Mother's Day | mother's love is like a book, spend your life reading

Mother's Day

Today is May 8th, Mother's Day. Maternal love is the greatest, holiest, noblest, most selfless love in the world. For thousands of years, people have been grateful for their mother's love, praised their mother's love, and written moving motherly love with the pen in their hands. This issue of WeChat recommends 12 kinds of reading about mothers, so that readers can read the mother's book that can never be finished through warm and emotional texts.

New motherhood

"New Motherhood"

Author: [English] Ann Oakley Wang Yingchen translation

Publisher: Nanjing University Publishing Co., Ltd.

Publication date: January 2022

What does it mean for women to be a new mother? What does it mean to be a woman and a mother in our social culture? Fertility is not only a natural event, but also defined by our culture.

British sociologist Ann Oakley discussed the issue of fertility with a sharp eye and one question after another. She will return to women the interpretation of "procreation" as defined by patriarchal politics and professionals. In the 1970s, she interviewed 66 women, using their oral accounts to document the true feelings of a new mother. Based on the true stories of these women, Oakley explores: the mental journey of pregnancy, real childbirth experience, postpartum depression, parenting routine, division of labor in the family, lessons learned, etc.

In her dialogue with these women, she opened a popularization class on fertility, traced the history of fertility, observed the scene of fertility at close range, and talked about parent-child relationship, work, sex, family politics and other topics.

"My Mom"

Author: [Han] Kwon Ting-hyun

Publisher: Relay Press

Publication date: April 2022

South Korea's up-and-coming picture book writer Kwon Ting-hyun's "My Mother" is a vivid picture book that explores novice mothers from the perspective of a baby, which breaks the tradition in an almost harsh and exaggerated way, and innovatively depicts an embarrassing, awkward, but real mother image: when I see my mother, her face is ugly and swollen; when my mother feeds me, she carelessly puts the bottle on my neck; when my mother leans over to hug me, her body always makes a creaking and strange sound When my mother's mother came to my house, she was lying on the couch and sleeping... Many new mothers laughed and cried after reading it: Isn't this just me!

This is a lesson of maternal love for children, and it is also a soothing heart for all mothers who are alone and hard working in the strange new world.

《Standing》

Author: Chi Li

Publisher: Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House

Publication date: May 2013

The famous writer Chi Li's collection of narrative essays , "Standing" is a work full of mother-daughter affection. The difference is that she sees her daughter from a mother's perspective. From the birth of the daughter, it has been written until the daughter graduated from the world's first-class university and successfully stepped into the society, revealing the mother's sincere feelings for the daughter in the narration, and also allowing the reader to understand that love itself is the process of education, is the process of common growth, the mother raises the daughter to grow up, and the daughter also achieves the mother.

"Your Name, More Than a Stay-at-Home Mom"

Author: Ma Wei

Publisher: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House

Publication date: February 2022

"Your Name, Not Just Stay-at-Home Moms" is a documentary work by anthropologist Ma Wei who has been participating, observing, recording and thinking about the stay-at-home mom community for four or five years, and it is also a sociological and anthropological note, which truly presents the situation of full-time mothers and ponders why such a dilemma is formed. Reflect on and explore the possibility of women's diverse values, and respond to a full-time mother's careful question: "Can we women only accept the fate of having a baby and raising a baby?" In response to their tearful exclamations: "How can this society be so unfriendly to stay-at-home mothers?" ”

The author tries to answer with this book that women can live in a more inclusive society, have more possible choices, and do not need to be bound by some fate.

parental love

"My Family"

Author: Tao Cheng Dictation, He Jiadong Zhao Jie wrote

Publisher: Workers' Press

Publication date: May 2021

In the history of the Chinese revolution, there are many glorious images of "revolutionary mothers." Tao Cheng's memoir "My Family" is one of them. After her husband Ouyang Meisheng and eldest son Ouyang Li'an successively sacrificed their lives for the revolution, Tao Cheng took the children to run behind the enemy lines, raised them to grow up, and sent the children to the revolutionary road. Tao Cheng dedicated everything to the party, with the tenacity and persistence of a mother, to greet the dawn of revolutionary victory. Maternal love is selfish, but maternal love of revolutionaries is selfless.

In the book, she said emotionally: "If my family has suffered a number of misfortunes, how many such families have been destroyed by the enemy?" Children give their lives, and this is so that more mothers no longer lose their children. ”

The Promise of Childhood

Author: [French] Roman Gary by Ni Wei Chinese translation

Publisher: People's Literature Publishing House

Publication date: April 2019

The famous French writer Roman Gary grew up with his mother, and his autobiographical novel "The Promise of Childhood" recalls the past of living with his mother, portraying a brave and rash, affectionate and strict mother, and deeply nostalgic for her mother between the lines. In the author's light-hearted and ridiculous tone, all the bitter tribulations and arduous struggles seem to turn into a light smoke, only the gentle maternal love, like a clear spring, silent moisturizers, and always stay in the heart.

