Sad story. Speechless after reading it. We are so lucky comparing to what XiaoYingZi and you went through.
Thank you for sharing.
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After reading your article about Xiao Yingzi, I cried. I was lucky, I was just ten years old when the Culture Revolution was over, the next year I went to the Gifted Middle school and then Gifted High school, then medical school, I feel sorry for the generation whose youth were damaged by the Revolution like my older sisters, their life is like Xiaoyingzi. I respect Xiaoyingzi, if I have chance to go back to China, I hope I can visit her.If she is still selling Fried MaHua at Beijing Station.
runningsound: Here are some bricks you asked for.
1. What does it mean "I can't type chinese even I want to"? Does it mean you do not want to?
2. What I got from this article is precious memory about a dear friend, not complain of hard life.
3. Who are you to tell others what to write and what not to write? If you believe in writing about some topics, just do it.
I can't type chinese even I want, hope I can express myself well in English. I was not touched by your article so much like others, but this doesn't mean I am cold blood. I felt bad about the story 30 years ago, but I felt worse about those which are happening right now too. anyway you had a chance to take to change your life because you are a ZHIQING, have you ever thought about those who will never have a chance like that, even they walked 40 miles with you 30 years ago, they still wont be able walk in the class room to make that chance. they lived in xxx condition which they even never realized. Yingzi had a just bad luck, but she still RETIRED (that means she got a pension which might be quite less,better than nothing) for that passed 30 years, she might have some pretty clothes and good food and she can take a bath regularly, for those who were still there might still be there, not moved, NEVER.
what I tried to say is, you fought for yourselves, I admired that, but that's it, because you were fighting just for yourself and that's what you should do if you want a better life. if you tried to share what you suffered it's not really necessary, look back to it, there're still bitter lives undertaking by lots of people.
all ZHIQING from that generation like talking about their challenged past, I haven't heard any of them taking about the chances they were given. the gap left before were all taken by them, look into those good positions in Banks, governments, big enterprises, most of them got that just because they are the first graduates after the Revolution, nothing else, you were compensated already, the life is just like a SIN wave, you can't complain the bad by taking the good, be fair ( it means you should write another article to tell us how much you benefit from being one of the LAOSANJIE next time)
the first time to participate the discusstion, I am not afraid any bricks, just tell you where to throw them, runningsound@yahoo.com
如今这人们都怎么了?无法用中文表达思想了?通过qqh我收到很多的Comments in English,列出几个给大家分享:
1,To be honest with you, I burst into tears several times in the middle of reading this article. It took me over 20 minutes to reach the end of it. In my memory, no article has touched my heart so deeply. One of the reasons is that it is a true story, not a fictitious one, based on the life experience of someone I know. Another reason is that I was shocked by the extreme hardship that people of your generation had to suffer in order to make some changes in their lives. We took everything for granted for what we have now, but we sometimes fail to realize how treasurable it may be in other people's eye and they may even have to sacrifice their lives to get it.
2,I'm taking the two-day 16-hour SE exam next week which, in my mind, will be the most difficult exam I have ever taken in my life. I spent half year preparing for it with all my spare time devoted to it. But comparing with the exam you and your friends took 30 years ago, it is just a peanut.
3,Very touching. I like it since I can relate to it. I was among a handful luck ones who left our 'work unit' for college. I feel bad for my co-workers who tried hard but didn't get in. But I feel equally bad for the ones who quietly wasted their youth in their assigned work unit because they either believed the propaganda or just passive accepted the reality as fate. I went back to my work unit 15 years later and was astounded to see them still doing the same work, as if the time was frozen. I felt very sad.
4,I think if you can touch on this subject it will touch more people.Definitely what happened 30 years ago was one of the biggest turning point of my life. Thanks for bring this up.
5,The poor Yingzi. My tears cam down when I read
小瑛子醒来后双手死死地扣住教室的门框不放,两行泪水滚滚而下
I know (or almost know) exactly what she was thinking.
6,The hardship for our generation was one of the reasons
this group of people are so good in latter years,
since they had endured the hardship physically and
mentally, some of them were too young to be in those
situation. But we certainly do not, and should not,
allow this kind of reeducation to happen again to our
children and their generation. I'm happy to say that
not only we are lucky enough to be away from those,
but even to our people in China, those will be bad
memories not coming back to life ever again.