Even Mr. Lu Xun said, "Instead of sitting in a chair and listening to my complaints, watch" Life and Death Field "quickly, and she will give you strength and courage to struggle."
Many people have seen the film "Golden Age" directed by Xu Anhua, which is a personal biography of Xiao Hong. Another version of the film Xiao Hong is played by Song Jia. The former is partial to literature and art and respects historical facts, while the latter is more coherent and legendary. Xiao Hong described in these films has a bumpy childhood, rich emotional experience and rebellious character.
What's so good about the book "Field of Life and Death"? I think it should be the naturalness revealed in it, which is different from ordinary novels. "Thirty Years of Modern Literature in China" describes Xiao Hong as follows: "With a slender and keen artistic feeling, she wrote about the stagnation and occlusion of rural life in northern China and the suffocation of national vitality caused by it. This side is permeated with bloody black soil, which is the' life and death field' that people rob forever. In the exquisite description, it has some symbolic significance. "
Xiao Hong once said that although novel writing has certain norms, there is no need to write various writers and novels like Balzac and Chekhov.
So in the end, Xiao Hong's novels are full of poetry, sometimes like prose, and sometimes back to novels, which is most obvious in Hulan River Biography. However, Xiao Hong finally wrote her inner feelings with her unique sensitive temperament, which deeply immersed readers, and her melancholy and sentimental temperament also infected countless readers.
Wang Po, Jin Zhi, Yue Ying, Feng Yatou and other female images are all written in the life and death field of the novel, among which Wang Po is the most prominent.
Wang Po was a rambling figure when he first appeared, always complaining about his lonely fate and talking nonsense. From the whole book, Wang Po is a remarried woman, and her husband's children are Pinger. She always avoids the past, but many people are curious about her past. Once upon a time, she had a son and a daughter. Her son became a bandit and was killed. Her daughter Feng Yazi was almost helpless and lived a miserable life. But Wang Po is very enthusiastic. She will let her fifth aunt visit Yue Ying, who is seriously ill. When selling horses, she obviously couldn't bear it. Looking at the horse behind her, she went home crying and her sleeves were all wet. The pain of life makes her grumpy, and she will whip the horse with branches until the branches break; In addition, Wang Po also has a brave and determined side. When her husband wanted to rebel and kill the landlord, she borrowed a gun through her son's relationship. Compared with other weak women around her, her approach is quite brave. Wang Po also lost confidence in life. When she learned that her son had been shot, she committed suicide by taking poison, but she came back from the dead. Finally, facing the hardships of life, Wang Po became numb and stopped complaining about life, but bravely let go.
Jinzhi is the representative of young women. She doesn't know what love is, but she dedicated her most precious chastity to her career. She doesn't care about other people's opinions, thinking that she can marry the man she loves with a big belly, but she doesn't know that men have the opposite attitude before and after marriage. Aunt once said:
"When you get married, she will be different. She is not the same as before. Her face is blue and white. Beat and scold her if you don't trust him! There is a woman in a man's heart, which is your age! "
Ye Cheng is an animal-like person who doesn't know how to control himself. After marriage, she doesn't care what Jin Zhi thinks, and always beats and scolds her. Later, daughter Xiaojin died on impulse. Faced with a miserable life, Jinzhi decided to flee the countryside and go to the city to look for the future. In the city, she sews clothes for others and sends money to her mother, but she doesn't want to be a prostitute and earn money by skin and flesh. Jinzhi finally saw through this "life-and-death field" and planned to become a nun. Unfortunately, in troubled times, even nuns can't do it.
Yue Ying is the most beautiful woman in the village. She is very gentle and never dares to speak loudly. She was paralyzed behind the bed. Men think she can't be cured and never care about her life or death. Every night, she was thirsty on the kang and begged her husband to pour her a glass of water. Her husband turned a deaf ear and buried himself in the bed, so she could hear Yue Ying moaning in pain all night. The husband once prayed to God for medicine to treat Yue Ying, but it didn't help after all. He felt that he had done his duty and lost confidence in life in Yue Ying. The cruel man surrounded Yue Ying with bricks and ate and drank Lazar in a closed space, which accelerated Yue Ying's death.
In Life and Death, besides these three women, there are also some simple men, such as Wang Po's husband Zhao San, and Pinger, who has changed a lot in two and a half years. Zhao San was also a warm-blooded young man at first, and he planned to rebel against the landlord when he met with rent increase. But after losing everything, he began to become depressed and made a living as a cage. Later, when Zhao San was old, the Japanese launched the "September 18th Incident". Zhao San's blood welled up again, but he could only watch mature people go to the battlefield. Pinger, the son of Zhao San, is naive and lively. The scene of him riding a goat is very vivid. When she grew up, Pinger joined the rebel army and became a mediocre and secular soldier. Li Er, a cripple, lived a small collective life by guarding his sheep all day, but he also joined the revolution under the leadership of Li Qingshan. Most of the men in the book are feudal, male chauvinistic, disrespectful and heartless, but these people finally choose the road of resistance and are determined not to be conquered.
The characters in Xiao Hong's works are very similar to animals. They are busy with birth, illness, illness and death all day. The author deliberately compares people with animals, highlighting a theme: "In rural areas, people are busy with birth, illness and death, just like animals …" People here have almost no way of life and are driven by desires and habits. Throughout the year, although there are different landscapes, people work in the same way, which is like a cyclical fate. If people don't make progress, they will live in the "life and death field" of the earth like animals and puppets.
As a representative of the "Northeast Writers Group", Xiao Hong led Xiao Jun, Duanmu, Luo and other people who once lived in the countryside like her, described the numb souls in this land in Northeast China, and sought a way out for these people, which virtually inspired people and let the rain and dew of literature fall on every dried-up soul. As a woman, Xiao Hong's delicate feelings also make readers realize the hardships of life and the beauty of nature. In a sense, Xiao Hong's works are very suitable for women to read, and this poetic expression is brilliant even as a record of life. I hope more people can read Xiao Hong's short stories and experience her record of life. Xiao Hong only lived for 3 1 year, but she resisted for most of her life.