In 1958, the literary journal Yanhe published Ru Zhijuan's short story "Lily Flower". Since the publication of the work, readers and major critics have hardly interrupted its praise, and "fresh, handsome, and emotional" has long become the label of "Lily" and the label of Ru Zhijuan.
Lily's reading software rating is an example
As early as 1943, Ru Zhijuan became acquainted with literature and published more than ten literary works, but she never entered the public's field of vision. Until the publication of "Lily" in 1958, she was well received by readers and received the attention of critics such as Mao Dun and Hou Jinjing.
I have asked people around me how they feel about reading "Lily", and asked high school students about the inspiration of learning "Lily", there are different theories, but the central point is very concentrated, that is, moving! When I ask where the emotion is? They seem to be unable to organize language, which makes me wonder even more, the reason for the lack of expression is that the tear point is too scattered or the emotional connotation of the novel is not grasped?
Ru Zhijuan "Lily Flower"
Six years later, I read "Lily" again, a tear-jerking short story. This year marks the centenary of the founding of the Party, and the poetic ode of "Lily" is given to our beloved Party and to ourselves!
Simple plot structure that presets an emotional tone
During the Liberation War, a small correspondent escorted the female soldiers of the Cultural and Labor Corps to the bandaging station. Why call a "correspondent" a "petty correspondent"? Because he is only 19 years old, it is a spirited, sunny age!
After the two arrived at the bandage shelter, because of the shortage of quilts to help the wounded, they went to the homes of ordinary people together to borrow quilts from the new daughter-in-law of a family. Later, because of the needs of the war, the new daughter-in-law also came to the bandage house to take care of the wounded with the female soldiers of the literary and labor corps, while the little correspondent had gone to the front line. The ending is not unexpected, it is war again, it is another line, the little correspondent is sacrificed in the bandage house to save his comrades-in-arms, and the new daughter-in-law puts her lily quilt on the little correspondent's body...
From the beginning to the end of the story, the plot setting is not unexpected, because the beginning introduces the story set in 1946, and the war novel must inevitably have heroic deeds of heroic sacrifice. Through the above reading, are you in tears and choking up? I'm sure a lot of people, like me, are just a little touched, and just a little touch on the surface.
The touch comes from the young correspondent who died for the War of Resistance, a respected revolutionary fighter, a heroic figure worth remembering forever, a movement in the magnificent epic of our great Communist predecessors...
Our touch is broad, single, and incomplete, and the deep analysis has to look at the details of Ru Zhijuan's hidden in the novel.
Movie "Lily"
"Lily" has a length of 5830 words, but after reading it, we can immediately sort out the storyline of the novel, which shows that its plot structure is not complicated, and its wonderful point is not in the construction of the plot. This is the biggest difference between it and other novels, it downplays the plot, emphasizes the imagery, emphasizes the symbolism, and is a typical poetic novel.
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The clever setting of details promotes the burst of emotion
We peek into the beauty of human feelings under the war from the details of the novel, and feel the wonderful use of Ru Zhijuan's pen.
After walking a few steps, he remembered something again, took a while in his satchel, felt out two steamed buns, raised them toward me, put his hands on the stones on the side of the road, and said, "It's time to cook for you!" I walked over and picked up the two dry buns.
This is the first time that the hard steamed bun appears in the plot of the novel, and when the little correspondent leaves the bandage, he leaves the dried steamed bun to the female soldiers of the literary troupe, that is, the "I" in the text. Later in the text, there is another echo of these two steamed buns.
I wanted to pull her away, I wanted to push away the heavy atmosphere, I wanted to see him sit up, I wanted to see him smile shyly. But I inadvertently touched something next to him, and I reached out and touched it, and it was the meal he had cooked for me, two dry and hard buns.
This is the ending of the episode in which the little correspondent lies dying on the bed where the bandage is. The two dry and hard steamed buns are no longer steamed buns for people to satisfy, but another deep friendship.
Dried steamed buns
When the first hard bun appeared, we seemed to be able to see the shy, even a little playful young warrior, but when the second hard bun appeared, the warrior had left us forever. In addition to the sense of mission as a warrior, the correspondent also has the human beauty of rising with people and caring for his companions, and this human beauty is vividly expressed by two dry and hard steamed buns.
In addition to the dry and hard buns, of course, there are other details depicted, such as lily quilts.
Not far from the door, someone told us that the young daughter-in-law was a bride who had just passed the door for three days, and this quilt was her only dowry. When I listened, my heart did not go, and the correspondent frowned and looked silently at the quilt in his hand.
Here, Ru Zhijuan introduced the significance of the lily quilt to the new daughter-in-law, not only saying the consciousness of the common people represented by the new daughter-in-law to support the War of Resistance, but also pointing out the nobility of the military and civilian fish water conditions.
The hygienist brought a coffin and removed the quilt from his body to put him in the coffin. The new daughter-in-law's face turned white at this time, and the sharpshooter grabbed the quilt, glared at them fiercely, and spread half of the quilt flat on the bottom of the coffin, and half of it covered his body. The hygienist said with embarrassment: "The quilt... It is borrowed from the common people. "It's mine—" She muttered half angrily, then turned her head.
Near the end of the novel, the lily cotton quilt reappears, this time not in the hands of the correspondent, but half pressed under him, half covered on him, and he leaves us forever. From the cotton quilt, we not only saw the death of the correspondent and the kindness and innocence of the new daughter-in-law, but also saw the strong military and civilian fish water conditions. The ending of the story is sad and touching, but when you look at the dry hard buns and the lily cotton quilt, the emotional impact is more intense and shocking.
Lily cotton quilt
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Write at the end
"Lily Flower" undoubtedly conveys a kind of innocent and kind human beauty, which is a high-level summary of the water conditions of military and civilian fish during the war, and the most sincere care and love between soldiers during the war, which is not only reflected in the dry hard steamed buns and lilies quilts, but also in many details. The beauty of humanity that we admire does not only exist in the bandages of the 40s, but should also be sown in our own times!
The success of "Lily Flower" has created a bridge to look back at the past, stick to the present, and look forward to the future, and also achieve Ru Zhijuan herself. Between Ru Zhijuan as the author and Lily as a work, there is actually an intergenerational relationship: first, Ru Zhijuan created the critically acclaimed work "Lily"; second, the writing process of "Lily" is also the process of Ru Zhijuan overcoming the difficulties of life and transcending self-doubt. Under the fresh and handsome appearance of this work, traces of the author's own inner trek are constantly projected, which may be the reason why critics have praised this work for a long time and are inexplicable.
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The subject matter that celebrates everything is not outdated, it is only the reader who is lost in the materialistic flow.....