Since the novel came out, it has been fully affirmed and highly praised by literary critics. Because there are many descriptions of Muslim life etiquette in the novel and some daily expressions of Muslims are used, the general cultural level is not high, and Hui people who are unfamiliar with Muslim tradition or unfamiliar with it also have a good impression on the novel. The novel's artistic techniques in structure setting, plot arrangement, characterization and literary skills are really excellent, but through these specific literary expressions, everyone who is familiar with Muslim life and Hui history will find that the fate of Muslim life and the historical development of Hui reflected in the novel are seriously inaccurate and its theme is seriously wrong. It should be pointed out that,
This novel uses hundreds of thousands of words to describe the fate changes of three generations of a Huiyu family in Beijing during the 60 years from the beginning of this century to the 1960s. The love tragedy of the protagonist Han He is the main plot of this novel. The sad atmosphere of cemeteries and funerals repeatedly described and rendered in the novel is the main theme covering the whole article; Finally, the whole article ends with the funeral of the new moon.
Like many kind readers, I read Funeral for the first time because of its beautiful literary language and touching reasons.
Attracted by festivals, but hidden, there are always many puzzles. Why is the novel named Mu?
Slim's funeral? Why did the protagonist Han finally return to the Han nationality? Why is the new moon finally heartless?
Bury? The image of Mrs. Han Liang Junbi is always so awkward and unacceptable. Why did she use this image?
Appear? However, the sad atmosphere that has been hanging over the readers always makes people feel wandering in the cemetery ... Rereading.
Only after careful taste did I understand the theme of this novel.
Literature reflects reality and serves it. Any literary work has its realistic purpose, so does the funeral. This novel is written by symbolic means, in which every plot arrangement and the shaping of every character has its specific significance.
The novel describes the fate of three generations of Yuliangjia people in the past 60 years. At the beginning of the novel, the devout Muslim old man Turoyedin adopted a Han orphan and made him a Muslim Ibrahim. Turoyedin and Ibrahim traveled around together and finally went to the holy land' Kerbai'. When they came to Beijing, they found the word "Qing" on the lintel of Liang's family. From then on, Ibrahim became a member of the Liang family, and the story began. Ibrahim later became Liang's son-in-law and inherited Liang's family business. Times change, fate rises and falls, and the family eventually declines and falls into an inevitable tragedy.
The Muslim old man with his head wrapped is undoubtedly a symbol of the Hui people's traditional belief in Islam. At the beginning, another mysterious figure, the old man "Jade Magic", the original owner of Boya House, symbolized the traditional culture of China. Both cultures have influenced the Hui people. The later development of the novel is that the old Muslim man with his head wrapped has long gone to the west and never came back. However, the' Jade Magic' old man is always looming, which deeply affects the' Yuliang' family. Ibrahim inherited only the names and forms of Muslims from Turoyeddin, but the spiritual essence does not have the ideology of Muslims, and the psychological depth is still a profound cultural concept of China. Therefore, Ibrahim gave it back to Tze-ki hon earlier. Finally, he told his wife Liang Junbi his psychology: "I ... I won't go back!" " "Touroye decided that my father would adopt me, but I cheated him, the master, and ... you!"
This clue carefully depicted in the novel reveals the fate of the development of the Hui nationality and also indicates the future development direction of the Hui nationality.
The novel's description of the love tragedy of Han and his father and daughter and the characterization of the characters are more profound and concrete.
The abnormal love between Han and his wife and sister Liang is itself a challenge to Muslim moral concepts and Islamic marriage system. It shows readers that the previous generation of Hui people tried to break away from the traditional shackles, but they failed, and their love ended in tragedy. ,
The new moon, the crystallization of their abnormal love, is a symbol of the younger generation of Hui nationality. Her desperate love for Chu Yanchao, her Han teacher, is a new round of rebellion against Muslim tradition, which shows that the younger generation of Hui people continue to break free from the shackles of tradition. This love also ended in tragedy.
Crescent's congenital heart disease is an important source of her tragedy. This kind of congenital heart disease seems to indicate the tradition inherited by the younger generation of Hui nationality, and it is doomed to the inevitable tragic fate that the new moon will eventually be sent to the cemetery. The novel predicts the future fate of the younger generation of Hui nationality.
The love between Tze-ki hon and his father and daughter ended in tragedy, and these two love tragedies are closely related to Tze-ki hon's wife, Mrs. Han, Liang Junbi. Mrs. Han is the only devout Muslim in Han Ziqi's family who keeps fasting, and is undoubtedly regarded as a symbol of the traditional Muslim belief of Hui people in the novel. Such a devout Muslim woman often wears short sleeves and is often addicted to mahjong tables. Not to mention that this is a serious violation of the reality of Muslim life, but more importantly, she is scheming, bossy and cold. She not only hindered the love with Liang, but also interfered with the love between teachers and students with Chu Yanchao, resulting in the love tragedy between their father and daughter. The author regards such an image as a symbol of the Hui people's traditional belief in Islam, which is undoubtedly an ugly Islam, and blames all the setbacks and misfortunes of the Hui people in real life on Islam.
