This kind of "sacrifice" of the male intellectuals is not only worth it for me, but also for others. The reason for such deformed values is that young people who have never gone to the mountains and the countryside cannot imagine the torture of such a hard life both material and spiritual.

This is not at all like the romance in the film and television drama in a special period, where the head is hot and the passion can overcome all difficulties.

Yan Geling's works that reflect that special decade are full of a kind of cruel writing about objective reality. Without this permission to return to the city, you will not be able to have a formal job in the city.

Not only is this no different from a blind stream, but you will also be escorted to the train station by the "enthusiastic" aunts of the neighborhood committee and sent back to the people who come over there to be strictly guarded, which will then cause your parents and family members to be humiliated because of your "recklessness" and "impulsiveness".

For this reason, it is difficult for today's college students to understand the various inner contradictions and assertions that Gogarin shows in the relationship between men and women.

The emotional entanglement between him and Liu Qiaozhen, a rural girl, and Huang Yaping, a city girl, has become a contradiction in the development of the story, and it is also a tragedy that embodies the difficult choice.

At the beginning, the reason why Gao Jialin was interested in Liu Qiaozhen was based on his identity and work at that time. Once he went to the city and worked in a certain department in the county, there was a natural change in his heart.

This change in human nature in the heart is based on the fact that children from urban backgrounds often do not understand the desperate desire of children from rural areas to jump out of the rural gate and the desire for the city to be colorful.

Similarly, it is difficult for children from urban backgrounds to understand the innate inferiority complex, excessive self-esteem, and fear of being looked down upon by urban people.

"Peasant", "rural", "countryman", "bent pole", "farmer" and other discriminatory words and titles, but they deeply hurt many people from rural backgrounds.

In 1977, the college entrance examination was reinstated, and in 1978, the school was enrolled. After three or four years, college students from rural areas have a household registration in order to stay in the city.

This can be done regardless of whether the unit they go to is right or not, whether they like it or not, whether they have a future or not, and so on, and as long as the other party agrees to solve their own household registration problem and realize the transformation of agriculture into non-farming, they will go without hesitation. Even if it's a street-run business, it doesn't matter.

In the late 80s and early 90s, after a period of reform and opening up, it would cost 10,000 or 20,000 yuan for a rural college student to obtain a hukou that could be converted from farming to non-farming.

At that time, 10,000 households were quietly emerging in the country. In order to obtain such a hukou that has been converted from rural to non-rural areas, the families of rural college students would rather borrow large sums of money than do so. For this reason, it can be seen. It is no less than the urgency of many people to obtain a big city hukou.

After Gao Jialin entered the city, he gradually stopped being infatuated with Liu Qiaozhen's appearance as he was at the beginning, but slowly discovered the barrenness of the other party's thoughts.

He himself is an intellectual, a young man, and he naturally chats speculatively with people of his own kind, resulting in his love for Huang Yaping.

Later, she and Liu Qiaozhen couldn't talk together at all, after all, every time she came, she either said that the sows in the house gave birth to a few cubs, or how well the crops in the house grew.

The two chatted without speculation, more than half a sentence, and the chicken and duck talked. The result of their getting along with each other, even if they don't speak, will make Gogarin inexplicably irritable.

In the end, Gao Jialin was not able to be with Huang Yaping, lost his job in the county, and returned to the countryside, not to do his teaching work, but to become a farmer.

Liu Qiaozhen, who has always loved him deeply, is also for his wife. Liu Qiaozhen's deal with the other party was secretly to help Gao Jialin, so that he could return to the podium.

The background of the creation of "Life" is based on China in the 80s of the 20th century, when the vitality of the commodity economy broke the stalemate and conservatism in the countryside, and the cities with modern civilization began to have a strong temptation for the peasants who had been trapped in the land.

In particular, it caused a great uproar in the hearts of young people, who began to doubt and resentful of their lives and the world around them.

In the 80s of the 20th century, China's hukou system clearly divided citizens into agricultural and non-agricultural hukou, and under this solid-state formatted identity system, Chinese society formed a unique social geographical landscape.

Rural and urban landscapes. Corresponding to these two landscapes are two completely different economic systems and ways of living, cultural characteristics, and values.

This has led to the most important social disparity in Chinese society: the rural-urban divide. At the same time, the State subjectively reinforces this disparity through various initiatives.

For example, in the labor distribution system, workers, teachers, and staff working in urban areas have a fixed monthly salary, a relatively complete medical care system, and a retirement system, and can also enjoy various state welfare benefits.

In the countryside, on the other hand, the peasants not only have to pay grain to the state on time and in quantity, but can only use the products of their labor to a limited extent for a long time.

In addition, farmers also have to complete various taxes and fees stipulated by the state. Participate in unpaid labor. For example, large-scale compulsory farmland water conservancy construction.

The various policies adopted by the state forcibly confined the peasants to the land. The implementation of these policies has directly led to the peasants being in a state of relative poverty for a long time in the whole social development.

Therefore, it can be said that under this basic difference of identity, the concept of urban and rural as two basic opposites is highlighted.

This is a confrontation between a lowly peasant and a noble intellectual, between the common people and the dignitaries.

"Life" unfolds in the scene of the city, it seems that everything is under the control of the city, and even the country people should be inherently inferior to the city people.

This strong sense of hierarchy and the difference between urban and rural areas is reinforced in the novel. When Lu Yao was constantly running between the city and the countryside when he was young, the life he was most familiar with was the "urban intersection", and the urban life full of vitality and opportunities constituted a double stimulus, both materially and spiritually, for rural intellectual youths like him who were in a closed and impoverished area.

Lu Yao pondered and understood this phenomenon, and in the midst of the surging impact of urbanization, he proposed how rural intellectual youth should make choices.

As early as when he was a student in college, Lu Yao read a large number of classics and made a tour of the literary achievements of New China.

He found that his previous novels had a certain tendency to be face-painted, just as the characters in the movie were simply divided into "good guys" and "bad guys" in the eyes of children, and people's thoughts were complex and changeable, and it was absolutely impossible to divide complex human nature so simply, and this kind of thinking was embodied in the protagonist of "Life", Gao Garin.