About Lin Haiyin

Lin Haiyin, female, (1918~2001), formerly known as Lin Hanying, was originally from Miaoli County, Taiwan Province. Lin Haiyin was born in Osaka, Japan on March 18, 1918, and returned to Taiwan soon after. At that time, Taiwan had been occupied by the Japanese Empire. Japanese occupation, his father Lin Huanwen was unwilling to live under the iron heel of the Japanese invaders, so his family moved to Beijing, where Xiaoyingzi grew up. He studied at Changdian Primary School in the south of Beijing and Beijing Journalism College. After graduation, he worked as a reporter for World Journal. Soon he married Xia Chengying, a newspaper colleague. In August 1948, she returned to her hometown of Taiwan with her husband and their three children, and served as editor of Mandarin Daily. In 1953, he edited the supplement of "United Daily News" and began literary and artistic creation. He also served as editor of "Literary Star" magazine and a teacher of the World Journalism School. In 1967, he founded "Pure Literature Magazine" and later ran a pure literature publishing house. Lin Haiyin's creations are rich. To date, eighteen books have been published. Prose collections "Window" (collaborated with He Fan), "Two Places", "A Visit to the United States", "Yun Chuang Night Reading", "Silhouette Talk about the Literary World", "Head of the Family", "Living by the Bookstore", a collection of prose novels " "Holly Tree", short story collection "Candle Heart", "Marriage Story", "Old Things in the South of the City", "Green Algae and Salted Eggs"; novels "Spring Breeze", "Xiao Yun", "Meng Zhu's Journey", radio The TV series "Weiwei's Weekly Diary", "Lin Haiyin's Selected Works", "Lin Haiyin's Fairy Tales Collection", and the compilation of "Modern Chinese Writers and Works", as well as many literary reviews, essays, etc., are scattered in Taiwanese newspapers and periodicals.

Creative Style

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Lin Haiyin started her creative career by writing prose. Her prose is full of nostalgia, philosophy and family affection, infiltrating people's hearts. The scenery of Beijing, the folk customs of Taiwan, exotic scenery, as well as family happiness, fellow villagers, the friendship between teachers and students, reading experience, and occasional miscellaneous feelings, all make people feel emotional. The most touching thing is that most of the words

reveal the author's deep love for his motherland and his nostalgia for his second hometown, Beijing. "I write about Peiping because of how much I miss her. I write down my feelings about that place and vent my emotions on the grid, which will make me feel better after thinking hard." ("Chen Guzi·Rotten Sesame") She filled her heart with emotion Longing is expressed in the nostalgia for relatives and friends in the past, and is reflected in the description of Beijing's unique scenic spots, customs, and market changes. As for the beauty of Beijing's four seasons, the author's writings show vividly colored pictures: bright spring, joyful summer, autumn with mountains full of red leaves, and winter with heavy snow. "That ancient city once poured all my feelings into it. Spring and autumn have come and gone. How familiar I am with the seasons there!" "But where can I find all of this here? The drizzle of rain tonight makes me love Peking even more!" "("Missing Peiping"). The author's endless emotions are truly "endless and confusing"! In addition, the author shed tears of lovesickness in his affectionate descriptions of Tiananmen, the Forbidden City, Jingshan Park, Wenjin Street, Hufang Bridge, Tianqiao, Temple of Earth and other places. Because "I have lived there for too long, just like a tree taking root." People are like trees, and they cannot survive without roots. This is why although she has lived in Taiwan for a long time, her person and her works have "a strong Peking flavor" and are "even more Peking than people from Peking."

