Look at Shi Tiesheng's My Distant Qingping Bay

Yesterday, I read Shi Tiesheng's short story My Distant Qingping Bay, and I really want to applaud it. Mr. Wang is sitting on the sofa, soaking his feet and listening to English with headphones. I turned to my husband and said, this novel is really well written! How beautiful! Mr. Wang looked at me blankly. He didn't ask. Well, I turned around a little disappointed and went on reading-I really want to talk to someone about my feelings at this time. Ha ha.

Shi Tiesheng has been in a wheelchair since he was 20. After graduating from junior high school, he moved from Beijing to northern Shaanxi and lived with farmers in northern Shaanxi for three years in a place called Qingpingwan. This novel is about life during that period.

I especially like a plain brushwork, like a cow pulling a plow, plunging deeply into the wet soil, and then turning out the deep soil like a splash, and the air is filled with a fragrance of soil. That beauty is the most grounded. Maybe there are too many hypocrisy and affectation in this era, but I like this seemingly rustic thing. The author's expression is because the feelings in his heart are too full and he has to express them. Everything he touches is emotional, not to impress people.

The vast land of the Loess Plateau, the terrace of the earth, the beams of ravines, the people and livestock in caves are all displayed before our eyes. Shi Tiesheng was still a young man at that time, because his waist and legs were uncomfortable (in fact, he was getting sick gradually at that time), so the team took care of him and let him raise cattle with the white old man who raised cattle in the team. The old man lives with his seven-or eight-year-old granddaughter. The frail old man is a main character described in this novel. He was alone, and his son died of illness. In order to bring up his little granddaughter, he had a lover in the village, but he didn't live together. He is afraid of leaving his child in his new home and being wronged. The old man loves to sing folk songs in northern Shaanxi, and often sings "Journey to Heaven" at the top of his voice, so that some small animals on the mountain ridge stick their heads out to listen to one or two. Or feed the cows and hum softly. The words he sang have a strong flavor of northern Shaanxi, which makes people like it at first sight.

The team takes care of Shi Tiesheng to feed the cows because it is easier to feed the cows than to follow the villagers to farm in the mountains. It's hard to feed the cows, that is, I have to get up several times every night to feed them, and I can't sleep for a whole year, no matter whether it's freezing in the cold or months in summer. The temperature in the winter night in northern Shaanxi is very low, so Shi Tiesheng braved the cold to feed the cows, which probably aggravated his spine condition. The old man took good care of him and said it was time for him to go to bed. He would say, I'll mix the second ingredient for you, so go to sleep. When Shi Tiesheng gets along with him, he feels like a brother or a father and son. In those days when they didn't have enough to eat, they looked after each other's lives as a family.

Liu Xiaoer is a girl of seven or eight years old. She lives alone with her grandfather and cooks for him every day. There was nothing decent to eat at that time. She has a small handkerchief, which always contains two sweet potatoes or a handful of corn. When making a fire, she buried sweet potatoes and corn in the freshly cooked plant ash. If it is corn kernels, she will poke around with a branch. Corn popped into popcorn, which was very good food at that time.

Children always like to ask Shi Tiesheng questions about Beijing. For example, do Beijingers really dislike fat meat? It seems too strange to her. Do Beijingers really watch movies in kilns? Can you see Chairman Mao in Tiananmen Square every day? She thinks Chairman Mao stands there every day. She begged Shi Tiesheng to take her with him when he returned to Beijing next time. She said mysteriously, I saved the trip. Shi Tiesheng asked her: How much is it? She said: five dollars! Shi Tiesheng said: Not enough! She said, hey-I'm just kidding you. Look, eight and a half dollars! Take out a cloth bag and open it. There are two pieces in it, and the others are ten cents. That's the money she sold eggs, and grandpa asked her to keep it for herself. What a lovely girl! Later, Shi Tiesheng was seriously ill and could not stand up, so he had to go back to Beijing for treatment. When other educated youths returned to Beijing, the villagers asked him to visit Shi Tiesheng and brought him millet, mung beans and sesame seeds. He recognized a small handbag. It must be for children. It must be popcorn.

