Survival care, extreme concern and exploration of life home. The concern about survival, the vulnerable life and the spiritual home of life is another remarkable embodiment of Bi Shumin's novels' concern about life. The delicate blood is called "the medicine of bone marrow". In early summer, the soldiers who were training in the harsh natural environment in Kunlun mourned and showed great compassion for life.
Concerned about the spiritual home of life, such as the analysis of Yu Rongqiu's living environment in The Covenant of Women. As a realistic writer, Bi Shumin's novels show great concern for life. The professional characteristics and unique life experience are the main reasons for the obvious tendency of "life care" in his novels.
As a doctor, his duty is to save and care for life, and face life and death at any time, and life has become the core of his life. More importantly, she is an upright and responsible doctor.
Because of this, her career determines that her works are destined to be related to life. From the military doctor in Debut Novel, to the female chemist Zhu Duanyang in Ba Tianshi, the military doctor wandering star in Ali, Qin Sumo, a former military doctor who became a writer in Unfavorable Reunion, to Doctor Qi in Agreed Death, Doctor Yuan in Endless Life, Bi Dao in Agreed Wealth, and then to Debut Novel.
From the above analysis, we can see that the reason why Bi Shumin's novels pay so much attention to life is inseparable from her career and rich life experiences.
Caring for life, showing Bi Shumin's personality and value. When we focus on the ultimate concern for human life, Bi Shumin showed her unique personality and existence value in China literary world at the end of the 20th century. It can even be said that when we examine the humanistic care in her novels, we can say that the ultimate concern for life is the core of her humanistic care. Bi Shumin built an artistic world of "caring for life" in his own unique way. Only by grasping this "vein" that runs through his whole novel creation can we truly feel the great charm of his novels. So that her novels are neither pure neo-realism, personal writing or body writing, nor all new experience novels, military novels, nor cultural care novels. If Bi Shumin is Bi Shumin, I think it is more appropriate to look at "Life Care Novels" from her works. This is the embodiment of her unique personality and the best embodiment of her value in the literary world.
Whether it is victory or failure, whether it is tragic death or tragic life, the author has devoted her ultimate concern for people with unique connotation.
Bi Shumin's deep concern for people, from the political and moral level to the revelation of life phenomena, from his love for individuality to his love for humanity.
Second, the white image in Bi Shumin's works.
White image, infinite love for life, constant reflection.
Bi Shumin, who has been a doctor for more than 20 years, always likes to be attached to white. There are white clothes, white masks, white hats, white snow, white flowers, white hair and white powder in his works. These white images pour into the author's understanding and interpretation of life, flashing the author's care and thinking about life.
As a female writer who started her medical career at the age of 16 and has more than 20 years' medical experience, in her eyes, the white clothes, white masks and white hats used by medical staff are associated with plain life: "White is beautiful but not demon, revealing a faint chill and symbolically soothing the anxious heart of human beings." "To be a doctor, you should wear white overalls all your life and be spotless forever. Every time you put on white clothes, you enter a specific role. I need to be selfless, serious, calm as water and rigorous as calipers. " Bi Shumin mentioned white clothes, white masks and white hats many times in Red Prescription and Blood Exquisite. Whether it is the white clothes on Jane Fangning or the white masks and hats on Wei Xiaori, the author's thoughts on saving the soul or life itself are pinned.
From 1987 to now, most of Bi Shumin's novels involve health workers, nurses or doctors related to white clothes, white masks and white hats, as well as the vast northern Tibetan plateau.
The snow in the northern Tibetan plateau is dedicated to the white flowers of young life who died in cold and lack of oxygen, which gives us more understanding of life.
In the long winter, the thick snow in the northern Tibetan plateau tells the story of a holy soul's tragic death in the snow. In Mourning of the Kunlun Mountains, one vivid life disappears in the snowy plateau in order to realize some people's personal wishes. Here, the author shows his extreme concern for life through Zheng Weiliang's doubts about training and his final reflection on the first day:
Zheng Weiliang couldn't stop, and his thoughts were like a river: "Besides, the primitive marching way of shouldering grass like this can't even guarantee its own supply. How much fighting power can it have?" It can only blur people's understanding of modern warfare, thinking that with spirit, they can win the battle. In fact, the materiality of war is extremely direct. Suffering is not an end, but a means to victory. I dare say that if the Red Army had fur shoes, they would never cross Jin Jia Mountain in sandals. Isn't it against the will of our ancestors to abandon this essence and talk about copying suffering itself? It is precisely to prevent future generations from suffering that the Red Army itself has been honed by non-people. In this sense, it is a betrayal of tradition to simply pursue suffering and ignore the value of military life. "
Judging from the situation at that time, Zheng Weiliang's "attack" on No.1 was a betrayal of the commander or a challenge to "obedience is the first duty of soldiers". Therefore, even after his death, the commander could not forgive Zheng Weiliang for "attacking" his personal will, so that he and Xiao Yulian could not fall in love after his death. But it was through him that he expressed the author's special treasure for a soldier's life, which was an extreme concern for life.
