The unit of "Meritorious Service" Shen Jilan, what makes people feel most deeply is that in Xigou Village in the 40s and 50s, it is not easy for women.
The 17-year-old Shen Jilan (also known as the Big Lanzi in the play) married into Xigou Village, and on the day of their marriage, her husband Zhang Hailiang went out with the army.
Da Lanzi caught up with the team, and the two men, witnessed by the leaders of the troops, held a simple and solemn wedding ceremony across a ravine.
From this day on, Shen Jilan and her husband were separated from each other, the sea was fighting in front, and Da Lanzi was at home with her mother-in-law waiting for her husband to return safely after winning the battle one day.
If as a woman, her newlywed husband went out with the army and walked away for several years without a word, such a big orchid is unfortunate, then the women in Xigou Village who are more unfortunate than the big orchid even if the old masters are at home are everywhere.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > good men out of the county, good women are not discharged</h1>
How low is the social status and family status of women in Xigou Village?
It can be summed up in one sentence: good men go out of the county, and good women are not discharged.
This means that good boys go in all directions, and good women can't go out of the courtyard. Women should be trapped in high-walled compounds for the rest of their lives, giving birth to babies for men, washing and cooking, and cleaning up housework.
In Xigou Village, there is another woman who has implemented this sentence to the extreme, that is, Li Dazui.
Da Lanzi made a pair of shoes for the sea on the first day of marriage, and she also said that her feet were as big as the sea on the newly married board, and she was never afraid of others saying that her feet were big, because her feet were big, she stood firm, walked fast, and worked hard.
And Li Dazui is a tall and strong bigfoot woman like Da Lanzi, this woman is a good hand at work, because the mouth is not forgiving, as long as others say that she is a little, she can scold others without mercy, so she also got the name of Li Dazui.
It was such a tall, strong, fierce and capable woman who was really not discharged from the hospital in the whole Xigou Village.
There is a detail in the play, there is a man named Crooked, who looks like a crooked melon and cracked dates, because his parents are gone, the family is too poor to open the pot, so he can't find a daughter-in-law, he wears a flower belly all day and is blind, and the work is not the same.
Later, Crooked joined the spinning group of the big orchid and earned millet for the first time.
In that era, everyone ate jade paste, crooked triumphantly carrying a bowl of millet porridge around the village, when he walked to the door of Li Dazui's house, he deliberately stopped to talk to Li Dazui and show off his own small rice, three words and two words down, Li Dazui wanted to beat him, crooked kick jumped outside the courtyard door and said: You dare to go out of this courtyard door to try, see if your man does not kill you.
From this detail, it can be known that Li Dazui really did not dare to leave the hospital, and the farthest place she had ever been was the half-immortal family in the village. The so-called half-immortal is the village's Tulang, who gives people a pulse to see a doctor, and Li Dazui also asks him to take the pulse after each pregnancy, and sees whether he is pregnant with a man or a woman.
Why is Li Dazui so spineless? The reason is that she can't give birth to a son.
Peach three years, apricot four years, Li Dazui gave birth to a male baby for several years. These few words say that it will take three or four years for peach apricots to blossom and bear fruit, and Li Dazui will not be able to give birth to male babies for several years.
Li Dazui, because she gave birth to two female dolls in a row, could not lift her head in her in-laws' house, she had been through the door for three years, and her mother-in-law had made her clothes with eight feet of cloth, and she was an air bag at home.
Like Li Dazui, there was also the daughter-in-law of the Tulang, who was Xiuzhi's mother.
Xiuzhi is the most supportive of Dalanzi's work, but Xiuzhi's father only gave birth to such a daughter as her, so Xiuzhiniang has no status in the family to speak of, and every day she trembles to see Xiuzhi's father's face, and if she is not satisfied, she will be beaten.
In Xigou Village, it is the norm for men to beat women.
For example, Li Dazui, she is often beaten, even if she is so strong, in front of outsiders, a tough woman who does not spare people, in front of her own men, like a mouse meets a cat, each beating only has a screaming share.
In the play, Li Dazui was beaten twice, both times he thought he was pregnant, went to find Lang Zhong to take the pulse, the result was not pregnant, her man was in Lang Zhong's home and beat up his daughter-in-law, Lang Zhong was not strange, bluntly said that they wanted to fight home.
Discrimination against women, in the context of the social environment at that time, not only came from the patriarchal society, men's inhibition of women's thoughts and behaviors, but also from women themselves.
To put it simply, men look down on women, such as Xiuzhi's object stone, he is the captain, doing carpentry is also a good hand, Xiuzhi let him make several looms, he is not willing, because that is what women use, he can not do.
Not only do men despise women, women themselves are willing to be a tool for giving birth, such as Li Dazui, then a person with ability will also consciously not be able to lift his head because he cannot give birth to a male baby, and he will not leave the hospital all day.
This is the current situation of da lanzi's survival of women in Xigou Village, just married to Xigou Village.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > equality between men and women can not rely on slogans alone, and women's rise depends on themselves</h1>
The economic base determines the superstructure, and Da Lanzi fully practiced this sentence in that era when women were imprisoned.
