Original Ryomazi Mouse.
Many years later, it can almost be said that I re-read Mr. Lu Yao's book "Ordinary World" day and night, without sleep and food, just like watching Jin Yong's martial arts ** back then, I really can't let go of the book in my hand, just like a rusher who doesn't choose the way, just wants to reach the end as soon as possible, and can't take care of other things at all. This is the infinite charm of good works.
I remember when I first read this book, I was still a teenager, at that time, the understanding of life basically belonged to the level of frogs at the bottom of the well, and after reading a set of books, except for the unforgettable description of love and the extreme poverty of the society at that time, there was hardly much understanding. Of course, this situation is very normal, there is no grinding and etching given by life, there is no baptism of time, at that age, that is, it belongs to the "silly white sweet" type ridiculed by the current society.
I wrote the perception of reading books, not any comments, for everyone and heirlooms like Mr. Lu Yao, at least I don't have the courage, even if Liang Jingru is willing to give me this courage, I don't dare.
The story of Ordinary World began in 1975 and was written until 1985. During this period of ten years, China has undergone earth-shaking changes, and the daily life of the people of Shuangshui Village reflects the life of most of the rural areas of China. The older generation, such as Sun Yuhou and Tian Futang, and the new generation of farmers, such as Sun Shaoan and Jin Junwu, represent the different understandings and concepts of life of the two generations. Here, the life experience of the old and the young, the collision of new and old ideas, vividly reflects the joys, sorrows and sorrows of the peasants at the bottom of the society. In Shuangshui Village and Shibijie Township, places that are so small that they can't be found on the map, what happens every day is actually a microcosm of the society at that time. When I read it, I often have a sense of substitution, as if something is happening around me or something that is happening to me. Therefore, it is not entirely accurate to say that this book is read, to some extent, it is substituting your own life in the text, so you may not be a reader, but a certain protagonist, under the author's eloquent brushstrokes, with the ups and downs of the story, dancing to the rhythm 、、、
Mr. Lu Yao's ** is vertical and horizontal, all-encompassing, from the small area of Shuangshui Village to the whole of China. Rural, urban, village, township, county, city, provincial, domestic, international;From a spatial point of view, the underground coal mining area of Tongcheng Dayawan Coal Mine can not be seen from the surface to space, and even the three-dimensional and four-dimensional universes. Every description and treatment of details shows the author's profound literary skills and knowledge reserves. It also reflects his many profound insights into life, as the author wrote at the beginning of the chapter: "I would like to dedicate this book to the land and years where I have lived." The strong feelings of family and country are vividly displayed on the paper.
This book is sprinkled with 1.1 million words, describing the political ecology of China during the period from the end of the first period to the early period of reform and opening up, including the reform pragmatists represented by Tian Fujun, and the conservative and negative factions represented by Tian Kai, Gao Fengge and Zhang Youzhi. Among the low-level political organizations in the rural areas, there are the diehards represented by Tian Futang, the compromise faction represented by Jin Junshan, and the fanatics represented by Sun Yuting. Through events and details, it vividly depicts the chaos and transformation of China's political ideology at that time.
The most fascinating part of the book is undoubtedly the chapter on love between young people. However, the beauty of love and the grievances, regrets and sorrows are displayed in front of the reader through the author's ingenious weaving of pen and ink. The heroes and heroines of each love story are seamlessly in line with the imprint and character characteristics given by the times.
Not long ago, "Ordinary World" was made into a TV series, and it is said that the response was very good, but I didn't dare to watch it, I was afraid that it would subvert the image of the ** protagonist in my heart. When I finished watching the second time, I didn't dare to watch TV series, because the charm of words cannot be fully reflected in other forms of communication such as video and audio.
Of course, I don't completely deny the creative contribution of film and television, take the TV series "Bright Sword" as an example, the shooting is very good, especially the role of Li Yunlong, the actor Li Youbin, is highly consistent with the original protagonist. It can be described as expressive, however, this TV series also has a lot of shortcomings, or financial reasons, the war scenes are too perfunctory, and the set is simple and crude. **The second half of the ** was also pinched off, which means that Du Liang's work was castrated incompletely. The audience only saw the comedy climax of the first half, but did not know the tragic low ebb of the times in the second half. So much so that a friend who likes the TV series "Bright Sword" talked to me about the wonderful plot in it, and when I said that Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang were finally forced to commit suicide during the Cultural Revolution, my friend was stunned and dumbfounded.
