The editorial of freezing point: " a generation of cancer

The editorial of freezing point: " a generation of cancer " Sorrowful destiny of the rural society
Author: Cao Lin

In media Chinese full of optimistic, sensationalizing and mighty narration, in a certain trend, after a major issue or social phenomenon, all it is popular to have labels that beauty symbolizes to stick one on a generation, such as " a generation of bird nest " , " a generation of Expo " , " a generation of gold " , " a generation of IPAD " When. These wonderful prefixes are witnessing miracle, brilliance and people's confidence to the future of this era.

But I take unseasonable in " the one generation " Have added a prefix which seem very terrible, very heavy ago. Moreover, act as prefix and " a generation " Will produce a kind of shocking sad and pityful strength even more while combining together. This word is that the modern is most afraid of hearing, mentioning the desperate one " Cancer " .

Tell the stories of a little village first.

A small village where my native place is in Jiangsu in Su, although is more rich and more populous than that of southern Jiangsu, but than Su Bei, it is a little better than the countryside of the other places. Especially with economic development in more than 10 years in the past, from " well-to-do level " that is expect originally villager It is very near and very near. Graduating from university after coming to Beijing to work, I basically will phone to go home every week, will hear parents sighing once while almost nearly making the telephone each time: Well,which houses who who who find whether cancer again,can't estimate how long it is.

Leave home for many years, who who who it will be those in my memory, the appearance often seen in more than 10 years. Have not expected, these were on the occasion of holding the pillar in the annual family, just let life turn better working from dawn to dusk, just trained out by the industrious handle child, what made people incomparably heavy is, this is not merely a individual case. Struggle, fight all one's life, so hard as to lose labour capacity, there were improvements at last in life, the family circumstances turn better, children have all got married, can make money, and then, but find cancer

The native place is some blue and green strong labour powers that year, every one left away because of cancer, that people all felt in the village this had already become a spell, cover in their minds like an enormous shade. When feeling life is strong, planning to enjoy children's good fortune, they are often anxious, worry about that terrible spell oneself on one's body. When went home in the year before last, several villages and towns, their question, anxiety that I passed by nearbily, it is the same as villager of the village of ours. On the media, often see too the shade of cancer fills the air in the village of the other places, " cancer village " It has already been far from a case.

My lovely, respected, sad villagers of these of my rural society once, called " a generation of cancer " ,A lot of people in them work hard for all one's life, accumulate one suit of diseases, leave away cancer and such terrible hopeless case finally.

" a generation of cancer " A spell in not dark and dark, is the social this generation's sorrowful destiny in the village. Their disease comes out hard too to a certain extent except the pathological reason, for the child's tuition, for the medical treatment of the old man, in order to let one's own offspring jump out the agricultural door, they work desperately, overdraw one's own body desperately. They have no culture, can't take the high wage according to a certain high technology like urban people, can only get the modest income in return by overdrawing one's own physical power. They were born in the countryside unfortunately, lacked the most basic guarantee, everything must be earned by one's own hands. Most of them go down town to work as a temporary labourer, shine the moral integrity in the burning sun suddenly and violently and earn tuition for the child on snow rain and very high tower crane; The person staying in the village, some make some money by gushing out pesticide for others, some act as the porter, depend on betraying the physical power and health more. Afraid of, spend money, sick to bear too, for give child study, save money, can only have minimum nutrition of limit guarantee. When life turned better, needn't work hard again at last, body collapse too, ache unable stand, go to the hospital to check, often all cancer, and later period. The therapeutic fee of the sky-high price of cancer, they most are unwilling to spend, unwilling to add hard for children, unwilling to work hard oneself money that earn all one's life on flower reaches to cure the disease. Then, a lot of people have to lie at home waiting for death.

Cancer, not merely seize disease of their life, it is a kind of terrible metaphor even more. This kind of disease, it is not merely the illness on physiology and body, correlate with system isolated in urban and rural areas to a great extent. Under the interval in urban and rural areas, overdraw physical power, look down upon the disease, the medical condition is bad, nutrition is bad, hygienic conditions bad, work hard all one's life, practise usury to a rural one in the city's modernization, scissors difference, pollution is to the rural transformation, systematic the fake and forged one goes to the countryside, every kind of element, may all prevent and cure and exert a passive influence on cancer.

Phone to go home each time, hear parents sigh, talk about it in the village when another former generation leaves away cancer, I feel very heavy, always rock " a generation of cancer " at the moment This word. It makes me have a kind of antagonistic psychology on great scene with flourishing and noisy those of the town. When seeing the country has taken so many the Asian Games gold medals, those expressions in one's eyes tossing about desperately by serious illness that I but appear at the moment, can so many gold medals prove us very strong and very healthy?

I do not like those to dazzle rich fireworks which burn the money either, because transient and showy and after the brilliance, and upstart getting complacent in type except pollute, suffocate, nothing leave. Take I have showy that,don't that scenes great to decorate vanity,and it puts people's life above everything to want.

Write down this characters of the above, remember writer Long Yingtai again, she explained one's own " Chinese dream " on the platform of Peking University for the previous period ,The same as her, my Chinese dream does not mind what emergence of big countries, what I minded is, those " a generation of cancer "s Story,will duplicate to by they on the offsprings again. Young people Han Han's Chinese dream is very long-range and very mighty: Everybody fills a wine cup for sb. and makes peace, the speech is tried best all without exception. My Chinese dream is very petty and low: Only hope " A generation of cancer " Destiny and spell,it is shroud in rural sky not to will continue, wear at rural siblingses those of me, between they and their urban peer, no longer separate that heavy iron curtain.


The editorial of freezing point: " a generation of cancer " Sorrowful destiny of the rural society