“oil paper umbrella” represents the culture of Jiangnan

Oil paper umbrella breaks through the cultural connotation

Because of its external beauty and practical value, the oil paper umbrella is closely associated with literature and thus has a deep cultural connotation. The umbrella symbolizes peace, reunion, elegance and happiness in people’s minds, and its widely spread imagery is that of romance and love. Whether in fiction or mythology, the umbrella is the link between the hero and heroine, and often serves to drive the plot forward. In various literary works, it is often a rain that brings the hero and heroine to the same place where they meet in the rain with only an oil-paper umbrella, which makes the subsequent development of the plot reasonable and natural, as in the case of “The Legend of the White Snake”. In modern literature, “Rainy Lane” also uses “rain” and “umbrella” to describe the love between the hero and heroine, but the difference with traditional literature is that the encounter between the hero and heroine in “Rainy Lane” is sudden and brief, and the hero and heroine do not have any In Rainy Lane, the encounter between the hero and heroine is sudden and brief, and the hero and heroine do not have any encounter in the end, and the function of the oil paper umbrella as a catalyst for love in traditional literature disappears. Comparing The Legend of the White Snake and The Rainy Lane, the role of the oil-paper umbrella in the two works is very different. In “Rainy Lane”, “I” and the heroine each have an oil-paper umbrella, and they do not need each other to provide them, so it is difficult for them to communicate in such a scene, and one person and one oil-paper umbrella form two independent and It is difficult to integrate them into one place, and they eventually pass by without becoming a good story.