Theme (i.e., connotation, a 'universal philosophy' that all the characters and all the plots of the novel want to express. ): Fate

(What is fate?)

That is, the predetermined and irresistible fate of individuals, human beings, living beings, the earth, and the universe, and the inevitable changes resulting from the impermanence of things and the harmony of causes and conditions can also be understood as new things formed by the inevitable action of two or more previous things, and the new things must have the qualities of the previous things.

This is naturally the fate of new things.

Modern science has shown that the universe was originally just an object smaller than a ping-pong ball.

With the 'Big Bang', this object gradually expanded, gradually spreading, giving rise to time, space, and laws of physics and chemistry that cannot be changed.

During these 13.8 billion years, galaxies collided and recombined to form the current universe.

The Milky Way, the solar system, and the earth in which we live are also the result of the continuous collision and reorganization of various galaxies.

So isn't the formation of the universe fate?

Isn't the formation of the solar system and the earth also fate?

Isn't gravity the unchangeable laws of physics formed at the beginning of the universe, and the fate of all galaxies and all living beings that cannot be eliminated and changed?

The Moon was originally part of the Earth, formed as a result of meteorites colliding with the Earth.

Isn't this also the fate of the earth and the moon?

One day, the universe will expand to its limits and destroy itself.

Isn't the birth and death of the universe an irresistible fate of the universe?

The Earth was formed about 4.3 billion years ago as a fireball.

With various physical and chemical changes over a long period of time, primitive atmospheres, primitive oceans, and primitive plates were formed.

Isn't this also a fate that the earth can't resist?

Modern science has shown that life originated in the ocean, but there are other theories, such as that primitive life was brought from outer space by meteorites, that life arose from volcanic magma, and that life arose from the reaction of primitive oceans with magma.

No matter what cause or circumstance life arises, if it arises, isn't it a fate that it cannot change?

The first life was a single-celled organism that consisted only of membranes and genetic material. After a long period of time, all kinds of causes and conditions have been combined, and it has changed from a single cell to a multicellular, and has changed into plants, animals, bacteria, fungi, and viruses.

Isn't this also the fate of life?

Isn't it also the fate of plants and animals to land because of the shape formed by adapting to the 'fatal' environment?

No living thing can escape the laws of physics and chemistry that arose at the beginning of the formation of the universe, nor can it escape the laws of biological evolution.

Human beings, like all living things in the world, began as a single-celled organism and went through a general evolutionary process from unicellular to multicellular, nematomy, echinoderms, fish, reptiles, and mammals.

The first mammals were rodents, i.e., animals like mice.

The ancestors of 'our' dinosaurs, the rodents, the 'rats', did not become extinct by planets hitting the earth because they lived in dark, damp caves.

It sounds ironic:

Humans who think they are great are nothing more than the offspring of mice.

But it is also proven by modern science.

Isn't it fate that our ancestors will survive and evolve into us? Isn't the extinction of the dinosaurs also fate?

Gradually evolved from rodents to primates.

As primates, the evolutionary order of human beings is roughly that of protomonkeys, Ramapicus, australopithecus, early apes, late apes, early Homo sapiens, and late Homo sapiens.

'We' belong to Homo sapiens, that is, humans who formed after we left Africa 70,000 years ago.

Humans will have this evolutionary order, they will evolve late Homo sapiens, and late Homo sapiens will come out of Africa.

Isn't this also 'our' fate?

After humans left Africa for the third time, they killed all Neanderthals, who independently evolved into early Homo sapiens.

Isn't this also the fate of Neanderthals?

When humans came out of Africa for the third time, they were in a matrilineal clan society.

Human society has evolved from a matrilineal clan society to a patrilineal clan society, and the patriarchal clan society produces private property, exploitation, oppression, humiliation of women, and oppression.

Isn't the suffering of women and even human beings also the fate of mankind?

All the people of the world, with the exception of Africans, are descendants of the hundreds of people who came out of Africa for the third time.

Where will those few hundred people go, will they go to today's Europe, China, and Japan?

Isn't it also their fate?

What kind of appearance, what kind of culture, what kind of quality will be formed, what kind of role will occur between them, what kind of story will be there, isn't it also their fate?

After that, human society evolved from a patriarchal clan society to a slave society, and a feudal society, isn't it also the fate of human beings?

What will happen to the people in these times, Socrates, Darius, Genghis Khan, Huang Taiji, and Cixi, and isn't it also their fate?

Wasn't it predestined from the beginning of the universe?

