Some readers of "Ordinary World" commented on the women in this work like this: "It is difficult to meet Tian Runye in a hundred years, it is difficult to meet Tian Xiaoxia in a thousand years, and it is difficult to meet He Xiulian in ten thousand years."
In Lu Yao's novel "Ordinary World", the ending of the role of He Xiulian is lamentable, she has been industrious and virtuous, shrewd and capable all her life, but she has suffered from lung cancer because of overwork.
Xiulian's mother died when she was five years old, and she and her sister Xiuying grew up with their father, He Yaozong, through the art of making vinegar.
Although she was a rural girl with little culture and knowledge, she was industrious and kind, hard-working, and capable of housework and farm work in the crop fields.
Her love for Shao'an is sincere and warm.
From the first time she saw Shao'an, she knew that her heart belonged, and a young and fiery heart was placed on this young man who had come to this Shanxi from afar.
The attitude of this Shanxi girl who only has primary school education towards love is that once she recognizes that person is her destination, she will have no remorse and work hard for a lifetime.
She can accompany Sun Shao'an to eat chaff and live a hard life, he Xiulian's love for Shao'an is beyond doubt, but has Shao'an really loved Xiulian?
First, Shao An married Xiulian was a trade-off at that time
Shao An's first love is Tian Runye, the two of them are playing from childhood to adulthood, the gap between the family, the trajectory of life, doomed them can not be together, even if they are filled with each other in their hearts.
Runye, who was a teacher at chengguan primary school in the former Xixian County, if it were not for Li Dengyun's son Li Xiangqian looking up to her and chasing her tightly, Runye's second mother was also very optimistic about this family affair out of political achievements, and kept doing ideological work for her, she had not yet thought of her lifelong events so quickly.
She had never seriously thought about what her future lover would be like, but if she had to live with a man, Shao An was the first thing she thought of. They grew up together, and he was as kind to Runye as his own family.
At the beginning of her love, she realized that the pressure of her second mother and her father, she had to choose between Li Xiangqian and Shao'an, and she was eager to show her heart to Shao'an.
Unfortunately, her waiting did not get a positive answer from Shao'an, and her ignorant heart did not get a response from her beloved.
Tian Runye once took the initiative to confess to Sun Shao'an: "Brother Shao'an, I am willing to be with you for a lifetime, let's talk about this matter slowly." ”
Seeing Runye's confession, Shao An had a brief moment of joy and happiness in his heart, and the torrent of happiness spread to his whole body, because he never had the luxury of expecting runye to be his mother-in-law one day.
The situation in the family is very clear, there is a grandmother who has been paralyzed in bed for many years, her parents are getting older, her sister Orchid, who is married to her second-rate brother-in-law Wang Manyin, and her younger brother Sun Shaoping and sister Lan Xiang, who are going to school. He had to support the family with his father.
Reality poured a cool heart on his hot body to make him soberly understand that he did not have this blessing, he rejected Runye's admiration, which was a happiness he could not have.
Until the news of Shao An's marriage was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, this news came so unexpectedly, Runye's heart became disheartened and fragmented at this moment.
Sun Shao'an's family was destitute, and as the eldest son of the family, he reached marriageable age, and the family that was so poor that he could not afford to marry a local woman. At the home of He Fengying's distant relatives, there was such a girl Xiulian who did not want a bride price.
The situation in his family was much better than that of Sun Shao'an's family, and Xiulian could choose better conditions, but she firmly chose Sun Shao'an.
Sun Shao'an went on a blind date in Shanxi to escape Tian Runye's feelings, and his original intention of marrying He Xiulian was selfish.
Second, love is born in the ear grind of marriage
Xiulian's love for Shao'an is selfless and unreserved.
Before getting married, Shao An took his fiancée to Mijia Town to choose some suitable cloth and pull a few clothes. When they arrived at the shop in Mijia Town, Shao An said to Xiulian, "Whatever fabric you like, let's pull whatever fabric you want." Unexpectedly, Xiulian asked to rip him off first, and she could rip a cheap one herself.
Originally, there was no bride price that had already made Shao An not willing to go, and he had to pull Xiulian to choose two more bodies, but Xiulian refused to live or die, and the two also had a dispute.
For Sun Shao'an, Tian Runye is untouchable true love, and He Xiulian is the marriage partner of the door. Emotionally, Runye is the white moonlight in his heart, and rationally he knows that Xiulian is suitable for living with himself, the former is more pure, the latter is more realistic.
When Shao An resolutely decided to go on a blind date in Shanxi, he saw the girl in front of him, handsome, healthy, industrious and capable, and more importantly, not to give a bride price, which was tantamount to dropping a pie in the sky.
The combination of Sun Shao'an and He Xiulian, perhaps at the beginning, was not because of love, in the eyes of Shao'an at that time, a handsome-looking mother-in-law, this marriage without bride price nor new house, was a value-added transaction.
However, when he passed the small bridge that Runye had confessed to himself, he would still think of the woman he loved but could not.
Before getting married, when he passed the small bridge, he wanted to cry, not only to commemorate the love he once had, but also to express his guilt for Runye.
Marrying a wife as soon as possible can make Runye completely dead. Compared with the pure love for Runye, the marriage with Xiulian is mixed with a few points and weighed.
But the marriage that seems to be about to be completed may be the most suitable for himself, whether it is the family or his career, the wife is largely suitable for Sun Shaoan. Without the support and dedication of his wife, Sun Shaoan would not have been able to live a better and better life.
Marriage without perfection Compromise and contentment is the norm
Mr. Lu Yao said in "Ordinary World": In this world, not all reasonable and beautiful things can exist or be realized according to their own wishes.
