"Chicken Cry in the Middle of the Night" is a fragment from the autobiographical novel "Gao Yubao" by military writer Gao Yubao. With sharp brushstrokes, the author reveals an example of the cruel exploitation of poor peasants by the landlord class in the old society, which is a microcosm of the society at that time.
Recently, many self-media people have questioned "Chicken Crying in the Middle of the Night" and even the entire work "Gao Yubao" on many self-media platforms. There is a great mountain rain that wants to fill the building with wind, and it holds a completely negative attitude.
The voice of doubt is mainly manifested in the following three aspects: First, the chicken has a life clock, and it will certainly not bark until the hour; Second, at night, the long-term workers can't work on the ground, and they still don't hoe the crops and seedlings when it's pitch black? The third is to question whether it is an autobiographical body, it must be a reproduction of the real facts, and should not be fictional.
The above three major questions seem to be very reasonable at first glance, and they have attracted a lot of admiration on the Internet. In fact, this is all done by some people who have not gone deep into life and know very little about rural life. Specific cases that can occur under certain conditions that can change people's perceptions are ignored.
Can a man deliberately and artificially attract a rooster to sing before midnight? The answer is yes. As long as you have had the experience of rural life, you must know that every Chinese New Year's Eve night, people are accustomed to keeping the first day of the first lunar month. At this time, the whole village was noisy, people playing cards and laughing, and fireworks and firecrackers continued. Every now and then, amid the noise of the people, the rooster would impatiently start chirping an hour and a half earlier. For example, if some farmers do red and white weddings until the middle of the night, the rooster will crow early. This is all caused by the artificial disturbance of the animal life clock. From this point of view, the argument that the rooster cannot artificially make a noise is obviously untenable, and can only be regarded as a delusion of lack of practical experience.
The phenomenon that people under the moonlight are still being labored by the star and the moon is not only in the past, but still exists now (the idiom of the moon by the star also explains everything). During the Great Leap Forward in the late fifties and early sixties, it was common for peasants to work late at night, when a wind of orders blew in the countryside and cadres gave orders. In the moonlight, people harvest harvest, cultivate the land, send fertilizer, and farmers born in the 1940s have had this experience. Even at the beginning of the reform and opening up in the 1980s, it was common for experienced old farmers to change some agricultural work to cooler nights to avoid the hot summer. It can be seen that saying that if you can't work in the field at night, you will hoe off the crop seedlings, which is just a kind of speculation of some idle people in the city who are not diligent and do not distinguish between grain and grain, which is simply nonsense.
Finally, there is the question of "autobiographical" and " autobiographical novels " . From the relevant literary common sense, it is not difficult to see that these are two different concepts. "Autobiography" belongs to the biography, which must be a reproduction of the facts of the past, and cannot be fictional; The "autobiographical novel" is a literary and artistic work, and since it is a literary and artistic work, it must take into account readability. In fact, in telling their own personal experience, some artistic processing can be carried out, and the work can be sublimated through re-creation and the readability of the work can be enhanced. To put it bluntly, biography must be a reproduction of facts; autobiographical fiction can carry out the necessary artistic processing. To equate an autobiographical novel with a personal autobiography is obviously contrary to the minimum literary common sense. The "autobiographical novel" cannot be fictionalized and cannot be established.
Some people are very fond of nitpicking, and even some basic common sense problems dare to talk about things without a clear understanding. Isn't this loud magnifying debate a bit too much? Or whether there is another purpose for existence is unknown.
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