"Borrowing Cattle" performed by Wuhan Han Theater is a good play that shows the struggle between new and old ideas in the countryside and praises the idea of collectivism. It is perfect for performing in the countryside.
The story takes place during the busy season of spring ploughing. Chunhua, the daughter of the breeder Liu Dabo, returned to her mother's house to borrow cattle from her father to cultivate her mother-in-law's own land. Aunt Liu doted on her daughter, and was afraid of offending her relatives, so she couldn't stand a few sweet words from Chunhua, so she tried to force Uncle Liu to lend the cow to Chunhua and let Chunhua secretly lead the cow away. However, Uncle Liu did not favor favoritism and refused to borrow cattle. So a family storm was set off. The ideas revealed in Borrowing the Cow through this family's internal dispute are profound. This is not an ordinary family dispute, but a reflection of the old and new ideological struggles in the countryside in this family.
After communalization, the economic system in China's rural areas has undergone fundamental changes, and the individual economy has become a collective economy. The broad masses of peasants have been liberated from small individual production, and the idea of collectivism has been established in many members. However, the influence of all kinds of private ideas produced by the private system for thousands of years, and the ideology of the supremacy of the interests of the small family formed by individual production, cannot be completely eradicated at once, and it still remains in the minds of some people to varying degrees. These people tend to see only the interests of individuals and small families, not the collective interests. Often consciously or unconsciously want to take advantage of the collective and report the public for personal gain.
Li Luoke and Tong Jinzhong starred in "Borrowing Cattle"
In the play, when Chunhua "knows that spring ploughing is in trouble and the production in the society is tight", the act of borrowing the cattle of the public family to cultivate their own land and privately taking away the production team to cultivate the cattle is the expression of this kind of thinking. She harms the public interest and harms the collective interest with her personal interests.
Others, who may not directly encroach on collective interests themselves, still have in their minds the shadow of private concepts or other outdated ideologies, so they often cannot correctly view public-private relations, and accommodate and promote ideas and behaviors that harm public interests and private interests, and actually do things that harm the collective interests.
Tong Jinzhong starred in "Borrowing Cattle"
The image of Aunt Liu is a vivid summary of this type of character. However, today, when the socialist consciousness of the peasants has been growing continuously, their thinking and deeds are not feasible, and they are bound to be attacked by collectivist ideas. The contradiction and conflict between Liu Da and them is actually a portrayal of the struggle between collectivist ideas and private concepts in real life.
There are various ways, methods, and methods for overcoming backward thinking and resolving contradictions among the people. However, relying on the self-education of the masses, especially the exemplary behavior and advanced ideological influence of advanced figures, is an effective way to replay. The central task of socialist drama is to create the image of socialist heroes and advanced figures and set an example for the masses. This little drama has ideological appeal, and it is it that has successfully shaped the image of Liu Dabo, an advanced figure.
Lee Luoke starred in "Borrowing Cattle"
Uncle Liu is a model old breeder, and the beautiful life after turning over has brought a strong sense of ownership and happiness to this old poor peasant. "The good conditions of the people's commune" made him "live more and more young.". Therefore, he was full of patriotic prestige for the new life of socialism. Because of this, he devoted all his efforts to cultivating cattle in the breeding team, "love cattle as fate." But his respectability and cuteness is not only manifested in his love for his work, but also in the fact that he values the collective at every turn.
This old poor peasant was more than half a hundred years old, and he only had one only daughter in the spring flower. He loves his daughter very much. At first, he thought that his daughter had come to borrow his own family's things, and without hesitation, he promised that "she will do whatever she wants." When he knew that he was playing with the bulls of the public family, he was not at all moved by the private feelings of his father and daughter, nor did he care about the noise of his wife, insisting that "you cannot use the cattle of the public family to drive private feelings", reflecting the true colors of an old poor peasant and a "good boss".
What is even more valuable is that he can not only adhere to principles and not favoritism under normal circumstances, but also maintain the collective interest plate without hesitation under unfavorable conditions. When he found that the cattle were led away by the spring flowers, he still did not "push the boat along the water to be human", but ignored the poor legs and the difficulty of walking in the dark, climbed the slope with water, and chased the spring flowers.
Especially when he caught up with the spring flower, he was too tired to support it, but what he thought of in his mind was that the cow "was tired all day, did not let it rest at night, and played with it to cultivate the land", "Now rushing to plough is like grabbing fire, it is tired, and it affects how to get production, which is deeply moving."
Among them, the advanced figures not only have valuable deeds, but also have a lofty ideological realm, and are able to have a far-sighted vision and a mind for the entire revolutionary cause.
The tall place of the image of Uncle Liu is also here. After catching up with Chunhua, he did not do his duty by stopping the cattle, nor did he complain about his wife and daughter. On the one hand, he criticized them in a serious tone: one who was "only afraid of not being able to live with his relatives, not afraid of not being able to live with everyone", and "not running the house according to the system", the other "only caring for the in-laws' family, disregarding the public family, and having a short-sighted vision for only one family", helping them to understand their mistakes, on the other hand, he recalled bitterness and sweetness with class feelings, inspired and educated them that "the members of the society should take the society as their home", to "love the public family, love the society better than the family", so that they understand that "the poor and lower-middle peasants should be a good boss of the commune, a red housekeeper", and regardless of their tiredness, they went to her in-laws' house with Chunhua. Convince the family.
Li Luoke, Tong Jinzhong, Chen Bohua starred in "Borrowing Cattle"
Uncle Liu did not do anything earth-shattering, but he showed his extraordinary thoughts and noble qualities in a series of ordinary "small things", and he shone with the brilliance of collectivist thought from beginning to end. As far as a small drama is concerned, the image of Uncle Liu is so complete and flesh-and-blood, which is quite valuable.