The story of Sasha Vujacic is not complicated, and the characterization is simple. However, this simple writing sometimes leaves a deep impression on readers.
There are many descriptions of rural people's daily life in the novel, which bring readers into a quiet and beautiful small village and show them the rural life.
As described in the novel, in the summer night, Mix's family gathered in the yard, chatting together and listening to the unique natural sounds in summer. "Summer night is like a dream. After dinner, everyone sat in the middle of the courtyard to rest, waved the cattail leaf fan, watched the stars in the sky and the fireflies in the corner, and listened to the long sound of the spinning wheel accompanied by the weaver girl on the pumpkin shed. The sound was as dense as rain, and the flowers were blowing on the face. It was a convenient time for people to tell jokes. " This is probably something that can only be done in rural areas. Indeed, such a scene is as beautiful as a dream. There is a yard where you can look up at the starry sky, there are some birds and insects that you can listen to, and a group of close people are chatting together, which is really like dreaming.
There is also an interesting contrast in the article, that is, the comparison between the days in China and the days in the world. "In the world" naturally refers to places outside the countryside, those industrialized cities. "Life in the country, like life in the world, varies from time to time. People in the world waste their time, just as people such as Xiao Xiao waste their time, and each has his own income and belongs to him. Civilized people in many cities completely spend a summer day on soft silk clothes, exquisite drinks and all kinds of good things. Su Su's family, because of a summer's work, got more than ten kilograms of fine hemp and twenty or thirty loads of melons. " The author says that "people in the world" waste their days on clothes, drinks and other things, while small families, for example, have a bumper harvest after a summer's work. In contrast, The World on Earth is really a waste of time, busy enjoying and cooling off the heat. Here, Shen Congwen expressed his praise for the hard work of rural people unabashedly.
The novel does not deliberately describe the rural scenery in large sections, but only describes the people in the village to express this small village and explain the novel environment. This small village is full of the characteristics of China's traditional farming civilization. People in the village work hard, get together in their spare time and enjoy nature. This is the traditional and simple small village in China that Shen Congwen showed us in Mix.
According to this article, Mix is a child bride bought by her husband's family. She worked as a nanny when her husband was young and married him when he grew up. It can be said that the affection between Xiaoxiao and her husband is affection rather than love.
At the beginning of the novel, after Mix went to her husband's family, "What she should do every day is to carry her brother down to the willow tree in front of the village and play by the stream. If you are hungry, feed her to cry, and she will coax him, pick southern claw flowers or green bristlegrass and put it on her husband's head, or kiss again and again. " At this time, it is not her parents who play with her young husband every day, but Mix. Rustling acts as her husband's nanny and playmate, and it is conceivable that the young husband is deeply dependent on this sister. Even her husband trusts Xiaoxiao more than her mother. "The husband cried until her mother-in-law was helpless, so Mix got up gently, walked to the bed, picked up the man and showed him the moonlight and stars; Or kiss and stare at each other, childish' hey hey, look at that cat!' Just shouted and coaxed, so my husband smiled. Play for a while, close your eyes slowly when you are sleepy. "Mother-in-law coax bad husband, need rustling to coax, visible, rustling and her husband has established an emotional connection that others can't reach.
Later, after rustling was pregnant with the child of Flower Dog, it was also her husband who accompanied her:
"Soon my husband came back from other places with a lot of hawthorn, and he was surprised to see rustling sitting alone on the grass with red eyes. After watching it for a while, he asked Mix, "Sister, why are you crying?"
For no reason, the caterpillar fell into the eye socket and hurt. '
I'll blow. '
Don't blow. '
Look at me. I have these. '
He put all the mussels and stones in his hand and coat pocket in front of Xiaoxiao, which he picked up from the stream. Xiaoxiao looked at them for a while with tears in her eyes, and said with a forced smile,' Brother, we are good friends. If I cry, don't tell your family. I will be angry if I sue home!' When I got there, no one in my family really knew about it. "
When Mix was most sad and helpless, it was her young and ignorant husband who accompanied her, took care of her, made her happy, and hid it from her family. Perhaps in her husband's heart, rustling is her closest relative. "Because of the long time, the age is different, and the husband sometimes respects and loves Xiaoxiao more than his parents."
