The first time I read "Axin" was about four years ago. And I just read the first part hastily and didn’t continue. When I first saw the title of the book on the bookshelf, I thought it was the autobiography of Ashin, the lead singer of "Mayday". When I got closer, I realized that it was not. I think this is part of the reason why I didn't read the remaining three books.
At that time, I had just entered my second year of high school, and I was still a cynical, sadly naive teenager. He is disdainful of everything in the world, has never tasted suffering, and has never experienced the true failure of life. He lives his life as he pleases and is absent-minded. At that time, I had been passionate about writing for half a year and had written many words. However, what I wrote was not a love letter or a love poem. It was sensational and vulgar to the extreme. I was so conceited at the time that I called myself the most lonely poet in the contemporary literary world. In fact, I have never read any books, but I just sit back and watch the world in my own narrow imagination. That’s all. Every time I recall those innocent and ignorant years, I feel both regret and nostalgia, so I occasionally hope that there really is such a thing as a time machine in the world. If I had understood the ways of the world earlier and used a time machine to be young again, my life would have changed again. What would it be like if things were different? Maybe there wouldn't be such a tortuous growth.
When I reread "Axin" this time, I didn't expect that I was in college. Life is really unpredictable. The road that I once thought I would never take has just stumbled upon me, and those unrealized dreams were shattered on another unfinished road, becoming memories that I can’t bear to open. . There are four volumes in this book. After reading it carefully, I was filled with emotions and benefited a lot. My tear ducts wanted to burst more than once, but they only secretly moistened my eyes. But the inner turmoil is so difficult to control, and I never feel calm while reading. Ashin's strength, kindness, perseverance and love are deeply engraved in the place that proves that I am still alive. She became another idol of mine.
This long masterpiece, combined with a huge historical background, tells the legendary life of an ordinary Japanese woman, her name is Ashin. Ashin was born into a family of sharecroppers and was exploited by the cruel sharecropper system. When she was seven years old, she had to leave the care of her parents at a young age and work hard in a wealthy family. The children who worked hard at that time worked hard for a year, and all they got in exchange was a bag of rice. But this bag of rice is too insignificant to change the fate of the impoverished sharecropper family. In an era when natural disasters are common, even eating the unpalatable carrot rice becomes a luxury for the tenant farmers. Poverty and hunger had destroyed the ideals of the sharecroppers beyond recognition. Numbness and submission were the hallmarks of the farmers of that era.
Japan in the 1920s and 1930s was still a country with deep-rooted feudal ideas. The concept of equality between men and women is still a distant fairy tale, and the status of the eldest son as the head of the family is natural. Those who are in the position of the second son are destined to be treated very differently from the eldest son from birth. These treatments seemed to be taken for granted in that era, Ah It was in this bad environment that Xin grew up. When she was seven years old, in order to reduce the financial burden on her family and prevent her incapable grandmother from starving and being scolded, she agreed to her father's request to go to work. What is incredible is that little Ashin actually left with a smile on her face. , it took such a lot of courage for her to suppress the panic and reluctance in her heart at such a young age. I can't imagine it. Maybe it was a cruel era that made people mature precociously. In fact, she has a hundred thousand reluctances and fears in her heart, but just because she loves her grandma, she can hide all the reluctances and fears in her heart like an adult. I think children express the greatest That's it for love. But in this materially affluent and harmonious world, these simple and easy-to-understand loves have been forgotten by people unconsciously. In the wave of chasing fame and fortune, people have forgotten the person who gave them the right to pursue fame and fortune. . I think of those relatives who have loved me deeply for many years without any complaints. After reading "Axin", I will always feel tearful and troubled by self-blame. The insomnia became more and more severe, making my breathing painful.
When I was a child, I spent my parents’ beautiful youth with unreasonable tears. When I grow up, I use my precious youth to spend my parents’ tears as they grow older. I have always been focused on walking my own path and pursuing my own happiness, but I have forgotten that I should look back at their world from time to time. When Banran came to his senses and turned around, what he saw was their backs that were already losing weight despite their fragile hearts. I hate that these hindsights came too late, because many feelings are no longer helpful. The only thing I can do now is to be an active and obedient young man who reassures them. However, even with such simple expectations, I have always been unable to fulfill my expectations. I always repeat the same mistakes and consume my dark youth, and have repeatedly received their sacrifices. Huge forgiveness.
No matter what age or where they live, if people want to live according to their own wishes, they need to go through a lot of hardships and setbacks before they can see the bright future. In this process, the consideration of the will, the questioning of the soul, and the doubt of time, it goes without saying that it will be accompanied by much pain and despair, especially when this intention starts with an indefinite time. In Ashin's tortuous life, she always struggled in difficulties and kept hoping in despair. She never had the idea of ??giving up in her mind, even if she couldn't get it no matter how hard she tried. The era of payback.
There is a very dazzling sentence about survival in the book, which goes like this: If a person has the courage to commit suicide, what else can he not do? Whenever I feel discouraged in the world I live in, I will think of this sentence, and many things will feel insignificant. There is another sentence about love that is so touching. It was said by Ashin's adopted son when he wanted Ashin to agree to take Lily as his wife. He said: I believe Lily’s past life was just waiting to meet me. This is the most touching love story I have ever read. Because Lily Ashin’s biological son Aren had a relationship and almost got married, I hope she is still the best witness in this story. But I hope I can describe it so poetically, as if Lily's past is what it should be. Such a vow of love makes people want to understand it. As for Axin and her husband Tian Canglong San, they only became close to each other after many tests and partings. Growing old together is always a matter of two people. If there is no persistence in love and determination to love each other, then no matter how lingering and pathos they are, it will be difficult to last forever. So we see that in today's materialistic modern era, breakups and divorces are as frequent and natural as eating at home.
