The biggest news today is brought by Grandma Qiongyao. At around 13:22 on December 4, 2024, Qiong Yao committed suicide at her home in Shuangying Building, Tamsui, at the age of 86. Soon, her agent released news of her death, a suicide note and a farewell video that had already b

The biggest news today is brought by Grandma Qiongyao.

At around 13:22 on December 4, 2024, Qiong Yao committed suicide at her home in Shuangyinglou, Tamsui, at the age of 86. Soon, her agent released news of her death, a suicide note and a farewell video that had already been recorded on social platforms and the media. In the video

, Grandma Qiong Yao wears energetic makeup and red clothes. She speaks openly and gently: "This is my wish, and "death" is the path that everyone must pass... I don't want to resign myself to fate, and I don't want to be slow. Slowly withering and fading, I want to "call the shots" on this final event. "

Her suicide note was full of love and romance until her death, and she also emphasized that this was her suicide note. Young people must not follow the choices made by 86-year-olds at the end of their lives. They still have a vigorous and fiery life.

When I heard this news, I had a strong feeling that "an era is over". What grandma wished for, As a reader of her, I don't feel particularly sad about her death. I think her death is more like "The Empress Xiang Fei turned into a butterfly and flew away", which is a metaphor or a fable -

online linear time Here, Qiong Yao’s story ends; but in more In multi-dimensional time and space, her romanticism will never end.

Last days: illness, loneliness, remembering her deceased husband

——It’s better to go back

Grandma Qiong Yao’s suicide was discovered by her secretary. According to her 63-year-old son, her mother left a suicide note, explaining The secretary went home at noon to take a look, and after entering the house, he was shocked to find that Qiong Yao had committed suicide in the room.

The secretary immediately notified 119. When the ambulance arrived, they found that Qiong Yao had no breathing and heartbeat, so they did not send her to the hospital.

But Qiong Yao’s departure was not without warning. As early as seven years ago, she had spoken frankly about her death on a public platform

017. After experiencing Ping Xintao's "extubation incident", Qiong Yao published a letter to her son and daughter-in-law. In the letter, she mentioned her own affairs and said that if it was time for her to leave, she would refuse. She was admitted to the intensive care unit, no nasogastric tube was inserted, no first aid measures were given, etc., and her descendants were warned not to be tortured because they reluctantly kept her body, and not to be confused by the "myth of life and death."

But at the end of this letter, Qiong Yao still said excitedly that she was ready to continue "burning" and wanted to publish a book about "cat people" with her granddaughter and prepare for the next novel or script.

At that time, Qiong Yao was still living in “Keyuan” in Taipei, which she built with her own hands. In 1980, Qiong Yao and Ping Xintao bought this mansion in the second year of their marriage. Since Qiong Yao didn't like to go out, her husband Ping Xintao decorated "Keyuan" into a warm home that also doubled as an office. Qiong Yao completed most of her works in "Key Garden".

She also expressed her feelings for "Key Garden" in "My Story": "This is not just a house, but a garden. . It is also the guarantee that my soul will rest and I will no longer wander.”

In 2022, Qiong Yao, who celebrated her 84th birthday, moved to Tamsui with her family. She mentioned, “When I left Keyuan, my heart ached, but Tamsui gave me another piece of sky.”

In Tamsui, she is still poetic, writing poems and creating. However, she accidentally twisted her waist in November last year and suffered pain for a long time. "I have used medicine, hot compress and hair dryer, but I still can't sit still."

There were many friends on the social platform who were worried about her sprain. She smiled and comforted them, "Don't worry about me, don't worry! I am a strange cat with nine lives. Have you forgotten?"

However, after this, Qiong Yao updated her post. The speed is getting slower and slower. In April this year, on her 86th birthday, Qiong Yao posted an article revealing that she wanted to stop using Facebook.

“Because many ‘minor problems’ with my body do not allow me such luxury,” he said that using social networking sites would harm his eyesight, physical strength and energy, and would also delay his sleep.

She also shared the song "I Have a Piece of Sky" for her fans. Every lyric hides her own voice. The most important thing in life is "happiness and ease."

She has been unable to let go of Ping Xintao's departure.

On November 27, Qiong Yao published "Remembering the Dead Husband" on the platform, which was a long article in memory of Ping Xintao.

