Tell the story of a country girl in the middle of the city in a controlling language.

Comment on Shao Li's A Christmas of Bright Wisdom

Qiu Ping, Wuyang Middle School, Enshi City, Hubei Province (445000)

A Christmas in the Ming Dynasty (selected from the second issue in 2005) is a good novel that turns decay into magic. The novel describes the growth history of Ming Hui, who was lured by the appearance of urban life, lost his way and finally woke up. It negates a deformed life by turning the stone into gold, leaving us room for multi-angle thinking.

The theme of the novel is gray: a rural girl who failed in the college entrance examination went to the provincial capital to find a job, was hired by a bath and massage center, and was quickly germinated by the so-called cousin with 500 yuan, lost in the deformed life path of sex workers. If the novel only writes this gray story, it can also attract people's attention and sell it on street stalls. The genius of the author lies in writing another possibility of gray life, which is consistent with the development track of Ming Hui's character growth history. Ming Hui's "indifference" in the process of being a sex worker indicates the possibility of this plot development. The turning point of life is often fixed in the occurrence of accidental events, which is natural.

The first turning point in the novel is that Minghui meets a Li Laiqun who is as wronged as her. Minghui's contact with Li Laiqun, whose alias is Yuan Yuan, is "unexpectedly relaxed and natural". That year, Yuan Yuan finally moved into Li Laiqun's home on Christmas Eve and became a "little housewife". If the novel ends here, it is still a vulgar gray story, a disposable consumer goods on the street.

The second turning point of the novel is that Yuan Yuan enters Li Laiqun's circle of friends as another Christmas Eve. Li Laiqun's friends all went to college, and they have a common language. They laughed happily and forgot their origins. Yuan Yuan knew that he would never really fit into this circle. Yuan Yuan took a taxi home alone, but "Li Laiqun didn't come back all night".

The morning sun lit up Yuan Yuan's heart. She went to a high-end brand store and bought a long red dress that could be used as a wedding dress. After returning home, Yuan Yuan had a meal. She put on a long red dress, ate a bottle of sleeping pills and died peacefully in bed. The next morning, Li Laiqun found the happy and cold ending of his life, but he didn't know why this girl named Xiao Minghui wanted to die. This ending is unexpected, but it conforms to the inevitable logic of the development of the characters. Because, Xiao Minghui woke up. Although this awakening soaked Xiao Minghui's blood and tears, it denied a deformed life and brought some bright colors to the gray life.