Ha, it's a bit far, pull it back and continue to say, there is a way, love is the eternal theme of literature, but in Lu Yao's world, love has different forms of expression and different levels. All in all, I feel that the writing is very wonderful, and at the same time very cruel. It crumpled people's hearts into a ball and tore them to pieces.
Limited to space, I will only talk about the children of Sun Yuhou, because the love and destiny of these brothers and sisters in this family have almost included the four basic phenomena of society at that time.
First of all, let's talk about orchids, this is the eldest daughter of the Sun family, who has never been to school for a day, can't read big characters, and is burdened with heavy manual labor at a young age, helping her parents to run the household farm work and take care of her younger siblings. The days can be described as not seeing the light of day, not enough to eat and wear, and to be a cow and a horse. Hardly a day is smooth. There is no ego in life. Blind and dazed.
Of course, Orchid paid a heavy price for his ignorant choice, as a "ghost" Wang Manyin, with low eyes, is lazy to eat, except for the Spring Festival, he only remembered to have a home, and wandered around at other times, and there was no concept of home at all. Any child and wife are like floating clouds in his eyes. Orchid endured humiliation, tearfully persevered, and lived a widowhood for many years, for the sake of her children and reputation, she gritted her teeth and resolutely refused to file for divorce.
This should have been an extremely common phenomenon in society at that time, and if a tooth was broken, it could only be swallowed in the stomach, and divorce was dishonorable, and it was not something that a rural woman and family could afford. This is something that cannot be held up in front of anyone.
Orchids are a portrayal of most traditional Chinese women, who start from the beginning. Hard working without complaint. Unswerving loyalty to feelings is reflected in the orchid, which is the virtue of traditional women. It's just that when you meet someone who is not ladylike, you can only say that you are inhuman. However, at the end of **, Comrade Wang Manyin's prodigal son turned back, which can be regarded as a compensation for the misfortune of the orchid.
Second, what we want to say is Sun Shaoan and Tian Runye, Shaoan and Runye, it is really tragic to say, in terms of feelings, they are in love, the two have no guesses, childhood sweethearts, talented and beautiful. Runye is gentle and virtuous, knowledgeable, kind, honest, diligent and upright. However, beautiful emotions are not enough to confront the world and reality.
Shao'an's family is poor, one poor and two white, Runye's family is well-off and powerful. A poor peasant with a mud pole, a teacher who eats public food. It's a world of difference. In the face of Runye's initiative to show love, he broke the secular concept and made a private agreement with Brother Shao'an for life. Shao'an, however, has repeatedly retreated under extreme poverty and huge disparities. Readers who may be in today's social environment will look forward to Shao'an breaking free from the barrier and bravely embracing Runye's love, but how can this moment be equated with that moment. Even putting aside the question of whether social status and wealth are comparable. At that time, an agricultural and non-agricultural household registration in society was basically an insurmountable gap.
Runye has been suffering for the rest of her life for her feelings, looking forward to Brother Shao'an, who she thinks about day and night, waiting for him to propose, waiting for him to marry her, "The clothes and belts are gradually widening and I will not regret it, and I will be haggard for Yi." When I saw this, I really felt sorry for poor Runye, and I hated that cowardly Shao'an.
But is Shao'an really cowardly?The answer is naturally no, as the pillar of the family, he stood up to the sky, and at the age of thirteen, he worked in the field with his father, farming with his back to the loess to earn work, supporting a large family, and providing for his younger brothers and sisters to go to school. At a young age, he became the captain of the production team. Later, after the reform and opening up, he opened his own brickyard, and his life was prosperous. Except for his cowardly retreat in his feelings for Runye, almost everything else is to face difficulties and move forward bravely.
When Runye handed over the letter that read, "Brother Shao'an, I am willing to be with you for the rest of my life, let's talk about this slowly", I believe that readers will look forward to Runye's beautiful love, hoping that this gentle and kind girl can be paired with her Brother Shao'an and become a pair forever. However, what is the creation of people, what is Runye waiting for?What are we waiting for as readers, it is Shao'an who has been suffering for a long time, facing his own embarrassing situation, bowing to the cruel life, going to Shanxi on a blind date, and bringing Xiulian back to Shuangshui Village. After that, he lived a life of a wife and children on a hot kang.