Of course she also loves her hometown, Taiwan. The acacia trees and fragrant flowers that can be seen everywhere there, the hot springs in Taipei, the beautiful scenery of Lion Mountain, the warm atmosphere of Mazu's birthday, the love life of Gaoshan girls... all appear in her chapters, and they are devoted to her. of tenderness. And we have infinite respect for the heroes in our hometown, such as "Wushe Heroic Soul Sacrifice", which contains thousands of words, starting from the ancestors of the Wushe mountain people to the solemn beauty of Wushe today, and from the free and happy life of the mountain people. The tragic fate after the Japanese invasion is described from the mountain people's rising resistance to the colonialists' brutal suppression, and from the heroes' tenacious fighting to the immortality of the martyr's spirit. It has spanned such a long time and described such a magnificent picture. The whole text has deep emotions and profound themes. The writing style is vertical and horizontal and the clues are clear. The narrative and description are centered around the cohesion point of the martyr spirit and the mountains and rivers. Discussion and lyricism are blended together, making this memorial an ode to the memory of the heroes.

Some of Lin Haiyin's other essays focus on philosophical exploration. For example, due to the special role of "window", it is judged that "windows are sentient" ("Window"), while "doors" are "heartless things" ("Door"); the author through the "window" Various explanations of the idiom "men", expounding his own unique insights, and writing in a unique style. He also pointed out that it is abominable for a dog to rely on human power ("Dog"). As for money, it is not a omnipotent thing because it cannot buy youth or the truth of life ("Money"). Only spring is full of hope. "Children, spring, and hope are a complete life" ("Spring"). These proses with rich connotation and profound philosophy are the crystallization of Lin Haiyin's in-depth observation of life.

Lin Haiyin's prose about the love between husband and wife, the love between mother and child, and the friendship between teachers and students is full of sincerity. Friendly taste

Beautiful. For example, in order to fulfill her maternal responsibilities, a wife kindly tidies up the mess on her husband's desk, but instead causes her husband to have a strange temper.

The wife argues with reason, and the husband has no choice but to admit defeat: "Isn't that okay for you to win? "What a funny and intimate ending!

The husband in "Today is Sunday", in order to let his wife rest after a busy week and not let her enter the kitchen, he took

the children to cook and stir-fry. His thoughtfulness towards his wife and the various jokes he made due to his inability to do housework are all brilliantly rendered. The author often chooses some details of life to highlight this interest, such as the "ugly ducklings"

"After detecting the physical evidence that their parents stole food because they stayed up late to write", four little faces pointed at "me" A comedy asking for "compensation" ("Duck's Comedy"); in order to help students silently correct their mistakes so as not to damage their self-esteem, she also chose to call students first One walked to the playground and asked the ball thief to return the ball himself, but the thief did not dare to return it; then he used the students and teachers to walk out of the classroom one by one and then walked in. The thief was unaware of the situation. Under the circumstances, put the ball back to its original place. Although the teacher knew who it was, he didn't point it out. This set of detailed descriptions is novel and unique, and it also reflects the teacher's love and ingenuity. working methods. ...This description is full of wit and poetry, reflecting the author's deep love for life.

Beautiful prose is often the result of exquisite conception. The characteristic of Lin Haiyin's prose conception is that the form is scattered but the spirit is not scattered.

In order to make her prose condensed, she paid great attention to the placement of her "writing eyes" without revealing any traces. For example, in "Beethoven's Power", the author not only writes about Beethoven's father's alcoholism and his mother's early death, but also writes about his difficulties in supporting the family and raising his two younger brothers.

It also writes about the pain of lovelorn, the blow of deafness, and the fact that he miraculously lived for twenty-five years after making a will.

It was not until he completed the Ninth Symphony that he died of poverty and illness. The full text closely revolves around this outstanding figure's persistent pursuit of his career, and brings together many relevant fragments on the focus of "power", thus making this prose concise and concentrated.

It is powerful and enlightens readers with the brilliance of its thoughts. "Bitter Restaurant Tears". "Sunset on Broadway" and "Poetic Wedding, Poetic Years" also reflect the characteristics of this conception. Some chapters use contrast to highlight the theme, such as "Fifty taels of gold and a rag" and "Two Strings". But most of her prose uses fresh words and plain writing style to write a short story or an ordinary thing in a comfortable and comfortable way, enriching the readers

feelings.

Lin Haiyin's novels open up a broader picture of life for us, and are praised by people for reflecting the

true face of our country's special historical era.

