"Seeing" is a summary of Chai Jing's ten years of working life, and it is also her true voice on the events around her during these ten years. Because she is a CCTV reporter, she can participate in reporting on national events immediately.
This is a book that is specific to "people", because behind every story are living people, and everyone's story is not what we see. The people behind many stories have unspeakable truths.
Chai Jing uses her female perspective to show us the sadness behind every news event! Her words don't have much truth, they are basically the true restoration of the events and the truth behind them.
Chai Jing said this in "Seeing": I did not deliberately choose landmark events, nor did I have the ambition to depict history. Among the large number of news reports, I only chose to leave me with strong feelings. Because of my work, I happened to meet these people. They are flowing, overflowing from the stone dam deep in my heart, and the hard stereotypes and patterns are washed away over and over again, teetering and falling apart. This shaking is dangerous, but the nature of thought is restlessness.
I try to write down the facts and causes and effects of constant mistakes, constant overthrows, constant questions, and constant reconstruction as honestly as possible. A country is made up of people, and a person is also made up of countless others. What do you want? To report on a country, you must report on yourself.
The article captures some familiar things from many events. The stories behind these events make you feel sore when reading each story. You can’t help but sigh about life and feel lucky! Because you are not the person involved, because you have not had that experience! So I can’t say that I feel the same way, but at least it makes you feel that it is not so easy to read. In other words, some stories and some people are actually ourselves, because we have never seen ourselves. We always like to see other people and really see ourselves, and I think that's another scene.
In the past ten years, there have been reports of SARS, the Wenchuan earthquake, the two sessions, the Beijing Olympics, etc. She can be found at almost every major event. Smog in hometown, Yao Jiaxin case, domestic violence incident, juvenile suicide incident, etc. Some seemingly ordinary individuals are particularly important in her eyes.
Every story in her article really happened. Because of her identity, her interviews are all from the heart, which makes us feel even more that this is a real person, a great CCTV reporter, A resilient woman with a strong but energetic soul living in her thin body.
When the author saw with his own eyes the people who died from SARS right in front of him. She couldn't bear it because she found that doctors and nurses, in particular, really have a "spirit of sacrifice."
Those who have not personally experienced SARS cannot understand the horror. At that time, when the media reported it publicly, the whole country was filled with tension. We will strengthen supervision of suspected cases in all public places, and disinfection work will be repeated every day. As a student, of course I had to face school closures. Fortunately, at that time, high school students already lived on campus. But when people at home come to see it, they can only look through the iron gate of the school.
Anyone with a fever and cough will be immediately isolated, and even one person in the class will cause disruption. Because the chance of surviving such a disease is very small, at least that's what I thought at the time.
After the author’s personal experience and on-the-spot reporting, she saw life and death happening right under her nose. It's not regrettable, just extremely helpless, and a little scared and lost. When she saw some doctors, she sent her husband the last message: You need to be well! Then he lost his young life. She herself was in endless pain.
I feel the blood vessels, this is the most primitive thing. To live is to live. Amidst all the calamity, this warm beat is alive.
Whether it was SARS or the Wenchuan earthquake, we were all lucky to have survived. Because our hearts are still beating, we can see too many separations of life and death through TV, and we can feel the heartbreaking pain of losing loved ones.
When she was about to interview homosexuals, she asked senior researcher Zhang Beichuan: "Why does our society not accept homosexuals?" He said: "Because in our sexual culture, reproduction is regarded as sex. The purpose is to regard ignorance as purity, ignorance as virtue, and prejudice as principle.
She concluded thoughtfully after listening: Love should be the attitude of one soul towards another soul, not one. The reaction of an organ to another organ.
The article describes a homosexual who went to see a doctor because he said he was gay, but the hospital refused to accept him because this is not acceptable by tradition. Most of them live in darkness. In the corner, most of them have become as timid as mice, and it seems that the world is ruthlessly abandoning them.
Maybe as society progresses, it may slowly accept such people, but it may take time.
Another one is the in-depth investigation behind the Yao Jiaxin case, which allows us to have a more realistic understanding of why Yao Jiaxin brutally killed a helpless woman.
It turned out that he was just afraid that his father would know that he had hit someone with his car.
Because he has lived under his father's arrangements and majesty since he was a child, his heart is extremely fragile!
Through the author's report, we found that Yao Jiaxin is not the heinous bad guy mentioned on the Internet, nor is he a person who often does unscrupulous things. In fact, this time seemed to be the only and last time he did something wrong.
As the author said in the book: In fact, there are no good people and bad people in this world, only people who have done good things and people who have done bad things.
The Yao Jiaxin case has passed, and he himself has been punished by law. There is one detail that needs to be added. When Yao Jiaxin asked to donate his organs after his death, his father refused because he did not want his son's sin to implicate others. This is actually the pressure of public opinion.
Man is a complex animal. There are both good and bad elements in human nature. If we have to say good people and bad people, we can only say that he is a good person or a bad person at this time. There are many elements. One moment he is a good guy, and the next moment he may be a bad guy.
Many people in these numerous incidents cannot simply be labeled as good people and bad people.
When faced with unbearable domestic violence, the woman responded hysterically, destroying the life of her once-loving partner. They are a vulnerable group, and they are safeguarding their rights and interests. It was only one mistake that ruined their future.
Many women are enduring domestic violence because it seems that it is natural for men to hit women. And for women to resist, it seems to be a joke. Looking at it now, there are many such phenomena, but women now know more about protecting themselves.
In fact, when we face these helpless and helpless faces, we can choose to be tolerant or intolerant. In short, you still need to make your own judgment.
Chai Jing said: The basis of tolerance is understanding. Do you understand? Tolerance is not morality, but awareness. Only by deeply understanding things can we understand and appreciate the complexity of people and the world, and have the habit of thinking not to easily blame or praise.
We are not experiencers, so when we face the event itself, we cannot follow others' opinions, and we cannot judge from the moral high ground. Because what you may see is only the surface, and the invisible reality is the most important. Therefore, we must learn to have our own opinions, let alone listen to rumors, be a wise man, and be a person who learns to "see"!
Chai Jing said: People actually turn their backs to death and live backward day by day. Everyone is going to die, but something needs to be kept alive inside, and recording it in writing is the process of awakening this inner world.
I think "Seeing" is a monologue in which the author constantly awakens his own heart! Her writing is authentic and the stories from her interviews are even more authentic.
The most important thing is that this true story and true words shock our hearts! Maybe what you want from reading is this kind of "empathy", what you want is the truth behind the truth!
Each of us lives in this world, and no one can be just a bystander. What others endure, I must endure. The people and things you see in the book are their lives, as well as yours and mine.
See the world, see others, and even more see yourself!