Chapter 150 This faint beam of refracted light

----About "In Difficult Days" The life described in this work has been away from us for more than twenty years. This is a life that has been forgotten by some adults and is unknown to most children today.It can also be said to have become history.From a certain current point of view, such a subject matter may not be "new". But I still finished writing this past story with tears in my eyes. In contemporary real life, we often see such a phenomenon: the increase of material wealth, but the decline of people's spiritual realm and moral level; exist in large quantities.Of course, there are many objective reasons for this phenomenon.If we cannot overcome this unfortunate phenomenon on a society-wide scale, it will be difficult for us to accomplish all worthy missions.

Whenever I think of these things, I can't help but remember my life in three difficult years. At that time, although people were in an extremely difficult situation, they showed a spirit of tenaciously overcoming difficulties in their lives; they showed noble and glorious moral strength. Therefore, writing about this past life is not purely telling a "historical story", but trying to use a kind of refraction to project our real life. This beam of refraction may be too weak, but I still want it to shine.I would like to let those younger friends know a little about life in that era; I think it will do them no harm anyway.I didn't shy away from the unfortunate circumstances of living in poverty in those days.Of course, it is impossible (and I am not prepared to do so) to summarize the complex political reasons for this period of life in such a small work.I think that for novels, it is important to use artistic techniques to truly express life. As long as this is done, readers will naturally gain cognitive value in the process of aesthetic appreciation.

What this work shows is a story in a small world of life in that era.The life and emotional experiences of the protagonists in the works are also what I have experienced myself.However, I was still young at that time, and I had just come to Shanggao Elementary School in the county town with a roll of tattered luggage on my back.In view of this situation, I can't have a broader understanding and deeper understanding of the whole picture of social life at that time, and now I can only try to write to such a degree. I therefore look eagerly to a writer older and more mature than myself who will represent, on a wider scale and with greater depth, this extraordinary period of life in our country's modern history.