Wen 丨 Qingxin Junyue
"The World of Man" tells the story of three generations of the Zhou family.
From the first generation of the Zhou family, the upright Zhou Zhigang, to the second generation of the Zhou family, the selfless Zhou Bingyi, the supreme faith Zhou Rong, and the kind and simple Zhou Bingkun.
As the third generation of the Zhou family, Zhou Nan, Zhou Cong, and Zhou Yue, their ending in the original work reflects another continuation of the Zhou family.
Zhou Nan: He used his death to prove that he was a member of the Zhou family
Zhou Nan in the original work died in a foreign land.
When his adoptive father Zhou Bingkun, because the moment he was imprisoned, the balance in his heart completely fell to the side of Zhou Bingkun, who gave him companionship and growth.
He did hesitate between a poor adoptive father and a rich biological father, as it is said in the original book:
"I was so hateful. I have secretly complained about fate because I am a child of light characters, and I have been very envious of my classmates who live in good houses in good neighborhoods. When I knew that I actually had a biological father who was the boss alive, and he assured me that he could completely change my destiny, let me live in a good house in a good neighborhood, and live a very generous life in the future, I couldn't help but be attracted to such a life..."
This hesitation, too real, the selfish side of human nature broke free of the cage at that time, driving him to abandon all the superior life that was close to his fingertips.
His struggles, his choices, are nothing more than a showdown between good and evil in human nature.
However, the adoptive father and mother's years of companionship and nurturing for themselves eventually defeated the attractive material life. At the last moment before leaving, he broke free from the temptation of Luo Shibin's arrangement to go abroad and desperately returned to the light piece of his childhood.
At that time, Zhou Bingkun was already in prison. It was also Zhou Bingkun's imprisonment that made Nan Nan completely wake up to what he really wanted. Rich life and dreams can be realized by relying on his own efforts, but the strong affection and love given by his adoptive father and mother is a precious wealth worth cherishing, which cannot be exchanged for no amount of money.
He blamed himself for the wavering he had, vowing that his adoptive father would not go to jail one day and that he would not forgive himself for a day.
In an accident, he used death to prove his self-blame - he Zhou Nan, from beginning to end, was a member of the Zhou family. When the abuser raised a gun that meant death, he desperately blocked in front of his classmates.
At that moment, he remembered the story that Grandpa Zhou Zhigang had told him and Congcong about Yang Erlang and the words he had told them:
"'You both give me to remember that in times of danger, whether it is for classmates, or later for colleagues and co-workers, everyone in our Zhou family must have to go!'" Cong Cong asked, 'Shouldn't people who don't know be like that?' Father Zhou said, "In times of danger, someone has to do that for people you don't know!" ’”
Zhou Nan's life was finally frozen at that moment.
Giving your precious life for others may not be worth it in the eyes of many people. However, his instinctive reaction made him make such a choice, he was not afraid of death, but he remembered the words of Zhou Jia's grandfather: In a dangerous moment, someone must do that for someone he does not know!
Who is Zhou Nan most like the Zhou family?
In my opinion, he is, in a way, very much like Zhou Bingyi.
Zhou Bingyi dedicated his life to his work. Serving as an official and benefiting one party has always been his ideal. He didn't care how big his officials were, only whether he could do more practical and good things, which was the belief he had always adhered to.
As a son, as an older brother, and even as a husband, he may not be qualified. But as an official, he is really a good official who thinks about the people, and there is no doubt about this. Especially later, he gave up his promotion to a high position, gave up his self-worth achievement, and returned to his hometown to solve the housing conditions of the people in the light character film, and he hoped that in his lifetime, he could do more meaningful and good things. Even though he was misunderstood and spurned for this, he still held fast to his faith.
He was the first to die in the second generation of the Zhou family.
It is not because he also died early that he is very similar to Nannan. Nan Nan and Zhou Bingyi both embody a sense of social responsibility, a great righteousness and great goodness. Zhou Nan sacrificed in seeing righteousness and courage, while Zhou Bingyi injured his body in the work of bowing down to exhaustion, and they all had a heart of gold that warmed the world.
