The memory of youth

Reading list: the story of jumping the queue.

Author: Shi Tiesheng, a famous contemporary writer and essayist in China. 195 1 was born in Beijing, 1972 and 2 1 years old. His legs were paralyzed after jumping the queue from the loess plateau in northern Shaanxi, and he began his wheelchair career. 1998 uremia was diagnosed. Despite such hardships, he persisted in writing and thinking, and published many works successively, such as My Far Green Ping Bay, Life as a String, Ditan and I, Retreat Notes, and won important literary awards such as Youth Literature Award, Lu Xun Literature Award and Lao She Literature Award.

Golden sentence:

1. So there is a dark brown plow walking and stretching on the barren land; The flash of shovel head falls and rises behind the mountain; People's backs and cattle's backs writhed in the blood-red sunlight; The mountain wind scattered the intermittent songs on the plateau, but I still couldn't hear what I was singing. It was forceful, lingering, distant and sad. ...

2. Mingwa is like a dream song, sitting silently in front of the stove fire, adding firewood to the stove chamber silently, leaving only her eyes on her thin face, where the fire shines and goes out.

All the valleys in Qianshan are immersed in the moonlight, crumpled like a huge kraft paper and spread out again. Silent stars are next to silent peaks. The old sheep coughed in the middle of the night and sounded like a human.

4. The song is floating between heaven and earth, heavy, and I want to hold the world in the sky. Among them, some are tenacious and praying, some are tenacious singing to themselves, and some are praying to the sky.

The Yanshi kiln where we live sits quietly in the sun. The jujube trees in front of the kiln grew up, the branches and leaves swayed, and the cave cast a shadow on the open space in front of the kiln, which was even more silent. The kiln door is locked. The ink of the year was vaguely recognized on the wooden door: "It is a seven-foot man who can give up on himself; Be a ghost for a thousand years. "

Record and Feeling: This book tells the story of the author's trip to northern Shaanxi after he returned to the city for more than ten years, and his memories of those years when he jumped the queue. What is particularly exciting is the vivid description of the life and fate of the villagers in Qingpingwan, such as the Mingwa family, the blind old man, and Yin Ge, who is old and old, and thus makes a profound reflection on the ontology of life.

First, return to the trip to northern Shaanxi and relive the years of jumping the queue.

1. Back to northern Shaanxi

Returning to northern Shaanxi has always been the author's dream for nearly ten years after returning to the city. Finally, with the help of friends and others, he overcame all kinds of difficulties such as leg disability and mobility inconvenience, and returned to Qingping Bay, where he cut in line.

At that time, all the dolls in the village had grown up, or went out to make a living, or got married and had children and started a new life. Philip Burkart also got married and became the village accountant; Five yuan went to Qinghai for conscription; Liu Yuaner went to middle school; Mingwa's father no longer digs charcoal in coal mines because he has used diesel engines and motors; Shuan Er is too old to go down the river to collect firewood. Even if the old man whose father is blind is 80 years old, his body is still strong; With easygoing Lian Bi, she became a professional chicken farmer and built a new cave. ...

At the same time, the lives of villagers have also been greatly improved. No one will eat chaff and swallow vegetables anymore, and no one will beg. Commodities, talents and technology have poured into the distant Loess Plateau, and the scene before us is no longer like the past, but is changing with each passing day. What remains unchanged is that the villagers in Qingpingwan are still so enthusiastic, simple and kind.

Relive the years of jumping the queue

1969 1 month 17, the 17-year-old author arrived in northern Shaanxi all the way and officially began his years of jumping the queue.

They first started the hard physical labor of "repairing the soil", planting in spring and harvesting in autumn, hoeing the ground, transporting manure up the mountain, chopping wood and cooking, and doing all kinds of farm work in the countryside, which was hard-working and hard-working. However, they also honed their perseverance and will, and learned and experienced another life and world.

In their spare time, they never give up reading and thinking. They read Das Kapital and State and Revolution, think about national construction and rural issues, exchange interests with villagers, and gradually become self-taught. Some became barefoot doctors to help villagers treat simple diseases, and some became primary school teachers to teach village dolls to read and count. The author also fell ill because of leg pain, so the village took care of him and became a breeder.

