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If you feel that life is stressful and can't find your way, I recommend you watch this "Little Forest".
"Little Forest" is a food literary film directed by Japanese director Junichi Mori, divided into two parts: summer and autumn and winter and spring, which were released in 2014-2015, both of which are the highest rated movies in Japan in 2015, with a high score of 9.0 on Douban.
The film tells the story of Ichiko, a girl who grew up in Komori Village in northeastern Japan, who cannot adapt to the hustle and bustle of the city, chooses to return to her hometown again, and gradually finds the direction of life in the change of the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter.
Even if you are under a lot of pressure and have more helplessness, when you see the quiet and fresh natural scenery in the film and experience the warm breath of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, your heart will be quiet.
Day and night change, rain and snow blend is the nature of nature, it seems to tell us that there is no obstacle in life, time can heal all the past. In life, only eating well and living well is the most precious.
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Why did Ichiko return to Komori?
In the film, there is not much introduction to the work in the city. At that time, she worked in the supermarket, cleaning up inventory and listing new goods, which was a daily routine.
Vegetables in the city are too expensive, and she can only eat instant noodles and rice every day to survive. In the supermarket, she meets a boy, and in the face of the other party's praise, Ichiko is very happy.
At lunch, boys eat dry bread and vitamin tablets to supplement nutrition. When Ichiko saw it, she thought he was miserable and was determined to bring him a bento as well.
Then, she made sour radish from small turnips planted in the rental house, brushed miso sauce on the ryoli and poured honey on the omelet.
At lunchtime, she carefully took two bento boxes and waited for the boy to come to dinner, only to learn that he already had a girlfriend, and Ichiko was disappointed.
It could be lonely or stressful, and Ichiko returned to Komori in the middle of summer.
The humid air made her feel like she was covered in grass, and her clothes could not dry for several days, so she could only use the stove to evaporate the water vapor in the house.
In Komori Village, because it is far from the city, shopping is very inconvenient, and it takes a day to go to the nearby supermarket. As a result, life in the village is mostly self-sufficient.
In the spring, Ichiko learned from the elders in the village to make pickled bracken for winter to eat, but because of her laziness, the bracken also rotted and broke;
In the summer, she works in the rice fields to weed, because she can harvest rice in the autumn and eat soft natto glutinous rice balls in the winter;
Take a lunch break and take a tomato soaked in well water, and the tiredness seems to be swept away; of course, sweet rice wine is also a perfect match for summer.
Autumn comes inadvertently, and the stir-fry of walnut rice and August melon peels supplement the physical exertion of field labor;
During the agricultural leisure season, the unique atmosphere of August melon, roasted sweet potatoes, dried persimmons and sugar-boiled chestnuts adds a joyful color to the party.
After the winter walk and shoveling the snow, a pot of curry delicacies and Indian pancakes brought by her friend Noriko became an extra treat.
At Christmas, Ichiko made a cake and enjoyed the small blessing of this ritual with Yuta and Noriko.
Spring, summer, autumn and winter, all year round, all the gifts are natural gifts.
Komori village holds a group meeting, and Yuta begins to make small talk on the way back to Ichiko.
Yuta said: "You are really trying to live, but you feel that in the face of the most important things, you are always dodging, and you are covering everything up with the guise of effort. ”
Yuta suddenly spied into Ichiko's heart.
He returned to Komori to escape life, while Yuta returned to Komori for the sake of life.
He said: "He came back to face life directly, because the people in the city did not have much experience but always liked to tell a bunch of big truths, cheerful personality, and people who dared to say their past were in the minority, and he did not want to live a life of being killed by others and complaining about the way of killing." ”
So he accepted everything here and treated it with heart.
But for Ichiko, escape, while shameful, is useful.
After a year-round life in Komori Village, Ichiko finally understood everything from the letter from her mother who left 5 years ago: "Just think about it and do it!" ”
When Ichiko first returned to Komori, she felt that it was disrespectful to Komori to live there, but in fact she was unwilling.
Now that she understands that it was Komori's life that gave her a chance to pause, she finally had the courage to take the initiative to face it.
It is not shameful to escape difficulties, treat a meal with heart, and treat life with heart is not a verbal word, but something we have to do with sincerity, which is the right solution for us to face life.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="145" >02 What you personally experience is called life, admitting mistakes is not simply saying sorry, it is to admit it with your heart, to accept yourself. </h1>
When did Mom leave?
In the spring of 5 years ago, spring snow covered the earth, and Ichiko asked her mother to make miso soup at night before going to school, and she did not think about how her mother dug vegetables on a snowy day.
When I got home that night, my mother left. Since then, Ichiko has become a life of her own, and then she feels lonely when she goes to work in the city, choosing to return to Komori in the summer.
She began to feed herself, cooking the way her mother used to be.
If it weren't for the accidental experience of removing the stems from celery, she probably would never have known why her own stir-fried greens were not as delicious as her mother's.
At that time, I still told my mother that I couldn't make some slightly more complicated dishes?
But when the persimmons themselves cooked, they realized that even a small stir-fried green vegetable needed to be tried and tried to cook a good taste.
Ichiko began to work some temporary work to earn money, and the boss's scolding made her very dissatisfied. She thought to herself that the boss would only push the work she didn't want to do to her family, and she just needed to go home and say she was tired.
She suddenly had an epiphany that she had been such a person! Was the past self a relative to my mother? Once her mother asked her to pluck a carrot, she would complain.
After her mother left, Ichiko did not understand from the beginning, and even had emotions, to the back gradually realized that only she can be responsible for herself in life, and positive face is the real way.
The following winter, Ichiko suddenly received a letter from her mother, who had harvested a happy life, and shared some of her great truths in the letter.
"When I fell somewhere, every time I looked back at myself before, I found that I fell in the same place, although I had been trying very hard, I always circled in the same place, wandering to the end, but I returned to the origin, but I accumulated experience every time, so whether it was failure or success, it was no longer the origin."
Then it should not be called a circle, but it should be called a spiral, maybe it is very much like going around in the same place, but in fact, it will deviate a little, and the circle drawn each time is getting bigger and bigger! So the spiral is also getting bigger. ”
Having personally experienced the bittersweet and bittersweet of life, experienced the difficulty of cultivating crops, and experienced the joy of harvesting... Ichiko finally understood that this is called life, and she knew that she was wrong.
In the years after her mother left, she found her own direction from life, from a meal to a meal.
She began to accept her true self and finally made a choice.
Ichiko returned to the city again. After another five years, she and her husband returned to Komori, and this time, they decided to settle here.
At Komori's Spring Harvest Festival, Ichiko and her husband danced together, and she became firm and composed.
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"Little Forest", whether it is summer, autumn or winter and spring, beautiful natural scenery, simple and kind villagers, delicious dishes, can bring you a sense of inner stability and calmness.
If you're anxious and confused right now, go check it out! It's not too much to brush it a few times, and you can even make a dish yourself.
Life is your own, and in life, you are the biggest. Don't take stress, anxiety, or negativity over the light you deserve.
Eat well and live well!
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