The finale of "Cheng Huan Ji" is over!
In the previous article, I said that this is a heroine, on the surface, the first heroine is Yang Zi, but in fact, it also has a heroine - He Saifei who plays his mother Liu Wanyu, which can be described as a double heroine.
He Saifei plays an ordinary mother who came to the city from Anhui and later settled in Shanghai. Time is reversed from 2023, according to Liu Wanyu's age of 55, she was born in 1968, and in 1988, at the age of 20, she came to Shanghai to work.
In 1988, China's reform and opening up had been going on for ten years, the urbanization process was developing rapidly, everything was booming and thriving, and the industry was developing rapidly, which required a large number of migrant girls and wage earners.
At the end of the play, Liu Wanyu's best friend when she was a girl said a sentence: A little girl went to Shanghai like this.
Yes, there were opportunities everywhere in Shanghai back then, and Liu Wanyu, a girl from a rural family, didn't have to lie in the countryside all the time, hoeing that piece of land that could never be finished, and had the opportunity to change her fate.
At home, she needs to take a jar every day, beat an egg, and then go to buy piping hot soy milk to go home for her brother to eat. Once, she accidentally fell and the eggs were spilled on the ground, and she went home and was scolded for stealing the eggs......
These things accumulated and stimulated Liu Wanyu.
The specific plot that stimulated Liu Wanyu to break into Shanghai is: she likes to sing since she was a child, and she won the first prize in the city, and the city's drama troupe extended an olive branch to her, but her parents refused to pay the tuition. After learning from the pain, Liu Wanyu decided to go out to make a living, change her future, and control her own destiny.
After arriving in Shanghai, she was also full of energy and wanted to do something like herself.
However, if you want to settle in Shanghai in the end, you can only marry the honest Mai Laitian by marrying someone to become a Shanghainese.
I read a book in which the girl said something like this:
I don't want to spend all my love, all my energy, all my intellect—though not much—I just don't want to waste my life on some pleasant, polite, conformist piece of waste.
Mai Laitian in the play is such a waste, he has been honest and well-behaved all his life, and his biggest hobby is to drink some wine while his wife is not paying attention, fishing in his spare time, and what he yearns for most in his life is to be rich and safe, and his wife and children are hot on the kang...... A thoughtful, optimistic, conformist waste.
Liu Wanyu was reluctant at first, but what can she do? As a working girl with a junior high school education and a rural household registration, she has no chance to meet a better person, and even if she does, she can't catch it, so in the end, she "can only cheapen Mai Laitian", marry Mai Laitian, and give birth to a son and a daughter for Mai Laitian.
Mai Laitian is a Shanghainese, has a Shanghai hukou, and has a small two-bedroom in Shanghai.
Therefore, to live a good life, to live a good life by your own efforts, and to let your children live a good life. This has become Liu Wanyu's obsession.
At first, she wanted to live a good life through her own efforts, but later, it simply became a good life, as long as she could live a good life, she was willing to ignore the process, as long as the result.
In this way, she is diligent and dedicated every day, raising her daughter, taking care of her daughter, and even neglecting her son in order to take care of her daughter.
Subconsciously, she put all the things she didn't do back then on her daughter, and she was a "chicken" daughter in her life. In essence, he imposed all his unrealized ideals and ambitions on his daughter.
Because as a girl who has been discriminated against since she was a child, she knows very well how difficult it is for girls to gain a foothold in this world, and boys are always better. With such thoughts, she took care of her daughter carefully, and invisibly ignored her son's basic rights.
Later, because she and her husband Mai Laitian had to go to work and couldn't take care of their two children, they ruthlessly put their young son Chengzao back to their hometown in Anhui and were taken care of by their parents, so they were absent from their son's childhood, which brought invisible trauma to his son's character, and in his own family, in order to correct the inequality between men and women, but another kind of inequality between men and women was formed.
Daughter Chenghuan began to fall in love at the age of 26, the object was Xin Jialiang, at first Liu Wanyu did not know that Xin Jialiang was a rich second generation, she was all kinds of dissatisfaction, all kinds of obstruction;
Because she forcibly deceived her daughter to attend an unwarranted engagement wedding, her daughter did not comply, and she did not hesitate to slap her daughter who she had spoiled since she was a child, causing her daughter to run away from home.
