Before the book review begins, I would like to recommend a very beautiful film to everyone, the title of which is "Old Things in seongnam". It can be said that this film can be regarded as a perfect reproduction of the story in the book. Shen Jie, the actor of Xiao Yingzi in the film, with a pair of watery eyes and "exquisite and transparent" acting skills, is really unforgettable. After watching this film, many viewers also praised the cute and touching role she played. And Shen Jie can indeed be called to play the smart and lovely role of Xiao Yingzi. And other supporting roles, whether it is Aunt Song or Xiuzhen, or thieves and girls, the acting skills can be called full online. This film was also soft in winning awards that year, and was even called the peak of Chinese prose poetry films, and on the whole, it is really a rare film. Interestingly, Zhang Fengyi played the role of the thief who chose to steal things for his brother to go to school. By the way, now a shot that is often used for spoofing in short videos is actually from this film, and interested friends can go to see which shot it is? Director Wu Yigong once said in his evaluation of this novel that "the deep lovesickness and faint sorrow in the novel "Old Things in Seongnam" deeply touched people's hearts, and the whole novel was full of simple and warm thoughts and feelings. When the film was released, this emotion also touched countless audiences. ”
And I, although I have heard the big name of the book "Seongnam Old Things", if it were not for my brother's school arranging for them to read this book, and if he had not chosen me again as a ghostwriter to help him write his after-reading feelings, I probably would not have known when I would have come into contact with this book. Because from the name alone, this book is subconsciously a book that is only suitable for children. I really did not expect that this book, like Xiao Hong's "The Legend of Hulan River", brought me a lot of shock.
In the literary world, the memories of childhood can always give the author endless creative inspiration and passion. And the two literary talents in the history of modern literature, Xiao Hong and Lin Haiyin, are the best of them. Let's first take a look at the similarities and differences between the two masterpieces "The Legend of Hulan River" and "The Old Story of Seongnam". The similarities between the two works are:
Both works depict the customs and childhood memories of their hometown from the perspective of children, and both works are full of strong homesickness and bitter parting. Moreover, while expressing their nostalgia for their hometown and childhood, the two authors also choose to examine the society with a unique perspective, they see the suffering and fate of women in this era, and some kind of fatalistic thing affects a person's life; and the difference between the two is that Xiao Hong's "The Legend of Hulan River" brings people a sense of sadness and sorrow, like autumn rain, cold through the bones; and Lin Haiyin's "Old Things in the South of the City" is also written about misfortune and misery But it is mournful but not sad, allowing the reader to experience a certain human warmth in the mood of loss, which feels like a glimmer of light penetrating the layers of grass in the forest that is full of life after the rainstorm.
Lin Haiyin's "Old Things in Seongnam" tells the story of the author's childhood life in Beiping Chengnan, and she uses a slightly sad and melancholy tone to slowly tell readers about the past events that have happened around her and the growth she has gained after experiencing these things. At the same time, she also showed readers a variety of life and tragic stories in the society at that time from the perspective of children. And Ying Zi in "Seongnam Old Story" actually met many women with bad fate, they face similar situations for different reasons, and Ying Zi has been trying to integrate herself into their lives and help them get rid of the misery of life. But in Lin Haiyin's pen, these traditional housewives are actually accustomed to living in seclusion and forced acceptance, and they do not dare to rebel against the injustice of fate and the tragic status quo. Women's weakness and willingness to the status quo are infinitely magnified in Lin Haiyin's pen, and in that era, although she is very sympathetic to them, she can't help it. She witnessed the occurrence of these tragic scenes, and the indifferent secular atmosphere hit Hideko's young and young heart again and again, as if a sharp blade repeatedly cut out clearly visible scars, and all she saw in her clear eyes was the cold and warm of human feelings, and the world was cold. And those simple and frank childhood days disappeared with one story after another. Xiao Yingzi in the text has an innocent, childlike and intelligent heart, she uses the innocent emotions of children to feel the bits and pieces of life, with ignorant and innocent thoughts to appreciate the complex and delicate relationships of the adult world, in the face of the misfortunes around her, she is still using childlike naïve thinking to try to understand the occurrence of these sufferings. As she grew up, she felt more and more that many things were beyond her ability to understand, and because of this, she began to try to enter the world of adults in a silent doubt and resistance.
