Taste traditional culture from Lao She's love

Lao She's writing always has a strong traditional Chinese flavor Most of the characters in his novels are cultural people in the city, or small people struggling at the bottom, from which readers can understand the local customs in the early 20th century and the Republic of China Love is a short story written by Lao She in Beibei, Chongqing in 1943 It is a prose narrative This paper describes the story of Zhuang Yiya, an intellectual who lives in Jinan, who is keen on collecting antique calligraphy and painting, and finally pays a heavy price for it Lao She likes short sentences, has a strong sense of rhythm and humor, but has a deep meaning of life There are two kinds of people who like collecting One is only collecting, not selling; they usually have a stable career and income, just collecting as a hobby The second is collecting and selling, in order to get the most profit Zhuang Yiya belongs to the first group He is a college graduate, sometimes teaching in middle school, sometimes working as a staff member in the office He has a wife, but no children He settled his wife in the country forty miles from the city, and left her alone in the city Because he is warm-hearted and likes to make things easier for his relatives and friends, Zhuang Yiya has a good relationship Zhuang Yiya has no bad habits In addition to the necessary living expenses for his wife, the rest of the money is spent on buying calligraphy, painting and gadgets In the past, he only collected calligraphy and paintings of small famous artists, the most expensive of which was no more than 20 or 30 yuan But one day, a large-scale landscape painting of Shixi made him decide to spend a lot of money to buy it At that time, a collector named Yang Kechang also looked forward to the painting and offered 250 yuan for it There is a missing seal in the lower left corner of this landscape painting, so it is not easy to identify the authenticity Mr Yang knows that the painting is valuable, but he wants to reduce the price through this flaw and sell it to the Japanese for a huge profit Zhuang Yiya likes Shixi's landscape painting too much He thought over and over again and sold his wife's jewelry He just scraped together 500 yuan to buy the painting first This event made him and Yang Kechang form a feud A famous connoisseur in Beijing offered 12 yuan to buy Shixi's landscape paintings Zhuang Yiya didn't sell them When the Japanese invaded Shandong, many people left home and fled to other places Yang Kechang advised him to sell the painting as a toll and take his wife to the mainland Zhuang Yiya refused The Japanese soon occupied Jinan Zhuang Yiya didn't want to leave home, so she had to keep his collection and wait for the situation to develop Mr Yang is here again Zhuang Yiya thought that he was still for the painting, and angrily scolded him for taking advantage of the danger But Yang Kechang said with a smile that he had come to congratulate the Japanese, who asked him to be the director of education Zhuang Yiya made it clear that he was not willing to work for the Japanese, but Mr Yang told him not to He said, "you have only two choices When you are the director of education, you can not only keep the paintings, but also the Japanese will give you more things But if he refuses to take up the post, he will not only confiscate the paintings and all the collectibles, but also his life " Zhuang Yiya stares at the two boxes of calligraphy and painting, tears in her eyes, nods and agrees "I'll die for what I love!" He looked up and sighed.