Lin Haiyin is particularly concerned about the life and destiny of Chinese women. In most of her novels, whether set in Beijing or Taiwan, women's issues are always at the center.

Many of her works, which reflect the fate of women in old China, are not only records of exploring women's issues in China, but also a form of expression of nostalgia. For example, the autobiographical novel "Marriage Story" describes the different marriages of mother-in-law, aunt, "me", sister-in-law, and friends, "giving

me endless memories." Deep nostalgia is also reflected in the creation of characters. For example, "Old Things in the South of the City" expresses the author's longing for Beijing through the description of the fate of characters such as Song Ma, Aunt Lan, Xiuzhen and her parents. feeling.

Describing the life experiences of mainland women in Taiwan and Taiwanese women is her continuation of exploring women's issues in China. They

are either busy with their careers and lose the warmth of their families ("Spring Breeze"), or they become humiliated actors in order to support their families ("Returning on a Snowy Night") ; Either he had to sell singing to earn money to send his sister to school ("Meng Zhu's Journey"), or he was swallowed up by perverted love in the pain and loneliness of being out of school and unemployed ("Xiao Yun"). And Xiuhui's suicide

reflects the tragic fate of Taiwan's lower-class women from another aspect ("Rose")... In short, the women in Lin Haiyin's writings, Regardless of whether they are rich or poor, old or young, educated, or where they come from, "they are all a group of abused people." She recreated the suffering lives of old Chinese women in the 1920s and Taiwanese women in the 1950s and 1960s, and also wrote about their resistance. For example, the singer Rose committed suicide by jumping off a building to protest against the treatment of her adoptive mother and society. Entrapment. But most women's

"complaints and protests are mild and weak" (Ye Shitao's words), Lin Haiyin complained about being insulted and harmed,

but could not find way out. This once again proves that women's issues are, in the final analysis, a social issue.

In addition to describing the lives and fate of women, Lin Haiyin's novels also reflect the loneliness of mainland people who come to Taiwan,

the longing for their relatives in the mainland ("Wanqing") and the struggle to make a living. ("Crab Shell Yellow"), as well as the unfortunate fate of Taiwan's urban poor ("Niao Zai Gua"), the difficult life of Taiwanese vegetable farmers and their wish to have a successful son ("Want a drink of water?") . Short stories such as "The Taste of Dried Radish" and "Dad Is Not at Home" are realistic representations of children's lives.

Lin Haiyin also wrote many fairy tales. Two "Lin Haiyin Fairy Tale Collection" were published by Pure Literature Publishing House. One of them

is a story, and there are "Please Come to Me". "Come from Hometown", "Late", "Three Lanterns", "Hahaha), "Dad

's Pepper Candy", "Golden Bridge", "The Camel Team is Coming", "Cha's Old House" , "Childhood Pleasures"; the other one

is an animal chapter, containing "We have all grown up", "Little Happy Homecoming", "Six-toed Children", "Frog at the Bottom of the Well",

"The Bird Not Afraid of the Cold - Penguin". Whether it's a story box or an animal chapter, they are all full of children's interest. The author expresses simple philosophy and profound themes in a form that young readers are happy to accept, making them unable to put it down and reading hundreds of times

without getting tired of it. It is a masterpiece that is both educational and entertaining. .

Literary works always reflect life by creating vivid and flesh-and-blood characters. "If the character being described is the most specific individual in a certain period, then it is a typical person." (Turgenev's words) Lin Haiyin is committed to She specializes in writing about people, their destiny, soul, and character. Through the complex character of "the most specific individual", she reflects the style of society and outlines the face of the entire era. This is her work. The main reason why it is so popular among readers. Lin Haiyin has written many marriage stories, but none of them are the same. This is because no matter which generation the marriage is or which specific person it is, it all has the characteristics of the times, the imprint of the environment, and the character's own personality. personality.

