#长文创作激励计划#
The author of this article: Chuan Meimei
I learned through a friend's recommendation that there is a documentary "Mongolia Steppe, Clear Weather", directed by Japan Kazuya Yamada for 109 minutes. It was filmed in 1999 of the last century, focusing on the Japanese explorer Sekino Yoshiharu who set foot on the Mongolia steppe three times in 1999, 2000 and 2004 and interacted with the nomadic Pujie family, which took five years to make a documentary and was released in Japan on June 3, 2006. Won the Korea EBS International Documentary Film Festival Grand Prix; Nominated for the 15th Global Environment Video Festival and the 24th Sundance Film Festival. Douban has a score of 9.7, which is 99% higher than similar films.
But it was silent for 17 years, and it will not become popular again until 2024. I brushed it twice, and each time my heart tightened, and I was moved by the free and tenacious vitality of the nomads, and cried for the impermanence of life. I like Pujie, a smart and cheerful 6-year-old grassland girl, and I also like her mother, Aiden Chimei. The mother and daughter are like the Gesang flowers blooming on the grassland, tenacious and free-spirited. The daughter has not seen her father for a long time, and her mother has not had the opportunity to meet her husband, so they live with their grandmother and grandfather and 2-year-old cousin. This man is the pillar of the house's absent stewardship. (Legend has it that Pujie's father was suspected of stealing horses and went to prison, and has not been heard from since)
If it weren't for the Japan explorer Sekino Yoshiharu crossing the grassland and meeting the Pujie family by chance, this ordinary nomadic family affair would not have been passed down like a sad story, and would not have disappeared into the dust.
In October 1999, Japan explorer Yoshiharu Sekino was on a trip to Mongolia, preparing to cross the grassland, when he was riding a bicycle and met the 6-year-old Pujie. Don't look at her only 6 years old, she fights horses and herds sheep, and her legs have not crossed the horse's belly, but she is skillfully in charge of the family's 20 horses, 700 sheep, and 7 cows. The two small pigtails of the horns are cocked on both shoulders, which looks very capable.
The explorer Sekino picked up the camera and wanted to take a picture of the little girl's sassy and heroic posture on the horse, but he didn't expect the little girl to clamp the horse's belly, rubbed the ground out of the photographer's field of vision, picked up the horsewhip high, turned around and said, "Don't get close to take pictures, don't come here!" The expression on the young face was "unruly".
The next day, Guan Ye came again, and he obtained the consent of the grandmother of the owner of the Mongolia bag, and went directly into the Mongolia bag of Pujie's house. He saw the little girl helping his grandmother chop wood and taking care of his 2-year-old cousin Barcelona, like a little adult.
Grandma told Guan Ye that their family had been attacked by horse thieves, and that 39 horses had evaporated overnight, and that Pujie's mother had gone out to look for horses for a month and had not returned. While talking, a tall and handsome woman came back with her little nephew in her arms. Xiao Pujie immediately smiled shyly, looking like a very small girl, hiding behind her mother and tilting her head to look at the Japan guests.
Guan Ye chatted with Pujie and asked her what she wanted to do in the future, and she said that I wanted to go to school, become a teacher in the future, and read to the children. And then he said, "But I don't even know what is taught in school." The mother told Sekino that she planned to send her children to school next spring, and that if they did not study, their children would have a miserable life without education, and they had to be educated.
In the blink of an eye, in the middle of October, the temperature plummeted, snowflakes fell in the sky, and the cattle and sheep should rush to the winter pasture, but the 39 horses of Pujie's family have not been found and cannot be moved. What we saw was a picture of snowflakes flying, and the grassland showing its hideous face of bad weather. Pujie was still wearing single clothes, and the sheep in the sheepfold were covered with snow, and she wanted to cover the big wooden plank, but the adults couldn't move it without being at home. The sheep cried in a low voice, looking helpless.
Sekino planned to leave the steppe for Africa, and four days later, Kopujie also accepted Japan guests. Guan Ye took pictures of him and their whole family, Xiao Pujie and his mother and grandmother changed into beautiful clothes, and stood in front of the Mongolia bag with his grandfather and little cousin, and the family of five had happy smiles on their faces.
