In many people's memories of language books, I'm sure there is a text that exists.

"A Bowl of Young Spring Noodles," a text that was a little strange to read back then because it took place in Japan. The story is not complicated, the mother and her two sons, a family of three, went to the Hokkaido Noodle House four times on New Year's Eve over ten years to eat noodles, from three people eating one bowl of noodles to two bowls of noodles to three bowls of noodles, life quietly changed over the years, this change is full of warmth, inspiration and humanity.

This text left three deep impressions on the author: suffering is a kind of experience, the younger brother is not too good at acting, and whether Yangchun noodles are good or not.

This article talks about A Bowl of Yangchun Noodles.

I. The problem with the name

"A Bowl of Yangchun Noodles" is a short story by Li Liangping, written in 1987. Although it is a novel, it is also an adaptation of a story collected by the author from folklore.

The article first appeared in China in 1989 in Reader's Digest, then called "A Bowl of Buckwheat Noodles in Clear Soup," before it was selected for inclusion in the textbooks of China's middle schools, which then influenced at least one generation.

However, the texts we read are all named "A Bowl of Yangchun Noodles," which is not the same as the soba noodles in the original "A Cup of No Kake Soba," and is apparently a translation problem that changed soba, which is common in Japan, to yangchun noodles, which are common in some parts of the country.

The author believes that this translation, while not resulting in a less-than-stellar outcome, does paint a bit of a picture as well. Honestly, many areas of our country students not only do not know soba noodles also do not know yangchun noodles, feel that the change does not make sense, but also let a lot of people mistakenly think that yangchun noodles is the Japanese diet, until later to know the truth,

And, Japan's soba noodles itself has a certain special significance, that is their New Year's Eve must be eaten in the things, it is said that the whole family ate soba to watch the Japanese NHK's red and white Song will be a lot of Japanese families on New Year's Eve fixed mode, just like most of our country to eat dumplings to watch the Spring Festival Gala.

The key point is that soba and yangchun noodles are simply two different things, and the only good thing about this translation is that it allowed me to eat yangchun noodles for this text many years later. Well, it more or less boosted domestic demand.

In addition, there is another issue that has to be mentioned, many teachers will mention that the author is using this story to reflect the difficulties of Japan's post-war economic recovery and the results of the nation's efforts when narrating this text. The author thinks that this idea may be a bit elevated the author's intention, just like Lu Xun's "Two Trees".

According to the time of the novel, the story should have taken place as early as 1972, when Japan had regained its position as an economic powerhouse. The author, Kuru Ryohei, may have wanted to tell a more inspirational and heartwarming story to inspire everyone in the midst of adversity to pluck up courage, but did not seem to have elevated it to the level of a nation.

The story of the movie

The text of "A Bowl of Yangchun Noodles" had a great impact in our country, so when Japan made a movie of the same name in 1992, the name of the movie is still called "A Bowl of Yangchun Noodles" in our country, but it is somewhat funny that there is a translated version of the movie, and the actors in the translated version are still talking about buckwheat noodles.

Never mind the name, on to the plot.

Because the original novel was relatively short and couldn't hold up a movie, the movie script was expanded for the plot and ended up being a nearly 100-minute movie.

The movie version of "A Bowl of Yangchun Noodles", of course, still has the story of mother and son as its central theme, and the details of how the boss and the boss's wife entertain their guests respect the original novel.

But the movie version still did a lot of additions to enrich the plot, enriching the plot a lot, and some of these adaptations are very good, and some of the adaptations are suspected of adding to the story.

For example, the movie added the thread of the son and the dog to the story of the boss and the boss's wife, whose son died in a car accident at an age similar to the younger son of the mother and son in the trio.......The author believes that this thread was added a bit redundantly, and is a bit overly melodramatic.

More melodramatic place there, when the mother and son three years later back to the Beihai Pavilion Noodle House, the mother also brought a picture of the child's father, the boss and the boss's wife also for the child's father to serve a bowl of noodles, "a family of four four bowls of yangchun noodles". This bridge, uh, how to say it, I think a little too much, see what you see.

Above said the Japanese people have the habit of eating soba noodles on New Year's Eve to watch the red and white song festival, so the movie also added a red and white song festival story.

Akiko, a noodle shop waitress, tenders her resignation on New Year's Eve, wanting to go to Tokyo to make a name for herself as a singer and hoping to appear at the Red and White Song Contest in the future as well.

A decade later, when mother and son come to the Hokkaido Noodle House for the fourth time on that New Year's Eve, Akiko is back as well, having partially realized her dream of becoming a popular girl group singer. It's a pretty good addition to the story line, and could echo the inspirational story of the mother and son.

In the original movie, the story of the mother-son trio was spread by word of mouth after the owner and the owner's wife told it to the customers, while in the movie, the director had a reporter publish it in the newspaper after learning it from the owner's father, an incident that made the owner's wife so angry that she feared the mother-son trio would be embarrassed to come back.

The story was published in the newspaper, the result is a little out of shape, a lot of strange people are in the New Year's Eve convergence to the Beihai Pavilion Noodle House would like to take a look at the mother and son of three people, which has a child to receive an education, there are goodwill to take a look at, there are to hunt for a curiosity, and more even have a reporter waiting for a surreptitious shooting of the ...... this episode to make the story add The story adds some realism, but also some of the sense of light and strange, a kind of director's private goods it.

The director of the film also has a lot of private goods, the film through the Hokkaido Pavilion noodle shop guests talk to the Japanese society in the year some anecdotes and ills are reflected, and even attacked some of the ugly phenomena that exist in society.

In this way, the story of "A Bowl of Yangchun Noodles" takes a magical turn, somewhat like China's "Teahouse", with the boss and his wife becoming the protagonist Wang Lifa, the customers becoming all kinds of tea drinkers, Zhaotzu becoming Kang Shunzi, and the mother and son becoming Chang Siwei and Qin Zhongyi. Although the plot is going in the opposite direction, the story structure is similar, it looks more interesting, but realistically speaking, the movie also to a certain extent diluted the original kind of warmth full of atmosphere, kind of have gained and lost it.

Three, "A Bowl of Yangchun Noodles" relevance

"A Bowl of Yangchun Noodles" in the nineties of the last century, the fire throughout East Asia, in our country there are countless schools have rehearsed the play of the same name, the author has played the youngest son, we are all touched by the warmth of the story and inspirational.

It is said that in 1997, South Korea's Samsung Group suffered a life and death situation, the chairman of the board of directors let the vice president of the 40,000 employees read aloud a bowl of noodles, calling on all employees to learn the mother and son of the three people in the face of adversity of the spirit of struggle. When the Samsung Group recovered, the chairman again read "A Bowl of Noodles" to the employees, this time calling on them to learn from the humane management of the noodle shop owner and his wife.

For those who have experienced suffering, seeing "A Bowl of Yangchun Noodles" gives them a sense of déjà vu, while for those who are experiencing suffering, it is hoped that "A Bowl of Yangchun Noodles" will give us the courage and strength to get through adversity.

"You can't fail, you have to work hard and live well!"

"Have a good year!"