My sister Luo Peiying ⑤ | When Zeng Wen Zhenggong encountered postmodern conditions

Luo Feiying silly big sister model

A postmodern coincidence

1979 French philosopher Li Ota (Jean-Francois Lyotard 1924-1998) published the masterpiece "Postmodern Condition: Current Knowledge Research Report" (La Condition Postmoderne, rapport surne) le savoir), the 1984 English translation The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge was edited by the author and published in the United States.

Five years later, I published "What is Postmodernism" (Taipei Student Bookstore), Volume 2 and Volume 3, a complete introduction to the development of "Postmodernism" literature and art; Volume 4, "Philosophy", included the full translation of this book And notes, along with an introduction; Volume VI "Chronology" contains the "Chronology of Postmodern Events in Taiwan" compiled by me, from 1960 to 1987, tracing the development of Taiwan’s postmodern conditions in the first 30 years, Combining theoretical predictions and practical historical data, before and after comparison to confirm, successfully avoided ivory tower-like rootless talk.

At first, some short-sighted people thought that the book "What is Postmodernism" was too premature, and there were some careless and meaningless criticisms, but later I saw that "postmodernism thought" had risen, and many similar works followed suit. However, the unstoppable forces have transformed one after another, becoming the vanguard and spokesperson of "postmodernism".

To put it bluntly, all kinds of "isms" including postmodernism are just a clear-cut "statement" or "view", like a searchlight with a special color, which can help people "see what has never been seen", but at the same time it is easy to encourage " If one insists on insisting on “prejudice” as “right view,” this is not taken by the wise.

Although the title of my book uses the word "postmodernism", which is good-natured, I think it is used by Western scholars to contrast with Western "mature modernism". It is used to describe Taiwan, which is not yet mature in analysis of modernization, and the special phenomena that have developed during this period of time, and the cards are not based on the card. You should use the "postmodern state".

Thirty years later, many of the "postmodern" books published that year were mostly out of print, and "What is Postmodernism" is still being reprinted to this day, indicating that this book's introduction to the "postmodern state" is comprehensive, comprehensive and complete In-depth, as one of the indispensable basic introductory books.

In fact, since the "May 4th Movement" in 1919, Western art thoughts such as "Romanticism", "Realism", "Classicism", "Naturalism", " Surrealism" and "Modernism" have been introduced. Although there are many articles, most of them are improvisational one-sided works. From "literature", "art", "philosophy" and "chronology", the four-pronged approach, in the form of a book, seems to be the only book for comprehensive discussion.

In August of this year, my sister-in-law passed away suddenly. Apart from the pain, I was surprised to find that the "Chronology of Postmodern Events in Taiwan" in the book began in the year she was born in 1960, and it has been exactly 60 years. From the perspective of post-modern “plurality”, the growth and development of the younger sister's life and acting career, from the innocent girl in the TV series, the sweetheart in Taipei, to the silly eldest sister and the three-eight sister in the construction show, to the talk show The queen of gossips and the best friend of the Los Angeles, have just fully witnessed the ups and downs and changes of Taiwan's post-modern performing arts culture, which coincides with the diverse development of Taiwan's political and economic culture.

In the past, no one has ever discussed the growth and development of Chinese performers from the 20th century to the present from the perspective of comprehensive cultural research. I think, if you want to have it, please start with my memories of my sister.

Inheritance of the home style of agricultural farming

Father Luo Jiayou (1918-2012), a farmer born in the countryside of Xiangtan, Hunan, his hometown is not far from the former residence of the great painter Qi Baishi in Baishi Town, the address is "Xiangtan Lukou Umbrella Shop" Stupidly, the tiles in the mixed houses are biased towards the door." This address was decided by Jiang Jingguo in 1987. After opening the mainland to visit relatives, his father carefully took out an antique envelope from an old kraft paper bag, exuding the charm of the early Republic of China. I used Lu Shiyi's (1784-1855) official calligraphy to read this poetic address.Turning his finger around his wrist, he wrote a large middle hall to show that he will never forget the original.

