Recently, the hit drama "The World of Man" has frequently exploded on the Internet, attracting hundreds of millions of netizens to discuss.
From the Spring Festival holiday to the present, the opening drama "A Lifelong Journey" has been broadcast, and 310 million viewers have been completely broken.
Among the people who are chasing the drama, there are many young and highly educated people, and even many post-00s footprints.
Undoubtedly, this is another masterpiece after "The Age of Awakening" and "Mountains and Seas".
Sure enough, CCTV production, must be a fine product.
"Human World" is adapted from Liang Xiaosheng's novel of the same name that won the 10th "Mao Dun Literature Award", and the TV series fully shows the essence of the novel - the author's thoughts and thoughts on the world:
Whatever you do, don't take shortcuts, because the end of the shortcut is a trap, a bottomless abyss.
Regardless of the qualifications, as long as you work hard and be kind, everyone in the world can find their own position and exert their talents.
From the perspective of the three generations of the Zhou family, the TV series depicts the changes in their lives in the past fifty years, which in turn reflects the earth-shaking social changes in China.
In the tide of the times of nearly 50 years, the social hot phenomena of different periods, such as the construction of the third line, going to the mountains and going to the countryside, the college students of workers, peasants, and soldiers, the return of intellectuals to the city, the resumption of the college entrance examination, the tide of going abroad, the business of going to the sea, the celebrities going to the cave, the transformation of enterprises, the unemployment and layoffs, the self-employment, the transformation of shantytowns, the anti-corruption and clean government, and other social hot phenomena in different periods have also been sorted out and displayed one by one along with the fate of the characters in the play.
In the recent episodes, the two old people of the Zhou family have walked together for a lifetime, and finally left arm in arm, both of them died.
This scene made many people break the defense.
Netizens have said that they are going to cry numb, and related topics have quickly become hot searches.
The English name of "The World of Man" is also very emotional, A Lifelong Journey, a lifelong journey, a journey on earth.
Lifelong adj
Her lifelong dream was to be a famous writer.
Her lifelong desire was to become a famous writer.
Related phrases
Lifelong learning: Lifelong learning; lifelong continuing education; to advocate and promote lifelong learning
A Lifelong Career: Career for life; Career for life; Career for a lifetime of learning; Career for life
Lifelong sport: Sport for life
Lifelong memories: Lifelong memories; lifelong memories
lifelong learners: Lifelong learners; lifelong learners
Lifelong Education: Lifelong Education; Lifelong Learning; Department of Lifelong Education; Lifelong
become lifelong learners: Become lifelong learners
A LIFELONG PROCESS: A lifetime
Lifelong Learning Plan: A lifelong learning program
journey n. travel
Synonyms
journey: The most common term, it focuses on one-way land travel with a longer time and a longer distance, but also refers to travel by water or air.
tour: refers to the last reverse departure place, there are stops in the journey, the distance can be long or short, and the purpose is different.
travel: refers to the behavior of travel without referring to a specific trip, mostly refers to a long-term trip to a distant place, does not emphasize the direct destination, single and plural can be used.
trip: A common word, spoken word, often referring to a shorter trip for official business or pleasure.
voyage: refers to travel by water, especially sea travel, and can also refer to air travel.
excursion: A more formal term, often referring to short-term recreational activities of up to one day, or to hiking by train or boat to and from specific attractions.
expedition: refers to an expedition or expedition with a specific purpose.
Cruise: Mainly refers to a boat trip and stops at multiple locations.
The depth of time and space and the height of value presented in "The World of Man" may cast a work with an epic temperament, achieving Liang Xiaosheng's "desire to describe the evolution of life", that is, in the process of life evolution, the times are also undergoing great changes.
Liang Xiaosheng: Paying attention to the fate of others affects the hearts of the people of the world
Liang Xiaosheng: Show Compassion for Others and Appeal to Human Conscience
Author: Chen Yaohui
Source: Jilin Daily
Source: Jilin Daily Date: 2020-06-20
Translation from: Counselor's Office of the State Council, Central Research Museum of Literature and History
He is the same age as the Republic, he pioneered the creation of Zhiqing literature, made cultural compensation for history, and was a spiritual monument for the times. With the pen and ink of qinrun Guangyuan thick soil, he carved those specific and nameless and nameless characters, explained human nature for heaven and earth, and explored fate for the public. Look at the world with a cold eye. The pen is hot and depicts the home country.
