Minimalist life, ultimate pursuit - thoughts after watching the Japanese movie "Little Forest"

The grass is delicious and the fallen flowers are colorful

There are fertile fields, beautiful ponds, mulberry and bamboo species

Traffic on the streets, chickens and dogs hearing each other

Yellow hair Hang your hair and enjoy yourself

When I ask what time it is today, I don’t know whether there was the Han Dynasty, Wei or Jin Dynasty

This is a simple and natural paradise shown to the world by Tao Yuanming, a writer of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Feeding horses and chopping firewood

Only caring about food and vegetables

Facing the sea

Spring flowers are blooming

This is a peaceful and beautiful paradise described to the world by the modern poet Haizi in his poems.

A Japanese movie I watched at home over the weekend, "Little Forest," also depicts such a peaceful, beautiful, simple and natural paradise life.

The movie is divided into "Summer and Autumn" and "Winter and Spring". The four seasons are picturesque, fresh and beautiful, it can be said to be: beautiful scenery, beautiful people, and delicious food.

1 Beautiful scenery

Komori, where the protagonist lives, is located in a mountain village in northeastern Japan. It is like a paradise far away from the hustle and bustle, quiet and beautiful.

Here, there are no modern urban facilities, no TV and mobile phones, no Internet and entertainment, and no even commerce. There are only dense forests, clear streams, green fields, brilliant cherry blossoms, white snow, and simple wooden houses.

Here, the forests are silent, the fields are silent, and the mountain villages are silent. It's peaceful and quiet here. However, the air is flowing, the river is flowing, and the four seasons are flowing. It's full of life.

Natural and uncarved nature is the most beautiful scenery!

2 Beauty Chapter

The protagonist Ichiko

A beautiful mountain village girl

was abandoned by her boyfriend

Mother's abandonment

Life seemed to have abandoned her

But she did not give up life

From the mountain village to the city

From the city to the mountain village

Living alone in the countryside and mountains

Only cats and insects for company

Working at sunrise

Resting at sunset

Digging wild vegetables and picking wild fruits

Planting and harvesting

Chopping firewood and cooking

Make food carefully

Live hard

That's it

Three meals a day

Day after day

Year after year

In Komori, People make a living by farming, adopting the most primitive working methods, following the footsteps of nature, planting in spring and harvesting in autumn, and cultivating intensively. There are no planters, no herbicides, and no harvesters.

When farming is busy, Shizi goes to the rice fields to plant rice seedlings alone, sows seeds in the fields alone, bends down to pull weeds dripping with sweat under the sun, and harvests them one by one with a sickle. crops.

In the off-season, Shizi also did manual labor only for men, doing odd jobs to earn pocket money.

When you get home after working, you have to chop and saw wood alone, dig out the ashes from the flue, and make delicious food with all your heart.

When cooking seriously, it always arouses memories of her mother.

In this cycle of self-sufficiency and self-reliance, she realized the hard work, loneliness and pain of her mother, slowly understood her mother, slowly relieved her resentment towards her mother for abandoning her, and encouraged her to I gained the courage to live hard.

The days flowed quietly in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and she grew up alone in a life of changing seasons.

During the humid rainy season, wooden jam spoons became moldy. In order to combat the humidity and sultry summer heat, Shizi lit the stove and used the remaining temperature of the stove to bake fragrant brown bread.

Man is born lonely, and he must live a meaningful life alone!

3 Food Chapter

From planting in the fields to turning into delicacies on the table, it is all inseparable from Shizi's hard work and ingenious production. Whenever a carefully prepared delicacy is served on the table, Shizi will say solemnly and piously: "I'm going to start." Such a ritual in front of the dinner table seems to be a compliment and satisfaction for the fruits of one's hard work. It is also a way of expressing gratitude and cherishing the selfless gifts of nature.

On a hot and humid summer day, after a day of hard work, your clothes are soaked with sweat. Only the refreshing and delicious homemade iced rice wine can save you.

On the autumn day when the harvest is abundant, after harvesting the rice, we sit on the ground in the field and eat fragrant walnut rice balls to relieve our fatigue.

On a snowy winter day, follow your mother’s example and carefully bake a rectangular two-color layered Christmas cake wrapped in white cream, enjoy it with your friends, and the warmth and happiness will naturally overflow.

On a spring day when all things grow, pick a handful of wild garlic with roots in front of your door, pick a few cabbage flowers that bloom after the snow melts, bake salt-baked frog fish, cook pasta, and then , when frying the wild garlic, add the grilled salmon and stir-fry, add the sauce, mix with the cooked pasta, and add the blanched cabbage. It will make people salivate. Eat it and your soul will be healed.

For Shizi who racks his brains to develop delicious food, of course, there is more to it than just delicious food.

Winter flower miso paste and ginger-flavored cabbage cake in spring; argan jam, hazelnut jam, and canned tomatoes in summer; chestnuts in syrup and Muscovy duck meat in autumn; dried persimmons and dried radish in winter , Natto and glutinous rice balls...

Fireworks in the world are the most beautiful life!

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Having grown up in a rural mountain village, I am well aware of the hard work and difficulty of working in the fields, which is more than the understatement and exquisite beauty in the movies.

As I am busy in the bustling city, I also know that there are many helplessness in life. Real life cannot be escaped, nor do we want to escape. We only want to live a materially simple and spiritually rich life.

Minimalist life, ultimate pursuit, this is what I think of a beautiful life.