's father is the second child at home. He was ashamed at the age of three. The two brothers were raised by a widow and grew up with his grandfather. Junior high and high school studies are completed by receiving tuition and miscellaneous fees from uncles and aunts every month. Since then, knowing the rare opportunity to study and the need to work hard, he worked hard and did not release the papers. After graduation, he was admitted to the Department of Electrical Engineering of Guangxi University.

In his sophomore year, the Anti-Japanese Army was prospered. After the news of the "Nanjing Massacre" came, his father had aspirations to serve the country and dropped out of school to respond to the call, and entered the Huangpu Military Academy to study telecommunications. , Almost dead or maimed, was finally distributed to Chongqing, into the U.S. B-29 super fortress bomber, served as a radio communicator. During this period of time, his English proficiency greatly increased, and his chances of survival were greatly reduced; he witnessed classmates and colleagues, who were killed and martyred every day; nightmares, dreams, perseverance, perseverance, and perseverance, he finally survived the war.

recovered successfully. His father was distributed to Cangkou, Qingdao, close to the US military advisory team. He served as the radio station director. He met his mother who was teaching at Cangkou Elementary School at the time. With the approval of his grandfather and grandmother, he married and organized a small family. One year later (1948), I was born in Qingdao German Hospital. When I was less than one year old, I moved to Taiwan with my parents via Shanghai.

Between Pingtung and Danshui, after half a year of hardship, his father finally arrived in Keelung, relying on his English ability to get into the shipping industry, get a stable job, had to join the industrial society, and make a living in a mixture of dragons and snakes. Amidst the waves of the seaport, the ideal of "farming and reading heirs" is becoming increasingly distant.

And his good friend, my brother and my favorite Uncle Gao Tao, brought his family to Brazil in the late 1950s, and continued to pursue his dream of "farming and studying heirs" until he was completely broken and ended in tragedy. It sighed for twenty years.

Discussing the way of governing the family, his father is based on "The Family Instructions of Zeng Wenzheng", and he emphasizes "loyalty, faith, sincerity, and respect". Xuan Chi Slips... are all listed as must-read books. In his later years, he was more addicted to reading "The Complete Works of Fang Weng" and kept copying by hand. As for calligraphy, I like to copy Dai Binyuan's (1836-1889) running script, which can be true. Dai Shuyuan Shao Lu Gong, close to Daozhou, agile and unrestrained, strangely present, but overall, he does not deviate from the Sanxiang brushwork.

's father wrote the calligraphy with a very conservative interest. The brushwork is generally dignified and vigorous, occasionally interrogating and trembling for agility, but the frame expands outside, still near Xiangxian Zizhen and Ertan Fengzhi. After 80 years old, my father liked the famous 15-year-old quote of the talented Tongxiang daughter Lu Yuhua: "The east wind cannot blow for ten miles, and the peach blossoms bloom (over) the sunset village." As a gift to my brother, as a homesickness.

However, my father also took the rebellious steps that belonged to his time. When naming our brothers, he completely abandoned the order and generation tradition of Yuzhang Luo's ancestral hall and changed to free naming. Because he has been plagued by faction names since he was a child, he has been bullied by various distant relatives and children. Many naughty boys who are five or six years younger than him, because of the fact that the faction name is senior, they just force him to shout: "Call me Grandpa! Good grandson!"

My real name is "Luo Qingzhe", "Qing" means that I was born in "Qingdao", and "Zhe" is a classic of Zeng Guofan's famous "Portrait of a Sage". After arriving in Taiwan, my father held me, and when registering at the Keelung household registration office, he followed the traditional algorithm and reported me as two years old when I was one year old. The clerks were amazed: "Is there anyone expecting my son to become a philosopher in these years?"

later got the chance to learn painting from Han Yutang Pu Xinsi, for fear that the "Portrait of a Saint and Philosopher" was not included in the painter, so I hurriedly managed to find it On first reading, but see the last paragraph of the article, the 32 ancient sages are listed in detail: "Wenzhou Confucius and Mencius, Banma Zuozhuang, Ge Lu Fanma, Zhou Cheng Zhuzhang, Han Liu Ouzeng, Li Du Suhuang, Zheng Xu Duma , Gu Yao Qin Wang, thirty-two people, sweet and fragrant beans; the presence is on the top, the quality is on the side." Seeing that at least Su Dongpo and Huang Shangu are poets, calligraphy and painting artists among them, I let go of my uneasy heart.

