On October 11, 2012, China's first Nobel laureate in the true sense of the word was born, that is, Mo Yan, a writer of the avant-garde literary genre rooted in the land.
It is worth mentioning that his award-winning work "Breast and Fat Buttocks" had been questioned and criticized for its scale before, and Mo Yan, as the author of this book, was also criticized by many literati and Taoist defenders, so that this work was once listed as **. So, why did Mo Yan create such a work? Just how bold was he when he wrote this book?
In fact, the original intention of the creation of "Breast and Fat Buttocks" was not beautiful, and the time was turned back to 1994, when Mo Yan's mother died at the age of 72. It took Mo Yan 1 year to digest this matter, and then finally came out of his griefAnd decided to do something for the mother.
After thinking about it, he decided to write a ** to dedicate to his mother, where the mother refers to both the biological mother and the land that gave birth to Mo Yan.
With such an original intention of creation, coupled with the setting of the work, Mo Yan linked the two togethernamed his work "Breast and Fat Buttocks".
At the beginning, Mo Yan was just on the magazine "Everyone", because of the sharp writing, far-reaching ideas, and ingenious plot conception, Mo Yan won the 100,000 grand prize rewarded by the magazine. When the book was finished, Mo Yan decided to publish this **. Due to the excessive scale of the description of men and women in the book, after the book was released,What Mo Yan was waiting for was not praise, but overwhelming abuse.
It is not uncommon for literati to be light, many literary defenders say that Mo Yan is kitsch, and some people say that he is deviant, and the whole "Rich Breasts and Fat Buttocks" is like a modern and yellow version of "The Golden Bottle". May. In the end, let's start from the work itself.
The original work "Breast and Fat Buttocks" is not small, roughly more than 500,000 words, mainly around the protagonist of the ** "I" mother Shangguan Lu to unfold the plot, from Shangguan Lu 6 months to her 95 years old, the time span of the entire story line is quite long, which has gone through **, the War of Resistance, the War of Liberation to the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China and other historical periodsIt has strong practical significance.
Shangguan Lu's original name was Lu Xuan'er, born in a feudal and backward rural area at the end of the Qing Dynasty, in that era, women had to wrap their feet, and Lu Xuan'er was no exception, just turned 5 years old and wrapped her feet.
Lu Xuan'er has been very beautiful since she was a child, and her parents originally planned to let her marry into a good family, but unfortunately after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the changes in social atmosphere made people no longer optimistic about women with small feet, and Lu Xuan'er's parents had to wait for their daughter when she was 16 years oldMarry her to an ugly, frail blacksmith Shangguan who is not yet able to have children.
The blacksmith is the only male in the Shangguan family, and the whole family expects him to have a child as soon as possible, but he can't have children, so his mother blames everything on his daughter-in-law Lu Xuan'er, and often beats and scolds her.
Later, the anxious mother-in-law even only wanted her grandson, regardless of who the grandson's father was, so she came up with the trick of "borrowing seeds". With the acquiescence of her mother-in-law, Lu Xuan'er began the road of "borrowing seeds", such a thing is in the feudal countryside, everyone shouts and beats, but Lu Xuan'er can only do this under pressure, and her mother-in-law also knows it.
Lu Xuan'er gave birth to eight girls and one boy successively, a total of nine children, the fathers of these children are not blacksmith Shangguan, and the nine children have different fathers.
Let's talk about the eldest daughter and the second daughter, Lu Xuan'er was forced by her aunt and gave birth to her uncle, Lu Xuan'er named these two daughters Brother Lai and Brother Zhao respectively. From the name, it can be seen how patriarchal the Shangguan family isLu Xuan'er was under a lot of fertility pressure at that time.
Later, Lu Xuan'er gave birth to a third daughter and a foreign merchant who bought ducks, a fourth daughter and a brother of Jianghulang, and a dog meat seller gave birth to a fifth daughter, Brother Pan.
Lu Xuan'er's sixth daughter is called Nian Di, who was born to a monk. Soon after, four local soldiers coveted Lu Xuan'er's beauty, took her captive and forced her to give birth to a seventh daughter and beg for a younger brother.
Lu Xuan'er finally escaped from the clutches of the devil and met a Swedish missionary, she lived with each other, and then gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses, the sister is called Jade Girl, and the younger brother is called Golden Boy.