Liang was born in the same year when the People’s Republic of China was founded. A pioneer in writing about the life of “sent-down youths”, he recounts history in literary works and celebrates the legacy of the bygone days. His stories cut out clear contours of the life of nobodies in the vastness of the plains in northeast China. He explains what connects us all as human beings and ponders on every turn life makes. The insight is sharp and the compassion is real.
Liang Xiaosheng was born in Harbin in September 1949 to a family of construction workers. In an era when life was tight and knowledge was not very valued, his mother built and maintained a fortress for him and guarded his spiritual homeland. Liang Xiaosheng said that in the matter of reading, his mother was "absolutely good" to them, just like the fragment of the novel "Mother" that was selected for the primary and secondary school Chinese textbook, "Motherly Love", for letting him go to the buyer to use the remaining few cents, the mother always said, "You keep it!" Therefore, Liang Xiaosheng took the money to go to the villain bookstore to read. Once, he wanted to buy a copy of Fadeyev's "Young Guards", and it took a lot of determination to pluck up the courage to go to his mother for money. His mother worked as a weaver in a factory, the weather was sweltering and the cotton wool was flying, and for the first time he knew that his mother was working in such harsh conditions, it was difficult to speak for a while. My mother said, "Say anything, I'm going to work." "I want to buy books!" When her mother's co-workers heard this, they advised her not to be so accustomed to her children, and it was already good to be able to provide him with school. But my mother, while paying for it, said, "Reading is not a bad thing anyway." When he got the money, he felt guilty and heavy, so he used the money to buy canned food for his mother. Unexpectedly, his mother was angry when she saw the canned food he bought, and then gave him money to buy books.
In September 1949, Liang was born to the family of a construction worker in the city of Harbin. Circumstances were tough and knowledge was valued. But Liang was sheltered by his mother in a different world, where he was always encouraged to spend the remaining pennies left from purchasing daily necessities on books. Her mother was like the heroine described in an excerpt from the novel Mother in the Chinese language textbook for elementary and secondary schools. One day, the young Liang had his eyes on The Young Guards by Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev and mustered his courage to go to his mother for the money. He found her working in suffocating heat with cotton fibers flying all about in a spinning factory. Struck by the poor working conditions, which he only found out at that time, the young Liang could not make his request. She said to him, “Don’t hold your tongue. Just say it and let me get on with my work.” “I was hoping to buy a book.” Hearing this, the co-workers of his mother all advised her not to spoil the child. They said keeping him in school was already good enough. But Liang’s mother reached into her pocket and replied, “It’s not a bad thing for him to like books.” With a heavy heart, Liang didn’t spend the money on the book but instead bought his mother canned food. Little did he expect that his mother was angry to see the canned food and gave him a few pennies again for the book he wanted.
Words are light, thoughts are heavy, in addition to these books with words, there is also the wordless book of life. Some people, even if they are illiterate, will also understand many of the basic principles of how to behave in the world, which is the influence that stems from the family. Parents are the most simple humanities, the kind of direct and emotional life education that a person has experienced, and the simple family style, folk style and world style are also of great benefit to the later growth.
What truly shapes people is not the words in a book, but the philosophy behind them, which is found not only in books, but also in real life. That is why some understand very well the truths about life yet remain illiterate. They learn from their family, from the way they were brought up by their parents. And this could be a lasting source of inspiration throughout one’s lifetime.
The ancients said: "One family is benevolent, one country is prosperous; one family is let, one country is prosperous." Liang Xiaosheng talked about his family education, in that family that did not have a rich cultural heritage, the real sense of the family style and family training in black and white could not be talked about. But his parents took the lead by example, and with simple actions, they subtly affected his life.
According to ancient Chinese wisdom, benevolence and humility must start from families before it can reach the whole nation. Recalling his upbringing, Liang said his parents, though not much of a man and woman of letters themselves, set the tone for his life with their own examples.
