In 1982, an 18-year-old boy failed the college entrance examination and was forced to find a job with a daily salary of 1 yuan and three rounds of books to deliver books to magazines.
On a business trip to the railway station in Yiwu, the teenager bought a ** to kill time. It was this book that changed the life of a teenager.
Years later, the teenager who became the richest man in China recalled, ".This book tells me that I have to go to university, and although I don't know what it means to me, I think people work so hard, I have to work hard. ”
This teenager is Ma Yun, and the ** book that influenced the direction of his life was written by writer Lu Yao"Life".
"Life" is the first classic novella created by Lu Yao**, and it is also his famous work. Originally published in the third issue of "Harvest" in 1982, it won the 1981-1982 National Excellent Novella ** Award. On September 27, 2018,**Successfully selected as "the most influential in the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening up**".
The story is simple:tells the story of Gao Jialin, an intellectual young man from the countryside, who failed the college entrance examination and was forced to return to the countryside。In the countryside, he was admitted to a private teacher, and he originally held the hope of passing the examination and becoming a formal national teacher, but due to the factor of Gao Minglou, the captain of the production teamJobs are replaced.
Full of talent, he became an authentic farmer, and was forced to live as a farmer with his face to the loess and his back to the sky like his parents, which made him extremely depressed.
In desperation, Liu Qiaozhen, a kind and beautiful rural girl, broke into his life, although Liu Qiaozhen was uneducated, but she loved him sincerely. After falling in love with Liu Qiaozhen, because his uncle changed jobs and became officials, Gao Jialin was transferred to the county seat by Ma Zhanwen, who single-handedly took over his job as a private teacher, and became a correspondent.
Gao Jialin performed well in the county, and in order to be able to develop in a larger city, he abandoned Qiaozhen and accepted Huang Yaping's pursuit.
Then, Gao Jialin ushered in the third turning point of fate in his life, he was denounced by Zhang Kenan's mother for "going through the back door" to get a job as a correspondent, and was dismissed and returned to the countryside.
At the end of the story, Gogarin loses his career, loses his love, and goes around and returns to square one, but the author does not write what the future of Gogarin will be, but only writes about him meaningfully"I couldn't cry anymore, and I cried loudly on the enthusiastic countryside.
This is a history of stubborn struggle of aspiring young people who are eager to get out of the countryside, unwilling to be an authentic farmer, and desperately want to integrate into the city. For his ideals, he is always high-spirited, and every time he approaches to changing his life, he will be crossed by reality.
For the ideal, in love and reality, he decisively chose the latter, but even so, he was still subject to fate.
* Named "Life", in fact, it is not only Gao Jialin's life, but also Lu Yao's life, but also the life of many young people.
After reading **, some readers are scolding Gao Garin for giving up "gold-like Qiaozhen" for reality, but this is not the love of talented and beautiful people**, it is a literary work with realistic significance. In the whole film, love is not the core theme of **.
If you only read Gogarin's "scum", it means that you are still too young.
The survival and spiritual dilemma of rural intellectual youth
Gogarin was born in the countryside to peasant parents.
He has dreams and energy, and is determined to get rid of his parents' life path facing the loess with their backs to the sky.
He had excellent grades and was handsome, but because he failed the college entrance examination, he was forced to return to the yellow earth where he grew up.
As one of the few intellectuals in the village, he became a private teacher in the village's primary school in that era of advocating knowledge.
Here, he doesn't need to be in the company of the loess like his father, he can still concentrate on the literature he loves, and he is also the "high teacher" respected by everyone in the village.
Just when we thought things were going to go well, his life took a dramatic turn.
Three years later, in order to prevent his son from becoming a farmer, Gao Minglou, the village party secretary, took advantage of his position to let his son Samsung replace Gao Jialin's position as a private teacher.
For a quarter of an hour, the clay cave with its shaking lights lost any life, and all three of them fell into misery and pain. ”A family with no background and no power had to bow to power in the end, and Gogarin became an authentic peasant.
This blow was very serious for the family, and after failing the college entrance examination, Gogarin had already suffered a lot of mental trauma.
Thanks to these three years of teaching, he did not have to participate in the heavy manual labor, but also had time to continue his studies and delve into the liberal arts he loved. ”Now that this is all over, he will have to start his own career as a farmer like his father.
As Gogarin said, he was the son of a peasant, and he never despised any peasant, but he was never mentally prepared to be a peasant. He studied hard for more than ten years, just so that he would not be the owner of the land for the rest of his life like his father.
Nowadays, after many years of hard study, they can only work like those young people in the same village who do not have any education, which is an unacceptable reality for any young intellectual.
Even if life has given us a lot of unsatisfactory things, all we can do is face them.
Did you accept your fate?Perhaps not, but at this time Gogarin also had to learn to integrate into rural life, work in the fields, and raise livestock.
His parents knew that Gogarin was not a material for work, so they asked him to take a basket of steamed buns to the city to sell.
Gogarin was proud, because he was one of the few literate people in the village;He has low self-esteem because he was born in the countryside.
In the city market, he kept his head down as much as possible, not daring to shout, for fear of meeting his old classmates. But the more you try to escape, the more you encounter it halfway.
Coincidentally, he ran into his classmates Zhang Kenan and Huang Yaping, and then lied that he was carrying the basket to visit relatives.
When Zhang Kenan sincerely said that if you need to buy tobacco, alcohol and other products, you can ask him for help, Gao Jialin's excessive self-esteem made him very sensitive, and he felt that he was humiliated, so he became mean.
When he heard that someone was buying white buns, he was very excited, but he found that the person he wanted to buy was Zhang Kenan's mother, whether he remembered it or not, his self-esteem made him unable to make this deal with someone he knew.
In the end, he chose to escape.