Qiong Yao posted photos of Ping Xintao’s hospital bed and flower burial, mentioning, “Over the years, I have laughed in the wind, I have laughed in the sun, I have laughed in the crowd, and I have devoted myself to all kinds of things that attract me like a flame. ...let friends see that they are 'living well'."

But her memories of the more than a thousand days that Ping Xintao spent on the hospital bed were still "cruel," "helpless, miserable," and "the lateness of love." The pain that was burned into her heart these days was something she never wanted to face. Right and evasive.

Only then did everyone know that after Ping Xintao passed away, she never came out of "that ward".

In "Remembering the Dead Husband", she faced all the past and frankly admitted that she "missed you so much". Maybe it was at that time that she made the decision "it's better to go back".

life is as gorgeous as summer flowers:

With the company of the world of mortals, live a carefree life

As a reader who has read almost all of Qiong Yao's works, I know that Grandma Qiong Yao is not perfect in her personal life, but I really can't help but appreciate her splendid vitality like a summer flower. She is very much like the girl in the fairy tale who puts on red dancing shoes, burning her whole life, dancing in the flames of love and hate, never stopping.

Qiong Yao, whose real name is Chen Zhe, is originally from Hengyang, Hunan, and was born on April 30, 1938 in Chengdu, Sichuan. In 1947, Qiong Yao moved to Shanghai with her family and entered school for education for the first time.

I have to mention Qiong Yao’s mother Yuan Xingshu here. Yuan Xingshu had a brother (Qiong Yao’s third uncle) named Yuan Xingyun, who married Zhejiang Zha Liangmin. Cha Liangmin had a cousin named Jin Yong, so Qiong Yao and Jin Yong were “distant relatives.” "That's how it came about.

Qiong Yao and her mother Yuan Xingshu

Qiong Yao's creative path began at the age of 9. Her first novel was titled "Poor Xiao Qing" and was published in "Ta Kung Pao".

Two summers later, after experiencing war and displacement, Qiong Yao moved to Taipei City, Taiwan Province with her parents, and occasionally published some short stories in Taiwanese magazines. In her senior year of high school, she failed the college entrance examination twice and was so sad that she committed suicide. In the end, she decided not to further her studies and devoted herself to writing.

In 1963, Qiong Yao completed her first 200,000-word novel "Outside the Window" based on her own experience, and published it in "Crown" magazine. This was also her debut work.

"Outside the Window" is a work about the love between a teacher and a student. The "real person" of the male protagonist Kang Nan is Jiang Ren, a Chinese language teacher who was 25 years older than her in Qiongyao Middle School. The story of Jiang Yanrong and Kang Nan is also roughly consistent with Qiong Yao's own experience. Therefore, although this "deviant" work was a hit and well received, the author Qiong Yao was strongly criticized by her parents and cynicized by her husband Qingyun.

Qingyun even published an article in a newspaper supplement to curse Qiong Yao. In addition, due to his previous addiction to gambling, their marriage was already shaky and eventually ended in divorce.

In 1964, Qiong Yao, who had just divorced, was invited to Taipei for a radio interview, and she hit it off with Ping Xintao, the president of Crown magazine. With the persuasion of Ping Xintao and his wife Lin Wanzhen, Qiong Yao moved to Taipei and began a full-time writing career.

In 1964, Ping Xintao hosted a banquet for Crown writer Qiong Yao (second from left in front) at the New Taipei Hotel. Ping Xintao's wife Lin Wanzhen (front left) was also present.

In the early days of Qiong Yao's fame, the publication of many books was indispensable with Ping Xintao's help. For example, "Misty Rain" was originally rejected for serialization because it was not famous enough. Ping Xintao used himself The novel was launched under his authority and caused a sensation.

In the article "Remembering the Dead Husband", Qiong Yao also mentioned, "Helping your career has always been my motivation to keep writing books." In the five years after the publication of "Outside the Window", Qiong Yao wrote thirteen novels, each of which was published by Ping Xintao.

As Qiong Yao said, she is a dreamer, while Ping Xintao is a doer. Ping Xintao helped her realize her dream step by step, including turning Qiong Yao's works into films.

From novels to movies, Qiong Yao not only established another kingdom of wealth, but also created an era.

