Nine Fragrances is a drama film directed by Sun Sha and starring Song Chunli, Zhang Guisheng, Zhang Hongjie and Qiang Yin, released in China in 1995.
There is a special kind of family cohesion in China, in order to give children a better future. Mom or dad will shoulder their responsibilities and obligations without reservation, and Jiuxiang in the movie "Nine Fragrances" is such a great mother.
A single mother who painstakingly raised her five children to adulthood and dedicated her life. She was willing to give up her love for her children, so that their children could eat enough, and secretly licked the bowls where the children had eaten. In order that the children would not be "inferior" to the decision of the leader to give her children free tuition, she sold tobacco leaves for the children to go to college. Is there anything greater in the world than the fifties when they are terminally ill and have to visit their children, just so as not to cause trouble for them?
Although the life of Jiuxiang and the children is very difficult, they can't even eat enough on their stomachs. But the home that Jiuxiang desperately supported for the children was warm. Not only because of the meticulous maternal love, but also the warm stove and the earthen kang. These are human fireworks, and they make up a warm home.
Song Chunli's performance is very real and in place, and the sincere emotions of a mother are vividly expressed. In that small countryside in the cold northeast, this love touched the heavens and the earth.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the tenacity of maternal love: one head carrying five children, the other carrying loneliness and hardship, difficult to move forward. </h1>
At the beginning of the film, a snowstorm strikes. Jiuxiang rescued five children from the collapsed grass house, and her husband also died unexpectedly, all of which made Jiuxiang desperate. The onlookers wanted to comfort Jiuxiang, but could only repeat it over and over again: "You still have children!" "Yes, at this moment, only this sentence can arouse Jiuxiang's hope for life."
Jiuxiang's name was given by her father in the name of medicine, which also hints at Jiuxiang's bitter life. The original house collapsed, and Jiuxiang had to move with her children. The survival problems of the family of six are all pressed on Jiuxiang alone, and the poor family naturally cannot feed the stomachs of 6 people.
The five children are just when they grow up, and they eat and gobble up. Even so, the children always shouted, "Hungry! ”
Throughout the film, Jiu xiang has not eaten a meal seriously, and she often eats only licking the bowl where the children have finished eating, afraid that the children will find out that they are all asleep or after school.
One day, Jiuxiang prepared dry food for the children, watched the children walk on the dirt road to school, and then began to quietly lick the bowls where the children had eaten. When the second son suddenly came back to pick up the book, the child was very sensible and understood everything in an instant.
Anguished shouted, "Mom, you haven't eaten!" ”
"After eating, my mother just didn't want to waste this bit of food."
Knowing that Jiuxiang was lying, the child tearfully took out the dry food from the bag to be taken to school and forcibly stuffed Jiuxiang's mouth, but Jiuxiang still refused to eat.
"How can you read a day's worth of books without eating something dry?"
"If you don't eat, I won't go to school!" Jiu Xiang shed tears, looked at his son who was crying very sadly, and choked up and ate the corn bun.
The deepest impression is that several children picked up a small dog and wanted to keep it at home, jiuxiang was chopping firewood, telling the children: "The family is almost unable to feed, how can they keep dogs." ”
The children did not know that their mothers were hungry and just licked their bowls of food. Jiu Xiang had no choice but to secretly let the puppy go, and the children all went on a hunger strike when they saw the dog lost. Jiu Xiang did not blame the children for not understanding things, but was distressed that the children were hungry, and ran to the snow alone to find the puppy.
The children all played around the lost and recovered puppy, and no one noticed Jiuxiang's bleeding hand because of the fall. Jiu Xiang saw that the child's torn pants were exposed when he was lying on his stomach, and wiped his hands and picked up the needle and thread to sew them up.
Mother's love is like water, and water is good for all things without dispute. Jiu xiang shouldered the responsibility and mission of raising five children with her thin body and weak shoulders. She only knows giving, she doesn't know how to take, she only knows frugality, she doesn't know enjoyment.
In that extremely difficult day, she persevered step by step. She pushed the stone mill day and night round and round, until she couldn't stay up and sat on the stone mill and fell asleep. The background of the film is always a white snow, and she chops the wood one by one until the children grow up and can help her, so that she can rest. She always took the needle and thread in her hand and kept sewing and mending the children until they couldn't see them (with night blindness), afraid that the children would worry and pretend to be calm.