Budding Capitalism, Capitalist Development, Darwin, Industrialization, Lincoln, Opium War, Lin Zexu, Sino-Japanese War, Russo-Japanese War, General Nogi, World War I, Fascism, Hitler, World War II, Japan's War of Aggression against China, Nanjing Massacre, The Hero of this story, Japan's surrender, War of Liberation, The founding of the People's Republic of China, The Third Scientific and Technological Revolution, iPhone, You, I, You Like Gentle Women, I Like Passionate Women, Future Human History, World History, Universe History.

What kind of thoughts, what kind of circumstances, and what kind of qualities people living in these times will have is also their fate.

Everything is predetermined, everything is produced by the things that exist through causes and conditions, everything is not qualitative, everything is fate.

We don't have to sympathize with anyone, blame anyone, hate anyone.

Of course, there is no need to hate the Nanjing Massacre and sympathize with the protagonist of the story.

Because they, we, all things, and the universe, are nothing but puppets of fate, eternal sorrow.

You can't escape your fate.

I can't change my fate either.

No matter how prosperous humanity is, it cannot change its destiny of perishment. ）

Introduction:

Turned to ashes, who will pity the tears?

Buildings will eventually dissipate through the ages,

The sea of stars is shaking.

I know that the smile survives,

I will not complain about the people of the world.

Introduction:

The first sentence: My body, my soul, the pain I have experienced, the helplessness, the tears I have shed, the blood, will one day dissipate into smoke, no one remembers, no one pities.

The second sentence: modern civilization, bustling cities, personal efforts, fresh clothes, happy food, bright smiles, green trees and red flowers, birds, beasts, insects and fish, the sun and the earth, the brilliant galaxy, the vast universe, will one day perish and disappear.

Everything has a way of doing things, like a dream bubble, like dew and electricity, and should be viewed as such.

All things are vain, vain, useless, and perishable.

Even though the world is so miserable, my tears and my smiles are indeed in this world, this universe!

In this case, I am willing to bear the sorrow of fate, no matter how many tears or blood are shed, whether it is old age and death, or being brutally killed, this is an irresistible sorrow of fate!

I know that!

So I pretended I hadn't cried.

So I don't hate anyone.

No matter how miserable it was, I always existed.

existed.

existed.

How to express the topic:

The theme is expressed through the tragedy of the fate of a young boy who witnessed the brutal murder of his mother and sister in the Nanjing Massacre.

Novel Contents:

Prologue:

Part I: Small Fishing Village

Part II: Safe Zone

Part 3: Jurong

Part IV: The Battlefield

Part V: Yan'an

Part 6: Tokyo

Prologue:

Yue'er and her father came to the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall.

There were a lot of people that day, and they saw all kinds of people, people with all kinds of expressions, people with all kinds of actions.

Yue'er said, "I'm afraid. ”

The father said, "Don't be afraid, these people were very kind in life, and there are even children like you." ”

Yue'er said, "If they are really kind, how can they be killed?"

The father sighed and said, "This is their fate." ”

Yue'er saw layers of broken bones.

Her mother told her that if the bones had eyes, they would be happy in the next life.

Yue'er threw down a marble, which happened to be thrown into the eye socket of the corpse.

As soon as the marbles entered the eye sockets of the bones, the bones let out a miserable scream.

In the memorial hall, a woman in a red cheongsam suddenly danced.

She danced and sang at the same time:

Turned to ashes, tears who pity.

Buildings will eventually dissipate through the ages,

The sea of stars is shaking.

I know that the smile survives,

I will not complain about the people of the world.

Jump immediately from the prologue to the main text.

Part I: Small Fishing Village

Figure:

Pity, relieved motherhood, rationality, motherhood

Ruoxin, the sister of relief, soft and kind

Relieved, the protagonist of the story, lonely, cowardly

Plot:

The boy lives in a small fishing village on the Yangtze River. His mother was the county lord of the Qing Dynasty, but after the death of the Qing Dynasty, her parents committed suicide and she was exiled to the village she is today.

Isn't the death of the Qing Dynasty a fate that cannot be changed? What kind of fate will the people associated with the Qing court have?

A kind old fisherman takes her in, but the fishermen's swingers rape her and impregnate her. The woman had no choice but to marry this prodigal. After marriage, the prodigal son often punched and kicked the woman, and the woman wanted to commit suicide several times, but because of the strong maternal instinct, she controlled herself and endured the pain to raise the child. The prodigal was eventually beaten to death for gambling debts.

The woman did not let her children go to school because she believed that knowledge was useless and that no amount of knowledge could change her fate.

Growing up in such an environment, both the boy and his sister had low self-esteem and cowardice.

Shi Xin and Ruoxin followed their mother to Nanjing City to buy a small sampan. Ruoxin bought a cheongsam.

