Since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety have always been difficult to complete, but under the severe lack of materials, how to eat enough and filial piety, how to have both?
In the ancient Shinshu area, there was a custom that when the elderly in the family reached the age of 70, they would carry their backs to the mountains to worship the mountain gods. The old mother of the Chengping family is 69 years old, but the old lady is healthy and can still work, should ChengPing carry his mother to the mountains?
There is a village at the foot of Mount Nichiyama in Shinshu, which is covered in snow all year round, food is scarce, and the villagers live in poverty.
The old lady has two sons, according to the customs of the village, she can only marry and have children for the eldest son ChengPing, and the second son Cheng Li has no daughter-in-law because of the family's poverty and customs, and works at home every day.
Chengping's wife died shortly after giving birth to her son Aji. The family did not have the money to marry him a new daughter-in-law, and the two brothers did not have a daughter-in-law, so it took more than ten years.
Until the old lady was 69 years old, according to the custom in the village, the old lady would be carried by the eldest son to the mountain to worship the mountain god.
This is just a euphemism, in fact, in the case of insufficient food, the old man who has no labor force is thrown into the mountains to save a little ration for the family.
But the old lady is healthy, can do the work outside the house, and has a one-handed fishing skill, so that in the winter, the family still has at least one bite to eat.
The old lady was open to going up the mountain, and was going to Elysium sooner or later anyway. If he really did not go up the mountain, his son would be punished by the village.
The old lady decided to make a few wishes before going up the hill. The first wish is that the eldest son Cheng Ping will remarry, and the second reason is that the younger son Cheng Li does not know femininity.
The old lady heard that there was a widow in the neighboring village who was willing to come and live with Cheng Ping, so she quickly found someone to inquire, the new daughter-in-law came, and she was young and neat, and the old lady was happy, and she also taught her the know-how of catching fish in winter.
Cheng Ping's matter was solved, there was only the younger son, the younger son could not marry his wife, and the family was poor like this. The old lady wanted to find someone to help and let Cheng Li taste it. However, Chengli had a body odor, and no one in the young daughter-in-law in the village was willing.
There was no way, the old lady begged for a golden lady who was about the same age as herself and quickly went to the old lady of the mountain to worship the mountain god. Mrs. Jin thought that she was about to go up the mountain, there were too many bachelors in the village, and it was a merit to be able to help, so she agreed to the old lady's request.
The old lady made her wish, so she urged the eldest son, ChengpingPing, to hold a ceremony and send her up the mountain. But at this time, her grandson Aji caused trouble for her.
Aji saw that the family was poor and had no money to marry his daughter-in-law, so he tried to find a way to get along with Ah Mei in the village, and they were all pregnant.
Cheng Ping looked at Aji's daughter-in-law and the child who was about to be born, the headache was not good, the old mother had not sent it away, and immediately came two mouths.
Aji's daughter-in-law, Ami,000, is a habitual thief at home, and after Ami marries, she often takes the potatoes from the old lady's house back to her mother's house.
On this day, the villagers found that a lot of grain was lost at home, which was a big thing, and when there was a shortage of food, it was equivalent to making money and killing people.
The villagers rushed to the cellar of Ami's house to see that it was full of potatoes and food. All of them were stolen little by little from the villagers.
Three generations of the Ami family have survived in this way. The villagers decided to find a way to deal with the moth in Ami's house this time.
In the evening, the old lady gave Ami a few potatoes and asked her to send them back to her mother's house, and to live in her mother's house today, accompany her mother, and come back tomorrow. Ami saw that there were potatoes taken back to her mother's house and happily agreed.
Ami's family happily ate potatoes, and were tied up by the villagers who suddenly came in and thrown into the big pit that had been dug long ago, and the villagers quickly filled the big pit.
Only then did Aji know the old lady's purpose in calling Ami home. Aji was mad, but the old lady couldn't manage so much, she could only do her best to keep her family alive, Ami was like a loser.
On this day, the people in the village all went to Cheng Ping's house to hold a ceremony for the old lady to go up the mountain, and the villagers explained that Cheng Ping had to go out early in the morning, and that after going up the mountain, he could not speak or offend the mountain god, and he could not turn back on the way back.
Early the next morning, just after dawn, the old lady sat on a back chair and was carried flat to the mountain step by step. When he reached the top of the mountain, everything in front of him surprised Cheng Ping, and the top of the mountain was full of tired white bones, all of which were the white bones of a 70-year-old man.
Cheng Ping burst into tears, he did not want his old mother to wait for death at the top of the mountain, he wanted to carry the old lady back, the old lady waved her hand, and drove Cheng Ping down the mountain.
Cheng Ping returned home with a heavy heart, but found that his brother Cheng Li had brought a woman back to be his daughter-in-law, and Cheng Ping's head hurt again, and it was another mouth to eat.
This story comes from the movie "Raoshan Festival Examination", in ancient Xinzhou, the mountain village at the foot of the mountain is due to perennial snow, the family is poor, can not afford to eat, the family has a child born, if it is a daughter can also be sold to the outside of the mountain for a few dollars, if it is a boy, directly thrown in the rice field.
The old man in the family, who has reached the age of 70, will be sent to the mountains to starve to death. Some old people have accepted such arrangements early, such as the old lady, who has made a wish and urged her eldest son to send her to the mountain, in fact, this is a helpless choice.
After the beating of life, people who have been overpowered by reality can appreciate this cruel choice.
If you were an old lady, would you accept the custom of discarding at the age of 70?
If you were an old lady, would you make the choice of having Ami go back to her mother's house to be punished by the villagers?
If you are the youngest son in the film, according to the custom, you only have to work. If you are not qualified to marry and have children, what will you do?