Where on earth has it never rained? -Read Huang Jinshu's Rain.

Reading "Rain" is like watching a thriller movie, which makes people's scalp numb and their backs cold. When I threw the book away, I seemed to feel something was wrong. After reading it, I was surprised and made a rather proud guess. If the rainy season starts to rain in Xiamen, the rain will definitely scare me, because I am extremely afraid to think carefully.

Interesting and thought-provoking Malay proverb: "Lautmana Yang Tak Berombak, bumi mana Yang dit Impa Hujan." (Where there is no wave in the sea, where there is no rain on the earth) opens the narrative of a family in Nanyang. The so-called Nanyang, that is, Malaya, including Singapore, the second generation of Chinese conceived by Golden Tree, lived a hard life in the depths of this hot and humid Nanyang rainforest. The story of the southernmost group of Chinese mainland adherents who settled in different places, died of illness and illness is full of absurdity; "Every family has some unknown secrets, but some of them are unknown, and some of them are not believed, that's all."

Wang Dewei, a professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at Harvard University, said that Huang Jinshu's works are murderous and "blood spattered between the lines", which is quite similar to Lu Xun's "I recommend Xuanyuan with blood".

Huang Jinshu, a Malaysian Chinese. 65438-0986 Studying in Taiwan, majoring in China Literature of Taiwan Province Provincial University, Master of Literature in China of Tamkang University, Doctor of Literature in China, Tsinghua University. Since 1996, I have been teaching in the Chinese Department of Jinan University in Taiwan Province Province, and won numerous awards, so I won't write more.

The evaluation of is generally representative, and the evaluation is very high: "He belongs to the academic circle, and those nuclear literary criticism books (I have read" Literature and Soul and Body/On Modern China "more than once) can feel the radiant energy even if I haven't read them. Brilliant and writing novels, he is more insightful than any of his colleagues in MCA, making good use of it and becoming his "Metamorphosis" style. (Page 8)

I have heard for a long time that its effective and ingenious method of "setting fire to a bar" is embarrassing and suffocating.

I have always thought that monsoon rainfall is synonymous with death. Before the rainstorm, the long-simmering dark clouds were gathering, and the wild Dan Tao was covered with huge waves, and finally flash floods broke out. The heavy rain overflowed in the forest with the rolling yellow water, and a Wang Yang poured out, which made people feel frightened: red ants, scorpions, centipedes, cockroaches, geckos, cobras and quadrupeds.

Very standard appearance of Nanyang: sarong (lower skirt), sea bowl with big cock painted on it, oil lamp lit at night, Malaya Pound (Malay Village), Yada House (with palm leaves on the roof), Wujiaoji (shop house facing the street in the corridor below the arcade), Chinese primary school in the garden, Ba Chang (planting cash crops such as rubber and oil palm) and Li Luo (truck). In Huang Jinshu's novels, Nanyang is long and three-dimensional, sad and sharp.

Calling Feelings and Memories In the depths of rubber forest in Nanyang, coconut, rambutan, durian, mango, stinky beans, coconut milk rice and coffee black are inevitable, which are unique foods in Nanyang.

I stubbornly believe that; Natural disasters can never be avoided, just as the earth will be washed away by rain. People live hard in front of nature and passively accept all the good and bad. The name of one of the protagonists is Xin, which means hardship, hard work and bitterness. The golden tree paved the way in his name. If he escapes bad luck, he will definitely stay, but if he can't escape, it will be his fate.

Many descendants of Nanyang people don't pay attention to names, but rely on natural upbringing. As humble people, they must accept their fate. For example, the hero's name is Artu, and the woman takes Artu's sister-in-law and Agan's sister-in-law. The daughter's name is Aye and the son's name is Xin. There is no connection between stories, and each story is an independent story. People who die in one chapter are resurrected in the next story; They look like the same character, but in different stories, they have different personalities.

Quanzhou also has the standard Minnan dialect recognized and expected by southern readers, such as Seven Ghosts (Madness), Ghost Lang (Madness), Ghost Ghost (Madness), Butterfly Lang (Death), Cha Mou (Female), Yishe, Zhi Dai Datiao (Affection) and Salty Sweet. Of course, there are salty and wet words (pornographic jokes), car guns (bragging), swearing (speaking ill) and other Cantonese.

This writer seldom takes the path that others have taken. He marked the rain as work 1, work 2, work 3 ... to op.8. In the limited space and limited elements of a small frame, he varied, split, broke and continued. Every article will have a prelude to heavy rain, and every story will touch people's hearts.

