Reading Zhang Xianliang's "Greening Tree"

After reading Qi Bangyuan's Ju Liuhe, I saw that she recommended the green tree of Zhang Xianliang, a mainland writer. Immediately read it. Apart from the conceivable description of the labor reform life, the female image of Ma Sakura attracted me. She is beautiful and smart. Although she has a child alone, she lives a pretty good life because of her ability. She knows how to use men, but she will not fall into her trap. Don't just jump into the cage of marriage. And for single women with children, marriage may be an important means of getting help. But it is very likely that it is a trap, domestic violence and another childbirth, which will make life more difficult. Maybe she lives on a farm and doesn't have the influence of public opinion in a traditional village. Reading Locke's theory of human understanding today, she says that it is difficult for people to be independent of the pressure of public opinion from the surrounding environment, and no one can survive under the slander and contempt of others. The reason why young people are forced to marry under family pressure is that it is not as good as the young people who avoided arranged marriages in the Republic of China, when the social environment was still more difficult. And Ma Yinghua was not forced into marriage, which may have something to do with her not having family elders around to force her and because she is an ethnic minority, and ethnic minorities do not have the deep-rooted patriarchal ideology of the Han nationality. And because of her ability, everyone can be convinced, and she doesn't slap her very much. Even though she likes the rightist in the Laogai camp, and uses the food she obtained to save the young man who is dying of hunger and disease, and takes good care of her, she still can't wait to jump into marriage, waiting for a wonderful time.

In contrast to this smart, kind and scheming beautiful woman is a wretched and psychologically dark man. Even though the author is grateful to Ma Sakura for saving him, he is not moved to the point of falling in love with her, although without her, he really may die, in an age of hunger and poverty