After watching Zhang Chengzhi's "The River of the North", I took advantage of the excitement and unrestrained emotions and couldn't help but buy his "Black Horse". Published in 1981, Black Horse won the second National Outstanding Novella Award, and three years later, "The River of the North" won the third National Novella Award. From the vast grasslands of Inner Mongolia to the vast Loess Plateau, Zhang Chengzhi, who is in his prime, has China's mountains and rivers in his heart.
The "Black Horse" is a horse and an ancient prairie pastoral song that shares the same name – Ganga Hala. The black horse grew up with Baiyin Bolig, carried him across the steppe, across the Burlegen River, and met his unforgettable first love. In this song, the shepherd riding the black horse never sees the girl he first fell in love with, because she is no longer the original her, and this tragedy is also being repeated in Baiyin Baolige, becoming a tragic song of his love.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > love that is too beautiful to hurt when broken</h1>
Lang rode a bamboo horse and went around the bed to get green plums.
Cohabitation in the long dry, two small guesses.
Baiyin Baolige lost his mother at an early age, and when he was eight years old, his father sent him to the house of an old grandmother on the steppe, and it was also this year that he and Soumya met for the first time. In their childhood, they were innocent and simple, herding sheep, attending classes, and playing together, and they were really two little guesses, green plum bamboo horses. Adolescence comes quietly, and physical changes make them care about actions that go beyond the boundaries of their friends.
Baiyin Baolig's love for Soumia is pure and noble, and when the grandmother hints that they can sleep together unmarried, Baiyin Baolige has no choice to cross this line. He carefully protected Soumia, hoping that he would be able to officially marry her. For this love, Baiyin Borig did not have any worries, he knew that Soumia loved him equally, and he also knew that his father and grandmother agreed to be with them.
Leaving home for half a year to study medicine, after returning, he married Soumya, and later lived a lifetime on this grassland and with Beauty, which was Baiyin Baolige's plan. But when he returns, soumia, who finds himself a treasure, has been raped by the yellow-haired Sheila. At fanggang's age, Baiyin Baolige couldn't stand it, and what he couldn't accept most was that Grandma and Soumya chose to endure.
Lu Xun said: "Tragedy is to destroy the valuable things in life to show people." When the author arranges the plot and creates the image for Soumia, he ruthlessly breaks the original beautiful thing. The sadness we can feel is not because Soumia has lost her virginity, but because it has been lost in such an unbearable way to a very unbearable person.
These ugly things are like darkness chasing the sun, chasing everywhere, defiling, and even killing things that are too fragile and beautiful. ——Zhang Chengzhi, "Black Horse"
The yellow haired Sheila is the symbol of the evil ghost, he is like a pool of mud, mercilessly defiling Soumia's pure and flawless jade, tearing the beautiful love out of an opening. This opening reveals the gap between Baiyin Borg and Soumya, who loves the fetus in her womb more than Baiyin Borg, and she does not trust him, thinking that he will hurt her. Baiyin Baolige also had to face up to the distance between them, not only in blood, but also in the concept that was deeply rooted in ancient culture.
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Baiyin Baolig knew that Soumia was innocent, and he waited for Soumia to confide in him, as long as he didn't blame her, but Somya didn't.
As we said earlier, Baiyin Baolig and Soumia were two little guesses, he thought they trusted each other, he thought that the two of them were no different. However, Soumia did not know when she would no longer be the innocent and simple little girl she had been, and she had slowly accepted the ideas that her grandmother had instilled in her, and also accepted the rudeness and barbarism left over from generations on the steppe.
Grandma was a witness to the habits of life on the steppe and the inheritor of ancient customs. Grandma chose to tolerate, forgive and endure what happened to her granddaughter Soumya, who embraced all people like the prairie under her feet. When Baiyin Baolig wanted to kill Sheila, Grandma took the knife from his hand, thinking that such a thing was not worth killing. When it comes to Soumya being pregnant, Grandma thinks it shows that Soumya has the ability to give birth. When Baiyin Baolige was indignant, Grandma thought that this was the fate of the women on the grassland and had to learn to endure.
In Grandma, there is an extraordinary kindness and generosity, showing eternal respect for life. But this overly noble morality is essentially a kind of tolerance and masturbation of ugliness, an indulgence of barbarism, and a continuation of ignorant thought. BaiYin Bolig finally realizes that there is an indissoluble barrier between them, which prompts him to decide to leave the steppe and go to the city.
I could not tolerate the habits of the steppe to which Grandma was accustomed and its natural laws, though I loved it so lovingly. I wrapped my arms around Ganga Hala's neck in the darkness, enduring the terrible torment of my heart. No matter how desperately I tried to stop myself, no matter how much I drowned that little bit of temptation mars with the rolling river of the past, a fresh longing had been born in pain. This desire beckons me and drives me to pursue a purer, more civilized, more respectful and more attractive life.
Baiyin Baolige could not tolerate the evil man's unpunished deeds, and could not understand that the victim had no complaints after being hurt, so he left. The departure of Baiyin Baolig is the impact of modern civilization on the ancient ignorant tradition, and it is also the most helpless part of his love tragedy.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > love crushed by fate and can only be reduced to tragedy in the end</h1>
Burlegen, Burlegen, the girl waded through the water, did not see the hometown people...
The Burlegen River is a small river where a woman breaks up with her parents when she marries a different in-laws, and after crossing this river, they will never see each other again for the rest of their lives. Grandma once pointed to the river and told Baiyin Baolige and Soumia that she hoped that Somia would marry Baiyin Baolig so that she would not have to cross the river and would not have to repeat her fate.
But Soumia eventually crossed the river, marrying a rough but responsible man. When Baiyin Baolig found her, he thought she would cry to him, but he didn't. Somia has grown into a true prairie woman after many things in the past. She was strong, stoic, tolerant, kind, and she became like the other women on the prairie, and even saw the deceased steppe women in her.
The past Soumya has disappeared into this grassland, and now Soumya is slowly becoming the kind and generous grandmother in memory. Behind Soumya's transformation is the fate of generations of steppe women, and also hides a shocking and human story. Their fate is constantly reincarnated on the steppe, they gain the respect of the people with their hard work, they move people with gentleness and tolerance, and they are shaped by the simple and ignorant tradition.
Soumea could not fight the tragedies that had been inflicted on her, so she walked again along the path that the steppe woman had once taken. Baiyin Baolige left the grassland nine years ago, walked into the city with a heart that pursues civilization, and as a result, he was hit hard again and again in front of reality, and he already had a deeper understanding of his hometown, love and life. He no longer simply thought they were stupid, he saw the calmness and bravery of their tragedies.
I want to pour out everything that has become the past. Then meet tomorrow with a richer, wetter heart, like the shepherd riding a black horse in the ancient song.
Baiyin Baolig and Soumia each embarked on their own path in life, they lost each other forever and will never forget each other.