The first article "Tiger, Tiger" began the layout of terror. Do you think a naughty boy will keep a tiger as a cat? An atmosphere of variation brought the story to an abrupt end. What happens next when it hangs in the air?

"The sow braved the rain to turn over a whole bed of cassava, with long and thin potato stems interlaced and the loam ferocious. The pig ate happily. Suddenly there was a strong strange smell, and Xin saw his father's frightened look for the first time. The barking of the dog changed and became frantic. The boar also changed the direction of its tusks, and the piglets gathered under the sow's abdomen. Tiger! ..... is really a tiger. Mother is pale. Xin and her parents peeped through the cracks in the board: a big tiger and two small tigers with colors like fire. The wild boar family huddled together to form a hairball. ..... in the heavy rain. The tiger wagged its tail and growled at the wild boar family ... The tiger suddenly ran towards the house like two fires. Tiger looks as big as a cat at home. " I want to raise it! "Xin Kai said. I don't know when, I ran out the back door and greeted two tigers happily. "(page 75)

Why are there so many tigers in Malaya? Tigers come and go freely, often on the road and at home? The tiger reappears, which is very shocking:

"... my eyes were wide open, and the spotted coat was carefully pulled apart, not torn. There was a big hole in my stomach, and my internal organs, lower body and two thighs were all eaten clean ... The last ten toes were left ... The tender ribs were also chewed short ... There was a lot of blood on the bed and on the ground, but some blood seemed to have been licked by my tongue, leaving traces like rags. "(Page number: 100)

"... there are only two big holes left in the eyes that are eaten by fish. Or what wild animals (mostly tigers or panthers) left half a head, a leg and a whole rib bloody open ... or lost their heads and their broken necks were covered with big black ants. "(page 79)

All the stories, big and small, happened in a heavy rain. The tiger is coming and the Japanese are coming. The girl died of illness, the boy fell into the well, his mother died of a broken heart, and his parents were caught in the forest by a mountain rat. ...

The father who disappeared for no reason disappeared in the rain, and the mother lived with her boy and sister, which attracted the eyes of Malay officers. A Malay husband can marry four wives, and he can marry her. At the same time, my father's friends A, B and D promised to help, but it turned into a drama to humiliate orphans and widows.

The trees are covered. Mom said, go and show it to your grandfather. He misses you very much. He has a lot to say to you alone. From then on, a shocking secret unfolded in a family: 80-year-old grandfather and nearly 50-year-old mother had an affair, grandma committed suicide and uncle died. I'm a little suspicious that Dragon Boat (No.5) is a homonym for dragon species.

A man who gets drunk every day when he drinks coconut wine has a shocking secret buried in his heart. Because I covet my friend's wife, I killed my friend and stole my wife, and she became my own beauty.

Father died unexpectedly and mother was raped. Before her death, her mother was haunted by what happened to her.

In the rain, dreams are so light and beautiful, and death is so heavy and terrible. For example, write the death of the eldest son:

"... I choked and planted it. When I found it, my feet were hanging outside the pot. When I fished it out, the most familiar head, skin and hair fell off at the touch, and my fingers were familiar. "(Page number: 147)

Another example is the death of his father:

"The body was smashed and could not be put down. It's very hot during the day, so flies come. Everything is very simple ... From the beginning, we buried and buried, and even the soil soaked with blood when Artu was injured was dug out to fill in ... "(page number: 170)

Another example is the death of my sister:

"Two years ago, Xin also lost a sister. Going to elementary school soon, climbing the tree was too high, and a gust of wind blew her away. Just fell on the head of a dead tree, only a sharp wooden heart was pierced by it. I was angry for a long time when I found a big hole covered with ants (pg: 102). "

Wang Dewei said, "Our literary world is used to hypocrisy, and suddenly there comes a desperate Saburo." . The so-called "desperate Saburo" is inherent in his text, and it is also his own externalization. It's Huang Jinshu.

Liang Wendao once said, "One of the characteristics of Malaysian writers is that they are very careful in the handling of language and writing. Frankly speaking, even in today's Chinese mainland, in the birthplace of our so-called Zhongzhou Zheng Yun, many contemporary novelists are not necessarily as sophisticated and delicate as they are. "

Huang Jinshu, dare to say anything, dare to write anything, but I'm afraid that our little flowers cultivated in the greenhouse can't stand this bloody and cruel story.

English title: Rain

Publishing House: Sichuan People

Page count: 270

Publication date: 2065438+March 2008

Note: The pictures in the article include Ting Yun Waterfall in Yongtai, Nyonya Cake with Nanyang style, Fan Po Tofu, Yellow Ginger Rice and Banana Leaf Palm, and the evening sky photographed on the terrace at home before.