Reflecting

the tragedy of women in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, the eldest woman in "The Candle" clearly opposes her husband's taking a concubine, but on the surface she agrees with it; in her heart

she hates Miss Qiu to death, and on the outside she hates Miss Qiu. But he seemed graceful and generous. Her unique character and complex emotions are obviously marked by the times and the environment, because Chinese society has long been ruled by feudalism, "men are superior to women" and "three obediences and four virtues" The feudal patriarchal ideology imprisons women's thoughts, words and deeds like shackles. In a male-centered patriarchal society, it is natural for a man to take a concubine, and the virtue of a big woman is her obedience to her husband, tolerance and kindness to her concubine. tolerant. But the pain of being abandoned and her strong pursuit of love made her unwilling to endure this embarrassing situation silently. So she took the form of resistance by "pretending to be ill" to punish her husband's change of heart and her concubine's favor.

This kind of resistance did not damage the loving relationship between the husband and the concubine at all, but he himself changed from a false paralysis to a real paralysis. She longed for her husband's love, but all she got was his fake care. Undoubtedly, she is a victim of feudal ethics and feudal marriage system. Yao Yade in "Late Stand" is a mainlander who went to Taiwan. He spent his hard years in loneliness and boredom. He missed his wife and children who stayed in the mainland day and night. After asking someone to inquire, he found out that his wife had died of illness. It was difficult for his daughter to come to Taiwan, so he had no choice but to transfer his affection to a Taiwanese woman who was abandoned by her sailor husband. Yao Yade's nostalgia and longing for his family, as well as his desire to rebuild his family in loneliness, were caused by the specific social environment in which the country was not reunified and it was difficult for the family to reunite.

The author reflects the "general" wishes of mainland Chinese people going to Taiwan through the situation of "this" Yao Yade. Xiu Hui in "Rose"

was originally a middle school student with excellent morals and academics. She loved singing and life, but she was an adopted daughter whose destiny was in the hands of others.

. Because the author puts her in the social environment of contemporary Taiwan, where poverty is laughed at but not prostitution, and the tourism industry is developing abnormally, he writes about her struggles and struggles in detail, but she still cannot escape being a singer. Surrendered to fate

by others, he committed suicide at the age of seventeen. While describing the typical environment of the characters' activities, the author gradually shows Xiuhui (the girl who was later renamed Rose by the karaoke owner) as pure, motivated, stubborn and rebellious

The spiritual character traits allow readers to deepen their understanding of the social environment that contributed to her tragic fate through the character of Xiu Hui.

Lin Haiyin also often uses my country's traditional "line drawing" technique to depict the character's character and shape the character's image through the character's language and actions.

The short story "First Love" expresses the heroine's kind nature and noble sentiments through her language and actions. She lost her mother in her early years and missed her prime years in order to take care of her elderly father and young sister. So my father specially brought a teaching assistant from the university to spend the summer vacation at home, hoping that he would become his eldest son-in-law.

She also fell in love with this handsome young man at first sight. But what he loves is not her but his little sister. The author uses a set of detailed descriptions to highlight how she fell from the paradise of happiness into the abyss of pain: He asked her out to talk, and she was so excited that her "heart would jump out of her chest." ", but the completely unexpected ending made her unable to support herself, so she had to "lean her shoulders against the big tree" but still agreed to his request and persuaded her father to allow him to propose to her younger sister. She thought Her concession brings happiness to her beloved. Although she suffers, she is worth it. What a beautiful and pure soul she is! The characters of several characters in Lin Haiyin's famous work "Old Things in the South of the City", such as Song Ma, Xiao Yingzi, Father, etc., are also expressed through their language and actions. of.

In particular, the crazy girl Xiuzhen's infatuation for her lover and her love for her daughter are all highlighted through her sometimes demented and sometimes sober language and actions. The character of the heroine in the novel "Xiaoyun" is also expressed through her language and actions. In Taiwan, ordinary girls try their best to find a husband who has studied abroad so that they can drink foreign water. But Xiaoyun ignored the pursuit of Yu Wenyuan, who had studied abroad and was both good-looking and talented. This showed that she was not a foreigner, but she knew that Liang Simin was a married woman, but she couldn't overcome it.