's father warned me with a metaphor from Zeng Wenzhenggong: "For example, if you work hard to dig a well, it is not as good as a spring instead of digging more wells. How about keeping a well and trying to reach the spring without exhausting it?" I should concentrate on schoolwork and not spend too much time on writing and drawing. And I have my own unique perspective on this one. I think I should first concentrate on the calligraphy and calligraphy I like, and then learn to write poems on paintings; first read through my favorite calligraphy and painting theory, and then cut into poetry ; Then, let poetry into aesthetics, into the history of philosophy, literature, artThe history of surgery, step by step, can be used endlessly. As for being a human being, what my father always said was: "Tame but not arrogant, mighty but not fierce." It is enough to make me, who likes Ni Tongtong and disdainful of Qun Lun, Ti Li my life.

As for the younger brother's name "Zhijian", it should come from the famous saying of Zeng Wenzhenggong: "Gaishi people must have aspirations first, second have knowledge, and third have perseverance." After sister

was born, his father named him I am more free, thinking of the graceful jade chime with "golden sound and jade vibrating", thinking of the Lingbi stone that I received from my grandfather when I was young, and thinking of the best way to make jade chime, the so-called "sound is like bronze jasper, beautiful and beautiful. Shi Lan Cui wet", so he named his sister "Bi Ling". (Note Southern Song Dynasty Dai Fugu's "Lingbi Stone Songs by Fang Yan Wang Shi Lang": "The Lingbi has a strange peak in the world, the body is majestic and the body is towering, the giant spirit is angry and slams the sky column. The flat Canglong has two black cloud waists. The sound is like bronze jasper, Xiurun is green in the four seasons. The treasures of the universe fall into the world, and the ghosts appeal to the gods and weep....")

Luo Jiayou family portrait

sister later due to career development problems, insisted on changing her name to "Peiying", Go to the household registration office and complete the procedures. When my father heard the news, he bowed his head and pondered for a long time, but he didn't say anything or commented. In the end, his sister coquettishly asked him: "What do you think? Dad!"

"Oh! I really don't understand, who are you looking for to change the name!" He shook his head, "Paiying read it, it's not paying. In this way, I still want to get rich? Can I still get rich?" Father paused, and continued: "Biling---How wonderful, billion, billion, I can read one billion dollars at the first thought!" My sister who has always valued fortune , All passwords like to use "Send me to send", "I send to send" or "I send me to send". I was choked up when I heard the words. I got a stone in my throat and lost my quick-reacting teeth. At the side of

, ​​I had no choice but to make a round of it and quoted the New Testament as saying: Paying is blessed better than receiving, in an attempt to resolve the embarrassment.

Maybe because I am the boss, my parents have the most control over me and the strictest requirements. Various experiments, one set after another, are imposed on me, leaving me no choice but to accept everything. For example, "refusal to purchase Japanese goods", "we are worried about the country", "clarify the world" and "rejuvenate China"... However, things turned around when it came to the younger brother; when it came to the younger sister, it was all messed up. The "Zeng Wen Zhenggong Project" that successfully sent me into the university officially ended on the day I moved into the university dormitory. Starting from my younger brother who is four years younger than me, the whole family has officially entered the "rock age" with the deafening sound of electric guitars. After younger brother

successfully finished his first year of junior high school, his vitality suddenly exploded, and he shook all the junior high schools around Keelung one by one; when he reached the high school, he played in the northern high schools, and finally rolled to the Yangmei High School south of Taoyuan. stop. Fortunately, thanks to my mother's incomparable love, perseverance and tenacity, she ran east and west, north and south, following left and right. With undivided patience and never giving up, she finally escorted her brother to get a high school diploma.

And in his father's mind, he inherited the ideal of "farming and studying family style" in agriculture in Taiwan, and he also graduated.