Liang Xiaosheng's father was a strong Shandong Man, a teenager who broke into the Kanto region and settled in the northeast, combining the boldness of Shandong people with the ruggedness of the northeast black land. From herding cattle and setting up stalls for landlords' families, to doing hard labor for the Japanese, and then becoming the first generation of construction workers in New China, supporting the construction of the third line, the party and the country are the sustenance of the father's faith and sincerity. With a sense of honor and pride, he dutifully and meticulously built walls to build houses. In the 1957 anti-rightist struggle, a female college student was beaten as a "rightist" and assigned to the construction site where her father was located to move bricks, and some workers deliberately put a lot of bricks in the burden she picked, knowing that they could not move and deliberately embarrassed her. His father, who was the squad leader, was furious and reprimanded the workers, but his father was later criticized for believing that his political attitudes and positions were problematic. After his father returned home, he warned Liang Xiaosheng: "If you dare to do that in the future, I will not recognize you as a son!" This incident had a great impact on Liang Xiaosheng, he felt the kindness of his father, he knew that it was not right to do so, so his father was so angry. To this day, he remembers this story and also issues such a proverb, from the perspective of civilization, we need to pay attention to the goodness of human nature, from the inherent goodness and goodness of human nature to the goodness of human nature, to the goodness of human nature.
Liang’s father was a man of strong-character from China’s Shandong Province. In his teenage years, he left Shandong for the northeast to make a life of his own. In him, one finds both the straightforwardness of a Shandong local and the toughness of a northeasterner. He herded cows for landlords, worked as a street vendor, sold hard labor to the Japanese, and when the New China was founded, he became one of China’s earliest construction workers. He was firm in his belief in the Party and the country, laying bricks and building houses with pride and a sense of great honor and duty.
In Liang Xiaosheng's novel "Father", at the beginning of the sentence is written: "The father's principle of life - everything is not to seek people." This is not only the father's principle, but also the creed of Liang Xiaosheng's life. Father is such a hard state existence, do not complain or compromise to life, cherish the reputation and do not chase fame and fortune. In 1963, Liang Xiaosheng's brother was admitted to college, he also attended junior high school, in the words of his mother, the whole family was "eating" his father every day, and the sweat of a third-level plasterer obviously could not support the expenses of a large family. The leader of the union in the father's unit took the initiative to visit the family and suggested that the father report to apply for the union subsidy to alleviate the difficulties in the family, but the father left the opportunity to others.
Liang’s novel Father opened with this line, “Never ask for favors--this is a golden rule in my father’ life.” Liang himself inherited this principle. To him, his father was a source of strength: he does not complain about or bow to the pressure of life; he jealously protects his reputation and would not go after fame and wealth. In 1963, when Liang’s brother was admitted into university and Liang himself was a secondary school student, expenditures increased and his father, a plasterer, was the only source of income. He was taking on more than he could support. Union leaders at his company would visit their family and encourage him to seek special allowances from the union. But Liang’s father always saved the opportunity for his co-workers.
His father's words and deeds seem to be transformed into genes and "inherited" to Liang Xiaosheng, so he never asked anyone and the unit for his own affairs, Harbin's younger brothers and sisters were laid off, others suggested that Liang Xiaosheng go to talk to his classmates and comrades-in-arms, but he refused, he can fight for justice to help ordinary people, to help them get out of trouble, but they can not seek personal gain for themselves.
Liang is his father’s son. He never asked for favors for himself. When his little brother and sister lost their jobs, he was advised by a friend to pull some strings with his former schoolmates and comrades in the military. But he refused. For Liang, it is his duty to fight and speak for the voiceless and help them battle the difficulties in life; but it is a no-no to seek his personal gains.
"There will be a lot of celebration in the house of good deeds." Mothers are like a beacon in the house, and the wick is goodness, illuminating the children's world. In order to subsidize the family, the family once had rabbits, but wild cats often ate rabbits, so my father ordered a wire sleeve to catch wild cats. One day, while we were eating, a large wild cat was trapped and hung on a wooden fence. The wildcat struggled desperately and scratched the wooden fence. The mother moved her heart of compassion to rescue it. Under the fierce struggle, the wild cat not only scratched the mother's clothes, but also scratched out a blood trail on the mother's chest. At that time, there was no other medicine, so I had to go to someone else's house to borrow a little purple potion to wipe it. The mother did not complain and was relieved to have saved a life. Kindness is like water, my mother has helped many people, the little girl in the neighbor's house, my brother's junior high school classmate, or the old man who does not know each other... These good deeds were also passed on to Liang Xiaosheng - to be a kind hearted person all his life.
