"Four Generations Together" tells the story of the four generations of the Qi family and their neighbors in the Xiaoyangquan Hutong in Beiping, and is the representative of different classes in that war-torn era at that time, and their lives are also the lives of people in that era. After reading this book, I can better understand what life was like in that era, and today I will walk into the life of qi Ruixuan, the male number one of this book.
Huang Lei plays Qi Ruiquan
Qi Ruixuan is the eldest son of the Qi family, he is gentle and elegant, talented, and at the same time he also carries the heavy responsibility of the fourth generation of the Qi family, so when Peiping was just occupied by the Japanese, when qi Ruiquan (the third son of the Qi family) was preparing to flee From Beiping, he chose to shoulder the responsibility of the family and give up the national righteousness, Ruiquan said to the old man Qian Moyin: "The eldest brother ruixuan is so thoughtful and capable, but he is tired of the family and cannot escape!" "At this time, the eldest brother was quite charismatic, and we saw his sense of responsibility and the noble discipline and patriotism. He instructed the third brother: "Just take some money!" Still carry, carry, your pure heart, always carry. "We can still see that although Da Ruixuan chose the family, Ruixuan still understands the great righteousness. At this time, the eldest brother is still worthy of admiration.
"Four Generations Together" drama
But with the development of time, the true face of Japan has gradually emerged. Except for the few soul sellers in the hutongs, the people in the hutongs became traitors and lived better and better (of course, the retribution should be carried out later). The rest of the people wanted to be in a quiet corner but were disturbed by one tragedy after another, first of all, the Qian family, because of Guan Xiaohe's whistle-blowing, Mr. Qian Moyin was imprisoned, Mr. Qian's son also died of illness one after another, and the Qian family was a respectable scholarly family who kept their duties, and the family was broken. Then there is Xiao Cui, who pulls the cart, is wrongfully turned into an assassin and beheads and dies. Xiao Wen and his wife and Tong Fang were killed by the explosion. Qi Tianyou, Qi Ruixuan's father, after being humiliated by the Japanese, committed suicide by jumping into the river. What was Qi Ruixuan doing at this time? Even if these tragedies happen one after another, Qi Ruixuan is just thinking, he wants to escape, he wants to escape from Beiping like the third brother or make a big fuss, but he is just thinking, being a thinking giant, he has not acted for a long time, when the second brother becomes a traitor, it is just a simple scolding, he still has unrealistic illusions. As another person in the novel who is like Rui Xuan who stayed in Beiping because of his family said, "I am simply a woman, not a man!" Looking up at the culture of Beiping, I can say that our culture can only produce a guy like me who is obedient, but cannot produce a good man with a strong ambition! I'm ashamed of myself, and at the same time I'm worried about our culture. Although Qi Ruixuan kept his discipline, he refused to participate in the Japanese victory parade, refused to accept the position of school principal who gave alms from the Japanese, but Qi Ruixuan was a woman at this time, never disturbing the status quo, but never making changes. Pathetic. At the same time, as a reader, I also gradually understood from Ruixuan's perspective that in that era, the final outcome of not fighting was sad.
It is gratifying that in the follow-up, we can see that when the third brother returned from Beiping and invited the eldest brother to join in the revolution, the eldest brother finally took up arms and participated in the struggle in his own way.
Rui xuan is the central figure in the book, representing some of the intellectuals of that era. He is sad, in the process of his growth, he received both the influence of traditional education and the indoctrination of new education, and he himself is a collection of contradictions. He has a deep understanding of righteousness, has a fist and a patriotic heart, but he is hesitant, wanting to "fulfill filial piety" and "fulfill loyalty", and has to linger under the inability to have both, Ruixuan is the contradiction between family concept and national consciousness.
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