Mom decided to give a little white horse to Sekino, who said you lost 39 horses and haven't found them yet. Pujie's mother said happily that we have other horses, and Guan Ye was very touched by the natural hospitality of Mongolia herders. Grandma was very kind, she regarded Guan Ye as her own child, and told him that spring is the season when the lamb is born, and you have to come again, and then the white horse will be strong and ready to ride.
During the Spring Festival of 2000, Pujie's mother sent a New Year's card to Guan Ye, and she wrote, "We are all fine, how are you?" Your flower white horse has grown taller, and Pujie has been talking about you." "Please find someone to translate into Japanese", it seems that Pujie's mother is quite literate and affectionate.
In March, Guan Ye arrived as promised, he bought an electric toy for Pujie, but he found that Pujie no longer had a smile on his face, and there were two more posthumous photos on the table in the room, one was his grandfather who passed away before the Spring Festival, and the other was Pujie's mother. That night, she went to visit the sick mother of her girlfriend, who was helping her find a horse, and while riding a horse and leading another horse, the road was icy, and the horse fell to the ground, and the other horse stepped on her.
After coming back, I kept saying that my back hurt, but then it got worse, and my back pain worsened on New Year's Eve, so my grandmother and uncle hurriedly called an ambulance. However, the sky is high and the road is far away, and the ambulance did not come for 3 days. They decided to call a private car, but because the herdsmen had no insurance and no cash to pay, the hospital refused to accept the patient, and she died of pain that day at the age of 33. She didn't wait for her husband to come to see her, let alone send her daughter to school in person, she left, and her young life came to an abrupt end.
When Sekino heard that his mother had died suddenly, he was stunned and said "incredible, incredible" and was heartbroken.
Soon Pujie is going to school, she wears a big red flower on her head, and she is dressed up very festively to celebrate reading. The school was far from home, and she boarded with relatives in the city.
The first day of school was the first seven days of her mother, and she wanted to pay tribute to her mother, but her grandmother refused to let her, saying that her children could not sweep the grave within 3 years, because the tears of her children would turn into tears, so that the souls of her relatives could not leave the reincarnation. My grandmother and uncle went to my mother's grave, and they sprinkled wine in the wind, and the offerings were sprinkled around, and my grandmother herself cried into a "sea of tears." Looking at the snow-capped mountains in the distance, my mother and uncle knelt lonely on the grave, which really made people cry.
Sekino set off again, and when he returned, it was mid-March of the following year, and the heavy snowfall was raging, and the disaster was severe, and the livestock did not have hay reserves (too expensive), and there were serious casualties. The nomadic people of Mongolia live a life of looking at the sky and are very constrained by nature.
In July 2004, Guan Ye came to Pujie's house for the third time, and his little cousin grew up, and he looked like a handsome young man on a horse, but the smile on his grandmother's face no longer existed, and she looked older.
Another bad news stunned Sekino, 12-year-old Pujie was in a traffic accident on the way home from school, she told Sekino last time that she wanted to learn Japanese to be an interpreter when she grew up, and her ideals could only be left in the wind forever. The next day was the graduation exam, and she didn't get her primary school diploma. Looking at her portrait on the wall, that handsome and somewhat wild little girl has grown into a beautiful and thoughtful little lady. Alas, she was shepherding sheep on horseback at the age of 6, lost her mother at the age of 7, and died at the age of 12, why, God was so cruel to her? She hasn't tasted the nectar of life yet, she hasn't even talked about love, it's so miserable, she followed her mother and left first.
At the end of the film, the picture on the grassland, the grass is green and withered, the flowers bloom and fail, and Xiao Pujie's "little angel born on Thursday" has not had time to graduate, so he follows his mother and rides away. The backs of her and her mother on the screen are getting farther and farther away, and I burst into tears.
I suddenly remembered a famous saying that life is a lonely journey, whether it is good or bad, you have to accept it. Heaven and earth are not kind, with all things as dogs, this family has passed away grandfather, mother, and Pujie in five years, leaving only the aging grandmother, in 2021, the grandmother will also pass away at the age of 88.
Only the uncle and nephew survived, and the film crew would never be able to make a sequel. Those vivid lives are fleeting all of a sudden, this is life, hope and loss are intertwined, joys and sorrows are reincarnated, making people "think of the world for a long time, alone and cry"......