The union of Shao'an and Xiulian is more like marriage and love, there are many kinds of love, there can be pure love, and there can also be love that is full of each other.
Some people may say that after Tian Runye's dream for Sun Shao'an was shattered, he just happened to find a partner to live with.
Xiulian is a good wife, but Shao'an is not a good husband. Xiulian married Shao'an until the end of her short life of illness, and did not enjoy a single day of happiness. She can endure the simple housing and lack of food, because she loves Shaoan as a person and is willing to bear the hardships of life with the man she loves.
She is like an old cattle of the Sun family, working hard for the old Sun family. But Shao An did not cherish such a good wife.
Shao An's growth experience determined that he did not realize that marriage was necessary to break away from the original family to form a new home of his own, and in his consciousness he had the responsibility to support the whole family and even drive the entire Shuangshui Village out of poverty.
Xiulian saw Shao'an working hard alone, and when she ate, out of her wife's preference for her husband, she gave Shao'an the white-noodle steamed bun that was originally given to her grandmother to eat, but this kind of "specialization" made Shao'an very angry, accusing Xiulian of not understanding things and not filial piety.
In Shao An's heart, the Sun family is his everything, and no one can touch this bottom line, even his wife. If you have to sort the position of Shao Anxin, there is no doubt that her parents, brothers and sisters are in the front, Xiulian is not taken to heart, so her overwork is also the result of years of neglect.
If Sun Shaoan really cared about and cared about his wife, who was in love with him and shared happiness and hardships, and treated Xiulian in time, Xiulian would not be discovered when she was critically ill.
In Shao An's heart, there was his family, there were people from Shuangshui Village, but he ignored his wife. He became the captain of the production team at a young age, had a sense of collective honor, was a man of integrity, worked tirelessly, and worked hard to drill the camp.
For the benefit of everyone, privately divide the pig feed land, but they themselves were criticized at the conference. The brick kiln finally made his life too prosperous, but in order to help the villagers, he blindly expanded the operation, resulting in the closure of the brick kiln, and his wife He Xiulian was even more tired.
But there is obvious machismo in the treatment of his wife, and the big and small things at home are decided by himself, shouting at his wife in front of outsiders, putting the four words "I beat you" in his mouth at every turn, and never giving Xiulian half a face.
From marriage to live in the livestock shed, life seems to have improved, Xiulian wants to separate the family, he does not agree, Xiulian wants to change the new kiln, he and Jin Junwen "plot" to "cheat money" from his wife's pocket.
In front of Runye, Shao An was not so strong, or even inferior. Runye is a teacher in the county, and he is just making a living in the yellow land.
In the face of Runye, he didn't even dare to speak loudly, trying his best to maintain his personal image, and it can be said that he left all the tenderness to Runye. In the face of Xiulian, he was about to "explode" at every turn, saying "I hammered you to death" sentence after sentence.
Although Xiulian's ending is sighing, she is the most suitable for Shao'an in a realistic sense, and Runye can be the most beautiful lover, but not necessarily the right wife.
Brother Shao' An, your life is short, I will extend it for you. As long as you are willing to marry me, I will willingly go with you, but I Xiulian is willing, I am not poor, no one can say anything, this is again, poor afraid of what, this poor and can not take root, in the future I will help your family to live! ”
If Xiulian had not married Sun Shao'an, perhaps she would not have died of illness early because of overwork.
But life is originally an experience, Xiulian herself loves Shaoan, life is chosen again, maybe she is still very firm in her choice, perhaps in her values feel that this life is worth it.
There is no standard answer in life, life is also full of variables, and everyone pursues the true meaning of life in the changes of their lives.
Lu Yao won the Mao Dun Literature Award for "Ordinary World", a literary work that praises ordinary laborers in a warm and realistic way.
While showing the difficult survival situation of ordinary small people, this novel strives to write their beautiful hearts and tenacious fighting spirits that overcome many difficulties. The masters of the work, Gongsun Shao'an and Sun Shaoping, are young people struggling on the poverty line, but they are self-reliant, relying on their tenacious perseverance to fight against fate and pursue their own moral perfection.
This book is like a magnificent epic, condensing the majestic social symphony, broad human heart, brilliant color of life and rich and solid suffering, the thick and solid life suffering of the elderly, the romantic and magnificent life imagination and vigorous action ability of young people, and the life thinking obtained from life, which has achieved such a text that is as undulating as the Loess Plateau and as magnificent and majestic as a river.
The protagonist, Sun Shaoping, is a poor rural youth, but he is also a rural youth with knowledge. Pragmatic and courageous to listen to the call of the spirit. Whether it is the high school life of eating sorghum noodle steamed bread and drinking leftover soup, or the peasant life of going to the land to farm, or even the working life after leaving the land, Sun Shaoping has the arrogance of the spirit and the restraint of the soul, and has experienced all kinds of sufferings that ordinary people cannot imagine, and he has grown up in suffering.
Every kind of suffering is so torturous, Sun Shaoping not only did not avoid them, but took the initiative to go to them. This cold disciple has reaped valuable spiritual values - worrying about the world and being self-reliant. At every stage of his growth, the instruction he received came from books, which broadened his horizons and healed his suffering.
As the author Lu Yao said, the ordinary world, ordinary people, ordinary life. We can't get lost in ordinary life, behind the ordinary there is passion, ideological willingness to be mediocre, life is satisfied with the status quo is the real ordinary. The meaning of life lies in the fact that you can create the beauty and excitement of this process, and the value of life is that you can calmly and excitedly appreciate the beauty and tragedy of this process. Believe in yourself, ordinary you can create an extraordinary life in the ordinary world.