The Remembrance Writing of Family in Cai Shuping’s “Ping Ying Ci”

Abstract

Cai Shuping, a contemporary woman, expressed regret over her father’s injustice victim during the Great Leap Forward Movement in ≪Ping Ying Ci≫, revealing the resentment and pain that his father’s body could not be find. She was implicated in her father’s affairs, and her chances of being admitted to college were also deprived of the sadness and pain she could not continue her studies. Cai Shuping had to live with the label of “guilty family”, only separated from his hometown mother, displaced to Xinjiang, spent tragic seventeen years in “family team”(JiaShuDui). Cai Shuping personally visited again the place where she used to live, facing the pain, revealing the hard-edged family history, highlighting erosive scars and wandering mind. She illustrated the tragedy and regret for the timelessness due to political turmoil in Ci Poetry.