Notes on reading Liu Liangcheng's essay collection "The Last Village" (I)

<b>Foreword: I often read, but rarely write reading notes. Many times, reading is like idly looking at the white clouds overhead, sensing a kind of ethereal detachment, so that the reality of joy or anger in the book is as indifferent as a smoke cloud, I don't know if this is good or not. I began to read Liu Liangcheng's "The Last Village", and I did not write reading notes, dozens of pages turned over, and I suddenly had the urge to write in my heart. In that village, the bits and pieces related to the village seemed to be related to me, either in dreams, or in memory, because I was also a countryman, and whenever I talked about people and things in the village, there were many sorrows and joys that came to my heart. Today, it is also far away from the homeland, in the extremely lively city, living, thinking, with the living habits of the people in the city, but it is still the way of thinking of the people in the countryside. </b>

<b>Of course, my reading notes only represent my personal feelings and thoughts, and do not compete with anyone. </b>

1. "A Dog For a Lifetime"

Writing about dogs to the vicissitudes of the world, writing about the ease of aging, is also a wonderful pen. An old dog, a village, and that piece of history are all in the old things, all in the hazy clouds.

I think of the old yellow dog I had at home, from a puppy waiting to be fed to an old dog that was hobbling, and that period of time was related to hunger. His naughty dexterity as a child, the fierceness of his prime, and the dying struggle until old age are all in my memory, more unforgettable than hunger. That dog, it's really good material for the doorkeeper, the dog is crouching in the doorway, you can put twelve hearts. Especially when someone wants to take away farm tools or something, he screams even more, and the territory and things he can hold are not allowed to be violated by others.

2. "The Things I Changed"

I think of Yu Hua's novel "Alive", it seems that people's whole lives are entangled with a word called "fate". If there is a fate, I think the inevitability and contingency of this fate are changing everything in an instant. When the light was old, when we looked back, the original road could go like that, if it were not for this, the end would have been like that. However, life really can't start over. Fate is the magic of chance!

3. "The Donkey Sex Man"

Turn your gaze from the human body back to the animal,Let the person who is high up return to the original nature of the natural world, and look at the donkey, who has a certain idea of the original man and the donkey. Man has humanity, donkey nature, but in some ways, donkeys are more real and powerful than people.

The donkey's rebellion gives some kind of revelation. Only by passing through donkey nature can we better understand human nature. Is this true?

4. "The Running Horse"

There is an image of life, that is, in time, whether it is a horse or a person, it will grow old. And in the loneliness of aging, there will be grievances, there will be indifference. This is life, and this is philosophy.

In time, the horse walks aimlessly, and man thinks that the horse is just a horse, and the horse has his own mind. People are always on top, thinking that they are the masters of all things, but in fact, more often people live very helplessly and reluctantly.

A donkey, a dog, or a horse all have their own myths.

5. "Sleeping with Insects"

Sleeping on the earth, there are small bugs patronizing, leaving some marks, but in the author's heart, but it caused deep thinking. I think of a foreign novel, like Verguele's Travels. When Vogueline Drifting Island is an island surrounded by a group of dwarfs, they bind Verguele, curious to look up and down on Voguele's body, but in fact they are very kind and fragile, and their lives can be threatened at any time. When Liu Liangcheng slept with insects, he thought of the contingency in the fate of nature, but the simplicity and eternity of small insects are something that human beings can never pursue.

6. "Feng Si"

A man lives because he is not yet qualified to die. However, when people live, they have a lot of troubles, or a lot of desires. Sometimes, man, as the spirit of all things, is even more humble than the animal. Think again, you can have a golden jade day in your ideal, or think of the impermanence of life to get by, you will think of death. Every day, when the sun rises and falls, you see that when other people's lives end, everything is nothing, so there is sadness in your heart. In Liu Liangcheng's writings, there is always a sad philosophy of life in a humble and indifferent life, which means that it is suitable for thickness and lightness, and you don't want to read it but you can't give it up.

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