One of the stories I think is "Hoi An Guan", and it is through this ethical tragedy that Hideko begins to understand the difference between hearing and seeing in the adult world. The crazy woman Xiuzhen was spurned by people for being unmarried and pregnant, and her family even felt that she was humiliated. In the eyes of everyone, she is just a madman who is afraid of everyone, and people laugh at her with bad intentions and blame her, but no one is willing to understand her misfortune and perseverance. What woman can afford to live with no news from a man who loves a man and no news from her own child? But no one wants to think about it, because people have long been accustomed to labeling others simply and casually in their own way. Adults resent her, children are afraid of her, so only Hideko is willing to approach her, and Hideyoshi will only tell this 7-year-old girl about her experience, Andeko is very willing to be her only audience, laughing with her and crying with her. In the same way, how haggard a woman's inner world should be to be so preoccupied to give out the secrets in her heart to a child who has nothing to do? When Xiuzhen held her hand and burst into tears, would this lonely woman see hope in this young child? I don't know. When You'er, who was tortured by her adoptive father, and Xiuzhen met, I thought that it would be a happy ending for a family reunion, but I didn't expect that the insane Xiuzhen was full of obsession to let You'er go with her to find the biological father who had long been missing, Uncle Si Kang, and the mother and daughter who were dependent on each other eventually died tragically under the train wheel. A 7-year-old girl witnessed the tragedy with her own eyes, so she fell seriously ill, and I think that while she left the overgrown old house, she tried to bury this unbearable past.
In the short article "We Look at the Sea", Hideko inadvertently bumps into a thief who steals things to support his family and send his brother to school. Although she knew that this kind of behavior was not good, she was grateful for his "motive for committing the crime". Ironically, Hideko eventually helps the police catch the thief. While watching the thief being taken away, she began to have doubts about the meaning of "good guy" and "bad guy." Is it really so easy to define a person's good or bad, good or evil? As Hideko said in the text, "I don't know if he's a good guy or a bad guy, I can't tell the difference, just like I can't tell the difference between the sea and the sky." ”
Next, in the short article of "Aunt Lan", we see how a wise and intelligent Ying Zi saved his family; and in "Donkey Rolling" we witnessed the unfortunate experience of nanny Song Ma, until Ying Zi watched the figure of Song Ma's departure gradually drifting away, perhaps she gradually understood that those who used to get along day and night and thought they would never leave would leave us one day, and even if they wanted to meet again, it became a distant dream. It wasn't until "Daddy's Flowers Fell, I'm No Longer a Child" that we really witnessed Hideko's growth. After graduating from elementary school, Hideko became a student representative as her father expected to take the stage to receive her graduation certificate, but at the same time, her father was too ill to witness a day when Hideko was so proud. When Hideko happily returns home with her diploma and wants to share her joy with her father, she learns that the man she is closest to in her life has left her side and will never return. Eiko's last sigh, I think, must have moistened the eyes of many readers. "Daddy's flowers have fallen, and I am no longer a child"
Although most of the stories told in "Seongnam Old Things" are tragic stories, the life of Seongnam that Hideko misses is actually happy. This happiness is not only pervasive in her words, but also in her memories of her life. Therefore, we have reason to believe that her childhood life is beautiful, full of light warmth and happiness, and her thoughts of Beiping are always mixed with a breeze of warmth.
Mr. Lu Yao wrote in "Ordinary World", "Fate is always not as good as people wish. But it is often in countless pains, in the midst of numerous contradictions and hardships, that people mature. "I think life is like this, in the journey of constantly parting with people, everyone has to try to learn how to say goodbye in exchange for growth." 」
Because "Childhood, Dongyang, Camel Caravan" in this book is a published afterword, and the last four articles are not actually the original edition of "Seongnam Old Things", combined with my brother's school, these short stories are not required, and I do not agree with some of the children's handling of the relationship between biological fathers and adoptive fathers in chapter 10, "Our Father", so I will no longer mention these contents and related ideas. It is worth mentioning that there is a sentence in "Childhood , Dongyang , Camel Caravan" that I think is very worth sharing with you. "Summer has passed, autumn has passed, winter has come again, camel caravans have come again, but childhood is gone!" When I first read this sentence, I subconsciously thought of the famous sentence written by Mr. Zhu Ziqing in the essay "Hurry": "The swallow has gone, and there is a time to come again; the willow is withered, there is a time when it is green again; the peach blossom is thankful, and there is a time to bloom again." But, cleverly, you tell me, why are our days gone forever? ”
To be honest, I read this book in the scattered time on the way to and from work, and after reading it, I actually did not fall into the aftertaste of the story content. Of course, I'm not saying that the book is bad, otherwise what I wrote earlier would be like a castle in the sky, with nowhere to rely. In fact, after I finished reading this book, I began to recall my own childhood life, began to meditate and recall the past events that had a great impact on me in my childhood life, and the fragments of memories were little by little hooked with the review of the past. Unfortunately, I don't have Ms. Lin Haiyin's ability to remember the past with great clarity. This book, the deepest impression on me is that people always have to learn to grow in separation. Master Hongyi said in "Farewell", "Life is rare to be a happy gathering, but there is no separation." "Whether we say goodbye to our relatives, friends and loved ones, or say goodbye to yesterday's good memories, or say goodbye to unfinished dreams, or a desperate love, etc., we always have to endure the baptism of sadness and the impact of emotions, but this is an indispensable part of life and life, and it can even be said that the charm lies."
The past is finally gone, the twilight is like water is difficult to harvest, amorous people, why not drink with this, drink him not drunk endlessly.
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