Control your own feelings, resulting in the tragedy of being pregnant and unable to get married. The reason for this is both social and family factors. Living in a society that did not value traditional morality, and spending her adolescence awkwardly since childhood, this resulted in her being sensitive, introverted, withdrawn, and depressed. It is no wonder that she has a relationship with the complacent Likes

Yu Wenyuan, who talks a lot, can't get along with each other, but falls in love with Liang Simin, who suffers from an unfortunate marriage but is equally sensitive, introverted and depressed.

Through her language and actions, the author narrates her various struggles and reveals her inability to stop, making readers feel that she is not a frivolous girl. She is a typical example of another type of unfortunate girl in Taiwanese society.

Lin Haiyin often uses contrasting techniques to create characters to show the uniqueness of the characters themselves. It also expresses the heroine's character traits through maternal love. "Our Dad" uses the mother's divorce and remarriage to express her wisdom, strength and love for her children. "Mother's Secret" highlights the mother's gentle and introverted character and love for her children by rejecting love and sacrificing her own happiness. This kind of contrast between chapters with similar themes but different writing styles makes the characters unique. As for the use of contrast to depict images in the same article or the same work, it is even more specific and prominent. "Returning on a Snowy Night" uses vertical lines to compare the heroine Li Mingfang's circumstances, thoughts and character before and after she became an actress,

allowing readers to touch the characters' thoughts. Emotional context, see the changes before and after and the reasons for this change,

Highlight Li Mingfang’s innocent and simple character and blind worship of stars when she was a student, and the difficulties of life after coming to Taiwan

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The distress and sadness of being forced to be a star: Facing the insults from theater owners and dignitaries, she resisted and avoided.

Her unemployed husband did not understand, which reflected the poverty and society in which she lived. of darkness. The contrast method in Lin Haiyin's novels is more sophisticated. There are comprehensive comparisons between plot clues, characters and characters, as well as between characters. Local contrast of a certain feature. For example, in the novel "Spring Breeze", there are two plot clues. One revolves around Jingwen's character and destiny, and the other revolves around Xiuyun's character and destiny. These two clues have a strong influence from beginning to end.

Excavating in comparison. Jingwen's family is poor, while Xiuyun's is rich; Jingwen completed his education through work-study, while Xiuyun relied on his father's support to successfully complete college. Jingwen went to work immediately after graduation and used her salary to build a family

to support her husband Cao Yuping's education. After Xiuyun graduated, she went abroad with her husband Feng Qiguang, not for further study or work.

Instead, they are "incidents"; Jingwen becomes a model principal and is respected by people, Xiuyun is called a model wife and is doted on by her husband; Jingwen has a strong career ambition and hopes that the couple will "dual track" "Advancing side by side", the result is that her husband becomes someone else's husband, and the relationship between husband and wife exists in name only. Xiuyun integrates herself into her husband's career, and makes the family life happy. This is a contrast between the two plot threads, as well as a comprehensive contrast between the two characters Jingwen and Xiuyun. As for

local comparisons of certain characteristics between characters, they are everywhere.

Such as Jingwen's seriousness, earnestness, diligence and showiness

Yun's liveliness, easy-going and laziness; Jingwen's strength and enterprising spirit and Cao Yuping's cowardice and complacency; Jingwen's openness

Light, positive and beautiful melancholy. Even in portrait descriptions, comparisons are often used to highlight the different appearance characteristics of the characters, such as Jingwen's small and thin body, Xiuyun's tall and beautiful body, and Li Mei's (Cao Yuping's common-law wife)'s body.

Delicate and soft, etc. By contrasting the static text with the different sides of different characters, her three-dimensional image comes to life in front of the readers, and is full of flesh and blood, making it unforgettable.

