In 2012, on the first anniversary of his father's death, the Mai family wrote "Letter to Father" with deep affection, and a year later, it was published in the supplement of Southern Weekly
The Mai family said in the letter: "Father, how can you be so patient? Father, how can you hit me like this? ”
At this time, the Mai family had forgiven his father, but his father was no longer there, and he never had the opportunity to reconcile with his father.
We all know that the Mai family has now become a popular writer, the winner of the Mao Dun Literature Award, and the well-known spy dramas such as "Decryption" and "The Sound of the Wind" are all works of the Mai family.
What we don't know is that the Mai family has been bullied in the village and school because of the problem of family composition, and when he was 12 years old, he fought with his classmates at school, three people beat him, and the teacher also pulled a fight, and beat his nose and face. The Mai family was so angry that they did not return home at night, blocking the door of a classmate's house, waiting for him to come out, ready to fight him to the death.
At this time, the father came, the Mai family thought that the father was here to avenge him, the aggrieved Mai family threw himself into the arms of the father, but what people did not expect was that the father slapped himself twice in front of the parents of his classmates!
The Mai family could not stand the bullying of others, and they could not stand their father, so they broke with their father from then on, and the Mai family never returned to their hometown.
Until the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, the Mai family drove around the street after the earthquake, and suddenly saw a father holding a little girl and crying, the Mai family suddenly woke up, what parents are not forgiven?
The Mai family decided to return to their hometown and reconcile with their father.
The greatest upbringing of man is to forgive his parents for their imperfections
It was an afternoon, the Mai family pushed open the door, saw his father sitting alone under the eaves, he opened his mouth and called out to his father, and his father looked up and asked: Who are you?
The Mai family said their nickname, but the father still asked: What about my son?
It turned out that the father had Alzheimer's disease and could no longer remember his son.
After breaking with his father for 20 years, he looked back at his father, who was already demented, and the Mai family never had another chance.
Three years later, the Mai family's father died, and in the next three years, the Mai family was almost in a state of "aphasia".
Finally, 8 years after his father's death, the Mai family wrote about his complex and subtle feelings for his father in the novel "Life Sea Sea".
Dong Qing pushed away all the hosts for the Mai family
When the sea of life had not yet held a new book launch, the Mai family had been to "Readers", read the Mai family's "Letter to the Father", and Dong Qing, who has always been intellectually elegant, could not help but burst into tears.
Two years after the "Reader" met, Dong Qing pushed away all the hosting activities for the Mai family and went to the new book launch of "Life Sea".
And this book is also given to the father by the Mai family:
He did not seek utilitarianism, slowed down, and with the perseverance and piety of ten years of grinding a sword, like striking iron, forged a successful transformation work - "Life Sea".
In the book, he portrays two fathers, one in his reality and the other as the Colonel,an ideal father.
How great is Life Sea?
Life haihai, is a Minnan dialect, describing the complex and changeable meaning of life, as broad as the sea, teaching people to live well instead of dying.
From the perspective of a small child, this work tells the life of a person who has been entangled in the era, portraying flesh and blood men, women, old people, and children.
It seems to be telling a story, but in fact, I am writing about the cruelty of life, the helplessness of fate, and the sinister nature of human nature, but in the end, I see the tenacity of life and the warmth of human nature in the book.
Watching "Alive" before, I didn't understand that the protagonist had experienced so much suffering in life, and there was obviously nothing left to be nostalgic in the world, so why should he live? Later, I found the answer in "The Sea of Life". Life is full of divine brilliance, and it is worth our praise thousands of times to dare to die, but to live require courage, and to live itself is full of divine brilliance, which is worthy of our praise thousands of times.
Dong Qing said:
"If I were to use a poem to describe how I felt after reading "The Sea of Life", it would be to look back at the place where it has always been, and there is no wind or rain or sunshine."
This is a book of reconciliation with the father, full of solemn fatherly love! At the same time, this is also an exciting book, Mo Yan also praised it after reading it, he said: Reading "Life Sea", it will make people "fascinated"!
Not only can you feel the love of your parents and reconcile with your family, but it can also make you understand that many people in this world are experiencing suffering, and what is important is that living is the greatest courage!
Such a book, when I first read it, I feel legendary, and when I read it again, I feel bitter, like a pot of spirits, the more I taste it, the more mellow it is, as if the life written in the book is myself.
The Mai family once said: "Life is not the way you lived, but the way you remember it." ”
Chinese family-style education exists in each of our families, and if you are also deeply involved in the relationship between your original family and can't figure it out, then it is recommended that you also read it.