Author | Every night, Xu Chao twilight
Anchor | Fan Deng Reading · Children
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Meet · Meet your unknown self in the book.
Good evening to all book lovers, welcome to the reading column "Encounter" produced by Fan Deng Reading.
Today, I will give you an interpretation of Mo Yan's long epic work - "Life and Death Fatigue".
Mo Yan once said: "The judges of the Nobel Prize awarded this award to me mainly because they finished reading "Life and Death Fatigue". ”
Buddha's eyes are low, the world is vast, all sentient beings, life and death are tired.
No matter how hard life is, you will laugh out loud when you open this book.
Yu Hua once said:
"'Fatigue of Life and Death' is not exhausting to read, it is a mesmerizing read, and it is a great novel."
This masterpiece, which took 43 years to conceive and was written in only 43 days, is Mo Yan's masterpiece.
The protagonist of the book, Ximen Hao, is a landlord who has become rich by hard work and obeyed people with virtue, and the family is prosperous and the fields are fertile.
However, he was in his prime, and he was ordered to return to the Western Heavens because of the wrongs of the villagers, and he hated jiuquan.
He fell into the six cycles of reincarnation, and in the process of going from donkey, cow, pig, dog, monkey, and then to man, he saw all the love and hatred, and suffered all the world's diseases.
There is no life without twists and turns
There is no one whose days are not wronged
In ximentun in Gaomi, Shandong, there is a landlord named Ximen Hao.
He was charitable, repaired bridges and roads, and every poor man in the township had received his help.
However, during the period of social unrest, just because he held the title of landlord, he was tied up by the villagers and pushed to the bridge and shot.
When they arrived at the Yin Cao Mansion, Ximen was indignant and resentful, screaming and complaining, and refused to drink Meng Po soup.
Seeing that he could not resolve the hatred and grievances in his heart, Prince Yan punished him for reincarnation in the Animal Path.
When he was reincarnated as a donkey, he saw his wife, Bai Shi, widowed alone after bereavement, living a miserable life.
Villagers suspected that she had secretly hidden her husband's property, beat her to the ground, and forced her to hand over her money.
Struggling to get her life back, she was insulted by the old single stick in the village.
Rumors spread throughout the village, and Bai Shi was speechless, ashamed and indignant, and finally hanged himself.
Immediately afterward, Ximen was reincarnated as a cow, saw the blue face of his eldest worker, married his second aunt back home, and helped him take care of a pair of children.
At that time, the people's commune arose, and everyone joined the commune, but the blue face insisted on going it alone.
The villagers ostracized him, his wife did not understand him, and the children did not support him, and even turned against him for a time.
Obviously there is no violation of the rules of voluntary admission, why is it regarded as an outlier by everyone?
The blue face full of grievances, in order not to involve the family, had to cut off contact with them.
He lived alone next to the field, dared to come out to farm after dark, and lived alone for decades.
Later, Ximen reincarnated as a dog, and saw that his daughter Baofeng was married to someone he did not love, and the married life was extremely dull.
To make matters worse, her husband died young, leaving her and her son to live together.
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In this life, there are too many involuntaries.
Simon felt that he had died a wronged death, but those who were alive also had their own grievances.
As the writer Liu Zhenyun said:
Everything in the world can be picked, but days cannot be picked.
Everything in the world cannot stand up to scrutiny, and every thing hides grievances.
Regardless of age, status, or gender, everyone has to face different bitterness, hardships, and pressures.
Someone has ambitions but has to do things they don't like in order to make a living;
Some people only want to live a stable life, but they are constantly encountering changes and are forced by reality to have no way back.
Under every body of rushing and toiling, there is endless hardship and inexhaustible grievances.
In front of the mountain of life, everyone is carrying a heavy load, and no one has immunity.
Instead of pouring out grievances
It is better to learn to heal the wounds alone
Simon was affectionate before his death, and married a total of three wives.
After his death, the third aunt Wu Qiuxiang married the villager Huang Hui and gave birth to a daughter, Huang Huzhu and Huang Cooperative.
When Simon was a donkey and an ox, he watched the two girls grow up and then fell in love with their son Jin long.
Later, the village committee acted as a matchmaker for the young people, making Huang Huzhu and Jin Long a family, and Huang Cooperating married Lan Jiefang, the son of Blue Face.
When they got married, the sisters were one happy and the other was lost; after marriage, the days were the same unsatisfactory.
A few years later, Ximen Hao was reincarnated as a dog and became the watchdog of the Yellow Cooperation and Blue Liberation families.
He found that his son Jin Long was a negative man, and after marriage, his attitude towards Huang Mutual Aid became more and more cold, and he often picked flowers and weeds outside.
For the sake of his career, Jin Long also talked about extramarital affairs with the female leaders of the county and had an illegitimate daughter.
