Position and concept
It is absurd to blow out an electric light by blowing out a candle, and the absurdity is not the method used, the problem is the concept. ** is a dangerous person, his existence is a potential threat, but within ****, he is a respected leader, and the huge difference is because of the different positions he is in.
Let's start with the position.
Look at a cup for drinking water, the angle is not important, the scale of the cup is too small to be seen through at a glance. Looking at a detached house, the importance of angle is revealed. It's not the same thing to look from the front as it is from the back, and it's another thing to climb up the tree in front of the house to see it. Where you stand, that position, is the position.
Looking at the mountains is different from looking at the river. The mountains are quiet, but the seasons change. The river flows from moment to moment, but the seasons don't change much. The rivers in the north freeze in winter, but this is only a superficial phenomenon. Looking at the mountain, at the foot of the mountain, is not the same as looking at the top of the mountain. Mountain people and tourists outside the mountain have different attitudes towards the mountain. Fish are tourists in the water, but they are family members of the river, and their attitude towards the river is different from that of people on the shore. For large rivers, it is not the same when viewed horizontally and vertically, and it is even more different when viewed downstreams and upstream. Although it is just a sentence, it precipitates the loftiness and desolation of history.
Let's talk about concepts.
Ideas are alive and change with the times. Dead called concept. The concept is that the advanced is good, and those who fall behind the team are called outdated. In front of the team is to guide the change, and in the back is to follow the change, which is better called strain.
Take, for example, the change in the concept of land:
The land of the past was the foundation of man's life. Land is the basic reference for judging the value of a family or a person. The distinction between large households, solid households, and dilapidated families is based on land. Generals and ministers, the emperor wants to give land, and he himself will enclose the land. Merchants who do big business should buy land in the countryside. Those who have land are called landlords, and those who work on other people's land are called peasants. It's like calling a former civil servant a master. The inequality of land ownership is the fundamental factor causing social instability and even turmoil, and the main reason for the "rise of the pole" is that the peasants have no way to live and a way out.
Agrarian thinking and pastoral economy were the core values of the past.
There is an old couplet, "The first class is loyal to the filial son, two things to study and cultivate the field", the former Chinese, no matter whether they are noble or low, the ideal of life is these two things, reading and plowing the field. When the important ministers of the court seek seclusion, it is called "suing the old and returning to the hometown". After a general's great military exploits, he must "disarm and return to the field". Nowadays the concept has changed, the general or minister retires, and the state gives a pension, not land. Today, the peasants have their own land, and each person has a share, except for those who are superborn. If something is divided equally, the inner magic of that thing will decline until it disappears. In terms of the general trend, today's "peasant" is a profession, and the connotation of the word peasant has changed, but this change has yet to be clarified and recognized. "New rural construction", "small town construction", as well as rural household registration reform, are the most adaptable.
The concept of land has changed, and the previous poems or articles, written about pastoral music and cooking smoke, are written as the "main theme", which is the core value of presenting that time. The word wanderer is said for the homeland, and the homesickness of the wanderer is also a kind of "main theme". But if today's writers write like this, they are called outdated or out of place.
Jia Pingwa's writings focus on land and peasants. He is aiming at a series of fundamental changes that are taking place on Chinese soil. "Impetuous" was written in 1988, after which he successively wrote "Waste Capital", "White Night", "Tumen", "Sick Report", "Gao Laozhuang", "Missing the Wolf", "Qin Cavity" and "Happy". "Impetuousness" is from the standpoint of the peasant, which is one of the limitations of this novel, but it is also a limitation shared by Chinese writers in that period. At that time, the word "endorsement" was popular, and writers were "spokespersons", writing agricultural themes was to speak for farmers, and writing industrial themes, military themes, and educational themes was to speak for different industries, that is, the subject matter of the novel was different, and the writer's position was also different. In today's era, when it comes to "spokesperson", the difference between spokesperson and spokesperson, one word, changes greatly. Although the spokespersons of the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Taiwan Affairs Office are also talking about "local interests", their positions have changed, their horizons and perspectives have changed, and their involvement has become wider, and they are "local interests" in the overall environment. After "Impetuous", and then through the pain of the rebirth of "Waste Capital", Jia Pingwa's "position" changed, and he "shifted" from the perspective of farmers to the level of Chinese culture, examining the current pain and great changes in China's rural areas. "Tumen" writes about the mentality of farmers in the urban-rural area, which is at the forefront of the change of land concept and is an anxious area. "Remembering the Wolf" imagines the history of the changes of wolves in the changed land, and the wolf is a metaphor for people with super survival ability, how to struggle in the predicament of survival. "Illness Report" is a legend, Jia Pingwa's deliberate change of narrative path, focusing on how defects arise after people's natural attributes are non-objective. "Gao Laozhuang" is the prelude to "Qin Dialect", a dress rehearsal before a big play, and a warm-up match before a football match. Jia Pingwa is the director and coach, and he experimented with various possibilities of tactics in the warm-up match, and at the beginning of the main game, he finalized the list of players on the field and their respective positions. After the main game, the audience watched the results, but the coach preferred the warm-up game because it flashed more of his football wisdom and tactical intentions. "Happy" represents a shift in Jia Pingwa's writing, as he begins to arrange a way out for the peasants who are suffering from the hardships of life, and this novel has the color of "tomorrow", in which the characters exist in a deformed posture, or cold humor. Dry humor is made by humor kings or people who have no sense of humor at all, Jia Pingwa's humor is in his bones, he did not see the way out of the Chinese peasants at this stage, and he himself was deeply troubled.
Jia Pingwa's rural China is at this stage, and his novels constitute an unprecedented change in rural China, and he is a maverick observer and thinker of China's rural problems, who is trying to find "laws", but it must be said that up to "Happy", he, like sociologists, has not found them. Or to put it another way, he's "crossing the river by feeling the stones."