Excerpts from four generations' reading notes and appreciation of their feelings:
1. Silence is sometimes the safest.
Appreciation: As the saying goes, silence is golden, which tells us to think more, talk less, listen more to other people's opinions, and sum up and analyze them carefully, otherwise we may make mistakes when we open our mouths, and the judgment and result may be irreparable.
2. If people are not so energetic, what's the difference between them and chickens that keep their heads down all day?
Appreciation: The author uses a chicken that lowers its head to peck at food on the ground as a metaphor for a person who has no spirit of struggle. This sentence tells us that we should be determined, have a spirit of challenge, and work hard for our ideals so as not to waste our life.
3. A flower is beautiful only when it grows on a tree; If you get it, it's over. The same is true of Beiping City, which is the most beautiful, but if it is occupied by the enemy, it is a broken flower!
Appreciation: This sentence compares the fallen Peiping with the picked flowers. Flowers grow on trees and are beautiful and have vitality, but once they are picked, they will wither and cannot last. As the hometown of our life and the land of our country, if Beiping is occupied by foreign enemies, it will lose the soul of life like a picked flower.
4. One person who has lost his country comforts another person who has lost his country, which means that two cows in the slaughterhouse are relatively whining.
Appreciation: This sentence is used to express that the fate of people who die of national subjugation is like cattle in a slaughterhouse, which is sad and has no right to speak and life. In this way, the author tells us that as China people, they only have the right to live if they swear not to be conquered people.
5. A native of China, with his poems, etiquette, pictures and morality, will die for a belief.
Sentiment: In the occupied areas of Beiping, there are still many patriots who have rushed to defend the motherland and made sacrifices for this belief. Such compatriots are the authentic China people and the backbone of our nation.
Extended information:
The novel Four Generations under One roof is the representative work of Lao She, and the book is divided into three parts: Confusion, Stealing an Alive Life and Famine. The first book was published by Shanghai Liangyou Fuxing Book Company in January 1946, the second book was published by Shanghai Chenguang Publishing Company in November 1946, and the third book was published by Hong Kong Cultural Life Publishing House in 1975. In 1982, Beijing Publishing House published the complete book Four Generations under One roof.
the novel takes Peiping, which fell after the Anti-Japanese War, as the background, and describes the psychological changes of the lower class people in Xiaoyangjuan Hutong, with Qi family as the center. During the Anti-Japanese War, they changed from perplexity and depression, endured humiliation and dragged out an ignoble existence to gradual awakening and resistance, and poured out the pain of national subjugation, the difficulty of city subjugation and the unconquerable national spirit of the people in the ancient capital, accusing and whipping the brutal atrocities of the Japanese aggressors and the despicable souls of traitors and lackeys.
At the same time, it also reflects and criticizes the nation's own conformism and cowardice. The novel successfully created the artistic images of Qi Laoren, Qi Tianyou, Qi Ruixuan and Qian Moyin.
The novel has a huge and tight structure, twists and turns, vivid narration, vivid dialogue and strong lyrical atmosphere, which is full of glory in describing the local customs of Beiping.