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The novella Life is a famous work by the famous writer Lu Yao. The third issue of Harvest (1982) was originally published, and won the national excellent novella award1981-1982. Based on the urban and rural life in northern Shaanxi Plateau during the reform period, the novel describes the life change process of Gao Jialin, a high school graduate, returning to the land, leaving the land and returning to the land, which constitutes his story framework. Gao Jialin's emotional entanglements with the rural girl Liu Qiaozhen and the urban girl Huang Yaping constitute the contradiction in the development of the story, and it is also a tragedy that embodies that difficult choice.

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Go back to land

The protagonist is Gao Jialin. After he graduated from high school and returned to his village, he became a teacher in a private primary school. He is satisfied with this profession, which shows his talent and is full of hope for him. But it didn't last long. He was replaced by the son of Gao Minglou, the powerful brigade secretary, and returned to the land. Just when he was frustrated and even a little desperate, Liu Qiaozhen, a kind and beautiful rural girl, came into his life. Although Liu Qiaozhen has no culture, she really fell in love with Gao Jialin, a "cultural person". Her love is simple and pure, and she expresses her passionate love in a warm and practical way. In fact, the love she got was unequal from the beginning. Gao Jialin is perfect in her eyes, but she only finds spiritual comfort for Gao Jialin when he is frustrated. When the opportunity came to Gao Jialin again, he finally seized the opportunity and returned to the city.

Leave this land

City life gave Gao Jialin a chance to show his talents, and he met his classmate Huang Yaping again. Compared with Qiao Zhen, Huang Yaping is undoubtedly a modern woman. She is cheerful and lively, but willful and bossy. Her love for Gao Jialin is fierce, bold and has the desire to conquer. Gao Jialin and she do have many similarities. They have the same knowledge background and many interesting topics. When they talked eloquently with Kan Kan, Gao Jialin entered a difficult choice. When Gao Jialin vaguely had this idea, his idea was quickly suppressed by another emotion. He remembered Qiao Zhen's kind and lovely face and her selfless and gentle love. When Qiaozhen came to see him with a dog skin plate, Qiaozhen went to the county town to see Jialin several times. Garin went to the countryside for an interview and finally had a chance to meet. Garin was very excited when he saw Qiao Zhen who missed him so much. Qiaozhen saw that his bedding was so thin, so she said she would bring him a dog skin mattress next time. Gao Jialin was suddenly unhappy, because no one in the city used it, and it was a dog skin mattress. He was afraid of being laughed at, but when Qiao Zhen told him all the little things about his parents, he suddenly felt very lost. He and Huang Yaping are talking about current affairs, politics and state affairs! This is what he wants, his great ambition. This contrast makes Gao Jialin very entangled. His indescribable complex feelings suddenly appeared. After repeated consideration, he accepted Huang Yaping's love, but it also meant that this choice would hurt Qiaozhen mercilessly. When he gently expressed his choice to Qiaozhen, Qiaozhen accepted it with tears, but she didn't blame Gao Jialin too much. On the contrary, she is more worried about Gao Jialin's future life, and advises him to worry more about other places. But tears are running down her face.

Go back to land

However, good dreams are hard to come true. Finally, it was reported that Gao Jialin got a job in the city through connections. What he has to face is to return to the land where he was born and raised. All his ideals and ambitions are like passing clouds. What is unbearable is that the land where he was born and raised is even more difficult to face this blow. He thought everyone in the village was waiting to see his jokes! But he never imagined that when he appeared in front of his hometown people, his hometown people gave him all kinds of comforting words. He was so moved that he didn't know what to say. He just took out his cigarettes and distributed them to the villagers. Then he also learned that Qiaozhen had married someone else's wife. Even so, she went to her sister's father-in-law, Gaominglou, the village party secretary, to arrange teaching for Gao Jialin, because it is said that the school in my hometown needs a new teacher because of the increase of students. Grandpa Deshun said with emotion, "What a good doll!" At this time, Gao Jialin was sobbing loudly in the warm countryside ...) He lost his pride, recognized the reality, accepted Grandpa Deshun's words, and then threw himself on the ground regretfully.

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Theme of the work

In fact, the life course of Gao Jialin's escape and return to the earth reveals Lu Yao's dilemma about China's individual life in the process of modernization. While protecting the land and making life close to nature, we have to bear the deep pain and humiliation caused by the harsh natural environment, feudal stereotypes and arrogance of city people. Suffering comes not only from the material level, but also from personality depression, ideal obstruction and mental depression. Living in the city has greatly improved the living environment and provided a vast world for realizing personal ideals, but it is also easy to breed the psychology of ordinary citizens like Kennan Ma, the psychology of extreme egoism like Huang Yaping and the psychology of shrinking personality like Zhang Kenan, which makes people feel the double loss of their spiritual home. When Qiao Zhen first went to the county to see Gao Jialin, "Qiao Zhen jumped on his arm as soon as he entered Jia Lin's office. Jia Lin quickly pushed her away and said, "This is not in the field. My leader is next door." ... you sit in the chair first and I'll pour you a glass of water. He said he was going to the water forest. "The repression and distortion of individual life by urban environment revealed here is not only Gao Jialin's personal psychological feelings, but also represents that urban people, as a group, are constantly alienated and weakened by living environment and civilized system.

A truly excellent realistic work must carry out the writer's aesthetic ideal. The aesthetic ideal of life is not to point out a smooth road full of flowers for contemporary rural youth, nor to depict a fascinating bright future, nor to show the bumpy road of life. The aesthetic ideal of "life" is mainly manifested in that the author gives people a sense of regret through the love tragedies of Gao Jialin and Liu Qiaozhen, which makes them full of warm expectations and affectionate calls to change reality-to avoid the recurrence of life tragedies like Gao Jialin and Liu Qiaozhen, and to face up to the evolution of national cultural psychology in the conflict between civilization and ignorance. What Gao Jialin has is what Liu Qiaozhen doesn't have: what Liu Qiaozhen has is what Gao Jialin doesn't have. This is a contradiction closely intertwined with rationality and irrationality, a contradiction that cannot be solved now but must be solved in the future. This is an extremely complicated life tragedy, but under the complicated tragic appearance, it vaguely reveals some certainty of life. The aesthetic attribute of tragedy is one of the reasons why life has lasting artistic charm.

Artistic feature

Strong emotion and praise for traditional aesthetics in life is another part of its artistic charm. The divine power of literary works lies not only in the rationality of understanding and reasoning, but also in emotion, which arouses people's shock and passion. The detailed description of the intersection of urban and rural areas in Lu Yao's works makes his works full of loess flavor. The author's feelings and expression of love in suffering completely follow the traditional moral concept of the nation, and the personality beauty of working people and the potential traditional relationship between characters are touching. It makes readers have a "deep emotional voice" and achieves touching artistic charm. On the surface, Lu Yao seems to be leading us to observe the real villages and objective life in the rural areas of northern Shaanxi. In fact, he is guiding us to experience the great feelings and beautiful qualities hidden in these kind ordinary people, and affirming the traditional virtue's pursuit consciousness and struggle spirit for the code of conduct.