The children love Jiuxiang, but they cannot understand the passionate, painful, but hopeful love in Jiuxiang's heart.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > mother's love: taking into account the feelings of children and taking on the burden of life alone. </h1>
Jiuxiang's husband's former friend Lao Guan, after the divorce, fell in love with Jiuxiang and silently provided a lot of help for Jiuxiang. Not only will you send grain noodles, pancreas, and villain books, but you will also give some money from time to time. These not only brought the warmth of Jiuxiang, but also greatly alleviated the dilemma of Jiuxiang.
However, Jiuxiang's eldest son Tianbao was unwilling to accept this "stepfather", burned the villain book, cried and asked Jiuxiang not to associate with Uncle Guan, and also trampled the hairpin that Uncle Guan made for Jiuxiang. The treasured hairpin was trampled on, and Jiuxiang did not want to blame the child, but could only cry helplessly.
After the two broke up, Lao Guan still insisted on using his meager salary to silently send food to Jiuxiang and the children, send money, and secretly pay tuition fees to the children. Such feelings are selfless and respectable.
Lao Guan's mother was seriously ill, he could only step on the distant train, Jiuxiang held the tobacco for a long time, and finally could only look at the distant train and be sad. Who knows this difference, is forever.
Jiu Xiang painstakingly raised her five children and sent them to college. Under the old tree at the mouth of the village, Jiu Xiang watched the children leave one by one, and their hair gradually turned gray.
When Jiu xiang can finally pursue his own happiness, he learns that Lao Guan has been dead for many years.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the greatness of the mother: pouring her love unreservedly into the child. </h1>
No matter how hungry and suffering jiuxiang suffered, she was unwilling to wronged her child, which was Jiuxiang who loved her children deeply.
The eldest son and the second son should go to high school, and the huge tuition fees are a burden for the family. The town leader said that they could give their brothers two applications for free, but Jiuxiang refused:
"No, I don't want my child to feel a little inferior!"
She would rather be bitter herself than have the possibility of her child being slighted by others. She wants to maintain her children's self-esteem and cultivate their self-confidence, and for this, no matter what the cost, can not be compromised.
When the children go to high school and college one by one, the heavy burden can be imagined, although the film does not focus on this part at the end, but Jiu Xiangding uses all his energy to insist on letting the child finish college.
Even if the children have become a family, the elderly Jiuxiang is still fully considered for the children. The eldest son was distressed that his mother wanted to call his younger siblings to save his mother from running hard. But Jiuxiang did not want to trouble the children, and the eldest daughter-in-law gave Jiuxiang five hundred yuan and asked her to keep it for herself. Jiu Xiang secretly put the money back in a moment before going out.
Jiu Xiang is a great woman, after her husband's death, although her life is poor and difficult to make a living, she does her best to give her children the best life she can. During this period, because there was really no way, I wanted to sell one son for four children to fill my stomach.
But when she saw that the child needed to wash the dishes at the restaurant, she begged to bring the child back. In feudal society, a widow with her own hands, let 5 children not be involved in farming, housework, let them study at the same time, go to college, such feelings are really admirable. Fortunately, the children did not fail in their mission and each of them flourished in their own careers.
Knowing that Lao Guan was dead, Jiu Xiang's feelings that had been suppressed for many years suddenly turned into ashes. The children are independent and have their own future. All she wanted was to go back to the grass hut on the vast snowy field.
The doctor said: "It is a great miracle that she has survived to this day." Jiu xiang was supported by a certain belief to resist the threat of illness. And this belief must contain maternal love and love.
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On the snowy earth, under a round of pale orange sun, Jiuxiang and several of her children walked toward the horizon until their backs touched the heavens and the earth.
(Voiceover) Children's Recitation:
Corn kernels, yellow and yellow, feed Daddy to feed Mother,
Feed a bunch of little boys,
Standing on a high place and looking back, in the cornfield was my mother.
Jiu Xiang is an ordinary woman in the snowy plains of Northeast China, who raised five children with her strong, great and selfless maternal love in extremely difficult circumstances. Her life was ordinary and great, hard and selfless.
Jiu Xiang boiled cabbage in a pot of water, a few cornmeal stickers, and raised five sensible children. She was old, and her son wanted to carry her home, but she was upset.
Knowing that his mother's time was running out, the eldest son lay in his mother's arms and left tears of remorse. He hated that when he was young, he did not accept the old guard, let his mother suffer a lot, and was terminally ill in his fifties. He repents of destroying his mother's love and leaving her with regrets. However, it was too late, and Jiu Xiang was willing to blame his children.
The film uses trivial and real life plots to interpret the kind mother. With ordinary and little words and deeds, the great mother's love is interpreted. Jiuxiang is the epitome of all mothers in the world. Her image reflects the brilliance of maternal love, the greatest and most selfless affection in the world.