A family must be kind to be happy. Liang’s mother was the lamp that lit the house and kindness was her wick. To put food on the table in the tough days, the family raised rabbits but was troubled by a stray cat that always preyed on the furry creatures. Liang’s father made a steel-wired trap. One day when they were eating at the table, a big cat was caught. It fought desperately and made a mess of the wood fences. Liang’s mother was very sympathetic and tried to free the cat. Her shirt was torn and her chest was scratched by the cat when she was helping it out of the trap. Without any medicine at home, they had to ask for some gentian violet from a neighbor. But she was happy for saving a life. All those years, seeing her mother giving a helping hand to neighbors, classmates of his siblings, and even strangers begging for food, Liang was determined to be a kind person himself.
"Cultivation rooted in the heart, self-consciousness without reminder, freedom premised on restraint, kindness for the sake of others." This is Liang Xiaosheng's understanding of "culture".
Patience from the bottom of the heart, self-awareness without warnings from others, freedom within boundaries, and a heart for others--this is how Liang defines a cultured man.
In the 1980s, Liang Xiaosheng's long-term literary accumulation ushered in an explosive period, "This is a Magical Land", "Tonight There is a Snowstorm", "Snow City" successively, won many awards, and was successively made into movies and TV series. "There is a snowstorm tonight" has become a landmark work of "Zhiqing Novel". Back to the end of history, showing a real period of time, illuminating the passing era, but also illuminating the emotions that will not pass away, his pen and ink portrays a strong heroic complex and the responsibility of the times, influencing and touching an entire generation.
The 1980s was a prolific time for him. His works, This is a Magical Land, Snowstorm is Coming Tonight, Snow City, came out one after another, winning awards and being adapted into movies and TV series. Snowstorm is Coming Tonight was regarded as a milestone piece in the literary works about “sent-down youths”. Liang ventured back into the passing days to present a real and rich picture of the life, emotions, heroism and sense of mission that characterized the special period in China’s history, opening the heart of a whole generation.
For the literary creation at this stage, Liang Xiaosheng's evaluation is "worth it". After the end of the Cultural Revolution, the originally stable corps framework suddenly disintegrated, and the return of intellectuals to the city became a major social problem. From the city to the countryside, and then from the countryside back to the city, the intellectuals kissed the land and the people with their youth, they challenged fate and pondered the times. "Speaking for Zhiqing" has become the original intention of Liang Xiaosheng's writing. Zhiqing needs to find a job when he returns to the city, but there are not so many posts in the city to settle so many Zhiqing. And at that time, many people had different views on Zhiqing and were not enthusiastic about receiving them. Liang Xiaosheng uses his works to give them a voice. He used the influence of the words to shout to achieve the goal, and many units at that time said when recruiting, "As long as it is a corps, I want it!" "Because the intellectuals and young people of the Corps have been tempered and tempered, they are psychologically mature and have a strong sense of responsibility. It turns out that Liang Xiaosheng was right. In his view, literature has an unshirkable obligation to the mission of influencing the hearts and minds of the world, and the value that a writer can realize is far more than what kind of evaluation and achievement his work has received in the history of literature.
He said his hard work “was worthwhile”. As the cultural revolution was brought to an end, the army formations that defined the youths began to disband. Young men and women left the villages for their home cities; many social issues emerged. From cities to the countryside and now back home, the young people gave their youthful energy to farming life and the people. They challenged their destiny and were reflecting on the times. Becoming a spokesperson for “sent-down youths” was what first prompted Liang to pick up the pen and write. These young people needed jobs in the cities; but opportunities were scarce and prejudice was prevalent. Liang spoke on their behalf and his voice reached those making employment decisions. Many employers embraced former members of military formations because they were believed to be more mature and responsible as a result of their tough life. Liang was proven right. He sees it as an inherent mission of literature to appeal to the kindness and justice in human nature. Fulfilling this mission is far more important for writers than a few literary awards and some favorable critiques.
After creating a large number of works on the theme of Zhiqing, Liang Xiaosheng focused his brushstrokes on the civilian class to discover the hardships and goodwill of those difficult groups. In many of his works, he expresses the simultaneous concern and thinking about social issues, "paying attention to reality and reflecting reality, which is a mission and responsibility, which is simply to pay attention to the fate of others", for Liang Xiaosheng, this concept also runs through his text, based on the ordinary, pointing directly to people's hearts, with morality and responsibility, with bones and bones and temperature.
Liang later turned his attention to the wider population, writing about the challenges and good nature of the ordinary Chinese. In many works, he conveyed his concern for social issues and shared his reflections. It is his mission and duty to focus on and present reality. Simply put, it is a concern for others. This is the underlying philosophy of his writing: to look at the unremarkable, to look into human hearts, to be moral and responsible, to be strong and caring.
