Ye Shengtao, formerly known as Ye, was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu. China is a modern novelist, a fairy tale writer and one of the founders of "Literature Research Association", a new literary society. Masterpieces: the novel Ni Huanzhi, the short story Mr. Pan is in trouble, and the collection of fairy tales The Scarecrow. Mao Dun once praised Ye Shengtao: "Look at life calmly, objectively and realistically, and describe the gray and humble life."
Synopsis: The warlord's war is about to hit Li Rang. As the principal of Li Rang Primary School, he has not received the notice of suspension from the Ministry of Education, and he is very anxious and flustered. While reluctant to give up a decent and well-paid job, he is also worried about the safety of himself and his wife and children. After careful consideration, he fled to Shanghai with his wife and children.
Before the war, the railway station was crowded and pushed each other. After being separated from his family several times, Mr. Pan's heart also hung on the ground, but it hung up again. In a cold sweat, I finally took four lives and a suitcase arrived in Shanghai safely. I asked eight or nine rooms in a row, and they were all full. How many people want to escape the war?
I also lament that Mr. Pan is lucky. It happened that a hotel had just vacated a room, and Mr. Pan's family stayed. The environment here is not as good as home, but Mr. Pan is in a good mood when he thinks that his family and suitcase are finally safe. In the evening, he specially asked the store to help bring a catty of Shaoxing and a dime of salted fish.
But the next morning, Mr. Pan was going back to the concession, and the Education Bureau issued a notice that the school should start normally, and he, the principal, could not run away in the cold, otherwise his future would be ruined.
Mrs. Pan knows that her husband's return is irreversible. It's good to go back and look after things, but the wind is so tight that it looks like a bead thrown into the sea. Who can be sure to get it back? The sadness of where you are going comes to mind, and she never dares to look at her husband again. Tears as early as in the corner of my eyes secretly want to run away.
Ye Shengtao described his wife's sadness about the unknown after separation in detail. Even though Ye Shengtao criticized Mr. Pan's humble life with no sense of home and country, he objectively described the sadness brought by the war.
It won't break. Mr. Pan is still on his way home. Mr. Pan can't give up his job. For a moment, Mr. Pan thought that if the train really stopped, it would be like that, depending on his own dismissal.
When Mr. Pan returned to Lirang, he was very busy. While taking care of his family's property and his own safety, he inquired about the news of the war and kept worrying about whether his family was well. At the same time, he is busy with public affairs, trying to figure out what it means, and he has to do something about it. Mr. Pan ran away when he learned that the director wanted to eliminate public officials who ignored their official duties. While he was glad that he had decided to come back from Shanghai, he immediately rushed to school and wrote a manuscript for his parents.
Although the war is worrying, children's education is like a piece of cloth, which can't be abandoned for a day. Now that the summer vacation is over, students start school as usual. In the previous European War, the people's sky was covered with explosion-proof nets, but the following schools still taught there. This is a very spirit, and we should not let them be exclusive.
He read the notice several times and felt that there was nothing to add to the loss. Even if the secretary saw it, at least he said, "Get my heart first." All Mr. Pan's cleverness is used here, once again satirizing Mr. Pan's humble, secular and hypocritical life.
Mr. Pan is very clever. He went to the Red Cross to take the flag to protect the school, but lied that the side door of the school was also needed. He asked for two sides and inserted them at home. Here we can't know what Mr. Pan is thinking, whether it is convenient to go home by the way or whether school is just an excuse. Going home is the main purpose.
The situation is tense, and the phone will come soon. Although Mr. Pan was a little flustered, he didn't forget to go home and tidy up his softness. Most of the valuables were put in the suitcase brought to Shanghai earlier, but in a hurry, Mr. Pan was puzzled or reluctant to give up. After packing, he hurried to the red house with the parcel.
The red house is so crowded that there is no place to lie down. Fortunately, there is a place to sit and rest in the kitchen, but we should discuss it with those who come early. Ironically, the group that happened to come earlier was the director of education and his party of three men, all thinking of sending their wives to a safe place as soon as possible.
The three people not only escaped from the war in this broken kitchen, but also analyzed the war situation outside, not like taking refuge, but more like coming to give a speech. And Mr. Pan really has no desire to talk about it. He only cares about whether his wife and children in Shanghai are well.