There is no distinction between goodness and smallness, and the power of goodness in human nature is manifested in them.
Zhou Yue: Her depravity is both accidental and inevitable
Zhou Yue's depravity was unexpected by the Zhou family, but when you think about it carefully, it is also an inevitability.
Zhou Yue in the original work finally turned her back on all her relatives and resolutely married a man who was many years older than her, but very rich.
That was shortly after Zhou Yue returned to China. The aura of overseas academic qualifications did not make her feel comfortable in job hunting, but stuck in the state of high or low.
Seeing that his former classmates had already lived their ideal lives, Zhou Yue was very anxious.
She originally wanted her uncle Zhou Bingyi to use his power to arrange a decent job for himself, but he was rejected by his uncle and mother, and Zhou Rong once advised her not to be too anxious about everything, and the work needed to start from the grassroots and come down-to-earth.
Subsequently, she locked her eyes on her adoptive father's deposit, hoping that Cai Xiaoguang could take out the old capital for her own business and jade business, but Cai Xiaoguang did not have so much capital for her to squander.
When relying on herself seemed to be indefinite, Zhou Yue chose a shortcut and secretly lived with a married man, and when the Zhou family knew about it, it was already full of storms in the city.
In Yue Yue's view, this is her own choice, there is nothing wrong, others have no right to interfere.
If the man wasn't married, just simply older, maybe her words would be acceptable. However, this is not the case, her choice, has been touched by the moral red line, an immoral person, for the sake of his own selfish desires, to preach that his choice is free, is beyond reproach, does not feel ridiculous?
Moreover, behind her choice, her family has suffered too much criticism and harm that should not be borne, especially her uncle Zhou Bingyi, who not only has a damaged reputation, but also almost been implicated.
Everyone has the right to choose their own life, right. But this sentence has a premise, all choices, should not be above the universal principles and morality, do not say that this is a judgment from the moral high ground, if immoral behavior is infinitely rationalized because it is the freedom of the individual, then just imagine, who will adhere to and maintain the basic morality and bottom line of being a human being?
To put it bluntly, Zhou Yue's choice is nothing more than selfish and self-serving values.
From ignoring the feelings of Zheng Juan and Zhou Bingkun, who have raised her for many years, persuading Nan Nan to accept the rich Luo Shibin, to blindly currying favor with Jin Yueji and Hao Dongmei in order to live in the house of her uncle and mother with good conditions for a longer time, to dislike Zhou Bingyi, who is "under the fence" at the same time, and the light character film that she has lived for many years.
From being close to his father Feng Huacheng only to satisfy his own vanity, to fleeing abroad regardless of the results, so that his mother Zhou Rong lost his job as an associate professor, to the "lack of heart and eyes" of his younger sister-in-law Zheng Juan, and the dissuasion of his family to intervene in other people's marriages.
Zhou Yue's whole life has lived in a self-centered world, completely disregarding anyone's feelings, let alone a trace of gratitude. In her view, family affection and morality are worthless compared to their own interests.
Such a Zhou Yue is like her mother Zhou Rong, who is the continuation of the third generation of the Zhou family closest to Zhou Rong.
If zhou rong was middle-aged, she was exhausted by her daughter's debt. Then it was also at that moment that she understood that her former self had also tortured her parents like a debt.
Because of her willfulness, the family has been worried for many years, and Zhou Mu not only suffered from a serious eye disease due to excessive worry, often washing her face with tears, but also because of her impulsiveness with Feng Huacheng, she was frightened and overly comatose for many years. As for his father, Zhou Zhigang, he even pulled down his dignity and face as a father and visited for thousands of miles, just to see if she was doing well or not.
But until the end, it was her brother who had once looked down on her parents, and even her daughter, who was also raised and cared for by her brother and sister, and she had nothing but to bring trouble, burden and harm to her family.
