People are always full of joy and hope for life and fear for death. It is conceivable that the country's expectation of improving the quality of the population in that era was only a change of concept, not a day or two. Everything is difficult at the beginning. In the initial stage of the implementation of the new policy, there will be a period of incomprehension and adaptation. What's more, in rural areas with outdated concepts, the difficulty of carrying out aunt work can be imagined.
A thousand lines above and a needle below. Aunt Wan Xin, as a rural family planning cadre, was once misunderstood, abused and even stabbed with a knife. The author uses some subtle writing skills to make the story of women being persuaded to have an abortion in one rural area after another funny and sad. Grassroots work is not easy to do, but my aunt has always had the tenacity of a professional woman. Her personal charm is self-evident and admirable.
At that time, the population movement was strictly controlled, and the super-born people dug holes and hid them in sweet potato pits in order to have more children. Super-life and family planning workers are like guerrilla warfare in Zhou Xuanli. In order to let the super-living surrender voluntarily, they also adopted the way of "sitting together", harming others and benefiting themselves, and using various public pressure to mobilize the villagers' strength. But in rural areas in the 1980s, this work was not understood. In the face of accidental death, menstruation, after remorse and sadness, still firmly took the step of going to work.
She worked hard for this career for half her life, had no children, and retired at the age of 60 before rushing to get married. Marrying Hao Dashou is also for self-salvation. Those dolls squeezed out by Hao's big hand are aunt's regret for the lost life.
She is afraid to hear frogs. They cry like babies. She is afraid to see the frog's big round eyes and cold white belly, like countless babies staring at her for debt collection. The fishy smell on the frog reminded her of the bloody smell of the unformed fetus taken out on the operating table.
"Frog" and "Frog" have the same sound and different tones, and the radicals are different. Countless frogs also represent countless unborn dolls.
Of course, it's not my aunt's fault. Even if she doesn't do these things, others will. My aunt was born in a revolutionary family. She has an unusual will and an iron fist. She held her head high and sacrificed herself for others, and struggled for the cause of family planning for most of her life. We can't judge her only by good and evil. Only blame her for being born at the wrong time. If she had been born in this era, she would have made great achievements.
As a professional woman in the system, menstruation's life is legendary and heroic. She is loyal to her motherland and shows no mercy to herself. The theme of this novel is not only limited to family planning, but also awe and praise for life. Those rural women who gave birth to offspring at the cost of their lives are like frogs. Isn't this a worship of life?
This novel let me know some rural stories when I was born. Aunt is a vivid figure, which is worth reading carefully.