Kiss My Mom

Author: Huang Beijia

Publisher: Jiangsu Children's Publishing House

Publication date: July 2021

Children's literature writer Huang Beijia's "Kiss My Mother" creates the image of a non-traditional mother Shu Yimei. As a boy who grew up in a single-parent family with his father since childhood, at his father's funeral, he met the legendary mother, a beautiful person who seemed to come down from the photo, and his whole body emitted a sweet orange aroma. The child with mild autism began to get along under the same roof with the depressed mother, and the mother-child relationship also changed from strange and distant at the beginning to close, tentative, understanding, and finally clenched each other's hands.

"Motherly Love" Is Terrible"

Author: Xu Changde

Publisher: Shenyang Publishing House

Publication date: November 2010

Compared with other "maternal love works", writer and music producer Xu Changde's "Mother's Love" is really terrible, but it is also worth reading. In Xu Changde's view, maternal love can be seen everywhere in every family and plays a key role, but there are also many misunderstandings, such as the excessive manipulation and investment of mothers in their children, which will make children become "puppets"; only blindly asking for children, but not trying to understand children; paying too much attention to children's achievements, and using their own love as a threat. Xu Changde believes that only by crossing the misunderstanding of family education can the "mother's love" be more perfect and the children can grow up healthily.

Inch grass Chunhui

"Mother"

Author: (Soviet) Gorky, translated by Wu Xingyong

Mantei Culture Exhibition

Publisher: Central Compilation Publishing House

Publication date: June 2015

The novel "Mother" is Gorky's iconic work as the "founder of socialist realist literature", based on the characters of Zaromov, one of the leaders who participated in the "May Day Parade" in 1902, and his mother Zalomova, creating the image of Nilovna, the mother of the revolution. Under the influence of her son Pavel, Nilovna, with pure maternal love, grew from a humble old woman to a self-conscious and determined revolutionary. When her son Pavel was arrested and addressed in court, Nilovna risked delivering her son's speech until she was finally arrested by the spies. Nilovna has impressed generations of Chinese, and in her the reader feels the interweaving and concerto of lofty maternal love and revolutionary ideals.

"The Man Who Hurt Me The Most In the World Went"

Author: Zhang Jie

Publisher: People's Literature Publishing House

Publication date: March 2022

"The Man Who Hurt Me the Most In the World Went" is a long documentary essay published by the famous writer Zhang Jie after the death of her mother. In her opinion, it was much more painful for a person to be orphaned at the age of fifty-four than to be orphaned at the age of four. After her mother's death, Zhang Jie, who was seriously ill, recorded the last eighty days of her mother's life in writing: "I kissed my mother's cheek, and there was the freshness of fresh plants on my cheek. The warmth and elasticity of those cheeks were still the same thing I had known and kissed since I was a child, and I could accurately identify them at any time or in any situation. From now on, there is nothing to distinguish..." The bloody words tell the eternal mother-daughter relationship, let the reader experience the grief of the children after the mother's long journey, and cherish every inch of time with the mother.

The Last Reading Club of Life

Author: [Mei] Will Schwarbet; translated by Wang Lanying

Produced by Times Mandarin

Publisher: Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House

Publication date: April 2019

American writer Will Schwarber's The Last Reading Club is about "the world of a mother, a son, and books." After learning that his mother had advanced pancreatic cancer, Schwarbe did not know how to face it. By chance, he chose to communicate with his mother with books, and they began to read the same books, with a fixed book club for two people. They discuss a variety of topics, including courage, faith, loneliness, gratitude, and ultimately the mother and son are able to face death calmly and understand each other deeply. As Will Schwarbet said, "Books bring us closer to each other and give me a better understanding of my mother's life and her choices." ”

"To Father + To Mother"

Author: Liang Xiaosheng

Publisher: Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House

Publication date: January 2022

The well-known writer Liang Xiaosheng once published a collection of classic articles "To Father + To Mother" with the theme of father's love and mother's love. "To the Mother" is a collection of Liang Xiaosheng's classic articles on the theme of maternal love, of which "Deep Motherly Love" and "Scenery by the Old Water wheel" were selected for the Chinese textbook and the middle school exam questions. In "To the Mother", there are not only mothers who work hard to raise their children, but also girls who chase innocent dreams, girls who dream of beautiful love, and wives who take good care of their families, all of which have always been the identity and experience of mothers in a certain place at a certain time. She was not born a mother, she has had wishes, she has had ideals, she has experienced a lot of hardships, she has encountered a lot of trauma, but she has hidden everything deeply, leaving us with only endless instructions and dings, as well as boundless tolerance and dedication.

To Mom .

Part of the content source: Xinhua Daily (May 6, 2022, 12th edition), compiled by Yu Feng