Introduction to the work "Before the Storm and a Light"
In the spring of 1921, the 22-year-old Zhang Daqian lived in the Li Mansion in Shanghai and saw Li Qiujun's "Lotus Picture" for the first time in the Ouxiang Pavilion. He was astonished. A budding young painter and a famous and talented woman met each other through painting and knew each other through poetry.
But he has a family - this is the wall that cannot be crossed between them. He knelt in the main hall of the Li family and said, "I don't dare to humiliate myself as a concubine." She whispered through the screen, "Bago, you made the right decision." The two of them treat each other as brother and sister and are close friends, and they regard the lights of Ouxiang Pavilion as an alliance.
In the past sixteen years, he climbed Huangshan Mountain, went to the Qiuying Meeting, and entered the National Art Exhibition, and became the "Zhang Daqian of the Sea" from "the second oldest child in the Zhang family"; she went from "third lady" to "third sister" to "master's wife" and became the real mistress of Dafeng Hall. Their affection was reflected in a collaborative painting, a "Qiuchi" seal, and more than a hundred painted letters, and they always "started with love and ended with etiquette."
The Anti-Japanese War broke out, and Daqian left Shanghai and returned to Shu. At Shiliupu Wharf, dusk clouds gathered around the sky. He handed her the folding fan: "Looking to the west of Qingcheng, and looking to the east of Ouxiang. Thousands of rivers and thousands of mountains have the same heart."
The door of Ouxiang Hall is always open. The lights are still on.
Concept: Concept of the novel (100 words)
Deep love in the world is more than just possession. Zhang Daqian and Li Qiujun, one already has a family and the other a talented woman from a famous family, have stayed together as close friends for their entire lives. "What's in love is what's in love, what's appropriate is politeness." - It's not that you don't love enough, it's that you love deeply enough and choose not to cross the line. Their love is not in their marriage, but in the paintings across the table, in the letters written thousands of miles away, and in the "Autumn Late" seal. The lights in Ouxiang Pavilion never go out.