Mo Yan's Chest and Buttock: Is the content really as vulgar as its name suggests?

How did Mo Yan do the opposite? What makes people think that he is doing the opposite? The story begins with Mo Yan's famous novel "Big Breasts and Fat Buttocks".

Before the novel "Big Breasts and Fat Buttocks" was deeply interpreted, many people did not understand the purpose of Mo Yan's writing this book, and many shallow writers in the industry even made personal attacks on Mo Yan many times because of this book. Not only that, this book was once banned before Mo Yan became famous completely.

Mo Yan

But the fact is that the book "Big Breasts and Fat Buttocks" contributed to Mo Yan's final fame. So, what book is this? Vulgar? And then what? Or too ambitious?

The novel "Big Breasts and Fat Buttocks" mainly tells the life of a mother. The heroine in the book is Lu Xuaner. Her life can be said to be? What a mess. This woman has given birth to eight children in her life, but all the children are half brothers except the youngest twin. Ironically, none of them bled from their husbands.

Cover of "Big Breasts and Fat Buttocks"

Lu Xuaner's practice in ancient times was to immerse himself in a pig cage. Now he is open-minded and will be reviled by thousands of people. But this is not the case in Mo Yan's works, because what she did was acquiesced by her husband's family. Such a character setting is simply a challenge to secular ethics and social atmosphere, so what is Mo Yan's intention?

Liu Xuaner, the mother in the book, married Shangguan Xi Shou as an adult. After marriage, Liu Xuaner shoulders the heavy responsibility of carrying on the family line, while Shangguan Xi Shou is a sicko, unable to get pregnant and have children at all. For the husband? Delicate? Liu Xuaner doesn't care, but the butler doesn't think so. They stubbornly want to pass on the housekeeper's incense.

Spreading incense is an important event in China traditional society. Mencius said about Li Lou:? There are three kinds of unfilial, and the last one is the biggest. ? Imprisoned by thousands of years of thinking, how many people have been made by the idea of son preference? Terminal illness? What about Mo Yan's housekeeper? Shine on you is better than blue? For the sake of boys, they don't care whether the children born by Lu Xuaner are Shangguan Xi Shou. So, what about Lu Xuaner? Don't keep women's morals? They turn a blind eye!

Wedding scenes in the old society

As can be seen from the attitude of the housekeeper, Lu Xuaner's special fate is completely forced by the situation and has to be done. Shangguan Xi Shou? Nothing can be done. , butler, only let Lu Xuaner out of this decision. Lu Xuaner's first child was born in the palm of his hand by his uncle. Perhaps the reason why he chose the palm of his hand was Lu Xuaner's rebellion against fate. He is Lu Xuaner's uncle, and their combination violates morality and subverts ethics, which is a great shame for normal people. So Mo Yan designed it here to deepen irony.

Miserable women in the old society

But more ironically, for Lu Xuaner's pregnancy after incest, the government can't put it down, because they are terminally ill and only have boys in their eyes and only incense. But unfortunately, Lu Xuaner didn't have a boy this time. This incest is the first violent conflict between ethics and social customs in Mo Yan's works, but both ethics and social customs are artificially defined, but what about artificially defined? Say it, say it, say it in another way. ?