Article introduction: Among the many human emotions, the love between husband and wife is an important emotion. In today's literary world, Chi Zijian's "Kissing the Potatoes" shows us a unique kind of love between husband and wife that is as simple as a potato, as close to the earth as a potato. This female writer from the Arctic Village uses her always gentle and tranquil writing style to penetrate into the life world of Qin Shan and Li Aijie, a northeastern rural couple who live by growing potatoes, and interprets an ordinary and sincere story with four meanings. conjugal love. 1. True Chunzhi...
Among the many human emotions, the love between husband and wife is an important emotion. In today's literary world, Chi Zijian's "Kissing the Potatoes" shows us a unique kind of love between husband and wife that is as simple as a potato, as close to the earth as a potato. This female writer from the Arctic Village uses her always gentle and tranquil writing style to penetrate into the life world of Qin Shan and Li Aijie, a northeastern rural couple who live by growing potatoes, and interprets an ordinary and sincere story with four meanings. conjugal love.
1. True and True Love
The love between husband and wife written in "Kiss the Potatoes" is a kind of love between husband and wife that is given without words. The couple went to Harbin to ask people how to get to the hospital, and someone recommended several major hospitals to them. Qin Shan asked: "You said there are so many hospitals, which hospital is the cheapest?" And Li Aijie said: "We want to find the hospital with the best treatment, whether it is expensive or not." The author uses these two simple sentences to compare The husband and wife have different psychology: the husband thinks that he cannot "spend that little money on medical treatment" and drag down his wife, while the wife thinks that she must treat her husband even if she loses everything. The deep love between husband and wife that is given silently to each other is all in it. When she was in the hospital, one morning, Li Aijie came to the hospital and saw Qin Shan "putting the lunch box on his stomach, half leaning back and covering it with his hands." Qin Shan said that he had ordered a bowl of millet porridge for her, and he was afraid that it would get cold. . Love is not a momentary declaration, but also a bit of investment.
2. Love of Nature
Chi Zijian has a special love for the black land in the Northeast. The characters in her works are all sons of the earth, and they are integrated with nature. Qin Shan and Li Aijie, the protagonists of Chi Zijian's novel "Kiss the Potatoes", go out early and come back late every day on the potato field, sowing in the spring, cultivating in the summer, harvesting in the autumn, and then "go to the city to sell potatoes, and what they sell naturally becomes money." Save it, and the rest will be used as seeds and shared by humans and animals. "The relationship between them can be said to have grown from that piece of land. This kind of love between husband and wife has the silent and huge continuous power like the land. When they went to the city to see a doctor and a neighbor asked him if he could come back during the autumn harvest, Qinshan replied: "Even if I have a breath, I will come back alive to harvest the last potatoes." Why did the author write that Qinshan would come back to harvest the last potatoes? Because potatoes are their livelihood, and with potatoes, the wife's life is guaranteed. When she was in the hospital, when Li Aijie secretly picked a flower from the hospital flower bed in the hope that Qin Shan would feel better after seeing it, Qin Shan said to her, "The fragrance of potato flowers is special. You can't smell it normally, but once you smell it, it's so special." "Unforgettable", "Just like the smell on your body". The writer transformed their love as husband and wife into their love for potatoes and the land in the face of the hardships of real life, thus making this love between husband and wife exude a natural atmosphere.
3. Poetic Love
The protagonists Qin Shan and Li Aijie in "Kiss the Potatoes" are a couple from the northeastern countryside. Their lives are not rich and they rely on growing potatoes to make ends meet. There seems to be no poetry in such ordinary daily life as livelihood. Moreover, her husband Qin Shan has been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. According to common sense, they will face a more difficult life, and the relationship between the couple may be enveloped in an atmosphere of gloom, helplessness and despair. However, in Chi Zijian's writings, we do not notice the slightest mundaneness, mediocrity, pessimism and coldness about this kind of life. We see the rose color woven by this couple on the background of ordinary life. They have their own unique characteristics. Warm and romantic. That kind of poetry is not a borrowed sweet love word, it does not have the luster of jewelry, but a warm smoke of life. The cheongsam appears three times in the novel. Qin Shan wants to go to the city, but not to see a doctor, but just to go shopping and buy a cheongsam for his wife. Qin Shan bought a cheongsam for his wife with the money he had saved when he secretly returned from the hospital. Later, Li Aijie wore this cheongsam to watch her husband's funeral and see him off. What a beautiful and touching picture this is. Cheongsam is aesthetic. The author adds this intention to the relationship between this ordinary couple, which means that their pursuit of beauty and poetry is deeply buried in their ordinary life.
The author even endows potatoes with human life and spirituality, making it read like a fairy tale, thus adding a poetic touch to the emotions written in the novel. The novel begins with potatoes, and ends with the appearance of potatoes.
4. Love between life and death
What can best test the depth of love between lovers is undoubtedly the boundary between life and death. Chi Zijian also arranged a death test for the couple at the end of the story. This is undoubtedly equivalent to a death sentence for both of them. Although Li Aijie hid it and did not tell her husband, Qin Shan had already gotten the result from his wife's red and swollen eyes. He knew that his time was running out, and he wanted to live well while he was still alive. So he secretly returned to Li Town alone, returning to the familiar potato field to harvest the last autumn. Qin Shan left one winter day, and Li Aijie wore that cheongsam to keep vigil for her husband. Finally she built a new grave for her husband out of potatoes. When she was the last to leave the graveyard, a miracle happened: "She had just taken two or three steps when she suddenly heard a rustling sound behind her. It turned out that a round and fat potato on the top of the grave fell from above. It rolled all the way to Li Aijie's feet and stopped in front of her shoes, as if a spoiled child was begging for her mother's beloved intimacy. Li Aijie looked at the potato lovingly and said softly: "Still with me." Feet? '" Here we deeply feel that deep in the heart of the protagonist Li Aijie, her husband Qin Shan has not left, because love will never leave.
It is through the discovery and description of such subtle and appropriate little plots that Chi Zijian expresses the deep love between husband and wife through one sentence and one action. In her writing, this kind of love between husband and wife is not refined, exuding a natural, pure and poetic atmosphere, as natural and gentle as a piece of jade, thus giving us a strong sense of reality; therefore, this love is as natural and gentle as a piece of jade. The love between husband and wife finally reaches a profound state that has the ability to transcend life and death. Own