After Sun Shaoping arrived in Huangyuan City, he quickly got a job working on a construction site.
? The accommodation conditions are very poor: more than twenty job seekers are crowded into a large cave dwelling, next to a garbage dump, half of the windows are buried in garbage, and the light in the cave is very dim. There was no bed or kang, so I had to sleep on the floor covered with some rotten wooden boards. But Sun Shaoping didn't care about this. In his opinion, as long as he had work to do, made money, and had a place to live, it would be good.
The second day of work is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. In the evening, Huangyuan City is brightly lit and the stadium is noisy with gongs and drums. The annual traditional lantern festival is lively and exciting to many people.
After finishing work in the evening, the foreman bought a large plastic barrel of loose wine and ordered the cook to fry a basin of vinegar-soaked potato shreds. The job seekers were no longer interested in going to the stadium to watch the lights, so they just took turns drinking with shredded potatoes and a big black old bowl. After a few rounds. Many people were drunk, and someone suggested singing a song while drinking, so "Luohuahua", a job hunter, took the lead in singing a song of Xintianyou from the ancient society:
This song Xintianyou***7 Each stanza contains two sentences, expressing the helplessness, pain and deep longing for the sweetheart of the men on the Loess Plateau.
"Going outside the mouth" was a unique way of making a living on the northwest Loess Plateau during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Due to the drought and lack of rain in the Loess Plateau, the harsh natural environment and the relatively backward economy, many young people have to go north to Inner Mongolia and other areas to make a living. The Xintianyou song of "Carrot Flower" is based on this period of history, recreating for us the scene of men in the northwest walking out of their homes:
"White mist rises in the blue sky, and people without money can only "It stumps the individual." Xintianyou explains the reason for leaving the topic in a Bixing way at the beginning: no money available, life is difficult.
"Two strands of hemp rope tied up the bedding, and who left behind the outside" uses line drawing to describe the poor equipment and the sadness in the hearts of the men who left the village.
"The old black bird landed on the back of the cow, and I wanted to take my sister with me wherever I went. I hitched up the ox cart and greased it up, but I couldn't leave my sister behind and started crying." These two sections use psychological description and action description. , writes about the reluctance of men to leave their sweethearts and the pain of separation from their sweethearts.
"I miss my place, my horse wants my trough, my brother misses my sister and I want to die", using Bixing's technique, it expresses the deep longing for the sweethearts of the men in the northwest, both verbally and externally.
"The hairy eyes are weeping, the coat sleeves are wiping", using line drawing techniques to describe the extreme pain in the hearts of the men. "We poor people leave our lives to God's arrangements" reveals their helpless lament that they cannot control their own destiny.
"Don't be afraid, sister, I will go home if the river freezes in the twelfth lunar month..." This is not only a kind of comfort to the distant sweetheart, but also a desire for myself to return home as soon as possible. .
The use of overlapping words and dialect words such as "Langle Yingying", "Er Tuan Tuan", "Nada", "Mao Yanyan", "Yao Xiu Xiu", etc., makes this Xintianyou song unique. Strong northern Shaanxi style.
After "Carrot Flower" sang the song "Xintianyou", the workers all grinned. Like these men who have left their hometowns, they bear the heavy pressure of life, say goodbye to their families, leave their hometowns, and struggle to make a living in other places. This Xintianyou song should have aroused their strong screams, but besides grinning, what else could they do? Is it possible to cry on such a lively night?
After singing "Carrot Flower", he took a big sip of wine, but he didn't laugh. What he sang was his own life, but this life was so heavy that he really couldn't laugh.
Sun Shaoping and his fellow workers had different reactions. In this Xintianyou song, he could hear the affectionate sentiments of the men outside the country, as well as the suffering and sighs of the workers, so his heart was heavy.
When I read "The Ordinary World" recently, I can always read the poetry and picturesqueness in the suffering life. The Xintianyou poem "Carrot Flower" is the most beautiful and poetic flower that blooms in this difficult life.
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