"I had a dream in the middle of the night, dreaming that I was sleeping, covered with a pile of chicken feathers and covered with many people's dander. Soft and comfortable, like a day. "
-"Chicken Feathers in One Place"
Ideal or bread? This seems to be the same survival problem in different times, and everyone's different choices determine their life trajectory. Most of us, ordinary and small, are the protagonist "Xiao Lin", Xiao Lin's wife, one of his classmates or colleagues. They are pushed forward by the torrent of life, from immature to mature, from naive to sophisticated.
A Piece of Chicken Feather is a collection of Liu Zhenyun's novels. This book is too real. Through eight small chapters, the story of all beings in the society in the 1980 s and 1990 s is told. In family life, chickens fly and dogs jump, and intrigue at work is nothing more than a house, a car, a ticket, or even just a roast chicken, a bottle of beer and a piece of tofu. Promotion evaluation is the most concerned issue for everyone. Some people began to rise to the peak when they were proud, while others never recovered. From then on, they never recovered, and more often they were ups and downs in the changes of life.
This is a model of relationship research. As long as people live in the world, they don't just live for themselves. There are more chicken feathers in life than you think.
It uncovers the old scabs of life layer by layer, shaves away trivial days, vividly depicts the cautious psychological activities of every little person, and also shows the most primitive survival picture of ordinary people: who is exhausted in a difficult life and who is not frustrated but persists.
Being born a man has his responsibilities, his morality and his helplessness. This is the truth of life.
Everyone in the trivial ordinary life, a little bit faded green, grow into a quiet adult.
It is very representative that in the story of "Unit", Kobayashi has just graduated and has been working for a few years. "He often arrives late and leaves early, wears slippers to work, and doesn't take the initiative to clean the office ..." Xiao Lin, with a childish face, looks like he doesn't care about anything, dragging his work and muddling along.
Time is fair, and what people invest in time will be rewarded by time. In other words, people who fool time will eventually be fooled by time.
What makes Kobayashi suddenly repent is not someone or a sentence, but the reality washed away by time. Students who graduated in the same year, a few years later, some people joined the party, some people were promoted, and some people lived in a big house. He still achieved nothing as in previous years. The law of survival of the fittest has always existed, and those who run slowly are doomed to lag behind others. Under the great pressure of survival, in order to join the party and get promoted as soon as possible, Kobayashi was thoroughly remoulded. He wears cloth shoes to work, takes the initiative to fetch water for cleaning, and respects his old colleagues.
"The world is very big, and China people talk a lot, but what everyone urgently needs to deal with and deal with is actually only a few people around, and only a few people are pondering each other."
Taking the initiative to help leaders move, rushing to do dirty work, giving gifts to superiors, wooing interpersonal relationships, and exposing "problem" leaders, Kobayashi began to deal with complex social activities. The small office that looks calm is actually choppy. There is a river and lake in everyone's heart, and everyone is trying their best to make wishful thinking for themselves.
Is Xiao Lin sad? His sorrow lies in changing himself too purposefully, that is, the change is for others to see, not his initial heart. When a person begins to ponder other people's eyes and live for others, he begins to grow up and is no longer a simple child. After all, there is so much porridge. Some people get it, others lose it. In order to get that bowl of porridge, you may have to behave for months or even years, get on well with everyone, and even become someone you once hated. Everyone can't avoid customs.
Life is a chicken feather, and no one can stay out of it. The hardest thing is not to see through the essence of life, but to treat life with enthusiasm after experiencing the bitter twists and turns of life; That is, after seeing through the warmth and coldness of human feelings, I still keep a gentle corner of my heart to become a better person and pursue a better life.
When the triviality of life comes to me, it may be just a little thing with a bigger sesame seed that overwhelms the last straw.
One kilogram of tofu has gone bad. In the chapter "Chicken Feathers in One Place", Kobayashi got up early to buy a catty of tofu, queued for a long time, tried his best to go to work, and forgot to put the tofu in the refrigerator. This triggered family conflicts, from rotten tofu to kettle, from kettle to broken vase, endless pulling of cups and plates. Life is like winding a ball of wool, sometimes it's smooth and sometimes it's messy.
"But unlike people who have been poor together," it is not the tofu that really causes family conflicts, but the hopeless and breathless life itself.
Babysitter's carelessness, children's enrollment, family's job transfer, personal promotion and frugal living conditions have long been in such a depressed air, and everyone's nerves have become very sensitive. Kobayashi's wife turned out to be a quiet and poetic girl, and under the tempering of life, she became a housewife who nagged and stole water at night. Life is the same for everyone, and the so-called quiet years are all ideals that temporarily put aside reality.
I am most afraid of coming from my hometown, of my children getting sick and of asking for help. Because I am "incompetent", I can only accept all the arrangements of fate, and everyone has their own helplessness.
A little thing, like a knife that has made a big hole in life, those gray fragments that have been deposited and suppressed for a long time come out in one place.
Life is too easy, is there a poem and a distance?
Li Ailian, who dropped out of school to get married for his father's medical expenses in Tapu, and the "old fat" who died after being discharged from the army because of epilepsy in Xinbinglian, have been passed down for generations in Turen, and have been passive in the work of officialdom. ...
A story has trivial details of a group of people. Everyone is stepping on a chicken feather, whether it is successful or not, it is to satisfy their own ideals. Going to school, becoming a full member, distributing, being an official, making a fortune ... What supports a person is survival first, and then life. Nothing in the world is bigger than life and death. When we have to spare no effort to survive, talking about ideals is tantamount to talking on paper.
Pursuing a better life is the minimum ideal, which urges everyone to work hard for survival and promotes social progress. In this process, people realize their life value step by step and look for themselves everywhere.
And what is the ideal? For Xiao Lin, "the dead are dead, and it is useless to think about it again." It is better for the living to consider Chinese cabbage first. " "If his wife can cook more chicken for him in the microwave oven and let him drink a bottle of beer after cleaning up the Chinese cabbage, he will have nothing to be dissatisfied with." After too many trivial things, he has obviously found a suitable lifestyle and realized his philosophy of life.
Are there any poems and distant places? Yes, at least once.
The meaning of life is different for everyone, and it is understandable for everyone to make their own choices. What I am most afraid of is to find a little comfort in trivial matters, which makes people forget to look up at the stars.
In the book "Chicken Feathers in One Place", Liu Zhenyun brought every ordinary citizen to life, and described the delicate state of people in the 1980s and 1990s under the background of reform and opening up: they not only pursued the improvement of material life, but also did not let go of their desire for the spiritual world, vividly describing people's struggles and contradictions in the besieged city.
This is a book that hits the soul directly, describing the triviality of life from a small angle. Actually, triviality is life itself. We use humorous language and grounded stories to mercilessly expose people's disguise, satirize the cowardice and vanity of ordinary citizens, criticize the attitude of life in the material society, but there is no lack of poetic pursuit of life.
An era has a chicken feather of an era, and a person has a chicken feather of a person. Mourn their misfortune, anger their indisputable, from resistance to compromise, and finally be assimilated, write wordless sorrow.
No matter when and where, who I am, where I am and what I want to do, it is still the theme that everyone needs to think about. Without a firm stand and an indomitable soul, the day of breaking the chicken and breaking the dog is a tough battle for everyone. People are great because of their thoughts and lofty because of their ideals.