Because her lover is about to propose to her mother.

Her lover did not return to the village that night.

The next day a group of Kuomintang deserters passed through the village and, in a panic, trampled their brother to death.

Shi Xin witnessed this tragic scene.

Ruoxin later guessed what was happening from the blood on the ground.

In the evening, Ruoxin's lovers came to propose, and the mother agreed to them.

When Wakashin's lover and his father persuaded Wakashin's family to leave, her mother did not leave because she believed that the human heart was good and that the Japanese would not kill innocent people.

Even though the mind and the mind are relieved, even if they are afraid, even if they are suffering, they do not follow it.

If the heart tears when sending her lover away in the early morning, you can fill the West Lake and drown the broken bridge.

What would have been their fate without this damn war?

The Japanese soldiers tortured and killed Ruoxin and her mother the next morning.

Shishin did not die thanks to the help of a Japanese soldier.

Part II: Safe Zone

Figure:

Relieved, sad, gloomy (12 years old)

Red rose, debauchery, kindness

Sun Feng is calm and wise

Plot:

After the boy's mother and sister were killed in the Nanjing Massacre, the boy was taken by the village teacher to a safe zone set up by foreigners to host Chinese refugees on the outskirts of Nanjing.

The boy would have been killed as well, but it was a kind Japanese soldier who saved him.

He saw the river of blood on the stump on the village road, the countless dead bodies lying on the blood-stained city wall of Nanjing, the schoolgirl in the city who had been stripped of her clothes and had a bright bayonet stuck in her private parts, the soft head of the baby splashed all over the ground after it was broken, and the blood-stained muscles that had lost their elasticity after the old woman's loose skin was peeled off.

The husband was shot dead outside the security zone, and the boy met Hongmei, who took her into the safe zone and took her to Ming Wah College, where she took care of her.

Red Rose is a**, beautiful, prodigal, cheerful, kind**.

She takes care of the boy like a mother, but sometimes she is willful in front of the boy like a naughty little girl, flirting with the boy and deliberately provoking the boy.

In the safe zone, the boy witnesses more tragic events, such as being killed by the woman who provoked the sad incident and her small child.

The next day, the murderous woman was thrown out of the gate by the refugees to see her being ravaged and tortured by Japanese soldiers.

For example, a woman who was dragged upstairs and raped by Japanese soldiers jumped to her death.

Like the carload of women who were transported to the Japanese barracks, the sad expression on their faces and the despair in their eyes.

For example, when I saw the flames of Nanjing, the refugees wept bloodire.

These events made Shakti even more sad, depressed, and angry, and planted the seeds of hatred in his young heart.

Red Rose and a group of women were taken to the Japanese military camp. There, they were treated inhumanely, raped, humiliated, tortured and killed.

The Japanese soldiers would even pick a few women every day and burn them alive to satisfy their perverted psychology.

Just as Red Rose was doused with gasoline and about to ignite, a kind Japanese officer rescued her.

She lingered with the officer for a few days, but because she had to take care of the relief of her heart, she returned to the safe zone.

The refugees were so traumatized that they organized themselves to attack a single group of Japanese soldiers. Because of the discovery, many male refugees were treated with extreme cruelty.

In order to appease the refugees, foreign friends, college leaders, and teachers organized a variety of sports activities, interest classes, and study classes. Thanks to their efforts, the mood of the refugees has improved to a certain extent.

Every time there is an event, Red Rose will bring relief to participate.

Even if he didn't want to, Red Rose would force him to participate.

She also took Shixin to participate in various interest classes and study classes, and when she encountered courses such as Buddhism, Confucianism, science, Yangmingxue, and history, she would compete with the professor. The professor was always forced to speak by her.

Professors will say many, many fatalistic statements.

Aren't professors all weak and cowardly, and when they encounter such an irresistible history, don't they all believe in fate?

When she wins, she laughs out loud in front of everyone.

When she loses, she will pull her heart and walk away in front of everyone without any scruples.

She also socializes with all kinds of men and has sex.

Whether it is the elderly, middle-aged, children, disabled, scholars, beggars, homosexuals......

She is who she is, and will not change for anyone.

In the interest class, she met 55-year-old Sun Feng, her future husband.

She told Sun Feng that she was very, but Sun Feng still loved her very much.

When the cold winter came, the refugees' clothes were thin, and some of the refugees living in the playgrounds and mountains even froze to death.

After entering the safe zone, a number of refugees also died of starvation due to lack of medical care and medicine.

Part 3: Jurong

Figure:

Red rose, debauchery, kindness

Sun Feng is calm and wise

Relieved, sad, gloomy (13 to 15 years old)

Xiaowan, bright, kind

Plot:

The first batch of refugees came out of the security zone in July of the following year.

