<h1>Isn't it good to be ordinary? </h1>
In her essay "The Scavenger," Sanmao recalls an essay lesson she had as a child.
Composition teachers have assigned composition lessons to students to write about their dreams when they grow up. The students' answers were varied, but none of them were the same as Sanmao's.
Sanmao wrote: My dream is to be a scrap picker. Before he could finish speaking, he was almost hit by the blackboard thrown by the teacher. The result, of course, is a rewrite.
But Sanmao's rewritten dream is: sell popsicles in the summer and baked sweet potatoes in the winter. The teacher was still angry.
Reluctantly, in order to obey the teacher's temper, Sanmao rewrote it, just like other students - to be a doctor who saves people. At this point, the teacher was satisfied to let go of Sanmao.
However, when sanmao grew up, he left the classroom and still followed the dream of scavenging in his heart. Her scavenger dreams are actually because of her delicate, sensitive, observant characteristics.
It was also because of her insistence on her inner pursuit that she eventually became a writer on both sides of the strait.
Isn't it good to be ordinary?
Nothing bad.
Because the Sahara Desert is also made up of thousands of inconspicuous little sands.
And this increasingly busy, but always thriving society, is also the result of the joint efforts of countless ordinary people.
<h1>The ordinary man who persisted for fifteen years and wrote a dictionary</h1>
Released in Japan in 2013, "The Chronicle of the Boat" is about Ma Diguangya, who has an introverted personality and is quiet but powerful, from youth to middle age, which lasted fifteen years to compile a medium-sized Chinese dictionary "Dadu Hai", a film that combines life and events during the compilation.
This film has won more than a dozen Japanese film awards in one fell swoop. In the middle, there is the director's dedication to the texture of the film and the plot of the film, as well as the efforts of each actor to understand the roles in it, as well as natural performance skills.
The original editor-in-chief is actually an ordinary person, but he is also a persevering person. He said that the starting point of the dictionary is to push the words to more people through the words and phrases that can be most understood, understood and close to the current life of modern people. It is also because of such an ordinary, but sparkling persistence that touched the male protagonist - Ma Diguang also.
Because of this sentence of the editor-in-chief, Ma Diguang also changed his plain heart and began to love the matter of compiling dictionaries.
A teenager who is not good at words tries to convey the expressions in these words to each reader through his understanding of words. And the matter of compiling a dictionary, in the eyes of colleagues who are also young people, seems to be boring, not worth mentioning, and there is no need to re-compile the work.
Although the male protagonist Ma Diguang is not good at words, he can calmly and calmly focus all his attention on the matter of compiling the dictionary. His originally impetuous colleagues were also infected by him and slowly gradually entered a better state to assist him in completing the dictionary.
A large group of ordinary people, with the goal of compiling a dictionary, went through 4 corrections and took 15 years to complete. Up to now, probably very few people will be willing to do it and stick to it.
Moreover, it is also such an ordinary male protagonist, who is attentive to his work, and also attracts the attention of the landlord's granddaughter Xiang Zhiyi. The emotional road of the two people also goes very slowly, ordinary, but the long stream of thin water, extremely powerful bondage.
The plot of the movie does not actually have much climax, but the details are touching.
<h1>The connection between an ordinary person and a group of ordinary people</h1>
Ma Diguang is also an individual, but in the film, he represents the former editor-in-chief, office colleagues, and the college students who assist together, which is also an ordinary group of people's dedication to writing dictionaries and texts.
Behind every book, dictionary, etc., the editors who tirelessly write and correct books, they are covered by the fast times and fast pace of the moment, their ordinary is very ordinary, but because of this perseverance, they have become craftsmen, and they have become no longer ordinary.
It is they who allow the writing to continue to develop, the books to continue to produce, to cross the gap of the times again and again, to inherit the existence of each generation, to connect to the future of man, so that the origin of mankind, and the development of mankind, continue to have an impact on the next generation.
<h1>A name in ordinary people's lives</h1>
When I was a kid I didn't think I was an ordinary person at all. I also didn't think that I would be an ordinary person when I grew up.
But when I was a child, I would work hard for ordinary things.
For example, I found that my father was full of praise for a certain plant, so he pulled up his sleeves and pants. Like a boy, he wandered around the village barefoot in the ditches, looking for a variety of plants to take home to his father.
I will also be on the beach, see a shiny stone, I will take it home and put it, whether it is a valuable stone or not, as long as I find it the moment, it amazes my world, it is enough.
At those times, the little us, with the tentacles of curiosity, reached out to the outside world. There is no rush to make quick profits now, and it does not matter whether what was done at that time was paid or not, when I was a child, it was purely because we liked it.
At that time, we were ordinary but rare. It's just that few people can stick to those characteristics of childhood, ordinary.
On the contrary, after work, we will weigh up this matter that the leader values more, or whether doing that thing can make ourselves shine and become unusual.
But it is this kind of utilitarian mood that cuts off the possibility of becoming a craftsman.
We no longer start with our innocence, nor with the power of love that we had as children. We have only one scale in front of us, and it is secretly measuring everything.
If this name has always existed, the ordinary can only be mediocre.