Cherry Tsing Yi

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Cherry green clothes mean listening to the time in your heart speaking, and banana leaves covering deer mean the essence of creation.

It does produce happiness, and it is indeed a short dream.

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"Cherry Green Clothes" is the final work in the "Family Experiment" writing project by young Shanghai writer Zhang Yiwei. It includes "Sleeping in Sorrow," which won first prize in the short story category of the 36th Times Literary Award. It explores modern people's pain and tolerance, loss and satisfaction, memory and forgetfulness. A young man and woman, each accompanying their parents on a blind date; an elderly man hospitalized to keep his family happy; two generations who develop a common thread through dull conversation; a family living a dignified life on a meager salary... Each story recounts the ethical lives and evolving destinies of contemporary urbanites, depicting the kindness of ordinary people protecting one another and the unforgettable righteousness of ordinary people.

The title, "Cherry Green Dress," draws on the dreamlike motif of Tang Dynasty legends. Lu Zi, bewitched by fame and fortune, ultimately laments, "The honor and disgrace, rise and fall, high and low in this world—all should be left to nature!" But so-called nature also involves the unpleasant, day-to-day grind. "Cherry Green Dress" expresses the gap between dreams and reality, and also evokes the melancholy of the passage of time and the uncertainty of life and death. Alluding to the fact that even the "common people" can experience a "feast," "Cherry Green Dress" captures the imagery of waking from a dream after experiencing prosperity, yet it also points to the truth of urban life, which neither allows for decline nor elevation. It also addresses the ordinary people, helplessly enslaved to the commercial world, the real estate stock market, and the dream of wealth, seeking to salvage a touch of genuine humanity from their endless selfishness.

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"Writing begins with confession, but confession exhausts itself. After the urge to confess is exhausted, a purer joy of creation quietly grows, and the time within begins to speak. It is a universe increasingly different from natural time. Every glance is a hidden card within the heart, looming and revealing. The past is like a flash of lightning, nothing counts, everything is shattered, yet it is captivating." (Zhang Yiwei)

2017-07-01

华东师范大学出版社

224

9787567565333