On the broad background of nearly ten years, the author portrayed the images of many ordinary people from all walks of life through complicated contradictions and entanglements. Labor and love, frustration and pursuit, pain and joy, daily life and huge social conflicts are intricately intertwined, which profoundly shows the difficult and tortuous road that ordinary people have taken in the historical process of the great era.
It is a realistic novel and a fictionalized family history. The writer highly concentrated the historical changes in the rural areas of northwest China, and his works achieved a high degree of unity of ideology and artistry, especially the hero's spirit of hard struggle in the face of difficulties, which still inspires today's college students and friends. This is a novel that shows the contemporary urban and rural social life in China in a panoramic way.
Lu Yao's story revolves around Sun Yuhou's family. The older generation worked hard but could not change their embarrassed life, which represented the situation of the plowman who grew up in China in the old days. Tian Futang and Sun Yuting, cadres at the township level, are attached to the power control of the rural school village and cannot adjust their mentality for a long time;
The impact and transformation experienced by industrious and simple cultivators in China's vast land were particularly profound before and after the Cultural Revolution. For young people who have the opportunity to accept new ideas, we are confused and eager for painful experience. The experience of life makes it impossible for us to leave a place so easily and face the fresh world without any burden.
The responsibility we have to shoulder makes us feel warm and practical in this chaotic world. So in the end, Shao Ping returned to Daya Bay, the place where he struggled and paid deep affection. He was eager to leave and devote himself to a wider world, but the outside world reminded him that the future he could grasp was in this black landscape.
As the protagonists of two main love lines in the book, brother Shao An and brother Shao Ping distinguish the choices and circumstances of two generations of young people. The love between Shao 'an and Runye's childhood friends was separated by the ditch between the city and the countryside. In China people's inherent thought of being suitable for each other, Shao 'an chose Xiulian, and Runye finally married Li Xiangqian, whom she didn't love.
But I have to say that life is wonderful. If it weren't for this choice, Shao An wouldn't have met Xiulian, who loves her deeply. Her appearance seems to be only to give the family the hope of rebirth. Despite the twists and turns, her contribution has given us a bumper harvest. Then her mission ended, and lung cancer became her final destination.
On the other hand, look at Runye. Her painful marriage took a turn for the better after the amputation in an accident. She suddenly realized the responsibilities entrusted to her by life, and in the process of supporting the whole family, she was reborn. Shao Ping's road to love was born in the awakening of his thoughts: he became attached to Tian Xiaoxia because of his thirst for knowledge, and after several years, he gave the two young people room to grow up.
Meeting again gave them a chance to re-examine this relationship, and they were no longer young teenagers. Their mental maturity enabled them to maintain this same relationship, and the disparity in identity could not stop their harmonious souls. But all the beauty ended in Tian Xiaoxia's sudden death. It was a love that had a beginning but lacked an end.
Others, such as Hao Hongmei, his first lover, turned to Gu Yangmin for an urgent change of life situation but failed to get the result she wanted, while Jin Xiu, whom Gu Yangmin loved, fell in love with his setting. As the book says, life seems to have gone an incredible circle. Their sister Lan Xiang's success in school and love completed the gradual process of the three brothers and sisters.
She had the opportunity to receive higher education and the latest ideas, found a balance between rural people and urban people, broke through the concept of being suitable for each other, and began to have a happy ending of love. We can clearly see two words in these emotional processes: rebirth.
The change of the times has given young people a chance to subvert the old world. In the process of moving forward from Shao 'an to Shao 'ping and then to Lan Xiang, the traces of subversion are getting heavier and heavier. In the seemingly peaceful but turbulent years, the demands of the new generation are naked. We need to change. But how to change, not blindly pursuing self is the truth.
The end of the marriage between Du Lili and Wu Huiliang may be a warning. We blindly pursue the satisfaction of self-spirit, immerse ourselves in the antagonistic relationship between body and spirit in an attempt to find a balance point, abandon responsibility and family, and only satisfy ourselves. At this point, the encounter between Du Lili and Gu Lingfeng is actually more like fireworks in the new era, which is fierce but quickly burned out.
However, the existence of Gu Lingfeng also has his special value. The changes in the creative style and content of the new generation of literati he represents, especially poets, are no longer rooted in the land, and it is of great significance to attack the writing techniques more fiercely.
It is of great significance in the post-Cultural Revolution era, but how to adjust the gap between the rapidly changing society and their own mentality of seeking change is very important. Perhaps this is what the author hopes to warn everyone through Gu Ling Feng.
Extended materials:
Ordinary World and Ordinary World are three novels with a million words written by China writer Lu Yao. This novel is a panoramic representation of China's contemporary urban and rural social life, which was first published in December 1986.
The language of the novel is simple and heavy, permeated with the writer's strong emotional color. In the smooth story narration, the finishing touch of the meaning and value of life often appears, such as: "Life is an endless struggle! Only when you choose your goals and feel that your efforts have not been wasted in your struggle, will your life be full and your spirit will always be young. "
"It is in this kind of suffering that human vitality becomes stronger. Think about it, when the desert and wasteland eliminated most plants with its harsh natural conditions, the beautiful red willow like a girl and the strong burdock like a warrior grew tenaciously
so passionate poets didn't get tired of singing and praising them! These words of wisdom are all written by the pen and come naturally. They are even remembered by many readers and become their life guides.
Resources: Baidu Encyclopedia-Ordinary World