Urgent ~ ~ Joy Luck Club figures

When the Japanese invaded Guilin, Li Suyun had to abandon her twin daughters who were less than one year old. After arriving in America, she gave birth to another daughter, Wu Linglong. She forced Xiao Jingmei to learn the piano, but her daughter was opinionated and couldn't play a decent tune after all. A beautiful sentence, "I hope I die, just like the two daughters you killed!" " "Let her fall into the abyss of pain. When Xu Anmei was a child, she witnessed her mother being abused in China and was forced to become the fourth wife of a wealthy businessman. When my grandmother died, my mother cut off her own flesh and blood and tried to support her in a superstitious way, but even so, she didn't get forgiveness from her family because she couldn't do "one woman doesn't serve two husbands." An Mei vowed to get justice for the wronged mother who was driven out of her grandmother's house, so after her mother committed suicide by swallowing opium, she took back her brother who was adopted by her second wife. Not long after he settled down in America, his youngest son drowned again. Daughter Xu Lusi met with difficulties in marriage, but she would rather choose a psychologist to answer these questions than tell her mother. Gong Linda's marriage with young people forced her into the Hong family and married a boy younger than her. In order to escape the boy's mother's order to "carry on the family line", she cleverly fabricated a series of lies, escaped from the Hong family, and finally lifted the shackles on her body. Daughter Vivienne Gong is good at playing chess, but under her mother's repeated show-off, she has developed an aversion and has no talent for playing chess since then. Gu Yingying discovered after marriage that her husband was a bohemian and would take all kinds of women home for the night. Desperate, she knocked out the baby in her belly and returned to her family. American St. Clare moved her, and she followed him to the United States, and her name was changed to Yingying St. Clare. She has an insight into the marriage crisis of her daughter Lena St. Clare, but she is powerless to change it.

Suyun continued her habit in Guilin and initiated the Joy Luck Club. Invite four women to play mahjong and take turns as hosts every week. It's the hostess's turn. She must prepare some special food to win the favor. "We decided to turn the weekly party into a festival like the Chinese New Year, so that we have a chance to forget the past every week. We don't let ourselves think of any unhappiness and sadness, that is, we should eat, drink and be merry. We gamble and tell the best stories. Every week, we look forward to a happy time. This expectation has become our only comfort, which is why we named our party the Joy Luck Club. " In this way, 1949 Four Chinese mothers who came to America started their friendship in San Francisco. Decades later, it's still the same. Mothers compare with each other in their daughters' lives, and their daughters stumble without hesitation. Suyun died of a cerebral hemorrhage, and her daughter sat beautifully in the mother's position, that is, the east end, the origin of everything. When the long-lost twin sister got the news, Linglong went back to China with her father and finally met two sisters who looked exactly like her mother.

Amy Tan's works show the traditional mother-daughter relationship in China, which our readers in China are familiar with: even if their daughters are spurned by their mothers, they will die before their mothers die, and even cut off the flesh of their arms to give their mothers medicine to save their lives ... And the maternal love of China people is overwhelming and shocking.

