How to evaluate Yu Hua's The Seventh Day?

This book describes the seven days after the death of the hero Yang Fei, who wandered between the earth and another world. Through the seven days of wandering in the afterlife, the protagonist recalls the people and things before his death.

On the first day, I wrote something he saw in the funeral home after his death, paving the way for what he saw in the next few days.

The next day I wrote about the cause of his death, recalling the scene from acquaintance to acquaintance, marriage, divorce, and then the death of his ex-wife.

The next day is his birthday. He was born on the train and adopted by railway workers.

On the fourth day, he went on to write a story about Li disguised as a man and killed a policeman in their city.

On the fifth day, he wrote that the dead people he met in the afterlife "came to a bad end."

On the sixth day, I wrote a story. A couple cheated on each other and the woman died.

On the seventh day, I wrote the story of the shampoo couple from acquaintance to acquaintance. The hero met his father.

The book written by the author is written from the perspective of seeing after death. There are foreshadowing in the book. For example, the man in blue whom the protagonist saw when he entered the funeral home was the father that the owner had been looking for. Xiao Qing, whom I met in "The End of the Road", died in a car accident just after the protagonist left the rental house. When the protagonist meets his family, the prostitute disguised as a man who is turned by public opinion is Li he met later in The End of the Road. These seemingly normal and easily overlooked details, the author just uses these details to pave the way.

In this book, chaotic social background, corruption of corrupt officials, incompetence of the government and poverty of the people are everywhere.

For example, Tan Jiaxin's restaurant, the place where the hero goes, seems to be full of people coming and going every day, but most of them are government officials who go there to eat and drink for free, so that other private enterprises can get credit. In the afterlife world, restaurant owner Tan Jiaxin also said, "There are no public security, fire protection, health, industry and commerce, taxation and other departments here." "Opening a restaurant there will drag you for a year or two, saying that your restaurant has a fire hazard; Hygiene will hold you back for a year or two, saying that your hygiene conditions are unqualified. They won't allow you to start a business unless you give them money and gifts. " It can be seen that government officials at that time were not really working for the people, but for money. Only when you give money and gifts can things be done. This phenomenon can also be seen in Li's murder of a policeman. No one stopped Li when he went to the police station. Everyone thought he was a gift, but he didn't expect to kill anyone. It shows that many people sent many gifts to this department at that time.

No word in the book "The Seventh Day" is redundant, and each word has its own unique meaning and expressive meaning. When reading this book, I was moved by the hero's father, Yang Jinbiao's kindness to children and his seriousness in his work. Although the conditions were very difficult at that time, my father raised Yang Fei and sent Yang Fei to college. When his biological parents found Yang Fei and wanted to take Yang Fei back to live in the north, his father did not object, but supported him. He supports everything that is good for children. This is a great father. Another place that impressed me deeply was that Sister Mouse, a shampoo worker, never abandoned her boyfriend Wu Chao. No matter how hard life was, whether she lived in an underground bomb shelter or went out hungry for bread at night, she never left her boyfriend in the face of the temptation of other men. Now there are not many girls who are beautiful, willing to endure hardships and do not worship money.

Some classic good sentences:

1) I said to him, Go there, where the leaves will wave to you, the stones will smile at you and the rivers will greet you. There is no poverty, no wealth, no sorrow, no pain, no hatred, no hatred ..... Everyone will die and be equal there.

He asked, "What is that place?"

I said, "It's a bad end."

2) If there is no fear of pain, no worry about dignity, no wealth, no alternation of cold and warm, no worries about appearance, no difference between men and women, no distinction between you and me, and no worries about life and death in your world, you will get closer and closer to "real living".

3) I realized that there was laughter all around me, and they were all eating and drinking happily. At the same time, he happily cursed the poisoned rice, poisoned milk powder, poisoned steamed bread, fake egg, preserved milk, gypsum noodles, chemical hot pot, stinky tofu, Sudan red and waste oil that had left this world.

4) He paused and asked me, "Why do eyebrows grow on eyes?"

"Why?"

"Stop sweating."

My father is in great pain. He is like a wet towel. The girl and I grabbed both ends of this towel and twisted it hard until the emotions inside were dry.

I don't even believe in punctuation.

7) People with cemeteries can rest in peace, while those without cemeteries can live forever. Which do you think is better?

8) I am mentally retarded, just like a room with closed doors and windows. Although I heard the footsteps of love walking and coming in front of the house, I thought it was footsteps passing by, that is, footsteps walking towards others, until one day, the footsteps stayed here, and then the doorbell rang.

9) No matter how beautiful the experience is, it will become the past, and no matter how deep the sadness is, it will fall on yesterday, just like the passage of time. Life is like a healing process. We are injured, healed, injured again and healed again.

Every recovery seems to be to meet the next injury. Maybe you have to despair once to live again.