Her novels span the two eras of "three-room movies" and eight o'clock TV series. While dominating the ratings, they also made "Bravely Chasing Love" the terminator of "bitter motherhood". She grew up in the 1970s and Girls in the 1980s began to awaken themselves, break the various "girly" curses imposed on women by the times, and began to pursue passionate and unrestrained romantic love.

Take TV dramas as an example. Before this, many Taiwanese eight o'clock shows were bitter dramas such as "mother-in-law oppresses daughter-in-law" or "strong woman supports a family in the ocean"; but the heroines in Qiong Yao's works are all He is a love pioneer who dares to resist patriarchy and feudal marriage, and who dares to create the whole world for love.

Although "love pioneer" is by no means a good word nowadays, and "love brain" is even considered a taboo for women, in an era when parental orders and female virtue are still prevalent, this kind of passionate "Qiong Yao-style romanticism" "It has actually liberated many women who were trapped by the times - love itself is a heroic adventure in ordinary life.

The "three views" of Qiong Yao's works are often criticized nowadays. If some lines are cut out individually, such as "I'm not here to break you up, I'm just here to join this family", "You just lost a leg, but she lost But her "Love"... You will feel that the characters are going crazy, but if you read the complete book or TV series and expand your horizons to the entire character situation and their choices, you will find -

The logic of the characters themselves The chain is terrifyingly neat.

This is actually the highest praise for novelists and screenwriters. In addition, Qiong Yao's novels and dramas never promote the protagonist's "great and upright" values. More straight "three views" are uttered from the mouths of supporting characters. For example, Yan Ji in "New Moon Princess".

The protagonists in Qiong Yao's works often do amazing things. Take "Shuiyunjian" as an example. Wang Zixuan's sentence "Stop saying who is the father of the child" made the audience scream outrageously.

From another perspective, Wang Zixuan can have a child alone, repeatedly rejecting the requests of her ex-husband and suitor to be the father of her child, and her child finally takes the mother's surname. Isn't this an absolute female perspective and care?

In addition, while disregarding her "love brain", Qiong Yao has never avoided the real harm caused by her love brain.

In "On the Water Side", the literary young woman Xiaoshuang falls in love with the literary man Lu Youwen who cannot even support herself, and insists on marrying him.

After the marriage, there were endless quarrels. Lu Youwen also became addicted to gambling and used Xiaoshuang's money to gamble. During the quarrel and pushing, Xiaoshuang miscarried... As a result, Lu Youwen begged, and Xiaoshuang relented again. The result of the softness was Lu Youwen plans to sell the piano, which Xiaoshuang regards as his career and sustenance, to continue gambling.

Just like anti-drug movies that will let you see the horrors of drug addiction, isn't this kind of "love brain" tragedy an excellent negative teaching material?

As for "Deep Courtyard", it even has the meaning of "Jane Eyre".

The heroine is smoking, a heroine whose status is far behind that of the hero. After so-called "marrying into a rich family", she realizes that the hero cannot handle the family relationship well, and leaves without any regrets.

There is also my favorite Qiong Yao heroine Lu Yiping, who is the prototype of the "big heroine" that is popular today.

She is like the "female version of Heathcliff" in "Wuthering Heights". She has the attributes of a goddess of revenge and a straight outlook. She knows that cowardice will definitely be beaten, and being humble will only bring more pain and tears. She would rather be hated by others. She must not be disliked. She has a clear mind and precise logic, and can tear apart the mask of a scumbag.

Although in the later period, He Shuhuan pulled out his own thorns one by one, causing the pain of heart tearing, and the character of the "big heroine" also collapsed halfway, but this is also Lu Yiping's true desire, love and hate.

In her writing, female characters can be crazy or bad, but they must have strong love and hate, and lively and surging vitality. This is the true female standard.

As for "Huan Zhu Ge Ge", although it is a story that took place in the Qing Dynasty, it is full of modernist romance: the uneducated heroine Xiao Yanzi is still full of energy even after entering the Forbidden City; facing the emperor's favorite She is neither humble nor overbearing in pursuit of her fifth elder brother.

Especially in the second part, after everyone pursues their own happiness, in order to help the strange and exotic princess Hanxiang bravely pursue love, they collectively resist the imperial power and escape from the Forbidden City.

They believe that the Forbidden City can lock power, wealth and even personal freedom. Only true love cannot be imprisoned no matter what. If you want love to be tamed by tyranny, it is better to "live in the world of mortals and live a free and unrestrained life".

