I finished reading Fortress Besieged in one breath. It is a realistic satire novel with a unique style, and it is also a picture of a city. Through a series of events, such as returning to China, falling in love and looking for a job, the author shows the soul of the characters in front of us with provocative writing. The novel says that Fang Hung-chien's marriage is like a besieged city. He wanted to go out when he stepped forward, and desperately wanted to go in before he went in. A passage in Kierkegaard's Either-or-Either appropriately reflects Fang Hung-chien's marriage in Fortress Besieged and even the marriage of human beings in today's society. The thing is this: if you get married, you will regret it; If you don't get married, you will regret it; Whether you are married or not, you will regret it. Laugh at the stupidity of the world, and you will regret it; Cry for it, and you will regret it; Laugh or cry, and you will regret it. Trust a woman and you will regret it; If you don't trust her, you will regret it. Hang yourself, you will regret it; If you don't hang yourself, you will regret it. Gentlemen, this is the sum and essence of all philosophy. Fortress Besieged is really a good book. Every time I read it, I will have a new feeling. A good book can really give me a leisure time in my busy work, study and life, so that I can relieve fatigue and emancipate my mind. Why are great people great? Because you look at them on your knees, others are naturally taller than you, and because you just want to be a learner rather than a creator, the author looks down on life from a certain height, reveals the weakness of human nature and the authenticity of life unabashedly, and shows it by tearing it apart, giving people profound shock and enlightenment. As a student, marriage is not a topic I should discuss. Fortress Besieged is undoubtedly telling us what real life is. Everyone starts to pursue their ideal love from the day they are sensible, and when they do so, they are all looking for an ideal marriage for love, but few people really do it. In fact, life has taught us a rule: marriage is random! Marriage is like a besieged city. Some people want to go in, and those who go in want to come out! When love is eroded by years and becomes a part of life, then love has been sublimated into family affection. Of course, you can say that these children I said are not suitable. As I said, I'm just a student. I'm just talking about this book and some of my opinions. The author takes Fortress Besieged as the topic, perhaps to tell us that not only marriage is like a besieged city, but life, life, occupation and so on are more like a besieged city. In fact, we have been beating around the bush and doing the same thing over and over again: finding a cage to lock ourselves up, but after a while, we found that the scenery there was better than this, so we got out of the cage and walked into it. Just repeat it and enjoy it. A besieged city is marriage, and there are too many besieged cities in life ... "Marriage is like a besieged city. People outside the city want to come in and people in the city want to go out. " Well, Mr. Qian Zhongshu is really a master. He is a real capitalist, they have their unique talents, and they have their noble sentiments. Because of their almost exemplary behavior, they won the respect of others ... Qian Zhongshu, 19 10 was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, 1933 graduated from the Foreign Languages Department of Tsinghua University, studied in Europe and America for several years and published a series of essays. Beast? Ghosts, Fortress Besieged, Notes on Selected Poems of Song Dynasty, Notes on Art, Seven Episodes, and Guan Cone. We are familiar with his Fortress Besieged. Some scholars once commented: "Qian Zhongshu's camera-like memory, erudition, outstanding eloquence, interest and wisdom, and quiet personality make him famous and popular at home and abroad." He is proficient in English, French, Italian, German, Latin and Spanish, which makes scholars, experts and language masters in those countries sigh. Of course, what we talk about most is his humorous and sarcastic techniques. Qian Zhongshu likes to have a wise insight into human inferiority and make good use of basic expressions such as symbols in modernist literature. He often uses incisive words to bring out sharp meaning, profound meaning, concise writing and hit the nail on the head. This special writing style is particularly obvious in Fortress Besieged. Naturally, humor is a sign of cleverness. Just right, it injects a refreshing agent into the plain life, which is beneficial to people's minds and refreshing. Fortress Besieged is an anxious work by Qian Zhongshu. Written in the turbulent Shanghai at the end of the Anti-Japanese War, as he said in the preface, "I have been worried about the country and the people for two years." This book disappeared soon after it was published in China, and nobody cared about it for decades. The flowers in the wall are fragrant outside, but the besieged city enjoys a high reputation abroad. Xia Zhiqing, a famous Chinese-American literary critic, said in the History of Modern Novels in China: "Fortress Besieged is the most interesting and meticulously managed novel in modern China literature, and it may also be the greatest one." His comments have led to the appearance of many western versions, and Qian Zhongshu, as a writer, has gradually attracted the attention of the world. Fortress Besieged skillfully combines profound tragic implication with rich comedy color, and it is handled very successfully. Its artistic charm comes from Qian Zhongshu's satirical humor and his witty remarks. Fortress Besieged describes Fang Hung-chien's experiences of returning to China from abroad as timid as a mouse, portrays distinctive characters such as Chu, Dong Xiechuan, Li, Han, Gao Songnian and Su, and profoundly castigates the vulgarity, boredom and vanity of intellectuals. For example, Fang