"Postmodern conditions" appeared

According to the "Chronology of Postmodern Events in Taiwan" edited by me, in the year my sister was born, Taiwan’s population officially exceeded 10 million and the fertility rate was 4.2%. Sixty years later, the population has grown to 23.6 million, and the fertility rate has dropped to 1.06%. In 1993, Taiwan’s population over the age of 65 accounted for 7% of the total population and entered the "aged society"; in 2018, 14% entered the "aged society", and it is expected to reach 20% in 2025 and enter the "super-aged society" ".

In terms of politics and military affairs, the "Golden Gate 823 Artillery Battle" has just ended for two years, and the authorities continue to adhere to a conservative and stable pattern in order to protect Taiwan and protect itself. Therefore, the "National Assembly" revised the "Provisional Provisions for the Period of Mobilization and Rebellion" formulated in accordance with the procedures of Article 174 of the "Constitution", and decided that the president would be re-elected without restriction; subsequently, Jiang Zhongzheng was elected as the third "President" ".

In this year, the Secretary-General of the USAid Li Guoding established the "Six Duo Industrial Zone" near Keelung, and led the investment research team, passed the "Incentive Investment Regulations", and cooperated with the existing "19-point financial reform measures" to promote Taiwan Transition from "import substitution" to "export expansion" and towards "international market orientation""Economy." The ancients said: "Thirty years is one life." In 1989, when my sister was twenty-nine, the Soviet Union began to disintegrate, and the East-West Cold War came to an abrupt end. Her acting career was also at this moment, slowly expanding across the strait. The three places have also expanded to the Chinese market in the United States and have begun to reach their peaks.

In terms of social and technological development, Taiwan has taken the lead. Since 1986, the foreign exchange deposits have been 46.3 billion U.S. dollars, and the per capita income is 3697 U.S. dollars. The service industry population 41.50% exceeded the industrial population by 41.47% for the first time, while the agricultural and fishery population fell below 17.03%, officially entering the early stage of the "post-industrial society." In that year, Taiwan’s seven information items including computer terminals, monitors, telephones, and computers The world's largest output of electronic products; Evergreen Shipping's "container transportation energy" ranks first in the world; Kaohsiung Port's container throughput, following Rotterdam and Hong Kong, ranks third in the world. A large amount of foreign exchange reserves makes Taiwan import and export Prosperity has driven the prosperity of all industries, and the real estate industry, which plays the role of the locomotive of the economy, has skyrocketed, with prices rising.

Thanks to the gift of performing TV series and movies for five years, my sister became a Taiwanese real estate company at the age of 26. A popular star of the pre-sale show on the construction site. She gave up the image of a female lady, pretended to be crazy, silly, gag, sing nonsensical, sing funny, as long as the sale of the house is hot, and the plot needs, what can’t be.

Luo Peiying’s 1980s construction show Sister

can sing, but has not released an album; she can act, but there is no real masterpiece; she can host shows, but has not been able to endure. But she is articulate and responsive, and is most suitable for talk shows, frank and frank She pierced her mask, kept her mouth open, and showed off her wealth from time to time. She performed what the audience hoped to see and became a post-modern complex, which directly reflected the vision of her era and the wishes of the people.

Later, the follow-up reports of major Chinese newspapers at home and abroad for more than ten days have surprised me. The number of condolences emails from all over the world has surprised me. Her fans have exceeded my imagination. , Which actually includes the white, Hispanic, and Japanese ethnic groups in London and New York, which is really incredible.

back then, in order to rush around the island’s north-south highways day and night, she bought a car for the first time and bought a valuable one. Imported Porsche, parked in the parking compartment downstairs in the parents’ apartment. This car, the second and the old went out with his sister for a ride, but never tested it. In just five or six years of acting career, the accumulated wealth of his sister has almost caught up My father worked hard for half of the 20 years.

remember that when I was in the first year of junior high school, my sister was over a year old, and my father was obsessed with cars. Suddenly many beautifully printed color English car magazines appeared in the house. One day, my father pointed to one of the books. The red sports car that spread across the page said excitedly: "This is Audi, made in Germany. Look, the front of the car has four links, so beautiful! Good car! "But his conservative father, still weather-proof every day, rode his British Philips bicycle to and from work in Keelung, Yugang, often drenched back, never complaining. One of the main businesses of

father’s shipping company, I was the general agent in Taiwan for the veteran British merchant Taikoo Shipping Company (Butterfield & Swire Co. 1866), handling passenger and freight business between Taiwan and Hong Kong, and the business was booming. I heard my mother said that my father’s salary had risen from NT$1,000 to NT$3,000. Ten times the number of teachers in secondary schools. Then, after the Vietnam War was fought from 1955 to 1975 for 20 years, the shipping and freight business increased significantly, and his father's salary increased to 8,000 to 9,000 yuan, plus the annual bonus, it was already here. When he could buy a car to travel, but he just watched the car catalog and never took any actual action.

