Author: Kafka is busy source: outsider’s vision (ID: hooyar_380097485)
After watching the recently discussed and highly rated “hidden in the dust”, it may be that I grew up in an 18th tier town and was later sent by my family to Dashan junior high school for transformation for a year. Therefore, the tragedy of many people’s queer exclamations did not touch me too much.
This is not because I was too hard hearted, but because the countryside in those days, the countryside in the past, was really in a rule close to the law of the jungle, where the jungle preys on the weak and there was no reason to speak of it. I have seen parents force young lovers to die for their love by marrying their daughters to disabled people for high price betrothal gifts; I have seen that in order to get rid of an old man who lost his ability to work, his son and daughter-in-law joined hands to force the old man to commit suicide; I have seen two neighbors who almost killed each other with knives for a chicken; I’ve seen all kinds of villains in the countryside wreaking havoc, and all kinds of villains in the countryside acting shamelessly.
In the year when I was in the country middle school, my stationery would be stolen if I wasn’t careful.
But have you seen how the students in the village middle school go to school? They come home one day a week, carrying a bag of rice and a jar of pickled vegetables. They eat three meals a day, all packed with water in an aluminum lunch box and sent to the kitchen stove of the canteen to be steamed. Then they eat the pickled vegetables. Every day, the meals are like this. There are only a few. Those with special family conditions will join in the school’s staff canteen. The so-called canteen food is too much to say.
At that time, children in rural areas were considered special treasures of the family when they were sent to middle school. In this way, they still lived that kind of hard life. Can you think?
You know, I live in Hubei Province. Even in the mountainous areas of our hometown, there are mountains and water. The weather is good every year, which is much better than the rural living environment in the arid northwest.
My days in the countryside were unexpectedly respected, because although my parents were not rich, they were much better than the villagers in the village. Sometimes I can’t face it, and I am dragged home for dinner by a distant relative. Because I can’t get used to the greasy and meaty country style, I only eat green vegetables on the table, and I will be praised by people for knowing etiquette.
However, if you are a rich foreigner who has nothing to do with the village, what do you want to do in this village? Unless you can find everyone’s surname in this village to protect you, you will be taken for granted and killed.
My hometown is very suitable for planting Camellia oleifera. The cash crop of Camellia oleifera is often collected by people. If you don’t go through the local people to act as an intermediary and directly do the purchase business, then many rural people’s smart and powerful small means will make this unattractive businessman lose a lot of money. There are also people from other villages who come to contract for planting tea trees in barren mountains. When the Camellia oleifera fruit matures, the villagers rush to pick it up. That’s a normal phenomenon.
Later, I grew up a little bit and read Stendhal’s red and black, which wrote a story about a rich urban man who was forced to survive in the countryside. When I think about what I saw and heard in the year when I lived in the countryside, I can’t help sighing. It turns out that many things are interlinked in ancient and modern times, at home and abroad.
However, the so-called “where there are people, there are rivers and lakes”, which is not because the farmers are particularly poor or more ruthless, but because they have been working so hard for a long time and are particularly difficult to obtain.
The parents who forced their daughter to die for the bride price also had a promising childhood, but they were trapped in the countryside and in a poor environment for a long time, forcing them to plan for life. Raising a child, like raising an ox, has to be financially accounted for. When the ox is big, he either sells it or works hard at home. When the child is big, the girl changes the bride price, and the boy stays at home to support the family business. It is natural and justified to sacrifice his daughter’s happiness in order that his son can have enough money to marry a daughter-in-law in the future.
Women are regarded as exchangeable property. Young and healthy women are traded by auction in the rural wealth market, and the one with the highest price gets it. The status of rural women is so low, it is normal to be abused by domestic violence. Because the in laws paid a high price to welcome back the bride, they would certainly be crushed to death. So those girls who were shy and quiet at the previous moment soon evolved into bitches of different degrees in reality. If they were not sharp enough, how could she resist all kinds of bullying?
This is a process of hurting each other. If some women still retain their simple and kind nature under such harsh reality, then they must have received some preferential treatment in life.
If you had lived in rural China 20 or 30 years ago, you would have found that the suicide rate of rural women was particularly high. When working became a custom later, a large number of wife runners appeared in many poor areas. When women went out to work, they saw the larger world and found that they had the ability to get rid of it, so they ran away.
The most unfortunate people in rural areas are those with disabilities, both men and women, who are at the bottom of the ecological chain.
A woman like GUI Ying in “hidden in the dust” may be more miserable than in the film, because as a woman without fertility and physical labor ability, she is unlikely to be treated well, and it is unlikely that a man like you iron will love her to the core.
But a man who has his own independent labor ability and is also hardworking, like iron, will never be bullied in the real countryside. If he is weak enough, naturally, some people will covet his domestication and get him back to be a facade laborer, not to mention the rare resource panda blood that everyone covets.
