The evening of plum rain

Night of Plum Rain is the representative work of Shi Zhecun, a writer of New Sensation School. The plot of the article is simple. On a rainy evening, a married man gave a woman he hadn't seen for a while, which triggered a story of psychological description and speculation.

The novel describes the protagonist "I" as a married young man who is intolerant of rain and even likes to walk back with an umbrella in the drizzle. The hero "I" met a girl without an umbrella on her way home in the rainy night one day. "I" didn't go home directly, but approached the girl by asking for love and sent her a distance. During this journey, "I" will look at that girl from time to time. Every time I look at that girl, there will be waves in my heart, and the more I look at that girl, the more familiar I feel, and finally I think of my first girlfriend. Subsequently, my thoughts repeatedly flipped between my first girlfriend and my wife at home, and finally broke up with her, and I was still very lost at home.

The plot of the novel is very simple, but the simple plot contains a lot of psychological activities and inner struggles of the protagonist. This is also the most successful part of the novel. Through the description of details and psychological activities, the protagonist "I" is portrayed more vividly and truly. Shi Zhecun, the author, is a representative of Neo-sensualism writers in the early 1930s. His psychoanalysis is deeply influenced by Freud's psychoanalysis theory. Freud's early personality structure divided personality into three levels: consciousness, pre-consciousness and subconscious. Later, he further put forward a new theory of personality, suggesting that personality consists of three parts: id, ego and superego. I refer to the primitive structure of the innate subconscious, which contains some instinctive impulses that are closest to the animal nature. It acts on the principle of happiness. Ego refers to the structural part of consciousness, which is between the id and the superego, supervising the ego and satisfying it appropriately. The novel is also a contradictory struggle and contradictory emotion from the "I" id and ego. At the initial stage of contact with women, "I" was moved by the opposite sex outside marriage, thinking that she was a "beautiful object", and kept approaching her and offered to give her a ride. These are the thoughts of the id that "I" has produced under the impetus of the subconscious. However, I am grateful to her. I defend myself in my heart, thinking that my wife is waiting for me at home and making excuses to go home late. These are the results of negotiations and conflicts between my ego and myself. When "I" fantasizes about women, the author seems to deliberately depict the inner consciousness activities of "I" and the struggle between ID and ego. I peeked at the girl through the umbrella handle, and the girl suddenly became my first love. On the surface, it is the illusion caused by the emotional dislocation of "I", because in the eyes of "I", the girl's face and god are as beautiful as the first love. So "I" turned the girl into the first love. But in fact, it is the activity of character consciousness, and people's pre-consciousness enters their subconscious and follows "I" to produce feelings. Because the first love is beautiful in my mind, but after marriage, I choose to let the girl sleep in my mind, and the beauty of the girl awakens the beauty of the first love and the ID in my heart, so I will regard the girl as the first love. During this time, the author not only realized the ID. I was worried about meeting an acquaintance on the road when I suddenly saw my wife's melancholy eyes on the counter next to me. This reflects my heart. ID let me seize the happy time with girls, but I told me that I was married. Therefore, as a gentleman, my behavior will be condemned by my wife and society. In the end, in this self-contradiction, the girl left. After breaking up with the girl, the disappointment and loss at home reflected the dissatisfaction of "I" and the idea of being dissatisfied with myself.

When I started watching Night of Plum Rain, I didn't understand Freud's theory of mind and thought the protagonist "I" was a little funny. He is eager for the opposite sex other than marriage and beauty, so he will choose to approach that woman, but at the same time he wants to keep his marriage, family and social status, resulting in some tangled contradictions and struggles. In order to make his feelings for the opposite woman more justified, he thought that the girl was his first love and changed his name for him. I have been playing inner drama, and I feel that the protagonist is a bit weak and ridiculous. But there are many people like me. In this chaotic world, we all have our desires and longings, and there will be conflicts between rationality and sensibility. We will experience all kinds of entanglements and contradictions, and finally return to life, go home and return.

The success of Dusk in Meiyu lies in vividly depicting the protagonist's psychological activities, inner contradictions and entanglements, and vividly depicting the conflict between id and ego. But what is more successful is that it shows us some things that many of us will go through in our lives and a stage that we need to go through, and describes it with beautiful and refined articles, so that more people can realize such things. The secret of "Night of Plum Rain" lies in the author's description of a beautiful and elegant heart painting, which shows a delicate heart melody.