However, he loves photography and spends money to buy a Leica camera, video recorder and projector, but he does not hesitate. My sister. After watching cartoons, the living room at home became a cartoon movie theater on Sunday afternoon, and the children nearby were all attracted to watch it. It was very lively.

The throughput of Keelung Port was very busy at the time. The berths in the port area were crowded day and night. Large ships have no reliable docks. They can only be anchored in the center of the harbour and the outer harbour. The operations of personnel disembarking and piloting are all supported by several small barges of the Port Authority. They have long been swayed and exhausted. Father saw the opportunity and asked the port The bureau applied to order two new large-scale barge ships in the name of the company to join the port city water transportation. When necessary, the ships can be rented to the port authority to work overtime day and night. In the past ten years, the barge has accumulated for his father canGuan's wealth made him decide to move to Taipei to retire at the age of 55. Because his grandfather, before the age of forty-five, was already at home and his grandson was studying. The reason why

's father is in the Aon Apartment Building on Dunhua South Road, Taipei, designed by Hong Kong builders, is because the ground floor of the building is a large British-style garage, which was unique at the time. "It is Hong Kong people who have experience. Ten years later, everyone in Taipei will have a car. It is hard to find a parking place!" My father predicted confidently. Not long after

moved into his new home, his father discovered that Mr. Xing, who lived upstairs, drove a brand-new Cadillac from the garage, glamorously parked in the open-air parking grid, and began to wipe the car. After an hour, he returned to the garage. From now on, once a week, under everyone's eyelids, we will show etiquette. Father looked at him with interest every time, but he was not moved. Once, I actually saw Mr. Xing driving out after a heavy thunderstorm, and it became a big news in our family. Everyone at the dinner table compared this move with a human landing on the moon.

, ​​but before his father decided to move to the United States, he lived in the Aon Building for 20 years, and the garage was empty for 20 years. There was no use other than piles of debris. It was neither rented nor sold.

In 1991, my parents went to Los Angeles. In this city where I had to drive, my father bought the first car. It was a seven-seater passenger-cargo vehicle for Ford. It was very practical and convenient. It only took four to drive to my brother’s residence. It's only fifteen minutes, and it's living next door. At the age of seventy, he used this car to go to The Home Depot and bought all the materials. Outside the kitchen, which was a little too dry, he personally built an open-top lattice flower stand for his mother, which can not only shade but also Flower viewing. In the large garden, he planted flowers, fruits and vegetables, from apples, peaches to lemons; from tomatoes, loofah to eggplants, and kept fresh fruits and vegetables on the plate. Variety. The

Ford car became a tool car for his father to continue his "farming and studying". My sister couldn't stand it, so she bought a Mercedes-Benz back the next year. When my sister returned to Taiwan, my father took care of her and started to warm up the engine from time to time, waiting for her to come back to use it, but he never used it officially.

Since the 1990s, the phenomenon of “globalization” has spread rapidly in the following thirty years. With the popularization of laptops, smart phones, and the Internet of information, the world has slowly become involved in the two major economies of China and the United States. In science and technology, a new situation of division of labor and competition. This point was foreseen by my father during the global financial turmoil triggered by the "Lehman Brothers Mini Bond Incident" in 2008. At that time, he showed unprecedented optimism and confidence in China's future. But deep down in my heart, I think he probably has to accept that the values ​​he has sacrificed his life to defend since childhood have long been disintegrated and annihilated.

One day, my sister bought a digital camera for her father as a birthday present. He picked it up from the table, looked at it, put it back, and murmured: "A big 100-year-old photo film company like Kodak has fallen apart."

Luo Qing