After much anticipation, Lu Xuan'er finally gave birth to a son, and Shangguan Jintong became the hope of the Shangguan family. Because he is a mixed-race child, the golden boy was born very handsome since he was a child, and his body is taller than ordinary people, and his brain is also very smart.
It's a pity that he has 8 sisters, and his grandmother and mother are very partial to him and even dote on him, so that he is like "Jia Baoyu". Not only that, but due to the unhealthy family growth environment, Shangguan Jintong developed a very strange sex-related fetish from a child, this habit is very suitable for the title of the original book "Breast Fat Buttocks", so it is inconvenient to go into detail here.
Ordinary people had a very hard time in the turbulent years, not to mention that Shangguan Lu had eight daughters and one son to raise, and the hardships can be imagined. On the whole, the story line of Shangguan Lu and her children is a tragedy every other way.
For example, the eldest daughter, Brother Lai, married a mute, and the mute often abused her, and Brother Lai couldn't bear to resist it, and secretly harmed the mute with others, and he was sentenced to death; The second daughter, Zhaodi, was affected by the fire and was killed by the fire; After the third daughter was forced by the dumb of her eldest brother-in-law, she jumped off the cliff in shame; In order to reduce the burden on the family, the four daughters had to be sold to the Qinglou.
The 8 daughters born to Shangguan Lu are really unfortunate in their own way, and the only one of the 9 children who survived to the end was the silver-like pewter gun head Guan Jintong. He has no talent, he can't do anything, he has been poor all his life, and the only thing worthy of praise is probably that he stayed by his mother's side until the end.
Shangguan Lu later lived to the age of 95, and in the context of the times, she could not escape the tragic fate. As a weak mother, it was very difficult for her to raise all her children in that turbulent era, but she was unable to give them good protection, so she could only watch her daughters run to a miserable fate one after another.
In 95 years, Shangguan Lu spent so long and personally experienced every important period from the old society at the end of the Qing Dynasty to the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Shangguan Lu's family has experienced 8 times that white-haired people send black-haired people, and they have seen all kinds of ridiculous and tragic things, and in the end they can still live strongly, which is admirable enough.
There is a very shocking scene in the book, that is, during the famine, Shangguan Lu swallowed all the beans in order to make room for the children, and when she returned home, she forced herself to spit out the undigested beans, wash them, and then cook them for the children to eat.
The children are hungry and cherish the beans, and the more they chew, the more they can taste the bloody taste, which is actually a metaphor for Shangguan Lu's desperate efforts to feed the children.
Focusing on Shangguan Lu's life trajectory, Mo Yan shows readers the background and changes in the situation in China in the 20th century, including his love and praise for motherhood and the motherland.
Shangguan Lu's original surname was Lu, which actually refers to Mo Yan who was born in the land of Qilu where he grew up.
Mo Yan is a typical representative of root-seeking literature and folk literature, his works are plain and powerful, always paying attention to the fate of the characters and the depth of reality, based on the background environment of that eraHis description of large-scale men and women in the book "Breasts and Fat Buttocks" does not actually make people dramatic.
There are a thousand Hamlets for a thousand readers, and different people have different understandings, not so much Mo Yan kitsch and grandstanding, but rather to pay tribute to the Confucian sages on the land of Qilu, after all, the Confucian sage once said "lust is not lewd", Mencius also said "eat lust and sex".
Whether it is feudal antiquity or enlightened modernity, the desire for "sex" is the reproductive nature of human beings engraved in their genes, and Mo Yan's bold and unabashed sexuality in his works can be understood as his desire to break through the shackles of ethical norms and return human nature to its original vitality.
When Mo Yan made this kind of writing attempt, it was not without a price. He was still in the army at the time, but as soon as "Breast and Fat Buttocks" was published, it was criticized, and even branded as a reactionary work, so Mo Yan was forced to write a review and then retired from the army.
Fortunately, this work finally won him the Nobel Prize in Literature, followed by great ** and praise, with "Breast and Fat Buttocks", Mo Yan sat directly on the altar. If you're interested, you might as well buy a copy and go home to savor it in your spare time, and take a look at the original **, today's masterpiece, what it looks like inside.