Even Cai Xiaoguang, as an outsider, believes that the first half of Zhou Rong's life was too smooth and too arbitrary:
"In the romantic era, in order to pursue love, you desperately chase the mountains. Later, in the glorious era of knowledge, you were admitted to the best university in the country in one fell swoop. After finishing the study, after the study, you must also feel that you are particularly powerful. Speaking of the family, the only daughter, the parents spoiled, the brothers let go, married, gave birth to children, do not have to raise their own, you really want to live in the first half of your life is really going to be windy, to rain and rainy. ”
However, Zhou Rong's smoothness is based on the selfless dedication and tolerance of her family. She had never done anything to love her family, and all she saw was her own likes and dislikes, her own worth, and her own life and beliefs.
Zhou Rong and Zhou Yue's selfishness and thin affection are in the same vein.
Zhou Cong: His ordinary, simple and precious
Zhou Cong's ending is ordinary, but it is also satisfactory.
As a being who has always been ignored, Zhou Cong has never done anything earth-shattering like his brother Zhou Nan and his sister Zhou Yue. His whole life, without too many waves, has been living in a step-by-step manner.
After graduation, he once thought about leaving his hometown and going to work in a distant place. However, he was dissuaded by his uncle Zhou Bingyi and his mother Zheng Juan.
At that time, Zhou Bingkun had not yet been released from prison, and zheng juan was the only one in the old house of the light character piece. After losing Nannan, Zheng Juan did not want to let Zhou Cong stay too far away from her, and Zhou Bingyi, because of his heartache for his brother and sister, used his power for personal gain only on Zhou Cong's body.
Under the arrangement of his uncle, Zhou Cong entered the local evening newspaper and became a reporter. Then there is hard work, marriage and children.
Zhou Cong in the original work also had selfishness and vanity, he hated his origin of the light character piece, jealous that Yue Yue could live in the big house of his uncle's mother's family, and even thought about his uncle Cai Xiaoguang's house after work.
However, Zhou Cong still inherited the genes of his mother and father in his bones. He paid great attention to filial piety, and in the later years of Zheng Juan and Zhou Bingkun, he has been accompanying and taking care of them, and when everyone goes to bed early, he still accompanies his mother to watch the Spring Festival Gala on TV. He was down-to-earth and generous, and although he did not like the work of a journalist at first, he still worked hard in his job. He is compassionate and affectionate, and always pays special attention to the catch-up of life hardships and the family of Uncle Guoqing.
After growing up, Zhou Cong became an alternative continuation of Zhou Bingkun.
In the eyes of his parents, Zhou Bingkun was not as good as Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Rong, and in the eyes of his brothers and sisters, Zhou Bingkun was stubborn and lacked heart eyes. However, it is such a Zhou Bingkun, who has dedicated his life to the family he loves.
As a son, he wholeheartedly filial piety to his parents; as a husband, he is unswerving in his loyalty to Zheng Juan and always loves and cares for him; as a father, he has paid a painful price in order to keep Zhou Nan; as a younger brother, he has not brought a trace of trouble to Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Rong, who have a career, and even shared worries for his sister Zhou Rong without complaint; as a brother, he has feelings and righteousness, and he can never be ambiguous about helping...
He is an old pimple in the eyes of his family, but he is the most rare good person in the eyes of all the audience.
His life has gone through twists and turns and tribulations, but he has always adhered to his kindness and integrity as a person. Although his life is ordinary, this ordinary is so precious.
Write at the end:
In "The Children of Our Generation", which Zhou Rong created in her later years, she once wrote:
"For human beings, there are many good and beautiful things in the world. For each specific person, even if he lives for two hundred years, he cannot enjoy it all. For people all over the world, there are too few beautiful times, so few that most people have no connection in their lives. ”
Perhaps this is the interpretation of the tragic and joyful life in "The World of Man".
Everyone has their own life trajectory, and where everyone's life trajectory leads is unpredictable. In the journey of life, there is no eternal pain, there is also no eternal happiness, life is flowing, sometimes flat, sometimes tortuous, sometimes ushered in another scenery.
Qingxin Junyue, an emotional observer, ta said book critic, film critic. Warm you, me with words.