It's a little unexpected to read Liang's "The Awakening of the World" these days. I have read Liang's works for more than ten years. The book Human Awakening is a collection of Liang's essays. Reading "Human Awakening" awakened many emotions.
Liang, a favorite writer in college. I still remember that when I first entered the university, I had never seen such a big library and so many extracurricular books. I read Liang's works for the first time and I like them very much. I don't remember clearly what I was reading at that time, except that Liang's works in the library were all read at one go. Although I don't remember the works I have read, the name of "Liang" is still on my favorite writer list.
The child asked me, when will I feel old? I think it's time for nostalgia. My first impression of The Awakening of the World is "nostalgia". I see. I like the cover of "Wake Up in the World" very much. It looks like kraft paper and has a sense of the times. Take off the book cover, revealing a big red cover, just touched by the sense of the times, suddenly pulled out by red.
Perhaps I have read too many children's books and read the red cover of Awakening on Earth, which feels like reading the cover of a picture book. When the whole book was spread out, what I saw was the word "Awakening the World", which was left and right, not a complete font. There is also a bookmark attached to the book, which is also an incomplete "Awakening on Earth". One red and one nostalgic color, with the words "half fireworks, half happiness, half sober, half relieved", seems to have a deeper touch on this book.
The book "Awakening in the World" is also a relatively rare binding type, much like the book used to keep a diary when I was a child. Text typesetting has a unique appearance. Very suitable for leisure time, open a page at will and read on with the content. The text of Human Awakening contains some memories of Liang and his understanding of the world. In nostalgia, it has the characteristics of a new era.
Liang wrote many stories about his mother, father and brother in this book "Human Awakening". From these past events, we can see his growing environment.
Becoming a writer depends on Liang's mother. Liang's mother read stories to her children since she was a child and showed him the original literature. The scene of his mother sitting under the lamp telling stories to the children warmed his heart. Suddenly, I understood what Songzhou called "the seed of happiness". The way adults read to their children and snuggle together will really plant the seeds of happiness in their hearts.
Liang's mother's education level is not high, and she tells mostly folk stories, which makes Liang have an initial love for literature. Later, his brother read him the story in the book. My brother's reading method is very different from my mother's. But I was deeply impressed by Liang. Words and stories, at that time, gave Liang great spiritual comfort.
Perhaps a book we are reading to children now has also planted the seeds of literature for them.
When I was a teenager, I had my own temper. For what happened when he was young, Liang explained it in The Awakening of the World.
When he was a teenager, he felt inferior because of poverty. His body is always dirty, his hair is always messy, his mother is busy with work, he has to take care of his younger brother and sister at school, and his academic performance is not satisfactory. What is even more disturbing is that his class teacher also has opinions on him.
What impressed me about Awakening in the World was that the teacher suspected that he had deliberately failed to finish his homework and criticized him in front of his classmates. In fact, Liang didn't write on purpose, but accidentally misread the pages, but the class teacher insisted that Liang did it on purpose. Angry Liang picked up the red ink and chalk on the table and fell to the ground. Because of the class teacher Liang, I was tired of learning at that time.
Fortunately, Liang's Chinese teacher gave him warmth when he was a teenager. The Chinese teacher gave him a haircut, which discovered his storytelling ability and gave him the opportunity to exercise his storytelling ability. Under the guidance of the Chinese teacher, Liang's study has improved and his grades have also improved.
How to deal with the contradiction between adults and children will have a great influence on children. Obviously, this class teacher handles things more emotionally than from the child's point of view. Alexandra H. Solomon, an American psychologist, found her daughter cheating while playing games with her daughter, but she didn't expose it, but guided her children to feel the bad emotions caused by cheating. Driven by emotion, Alexandra H. Solomon's daughter realized that cheating made her uncomfortable and apologized to her mother. The practice of Alexandra H. Solomon is worth learning from Mr. Liang, the class teacher.
Adults often have the impulse to "educate" their children. It takes great wisdom of adults to get along with children. It is unfair to treat children differently like Liang's class teacher. Fortunately, however, there was a Chinese teacher who cared about Liang.
Life is like this. We will meet different people and different things will happen. It is a kind of luck for children to meet people who can really see themselves.
In Wake Up, Liang not only wrote a story with his parents and brother, but also wrote a story with his son to make him look like a father.
Interestingly, Liang thinks he is a selfish father. When she first learned that her wife was pregnant, Liang didn't want the baby to be born, and even told her that she didn't want to be a father before the age of 35. As a result, his wife was angered, and Liang seemed unwilling to be a father.
When Liang became a father, he didn't pay much attention to his son. Liang didn't feel guilty until he saw his son bitten by mosquitoes for thirty or forty bags, so he quickly went to buy mosquito nets. On weekdays, Liang spends a lot of time on his writing. In the matter of being a father, Liang gave the feeling that there is still a lot of room for growth. Compared with children, their own works may be insignificant. As a father, it is more important to educate his children well, which is the responsibility to his son and society.
I admire Liang's frankness when he wrote about his interaction with his son in "The Awakening of the World". Few people will admit that they are selfish to their children. We always say that we love children very much. But the reality is that our care for children may not be as good as Liang's care for his son. When we have different identities, from single to parents, our responsibilities will increase a little. How to deal with this change of identity may be something we need to think about.
It's hard for a person to wake up in the world. Reading soberly in the world can bring some thoughts about life. Liang wrote his own story and other people's stories in Awakening on Earth. And we, while reading The Awakening of the World, read other people's stories and recall our own experiences. In life, keep a rare sober.
I'm Xiaomi Mu. I have two children and I like reading.