Poor Runye, how could she have thought that her fiery emotions would wait for such a basin of cold water from head to toe, in an instant, her youth came to an abrupt end, and her heart was covered with ice and snow. Like a living dead, the soul has long since flown out of the sky. However, Lu Yao's pen did not stop there, Runye's suffering was far more than that, after that, she had no choice but to marry Li Xiangqian, but it was like a stranger, there was no day of husband and wife, in name only, and even separated from each other, far away.
Although after Li Xiangqian had a car accident and his legs were broken, Runye returned to the family out of kindness, but this can only be said to be a helpless choice. In short, life is too cruel to Runye, which is embarrassing. I can only look up to the sky and sigh!
Saddened by the misfortune of Runye, he hated Shao'an's ruthlessness. However, I have to express my understanding of Shao'an's choice, what can the so-called "mourn its misfortune and be angry with it"?In that age of poverty. Shao'an can only be like this, how beautiful love is, but how helpless life is.
Third, speaking of Sun Shaoping and Tian Xiaoxia, Shaoping, as the first character to appear in **, gave us a strong shock, the last high school student who appeared in the school's open-air cafeteria every day, went to get the meal he ordered, it couldn't be said to be food, two charred sorghum buns, I couldn't even afford to eat five cents of C-cabbage, and I endured the torture of hunger every day. However, we say that Shaoping was undoubtedly lucky, at least he was still able to go to school, and it was a high school, and in those days, countless children from peasant families dropped out of school because of family difficulties, and some could not even finish primary school. Seeing this, the poverty and pressure of life are like boundless dark clouds hanging over the hearts of Shaoping and the readers. The suffering nation and the suffering people were so helpless and so difficult in the context of that era.
Sun Shaoping is a very inspirational model in the book, and his life is full of hardships and hardships, as well as fighting spirit and passion. His material life is poor, but his spiritual world is rich, he reads voraciously, in the ocean of knowledge, he breaks through the limitations of reality, and swims in the happiness given by books. Reading has cultivated Shaoping's unique personality of perseverance, broadened his horizons and horizons, and also given him extraordinary life experience.
Tian Xiaoxia is undoubtedly the angel in Sun Shaoping's life, the daughter of the secretary of the prefectural party committee, with an unrestrained and enthusiastic personality, and also likes to read very much, to a certain extent, her appearance opened the window of Sun Shaoping's inner world, and the books she recommended to Shaoping caused a strong resonance with Shaoping. It invigorates his mind and expands the breadth of his thinking.
The love of reading,These two high school classmates of different classes at the same level are closely linked,They talk about everything.,The sea and the sky are free to fly.,This is similar to the young Runye and Shao'an.,But it's not the same.。
It is obvious that Shaoping and Shao'an have very different attitudes towards feelings. The attitude towards life is also different.
Shao'an chose to live a life of peace and self-control, and Shaoping chose a chivalrous life of fighting a sword to go to the end of the world, he could have run a brickyard with his brother and lived a stable life, but he was unwilling to accept the arrangement of fate, and resolutely walked out of Shuangshui Village and became the first batch of "workers" in China.
When Shaoping carried more than 100 catties of stones around the kiln to climb the slope;When you don't hesitate to wear out your back for fear of being fired;When he was too bad to sleep on his stomach because of the injury on his back;When the nerves are numb from intense exertion. What the reader felt was an extreme spiritual shock. What a precious spirit that is, this is a struggle and a cry for the hardships of life!is a powerful force to live without yielding!This spiritual power runs through Shaoping's life. In the Daya Bay Coal Mine in Tongcheng, in different life hardships, even if the mountains are roaring and tsunami, even if there is a violent storm, he faces it with a smile, which makes people awe and blood. A strong and independent character, full of charismatic personality. And these are the real reasons why Tian Xiaoxia was attracted to him and fell in love with him.
