1979 on the land of China, the rolling torrent of the times has created this special generation. In Syracuse, 200,000 educated youths returned from the Great Northern Wilderness at such a historical moment and returned to the physical origin to start a new destiny.
The protagonists in Syracuse drew different life trajectories, which were pushed to 1986 after the reform and opening up by the torrent of the rolling times ... and wrote touching stories.
At that time, I had come to this world, and I remembered a very popular song, The Sun in My Heart. At that time, my impression was that my second sister was riding a bicycle for 28 years, and I was carried in the back seat and sent to school. Although the second sister had dropped out of junior high school at that time, she was in a particularly good mood, going uphill and downhill for a while, humming in her mouth:
There is a sun in the sky,
There is a moon in the water.
I don't know,
I don't know,
I don't know,
Which is more round,
Which one is brighter,
......
The theme song of Syracuse, in my childhood, I only know that it is a beautiful song that has become popular from nowhere. At that time, there was no TV, I didn't know there was Syracuse, and there were educated youths. This song, through time and space, took my childhood back to that era.
At that time, I was separated from these educated youth in the Great Northern Wilderness for more than 30 years, but I was still in the same time and space, reading the feelings that this generation did not understand, bitter and sweet.
Maybe our children now can't understand that era, the arrogant person who can't go back. But as the book says (Volume I, P2 14): "A person has a person's life, and a generation also has a generation's life. The fate of a person is in the hands of this person, and the fate of a generation is also in the hands of this generation. Fate is with the heart and lungs! "
Yes, fate and heart and lungs together!
Although each protagonist in the book has his own unique story, Yao's saint-like persistence, Liu Dawen's morbid paranoia, Xu's nirvana rebirth, Wang's secularity and turning point, Yao Shouyi's integrity and diligence, Yan Xiaodong's cynicism, Wu Yin's pursuit and helplessness.
But in that hard and barren era, everyone was confused and anxious and needed a new starting point. Every educated youth in the Great Northern Wilderness is bitter, and there is bitterness, reluctance and destruction in this bitterness.
So I look for that sweetness in such bitterness, just like the junior high school student who dropped out of school in that childhood, and the second sister who has been farming at home, she can drag her brother on her sophomore bike, and she can sing "The Sun in My Heart", just like that sweet moment.
I am looking for these moments, sweet and shocking.
Sister-like Yao met her tutor, listened to his story about birch lampshade, listened to algebra, geometry, physics and chemistry that she didn't understand, and stared at him intently, hoping that he would go on. At this moment, our old girl felt the eruption of the volcano, and the longer the interval, the more violent it became.
For the dignity of survival, Xu pressed himself into a 90-degree wooden box in the truck factory, walked past Guo, looked up and smiled. A smile that breaks Guo's heart. That kind of gentle, forbearing, stubborn and strong power shocked Guo in an instant. Guo can't explain, and he doesn't want to explain anything. He secretly vowed that he must be admitted and must be the first! For myself, for my brother, and for her ... At this moment, this smile, too many hearts in trouble, and the unique things in human nature are filled with sweetness in shock.
Our singer Liu Dawen met the "little girl" Yuan Mei and felt very happy. However, the dictionary thinks that the word "happiness" is clear and cannot be explained. Da Wen was not satisfied with this and wrote to the editors of the dictionary for advice. Is love happiness? My beloved wife sat in the first row at the criticism meeting of the battalion headquarters, her eyes shining with extraordinary brilliance. The happiness of Wen Da's life was frozen from this moment on. Although his beloved wife died young, our Wen Da was permanently fixed in this happy moment, which is almost morbid to normal people, but his world is really like this. This kind of happiness, at this moment, just presses the pause button.
Wu Yin's fate is bitter. He married a man and a dog for the first time, and bravely chose his first love king for the second time. Unfortunately, he also failed. Nevertheless, we found the moment when Wu Yin had her own life. It was at that dance, under the attention of the editor-in-chief of the newspaper and colleagues, under the flash of the reporter, under the distorted eyes of the "husband", she danced, danced and danced happily with him in full view. They are "roaming the sky", they are cheerful, and at this moment they have all risen to the carefree realm. This moment may not be a day in Janice's life, but just a moment. This moment has become a moment in Janice's life.
