Introduction to "The New Continuation of Jin Ping Mei: Samsara"
This book is a modern realist novel about worldly affairs. It inherits the core idea of reincarnation and the return of prosperity to emptiness in Ding Yaokang's "The Plum in the Golden Vase" of the Qing Dynasty. It breaks out of the classical romantic framework and uses the contemporary city as a "silent chaotic world" to reshape the ups and downs of the old world.
Everyone in the Ximen Mansion from the past life has been reincarnated in the modern market: upstart businessmen, popular Internet celebrities, wealthy housewives, workplace executives, grassroots ordinary people, and law enforcement officials appear one after another. They carry with them the old deeds of greed, ignorance, anger, and jealousy from their previous lives and live a new life in the torrent of capital, vanity fair, network of relationships, and the whirlpool of desire.
The whole book does not write about the pursuit of novels and romance, but only about the cause and effect of the world, the folds of human nature, and the lesions of the times. People in the world think that wealth, traffic, and connections can change their destiny, but they don't know that all speculation, calculation, transgression, and ruthlessness will eventually come back to bite them one by one over the years. From the flashy heyday of sudden wealth, to the undercurrent of interpersonal strife, to the final reckoning with the collapse of capital, the collapse of personal settings, and the betrayal and separation of relatives, the prosperity has finally come to nothing and all obsessions have been shattered.
Using the past to illuminate the present, using reincarnation to view the present world, it reveals the vanity of contemporary people's pursuit of fame and wealth, and describes the warmth and coldness of the market, the good and evil of human nature, and the true meaning of life. It is a masterpiece of contemporary world sentiments that is rooted in traditional context and directly faces the modern heart.
