After reading the "Small Town Youmin - Wen Shihao's Anthology" published by Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House, a poem by Su Shi came to mind: "I often envy the jade lang in the world, and Tianying should beg and point to the crisp girl." As far as the song goes, the wind rises, and the snow flies and the sea becomes cool. When he returned from thousands of miles, he smiled and smiled, and when he smiled, he still had the fragrance of Lingmei. I asked Lingnan if it should be good, but he said: This place of peace is my hometown. ”
As a post-90s generation who grew up in the countryside of southern Jiangxi and is still drifting north, I have always been ashamed of being a rural person, rarely mentioning my experience before drifting north with friends in the city, and I don't have the courage to express my life experience in the countryside in words, for fear of giving readers the illusion of using suffering to win sympathy. But after watching "Small Town Youmin", I suddenly felt that growing up and living in the countryside is not shameful, but has become a "luxury" pursuit;"This place of peace is my hometown" is not a kind of spiritual victory method, but a summary of experience after truly understanding the truth of life and the value of life.
Just as Wen Shihao constantly emphasized in this anthology, which is composed of seven parts: "The Gentle People of the Town", "Cooling the Years", "The Mountain Road Bends, the Moon is Pointy", "Leaving It Pure in the World", "Hometown Images", "We Pull a Boat", and "Helou Love Song": Living in modern society, on the surface, our life is only meaningful to struggle for houses, cars and tickets, but we don't know," There is no high or low value in all things in the world, and there is no order of value, but different things play different roles - and so are people."
Therefore, reading this book can not only relive the fun of rural life such as honey picking, picking green plums, planting vegetables, simmering sugarcane, and fishing for fish and shrimp in the river, but also learn the practices of Xi special delicacies that are easy to arouse readers' appetite, such as jelly noodles, human face, tapioca cakes, cup prints, fried glutines, and tempeh, but also how different people should maintain a "leisurely" state of mind in different life situations. Especially the food-related chapters, all of which make me want to move, after all, "the people take food as the sky", among which the "inheritance" article has aroused the impulse that I want to make a fairy rice dumpling with southern Gannan characteristics, because since I came to the north, I have rarely been able to eat all kinds of delicacies made of rice noodles from the south, and I didn't eat a bite of authentic fairy rice dumplings when I went home on National Day this year, which made me lose my heart for a long time.
In addition, another point that fascinates me about this book is the author's honesty and struggle. On the one hand, the author confronts the criticism of others, and thinks that it is shameful for him to change his career from a photographer, programmer, and company owner to become a salesman of agricultural products, and he is more happy than worriedOn the other hand, he also occasionally reveals the pain of wandering between the ordinary and the ordinary, "hoping that I will gain something, it does not have to be a colorful material, just like the life of plants and trees, humble but pure, simple but timeless." However, it is clear that even a brave author cannot boldly say that he has gained such a thing in his life. In other words, in fact, no matter what kind of lifestyle, there are pros and cons, and only by holding the evaluation system of life value in our own hands, rather than handing it over to others, can we truly achieve inner wealth and fulfillment.
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