The relationship between rustling and her husband seems to be the interdependence of two children. And this close dependence also accompanied them and spent a quiet and warm life.
In the novel, the flower dog lures Xiaoxiao to do "bad things", which leads Xiaoxiao to get pregnant. Xiaoxiao and Huahou, two adolescent boys and girls, have a primitive sexual attraction between them.
Judging from the description of Mix in the article, Mix has become a young and energetic girl since she came to her husband's family. "Rustling married the door, made a fist big husband kannika nimtragol, everything can't compare with the previous suffering, it only depends on her physical development this year. Living in the wind and rain is like castor growing in the corner of the garden without being noticed, with big leaves and branches. This little woman doesn't think so for her husband at all, and grows up day by day. " "Frost and snow fell several times, and Grain Rain was sunny several times. A family member said that Sasha Vujacic is an adult. God bless, drinking cold water and eating rough rice, you are not sick all year round, but you are developing so fast. Although my mother-in-law was born like a pair of scissors, all the opportunities given to Mix were cut off, but the sunshine and air in the country helped people grow up, but torture could not stop them. " Sasha Vujacic has grown up healthily. For men, little girls of this age are full of sexual attraction.
And Xiao Xiao's husband's helper Hua Gou is also a strong young man at this time. Flower dog is twenty-three years old. "Flower dog is a person who can talk and laugh, with raised eyebrows and upturned ends." "Flower dog is a person, everyone has both virtue and evil. He has a strong labor force, diligent hands and feet, and can play and talk. " Such a hard-working little boy, who can play and talk, plays a joke with Xiaoxiao from time to time. It is inevitable that Xiaoxiao will not make fun of him. However, the flower dog is somewhat dishonest in his heart, so it is understandable that he is tempted by rustling.
But the practice of taking the dog after the accident exposed the immaturity and irresponsibility of the dog. "This guy is big and timid. It is easy to do something wrong when you are big, and you can't think of a way if you are timid. " It can be seen that the flower dog belongs to the kind of person who has no brain and no strength. He only cares about impulse, regardless of the consequences. He is a reckless plowman.
Although the combination of Sasha Vujacic and Huahou should not happen, it happened under the attraction of nature's primitiveness, but it is also the true expression of human nature. This plot brought waves to Mix's fate and promoted the climax of the novel.
In this novel, "female students" and "freedom" seem to exist as interludes reflecting the background of the times. In the hearts of villagers, "female students" are a strange group. "Just because in everyone's impression, we all know that female students have no braids and quail tails, like nuns, but not entirely. Dress like a foreigner, not a foreigner. Food, use, ... All in all, everything is different, and it's ridiculous to think of it! " "In the eyes of rural people, these people are very close to those who survived in another world. They dress strangely and behave strangely. This female student is dead, and the whole village can tell jokes all day. " When the girls in the city became "female students" who went to school, the country people only stayed in a state of curiosity and ridicule for the female students, which reflected the backwardness of China's rural concept at that time. Mix's feelings about the concept of "female students" also changed slightly. At first, my grandfather made fun of Mix: "Mix, when you grow up, you will be a female student!" " "At that time, Mix's heart was ambivalent towards female students." Grandpa, I don't want to be a female student. ""I can never do that. " At this time, Mix didn't know who the female student was, only that everyone was laughing at the female student, so he was very ambivalent.
However, when Mix heard about the female students mentioned by her grandfather in a chat with others, her attitude towards female students changed. "At this time, my grandfather explained that after hearing this noise, I suddenly had a vague desire in my heart, thinking that if she was also a female student, would she do those things as my grandfather said? No matter good or bad, female students are not terrible, so for this country girl, they have experienced it for the first time. " At this time, Mix realized that female students were not terrible and began to yearn for the life of female students. "Rustling has a' female student' in my heart since then. Even in my dreams, I often dream of female students and dream of walking side by side with these people. " "Because of this passage, my grandfather called rustling not a little girl or rustling, but a female student. Inadvertently, Mix promised very well. "
Mix is eager to be a schoolgirl, but as a child bride in a small village, she can't be a schoolgirl like a girl in the city. Such a contrast shows the tragic fate of rustling.