Lan Jiefang did not like Huang Cooperation from the beginning and ignored her for a long time.
In middle age, Lan Jiefang, who became the deputy county magistrate, also cheated on a young girl.
He did not hesitate to abandon his wife and son, and took the girl away from home, and he did not hear from him for many years.
Even Ximen Hao, who witnessed all this, couldn't help but resent the Golden Dragon and Lan Jiefang.
The Huang family sisters, who suffered a bitter fate, never told outsiders about their grievances.
They chewed up the pain, swallowed the sourness, and got up the spirit to live each day.
Huang Huzhu is always smiling, busy with housework and raising sons, and she will be eager to help anyone who is in trouble.
Huang cooperated and did not complain about the world, and tried to do his part well, while going to work in the public canteen, while taking care of the elderly and children.
Although they did not have a happy marriage, they gained the respect and love of everyone around them.
In this life, people are a journey that is difficult to pass and difficult to walk step by step.
You ask for forgiveness in every way, and life will not be merciful to your men; you will cry out loudly, and others will not help you settle everything.
Lu Xiaoman said in "As the Days Go Forward":
There is no one in this world who is not injured, and at any time, you must believe that the only one who really heals yourself is yourself.
Who has not been teased by fate and slapped in the face of life?
All we can do is be silent when we are sad, and self-reliant when we are in pain.
When you digest the grievances alone and stitch up the wounds yourself, you will find that you have become invincible.
A person's strength begins with learning to swallow grievances
The six reincarnations of the world are the practice of Simon Alone.
When the soul is trapped in the body of an animal, his suffering has no one to say, and his hatred has nowhere to vent.
The only thing he can do is adapt to his new identity in silence and turn grievances into motivation to live.
In the first life, he was a donkey, either carrying heavy goods or giving people mounts.
But instead of venting his malice through the body of the animal, he did a lot of good things within his power.
Seeing that his wife Bai was severely tortured, he immediately kicked away the rogue villagers and saved Bai's life.
Seeing a female donkey besieged by two wolves, he used his wisdom and courage to defeat the wolf that even the hunters could not catch.
In the second life, he was an ox, plowing and working from morning to night, and from time to time he was whipped by the villagers.
However, he never complained and remained loyal to his master, BlueFace.
BlueFace resolutely refused to enter the people's commune, so he accompanied Blueface to work at night.
After being forcibly recruited into the commune by the villagers, even if he was beaten and burned, he refused to plow the land for the commune.
Later, he was a pig, kept in captivity in a dirty square inch, and also assumed the responsibility of growing the pig herd.
He quickly embraced life in the pigsty and became the smartest and most obedient of the pig farms.
He also did not forget the goodness of human nature, sacrificed himself to save more than a dozen children who fell into the river, and finally died of physical weakness.
Then, he was bound by chains for dogs and monkeys all his life, and he had to work hard for his master.
But he completely lived up to his mission, looking after the home, performing monkey plays, and becoming the best in his class.
Although he has been trapped in samsara, Simon has lived every life vigorously.
He not only reigned supreme among animals, but also became a legend in the eyes of the villagers.
The heroism and wisdom he displayed were passed down from generation to generation by the villagers as a myth.
In the end, he completely dissolved his grievances and resentments, passed the test of Yama Wangye, and was reincarnated as an adult.
Zhou Guoping once said:
Man cannot control his own destiny, but he can control his attitude toward fate and calmly bear the inevitable encounters that fall on his head.
Occasionally, when you step on the fragments of tribulation and fall into the quagmire of setbacks, you may cry bitterly.
However, when you go through the six cycles of reincarnation and see through the impermanence of life, you will find that the troubles in front of you are not worth mentioning at all.
Behind every soul that seems to be light and breezy, there is actually a lot of patience behind it that ordinary people can't stand.
Those rain and snow that have been drenched, and the grinding that have been suffered will not crush you at all, but will broaden your pattern and fill your life.
Write at the end
Mo Yan once said:
In life, I am destined to suffer many grievances. The more successful a person is, the more grievances he suffers.
All sentient beings are lonely flat boats, swimming in their own sea of suffering.
If you are agonizing over the unsatisfactory things and fretting about the impermanence of the world, you may wish to read The Fatigue of Life and Death.
Look at the strength of the people in the book who grit their teeth and swallow their grievances, and bow their heads and move forward silently.
Instead of opening your own wounds and sinking into the mire of emotions, it is better to turn grievances and bitterness into a steady stream of motivation.
Keep running, sooner or later you can ride through the wind and rain and harvest the life you want.
Click "looking", may you be bitter without words, painful without words, and temper the sweetness of life in the years.
Column Director | Come slowly
Typography | Zheng to the north
Music | Zhao Jiping's "Si Gui" - soundtrack of the TV series of the Big Mansion Gate