Xiao Hong's "Field of Life and Death" is set in the rural areas of Northeast China in the 1920s and 1930s, and describes the poor life of farmers in Northeast China. As the lowest people in China, they were squeezed by landlords. 365 days a year, they turn their backs on the loess, work hard, bend over and limp, but they still don't have enough to eat and wear warm clothes. They live numbly and foolishly. In their eyes, life is not even comparable to wheat or grain, and death is a common thing for them.
The book depicts many wonderful characters, such as Li Er Half, Zhao San, Bow-legged, Pinger, etc. But the most striking thing is that Xiao Hong described in detail the tragic fate of several rural women from her unique female perspective, including Ma Mianpo, Wang Po and Jin Zhi. Among them, the golden branch impressed me the most.
When Jinzhi was seventeen years old, he had an indissoluble bond with the village in the sorghum field in the river bend. She is very nervous and worried that she will lose face to her mother if she is pregnant. But their relationship was discovered by the villagers, and rumors gradually rose. Although she feels pain, she is still a girl full of expectations for love and marriage. Ye Cheng still loves her. Young people are always enthusiastic and self-righteous They never think that they will become violent and horrible after marriage, as my aunt said, "I'm afraid of men. Men are as hard as stones, and I dare not touch them." With children and longing for marriage and love, Jinzhi married Ye Cheng.
"Punishment, look at the arrival of Kim, make her short figure, with such a big belly, extremely disproportionate. Jinzhi is not like a woman, but also like a little girl, but her stomach is swollen! I'm going to be a mother, and a woman's punishment is to arrest her. "Xiao Hong called women having children" punishment ". Rural production is almost barbaric, just like pigs give birth to piglets and dogs give birth to puppies. Women risk their lives to give birth in the room, while men are impatient and even disgusted.
At this time, Jin Zhi, who had been married for less than four months, gradually felt that men were cold people in this world. Like other women in the village, she gradually learned to curse her husband. That's not her fate alone, but their fate together. They need to work from morning till night, serve their husbands without complaint, endure their insults and fists and get pregnant. They are like men's aunts and also like men's sex tools. Men are selfish and close to production. They are related to Jinzhi, which almost killed her. Their lives are cheap, but they are also tenacious. She gave birth to cheese, but her life didn't get better. She began to get busy again, taking care of the family, taking care of the children, and quarreling with her husband for a living. This kind of life seems to have no end, no hope and no fun.
Although Jinzhi has no love and no peaceful marriage, she still has her little Jinzhi. However, poor little Jinzhi, born less than a month ago, was killed by her father in a quarrel between her parents. Xiaojinzhi was thrown into the cemetery, and the dog pulled nothing, as if she had never lived in this world. Living in this world is so cold.
Later, Ye Cheng died. She became a young widow and returned to her family.
From a girl to a widow, from ignorance to vicissitudes, Jinzhi only took ten years. In the past ten years, lovelorn, unhappy marriage, family poverty, daughter's tragic death and husband's death have come at her. This is not her fate alone, but the fate of all peasant women in the field of life and death. They are fighting in life and death, man and crops, but they still can't escape their fate.
Later, the Japanese came to the village and they arrested the women. All young women, they will never let go. There is no room for golden branches in the countryside. She went to that city alone. How easy is it to live in the city? She slept on the drain board of a small street, neglected like a puppy in a barrel, and as small as an ant. She crowded in front of the small restaurant with those people in the street, waiting for the last charity in an ugly way. Fortunately, she found a mending job and a place to live by herself. The place where I live is terrible. "The whole house is more than 50 feet long and there is no next door. The wall was covered with smelly blood worms, and the wall was covered with black and purple blood spots. Some filthy fermented luggage walls are piled up. " But she is still very happy. She earns more money. However, happiness didn't last long, and most of her hard-earned two dollars were robbed. In fact, most of her sewing work is done for bachelors, which is commonly known as "sewing poor woman" The poor woman who sews can't escape from the palm of a bachelor's hand, even if Jin Zhi is careful, she is no exception. The first one "made money", "shame and hate ruined her, and suddenly she got an infectious disease."
Jinzhi is desperate. She finally bravely entered the city, and shame and hatred made it impossible for her to gain a foothold in the city. As a traditional woman, she is deeply tortured. But mother doesn't know. She hoped that her daughter could earn more tickets and urged her daughter to hurry back to the city. In rural areas and cities, there is no place for golden branches. Her fate began with a widow. But she had no choice. The women in the village, like her, have only two ways: one is to be caught by the evil Japanese devils, and the other is to escape. But how can they survive independently in troubled times only by their weak strength? In the end, all roads lead to the same goal, and they all sell their bodies and become men's playthings.
Desperate Jin Zhi decided to become a nun, but the war made the nun elope with others. If a nun can't become a nun, where will Jinzhi go? In addition to the golden branches, there are too many women suffering in one way or another. Wang Po, an old woman who suffered a lot, was abused and abandoned by her first husband and married her second husband. But the second husband died of illness, so she had to marry the third husband to survive. Later, when her son died, she committed suicide by taking poison. After miraculous resurrection, she faced the news of her daughter's death. Yue Ying, a beautiful and gentle young woman from a poor peasant family, was paralyzed at home due to illness and died tragically after being severely criticized and abused by her husband. Where should individuals who suffer like them go?
This reminds me, what caused their fate? "'I used to hate men, but now I hate Japanese.' Finally, she turned to the sad road, "I hate China people! I hate nothing but. " These are the words of Jin Zhi's resentment. It's a man, Japanese, from China. This is not unreasonable. The patriarchal society has always made women a vulnerable group. They are arbitrarily ordered and trampled, and they are sexual tools and tools for carrying on the family line. Women have no right to speak, and they are used to having no right to speak, as if they were born perfect, so they can't control their own destiny and accept it. Later, the Japanese came. They robbed women and killed people at will. Women lost their men and dignity, and humiliation knocked them down, making them unable to live a good life, even if they were poor that day. But, in the final analysis, I still hate China people. The ignorance, feudalism and backwardness of China people are the root of all sufferings. Their tragic fate is caused by the whole era. The oppression of landlords, the bankruptcy of farmers, the control of male power, the ignorance of the people, the aggression of Japan and the backwardness of the country all deeply affect the fate of humble individuals.
Which way will they go? There are only two choices, either die in despair or live tenaciously in pain. In this field of life and death, everyone is struggling in life and death.