Fortunately, after the war, everything returned to its former appearance, and the whole city began to greet the arrival of the new guard with colorful lights. Teacher Pan wrote a good hand, and the "beautiful job" of writing a banner to welcome the new guard fell on him.
Mr. Pan thinks this moment is very interesting. He picked up the pen and dipped it in the ink basin. After thinking about it, he picked up a pen and wrote the four characters "high arch reading mother" side by side on the note. The second part is Megatron Southeast, and the third part is Delong Enpu.
The irony at the end of the article is the crowning touch of the whole article. Mr. Pan is not ignorant. He has never felt the damage caused by war, but he wrote such false praise against his will. It is particularly despicable to praise warlords for "saving themselves" and "climbing up" without the principle of right and wrong. It embodies the bad habits of ordinary citizens.
There are basically two views on the book review of Mr. Pan in distress. On the one hand, people have no choice but to face Mr. Pan's sympathy and understanding and the warlords' live ammunition under powerful conditions. Put yourself in Mr. Pan's shoes. It's probably the same.
On the other hand, it is a general contempt for Mr. Pan, and of course it is also a teaching requirement for the literature test.
Although Mr. Ye Shengtao's description of Mr. Pan in his article is critical and ironic, it is not blindly critical. For Mr. Pan, before the war came, he first sent his wife and children to take refuge, but he couldn't find a sad description of his wife and children at the station and couldn't bear to part with his wife at the hotel. Children are out of tune with the world and are very playful.
It is easier for readers to bring in Mr. Pan's emotions, to understand Mr. Pan's actions, and to sympathize with and understand Mr. Pan's actions to protect his family's rich life. Let Mr. Pan's character be fuller, that is, a humble generation without national justice and a good man with family responsibility.
At that time, Mr. Pan had a superior material life and a more prestigious social status. But as far as human nature is concerned, the more such people pursue national justice, the more they give up. The success of the China Revolution is also due to the combination of workers and peasants as the main force and national capitalists as the middle. Their rich life makes them less in urgent need of revolution and change than the oppressed poor. This is also one of human nature.
If you don't slap yourself, you will always feel less pain, but you will pay much more than the workers and peasants. Generally speaking, I have nothing, a national capitalist, a car, and I accidentally lost my car and lost my life.
So many of Mr. Pan's behaviors are understandable. He went to the Red Cross to ask for a flag to protect his health and avoid the Red Chamber during the war. Generally speaking, Mr. Pan didn't do anything sorry for the country and the people, but he was more considerate of himself when the war came.
But the problem is that Mr. Pan is a primary school principal, an intellectual, a teacher by example, a gardener, an educator and a spiritual builder. His duty is not only to impart knowledge, but also to educate a generation of values and ideological construction. If our ideological leaders and educators are so numb and humble, won't it make people worry about the future of the country at that time? .
This involves the saying that duty is responsibility. The position of primary school principal won him a decent and comfortable life, and also gave his wife and children a good life. Enjoy the benefits of the position, but don't want to bear the responsibility that the position should pay. Isn't this a moral unworthiness?
Just like if the current media are afraid of power and don't tell the truth, now doctors don't save lives regardless of expenses, and now teachers only look at grades and don't implement correct values for their children. Is that understandable? They didn't do anything to hurt others, but isn't it a kind of harm to society if they don't do it?
Understanding Mr. Pan's remarks also means that Mr. Pan, as an ordinary intellectual, is incapable of resisting live ammunition. I don't think it is necessary to ask Mr. Pan to stand up and make unnecessary sacrifices. We just hate Mr. Pan's ideological unconsciousness and sense of home and country. From escaping the success of smoking a dime to writing a banner of praise on the back, the disaster brought by the war once flashed in his mind, but it only flashed, and nothing else.
Resentment and disappointment are the bad habits of Mr. Pan's ordinary citizens, and he doesn't wake up. Without the country, where can he wait for his home? Don't let him write spears. Fighting for his country, he can't figure it out just by awakening his mind. The prosperity of a country must first come from the awakening and construction of ideas. I can't keep up ideologically, and it's no use talking too much.
Now this country is also facing contemporary problems. Maybe there is nothing we can do, but we should always keep a correct mind and an attitude of defending the interests of the motherland. The concept of inviolability of national dignity. Support domestic products, work hard and do your bit for the prosperity of the motherland. This is probably what Mr. Pan doesn't have, which makes people spit on and criticize.