1at the end of 969, the author and classmates went back to Beijing to visit relatives. On the way back to northern Shaanxi, they met another group of educated youth who jumped the queue to go to the countryside. Like brothers, two groups of young people, Qi Xin and Qi Xin, worked together to overcome the difficulties of continuous heavy snow and road congestion, accompanied each other and helped each other all the way back to northern Shaanxi.

In addition, in the hard years of jumping the queue, the villagers in Qingpingwan accepted these young people like thick yellow soil under their feet, helping them to settle down and adapt quickly, and they also established deep feelings with the villagers.

Second, the ordinary, simple and sad life and fate of the villagers in Qingpingwan.

1. The story of the Mingwa family

The Mingwa family has six sons, he is the eldest, and the following five younger brothers rank from binary to hexadecimal.

Mingwa has congenital heart disease. Mingwa's parents work hard, scrimp and save, and make up their minds to cure him. After he was cured, they helped him get married and start a family. Therefore, Mingwa's father went to the humble coal mine to dig coal during the winter slack season, and Mingwa's mother often worked late into the night.

Mingwa is also very sensible. Although she is weak, she still works hard to get more marks.

Mingwa and Lian Bi have been married for more than a year and have a son. When her son was over one year old, Mingwa died while plowing the fields.

Ten years later, the author returned to Qingpingwan. Du Er and Sanyuan Er got married, and Siyuan Er got married and worked as an accountant in the village. Five yuan went to Qinghai for recruitment, and six yuan went to middle school. Mingwa's father no longer goes down to the coal mine, and Mingwa's mother is still trying to do housework.

2. The story of blind old people and followers

When the blind old man was three years old, he was blind because of a serious illness. He never got married and became a family. He lives with his brother and sister-in-law, works hard and is self-reliant.

At the age of forty-six, Suisui's father took him from Suide to Qingping Bay. He became seriously ill and died in a ruined temple. The blind old man adopted Suisui regardless of hardships and brought him up.

Later, I grew up and became very sensible. I took on the responsibility of being a son early and worked hard to protect the blind old man. The blind old man is old and sick, and he can't help him get married, so he is very worried.

The sensible Sui Sui never complained about his adoptive father, but dragged him to the commune and county town for treatment with a scooter, hoping that his illness would get better.

3. Follow the story of Ying 'e and Lian Bi.

When I was herding sheep on the mountain, I met Ying 'e and fell in love with her. However, due to poverty and young-e's early marriage, they were predestined friends and could not get together.

When he choked back his sadness, the blind old man jumped off the cliff alone and committed suicide. As a result, he was only slightly injured, and he was confident that a good day would come. More than a year later, fate brought Lian Bi to Suisui, and the villagers also valued them. With the help of all parties, the two of them finally got married.

Many years later, when the author returned to Qingping Bay, they already had two children and two women, and the blind old man was eighty years old, and his body was still so strong and full of comfort.

Three. Reflections on the life noumenon of fate and life

The villagers in Qingpingwan live and work on the vast and thick yellow land, which is the epitome of our nation's living conditions for thousands of years. What accumulates and grows from them is a kind of calmness and calmness in facing life and destiny. In this peaceful land, they persevered, faced all kinds of difficulties and hardships bravely, and embraced life with their deep, simple and wordless love for the yellow land.

Educated youth, jumping the queue, that is the mark of the times, is the burning years of a generation of young people, today we are only nostalgia and history. The youth of a generation flows in the vast land of China. Both the massiness of the yellow land and the nourishment of the black land are integrated with the burning youth. From this story, it tells the story of China's long and meaningful persistence and persistence in the face of suffering. Facing where you will go, the persistence of kindness and love. Human nature is fickle and unchangeable, but because of this persistence, we can finally find the meaning of life in this flashy world. I think, everyone should have their own Qingpingwan in their heart! Therefore, no matter how far you go, you can finally find your way home! So, no matter how tired you are, you can finally have a reason to insist!