Qiong Yao herself is also a woman who combines knowledge and action. Regarding her love, marriage and life, she is just like the heroine in the novel, vigorous and brave in pursuing love, not so majestic and upright, but absolutely true - and therefore hurts some innocent people. people.

If Qiong Yao appears in your marriage, will you endure it for forty years like Lin Wanzhen?

After issuing a public will in 2017, Qiong Yao once said that the happiest stage she felt so far was when she was around 50 years old.

"At that time, my husband and I were both healthy and could travel frequently; when the children grew up, I didn’t need to worry about this and that all the time, and I also had two granddaughters in my arms. This was a great joy to me."

Qiong Yao’s definition of happiness is actually the same as that of an ordinary little old lady; it’s just that her life is too strange, and her abundant vitality and creativity are a double-edged sword, which may not only bring a happy and hearty life, There are also painful memories like stormy waves.

Death is as quiet and beautiful as autumn leaves:

"Snowflake" view of death

Qiong Yao has never been shy about talking about death in her works. The description of the "view of death" that impressed me most comes from her novel "Heaven on Fire".

The heroine Wandou Hua was raped by her stepfather during her childhood and gave birth to a son. After being rescued, she changed her name to "He Jiejie". Jiejie liked to read Mishima Yukio. She copied a short poem by Mishima and changed a few words herself -

"The spirit is despised, the body is despised. Happiness is easy to pass away, joy becomes After losing quality, lust is not what I want, where can I find purity? The susceptible heart has long been blunted, and the poetic charm will also disappear. "

After this poem, Jiejian also attached a small poem: h. tml3 "When beauty is no longer beautiful, when poetry is no longer poetic, when happiness has flashed like a spark, when the future is only ugly and empty... Never sigh for the end of life, let alone cry for death... "

And "life is as gorgeous as summer flowers, and death is as quiet and beautiful as autumn leaves" is the last word that Jie Ni left for her short life after she met her stepfather who had been released from prison and was abandoned by her beloved boyfriend.

- This is also the first time I have seen such a detailed view of death in Qiong Yao's book, "The Quiet Beauty of Autumn Leaves" This image of death also appears repeatedly in her other works. Even in her last suicide note and farewell video, she still said that "pianran" is her favorite two words.

If you are familiar with the "death" scenes in Qiong Yao's works, you will also find that the death in her works is often the ending she chooses, like snowflakes and autumn leaves, which is a quiet ending. .

In the final chapter of "Crescent Moon Princess", Nu Dahai breathed his last when he was carried back to the camp. He looked at Xinyue and Ji Yuan calmly and asked them to "live well and bravely."

Xinyue was also very calm. She told her love for Nuda Hai, saying that her life was not in vain, and arranged for Ji Yuan to return the necklace to Sai Ya, and then ended her life with a dagger.

The last scene between the two is: "She fell on Nudahai, her head pressed against his chest. Her blood and his blood stained the white armor red."

Death is when the red overpowers the white, quiet and solemn. This is probably the ideal ending of love and life between two people in Qiong Yao's imagination: Nuda died in a seahorse leather corpse, and the new moon followed resolutely and never looked back. The two people left together like butterflies together, timeless and beautiful.

In "Plum Blossom Brand", Bai Yinshuang thought that Haozhen had been beheaded, so she decided to follow him. "The bell tower rang the first bell of noon, and Yinshuang threw a roll of three-foot white silk onto the roof beam." She was firm and a little small. A small sense of ceremony.

Here Qiong Yao wrote: "Their 'human' date has ended, but their 'heaven' date has just begun." "

- In fact, in the entire "Qiong Yao Universe", the setting of death is consistent. Love is a kind of love that transcends time, space and life. The romantic spirit of death, When the plot advances to a certain extent, the death of the hero and heroine will occur as scheduled, highlighting the greatness and firmness of love.

"Death" is a subordinate concept. Thoughts are far less important than people's feelings in life. What are you afraid of? It's just a date in the world. In another dimension of time and space, the story has just begun. At the end, the widow Haozhen holds Yinshuang's body and runs wildly, leaving the whole world behind... This ending is actually the same as "the prince and princess lived happily together", the reality is blurred, you know Hao Zhen always stops, but this moment fixes the supremacy of love