For a long time, she has cared very little about her son, and always feels that boys are honest, and Mai Chengzao has been well-behaved and sensible since she was a child, and she studied well, so she almost didn't let her worry about it, so she ignored her son, causing Mai Chengzao to have always longed for maternal love, eager to be seen, eager to care, and fell in love with his sister's best friend Maomao when he was 13 years old.
Mai Chengzao likes Maomao who is older than himself, which is essentially a manifestation of motherhood. Because he has not received his mother's attention and love since he was a child, he longs for the attention and love of older women in his heart. To some extent, it was the mother who single-handedly pushed her son into Maomao's arms.
Of course, in order not to be disgusted, the character of Mao Mao designed in the TV series is not much older than Xiao Zao, only 6 years old. Mao Mao is 29 years old, while Xiao Zao is 23 years old. The age difference between the two is not very large, standing together, they are a good match. Moreover, this drama is the heroine, so the emotional line of his younger brother Mai Chengzao is not important, so the plot does not involve a big scene of mother-son conflict.
And when Liu Wanyu learned that her son was in love with Mao Mao, she just found out that she might have cancer. At this juncture, her life is almost gone, and she can't take care of herself, how can she take care of the little of her son falling in love!
Therefore, she easily agreed to the marriage of her son and Maomao. In fact, in the final analysis, she still cares about her daughter more than her son; of course, you can also understand that she cares about herself more than her son; of course, it can be said that she cares about her daughter, in fact, she pays attention to herself, because her daughter is also a woman, and her daughter is herself.
The daughter has always been the mirror of the mother. Even, you can say that the daughter is the mother's other self.
So, in her bones, she loves herself more than anyone else.
Of course, there is nothing wrong with that. People must first love themselves before they can love others. If a person does not love himself/herself, he/she cannot love anyone else, including children.
In the end, Liu Wanyu found out that she was sick.
This disease has long been foreshadowed in the TV series, and many details have been mentioned in the previous that Liu Wanyu cooks for her children every day, giving priority to the freshest and delicious meals for her children, and she always eats leftovers in the refrigerator.
Not only that, she has been reluctant to buy new clothes for several years, and she always goes to the vegetable market to grab discounted cheap vegetables when she buys vegetables.
There is a sentence in the subconscious: I give everything for you, for you, and for this family, and you have to listen to me.
There is not only love in this kind of giving, but also control, which can be seen in Liu Wanyu's behavior.
Therefore, the accumulation of hard work became a disease, and the accumulation of depression became a disease, and Liu Wanyu was sick - lung cancer.
She made the last meal for her children, and then left, gone, and ran away from home.
The subtext is that I can finally be willful.
Leaving her family behind, she returned to her hometown in Anhui by herself, intending to wait quietly for death.
I've worked hard all my life, old lady, I'm not doing it anymore, I'm picking.
Hmph, but don't think about it, because you owe me.
This is Liu Wanyu's character, she didn't think about what she could do, but after living a lifetime, she always felt uncomfortable and uncomfortable, and finally tossed herself out of illness, she was afraid.
Is this the end of my life?
If this is a mother-daughter drama, she should be able to find herself on her own. But unfortunately not, this is a play with a daughter protagonist, and it is the daughter Mai Chenghuan who helped her mother find her dream when she was young: to become an operatist, act on stage, bring joy to everyone, and realize her own value.
So in the end, it was her daughter who helped Liu Wanyu find her long-lost self.
In the end, a happy ending was realized, Liu Wanyu was cured of cancer, reappeared on stage, and found herself.
As for whether her daughter gets married or not, it's actually not something she needs to worry about.
Write at the end
For this drama, some disappointed netizens commented:
Seeing the final result, it is too detached from the actual situation, it is a modern idol drama, and it is not a drama from decades ago, I am sick, regardless of the feelings of others, I ran back to my hometown alone and waited for death, it is too outrageous, it is really ridiculous, the director doesn't know what to think, too naïve......
But some netizens keenly pointed out:
This is a very real drama, the epitome of modern mothers, the epitome of the vast majority of families in China, real and bloody, and cannot be classified as petty love. The perspective is the mutual growth and healing of family members. Teacher He Saifei and Yang Zi both acted very well, everyone around them was chasing, young people saw themselves, and the elderly also saw themselves.
Indeed, the drama is still good as a whole, there is cancer, but it is not bloody, there are conflicts, but it is not violent, and it spreads positive energy to the society: parents are hardworking, sacrificial, and dedicated, and children are independent, sensible, and filial. In the end, the mother and daughter reconciled, and both grew up, and the ending was good.