Later, Liu Xiaoer really came to Beijing. She saved enough money to come to Beijing to meet Shi Tiesheng. Shi Tiesheng asked about her grandfather. The novel records a simple conversation between him and Liu Xiaoer, and vividly outlines a lovely girl in northern Shaanxi in front of us.

This novel warms people's hearts. How much do you think you can earn to enjoy such affection? Nowadays, it is hard to enjoy such a kind of warmth in the world! Difficult! I have read many works by writers from the 1960s to the 1980s, that is, the so-called "educated youth literature". People in those days were really simple at heart. Nowadays, "simplicity" and "honesty" have become derogatory terms. But what do we get when we become smart and sophisticated? Are you getting happier and happier? This memory written by Shi Tiesheng is the most precious memory in his life, and it is a rich wealth for him. Only with the simplicity of that era can he enjoy this advanced emotion. I think he is super happy. When he shared this experience in words, it warmed thousands of people. People may feel the same way as me; Is matter and spirit so incompatible?

In this novel, Shi Tiesheng not only describes lovely characters, but also describes lovely animals-the cows he feeds.

Cunning and hardworking old black cow. It can clearly distinguish between field seedlings and weeds. It will first pretend to eat the grass on the edge of the ridge and slowly approach the ridge seedlings. Keep your head down, but your eyes are slipping away from your master. If the owner is looking at it, Tian Miao will never take a bite, no matter how close he is to it, he looks honest and upright. As soon as the master turned around, he immediately chewed a corn or sorghum and turned around and left. Shi Tiesheng fought with him and deliberately ignored him. When it decided to stick its tongue into the restricted area, it cried. The old black cow staggered back in fear, with a look of fear and regret, which made people feel poor.

Although old, he is still overbearing. If a cow is in love, it will stay beside the cow without eating or drinking, and keep other bulls away. This is the privilege of a leader in a herd, which monopolizes all the cattle in the herd. Cattle also have the rules of cattle, ranking first. Seats are decided according to the annual fighting. Every year, the rookie in the herd will challenge the former champion. The leading position of the old black cow has been gradually threatened by the little bull. Later, sure enough, Red Bull challenged it and won. Old black cows can only grow old.

Black cattle are cunning and overbearing, but they are also kind and loving. Once a calf fell asleep under it. The cowshed was very narrow and each had its own "bed". After a hard day's work, all the other cows fell asleep. The black cow was afraid that she would fall and crush the calf, and stood until midnight, her legs trembling and panting. When Shi Tiesheng got up to nurse, he thought he was ill. I saw a calf sleeping soundly on it. After driving away the calf, the old black cow threw herself on the ground and looked at her master gratefully.

Another time, in order to protect the calf, a wolf fought to the death, and the wolf scratched the calf with blood all over his face. It used its horns to stop the wolf from dying on the wall of the cowshed. It got old and the village decided to kill it. When the whole village ate beef, only the old man and Shi Tiesheng didn't eat it.

Cattle written by Shi Tiesheng are as affectionate, lovely and respectable as people. If the cow gives birth to a calf and is driven to the mountains to plow during the day, she will always miss the calf in the cowshed. Sometimes, they will leave work early, leave the cattle and go back to the cowshed to feed the calves alone. Cattle and calves, you call me, as if a day has passed and there are endless thoughts.

Looking at it is very touching. In the novel, the feelings between people and cows, cows and cows are no less than those between people. In that era of poverty and hunger, there was no greed and destruction between man and nature as it is now, and there was a lot of emotional blending. Therefore, we lack meat to eat, but we never kill small animals in the mountains at will. I often see the trail of wild pigeons and pheasants. Every household will open the door and let the swallows come back to nest. If someone mentions catching swallows to eat, the villagers will look surprised and say, hey! Yaner!

Now people don't want to eat or wear. What nature can eat and use has long been collected and turned into noisy money. Look at these works, there will be many feelings in my heart. Beautiful, hard-working, lovely, respectable and pitiful. But when you think of the word "poor", think about it. Are you really qualified to pity the people of that era? They are poor, bitter and hungry. But what about us? We are poor in spirit, miserable and hungry.

This novel is a spiritual feast. During and after reading, I feel very enjoyable and satisfied. Perhaps this is the charm of literature. Literature is to record beautiful things and spread them to every corner of the world.