There is a passage at the end of the work:
The tomb, that's-those numbers? They stepped down from the commander's statistics and became so ferocious and terrible in this dark night that they opened their mouths and swallowed up those young lives.
Number one stood alone in the cemetery, feeling the uncontrollable sadness. Don't publish it in the newspaper, don't get promoted, don't compete with this military cap, just fill up this towering mound and let the ground freeze as hard as steel again. ...
Here, through the reflection on No.1, it shows the author's obvious ideological tendency and strong awareness of life care.
Obviously, the author tries to express his ultimate concern for life through the torture of life and soul death in the snow. As an image, "snow" covers the author's full understanding of the value of life at that time.
White flowers are synonymous with garlands. Among snowflakes, white flowers are a unique image.
These white images present the "white" environment in which the author lived for many years, and show the author's love, praise and worship for life.
Thirdly, the concept of dignity embodied in Bi Shumin's works.
Everyone should have dignity, so what is the basis of personal dignity? This is a question that Bi Shumin constantly explores in his creation. Some people regard their high status as the capital of dignity, while others try to buy their dignity with money and never work hard on inner cultivation. Life is only once for a person, and it is the most precious. Cherish and love life. Only by pursuing the meaning of life can talents value the value of the spiritual world so much. The value of the concept of dignity embodied in Bi Shumin's works is precisely to promote people's spiritual pursuit, while paying attention to the foundation on which the concept of dignity depends, that is, caring for life. "Self-esteem means that you respect yourself. As long as you don't fall, others can push you to the ground, but this can't stop you from standing up with dust and bruises. " Yu Rongqiu in The Covenant of Women is extremely eager for dignity. Because of her indiscretion in life, she is nicknamed "caravan" and will not be respected by people. In order to regain her dignity, when the factory was caught in a "triangle debt" and everyone's wages could not be paid, she volunteered and finally recovered the factory's creditor's rights by various means. For this credit, the only reward she asked for was to hope that the factory director could bow to herself in front of full-time staff and give her back her dignity. Here, Yu Rongqiu's understanding of dignity focuses on his image in the eyes of others and the social evaluation of himself. But such self-esteem can only be desire, not real self-esteem. She doesn't know real self-esteem. She tried her best to get a good word from others but couldn't get it, so her tragic ending and pity were obvious. Bi Shumin's image of longing for dignity left us with deep thoughts.
To be sure, Bi Shumin paid persistent and profound attention to human dignity in his creation. Dignity is so important to people, so what is the essence of dignity in Bi Shumin's works? Boasting can be summarized as two points: first, dignity is spiritual satisfaction different from material enjoyment, not the primary demand for money and material things. Second, respect lies in self-evaluation and social evaluation. Only by combining the two can we have perfect self-esteem, and the dignity and strength of personality is the real dignity. In today's conflict between dignity and life, modern people will make a rational evaluation. This may be the unique significance of Bi Shumin's literary creation.
Fourthly, the attitude towards death in Bi Shumin's works.
Death is the end of life, a wordless ending.
Death is the ultimate glory and sublimation of life.
No one can escape death, and "Long live" is impossible.
Death is the most basic life form, which embodies the sadness and helplessness of life. As a life problem closely related to survival, death also entrusts various attitudes towards life. Only when you are aware of death can you live consciously. Therefore, a writer who is too sensitive to death must have extraordinary persistence in survival. In fact, Bi Shumin has been talking about life, and it is her complete approach to death that expresses her understanding of life. In particular, she set the characters in a special background, let them face all kinds of entanglement and torture of death, show the dynamic process of birth, struggle and destruction of life, and think about human existence with a brave and philosophical attitude. Behind the display of life and death forms, Bi Shumin's poetic yearning for the existence of life and eternal questioning of the meaning of existence flowed.