Hung-chien bought a nonexistent doctorate in philosophy from an Irish swindler, Han claimed that his ugly Belarusian wife was of American descent, and Li molested a Suzhou widow, all of which were impressive. Its achievements in satirical language are unparalleled, with all wonderful metaphors and couplets, a large number of epigrams and many paragraphs and sentences. Humorous language like this can be seen everywhere in Fortress Besieged. Fang Hung-chien, the hero of Fortress Besieged, went abroad to study without "further study" and bought a fake diploma from Clayton University to show off to the villagers. Qian Zhongshu wrote: "It sounds ridiculous for Chinese learners to go abroad for further study. In fact, only those who study China literature should study abroad. Because all other subjects, such as mathematics, physics, philosophy, psychology, economics, law and so on. They are all instilled from abroad and have long been full of foreign flavors. Only when Chinese is a local product and foreign signboards are needed can we maintain our position, just as officials and businessmen in China have to exchange the money exploited in their own countries for foreign exchange to maintain the original value of the national currency. " It should be noted that this is the text written by Qian Zhongshu at 1947. After reading it again 58 years later, its humor is still fresh and has a strong realistic irony. Another example is that Fang Hung-chien returned to his hometown from abroad and was invited to give a speech at the county school. He was at a loss and made a fool of himself. "Only a bold old face talked nonsense for a while." "Haitong for hundreds of years, only two western things survived in the whole society. One is opium and the other is syphilis, both of which are foreign civilizations absorbed by the Ming Dynasty. " With the help of Fang Hung-chien, Qian Zhongshu lamented that China people did not learn western high-tech, but learned to smoke opium and get syphilis from whoring. Aren't you sad? What is Fortress Besieged? Qian Zhongshu's wife, Jiang Yang, once wrote a short message to Huang Luo Fang explaining the rich connotation of "besieged city", which read: The main connotation of "besieged city" is that people in the city want to escape and people outside the city want to rush in. Whether it is marriage or career, the wishes of life are mostly the same. Qian Zhongshu described all this vividly in Fortress Besieged, humorous, vivid and interesting. Coincidentally, his short story Cat and his novel Fortress Besieged have the same effect. Before they got married, they covered up their true colors. After getting married, I found out that the other person was not the only thrill, and the uncooked rice was ready. I was in a dilemma and was "besieged". Qian Zhongshu wrote brilliantly about the mentality of a woman who has no love for her husband: "Mrs. Li knows that it is impossible to lack this husband, just like the Arabic numeral zero itself is worthless, but without it, 100 million can't be established." A few words, subtle metaphor, endless aftertaste. In a word, Fortress Besieged can bring you pleasure and meditation in reading. Remarks: Qian Zhongshu and Jiang Yang are my favorite writers and stand out among the traditional literati in China. Their daughter Qian Yuan used to be a professor at Beijing Normal University. Unfortunately, she died young, leaving her parents to concentrate on her studies, only accompanied by esophageal cancer. Only with such a mind and tolerance can we be so calm. Of course, we can also understand and appreciate Qian Zhongshu from another angle through The Three of us written by Ms. Jiang Yang. After reading Fortress Besieged, I bought Qian Zhongshu's Fortress Besieged when I was in college, but many people told me that this book is not good, and I have never read it. It's been five or six years. I rummaged through the bookcase a while ago and decided to have a look. After reading it, I want to call names, not because it's not good, but because it's too good. I really wanted to curse those who told me that books were bad, which delayed me from reading such a good book for so many years and delayed my understanding of love. In Fortress Besieged, love and marriage are described like this. Everyone is familiar with a saying: marriage is a city. People outside the city are desperately trying to squeeze in, but people in the city can't figure it out. The hero longs for perfect love. After several years of cynicism and absurd life, he suddenly met a love that he thought was perfect, so he fell in love, but it didn't last long. After a misunderstanding, the soap bubble burst and he fell in love. He got married unexpectedly by lightning, but his married life was miserable. The most appropriate description is the quarrel between him and his wife after marriage, so real that I seem to see the shadow of my past. After reading it, I positioned myself. I used to be a man who stepped into the city. I have seen and looked forward to most of the life in the city. It was trivial, but I resigned from the city for no reason. Hehe, now I look at this city and sigh. I don't pursue perfection, but I yearn for dullness; I no longer yearn for vigorous love, I don't want to swallow the sweetness of love into my mouth, which may make my teeth sweet and I dare not try again; I want to pay this honey bit by bit, so that every day's life is sweet, but not too sweet until the day I die. Fortress Besieged is well written, but I think it's a bit alarmist. Many marriages are harmonious, and many have love after marriage, and love may get deeper and deeper before it can rise to another level. But now I think love is not equal to marriage, but marriage is by no means the grave of love. Everything depends on a person's mentality and attitude towards life. The reason why I suggest you read this book is to let everyone know about it and let it give people a wake-up call. Never means keeping everyone away from love.