When there are all kinds of disappointments in your life and you are dissatisfied with the present situation, please read the prose collection of Li Juan, a well-received new generation non-fiction prose writer. This collection of essays was rated as an excellent book in China on 20 17, and it was an award-winning work in the 7th Lu Xun Literature Award.
In the collection of essays, the author describes that her mother moved her family to the Gobi by the Ulungu River with poultry and livestock, settled in the "winter nest" beside the sunflower field, and began a farming life full of hardships and adventures. The author also focused his thoughts on the details of his family members' lives.
Between the lines, we deeply feel the author's eternal optimism about life and destiny. Whether it's good or bad, whether it's poor or rich, whether it's poor or prosperous, we all insist on not giving up. We are as tall as sunflowers, and our hearts are full of sunshine. Finally, in the frontier desert, ordinary and weak Li Juan and ordinary family members have blossomed into flower of life and sunflower-like Ming Can, and gained extraordinary life experience and satisfied happiness!
First, the so-called hope is that it is possible to work a little better than giving up completely.
The vast Gobi desert in Altai is traversed by the Ulungu River, and the cultivated land along the coast is irrigated by the river. This year, the river is almost cut off, which is a rare dry year.
To make matters worse, pests were rampant, and the 90-mu sunflower field planted by "my mother" on the south bank of the Ulun River was completely eaten up overnight.
"My mother" had no choice but to buy seeds and replant them. However, when the second crop of young crops came out, the land was just green and was eaten up overnight.
"My mother" gritted her teeth and replanted for the third time. Soon, the third batch of seeds repeated the fate of the first two batches.
Despite this setback, "my mother" planted the seeds for the fourth time.
In any case, the fate of the fourth seed is much better. In July, we can't see the shadow of the goose throat antelope any more, and the sunflower has sprouted, which is particularly vigorous!
Don't give up your efforts, even in desperation, there is no hope. Can do this, I believe that one day will be rewarded! God won't always let those who keep trying and don't give up hope (even a little hope) down!
Second, after suffering and tempering, we are all more tenacious.
"My mother" took her mother and daughter from Sichuan to Gobi in Xinjiang, opened a canteen and a tailor's shop, raised chickens, ducks and rabbits, overcame water shortage, sandstorm and severe cold, and reclaimed land. Riding a motorcycle across the deserted Gobi desert.
"My mother" is more capable and brave than men, does not give in to fate and meets all difficult challenges.
Living in a nest, the conditions are difficult, the smoke exhaust effect is poor, and the indoor smoke is rolling; There is dirt everywhere. When the wind blows, my hair and eyebrows turn white. When you take a bite, it is still white. When you take a bite, the rice is covered with a thick layer of black. No ventilation, in July, the underground is like a steamer. But when the sandstorm comes, the earth is like Noah's ark drifting in the vast sea, which is the only quiet little darkness in the roar of the whole world. Everyone held their breath in the dark, as if they were buried deep in the soil, as if they were gradually taking root and sprouting.
Grandma moved to the sunflower field with us on the first day. She couldn't cook. She is only hungry enough to cook a bowl of white rice porridge at night. On the third day, my grandmother, who started from scratch and was displaced several times in her life, was extremely disappointed with this hard land and difficult conditions. "What can this place grow?" But on the fourth day, grandma accepted the reality and stopped complaining. From time to time, she helps to count chickens and ducks, calling dogs geese.
"My mother" led our family through hardships and became stronger and stronger, like sunflowers on the Gobi Desert, swaying and growing in the sand, strong and strong!
Third, the poetry in poverty and hardship, the interest in monotony and ordinary.
I liked everything when I was young. When I grew up, I forgot that I actually liked everything.
"Whenever I walk on the straight road on the boulevard between school and home with my schoolbag on my back, dense tree crowns crisscross it to form a cool arcade. The world in front of me is infinitely deep and ancient, and it still bothers my heart until now. "
On this road, I picked up my "love" all the way, put them into my schoolbag, complete fallen leaves, colorful stones, perfectly symmetrical animal bones ... Love makes ordinary people emit interesting light.
"In my long childhood, I always watched the master's works in front of the car repair booth on the corner all day, and all the steps were memorized by heart. ..... "Love makes monotony interesting.
As long as you have a soft heart of great love, no matter what kind of suffering you face, you can live a poem and a distance.
My uncle put several steps on the slope of the pit, and the steps were covered with cement slices peeled off from the old building. Uncle's operation directly pushed our underground nest to the throne of "five-star underground nest" If you love life, you will have the creativity to create a better life.
"My mother" took me back to my home near the sunflower field on the motorcycle I just bought, and sped on the only road between heaven and earth. The dirt road is getting narrower and narrower, leaving only one foot wide, just a trace of the road, just a scratch on the solid earth. My mother proudly shows off to me that this is the "my way" she is using alone. My own labor built my own stage and wrote my own poems on the earth.
"Labor is pure and silent. My mother is thinking about the fields to be cut, irrigation in a few days, and the chemical fertilizer that she didn't buy. These have filled her wilderness life. " "Suddenly I looked up and saw the most beautiful cloud in the world." Who said this was not my mother's poetic life?
In Li Juan's works, the most barren places also have the natural beauty of heaven and earth and the beauty of simple humanity. The most common details of life are also interesting.
Sunflower petals are golden yellow and very bright, giving people an impression of vitality and infinite vitality. It revolves around the sun every day, as if it will never get tired, inspiring people to love life and find their own fun and value in life.
Li Juan used the distant sunflower field to convey the positive power of sunflower, encouraging people to live with their hearts and live wonderfully under any circumstances!
We should also cultivate our sunflower fields in our own hearts and harvest our sunflower in Ming Can!