People are different, so when they are denigrated, they react differently.
Some people regard dignity as the most precious thing in their lives.
Some people think that dignity is no higher than life,
That's why I say that people are different, but this also raises another question, can dignity really affect a person's life?
Hello everyone, today to bring you, director Jiang Wen's film "The Sun Also Rises" - the original "Velvet".
In 1967, China's environment in the mountainous areas was mostly closed, and the people living under the mountains naturally did not live a rich life, to be precise, the rural people lived poorly.
Just like the mother of our hero Li Dongfang, Li Yangshi, he has been poor all his life and has no happy memories.
Getting married won't make her happy, giving birth to a son won't make her happy, and the only thing that makes her feel happy is that she's eaten a few meals of braised pork.
You have to ask how poor is this Li Yang family? Go to her house and you'll see.
Her family's kang has only a thin and broken quilt all year round, and the bottom of the quilt is only cushioned with a reed mat all year round.
In addition, there is only a pair of clean cloth shoes left in the house, and the cloth shoes are also worn by Li Yang's family when visiting relatives and friends in order to visit relatives and friends during the New Year's Festival.
However, Li Yangshi wears shoes barefoot every time, because she has no money to buy socks.
Poor people live, for a breath of ambition, poor is poor, can live innocently in this world, is also her own skill, but there are women in this village who love to gossip, see Li Yang's shoes and do not wear socks,
Just behind the back muttered: "I don't even buy a pair of socks, I dare to be that barefoot immortal."
Li Yangshi is not the Lord without self-esteem, she lives this life, has learned a lot of things, knows that the earth is elliptical, can be like an egg in the universe, constantly rolling, and knows who the great savior of the people is.
But she hadn't learned the social relationship between people, and her self-esteem was frustrated, and she couldn't laugh it off, but she couldn't find the nosy woman behind her back.
To this end, Li Yangshi thought about a way to deal with this matter for a long time, and finally in one winter, he came up with an idea: to take out her son's tuition and use it to buy socks.
Li Yangshi thought so, her son is already eighteen years old this year, although the study is very good, but she can not provide him to continue to study, simply use his tuition to do more meaningful things.
Afraid that her son would not agree, she called him to her side and told him what she thought.
After the matter was told, Li Yangshi took the money and went to the market. There is a shop in the market, and the people in the village call that shop "supply and marketing cooperative".
Because the supply and marketing cooperatives are the only stores within a dozen miles of the circle, everyone who operates there has the same rights as cadres.
Li Yangshi turned around in the store for half a day, picked up a pair of dark gray socks, looked carefully between them, and suddenly thought, bought a pair of socks, can only be worn during the New Year's Festival, after all, it is not cost-effective,
So, Li Yangshi put down the pair of dark gray socks again.
After that, Li Yangshi was in the supply and marketing cooperative, wandering around at will, the time passed quickly, and unconsciously it was night, she saw that there were fewer and fewer people in the market, and her head was a little dizzy, and she felt that she was a little sorry for her clever son.
Her son's study was so good that one of her classmates gave him a pen.
Li Yangshi felt that he should go back to her son and husband to make some subsistence, so Li Yangshi bought two catties of pork.
Tragedy also happened, after Li Yangshi returned to the village, she went to the latrine, and before going to the latrine, she tied the meat to the wooden stick outside the latrine, but when she came out, the meat was gone.
The money was gone, the meat was gone, and after a busy day, only she was left as a "worthless" person.
Li Yangshi panicked, she began to cry out for the two pounds of meat she lost, she did not work, did not cook, stood at the door of the house every day without eating or drinking, swear and scolded, scolding who stole her pork.
When the women in the village saw the situation, they all persuaded her, believing that Li Yangshi had bought meat, and the meat may have been taken away by a hungry dog.
After listening to the advice of the women in the village, Li Yangshi did not stop insulting, but this time it was not people, but dogs.
That dirty word sounds worse than scolding. After that, no one in the village advised her anymore. They all said that Li Yangshi was crazy because of losing those two pounds of meat.
Although Li Yangshi was crazy, her son Li Dongfang's life had become better. Soon after Li Dongfang returned to her hometown to work as a farmer, she became an accountant in the team, because the female classmate who gave her the pen was the third daughter of the brigade secretary.
The female classmate was not in good health, not only had heart disease, but also asthma. Even her eyes were squinting. But Li Dongfang married this female classmate. In this way, he became the squad leader of the team.
Tang Yulin is a middle-aged man in his forties and fifties, whose family lives in the city, and in 1969, because of the policy, the family was sent to the place where Li Dongfang lived.
His wife's name is Sister Yao. Sister Yao's family has five brothers, and when she finally became a girl, her parents called her Sister Yao.
Sister Yao, as her name suggests, although she has reached the age of forty, she is still like a "sister", who can gamble and play tricks. Tang Yulin and Sister Yao married very late, so When Sister Yao reached the age of thirty-nine, their daughter was only nine years old.
The daughter is small and will be spoiled, and Sister Yao also coddles Tang Yulin like her daughter, so whenever Tang Yulin introduces his family, he will always say: "This is my eldest daughter, this is my little daughter." ”
After Tang Yulin was sent down, he became a subordinate of Li Dongfang. Coincidentally, as soon as Tang Yulin arrived, Li Dongfang's mother, Li Yangshi, died.