Carrying out in-depth psychological analysis and soul exploration, and using a variety of psychological descriptions to depict characters, is also an artistic method used by Lin

Haiyin to create characters. Many of Lin Haiyin's novels often use "thinking", "memory", and the flow of consciousness to narrate the story and express the fate and character of the characters. For example, in "Candlewick", the author uses the method of intertwining the past and the present to narrate most of the life of the heroine Yuan Fang, starting from her life in her hometown of Tianjin before the Anti-Japanese War. >Writing right up to her new home in Taiwan, the huge jump in time and space and the active flow of consciousness are the first of her short stories

to be second to none. Yuan Fang recalled her farewell to her ex-husband Zhixiong twenty-five years ago from her husband Junjie's farewell. She recalled how she was beaten and kicked by the Japanese because of Zhixiong, causing a miscarriage and not being hospitalized. However, Zhixiong married another anti-war lady in Sichuan; thinking of the embarrassing and painful life of the three of them behind the stage,

as well as her and Zhixiong's divorce and Junjie's remarriage...through Yuanfang's flow of consciousness, as well as her contemplation and memories,

connect the mainland life with the current life, and embellish it with the flickering candlelight of the typhoon night The exchanges of scenes

are shown one by one, appearing real, delicate and affectionate.

In some chapters, the author does not use inner monologue or comprehensive psychological anatomy, but uses hints to fuse action, language, and psychological activities into one. , because thinking and doing, words and deeds are always closely related. For example

Yafang in the author's early novel "The Late Blooming Cuckoo" was still unmarried in her forties. When her cousin introduced her boyfriend and invited her to dinner

she said: The meal "didn't taste like meat," and her cousin asked her why she ate so little. The author then

wrote:

Ya Fang pressed her heart with her hand and frowned: "My stomach has been uncomfortable for the past two days." In fact, her stomach was not uncomfortable at all,

She felt uncomfortable, "She wished she could go back to the dormitory immediately and lie on the cold single bed and cry bitterly"; because

the man in front of her was her when she was a girl People who have been rejected many times in mainland China! Here, on the surface, it seems to be a meticulous carving of expressions, movements, and language, but in fact it is a realistic and delicate psychological description. Through these descriptions, readers can

not only see her nostalgia for her study and working life in the north of the motherland, her helplessness about the miserable life after coming to Taiwan,

and her eagerness to live in Taiwan now. The mentality of finding a home.

Sometimes, every action is a speech, every sentence is an action, and every sentence and every action is a confirmation of psychological activity

For example, every move, every conversation, and every thought after Meng Zhu and Xu Wutian fell in love hinted at the psychological progress of the two ("Meng Zhu's Journey").

Even in situations where there are no words and few movements, the fluctuations of emotions also cause the readers to scream:

He held my hand and looked at me Face, in silence, do you know how much affection there is?

——"Love is like a fan"

What other description can so vividly highlight the sweet state of mind of a pair of lovers when they fall in love?

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The 1950s and 1960s were a fruitful period for Lin Haiyin's creations. By the mid-1960s, Lin Haiyin had become a respected figure among readers at home and abroad

Famous writer. It was during this period that Western modernist literature became popular in Taiwan's literary world. When some modern writers in Taiwan worshiped the West and claimed that they only wanted "horizontal transplantation" and not "vertical inheritance", Lin

Haiyin is determined to follow its own path of nationalization, which is really commendable.

Mr. Lu Xun said: "I advocate mixing in still life, scenery, local customs, street scenery... The same is true for current literature

Those with local color can easily become What is world-famous means that other countries pay attention to it. "Lin Haiyin's prose and novels rely on the meticulous description of local customs, human feelings, and local scenery, thus deepening the

The national characteristics of the work add artistic charm and attract world attention. Such as the majesty of Badachu, the bustle of Baiyun Temple, the temple fair of Huguo Temple, the red leaves of Xiangshan Mountain, the ten-foot-long reclining Buddha of Temple of Reclining Buddha, etc. These are the scenery of Beijing.

