What impressed me most were those chapters on family planning. Feel very angry and sad. I am angry that the law enforcers are fanatical, almost inhuman, blindly worship the party's instructions, disregard the safety of pregnant women, and unreasonably implement joint liability. I am angry that women are used as a tool to give birth to children, and my wife is depressed when she sees a baby girl. I feel sad that a woman's self-awareness is to have a child to reflect her self-worth. What is even more hateful is that the death of children and pregnant women during abortion can not awaken the reflection of law enforcement, but it has intensified the treatment of pregnant women for more than a month. The story describes the author's wife, a living person, who lost her life on the operating table where she beat the child. However, it wasn't long before they spared a pregnant woman, Wang Dan, who was pregnant for more than a month. She ran away, she was only 70 cm, she prayed, she ran away on the river ... in exchange for ruthless pursuit, and finally the child was born on a bamboo raft in the river, and the pregnant woman lost her life. As if this must be the case, those family planning people gave up.
I have heard about family planning from the older generation before. I clearly remember a photo in which my mother was taken to town by a family planning person for ligation after giving birth to her sister. They got into a van with her sister and washbasin and came back a few days later. I've heard my aunt say many times that the whole family was demolished in order to have a little cousin. I also heard that my cousin once had a seven-month-old child, but she was dragged away by the family planning people.
I heard that I had only heard the ending before, but this time I saw the real, terrible and meticulous process from the book Frog, which was really creepy. I believe that reality will only be crazier than this.
Most people's names in the story are taken from a part of their bodies, which is very interesting. For example, Wang Gan loved the little lion all her life and wrote more than 500 letters to her. The content of the letter is like a poem. He said that love is a disease. Wang Gan's younger sister, Wang Dan, is 70cm tall and a villain. She and Chen Bi have two daughters, Chen Er and Chen Mei respectively. Xiao's lower lip went to work in the State Council when she grew up, then turned to business and made a fortune. His father's name is Xiao's upper lip. The clay figurines squeezed by Hao's big hands are lifelike; Yuan Jier is a feng shui lover, and later he runs the business of bullfrogs and surrogacy. The authors want to run fast because of their long feet, and their names are Wan Zu and Xiao Ming Wan Lott. ...
There are not many scenes in which Hao Dashou appeared, but the author's description of him left a deep impression on me-"We also make clay figurines in Linxian, but their clay figurines are carved with molds, and all the dolls are the same. His clay figurines are all made by hand, and his clay figurines are all one by one, and they will never be repeated. It is said that he pinched all the dolls in Gaomi Northeast Township. It is said that he won't go to the market to buy clay dolls until there is no rice in the pot. He sells clay dolls with tears in his eyes, just like selling his own children. "
The Story of the Frog tells a long story, which is unfolded by the way that the author writes to the teacher. This story is divided into five parts. At the beginning of the first four books, the author (Wan Zu) wrote a letter to the teacher, and then attached stories about his aunt and people of their time. The fifth part is a drama script written by the author (Wan Zu), which will continue the unfinished story. This arrangement makes people wonder whether the ending of the story is true or not, and whether it will make the unlucky people more miserable. Let the role of aunt reach a contradictory climax-she is being accused by thousands of unborn babies and pregnant women who died at her hands, thinking that those frogs are just like their voices, but at the end of the story, she also lies for the little lion to separate the baby from poor Chen Mei. She realized that she was wrong, but Wan Zu (pen name Tadpole) comforted her dramatically.
This is the first time I have read Mo Yan's book, and I feel that there is a sense of story between the lines. The story of the frog has a sense of the times and regional characteristics. But my understanding of it is limited to this. Recently, I was listening to Liang Wendao's Arabian Nights, a story-telling program (not only introducing the contents of the book, but also interpreting a book from the perspectives of the background of the times, the author's writing style and the story behind the story). I don't know how to read more Mo Yan's books, and I have more thoughts on Mo Yan and his works.