Family affection is an inexhaustible topic for us, some people use flowery words to embellish it, losing simplicity, some people use thrilling events to highlight it, lack of plainness.
Affection is common in life, but it is difficult to describe the feelings in words. If you ask me which book can record the commonplace but precious feelings, then I recommend you to see Grandpa, we see you in heaven.
In 2009, Jiang Liwen recorded the bits and pieces of herself and her grandfather in the form of a movie, and made her first film "We See You in Heaven", which recorded Jiang Liwen's private memories and won the "2009 14th Busan Film Festival Audience Favorite Film Award".
After the success of the film, Jiang Liwen published an autobiographical essay collection "Grandpa" in 2013. In 2020, the author polished the whole book, adding three new articles and an afterword, and adding old photos and personally painted illustrations from the time to launch a new version of "Grandpa, We See You in Heaven".
"Grandpa, We See You in Heaven" tells the story of an old grandpa and a young me, living together in the late 1970s, in that stormy era. My grandfather supported me to grow up, and I accompanied her through the road of life.
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There are no surprising events in the book, no twists and turns, only the simplest life and the most authentic emotions are recorded.
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The grandfather in the book is very fond of Jiang Liwen's little granddaughter, and her grandfather's love is never expressed in too many words, everything is in the details of life.
In that era when children were not considered to be very expensive, Grandpa picked up "me" every day after school. Eighty-six-year-old grandfather, standing alone at the school gate waiting for "me" to finish school, rain or shine.
In that era, there were very few families with bicycles, and in order to save time and walk less, many boys learned to pick up and down the train, and some boys' legs were broken because of the train. Grandpa was afraid that "I" would also be in such danger, and every day he urged his mother to transfer "me" to a school far away from the train tracks. At that time, parents, like grandpa, were so thoughtful and well-intentioned, almost none.
Grandpa and "I" have been together day and night for 13 years, three meals a day, Grandpa will make fragrant meals, and in winter mornings, Grandpa will greet "me" with baked hot cotton jackets and cotton pants. On summer nights, Grandpa kept fanning "me". When I made a mistake, my grandfather would also use the precept ruler to teach me, and my grandfather said, "With the precept, there is freedom." ”
Not only "I" like Grandpa, the neighbors around also like Grandpa, Grandpa's popularity is very good, every night, Grandpa's yard is lively, big guys will come to Grandpa's yard to chat, Grandpa will also let "I" show his talents.
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When people are young, they always want to grow up quickly, but when they hear that when they grow up, their ancestors should be gone, and they have concerns. We grew up slowly, and our ancestors slowly came to the end of their lives.
I remember when I was a child, I slept with my grandmother, always putting my hand under my grandmother's nose after my grandmother fell asleep, afraid that my grandmother would die.
Despite a lot of reluctance, the grandfather in the book finally left. When Grandpa left, he was tied to the bed, with an oxygen tube in his nose, his mouth wide open, coated with purple potion, and a pair of dim eyes, staring blankly at the ceiling.
Once before going out, to brush the hat clean, to paint the white shoes black with black ink, to wipe the edge of the dish clean every time you cooked a dish, a yard of flowers and plants bonsai, all clean up the neat and beautiful grandfather, and finally because of the disease incontinence, the mouth is full of purple potion, can only be tied to the bed, empty looking at the ceiling.
This is the saddest part of the book and the place where the author's childhood ends. When Grandpa is gone, it means that "my" childhood is over. For our generations of children who grew up around their grandparents, the days with the elderly are the whole life of childhood.
Jiang Liwen's grandfather
When we were young, our parents were too busy to spend time with us, and when our parents got older and wanted to compensate for our previous days, we began to be busy with our own things again. The existence of the ancestors is to let the child have an adult around him, and with the elderly, the child can really be a child, so there is a happy childhood.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="79" > your grandpa, my grandma</h1>
We always cry because of other people's stories. Because the feelings in the story are sincere and contagious, because other people's stories always have the shadow of their own lives.
When I read this book, I always think of my grandmother, the old man who loves his children and grandchildren as much as Jiang Liwen's grandfather.
My grandma likes to fan me on summer nights, likes to ask me what happened at school after I come home from vacation every week, likes to say when I write my homework: "Don't get tired of writing so many words", like to ask me after my college entrance examination", "College, not as tired as before, right?" ”
My grandmother was a "nonsense" person, and my grandmother always liked to hold my hand and say, "My niece, with small hands, is a blessed life, no need to do rough work." But as we held hands, it was obvious that my hand was a circle larger than Grandma's.
Grandma's hands were small, but they had been a lifetime of tiring work. Every time I retorted that my hands were big, she always stressed that my hands were not big, but in fact, she decided that where the hands were not big, she just didn't want me to do the tiring work.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="80" > written at the end</h1>
Many readers, including me, can't help but shed tears when they watch Grandpa, We See You in Heaven. There are no obvious tear-jerking sentences in the book, but it always feels like these words are surrounded by tear gas.
In fact, describing family affection never requires flowery words and awkward sentences, and the true feelings are the biggest touch. If you want to awaken the reader's most real tears, you must use the most sincere feelings, exchange your heart for your heart, and use your emotions to aphrodisiac. "Grandpa, We See You in Heaven" is like the movie "Hello, Li Huanying", what makes readers shed tears is not superb shooting technology, but sincere emotions.
Topics discussed in this issue:
Who did you grow up with, and can you talk about something warm?