Is Shaanxi Opera about rural life?

I used my spare time at the bedside, in the toilet, at meetings, on the bus and on the road to read several books by Mr. Jia Pingwa: Happy, Gao Lao Zhuang, Shaanxi Opera, Wasted Capital and Impetuousness. I like "Shaanxi Opera" best, and "impetuous" looks boring.

There is a reason to like it, and there is also a reason to be bored. From the beginning, Impetuousness made people feel that Mr. Jia wanted to make up a vivid story, and the time and place of this story could not be found in China and world history, nor could it make people feel that this was Mr. Jia's hometown Shangzhou. Therefore, it is much better to read some adult fairy tales without the concept of time and space, such as Huang Yi's science fiction or Gu Long's martial arts. However, Shaanxi opera is different. Shaanxi Opera is not only a novel with hundreds of thousands of words, but also a picture of rural life in China in 1970s and 1980s. This is a photo of Tomb-Sweeping Day. There are no good people and bad people in the book, but good and evil are clear; I didn't try to educate, and I didn't consciously instill it. Spring, autumn, winter, summer, sunrise and sunset are just old things. People are all rural people, some are crazy, some are dumb, some are disobedient, some are treacherous, some hook up with other people's daughter-in-law, some have a baby without an asshole, some can draw Facebook, and some like to sing Shaanxi opera. If you finish reading this book, you must sum up a 123, or try to discover the narrative logic of the author. This is really a difficult thing.

I like this book for two reasons: First, I can see my life with my parents from the book, and even the funeral arrangements and etiquette of farmers in dialects and dialects are strikingly similar to those in Hunan. Secondly, many of the rural problems involved in this novel more than ten years ago are still problems that modern rural areas are facing (such as the transfer of rural labor, the idleness of agricultural land, the establishment of rural institutions, and the alienation of rural ethics), which really amazes Mr. Jia's life depth.

This book is worth reading. Of course, it's normal if someone doesn't like it after reading it. Because it is such a book in itself.