not a scumbag, and that they are a husband and wife, and they are heartless and love each other, and that her sister does not die in a childbirth accident. Assume that she is not kind and takes care of the children and the elderly. How could she and him be together? In this life, I no longer expect to get anything from anyone in reality. But if you meet a lover and eventually get married, I sincerely wish you the best. Compassion comes from understanding.
The Shanghai-flavored novel is none other than Wang Anyi [Blowing Kisses]
This seemed to be an ordinary thing that happened in the neighborhood. The father was imprisoned for corruption due to being invited to banquets by his admirers many times. The mother gave birth to a little daughter a year later. Because the biological father was unknown, the little daughter grew up amidst rumors, and she developed her forbearance and perseverance. Faced with my mother's indiscriminate slap in the face, my sister's indifference, my brother's occasional unprovoked beatings, and my lover's breakup when they fell in love and talked about marriage, it seemed that everything was destined, and it seemed that everything was being tested by fate, but obviously there was a better thing waiting ahead!
It's a good read. I haven't read an old-school novel in a long time.
Ordinary people cannot comment on the works of famous writers. Anyway, they are very good, delicate, true, profound and realistic.
My preferred way of writing? It's very beautiful, the kind that you can't stop watching.
I really like the heroine
When I saw Xiaoqiu finding a good home at the end of the novel, I burst into tears. Many women of that era were like this, right? Submissive, kind and hard-working, but as strong as a weed.
A true representation of human nature. The city life is full of flavor.
Everyone is everyone. From the plot to the text, there is a light beauty, which is really not comparable to those online articles. Worth reading again and again.
When I read the middle part, I was a little afraid to read further, fearing that such a beautiful life would fall into the mud and be trampled. Fortunately, it landed as smoothly as water. There was no sudden death, no beauty, no ups and downs. A normal life with hope, the life that the audience likes and falls into the clichés is what we should look forward to.
Very touching, detailed description
Ordinary and ordinary life!
The words are gorgeous and watchable.
The world has passed in a hurry again, with many joys and many sorrows, but in the end they all passed away.
I had forgotten about seeing it a long time ago. I used to like Wang Anyi's works very much, but now I no longer feel the same when I look at them.
Xiaoqiu didn't get love, she didn't get a good job, she even lost her beauty. Time failed her. She also has no father, and it seems she will never know who he is.
I also think the ending is good. The relationship between her and He is also so good. It's very foundational.
A vivid historical picture of the story told by parents
The writing is very good, and the helplessness and fun of life are well portrayed.
It's really beautiful, and the description is so detailed that it makes me want to write.
The writing is really good. I really like Xiaoqiu in the book. She is diligent and optimistic, and she chooses to do good in the difficult years. Thank you to the author for writing such a good article!