Big breasts and fat buttocks: the cause of Mo Yan's view on women

Mo Yan, as a contemporary male writer, created the work "Big Breasts and Fat Buttocks". He creatively constructs a unique female image full of tension and vitality from the perspective of the opposite sex, tells a heavy and cruel story and reflects the suffering of women. However, he constantly struggled and stubbornly resisted, which ran counter to the traditional concept and subverted the traditional female image. The works are calm and objective, revealing women's mentality and showing humanistic care for women.

Teacher Mo Yan once said, "You don't have to read all my works, but if you want to know me, you should read my" Big Breasts and Fat Buttocks "."

This work shows Mo Yan's view of women, but how did Mo Yan's unique view of women come into being?

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The author's personal experience

Mo Yan was born in 1955. As long as he can remember, he faced the Great Leap Forward, three years of natural disasters, and the turmoil and chaos during the Cultural Revolution. Freud's psychoanalysis believes that childhood experiences have a great influence on people's life, so this kind of childhood experience undoubtedly affects Mo Yan's creation. From this, we can find a lot of flesh and blood accumulated in his works, which further illustrates the difficulty and difficulty of social survival. Mo Yan is good at strengthening the tragic atmosphere of his works with painful personal feelings, such as the scenes mentioned many times in the article, where men are strong and women are weak and women are great.

"Men are destroyers and women are builders. Women always rebuild their homes destroyed by men again and again. Women are even more tolerant of pain than men. In his view, this is a maternal force. Women can make great sacrifices for their children and do earth-shattering things. In Mo Yan's view, women's maternity is eternal and eternal. Judging from Mo Yan's family, Mo Yan's father has always been very serious, while his mother, as a simple rural woman, has the characteristics of kindness, diligence and simplicity. Under the influence of his mother, Mo Yan has many themes about his mother, which is the starting point and shining point of Mo Yan's literary road. The images of mother and women accepted by Mo Yan since childhood have improved the characteristics of the characters in Mo Yan's works. Mo Yan's mother gave Mo Yan the most direct view of women, which is the material for his future literary creation and public speech.

Regarding the creation of "Big Breasts and Fat Buttocks", Mo Yan mentioned in many public speeches that it took him several years to complete this work. The original writing inspiration of this work comes from a stone statue that Mo Yan saw many years ago when he was studying at the PLA Art College. "The stone statue looks very old. The two huge breasts are particularly eye-catching like a pitcher, and the waist and buttocks are very fat. The face of the statue can't see her clearly because of its age, but it can make people feel her firm belief. " Mo Yan belittles and denies men many times in his works, but praises and affirms women, which is closely related to Mo Yan's maternal worship thought. Mo Yan created such vivid and concrete characters on the basis of rich life experiences.

? Mo Yan also truthfully stated his creative motivation in a speech "My Breasts and Buttocks" at Columbia University in the United States-this is a book dedicated to his mother. This has a lot to do with Mo Yan's mother's life experience. Mo Yan's mother is a poor woman who lost her parents and became an orphan at an early age. At the age of fifteen, I married a man one year younger than myself with the support of menstruation. Mo Yan's mother has also experienced: fertility, hunger and disease. And feudal exploitation in the old society. It can be seen that the Shangguan Lushi in the novel is a true portrayal of Mo Yan's mother. The selection of this work is true, which is Mo Yan's love for his mother and a gift that Mo Yan wants to give her.

Mo Yan once said frankly in a conversation with Kenzaburo Oe: "I really don't know much about women. I write about my imaginary woman. In the real life of the countryside in the 1930s, the women described in my novels rarely existed, and the grandmother in the novel was also a fictional character. " However, as a successful writer, Mo Yan's greatness lies in the closeness between his imagination and reality, even 99% coincidence. As Lu Xun said, women are born with daughters and mothers, but they have absolutely no wives. The so-called wives are naturally oppressed and enslaved for a long time. In Mo Yan's novels, women also represent nature and simplicity, greatness and sacrifice, which is the nature of women.

Whether it is a strong woman among modern women or a woman who worships money, he treats her with tolerance and understanding. Because he saw that the essence of a woman is to be crazy about love and sacrifice for her family; And many modern men, because they are not confident, let their so-called dignity expand infinitely until they cover up their eyes and souls to discover the truth. He also believes that family work should be a noble full-time job, which can be done by both men and women and should be respected and cared for. It is precisely because Mo Yan has such a true and biting spirit of equality that the images of men and women in his works are so vivid and profound. Mo Yan's works praise women's strength and perseverance, especially their maternal greatness.

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The influence of social culture

Mo Yan's childhood was full of ups and downs, which provided many vivid examples for later literary creation. There are many opportunities on Mo Yan's creative path. In the end, Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature, which had a lot to do with Mo Yan's time. The social and political reform and opening up has also provided new ideas for literary creation. While accepting a large number of foreign literary works, China's literary creation also showed a thriving situation, and a large number of new people emerged in the literary world. Under this opportunity, Mo Yan's creative ability has been greatly developed. Because the countryside is his root, most of his works are set in the familiar countryside, and the characters described are mostly simple farmers.

Mo Yan was oppressed by his father and society since childhood, which left an indelible shadow on his childhood. When his strict father forbade him to keep birds, he secretly hid them to show his resistance to his authority. In addition, Mo Yan was deprived of his right to education because he offended his teacher. These very common phenomena in rural areas have planted seeds in Mo Yan's heart. It is precisely because Mo Yan was born in rural areas that he can better grasp the creation of local culture by combining his personal experiences and feelings.

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In Breastful Breasts and Fat Buttocks, Mo Yan describes the hardships of Shangguan family in nearly a hundred years' history, with Shangguan Lv as the main body and children as the branch line, showing countless ordinary farmers like Shangguan Lv's persistent pursuit of life, especially the depiction of women, which shocked and praised their tenacious vitality. Under the oppression of the patriarchal society, in the process of fighting against fate, women's strength and persistence are not only the great spirit that Mo Yan wants to praise, but also the story that the whole era will leave to future generations. ?

About the author—

Wen Qing, who writes attentively, loves photography.

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