It expresses the national sentiment of loving the motherland ("Riding a Donkey Up the Western Mountain"); as for the etiquette and customs of every family on the evening of the Mid-Autumn Festival in Beijing

worshiping the moon and sharing reunion moon cakes ("Marriage" The story"), the warm celebration of Mazu's birthday in Taiwan, the grand occasion of dragon boat racing during the Dragon Boat Festival, the love life of the Gaoshan people ("Taiwan Folklore Miscellaneous") and other descriptions are also vividly expressed

Display the unique life pictures and tastes of the Chinese nation.

Lin Haiyin not only deliberately depicts moving landscape and genre paintings, but also often injects the brilliance of the times into the folk customs

to present the true appearance of these places in the specific historical era. For example, in "Old Things in the South of the City", the description of the scene of the masses watching the revolution

students and thieves "going on a red mission" not only highlights the reactionaries' brutal suppression of revolutionary youth

after the failure of the Northern Expedition, but also It shows the chaos of society. "Sacrifice" describes the arranged marriages and the old custom of "happy marriage" encountered by women who "remain on that side of the times and have not jumped over" in a miserable way; as for Taiwan's three and four generations living under one roof, "The family of the adopted daughter, and the tragic fate of the adopted daughter who was insulted and tortured ("Rose"), reveals the truth about Taiwan's abnormally developed tourism industry from another angle. . Every thing, every plot and even detail written in Lin Haiyin's novels is full of local characteristics, but they are all marked by the nation, the times and society.

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In a typical national environment, typical national characters are active, which is quite prominent in Lin Haiyin's novels, such as Song Ma and Xiu in "Old Things in the South of the City". Zhen, the mother-in-law and aunt in "Marriage Story", Zhu Shuyun in "Marriage"

The eldest wife and golden carp in "The Golden Carp and the White Pleated Skirt", the eldest wife in "The Candle" and Concubine,

Yao Yade in "Wanqing", etc. As for the inheritance and development of traditional Chinese literary techniques, they can be seen in every

of her famous works. "Old Things in the South of the City" inherits the excellent tradition of Chinese novel structure of "starting and ending, sparse and dense

alternating, seemingly broken and connected", and uses the line drawing technique that is popular among Chinese readers to convey the characters through their own actions

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His own language and actions are used to shape characters and reflect profound themes.

Although Lin Haiyin’s novel creation pays attention to maintaining national characteristics, some techniques of modern Western literature are lacking.

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Also remove the impurities and extract the essence.

For example, the short story "Candlewick" and the novel "Xiaoyun" have some characteristics of stream of consciousness novels, but they are not completely stream of consciousness works. They are masterpieces created on the basis of realism and absorbing some modern expression techniques. Lin Haiyin pays attention to integrating traditional narrative description and stream of consciousness

writing into a style that has both national characteristics and Western modernism, thus making the main theme of the work

The theme is more distinct and the characters are more three-dimensional. This is the result of Lin Haiyin's constant pursuit of perfection in his creation.

Lin Haiyin's personal style of creation is also formed on the basis of his nationalization, that is: simple, natural

natural and elegant.

When people talk about simplicity, nature, and elegance, people often only think of the language of the work. In fact, it is mainly reflected in the essence of the content, such as the subject matter, structure, and plot of the work. The choice of characters, the creation of characters, the sincerity of emotions

and of course the language. There are no earth-shattering stories in Lin Haiyin's writings, and there are no sword-fighting battles. What she writes about are things around her, the love between her children, the love between mother and child, and the friendship between teachers and students. These are all ordinary, but she

is able to deal with these ordinary daily life in an extraordinary way, embodying profound meaning in simplicity. Mei Yaochen, a poet of the Song Dynasty, said: "It is ancient and modern to write poetry, and it is difficult to create plainness." This is not true for the creation of prose and novels. "Sibing Makes People

Old" is written about the author's thoughts and expectations when watching the performance of Bai Xue Ice Troupe at the Taiwan roller skating rink, but he ended up writing "We are

ever since If you come from a place with ice and snow, you should still go back to a place with ice and snow. "This article is so simple, simple, and rich in content! The novel "Old Things in the South of the City" only writes about the life and fate of Song Ma, the thief, the crazy girl Xiuzhen, Aunt Lan,

father and others. People are the most ordinary people; things are the most ordinary things, which are commonplace for people.