The life and death of individual life is sad, especially when there is a strong conflict between the cruelty of death and the beauty of life, the strong tragic significance of life itself is self-evident. Bi Shumin is a sensitive and delicate person. She can always see the misfortune and embarrassment of life from trivial things, and then explore the ultimate meaning of survival. Life is Endless is a novel full of philosophical meaning. Joe, a female worker, learned that her daughter had a brain tumor in a chat with Dr. Guan, so the ordinary couple went all out to snatch her daughter, but the treatment failed. After experiencing the pain of losing her daughter, Qiao Zhuxian consumed her tired body and gave birth to a new life ... This sad story, besides vivid and touching description, has a deeper meaning and touches a philosophical theme-life. If there is no death, there will be natural life, and if there is no life, there will be no death. Life and death are fundamentally two sides of the same body. We admit that death makes life more hasty and short. However, death is not nothingness, but a sign of life. Just like the natural cycle, people's life goes on and on, death is completed and they start again. Just like Joe, while experiencing the approaching death, he also feels the process of his own rebirth. The arrival of a newborn undoubtedly represents the continuous continuation of the life process. It is in this sense that Bi Shumin expressed the philosophical significance of life about life and death.
In fact, since its birth, life has been pulled by two forces from inside and outside life, which can not only promote the growth of life, but also pose a threat to life. Kunlun Jue is a metaphor for this way of life. The author sets the background of the story in the ultra-left era, an era when diseases that do not respect science, life and seeking truth from facts are rampant. Sacrifice is sanctified under the high-sounding slogan, knowing that progress is death, but we can't help but move forward, because retreat means humiliation that can't be erased for life. Life is disturbed by harmful external forces, and people have to obey. So we saw this scene:
In the plateau permafrost region at an altitude of 5,000m, China soldiers walked in the freezing cold of minus 40 degrees Celsius. Their materials are extremely poor, they don't have the necessary cold protection equipment, and they are even artificially hungry. And this original March is just because "No.1" and "Ni Junmao" are competing for the high and low! It's just that "No.1" wants to create a coordinate that others can't surpass in the military region! Just to pursue a sense of heroism that ignores interests and even fanaticism! However, this kind of behavior that is not afraid of death and does not attach importance to science cannot inspire any sense of heroism today. Even then, "No.1" didn't get the idea of a hero. Because he involves a proposition: meaning. The uniqueness of the "number one scholar" is that it can decide the fate of many people. With the death of a large number of young people, the status of number one has improved. With the disappearance of impulse, the conscience of human nature stood up. It tortured "No.1" with a huge grave: Is this the meaning of death? For those young people, when they enthusiastically pursue their ideals and create a life, but they are exhausted and exhausted, it is meaningless to find that the whole process is just a game they don't know, because they don't get any happy returns from the pursuit. What will accompany the awakening? It can be seen that "Mourning of Kunlun" is not only accusing the extreme left, but also praising those lovely lives. This is a huge metaphor, a metaphor about human existence.
Although life is full of shortcomings, people must live tenaciously. So what is the highest state of being alive? Perhaps the story told by the author has some enlightenment for us: a beautiful woman is eager to end her life after suffering from an incurable disease. "I really can't stand it ... I can't let my meaninglessness ... I can only use it to feel pain ..." The female patient set a warm scene for her death: on a bright spring evening, the air was filled with fluffy sneezing pollen. After a day of exposure, the birch forest was wet and blue. The patient's only requirement is to keep his face beautiful when he is euthanized. This woman is happy, because she can freely choose the time and way of life or death, she is accompanied by the warmth of love, and her heart is always feeling the beauty of life. And isn't that what many writers lack in their works? Tolerance, kindness, sincerity, respect and abundance are enough to make life look dazzling.
Our nation is a nation lacking death education, but it knows neither death nor life. Bi Shumin appreciates death and life, which shows her deep humanitarian feelings.
Therefore, "death", like "suffering" and "love", has become an eternal deductive theme for writers. It is a stage where writers and works show their strengths and weaknesses.
Tolstoy said: "Art is created to convey the feelings you have experienced to others." ③ As a young mother, a frontier fighter and a medical worker for many years, Bi Shumin "experienced emotion" and "transparently" revealed revolutionary pride, military style, historical scars, predicament, dignified attitude, broken heart, continuation of life and many other implications through his meditation on death in his life consciousness. This is undoubtedly the writer's subjective experience and unique feeling gained by going deep into the noisy and turbulent social life.
Bi Shumin changed from a sincere and delicate woman writer to a wise and profound scholar. During this period, she understood life, and then realized that the trajectory and imprint of life were quite distinct in her works. What rises between the lines is the perception and philosophy of life, which gives readers aesthetic pleasure and profound enlightenment. With the unique sensitivity of female writers, she expressed her feelings about life in her works and expounded her outlook on life and women. It shows the persistent pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty and unique creative style.