There are many kinds of suffering in life, some laughing and laughing, some crying and laughing, some crying and laughing, but these sufferings all need to be self-crossing.
Only when you are in pain, with a smile, this is the best life. And Mo Yan also wrote this concept in the novel "Life and Death Fatigue".
Mo Yan said: The reason why the Nobel Prize judges awarded me the prize is mainly because the judges finished reading "Life and Death Fatigue". So what is the magic of this book, which can make people laugh out loud in a bitter life, and let people laugh from the heart and obtain inner relief in extreme pain.
"Fatigue of Life and Death" mainly tells the magical experience of the landlord Simon in the past fifty years, experiencing six reincarnations, one as a donkey, two as a cow, three as a pig, four as a dog, five as a monkey, and finally as a human.
In these six lifetimes, Ximen Hao, in different identities, witnessed the life experience of three generations of the Lanlian family, both the courage of life and the determination to die, and also the ultimate pain and determination, which is the best meaning of life.
Simon's life tragedy
In Mo Yan's "Fatigue of Life and Death", it is said that after the death of a tragic character Simon, he has been reincarnated and transformed into an animal.
Mo Yan uses animal perspectives, playful language, realistic and fictional narrative techniques to tell the heavy life story of Ximen in a light and playful way.
Ximen Hao is a kind landlord, married a wife and two concubines before his death, the eldest wife Bai Shi did not have children, but was very loyal to him, the second wife Yingchun was Bai's dowry maid, and the third wife Wu Qiuxiang was a sexy and enchanting woman.
And with Ximen Hao's downfall and death, only the eldest wife still has feelings for him, no matter how others coerce and induce her to report and expose Ximen Hao's crimes, Bai Shi never opens his mouth.
This made Ximen, who had been reincarnated as a donkey, very moved, he was very guilty that he did not treat Bai well before he died, and when he was in distress, the person who could count on him was still Bai.
The second wife, Yingchun, was married to a long-time worker from the family, Blue Face, which made Ximen a little uncomfortable, because he was kind to BlueFace, but after his death, he married his second aunt, which made Ximen very uncomfortable.
There is also the third wife Qiu Xiang, who is most liked by Ximenmen, and even scolds Ximen who has died, constantly accusing herself of how much torture and inhuman treatment Ximen has suffered.
Qiu wanted to do all this, just so that he could get rid of ximen and make his life a little better.
And Ximen Noisy, as a donkey, witnessed the people of the Ximen clan walking, marrying, scattering, it can be said that when people are down, they find the sweet words before, and the previous flattery and love are not counted.
The son and daughter no longer have the slightest love and respect for themselves, and the wife has become someone else's, which makes Ximen Hao very sad, but it is difficult to say it, because even if Ximen Hao, who was reincarnated as a donkey, even if he has grievances in his heart, he can't say a word, and can only let himself quietly be sad.
Simon made a lot of reborn bitterness and joy
Of course, Simon's short life as a donkey is also bitter, but its feelings with BlueFace are extremely deep, and Blueface especially cherishes it, never treating him as a beast, but caring for him like a friend.
However, as a donkey, Simon cannot get rid of human control, although it is a "god donkey", with super physical strength and intelligent brain, it is still bullied and trampled by people.
This is the grievance of Ximen Hao, but also the misfortune of Ximen Donkey, for Ximen Hao, he did not kill all his life, relying on wisdom and diligence, he accumulated a wealth of family wealth, lived a good life, and married three wives, it is said that such a life is happy.
However, as a landlord, Simon was eventually forced to lose his life, and even if he entered hades, he was depressed. Although Simon, who was reincarnated as a donkey, worked hard every day, although he worked hard to do his own thing, he was conquered by people because of his unrulyness.
Ximen donkey has been beautiful and lost, and finally in the era of hunger, it was eaten by people, and soon after the death of Ximen donkey, there was Simon's cattle.
The Simon cow is as stubborn and heroic as the Simon donkey, but it belongs only to its owner, the blue face, and the blue face treats the west gate cow as a treasure, but the end result is to be burned to death.
This has to start with the fact that the Ximen donkey did not want to be separated from the owner Blue Face, because the blue face insisted on his own labor and did not eat a large pot of rice with the production team, which caused public anger and also triggered the control of the donkey.
But the Donkey of Simon refuses to serve others, and there is only one owner in its heart, and that is Simon. The donkey's resistance made people very angry, especially Ximen Jinlong, the biological son of Ximen Hao.
In Mo Yan's novel, ximen Jinlong may not know that the donkeys, cattle, pigs, etc. that he abused several times are the reincarnation of his father, but his violence is completely different from the benevolence of his father Ximen.
Therefore, in order to persuade the blue face to follow him, Ximen Jinlong would pierce the nose of the cow hard, and then burn the west gate cow with fire, and the west gate cow did not resist at all, and at the last moment of his life, he walked to the blue face of the ground and died.
Later, Ximen Hao was reincarnated as a pig, a dog, and a monkey, but each reincarnation witnessed the changes in the Ximen family and the life of the blue-faced family for generations.
There are not only emotional entanglements, but also the sorrows of life, but also the real suffering of life, only the lamentation of self-crossing.
Ximen Hao constantly witnesses the changes of this era from the perspective of donkeys, cows, pigs, dogs, etc., and experiences all kinds of pain and injustice in life.
However, in these extreme pains, there is an indestructible hope and enthusiasm, this enthusiasm is the expectation of life, the imagination of the future, even if life is bitter, even if the days are difficult, there is also the initial perseverance, and this is the meaning of life.
Suffering is the background of life, and living is life
For life, there is no such thing as not being bitter, but suffering is the background of life, and suffering is the norm of life.
What is valuable is that Mo Yan uses poetic language and humorous words in "Life and Death Fatigue" to describe the life of incomparable suffering, to explain the reality of life, only the open-mindedness of self-crossing.
No wonder Yu Hua would say: If the best explanation is used to explain "Alive", it is Mo Yan's "Life and Death Fatigue".
Whether it is the sorrow of Fugui in "Alive" and the hope of immortality in life, or the pain and unevenness encountered by Ximen in several reincarnations, the similarities are the cherishing of life, the open-minded attitude towards suffering, and the endless desire for hope.
Life is always bitter, but there is a little sweetness in the bitterness, and these sweetnesses are the commitment to life in the heart after hard work, and the interpretation of the life that they have not lived in vain.