He hid in the reading room of the prefectural cultural center and plunged into the world of newspapers with hunger.
It wasn't until the reading room staff interrupted his reading that Gogarin realized that the day had passed.
He took a basket of buns and mustered up the courage to go to the streets, but fewer and fewer people could not let him cross the hurdle in his heart, shouting and selling.
Gao Jialin walked to the Dama River Bridge in despair, where he met Liu Qiaozhen, who had been waiting for him.
The gold-like Qiaozhen has the true love of gold.
Qiaozhen was born in the countryside, but she is a well-known beauty in ten miles and eight towns. She is hardworking, kind,As a woman, she can endure hardships and never complain.
She wholeheartedly likes the literate Gagarin, pays for him, and does not ask for anything in returnIt's just wholeheartedly good for the people you love
She has no culture and knows that she is not worthy of Gogarin, and for many years she only dared to like it silently. But with the failure of Gao Garin's college entrance examination, he lost his job as a teacher. Gogarin, who was beaten back to his original peasant form, no longer seems to be so unattainable.
Qiaozhen solved the basket of unsold steamed buns for Gao Jialin, and took the initiative to confess his mind to Gao Jialin, which made him very moved. The beautiful and kind Qiaozhen is like a piece of sugar, which makes Gao Garin, who is struggling in the painful darkness, taste the sweetness that he has not seen for a long time.
Later, under Qiaozhen's gentle care, he began to accept the status quo and began to accept himself as a real farmer.
But just when Gogarin was determined to become a farmer, "life took a huge turn in an instant."
His uncle came back from serving as a soldier and wanted to become the director of the county labor bureau, and in order to curry favor with Gao Yuzhi, the director of the labor bureau, the "sycophant" transferred Gao Jialin to the county party committee's communications group as a communications officer through connections.
Gao Garin cherished this hard-won opportunity and thanked fate for his down-to-earth and diligent work.
Standing among the buildings of the city, Gogarin felt that he had finally fulfilled his wish, which made him more and more active and full of life.
The glittering Gao Garin attracted Huang Yaping, a high school classmate with good looks.
Huang Yaping, a girl from Suzhou, is a cultured and intelligent girl. She admired Gogarin's talent and took the initiative to express her love to him.
If Qiaozhen is Gao Jialin's life, Yaping is Gao Jialin's poetry and distance. They have a common language, a common hobby, and are spiritually resonant people.
Gao Jialin hesitated between Liu Qiaozhen, a girl in the countryside, and Huang Yaping, a girl in the city, and after weighing it again and again, for the sake of his own future, he abandoned Qiaozhen and chose Huang Yaping.
Gao Jialin's abandonment of Qiaozhen is ostensibly a story of contemporary Chen Shimei, but in essence, it is a reflection on people's own value. In love, two people who can't be at the same frequency are destined not to be happy.
An extremely obvious cultural gap makes the gold-like Qiaozhen always cowardly in front of the cultural person Gao Jialin, she can't understand Gao Jialin's ideals of family and country, and can only talk to Gao Jialin about the shortcomings of the family and the trivial matters of farming.
The combination of a talented intellectual, a rural woman who has never received a cultural education, is doomed to be problematic. The beautiful and kind Qiaozhen may be able to meet Gao Garin's temporary needs under special circumstances, but she will never be the most suitable wife for Gao Garin.
As an intellectual, Gao Garin had a spiritual pursuit, and after being beaten back to the peasantry, he might choose Qiaozhen for practical needs, but this choice was only a temporary need. Once Gogarin has a choice, Qiaozhen will definitely not be his first choice.
I have to admit thatBehind Gogarin's choice is the refraction of reality by human nature.
Lu Yao wrote in "Life": "Although the road of life is long, there are often only a few steps at the critical point. ”
Gogarin made his realistic choice, but did not know the important steps in his life.
When he was bent on going to a bigger city to develop, a letter reporting that his position was not properly obtained sent him back to Gaojia Village. He had become alone again, and the girl who had bothered to comfort him at this time had been married.
"Life" is a romance with the theme of love**, it is nothing more than the mortal Gogarin's "Ordinary World".
Gogarin is selfish and abandons Qiaozhen, who loves him deeply, but his choice is a test of human nature and an instinct of human nature.
What was Gogarin's ideal?
It was to leave the identity of a peasant and go to live in the city.
He doesn't want to believe in "fate", he wants to work hard to escape from his mountain nest, once there is a gap, he will try his best to run out, even if he suffers the fate of being destroyed.
Huang Yaping is a test of Gao Jialin's humanity, and in the face of such a **, he can't help but be moved. How many times can you have such an opportunity?
Gao Jialin couldn't stand the mediocrity of his life, and wanted to use Huang Yaping's power to go to Nanjing and Beijing.
He thought about it repeatedlyI feel that he can't miss this important turning point in his life for the sake of Qiaozhen's love - this may be the turning point that determines the fate of his entire life!Not only that, but from the perspective of finding a lover alone, Yaping may also be much more ideal than Qiaozhen!”
From the perspective of realism, he must choose Yaping.
As Gao Jialin said, "Qiaozhen will not have much development in the future, except for being an excellent rural housewife." ”
In the future, I will marry Qiaozhen, and I rarely have the interest of living together;And it's hard to have a common language anymore: he thinks about writing articles, and Qiaozhen can only talk about her mother-in-law in the countryside. ”
And Yaping can not only help him, but the two also have a common topic.
Human nature is selfish, and Gogarin's choice is not wrong, but we cannot excuse Gogarin's selfishness either. He abandoned the principles of life for vanity and ended up in that fate, but what if the ending was different?
Every choice in life is a big gamble, choosing A or B is an adventure, but if you don't even have the courage to choose, wouldn't it be even more sad.