Introduction: "Crescent Moon": The mother has become a prostitute, the daughter has gone from resistance to joining, what is the root cause of the fall?
Lu Xun and Lao She, the writers of the older generation, are always able to hit the depths of our hearts with delicate and ordinary words. Under their pen, they have created one small character after another of the old era, and these small characters have undoubtedly had distinct personalities and become immortal classics. Mr. Lu Xun's Ah Q, Xiang Lin Sister-in-law, Yan Tu, Kong Yiji, Lao She's Camel Xiangzi and Yue Rong, these small people of the old era, with their own tragic experiences, show us the darkness of the old era and trigger our thinking about life and human nature.
Reading Mr. Lao She's novel "Crescent Moon" again, the original sense of depression surged into my heart again. "Crescent Moon" tells the story of a mother and daughter of the old society, forced by life, successively fell into the wind and dust, and went to the story of depravity.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > change comes, the mother bravely fights herself, who is willing to fall</h1>
A change in life mercilessly hit this family that was not rich, and when Yue Rong was seven years old, her father died. The collapse of the pillars of the home, no matter what era, can be called a "devastating" disaster. The mother wept bitterly, on the one hand, she was sad for the death of her husband, and on the other hand, she was also in tears for the survival of the future.
You know, in the old society, a woman would face great challenges in supporting herself and her children. Her mother struggled hard to support the family, and in order to support the family, she stripped away her only "three-plate axe".
Work hard, wash clothes and wash socks for others all day;
The exchange of labor for remuneration is an immutable truth. The mother desperately washed clothes and washed the stinky socks that were as hard as cowhide in exchange for a meager reward. But she soon discovered that even if she didn't eat or drink, the money she earned wasn't enough to support the mother and daughter's basic living expenses. She often stared at this pile of clothes in a daze, and it was a question of what to do in the future.
Pawn off valuable things in the house;
The already poor family did not have much valuable things to pawn, but even so, in order to eat, Yue Rong, who was only 8 years old, learned to be things to supplement the daily expenses of the mother and daughter. How can the family that cannot make ends meet maintain the stability of life for a long time, the pawn can only respond to the emergency, and cannot solve the dilemma of the two for a long time.
Soon, the silver hairpin along with the dowry of the mother's family was also pawned, which can be said to be her last wealth, and it can also be said that she has the last trace of "stubbornness".
If you can't rely on yourself, then remarry;
The mountain will fall, everyone will run, the mother's remarriage has indeed improved the life of the mother and daughter, she does not have to wash her clothes, and Yuerong can go to school while eating a full meal, as if all this is developing in a good direction. But Yue Rong's stepfather's resignation has pushed their lives into the abyss again.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > successive blows, leaving the mother into a prostitute</h1>
This time, my mother did not cry, because crying could not solve the problem. She didn't work as a washer anymore, because the laundry worker's job wouldn't save her family either.
Here we see a change in the "direction" of our mother, who realizes that she cannot support herself by labor at all, and perhaps being a prostitute is their way out.
Many people are lamenting for the choice of mother, and I think it is not her sorrow, but the sorrow of the old society. A person who cannot support himself by his industrious hands is the sadness of the old society.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > daughter Yuerong resisted to eventually joined</h1>
Yue Rong knew the "industry" of her mother from the words of passers-by talking and laughing, and when Yue Rong heard that her classmates had become aunts or become secret prostitutes after graduation, she began to doubt her mother's "intentions" to let her go to school, and she began to be reluctant to go home.
This layer of window paper was eventually broken, and her mother gave her two ways: one was to engage in this industry with her mother, and the other was that her mother remarried, and YueRong faced life independently.
Yue Rong chose the latter and began to walk out of her mother's shadow and face life alone. The plot of the story is sublimated again from here, and Yue Rong realized the difficulty of life when she faced life alone.
This is not like us in reality, when we were young, we complained that what our parents gave us was inferior to other people's parents, and complained that our parents did not show up, but when we faced life alone, we found that life was much more difficult than we imagined, and we even found the shadow of our parents in ourselves.
The new principal took office, the school could not stay, she took the initiative to move out. When she found that even if she came out early and returned late, she couldn't even earn money to wash stinky socks, and she deeply understood her mother's pain.
Yue Rong's first "host" is the nephew of the fat principal, Yue Rong for the first time felt the feeling of "attached" to men, in the old society, men are a piece of the woman's day, Yue Rong mother and daughter fought for half a day, and finally did not go out of this "rule", which is another great sadness of the old society.
Soon, the man's wife, Xiao Porcelain, found Yue Rong and begged her to return her husband to her, perhaps out of pity for Xiao Porcelain, Yue Rong left decisively and instead found a job as a waitress in a small restaurant. The job of a waitress is equally difficult to do, only charming and charming, know how to seduce male customers will make more money, Yuerong wants to fight again, she finally gave up the job again.
After Yue Rong left, the man of the little porcelain man found someone else, and her thinking changed again. The little porcelain man promised himself to a man, and when a man changes his heart or dies, the woman will have nothing. She figured it out and decided to go the route of her mother, in a group of men, to make money "romantically".
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > mother-daughter struggle life eventually becomes a prostitute, which has caused us to think about how</h1>
On the surface, the root of the mother-daughter duo's depravity lies in "poverty", but if you think about it, all this is the sadness of that era. Men occupied an absolute dominant position in the old society, and YueRong's mother and daughter fought for a long time, and they did not cross the hurdle of men. As a woman who abides by the way of women, in the face of her husband's change of heart, she has not fought, she has been wronged and complete, or she has been abandoned, which proves that the women of the old era did not live into themselves, but became an appendage of men.
The women of that era were sad, and the encounter of Yuerong's mother and daughter also proved this. They are blinded by money and eventually go to the dark side of society. In the end, the mother can calmly accept that her beloved daughter is trampled and abused by the guests, and she can also sit on the ground and bargain with peace of mind. The mother and daughter duo succumbed to reality, chose to fall, and finally lost themselves completely in the fall, becoming a true portrayal of many low-level people in the old society.
The novel "Crescent Moon" embodies the compassion for the fact that women in the old era were helpless to fall, whipping the darkness of the old society, but also bringing us different enlightenment, I believe that in everyone's heart, there are different views on the experience of the mother and daughter of the moon.