Introduction: The Wild Grass is a well-written essay by Xia Yan in the early 1940s for the progressive essay journal Wild Grass published in Guilin, and it has another title, "The Power of Seeds." At the time of the creation of the work, the Japanese invaders were advancing step by step, the Kuomintang adopted non-resistance doctrine and retreated step by step, and the Chinese nation was in a critical autumn of life and death.
The work "Weeds" borrows the extremely tenacious vitality of plant seeds as a symbol and metaphor for the great strength of the people's patriotic war of resistance, and encourages the people to enhance their self-confidence, rely on their own tenacious and resolute struggle, persist in the long-term war of resistance, and strive for the final victory of national liberation.
The work begins with two stories with profound meaning and thought-provoking meanings.
The first story is that people argue about what is the most powerful thing in the world, and many of the answers are not correct, and then the article points out: the most powerful thing is the seed of the plant. Why?
A second story is told: the scholar has exhausted all means to break down the skull of man, and the seed can separate it completely under certain conditions.
On the basis of these two stories, the author extends his meaning, citing the scene of bamboo shoots and small grass breaking through difficulties and obstacles, further illustrating the power of seeds. The following points out in a further level that the nature of this force is vitality, and vitality is an unstoppable force, it is a force of "long-term resistance", elastic, able to bend and stretch, strong resilience, and never stops until the goal is reached.
Here, a clever technique of the same pun is used to invisibly link the vitality of the seed with the tenacity of the current Chinese people's anti-Japanese struggle, expressing the author's reverence and love for the people of the war. The author specifically pointed out in the end: Only if the seed does not fall in the fertile soil but in the barren rubble, the moment life begins, it needs to struggle hard for survival, it will have such a tenacious and tenacious vitality, and it can also express its pride and pride in the flowers in the greenhouse. The expression of the meaning of the article, from shallow to deep, layer by layer, is associative, thought-provoking, vivid and profound, showing a strong appeal and persuasiveness.
The work uses weeds as the object of praise, and its connotation is very profound. Throughout the ages, there have been many people who praise flowers and few people who praise grass. In ancient times, only Bai Juyi's "away from the grass on the plains, one year old and one withered away." Wildfires burn endlessly, and spring winds blow again. Yuanfang invaded the ancient road, and Qingcui took over the deserted city. Sending Wang Sun away again, He Was full of affection was the most popular, but there was still a sense of misery.
Xia Yan's "Weeds" profoundly reveals to the reader a truth in a seductive way: The victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the salvation of the Chinese nation, and the future of the Chinese people cannot rely on those who are high-ranking officials and nobles, they are potted flowers in a glass shed, and they cannot withstand any slight storm; And can only hope in the "weeds", that is, in the hardships of tempering and growing, with a tenacious vitality of a hundred folds, deeply rooted in the earth of hundreds of millions of ordinary laborers. They are the real heroes, the backbone of China and the hope of the future, the mainstay of crisis.
This essay is orderly in narrative, well-discussed, concise in language, rich in imagination, profound in thought, and exalts patriotic feelings!
There is such a story.
Someone asked: What is the most powerful thing in the world? Some said "elephant", some said "lion", some jokingly said: "King Kong", how much strength King Kong has, of course, everyone does not know.
As it turns out, the answer to all this is completely wrong, and the most powerful thing in the world is the seed of the plant. The force that a seed can manifest is simply beyond everything, and here is another story.
The human skull is very dense and strong, and the physiologists and anatomists have exhausted all methods to separate it in its entirety, without this kind of strength, and then suddenly someone invented a method, that is, to put some plant seeds in the skull to be dissected, give it temperature and humidity, make it germinate, and as soon as it sprouts, these seeds will, with terrible force, completely separate all the bones that cannot be separated by mechanical force, and the power of plant seeds is so great, and so on.
This, perhaps a little special, is not easy for ordinary people to understand, so, do you see the growth of bamboo shoots? Have you ever seen the formation of a small grass pressed under rubble and stones? In order to yearn for the sun, in order to achieve its will to live, no matter how heavy the stone above it is, how narrow the stone is between the stones, it must twist and turn, but it penetrates the ground tenaciously and unyieldingly, its roots drill into the soil, its buds look up at the ground, this is an irresistible force, the stone that stops it, the result is also overturned by it, the power of a seed, so on.
No one calls the grass "Hercules", but its power is indeed incomparable to the world. This kind of force is the life force that ordinary people can't see, as long as life exists, this force will appear, and the stones above are not enough to stop it, because it is a force of "long-term resistance", elastic, flexible and stretching force, toughness, and force that does not reach the goal.
Seeds do not fall in the fertile soil but in the rubble, and the seeds with vitality are never pessimistic and sighing, because there is resistance to temper. The moment life begins, it brings the grass that comes from the struggle, and it is the tenacious grass, and only this kind of grass can proudly laugh at the potted flowers raised in the glass shed.