Ordinary World is the epitome of rural life in 1970s and 1980s.
In China in the early 1970s, rural collectivization and the Cultural Revolution were still in full swing. How many eldest brothers like Sun Shaoan, after barely studying for several years, have to leave school and go home to shoulder the burden of family. Even if it is only a teenager of 12 or 13 years old, in the expectant eyes of his younger brothers and sisters, in the old eyes of his parents, and in the whisper of his little nephew, this eldest brother like his father is the hope and patron saint of his family. Sun Shaoan is such a big brother. He gave up the study of being the first in the exam every year and led a family, old and young, to struggle in the life of plain water and gruel. He faces the loess with his back to the sky every day, dare not imagine love, dare not accept love, and even have no time to talk about love. Throughout his life, he worked hard to earn work points in large groups, worked hard on the land he was responsible for from morning till night, and then burned brick kilns ambitiously to catch up with the pace of reform and opening up. From giving up Runye's childhood love to living with Xiulian; His life is the epitome of an era, from gritting his teeth and pulling a family to living independently.
Sun Shaoping, the "second brother", was able to finish primary school and junior high school and go to the former West County for senior high school because his family was sheltered by Big Brother Tree. Although every meal is just the worst food in the school-two pieces of black steamed bread to fill the hunger, only two pieces of patched clothes to cover the body, and every day is the Cultural Revolution, with more exercise and less study, he loves reading. After all, the world is much wider than his eldest brother. He had an emotional ignorance with Hao Hongmei, an equally poor landlord girl, had a sincere friendship with Tian Xiaoxia, who was knowledgeable and independent, and even participated in performances in the city. 1977 Shao Ping, who graduated from high school, returned to his village to work as a teacher in the 1930s, and his yearning for the outside world has not changed. When Big Brother's brick kiln was booming and the life of rural people began to have hope, Shao Ping insisted on going out to be a vagrant handyman.
Sun Shaoping, the second brother, and Sun Shaoan, the eldest brother, have different circumstances, different personalities and different pursuits. He is persistent and persevering, living in a broken kiln, working hard, running around tired, physically injured, and has no will to repel Shao Ping's struggle and struggle. He is diligent and studious, and even in his humble residence, he reads hungrily to broaden his horizons. He is different from his former high school classmate Tian Xiaoxia in wealth, culture and status, but he doesn't escape like his big brother. When he went through all kinds of hardships, from handyman to construction worker, and then became a regular worker in Dayuewan Coal Mine, his tenacity and perseverance finally won the love of Tian Xiaoxia, a well-known reporter from the provincial newspaper. They know each other and love each other, and look forward to a bright future together.
However, when she went to report the dangerous moment of flood fighting, Xiao Xia was swallowed up by the terrible flood because she bravely saved the drowning children. Shao Ping, who was waiting for a date with Xiao Xia, was unexpectedly invited to the home of Tian Fujun, the father of his father and secretary of the Huangyuan Municipal Party Committee. When I received three diaries written by Xiao Xia for love, my heart completely collapsed like Shao Ping. Tears that burst their banks flow for the kind Xiao Xia, for their sincere love, and for the tortuous and tragic life. I think Shao Ping is different from Big Brother. I can use my sincerity, diligence and hard work to find a different life path from my father and brother, but ...
When the end of the novel is set in Shao Ping to save his apprentice from injury, he went to Dayuewan Coal Mine, his mother and son, the teacher's mother, and Huiying who lost her husband, I can't help hiding my thoughts: What would Shao Ping's future life be like if Xiao Xia hadn't sacrificed? Will they, as they wish, strive to be transferred to the provincial capital in a year or two and live a better life with their beloved half? Shao Ping's life, will it be a wonderful life? Don't! I won't! Because the ordinary is the true meaning of life. Just like big brother Shao An, he didn't dare to imagine the ideal love at all, but chose to live an ordinary life with Xiulian. Hao Hongmei, like a landlord, wanted to find a good object to change her life, but she finally married an ordinary husband, leaving her husband dead and her son weak. There is no vigorous love in the world, no romantic legend of princess poverty, no life of getting rich overnight, and no ideal way to get rich. Ordinary is the brand of the times. Ordinary, showing the true meaning of life.
Only the truth of life can show the beauty of human nature more. In the poor life with no food and clothing and no fixed place to live, the friendship between generations of the Kim family and * * * is touching. Shao An takes care of his younger brother and sister, and Shao Ping encourages and supports his younger sister, the ocean deep of brother and sister. Run Ye is infatuated with Shao An, while Xiao Xia is enthusiastic about Shao Ping and sincerely loves the world. Tian Xiaoxia died trying to save a drowning child, and Sun Shaoping was injured trying to save his apprentice. Runsheng, who is weak in nature, has opened a solid arm for widowed mothers and weak children in trouble; Run Ye, who is infatuated, has done her duty as a wife for her nominally disabled husband ... The kindness and sincerity of human nature are shown in ordinary life.
My sister Lan Xiang has something extraordinary in her ordinary life. Since childhood, she has been accompanied by her close partner Jin Xiu, and her family is supported by her eldest brother. In high school, her second brother sent her living expenses every month. Gifted and studious, she successfully passed through elementary school, junior high school and senior high school, caught up with the opportunity after the resumption of the college entrance examination in 78, and finally got her wish and was admitted to the astrophysics major in north china university of technology. When she got the college admission notice, I was as moved as she was, and tears welled up in my eyes. In rural areas, how many such sisters, an admission notice, soaked with the hard work of the whole family, entrusted with the ideals of brothers and sisters. Their success was hard-won and full of bitterness. Later, spearmint found a like-minded classmate Wu Zhongping as her lover. Although the son of the deputy secretary of the provincial party committee and spearmint have different family backgrounds, spearmint is different from her brothers. She gained cross-class love. Her extraordinary, but also how many ordinary people silently sacrificed and paid for it.
No matter the eldest brother who continues to be busy in the brick kiln, the second brother who fights in Dayuewan Coal Mine, the spearmint who studies in the university, or us in life, we are all sentient beings in the ordinary world. Only the ordinary can reveal the true meaning of life.