Hongmei took Shixin to follow Sun Feng to Jurong and married him.

Sun Feng is the richest man in Jurong, with various assets such as brothels, teahouses, silk villages, inns, banks, and high-rise buildings.

After marriage, Hongmei is still as debauched and kind as ever. She seduced him and raped him many times.

In the ** with his mother, he experienced unprecedented relaxation and comfort.

When he thought of Hongmei having sex with Sun Feng and having sex with all kinds of men, he couldn't help but be very angry and jealous in his heart.

Isn't men's jealousy also the fate of all men?

Red Rose sent twelve-year-old Shixin to school.

At school, his classmates always laughed at his mother and bullied him.

Shixin asked someone to beat the boy who bullied him, and Hongmei gave him money to encourage him to beat others after she found out.

She thinks men should be braver.

Shi Xin did not become strong because of this, nor did he hit anyone, but he experienced incomparable excitement when he watched people being beaten.

On the street, there are also the wives of men who were seduced by Hongmei pointing fingers at Shi Xin, although Shi Xin is full of anger, but he is helpless.

There were several Japanese among his teachers, and he asked Hongmei to ask one of the middle-aged lecturers to make up for him.

He wants to learn Japanese, Japanese culture, so that he can follow his teacher to Japan for revenge in the future.

Xiaowan, a tablemate of the relieved heart, fell in love with the relieved heart for some reason. Shi Xin took Xiao Wan to the fishing village, worshiped her mother and sister, and looked at the sampan at night, remembering her sister's face and sister's tears under the moonlight.

He often spends Sundays here with Xiaowan.

He spent the best years of his life here.

In addition to sleeping with Chinese, Red Rose also slept with Japanese.

Shixin bumps into Red Rose and the Japanese and asks her why she did it.

Hongmei said that this was her own will, and no one could care.

After that, Shixin didn't speak to Hongmei for a long time.

Hongmei said that she could help relieve her heart and kill the Japanese. She told her to hide behind the bed and wait for the man to ride on top of her and kill him while he was intoxicated.

In this way, he killed a Japanese man, and he divided his body into countless pieces and took him to a small fishing village to sacrifice his mother and sister.

A few times later, an officer spotted Shi Xin when he was about to kill him, and Red Rose hugged the officer tightly and told Shi Xin to leave.

At night, Shi Xin sat in the teahouse, tearfully looking at his own house set on fire by Japanese soldiers, watching his parents kissing in the flames, watching Hongmei dancing and burning her body, and seeing Hongmei smile with her lips and say:

"Let's live happily!"

"I hate this world so much!"

The next morning, he saw the bones of Red Rose and Sun Feng tightly wrapped in the cooling ashes.

He made up his mind to go to the battlefield and kill the Japanese.

Part IV: The Battlefield (No Specific Ideas)

Figure:

Relieved, sad, depressed, full of resentment (16 years old)

Plot:

1. A screaming seriously wounded person who has lost a part of his body.

Sympathetic eyes and tears on the faces of doctors and nurses.

Wounded who died painfully because they had no medicine.

A corpse buried in a mass grave.

2. Crows are pecking at mountains of corpses.

3. The fresh lives that fell to the ground in batches under the bullets, the countless limbs that were blown up under the shells, the soldiers who screamed hand-to-hand combat on the battlefield, the painful groans of the soldiers who were not dead, and the dying entrustment.

Isn't that also their fate?

4. The blood-stained red flag, the Japanese soldiers who committed suicide by disembowelment, the soldiers who lost their eyes and the soldiers who kept bleeding, and the countless corpses scattered all over the endless wilderness.

Isn't that also their fate?

5. Pigs, sheep, cattle and horses shot in the countryside.

Aren't human beings, pigs, sheep, cows, and horses all animals, and human wars also affect them?

6, the crazy woman who was shot in the alley, the baby who was thrown from the upper floor, the crazy woman who walked in the alley, the blood-stained down that floated out of the window.

The stumps of the debris were blown up by Japanese shells.

Chinese and Japanese soldiers shouting gunfights in the torrential rain on the streets.

7. The Japanese set fire to the mountain in order to kill the communist soldiers entrenched in the mountain, and the screams of the soldiers sounded on the mountain, and the soldiers who were on fire were shot before they could run out of the mountain forest.

Shi Xin will survive the tragic battlefield because of his low self-esteem and cowardice, and he will hide to the end every time he fights fiercely, and even stand from a distance to watch.