......
There are many, many moments in the book, with sweetness in bitterness and bitterness in sweetness.
From 65438 to 0986, China experienced unprecedented changes, as well as unprecedented confusion and hope.
Many people have changed with the times, including the educated youth who came back from the Great Northern Wilderness.
Tutor Yao turned into a lawyer and Yan Xiaodong turned into an upstart with a deposit of 654.38+0.4 million. After years of twists and turns, Yao Shouyi and Qu Xiujuan finally got the perfect love and family in this book, and they both became factory directors. Xu's tenacity and strength successfully challenged his own destiny, and at the same time led a group of female workers to achieve the results we saw of 654.38+0.986. Wang went further and further on the noble road of betraying himself. Wu Yin even hated it calmly, while Liu Dawen stopped at that happy moment six years ago. ......
1986, changes come so fast. It's too fast to be caught off guard.
From 65438 to 0986, the color of money power was no longer covered and suppressed by socialism, and gradually began to occupy people's mainstream ideological trend. Socialism, class and revolution are getting farther and farther away from people, and making money, struggling and getting rich occupy the life content of most people.
1986, Yan Xiaodong has a deposit of140,000 in his hand, and the money can't be spent. Boredom, emptiness and loneliness are more aggressive, like invisible cotton wool, surrounding him and accumulating on him.
1986, everything is graded, and speculation is also divided. "People are selfish", and speculation also has philosophical excuses. However, our hero Yao Shouyi still disdains to associate with him and needs a little justice. Tell most people: In China's real life, openness and meanness, sublimity and underground, honesty and hypocrisy, selflessness and privacy have different tastes in a thousand-year-old soup pot.
1986, Xu found confidence and himself in the bumper car. That year, the feelings of my uncle and sister-in-law sublimated into a kind of regretful beauty, until Fang Shu found the returned overseas Chinese, and regretted that my uncle and sister-in-law didn't finally get together.
1986, Xiao Wei is still the most manly Xiao Wei.
1986, women believe in mirrors, and men believe in women's eyes.
1986, I don't know if I believe in capitalism. Anyway, fewer and fewer people believe in socialism.
1986, this is an era of pride in wealth and an era of struggle for ourselves.
Without heaven and earth, without land, there is no home, without home, there is no you, and without you, there is no me. ......
If you hadn't raised me, what would my fate be? When the wine is dry, it will not be sold!
This is 1986.
Time is one of the elements of fate. The educated youth in the Great Northern Wilderness in Syracuse is the "fate of a generation" in this special era. After 40 years, the times have changed. Those are history, and the sun is dying. Now, this generation is 70 years old. Their love, their struggle, their stories and everything about them are all around us.
After reading Syracuse, I always thought it was an underrated work, and I never knew why I hadn't heard of it before. Although the protagonist of the story is different, the story is different and the fate is different, it still condenses the epitome of that era, the whole generation of that special era. The scene is grand and profound, and you need to look at the original, not the film and television works.
The intensity of personal life in the same era is uneven. From the day of birth, individuals are helplessly involved in different life trajectories, destined to indulge in them, and the cause and effect are unpredictable. This fuzzy randomness is also the mystery of fate.
Syracuse, let me go back.
Thank you for letting me read this book.
I read the old factory director's Soviet-style flat house (Volume II, page P86). Can't help but make a thick mark:
These Soviet bungalows were originally called "Moscow barracks". There is a small garden. The indoor lifting frame is more than two feet higher than the new building. The windows have beautiful window frames and there are thick wooden steps in front of the door. Connected to sewers and gas pipelines, installed with floor heating, which is warm in winter and cool in summer. In those small gardens, in July and August, purple turns red, fragrant and shaded.
The old factory director lives in a house with beige exterior walls and dark brown doors and windows. Elegant and solemn, self-contained style, beautiful and picturesque. The yard is full of brooms and cordate telosma.
Elegant and solemn.
The old factory director, 1986, is the envy of the next generation in 2020.