"Books and Far Away" submissions | "Ping An Batch" to see the responsibility - reading "Ping An Batch" has a feeling

"When there is an emergency and danger, some people go to the soup to fight the fire. When the nation is in danger, some people are loyal to the country. When carrying a heavy burden, someone bows to the fullest. When the road is not seen, someone breaks the drink! This is a lyric in "The Song of Responsibility", which is exactly the performance of the protagonists in the Peace Criticism, and the essence of responsibility.

"Ping An Batch" depicts a history of the struggle of Chaoshan overseas Chinese merchants to "go to Nanyang". Zheng Mengmei went to Nanyang alone to revitalize the family business, and "Ping An Batch" became his life's work. In the novel, those Simple and unpretentious Chaoshan women who work hard and complain, and the Chaoshan Hanzi who have left their hometowns and run into Nanyang, watch over each other, uphold their original intentions, honesty and responsibility, and jointly protect their spiritual homeland.

I am deeply interested in Chaoshan culture, and through the "Ping An Batch", I have a deeper understanding of the helplessness of the Chaoshan people in that era, and admire the feelings and character of Zheng Mengmei who do not forget their original intentions and have the courage to take responsibility. The core of Ping An Batch is the contract and credit of the "foreign style" written down with a brush, the "Chinese heart" and "family and national conditions" that always beat with emphasis on love and righteousness; the core of Chaoshan culture is the tenacity and nostalgia of Chaoshan people, and the cohesive feelings of home and country.

"Since childhood, I have known that there is a kind of family letter called 'Ping An Batch'... Man is therefore divided into two kinds, one is the person who sends the peace batch, and the other is the person who waits for the peace batch. ”

The original intention and responsibility of those who wait for the peace batch is to wait for the hardships and hardships of death, and to guard the common home for the wanderers who are working outside: "Most of the women's husbands have gone to Nanyang... Women and children are often left in the village. Due to the large number of people and the small number of land, coupled with the frequent occurrence of wind and rain, it is up to men to regularly send money and silver from abroad to survive. "Nothing can be done but wait at home." When I received a peace letter, the stone in my heart fell to the ground."

The original intention and responsibility of the people who send the peace batch is to struggle no matter how hard it is, to send the hard-earned money and peace to the relatives, the history of entrepreneurship, the love of children and the dream of the family and the country are intertwined in this way, and the homeland, nostalgia, and responsibility are like this.

The original intention and responsibility of the Chaoshan people are particularly evident in the "Shen Batch Museum": In 1958, Zheng Mengmei, who was more than seventy years old, insisted on returning to China to "run a small museum related to fan batch", "In her later years, Mengmei went to the countryside and visited the countryside in the form of a most ordinary batch of feet, and many of the original Shen batch and dead batch were saved in the end." ”

The mission of Zheng Mengmei is to find the corresponding recipients for the Sink Batch, because "the number one rule of the overseas Chinese batch industry is that the senders and approvers cannot be allowed to suffer losses, and they have to maintain the credibility of the industry at the cost of ruining their families." This kind of responsibility, how intimate, how heavy, how admirable! As a senior overseas Chinese critic, Zheng Mengmei also accurately felt that the overseas Chinese batch industry would soon be replaced, and tried every means to establish the "Museum of Shen Batch during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression", which made great contributions to the successful application of more than 200,000 overseas Chinese archives and became the "World Memory Heritage", which is a far-sighted responsibility and feeling.

Author: Su Lin, Guangzhou Public Utilities Technician College