Li Yangshi scolded madly for many years, but on the day that Tang Yulin's family came, he woke up, and Li Yangshi, because he didn't know how long he would be sober, hurriedly combed his hair, took a bath, put on his shoes, and ran and jumped into the river.
The guide of Tang Yulin's family encountered this incident and went to join in the fun, and Tang Yulin met with Li Dongfang in this way.
In the world of Tang Yulin, there are many beautiful things in winter, such as: eating a full meal, dressing warmly, sitting under the windless sun, eating Yao sister's fried sunflower seeds, drinking Biluo spring tea brought from Suzhou, and listening to her daughter sing simple children's songs.
However, when he was sent to the countryside, he could no longer idle like this.
And when his boss, Li Dongfang, was working, he would always pass by his doorstep, without saying a word or looking back. Tang Yulin knew that to live the life he liked, he needed to reach some kind of agreement with Li Dongfang.
Therefore, at noon when Li Dongfang went to work, Tang Yulin invited Li Dongfang to his home for dinner, and after a meal, the two reached an agreement:
Tang Yulin could not work, but he had to discipline a few lepers in Li Dongfang's team, and those lepers walked around the market, drank and gambled money, and disturbed local security.
After the agreement was decided, Tang Yulin followed what Li Dongfang said, went to the market every day, and within a few days, he subdued the few skins so that they would no longer disturb the people.
After that, Tang Yulin often talked about things in the city with those pippi, and over time, Tang Yulin played with those pippi. Within half a year, Tang Yulin had become a regular visitor to those pippi families.
However, just when Tang Yulin was mixed up with this group of pimps, Li Dongfang got along with Yao's sister.
One day in early summer, Tang Yulin carried his shotgun to a small poppi house, sat under a tree outside the house, drank wine and guessed fists. In the middle of the night, Tang Yulin felt a little tired and wanted to go home, but Pippi stopped him and asked him to stay like this.
Looking at the appearance of the skin, Tang Yulin's heart suddenly felt uneasy, and he quickly walked back home. As soon as he arrived home, he was in his room and heard the voices of Sister Yao and Li Dongfang.
Sister Yao said: "My old Tang said that my skin is like velvet", Li Dongfang replied to her: "I want to make the straw paper you use."
Tang Yulin took a shotgun and sat down in the courtyard, he had some regrets, usually in the middle of the night, he would stay in someone else's house.
And he couldn't bear to punish Yao's sister. Nor could he bear to kill Li Dongfang, a "good man." But he's back, and he has to kill Li Dongfang.
After that night, Tang Yulin waited for three days on the dirt road that Li Dongfang was going to pass, and on the fourth day, Li Dongfang finally appeared, empty hands and a haggard face.
What was even more strange was that Li Dongfang's expression was not afraid of the shotgun in Tang Yulin's hand at all. Tang Yulin knew that Li Dongfang had found a way to survive.
Tang Yulin put down his gun and listened to Li Dongfang speak, only to hear him ask:
"I'm damned, but I want to figure out what velvet is and die again, or I won't be blinded."
Tang Yulin looked at the confused look on Li Dongfang's face and let him go. After a month like this, Tang Yulin knew that Li Dongfang really did not understand what velvet was.
As a result, Tang Yulin developed pity for Li Dongfang. But he had to kill Li Dongfang,
So, after another month, Tang Yulin went to Suzhou, Shanghai, and Beijing, where he tried to buy velvet. But he found nothing.
When he returned, he raised his gun and went to see Li Dongfang, who told him that he had not been able to find velvet and asked him what to do.
Only to hear Li Dongfang slowly stand up from the ground and say to Tang Yulin in his usual tone:
"You don't have to look for it, I want to come and go, I think this velvet should be the same thing as Yao Sister's skin."
At the end of the conversation, Tang Yulin raised his gun and killed Li Dongfang with lightning speed.
Tang Yulin knew that if he didn't fight this time, he would never have another chance. It's over. And Tang Yulin himself also went to prison.
This is a story of "dignity first",
Li Yangshi, a village woman with self-esteem, heard the ridicule of the village women, and in order to maintain her self-esteem, she took her son's tuition to buy socks after being ridiculed.
Finally, because she was sorry for her son, she bought two pounds of meat, but I didn't think that two pounds of pork were stolen when she went to the toilet.
This woman instantly felt that she not only could not maintain her self-esteem, but also let her son be wronged, she felt that everything she did was meaningless, so she went crazy.
Later, she woke up, but at the moment of waking up, she thought about committing suicide. Because this woman knows that only suicide can she maintain her dignity.
After Li Dongfang and Yao's sister's affair was discovered by Tang Yulin, Tang Yulin felt that his dignity as a man had been ridiculed, so he had to kill Li Dongfang, even if he pitied this stubborn and ignorant teenager.
But he still softened his heart, Li Dongfang's excuse, he chose to believe. It's just that Li Dongfang himself wants to find death, because he personally said that sentence, which made Gao Yulin lose his man's dignity.
At the end of the story, the author said an interesting thing,
In 1999, Prince Charles of the United Kingdom said a love word to his lover on the phone, and was surprised that the love words were exactly the same as those spoken by Li Dongfang and Yao's sister.
That is to say, a countryman who does not know what velvet is until death is no different from an English prince, so people understand that life should be treated equally.