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Some time ago, a short video clip "What is Page" exploded in the circle of friends and earned everyone's tears. Recently, Zhang Dapeng, the director of "What is Page", has made a tear-jerking god work "Living Map Daddy", which is not surprising to make everyone burst into tears.
The skit tells the story of three years after the death of her mother, and the daughter takes her father to live in a big city for a short time. Father Lao Zhang was known as the "living map" in his hometown, knew everything, and often took his daughter to ride around on a bicycle, in her words: When I was a child, there was no road he did not know.
On the bike, the daughter asked, "Where is the mall?" The father blurted out: "The alley in front of me is through." The daughter asked again: Where is the popsicle stand? Father said: It's winter, and popsicle stands are not easy to find. But seeing that her daughter liked it, she still couldn't help but help him find it.
At that time, the father was an omnipotent superhuman father in the eyes of his daughter, without a road he did not know, without what he could not do.
However, this time when he came to his daughter's big city, his father Lao Zhang experienced four times of getting lost, the first time was just out of the train station, and finally he was picked up by his daughter from the police station. The second time was to go to the supermarket, had to take a different path, and ended up getting lost. The third time was when Lao Zhang ran out privately without listening to advice during the day, and her daughter met Lao Zhang who was lost in the car.
The fourth time the daughter returned home, she did not see her father Lao Zhang, thinking that he had run out and lost again, and it turned out that Lao Zhang was at home, but she saw the letter and a map left to him by her father.
The letter reads: I have thoroughly explored the roads around your community, drawn a map for you, I am not there, you look at everything on the map...
Father Lao Zhang used this map to tell his daughter: I love you, the reading glasses you gave me are very good, but I don't need them for the time being, I am not old, I am still with this era, even if I grasp the tail of this era, do something for you.
Zhang Quanling once said in a speech: This era will abandon you, and you will not even say hello.
If this sentence is applied to our parents, it is not only cruel but also has an indescribable heartache, after all, they are really old, and their ability to accept new things, both physically and mentally, is constantly deteriorating.
But he was also a hipster of that era, and he was also a storm in his own field. He is also a superman who once did everything in front of his children, as @Xin Ma Ash said in the People's Daily commentary:
Dad will repair the TV, electric fan, cabinet toys, story machines, etc., anyway, the things in the house are broken and broken, look for Dad, there is nothing that cannot be solved.
How powerful the father was, how lost the old father is now, they are afraid that they will not be able to keep up with this era, and you will slowly stop needing them.
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My father was 63 years old the year before, from our childhood in this city to work, he is the most ordinary migrant worker in the city, working for decades, there is no brilliant Tengda, but also use all his income, for our three brothers and sisters to study, now our three sisters and brothers have settled in this city, he is also old.
Once, he was going to take the subway to the train station and prepare to go back to his hometown, and we were very worried, because he had never taken the subway himself, and the complexity of the city's underground transportation was a very difficult thing for him.
But he didn't send him to any of us, insisting on taking it himself, so I had no choice but to secretly follow him. Only to see him go down to the subway station, see the lines in all directions, instantly confused, the key is that now or the machine to buy tickets, he will not operate at all, can only carefully ask for help from others, and then according to the operation steps taught him by others, a key by key press, it took more than ten points, sweating to finally buy the ticket.
I saw him clumsy and anxious in the back, eager to run up to help him immediately, but in the end he did not go up, maybe at the moment all he needed was your ignorance and not to disturb.
Parents use their caution to slowly move closer to this era, hoping to do their best to help you again, but finally find that they are so powerless.
And the last map drawn by his father Lao Zhang is just a way for him to integrate into his children's world, he wants to try to catch up with his children, try to integrate into their ever-changing world, and catch up with the tail of the last wave of this era.
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When I first graduated, when the smartphone was just emerging, I remember that since I was in high school, my father has been nagging in my ear, asking me to teach him to play with computers, but every time I will say: computers are so complicated, it is difficult for you to learn, and then what can you do when you learn.
This conversation went on for many years, each time ending with my rejection. Until I got married and had children this year, my father and mother came to help me with the children, and the two of them had a clear division of labor, the mother took care of the children at home, and the father went out to buy vegetables and cook.
Once, when my father came back from the vegetable market, he said to me in an unmistakable tone: Daughter, you must teach me to use a smart phone, now the market is full of WeChat and Alipay scanning codes, I now pay money to others, people are a look of disgust.
Hearing my father say this, I immediately bought him a smart phone, downloaded WeChat, used the mobile phone number to help him register, taught him to bind a bank card, charged money inside, and told him how to scan the WeChat code to pay, this series of processes down, it took almost a whole week.
During the period, there are some operations that we have become familiar with and cannot be familiar with, but we have to teach it over and over again, I am not patient enough, this time I always can't help but yell at him, he is not angry, and when I am angry, how to ask and how to ask, just like this, Dad slowly learned WeChat pay.
Since learning WeChat Pay, every time he went to the market to buy vegetables and came back, the whole person was like a general who had won the battle, and he was very angry, in his own words: after learning WeChat payment, he no longer had to look at people's faces, his waist was not sore, his legs were not sore, and his mood was much better.
Later, dad and mom also learned WeChat voice and video chat, sent a circle of friends, joined our family's group, often in the group and the old family chat in the hometown dialect, busy and happy.
Now my dad has also learned to ride online, buy train tickets online, shop online, and live a so colorful life that even I, a young man, are jealous.
Once I was on a temporary business trip, Xiao Bao was sick, there was no bus at night, Dad was about a taxi on the Internet, and Xiao Bao was sent to the hospital in time, every time he talked about this time, Dad was beautiful, his face was happy to blossom, and you stressed vigorously: You see, your dad is still very powerful, and he can help you at key moments!
It turns out that he doesn't want to be left behind in this era, just wants to be able to enjoy the feeling that you need him all the time, he doesn't want the fact that he gets old to become a burden on you, he hopes that even if he is old, he is still the omnipotent superman who can help you solve all your problems.
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In the book "To My Daughter", Wang Su once said such a passage: I don't remember loving my parents. When I was young, I was afraid of them, and when I was older, I began to annoy them, and then I was the tip of the needle to Mai Mang, and I quarreled when I met; then I looked down on them and avoided them...
Wang Shuo's attitude towards his parents is almost a true portrayal of the attitude of all children to their parents, the father has gone from omnipotent to helpless, we have gone from being afraid of him to looking down on him, and the daughter's dislike of her father Lao Zhang in the short film is about to overflow the screen.
In order to catch up with the footsteps of his children, how much effort has the father made behind his back! In times of rapid change, the only constant is your father's love for you.
On zhihu, someone asked such a question: how to teach dads to use smartphones quickly and effectively?
A netizen replied like this: Like when you were a child, your parents taught you to tie your shoelaces.
Dad patiently taught you all the skills to adapt to society since childhood, so that you have an excellent you; now you, the greatest filial piety to Dad, is that you should patiently teach Dad the skills of this era.