Even now, in some corners of the world, there are still many people living in the terror of hunger, and no one is going to save them. Thanks to the hybrid rice invented by Mr. Yuan Longping in 1970s, we are now far from hunger.
At least in China, the younger generation has never experienced the despair caused by hunger, which many people can't understand. How can hunger make people afraid? That's something you haven't seen before. You have seen the famine in China in the last century.
People who have seen it may be able to read between the lines about people's fear of hunger at that time, but I don't think they can fully understand it, because the fear brought by hunger all the time is beyond the imagination of people living in that environment.
But everyone who has seen it will write Wang Zengqi? Grandma didn't starve to death at once, but a little. ? It stung my heart and made it difficult for me to breathe for a while.
Grandma didn't starve to death at once.
There is an introduction in Wang Zengqi's Butter Pancakes called Xiao Sheng. Xiao Sheng's parents are always changing jobs, so he has been sent to his hometown since he was three years old and has been living with his grandmother.
Xiao Sheng's grandmother doesn't care much about Xiao Sheng, but she always chooses clothes, jackets and trousers for him. Therefore, Xiao Sheng's clothes are always piled with old cloth, not new, but very clean.
Grandma never liked Xiao Sheng's waste shoes, but she always insisted on making shoes for Xiao Sheng. She had to take care of herself. I ate well in my hometown when I was a child. Xiao Sheng plays around outside every day. At home, grandma made radish cabbage, millet flour cake, corn flour cake, scrambled eggs and boiled small fish. Xiao Sheng has grown taller, too.
But then what? Great Leap Forward? Sports, steelmaking, and ironmaking all over the country, my hometown has set up canteens, and everyone in the village has handed in the pots at home, leaving grandma's two pots.
The food in the canteen was really good at first. Every day grandma comes back from the canteen with white flour steamed bread, big pancakes, fried tofu with marinated shrimp sauce, braised eggplant and pig's head meat! It tastes better than the small pot at home. At that time, people were fat and pigs were fat. Nobody is hungry.
But life is to give you a little sweetness and a little bitterness. Later, the canteen closed down. Corn tortillas mixed with slag made people and pigs lose weight.
But Xiao Sheng has eaten very well, but Grandma is different. When grandma comes back from the canteen to cook, she will only break off half a cake and chew it for a long time before swallowing it. The remaining half is in Xiao Sheng's belly.
Grandma is in poor health Every winter, she has a severe asthma attack. Every night, Xiao Sheng will listen to her breathing after drinking, but when she wakes up during the day, her snoring will not stop. Grandma just panted every day to go to the canteen to cook for Xiao Sheng and beat the cakes mixed with fake flour.
Grandma used to cook and walk home from the canteen in one breath, but now she can't. She will have a rest when she walks to the crooked-neck willow tree. Grandma and a group of elderly grandparents said, I'm afraid it's winter, not spring. ? Sure enough, before spring arrived, the old people in the village fell down one by one, and grandma was dying. She asked for a letter to call her son back, but when Xiao Sheng's father came back, grandma had died.
Grandma butter never opened it.
When Grandma was still alive, Xiao Sheng's father came to see Grandma in winter, bringing half a bag of potatoes, a bunch of mushrooms and two bottles of butter.
Grandma made potatoes and dried mushrooms for Xiao Sheng, but the two bottles of butter came back from Grandma's father Xiao vocal cords, and Dad refused. These two bottles of butter have been kept in the cupboard at home. Grandma never opened them except wiping them with a rag from time to time.
Stranger still, Xiao Sheng didn't crave butter at first, because he had never eaten butter. For something he hasn't eaten, even his appetite needs subconscious restraint. These two bottles of butter were taken to work by my father after my grandmother left, but they were also locked up by my mother.
Xiao Sheng was very curious about the smell of butter pancakes coming from the south canteen until the third-level cadres had a meeting. His mother felt sorry for Xiao Sheng, took out butter and branded him a butter pancake. But Xiao Sheng took two bites and suddenly called grandma. Wang Zengqi wrote: Xiao Sheng was eating butter pancakes with a string of tears in his eyes. His tears flowed into his mouth. Butter pancakes are sweet, but tears are salty. ?
What is the hungry world? Eat? mankind
Why did Xiao Sheng cry while eating butter pancakes? Because when he tasted such delicious food, he understood the sadness that grandma was starved to death. He said grandma was a little hungry.
A little is a debatable word, just like ancient times? Died during the year? , is holding a knife in a person's body constantly cut, cut a knife, cut two knives, people will not die, but each knife makes people closer to death, and finally unconsciously the blood has dried up. This kind of pain lies in enduring it all the time and knowing clearly that you are getting closer and closer to death.
And grandma's hunger, grandma's death, was it a social hunger for her at that time? Died during the year? . In this novel, Wang Zengqi did not spend a lot of pen and ink to describe grandma's struggle in hunger, but more to describe the food that was difficult to swallow every day in the canteen.
But it makes people understand this more deeply? A little? Taste. No wonder there is? Hungry? Once upon a time, when I heard this word, I just felt that nothing could be done. I want to be a hungry ghost. Who coined this word? That's ridiculous.
But now I understand that the so-called hungry ghost has always been the epitome of that era, and grandma is a hungry ghost. So what is a hungry world? Eat? People, grandma is the person who was swallowed up by that era.
Grandma? A little? Some starved to death, indicating that grandma has never really had enough to eat in her life. This is actually a sad thing. Hunger is like following the death behind grandma for life. The sickle in death's hand is always around grandma's neck. Grandma went hungry day after day, and finally the sickle of death cut deeply into her body, and she was taken away by death.
The protracted war between mankind and hunger
Some people say that the history of mankind is a history of hunger. From the hunting age to the agricultural civilization age, from the Paleolithic age to the Neolithic age, all these times have become new times, which is actually a history of fighting hunger.
China is a country where natural and man-made disasters continue. Since ancient times, China people have had to struggle with heaven, earth and people in order to fill their stomachs. In New China, the people of China were still starving, while in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the absurd policies made the people of China even more hungry.
The people of China are a hungry people. It took us thousands of years to feed everyone. It seems that China has won the protracted war against hunger.
But there are always people who lose, and there are always people who have not finished the war. Many countries in Africa, many countries in war-torn areas, are still struggling with hunger.
Many people there have the same fate as grandma and died in a way that we can't understand now. Facts have proved that hunger can really kill a person.
Hunger never really leaves.
It says China seems to have won the war against hunger. In fact, we never really won, but now we have the upper hand. Nowadays, the environmental pollution in the world is becoming more and more serious, cultivated land is destroyed and soil is polluted. Even if you have the technology, you have to plant it without land.
Why does hunger never really leave? We are obviously not hungry now, and there will be no tragedy of grandma starving to death. But it is the tragic moment of starvation that gives us a wake-up call. Hunger is not far away! Hunger is still the death chasing us.
If the earth has been destroyed, who knows when its ecosystem will collapse? Like this year's epidemic, isn't this a warning from nature? None of us know, if one day, God will take back all the gifts that keep us away from hunger, punish everyone and let everyone starve to death a little. Therefore, be prepared for danger in times of peace, and never let the sickle of death rest on human neck.