Lin Haiyin can "find beauty in things that others are accustomed to" ("Rodin's Theory of Art"). Therefore,

she saw her golden heart through the mother who lost a pair of children but still treated her boss's children well; she saw her inner nature through the crazy girl's appearance

Cute, amiable and pitiful; through the thief's "hatefulness", we can see his helplessness and respectability, because he was too poor, so he had to feed his mother and let his brother study; through Aunt Lan's Now I see her difficult childhood; I also see her father's love and hatred through the fact that her father helped the revolutionary youth and led to his death. It is from

these common people and things that the author discovers the beauty of human nature and the beauty of human feelings. However, such a beautiful person,

such an unforgettable thing, such a nostalgic place, are all gone from "me". The author's

longing for his motherland Love comes to life on paper. The profound theme of the work is expressed through these ordinary themes,

And it touches the heartstrings of readers with its rich connotation, its implication, and its profundity. It is very common for people from mainland China to Taiwan to miss their relatives in their hometown. "Wanqing" tells the story of an old man who is lonely and misses his relatives and his friends

-he is also an old man. The description of committing suicide by "throwing oneself into the ring" because he had a family that he could not return to buries the burning theme of longing for the reunification of the motherland deeply under the simple words of missing his family, thus arousing readers' endless reverie and strong passion. *Ming.

This simple, elegant and natural style is even more prominent in the character creation. The characters in her paintings are either light-colored sketches or meticulously carved. She never uses heavy inks and colors to embed characters into oil paintings.

The plot structure of Lin Haiyin's novels also has a simple beauty of "the writing is made by nature, and it is accidentally obtained by clever hands".

Just like the original situation in life, the author just puts the real things of real people in life on paper.

This kind of structural art that "seems

ordinary and the most extraordinary, but is easy but difficult to achieve" is of course the result of the writer's careful consideration and ingenious conception.

Life is rich and colorful, and the structure of her works also strives to be varied and give people all kinds of new ideas. Some

structure plots in epistolary style to highlight the spiritual beauty of the characters, such as "The Taste of Dried Radish"; some use storytelling methods

to construct novels, such as "Marriage" "Story", the author tells the unfortunate marriages of several generations in detail, and writes in a real and touching way; some use twists and turns to express the changeable fate of the protagonist, such as "Candlewick" "; Some directly describe the feelings of going to the banquet, such as "Spring Wine"; some write sequentially ("Stepmother's Heart"); some flashback ("First Love",

"Blue Portrait"); some use both flashbacks and illustrations ("Certain Moods"); some use the structure of separate biographies of several characters ("We "Dad"); some tell the story straight to the end ("A Cheongsam", "Travel to Taipei",

"Sunshine"); some are concise and clear, like sketches, such as the short stories "Married Again", " "Holly Tree"; some shops are euphemistic, such as the novel "Xiaoyun"). Even though they are all full-length novels, they adopt different structural methods due to different themes. For example, "Old Stories in the South of the City" expresses a theme through a series of five stories: love for the old and regret of separation.

"Spring Breeze" uses the different fates of two friends as primary and secondary clues to express the contradiction between career and love of intellectuals who went to Taiwan from the mainland.

"Meng Zhu's Journey" adopts a writing method that is closer to prose,

so it appears more natural and simple, with a gentle and delicate brushwork unique to female writers, which combines the singing girl's

The joys and sorrows, the love between sisters, and the love between men and women are all perfectly artistically reflected in the soothing and touching narrative. Reading

makes you think a lot and make you feel emotional. .

The simplicity and naturalness of Lin Haiyin's works are also reflected in the natural expression of her deep feelings. She is not like some authors who are coy

pretending to be sentimental. Instead, she melts her fiery heart and all her emotions into her works, and pours her love and hate into her characters

in the encounter. This feeling is first expressed in her deep attachment to the motherland?/cngt;