Part V: Yan'an

Figure:

Love pear, from kindness, gentleness to depression, sadness, relieved wife

Relief, Struggle, Grief (17 to 20 years old)

Kyoko, the eldest daughter of Bright, Happy, Ai Ri and Relieved

Aiko, bright, happy, the second daughter of Ai Li and relieved

Muraki, kind, extreme, a hometown who loves pears, and a relieved friend

Plot:

Shi Xin was sent to Yan'an to teach the captured Japanese soldiers Chinese and communist ideology because he knew Japanese.

The staff asked Shishin to live in a cave with three holes arranged in a straight line, and the other two holes were inhabited by farmers and Japanese female teachers.

The female teacher's name is Washio Airi. She knew that she hated her, but she often gave him vegetables that she had grown, and sent her better meals, and when she saw him crying and heard him crying, she went to his house to comfort him, and she also washed his clothes and dishes.

Because she felt that he was too lonely, too painful.

Even though she scolded her, she continued to help him.

Muraki is Airi's hometown, and he's pursuing her.

However, he was very kind, and when he saw that he couldn't compete with Shixin, he took the initiative to quit.

He was extreme, because his mother was the most miserable prostitute, and his father was the most shameless client of managing prostitutes.

He became good friends with Shi Xin, and often told him some extreme remarks.

For example, he thinks everyone deserves to die.

"Early ape-man 2.5 million years ago evolved in nature for so many years to evolve into modern civilization.

What have modern people done to nature and to human beings themselves?

The endless extinction of living things, the destruction of nature, the imbalance of ecology, and even the bones of fish and trees buried tens of thousands of years ago buried in the ground.

People not only destroy nature, but also exploit and oppress women and the lower classes for the sake of damned profits, and even make men eunuchs, mutilating themselves with swords, poison gas, and cannonballs.

Humanity deserves to die!"

For example, human society should always stay in a matrilineal clan society.

"A matrilineal clan society is the most suitable for human beings.

Because women never hurt others.

Although women at that time were controlling society and controlling men, there was no damn upper and lower class at that time, damn all kinds of theories, philosophies, sociology.

Of course, there is no need for damn morality, law, there are no countless criminals.

At that time, human beings were not bound by morality and law, but they were the most moral.

At that time, mankind did not understand anything, there was no writing, no culture, no civilization, no misery of all kinds.

They simply obey nature.

But only this kind of 'obedience' that does not understand anything can make human beings, other living beings, happy.

Isn't this the Taoist 'non-action' and 'leisure'?

No human society will be able to live in peace with human beings, with all living things, and with the earth. ”

Shi Xin doesn't think so, he thinks that most people are kind, like their mother and sister.

It's the bad guys who hurt them.

Although he hated the Japanese, he became good friends with his students, and he secretly killed several Japanese.

About a year later, Shixin and Airi got married.

After that, they gave birth to two girls.

Although he hated the Japanese, he couldn't control his feelings, and he even wanted to kill himself.

Aren't most Japanese people good?

He told himself that when he arrived in Tokyo, he would kill his wife and daughter, as well as his wife's parents.

Shishin kills Muraki.

Airi didn't blame him when she learned that it was Shishin who killed Muraki, but hid it for him.

Several times he tried to strangle his wife and daughters while they were asleep, and even put his hand on his wife's neck on several occasions.

Ai Li knows, and if she strangles her, she will be willing.

Shi Xin often scolds Ai Li, beats Ai Li, scolds his daughter, and beats his daughter.

The beating left his wife and daughter bruised and bleeding.

When Shixin beats her daughter, Airi will hug him tightly every time, and every time Shixin will push her away and whip her hard.

As the days passed, Airi slowly became depressed and sad, but she was still determined to live strongly, to love her daughter as always.

She thinks it's her fault that he would beat herself because she was Japanese, and the Japanese killed his mother and sister.

This is her fate.

She felt that she had no choice but to accept her fate.

Part 6: Tokyo

Figure:

Love pear, depressed, sad

Relief, anger

Plot:

Airi and Kakushin, along with their daughter, sailed to Japan the day after Japan's surrender.

At this time, Tokyo had just been bombed by the U.S. military, and there were destroyed buildings everywhere, including Ginza, Shibuya, and Shinjuku.

The pedestrians on the street were also yellow-skinned, with miserable expressions and ragged clothes.

Seeing this, I was relieved to think of the small fishing village and the city of Nanjing.

He hated that he alone could not kill all the Japanese.

But he didn't expect that it was the Japanese who saved him in the first place.

That night, he killed his wife, his daughter, his wife's parents.

His wife begged him not to kill his daughters, but he still killed them.

The story comes to an abrupt end when Relief picks up a machine gun and goes out.