Do you know what kind of village tyrants can brazenly humiliate a large rural family with four strong laborers? Unless, like tazhai village, the whole village is involved in some kind of collective crime, or the village occupies some kind of mineral resources, and the money moves people. You can’t dominate the village only by fighting bravely and ruthlessly, unless you have a lot of money and enough money to buy most people.
There may be writers among the poor, but a person who has been suffering from poverty and exploitation since he was born and has not enjoyed any warmth will not have so many literary and artistic voices. The first point of the rural principle is always to force people to evolve the instinct of survival of the fittest.
It is impossible for Ma youtie to appear in the real countryside. If there is such a person in the countryside, he will become a notorious villain in the village.
The so-called external contractor can override the rural rules at will, and it is nonsense to suck the blood of the whole village at will. The farmers attach great importance to their interests, not involving their own interests. They may take some tolerance to the so-called rich people, but you really move their most basic interests. Who can stand the retaliation of the farmers? Amitabha to all who retreat. Farmers will use their cunning to let foreign exploiters know that there is resistance when there is exploitation.
Many Chinese directors like to forcibly concoct a bottom image that integrates all kinds of hardships to show foreigners, or to let those urban people who do not distinguish between leek and wheat hunt for wonders, so as to show how different they are.
In the final analysis, why there are so many sufferings in China’s rural areas that city dwellers can’t understand is poverty, lack of resources, not despicable human nature and collective numbness.
Still in my hometown, my grandmother gave birth to a girl in the famine years before liberation. Because the family was really poor, she threw the child into the mountain and hung it on a tree to let her starve to death. Do you know why it’s hanging on a tree? Have you ever heard of the trade – offs? It is often written in Chinese history books that people are hungry when they are old, and people eat each other. There is sadness behind these six words. How many people will think about it. When it comes to history, everyone thinks that they are born emperors and generals. When they travel back, they either fall in love with the digital brothers or become masters of the world and lie drunk on the knees of beauties.
Can this happen in modern society? Is modern people’s sense of morality bursting? It is because we are not so poor. Our generation was lucky not to suffer from hunger and cold when they were growing up. The so-called bumps and difficulties are very different from the poor at the bottom of society in the past.
My cousin, who lives in his hometown, has a son and adopted a baby girl. The baby is so precious that it has been supporting him to go to college. Later, when the child married, he also prepared a thick dowry. The bride price was given to the young couple for fear of losing his daughter. This is not because my cousin’s character is so noble, but because the economy in our hometown has developed since then. He made money from his own transportation business. Without economic pressure, his family affection is very pure, and he is especially filial to his old mother.
If they were confined to a dilapidated mountain village, planting a few acres of thin fields and feeding themselves, would he treat his old mother and daughter so well?
For a while, we talked about abducted women in mountain villages. Jia Pingwa, a great writer, stood there and said that if some mountain villages did not buy Women, the whole village would disappear. When he said this, he took it for granted that his daughter, a great poet, was excluded from the women who might be abducted. But have you ever thought that if those mountain villages become rich, a large number of singles will not find a wife?
For many so-called literary and art workers, they need a dark and dirty side of society. They can easily lift it up and show it off everywhere after they are processed and embellished, so that they can appear superior to others. So when you say to build a new countryside, they should call for maintaining the original ecology. The original ecology can not earn money and get rid of poverty. So many problems emerge, and then people can criticize the bad roots.
Poverty is the root of most sufferings. In cities, it is very cheap to find a part-time worker to clean up for two hours at a cost of 100 yuan. But in rural areas, it is also a kind of kindness to find a group of elderly people over 60 years old who work in Taoyuan for ten hours a day and give 80 yuan to people, because it is too difficult for them to get this opportunity.
The problem of migrant workers and the problem of left behind children, which have been criticized by people, are actually a gift given by the society to many rural families, because compared with the past, when they could only live on a few acres of thin farmland, working outside the home was hard, but it really improved the financial situation of the family.
When I was in the countryside, I learned to transplant rice seedlings and cut millet. Do you know the taste of a bunch of leeches crawling on their legs to suck blood? When transplanting rice seedlings in the field, you must bear it. When cutting millet, bending down can make you too tired to stand up in ten minutes, which is much harder than the assembly line in the factory.
Now in my hometown, there are machines for transplanting rice seedlings, cutting millet, applying fertilizer and pesticides. Farmers do not have to pay public grain, and there are subsidies for farming. There are also fewer villains in the countryside. My aunt has a mean woman who has become a kind old lady. Her paralyzed aunt can also enjoy her old age in peace.
Of course, you can still find all kinds of sufferings among them and put them together to get cheap sympathy, but this sympathy is meaningless.
If you really don’t like it, do something for them. Buy more agricultural products, such as direct mail from the place of origin. Don’t haggle with people.
I suggest you take a look at love of mountains and seas, not to sing praises, but to show you that poverty is an unavoidable reality. It exists objectively. It is better to use more brains to think about how to change poverty.