Just after marrying in Xigou Village, the men went to fight the return group, and no one collected the crops in the field, so Da Lanzi organized the women to go to the field to collect the crops.
You know, in Xigou Village, women can't work in the fields, and although Dalanzi's behavior has caused a lot of criticism, it is of great significance.
She let the men, women and children of the whole Xigou Village see that men can do the same work, and women can do the same.
But men still don't approve of women.
Da Lanzi thought of a way to set up a spinning group, the team members at that time were only Xiuzhi, and then women joined in one after another, and then Da Lanzi asked everyone from the county to give the task of spinning cotton, and after completing the task, he could receive millet.
In this way, the women in the village dare to stand up and speak, because they no longer have to rely on men, and they can earn millet and improve the lives of their families.
Here, or Li Dazui, many women in the village have joined the spinning group of Dalanzi, the mutual aid group, women weave at night, work in the field during the day, only Li Dazui still does not dare to go out of the house.
Just when Li Dazui was beaten again, Da Lanzi came to the door to save her, before this, Li Dazui was beaten by no one, because in everyone's eyes, men beating women is the norm, men beating their daughters-in-law is someone else's family affairs, outsiders are not good at nosy.
Seeing that another fight was about to kill someone, Da Lanzi rushed in to protect Li Dazui.
From then on, Li Dazui completely figured it out, and she also followed Dalanzi to work in the field, spinning and weaving.
Later, women earned work and supported their families like men, and Dalanzi proposed "equal pay for men and women for equal work", which not only did the women of Xigou Village finally raise their heads, but many places in the country learned from xigou village's equal pay for equal work.
From Li Dazui's body, we can see that before the arrival of Dalanzi, the women of Xigou Village did not say that they participated in labor, that is, they did not let go of their homes.
Men and women are not equal, even the usual eating is not the same, men eat good, eat dry, women eat bad, drink thin.
Li Dazu passed through the door for three years, and her mother-in-law made her clothes with eight feet of cloth.
Ever since Li Dazui walked out of the house, he went to work in the fields and got his share of work like a man. Her mother-in-law made her two new clothes in a row, and also sewed a flower mattress, according to her mother-in-law's words, the original family pointed to the life of the man, and now it is inseparable from her daughter-in-law, Li Dazui has changed from an air bag to a treasure in the family.
The women of Xigou Village participated in the labor, not only straightened their waists, but also contributed to the cooperative.
The third sister-in-law in the village relied solely on her man before going to the land, and the family owed foreign debt every year without rations, and now the third sister-in-law went to the land to earn work points, and the grain in the spring of Guangda was enough to eat until the little spring.
After women joined the labor force, not only did their family life improve, but their family status also improved.
The advanced point of Shen Jilan is that she does not say that men and women are equal, she knows that if women want to rise, they must first prove their value, that is, to go out of the house and realize the value of women themselves. Women do not exist to give birth to children at home, nor do they revolve around the pot and pan, and women, like men, have a wider sky.
Shen Jilan's approach still has profound significance today: the improvement of a woman's status still depends on her own ability, which is an eternal truth.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > equal rights for men and women</h1>
One of the great things about Shen Jilan is that she advocates that women can work like men, but she does not advocate the opposition between men and women.
What she has always insisted on doing is equal rights for men and women, and from this point of view, Shen Jilan is the real sense of women's rights.
Now there are many so-called "female fists", they are not advocating that men and women enjoy the same rights and obligations, but put women above men, only talk about power, not obligations; or everything must be compared with men, to put it bluntly, gender antagonism, this is not real feminism, nor is it really the pursuit of equality between men and women.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Shen Jilan understood that only equal rights can men and women be truly equal.
In terms of equal rights for men and women, she accepted the crooked into the spinning group, the crooked is a man, the women in the group do not agree, only the big lanzi said: what men can do, we women can also do, so what women can do, why can't men do it?
When competing with men represented by stones, Da Lanzi also admitted that men are better than women in some aspects, such as where heavy labor is needed, but in some delicate work, men are not as good as women.
Acknowledging the strengths and differences of men and women, rather than being better than men everywhere, is true feminism.
Look at the "Meritorious Service" Shen Jilan part, this woman who is affectionately called Dalanzi by everyone, this until today we women should remember and thank her woman, let many women trapped in the family go out of the house, to realize their own value, which is not easy in the social environment at that time.
Da Lanzi also received a lot of criticism, but she persevered, and there was also the enlightenment and support of her mother-in-law.
Of course, there are also letters of encouragement from the sea to Dalanzi, and a good relationship is like this, which not only makes you a better version of yourself, but also allows you to constantly spur yourself in order to make progress with each other.
Of course, the most precious thing about Shen Jilan's spirit is that she proves with practical actions: no matter what kind of situation a woman is in, if she wants to get enough respect, she must first realize her self-worth, not depend on men, and live as an independent individual.