It means that for me, love is not pure lust; Nor is it the plain life of daily necessities; It is a longing that can never be erased in my heart, and it is my (hero) dream in an endless tired life.
In the climax of feminist movement in Berlin in 1970s, feminism put forward a famous slogan: Women don't need men, just as fish don't need bicycles. In the 1990s, the name of a female marriage agency in Berlin was: Fish is looking for its bike.
A researcher on women's issues in Beijing believes that Shanghai's citizens can't see their inner life ideals, settle down and live a well-off life, and indulge in urban fashion. The passion of life is to them what bicycles are to fish.
Chen believes that the passion for life, the demand for extraordinary life, and the feelings between men and women are the relationship between fish and bicycles.
Extended data:
The Fish and its Bicycle is a book published by Chen in 2002 by Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House.
This book shows the growth process of a Shanghai woman from a seventeen-year-old girl to a good wife and mother. She is like a balloon, once inflated, her love will be shattered. Like freckles, her pain can be alleviated by protection, but it will never fade.
Through the story she experienced in daily life like most Shanghai women, it reproduces how the fish found the bicycle.
How does the fish take care of the bike after finding it? In fact, everyone has a fish and a bike in their hearts.
Information link: Baidu Encyclopedia-"Fish and its Bicycle"