But the American daughters in the story, although they also have black hair and yellow skin, one of them is half white, but they were born and raised in the United States by "Coca Cola and Italian pancakes". They don't know, or can only speak and can't read Chinese, and they don't know China. They mistook "Taiyuan" for "Taiwan Province Province", and they are real Americans. These American daughters also deeply love their mothers, but they can't stand the overwhelming and pervasive maternal love of Chinese mothers. As one of the American daughters said, "Chinese mothers often don't care about the love they show." What are they thinking, their confusion, their anxiety, but they are more concerned about their food, constantly stuffing the children with spring rolls and eight-treasure rice-but rarely asking what they are thinking ... "Indeed, their Chinese mothers only know how to fill their stomachs, thinking about their daughters' success and not respecting their personal wishes. That kind of overbearing and loving interference makes American daughters laugh and cry, and sometimes it really annoys them. So from a very young age, they had to fight against China's mother for their little independence and power. From protesting that being a prodigy would rather be an ordinary child to getting married or divorced, I don't want my mother to interfere. American society teaches them American rules of life, and they are used to living naturally according to American rules of life, which is exactly the "rules of the game" that their Chinese mothers scoff at. For example, according to American guidelines, a daughter insists that even if her mother comes to visit, she must make an appointment by phone first. Why does mother think mother and daughter should be so serious? A mother thinks her daughter's success is her pride, while her daughter thinks she is her and her mother is her mother. A mother should not boast about her daughter's achievements. The daughter gave her mother a set of pots, but she was useless, so she decided that her mother must not like pots. In fact, her mother doesn't want to use them because she likes them so much. When a daughter encounters a marriage crisis, she would rather find a counselor than a mother. Her mother thinks that a psychiatrist will only make people more confused. This kind of thing should naturally be told to her mother ... for example, all kinds of seemingly trivial things cause some obstacles between mother and daughter, but they can't shake the natural affection between mother and daughter. If they love each other and kill each other until one of them dies and the other finds out that she is so obsessed with herself, the water will stop.

All four Chinese mothers have left a part of themselves in China forever. However, they have to do as the Romans do and make do with the American way of life: believe in God and fear the sea dragon king. One of their families lost a son at a seaside picnic imitating the American way of life. In a completely strange country, they only feel dangerous, dangerous. In order to strive for a peaceful place for small families, mothers struggle in unspeakable panic almost every day, fearing that some kind of disaster will come true and avoiding all kinds of reefs, just like prisoners who suffered years of crimes in ancient times, they suffer one by one until they leave this world. Mothers are most worried about their daughters. The daughter was entrusted with all kinds of unsuccessful wishes. They hope that their daughter born in a foreign country can become a luxurious swan. However, the fact is that Chinese mothers are disappointed: these daughters are "American-born fools who have never seen the world at all", and mothers can only "watch these daughters grow up and have children", thus lamenting that "my daughter and I are separated by a ditch, and I can only stand on the shore and watch her forever". In order to communicate with her daughter, my mother took pains to tell her stories, but her daughter just kept chewing gum and then blew out a bubble bigger than her cheek!

American daughters also have their unspeakable hidden pains: they think they are Americans, but their mothers demand them by China's standards, and the society lists them as "ethnic minorities" and they are separated from authentic Americans. This prejudice even affects their marriage. What bothers them more is their China ancestry. They are born with the modesty and meekness of China people, which makes them feel helpless and confused about the real American husband and the pure American family life style, thus leading to the crisis of marriage and even complete failure! This kind of China gene lurking in the blood, only when they set foot on the land of China, will suddenly boil and surge. Linglong finally met her long-lost sister at Shanghai airport. Both American daughters and China daughters have a great Chinese mother!

Suyun found a beautiful feather among her mother's relics. She finally understood her mother's love. When she returned to China, she brought back feathers. Perhaps, in the heart of every mother who faces China, there is such a swan. She left her hometown with the swan, crossed the ocean and went straight to America. On the rough sea, she and it. Everyone straightened their necks and looked at where America was. "It will appreciate my painstaking efforts, and I want it to be a beautiful swan 100 times better than I thought!" On the trip to America, she whispered to her swan.

However, as soon as she set foot on this new land, the immigration authorities forced her to break up with Swan. She waved helplessly to it, and the swan had only one feather left. Then, she is faced with many forms that must be filled out. "She has completely forgotten why she came to America all the way and what she abandoned behind her."

Now this woman is old. For a long time, she always wanted to leave this swan feather to her daughter. Winter goes and spring comes, and year after year, she has been looking forward to telling this story to her daughter in fluent American English one day.

The memory of China, the sky in the United States, and the persistent love for my hometown in this life can't be erased after all, and that beautiful feather, bearing the mother's deep affection for her children, will float in their hearts forever.