"I think it's a responsibility." At the age of 35, Liang Xiaosheng turned his attention to the "other" in his subsequent creations, from "Year of the Dragon 1988" and "Ninety-Three Assertions" to "Gaze at Ninety-Seven" to "Analysis of All Levels of Chinese Society" in 1997, Liang Xiaosheng with a broad sense of compassion and a strong sense of social care, with brushstrokes to participate in social commentary, with conscience as the advice of the times.
“I think this is my duty.” At the age of 35, Liang diverted his pen to write about “others”. In a string of works, Dragon Year 1988, Reflections on 1993, Gaze at 1997, and Analysis of China’s Social Classes in 1997, he commented on the social life and made appeals with compassion and care.
In August 2019, the novel "Human World", which carries the "50 Years of Chinese People's Life History", won the 10th Mao Dun Literature Award. 70-year-old Liang Xiaosheng, back to a point of origin, with the greatest purity, to achieve a long-cherished literary wish, to record the people in the changing times, to discover the story behind each door. Liang Xiaosheng has been advocating the creation of realistic themes, and his positioning for himself is to "pick up the missing pieces", in the form of words, so that contemporary young people can cross time to discover the history that has been missed by biographies. In the era of "going to the mountains and going to the countryside", most of the young people were the eldest sons and eldest daughters, the older brothers and sisters all went to the countryside, and the younger brothers and sisters stayed in the city, but in the literary gallery, few people depicted such a group living in the city, they also had experience and reflection, which is a kind of "lack"; the big third-line workers like their fathers, the cadres and intellectuals who reflected after getting rid of the shackles of the "Left" in the 1980s, the phenomenon of people breaking down barriers and people of all classes in contact with each other, etc., this is a kind of "lack"; there are more rural themes written in the history of literature. However, there are relatively few themes that purely write about cities, workers, and ordinary people, and pay attention to the experiences of different groups to make up for the path that China has come from, which is also his idea of picking up the missing pieces. Salvaging people and things from silent time, re-integrating and refining simple memories, forming another interpretation of the world, allowing people to see more diverse aspects of history.
In August 2019, his novel In The World, hailed as a brilliant record of the ordinary Chinese life over the past 50 years, won the 10th Mao Dun Literary Award. The 70-year old Liang drew up a picture of ordinary Chinese living with the changing times and looked behind doors for the real stories. Returning to ground zero, he set out to realize his literary ideals with the utmost honesty. Realistic writing is his calling. He sees his works as filling in the gaps of history uncovered by chronicles, to inform today’s younger generation about the past. In those days when youths were sent to the countryside, it was always the oldest child of a family who left while the younger ones stayed. Literature makes little mention of these younger brothers and sisters. Their experience and reflections is a gap. There are others: the workers like Liang’s father, the government workers and intellectuals who were freed from the tethers of a leftist movement, interactions between people from different social strata. There have been many works about life in the countryside, but few about the cities, workers, and ordinary people. Liang wishes to look deeper into the experience of different groups to complete an account of how the whole of China has traveled its journey. He digs out personal stories from forgotten times, distills information from crude memories and arranges it in way that makes sense of the world and our history in its various facets.
Through the display of the life course of the three children of a working family, Zhou Bingkun, Zhou Rong, Zhou Bingyi and their friends in the past 40 or 50 years, "In the World" looks into the development and changes of Chinese society in the past 50 years, which not only has the "glory and dream" of China's social development, but also faces the difficulties and complexities of the reform and opening up process. Overall, it is an idealistic novel and a work that pays homage to realism, but also to the literature of the 1980s. Literature should undertake humanitarian education, which is a question that Liang Xiaosheng has been pondering, laying out human nature and questioning people's hearts.
In the World tells the story over 50 years of three siblings from a worker’s family, Zhou Bingkun, Zhou Rong, and Zhou Bingyi, and their friends. The life they built for themselves crystallizes the social changes in China in the past five decades. One finds in it the difficulties and complicated realities as well as the glory and dreams. It is full of idealism, and yet a nod to realism and the style of literary writing in the 1980s. To Liang, the most important question for literature is humanity education, revealing and bringing humans back to what lies deep in their heart.
"The World of Man" is an ordinary Chinese human affair, through which we can see the strong appearance of ordinary people in the vast and gentle land of China, loving like fire, fighting, and growing with all things.