This book also has a theme that runs throughout the story, which is anti-war. Indeed, war is nasty and ruthless. Even if the so-called war between justice and evil is forced to be carried out in the rolling historical trend, so what? Just for this high-sounding reason, tens of thousands of innocent people lost their precious lives, and the outcome of the war, whether it is the so-called victory of justice or the so-called failure of evil, is Cruel. In a large sense, they are deceiving themselves and others and destroying the homes of common people. In a small way, they are causing families and families to be separated and destroyed. War only plays a dispensable role in the script that promotes the progress of civilization. Is there anything that cannot be solved without war? War will only deepen the hatred between countries and make people more indifferent. The harmonious world that people have been dreaming about since ancient times may still be just a dream when human civilization is destroyed.
Axin experienced the Great Kanto Earthquake and World War I. These disasters have left her with nothing again and again, but is she discouraged? Yes, she didn't. How could she be discouraged? She bravely chose to start from scratch and spend her youth realizing her dream of opening a store and doing business. He also took on the unfinished parts of her dead relatives and friends. She knew that she was not living just for herself, so her bravery was even more indestructible. When her first Tiancang Supermarket opened, Ashin was already fifty years old and had exhausted one-half of her life. She finally bid farewell to that era where no matter how hard she tried, she would get no reward. Before her happiness had an outline, everything was like a nightmare that she couldn't wake up from.
At this point in the writing, Ashin’s miserable days have basically come to an end, and what follows is Ashin’s efforts and patience in order to bring harmony to his family and promote his career. Ashin values ??credibility first when doing business and wins customers with credibility. Even when her business no longer required her to continue her old business of selling fish and vegetables, which was both tiring and profitable. But she knows how to be grateful, and she has persisted in bringing high-quality and low-priced fish and vegetables to her customers for ten years. Because of this, in just thirty years, she opened 16 Tian Cang supermarket chains. But behind the prosperity lies a serious crisis. During this period, Ashin's son used many inhumane competition methods in order to expand his business. The accumulated crisis was finally fully exposed when he opened seventeen branches. The seventeen branches encountered threats from powerful large groups. Competition and bankruptcy are around the corner. During this difficult and dangerous period, Aren's family crisis was also fully exposed. Faced with Tian Cang Supermarket, which was about to go bankrupt and close, Aren's wife was desperately preparing to retreat. She wanted to divorce Aren. At this moment, Ah Xin, who was silent and patient, stood up and spoke warm words like spring to save the family, and her adopted sons and daughters also showed a touching friendship that they usually never show. At this time, love got the most beautiful expression. sublimation.
Why is love today always mixed with so many utilitarian elements? The superficial family unity, but the care behind the scenes, can be seen even with closed eyes. It turns out that there are so many sacred beliefs that cannot withstand the changes of the times and the displacement of the world. I suddenly discovered his loneliness, but it was too late. Nothing helps except a slightly sheepish and awkward greeting. Family fun is as far away as Andersen's fairy tales.
Because Axin lived a life of gratitude and kindness, her supermarket was finally saved. This is a happy ending. When the book is finished, Ashin is already eighty-five years old, and I was not born yet. All I know is that from then on, I had another idol in my spiritual world.
One more article for you;
A few days ago, my mother recommended a book to me called "Axin". I asked curiously: "What is Ashin?" My mother said: "Axin is the name of a Japanese little girl. This book is about Ashin's childhood experience.
"After hearing this, I read it eagerly. The book said: Little Ashin was born in a poor family. His father was a sharecropper. His grandmother worked hard for the family all her life and got rheumatism. Ashin's sister Achun and Ami went out to work as a servant for others. Axin also has a brother named Zhuang Zhi, who is a ruthless person. Axin's mother is called A Teng. She loves A Xin very much. A Xin also has a younger brother and a younger sister. A Teng and Zhuang Zhi goes out to do farm work every day, while Axin stays at home to take care of her younger siblings.
She eats radish rice every day, and sometimes she can’t even eat enough radish rice. Save some money and only eat one meal a day. When Ashin was seven years old, he went to work for his employer, but it was even harder at his employer than at home. He had to get up early and stay up late every day, and he had to wash diapers in the cold and biting river water in winter. , however, he can only eat a small bowl of radish rice and a few drops of cold miso soup every day, but his salary for a year is only one bag of rice.
I think little Ashin is a sensible and strong child. , although she was younger than me at that time, she was able to care about her grandma and help her family with what she could. Just for a bag of rice, she went out to work at a young age, and she also obtained a lot of knowledge with her strong spirit of curiosity. When she had the opportunity to go to school, she reluctantly left the school with tears in her eyes in order to prevent her boss's young master from being bullied by his classmates. Another time, she fell into the river and almost drowned in order to let her grandma eat fish. , Ashin suffered a lot of grievances from her employer, but in order not to worry her family, she said in the letter that she was living a good life.
I think our current material conditions are better than Ashin's at that time. , but our hard-working spirit is far inferior to theirs.
The previous article has a higher level and word count, while the latter article is suitable for junior high school students or primary school students
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