As the author said, "hometown is the place where smoke rises." The author/kloc-left home at the age of 0/7 and traveled all over the world. Most books are about teenagers at home. Therefore, 25 words in the book express feelings for hometown. And this love for hometown is a universal psychology that every reader can really feel. In the history of literature, homesickness and homesickness are one of the most common and moving themes. For thousands of years, "the north wind of Humayi crosses the south branch of the Bird's Nest", "I can finally send my messenger, the geese, back to Luoyang" and "But I look to my hometown, and the twilight is getting dark, and there is a sad mist on the Jiangbo" ... have made countless readers feel prepared. In recent years, homesickness has become a hot word widely mentioned by the public, which has its specific practical significance. In the 1990s, I once read the paper "The End of the Village" by sociologist Li Peilin in China Social Sciences. He studied the phenomenon of "village in city", but I was really moved by the presentation of rural destiny in the paper. To this end, I went to the Academy of Social Sciences to interview Mr. Li. However, at that time, we were concerned about some puzzles and entanglements about the fate of rural areas in the wave of modernization. Since the beginning of the new century, many people and forces, from the government to the intelligentsia to the people, have been paying attention to and devoting themselves to rural construction, and various rural construction practices have been continuously promoted. All these indicate that we have become more and more aware of the importance of rural areas to China society.
Life in the desert shows everyone's homesickness, and I have more songs in reading. Mo Sheng and I are the same age and the same generation. The reform and opening up has brought great changes to China society. Cooking Smoke records a period before and at the beginning of the reform and opening up, which is also a period of material shortage in China. Mo Sheng described the rural life in southwest Sichuan. At that time, most of my experiences in a small town in northern Shandong were like this. I saw flying turtledoves, rabbits, big greyhounds and country dolls watching movies, as if I had experienced them personally. Like Mo Sheng, when I was a teenager, I had a long-haired rabbit, chickens, ducks and dogs at home. According to my mother, the writing books and pencils that my siblings and I use in school are basically solved by selling rabbit hair. I still remember one summer vacation, I was at home, looking after three chickens. I forgot to put the chickens in the house during the rainstorm that day, and two of them died at once. My parents thought it was no big deal, but I was sad to see the remaining chickens standing alone in the next few days. Of all the things I can remember, that moment was the first time I was sad.
What impressed me most was that, unlike many works describing homesickness in history, Seeing Smoke from Cooking Kitchen was not a sentimental work. What is constantly presented in the works is a pure warmth for the growth of hometown and childhood. I think this way of writing can truly reflect the true meaning of the value of "homesickness".
On the writing style of cooking smoke from the kitchen.