The atmosphere of funerals and cemeteries depicted and rendered in the novel always reveals to readers that Muslims have come to an end.
As we all know, a crescent moon is a symbol of Islam, symbolizing loftiness, purity and hope.
The fate of the hero has another profound implication: "Muslim funeral" and "new moon", which directly point out the theme of the novel.
The detailed description and overall arrangement of the novel can be said to be original and worth writing. Its theme is clear and identifiable. The purpose of this story is to tell readers that the traditional belief in Islam of the Hui people has become an obstacle and constraint to the advancement of the Hui people, which has led to the tragedy of the Hui people and introduced the Hui people into the cemetery. Even the earliest introduction of Islam into China and the formation of Hui nationality are historical tragedies. Only by breaking free from the shackles of Islam and burying Islam can the Hui people get rid of their tragic fate. This is the theme of the novel.
Is the historical development and reality of the Hui nationality really like this?
As we all know, the Hui nationality is an integral part of all ethnic groups under the cohesion of Islam after Islam was introduced into China.
A country that is integrated. Historically, it has experienced its own brilliant prosperity and also experienced decline.
After thousands of years of historical development, I have experienced many changes, lost my mother tongue, lost my external characteristics, and even lost my lineage. Only that precious belief passed down from generation to generation is the foundation of Hui people's survival and the soul of Hui culture. It profoundly affects the psychological consciousness, culture and economic life of the Hui people. It endows the Hui people with a self-regulation mechanism that conforms to social development. At every historical juncture related to the survival of the nation, the Hui people have made timely changes in line with social development. The Confucian classroom education in the Ming Dynasty, the Islamic Chinese translation movement in the early Qing Dynasty, and the modern new culture movement of the Hui nationality all brought cultural and economic prosperity to the Hui people, which enabled them to revive from the decline again and again, survive from the crisis again and again, and continue to grow and develop. There is no Islam and there are no three major cultural movements based on Islamic beliefs.
Although there are indeed many people like Han and Liang who ignore the traditional consciousness, break away from the tradition and even betray the tradition, they are only a special product of a small part of a certain era. The alienation of crescent moon is only a tributary of the development of Hui nationality, and it cannot represent the whole Hui nationality. The Hui nationality will always be represented by its people-most Muslims who believe in Islam. Needless to say, there are also some disadvantages and dark sides in the tradition and reality of the Hui nationality. On the contrary, the disadvantages and dark side of Hui tradition and reality are caused by the deviation from Islamic principles. Everyone who knows the basic beliefs and origins of Islam, Koran and Hadith knows what path Islam has set for Muslims.
I'm afraid the author doesn't know these. She is interested in Hui nationality. Know too much about Muslim life and Islam
Very few, even the Hui people don't understand.
Careful observation of the specific description of the novel shows that the author doesn't know much about Muslim life. Anyone familiar with Muslim life will feel that the description of Muslim life etiquette in the novel is so blunt and unnatural, as if it were cut and pasted from something. The description of Mrs. Han Liang Junbi deviates from the reality of Muslim life. Most Muslim women guarding Jailbay are kind, do not wear short sleeves, and are not addicted to mahjong tables.
These are not only inconsistent with the reality of Muslim life, but also unacceptable to Muslims.
It is precisely because the author doesn't understand the life of Hui and Muslims that he wrongly depicts the tragedy of a Hui with extreme national nihilism, wrongly blames the tragedy on the traditional belief in Islam of the Hui, and wrongly predicts the future fate of the Hui.
Hui nationality is a nation that survives tenaciously in the cracks of history. In the long history of the Chinese nation, many ethnic groups have become extinct. Surrounded by the powerful Han civilization, the Hui people resisted the policy of forced sinicization in the Ming Dynasty and experienced successive extermination massacres in the Ding and Qing Dynasties. Instead of dying out, it can grow and develop, which is also a rare miracle in human history. It shows such tenacious vitality precisely because it has such a strong Islam.
Although the tradition has been lost in a generation of Hui people, and the younger generation of Hui people was once confused, it is nothing compared with the ups and downs they have experienced for thousands of years. Once upon a time, it went through difficulties and obstacles, and never went into the cemetery again. I want to tell everyone who reads Funeral about the fate of the Hui people:
The road of the real new moon has not been finished, and thousands of "new moons" in Qian Qian will continue to follow their ancestors for thousands of years.
The unfinished road is determined to go on!