In the world of love, no one is sorry for anyone, only who does not know how to cherish whom.Ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, almost all stories are inseparable from the topic of love, it seems that there is no rendering of love, the emotions of the characters will appear thin and backbone, and the storyline will become simple and boring.
Lu Yao's famous work "Life" did not depart from this idea, and it was originally published in the third issue of "Harvest" in 1982 and won the 1981-1982 National Excellent Novella ** Award.
* Based on the urban and rural life of the northern Shaanxi Plateau during the reform period, it depicts the tortuous life experience of the male protagonist Gao Jialin, from a private teacher to a farmer, from a farmer to a communication cadre of the county party committee, and finally back to a peasant. The love entanglement between Gao Jialin and Qiao Ling in the story makes the life of the hero and heroine full of flesh and blood, with ups and downs.
Liu Qiaozhen is the second daughter of Liu Liben, the "second capable person" of Gaojia Village, who is handsome, has a beautiful, vivid face full of warm feelings, and a slender body like a poplar tree, and the key is a heart like gold.
She has her criteria for choosing a mate, she wants to find a literate young man, make up for her illiterate shortcomings, and realize her higher spiritual pursuit, she has a person in her heart, that is, Gao Jialin, a literate private primary school teacher in the village.
But Qiaozhen didn't dare to confess to Garin, she had a deep sense of inferiority in front of cultural people. In her eyes, Garin is a knowledgeable and cultured person, but she is not, she feels unworthy of Garingo, even if her family conditions are more than 10 times, or even a hundred times that of Galin's family.
All crushes have low self-esteem in their bones.
The deep inferiority complex made Qiaozhen not have the courage to face Gao Garin and confess to him, she was afraid of hearing his rejection, and even the right to have a crush on him would be deprived. She could only look at him from a distance, or hide in a remote place.
She was waiting, waiting for an opportunity to confess to him, and this kind of waiting was a kind of confused torment for Qiaozhen, she didn't know if God could give her this opportunity, and she didn't know when the opportunity would come, let alone if the wait was worth it.
Gao Jialin's son, Samsung, the son of Gao Fenglou, the secretary of Gaojia Village, replaced Gao Jialin's position as a teacher through the back door, and Gao Jialin resumed his status as a farmer. For Gao Jialin, this is a big bad thing, but for Qiao Zhen, it is a good thing, because Gao Jialin has become a farmer, she is also a farmer, their status is equal, and she feels that the opportunity has come.
Qiaozhen made all kinds of opportunities to try to approach Gogarin, and she deliberately sang Xintianyu in the place where he passed, and gave him a big melon; On the way to the county seat, he "unintentionally" ran into Gao Jialin, who had not sold the buns, and helped him return to the county seat to sell the buns.
At this time, Gogarin faced the frustration of life, lost the spirit of the past, and was like a defeated rooster, languishing. Qiaozhen saw it in her eyes and hurt in her heart, she didn't allow her beloved to suffer such an ordeal, she wanted to give him warmth and love and help him get out of the quagmire of shadows.
has been planned for a long time", so that this simple, rural girl who can see through her mind at a glance, began a love offensive against Gogarin. She loved Gogarin too much, his dashing demeanor, his manly image, her cultural temperament, and the smell of soap on his body. In her eyes, Gogarin was a perfect person. Qiaozhen had the same dream countless times, in which he held her hand and walked in the seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter.
However, the inferiority complex in her bones made her feel inferior to Gogarin, and there was always an indescribable estrangement.
Lu Yao once said: "A truly powerful feature** does not rely on the plot to win." A thrilling plot may not be written as a thrilling **. A writer's greatest talent should be to be able to interpret the huge content that makes the heart tremble in the daily life. And this intellect should be based not only on a deep understanding of life, but also on a deep insight and understanding of those lives. ”
When the cruelty of reality is intertwined with the pulse of the times, when the fate of the little people competes with the power of the big era, that kind of moving is the most real, perhaps just like Lu Yao"Life".tells us that life is always like this, and we can't be satisfied everywhere, but we still have to live passionately.
In 2018, this book was selected as the "Most Influential in the 40th Anniversary of China's Reform and Opening-up**", and we may have finished reading it"Life".is also as inspired and excited as Jack Ma was when he first watched it, but in the end he couldn't become a person who controlled his destiny like him. But we can be like"Life".In Gogarin, he turned suffering into motivation and had the courage to take a step forward in every difficult moment of his life. Unable to change your life, you learn to reconcile with it.
Reading is the best cultural investment for yourself, and when you meet a good book, you meet a better version of yourself. "Life" is recommended for you who love to read.
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