What does Fortress Besieged mean?

It means that life is a "besieged city" everywhere, leaving and leaving, leaving and ending. Without games, there will be eternal confusion and dilemma. Not only refers to Fang Hung-chien's marriage, but also refers to some sad factors in human nature, that is, dissatisfaction with his own situation.

"People in the city want to escape, while people outside the city want to rush in" comes from Qian Zhongshu's Fortress Besieged.

Fortress Besieged contains profound ideological implications. The first is the level of social criticism. Through the life course of the protagonist Fang Hung-chien, the work criticizes the shortcomings of national politics and all sentient beings in the Kuomintang-controlled areas in the 1930s and 1940s, including the corruption and depravity of Shanghai's westernized commercial port, the backwardness and seclusion of mainland rural areas, and the corruption and depravity of education and intellectual circles.

The second is the level of cultural criticism. This is mainly achieved through the description of the "new Confucian forest" and the shaping of the image of a group of overseas students or senior intellectuals.

Extended data

The story of the besieged city took place from 1920 to 1940s. Fang Hung-chien, the hero, is a young man who came out of a squire family in the south of China. Fang Hung-chien was forced by family pressure to get engaged to a woman who was also Zhou. However, during his college years, Zhou Sheng became ill and died very early. Mr. Zhou, the prospective father-in-law, was moved by Fang's condolences and funded him to study abroad.

During his study tour in Europe, Fang Hung-chien ignored his studies. In order to explain to his family, Fang bought a fictional doctor's degree certificate from Clayton University before graduation and returned to China with international students. On the boat, I met and fell in love with Miss Bao, a foreign student, but she cheated me. At the same time, I got to know my college classmate Sue.

After arriving in Shanghai, I worked in a bank run by Mr. Zhou, the father of my late fiancee. At this time, Fang got the favor of Su's classmates, fell in love with Su's cousin at first sight, and traveled between Su and Tang all day, during which she met Zhao who pursued Su. Fang finally ended his relationship with Sue and Tang. Sue married the poet Cao Yuanlang, but he knew Fang was not his rival in love, so he married Fang who admired each other. Fang Hung-chien gradually fell out with the Zhou family.

At the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, Fang fled to Shanghai Concession. On Zhao's recommendation, he went to mainland universities to teach under Zhao, Gu Erqian and Li. Because of the weakness of Fang Hung-chien's personality, he fell into a complicated interpersonal dispute. After being engaged to Sun Roujia, she left San Lv University and returned to Shanghai. With Zhao's help, Fang Hung-chien worked in a newspaper and married him.

After marriage, the contradiction between Fang Hung-chien and his wife Fang Jia and Sun Roujia menstruation was exposed and intensified. Fang Hung-chien resigned, quarreled with Sun Roujia, and gradually lost hope of life.