Chapter 7 Are you from Shanghai?

When I came back to Shanghai a year ago, my first impression of the long-lost Shanghainese was white and fat.In Hong Kong, nine out of ten Cantonese are dark and thin, Indians are even darker, and Malays are even thinner.I'm used to seeing them, and the Shanghainese look fat and white like gourds, like advertisements for milk substitutes. The second impression is Shanghai Renzhitong.Hong Kong's popular literature can be represented by the popular bus stop sign if you want to stop.Not so in Shanghai When I first arrived in Shanghai, I often exclaimed in my heart: After all, I am from Shanghai!I went to buy soap, and heard a young apprentice explain to his companion: Here, it is the Xun of Zhang Xun, the Xun of meritorious service, not the Xun of Xunfeng.There was an advertisement for the opening of a department store in a news paper, and the Yanghu style of parallel prose and prose was used to write realistic and moving words. Regarding the danger of choosing inappropriate gifts, the conclusion was: friendship depends on it, and it is not a big deal!It seems ironic, but it is entirely true and not exaggerated.

The familiarity of Shanghai people is not limited to clear and smooth literature and sophistication.Everywhere we can find true spiritual texts.There was a doggerel in the tabloids last year. I have forgotten who the author was, but I will never forget that poem.The two actresses invited the author to dinner, so he wrote a poem: Zhang Nv Yungu is as good as the two-headed card in front of the bottle.With a full belly, he repeatedly praised: It's hard to find any shoes to wear!What a lovely, meandering self-parody!There is helplessness in it, tolerance and laissez-faire born of fatigue, contempt for others, and not much regard for oneself, but still retains a sense of intimacy for others and oneself.There is a couplet that expresses that attitude more clearly. I saw it on the tram. I used my nails to scratch the words on the black paint of the window: my parents-in-law are right.Equal rights for men and women.It has always been that the public says that the public is right, and the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is right.Let them go!Each has its own reasons.Men and women are equal, after all these years, equality is equality!Another indulgence born of fatigue.That greasy smile is the hallmark of standard Chinese humor.

Shanghainese are traditional Chinese people who have been tempered by modern high-pressure life.The exchange of deformed products of old and new cultures may turn out to be unhealthy, but there is a strange wisdom here. Everyone says Shanghai people are bad, but they are bad enough.Shanghainese will flatter, follow others, and fish in troubled waters. However, because they have the art of dealing with the world, they can't act too much.I don't know anything about being bad, except that all novels are inseparable from villains.Good people love stories about bad people, but bad people don't like stories about good people.Therefore, none of the protagonists in the stories I write are perfect.There is only one girl who can be said to be ideal, kind, compassionate, and upright, but if she is not beautiful, I am afraid that she is a little annoying.Although she is beautiful, perhaps the readers will still scold her: Go back to the fairy tale!In Snow White and the Glass Slipper, she has her place.Shanghainese are not so childish.

I wrote a Hong Kong legend for Shanghainese, including seven pieces of clay incense, first incense burner, second burner incense, jasmine incense slices, Heart Sutra, glazed tiles, blockade, and love in the city.When I wrote it, I thought of Shanghainese all the time, because I tried to view Hong Kong from the perspective of Shanghainese.Only Shanghainese can understand the inadequacy of my writing. I like Shanghainese, and I hope Shanghainese like my book.