The novel also mentions "freedom" twice, namely "freedom" in grandpa's eyes and "freedom" in Hua Gou's eyes. When it comes to female classmates, my grandfather mentioned that "they are in the same school, and when they are ripe, they will sleep with that man casually. There is no matchmaker and no bride price. This is called' freedom'." The free love of female students was so unbearable by my grandfather that he called it "freedom" in a contemptuous tone. It can be seen that the idea of freedom at that time did not spread to the public like my grandfather did.
The "freedom" in the eyes of Hua Gou is even more ridiculous. "Said he met four female students on the way to the official, they all got the flag, and they sweated and panted for a long time, just like soldiers. Needless to say, this is naturally a completely spun joke. But that story ruined Xiaoxiao Coke. Because the flower dog says this is called' freedom'. " Grandfather is a local. Compared with other villagers, he has some knowledge, but he still knows so much about freedom. It is not surprising that a farmer who is busy with farm work all day understands freedom so much.
By writing about the different views of Grandpa and Hua Gou on "freedom", the author reveals the political situation in rural areas at that time, and the idea of democracy and freedom has not been popularized. For a rural girl like Mix, the understanding of "freedom" can only be explained by her grandfather and flower dog, not to mention that rural women like Mix's mother-in-law don't care about politics at all.
However, they have nothing to do with politics. In this quiet country, they also live their own pastoral life.
The fate of rustling is full of twists and turns, and it is fortunate in misfortune. It's a pity that she can only be pushed around and become a child bride. After being cheated by the flower dog, the husband's family couldn't stand it. Fortunately, the husband she bought was kind, and she gave birth to a boy, so her husband accepted her again.
After Xiao Xiao came to her husband's family, they lived alone. The first is the relationship with the little husband. She and her husband live together day and night, and have developed brotherly feelings. During the time when Xiaoxiao was exposed and waiting for remarriage, her feelings with her husband did not change. "First, the little husband can't be with Xiaoxiao anymore, but then it's still like the situation before the next month. My brother usually lives with a smile." "But my husband doesn't want to go to Xiaoxiao, and Xiaoxiao himself doesn't want to go." When Mix and Hua Gou's children grow up, they have a close relationship with Mix's husband. "Usually, Mix's husband is called an uncle, and the uncle agrees and never gets angry." The constant sense of disappointment between Mix and her husband also determines Xiao Xiao's staying in her husband's family to some extent.
Secondly, another human touch of the husband's family is that his grandfather plays a joke on rustling. Grandfather made fun of Mix with "female students", which was full of love from the elders for the younger generation. Imagine, if in my grandfather's eyes, Mix is just a child bride who works at home, then my grandfather wouldn't joke so easily. In a family, it is also a warm thing to have such an elder as a friend to tease you.
Another detail that reflects the warmth of human feelings is Sasha's uncle. After her husband's family found out that Xiaoxiao was pregnant, she asked Uncle Xiaoxiao to decide whether to "sink into the pool" or "sell herself". And this uncle is a sincere elder. "Xiaoxiao only has an uncle who works for people in the nearby Zhuangzi. When I invited him, I thought it was a drink. I didn't know it was such a shameful thing until I arrived, which made this honest parent feel at a loss. " Simple and honest parents decided to let Xiaoxiao remarry. "According to the habit, Shen Tan mostly made stupid things after reading Confucius. My uncle didn't study Confucius, so he couldn't bear to sacrifice Mix. Of course, Mix should get married as a' two-way relative'. " This is another lucky thing for Xiaoxiao. If her only family is a decadent feudal guard, she must sink into the pool. It's lucky that my uncle decided to take care of his family.
Rustling's fate has her own misfortune, and this misfortune is somewhat lucky. Some of this luck is due to accident, for example, she gave birth to a boy, and some is due to the constant reluctance between people, such as husbands and uncles.
There is no doubt that among many girls whose lives are similar to hers, Mix is lucky.
After reading Sasha Vujacic, I seem to have listened to an undisturbed pastoral song. The countryside written by Shen Congwen is not disturbed by the outside world. The air is filled with the fragrance of crops in the sun, and the villagers live a leisurely farm life. The rustling under Shen Congwen's pen is naturally as beautiful as a rough jade. Although her life is full of waves, it is also written as a beautiful pastoral in this simple small village.