From the gentlemen's friendship to the love of each other, they have gone through a long period of time, it is true that Sun Shaoping has also experienced his brother Shao'an's mental journey, for the ** children's Xiaoxia, Shaoping is undoubtedly struggling, countless tossing and turning, countless psychological contradictions. He was excited, hesitant, pained, excited, sad、、、
However, the ordinary Shaoping is extraordinary, he chose to accept and embrace this beautiful love, although he suffered from his heart all the time, he finally did not bow to reality, but bravely faced it, drinking the love wine gifted by God. When Shaoping and Xiaoxia were under the pear tree in Guta Mountain, Shaoping finally mustered up the courage to hug Xiaoxia tightly, readers are estimated to be heartfelt admiration and relief, this golden boy and jade girl is really the envy of the gods!
However, life is so ruthless, Lu Yao is so "hateful"!Although compared to Yu Hua's "Alive", Lu Yao is not a ruthless character, and Yu Hua writes even more sadistic. directly pressed the rich to the ground and rubbed it into ashes. Basically, when I read the book "Alive", my heart has been lifted, and I have no joy in reading.
When Xiaoxia was swept away by the flood in order to save the children who fell into the water, when the young face that flashed in her mind at the moment of life and death, I may be even more desperate than Sun Shaoping, how could I be so cruel?How can this be so ruthless?I once thought the same as Sun Shaoping, that is, Xiaoxia did not die, but rushed to a place downstream and was rescued. However, when Xiaoxia's father Tian Fujun handed over Xiaoxia's three diaries to Sun Shaoping, everything was irretrievable, and our lovely and beautiful Xiaoxia, that kind angel, had returned to the heavenly realm.
Shaoping's pain of losing his sweetheart tormented him deeply, this sadness cannot be described in words, seeing this, in addition to a long sigh, or a long sigh, can only sigh.
Shaoping should meet the two-year appointment of the two, came to the pear tree in Guta Mountain, as he slowly staggered, my heart jumped wildly, I really hope that Xiaoxia will stand under the tree, looking back at him and smiling.
It's a pity that life and death are separated, and the Yiren have passed away. Sigh, sigh!
Finally, let's talk about Lanxiang, this is the greatest comfort that Lu Yao gives to readers, this little girl, sensible, smart, and distressingly well-behaved. There are not many descriptions about her in the book, and when Lan Xiang decided to drop out of school for the sake of her family's strain, and went home to help farm, it really made people very, very worried, really afraid that she would repeat the mistakes of orchids. Live the same life as a rural woman.
Fortunately, Shao'an resolutely opposed Lanxiang's idea and encouraged her to study hard and not to be a mediocre person. Since then, Lan Xiang has started a road of counterattack, she has not been to school sister Orchid, the eldest brother Shao'an who graduated from primary school, and the second brother Shaoping who graduated from high school, she has gone further, to the next level, and has been admitted to a key university, and her major is astrophysics, and the topics of argument with her boyfriend are what three-dimensional space and four-dimensional space. The world is really magical, so Lan Xiang is the most gratifying character in this book.
Lanxiang's love is also very enviable and happy, her boyfriend Wu Zhongping is gentle and elegant, has a soft spot for Lanxiang, and cares for her. However, I do have a question mark in my heart, Lu Yao seems to like to describe this kind of love that is not in the right household, Shao'an and Runye, Shaoping and Xiaoxia, Lanxiang and Zhongping, the three of them are basically poor children and ** children's emotional positioning. Among them, only Runye's father, Tian Futang, is a little worse than the position of secretary of the village branch, but Runye's second uncle is Xiaoxia's father, Tian Fujun, secretary of the prefectural party committee. Wu Zhongping's father, Wu Bin, is the executive deputy secretary of the provincial party committee.
Maybe this arrangement will make the characters more contrasting and produce a strong effect, but such a coincidence can only be attributed to the fact that there is no coincidence and no book.
There are also many wonderful descriptions of officialdom in the book, including emancipation of the mind, reform and opening up, and officialdom struggle. The stories of Qiao Bonian, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Tian Fujun, Secretary of the Prefectural Party Committee, and other characters are also very fascinating. However, this article mainly writes about the feelings of the emotional paragraphs, and the others will be skipped.
Lu Yao's book, although it is called an ordinary world, I think this work is very extraordinary, and the characters in it are both ordinary and extraordinary. For everyone who lives in reality, life is undoubtedly ordinary, but we should not be willing to be ordinary, and strive to be extraordinary, and when you feel that you are extraordinary, you should understand that you are actually ordinary.
Finally, I salute Mr. Lu Yao, I think that such a great work, I will re-read it after a while.