"The four seasons of the year have passed, summer, autumn, winter and spring, and this series of movies is looking forward to the end. The movie has been made like this, it is really full of sound, color and taste. . One season and one hour, Japan’s rural life becomes beautiful and sweet in this scene and one meal, which is really what people yearn for. There is a saying that “food and scenery can resist all the sadness and confusion in the world.” The meaning of food and scenery is not to escape, hide, obtain, or record, but to change your worldview in an environment beyond your imagination, and then slowly change what is truly important in your heart. "This kind of life is quiet and tranquil, with peasant women, mountain springs, summer, autumn, winter and spring, people and nature. (Japanese film series "Little Forest" directed by Junichi Mori)"
Bill Porter in "Empty Valley" "Orchid" wrote: "I can understand why some people don't want anything, but just want to live a simple life: in the clouds, under the Panasonic, outside the world, living by moonlight and taro. In addition to Outside the mountains, they don’t need much: some soil, a few handfuls of thatch, a melon field, a few tea trees, a fence of chrysanthemums, and a short break in the dark weather.”
Ichiko is in Komori. This is how life is portrayed. Plowing the mountains and rivers, working at sunrise and resting at sunset, with a basket of food and a ladle of drink, feeling at ease. On a sweaty summer day, drink home-brewed ice-cold sour rice wine; on a bumper autumn day, eat fragrant walnut rice balls; on a snowy winter day, there is nothing better than Christmas cake; on a spring day when all things grow, salmon pasta is indispensable.
If it were you, would you be willing to leave the wifi and air conditioning in big cities and return to the simple countryside like Shizi? The answer is self-evident. We all yearn for "picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence and leisurely seeing the Nanshan Mountains", but we have forgotten that "we rise in the morning to clear away the wasteland and return home with the moon lotus hoeing". After Ichiko returned to Komori, in addition to working, she did almost all farm work and housework. She cultivated a wide range of crops, including rice, carrots, onions, tomatoes and other vegetables. After winter, she had to stock up for next winter. Food, repeated over and over again, never slacking off. And Komori is not a paradise. Worldly worries are not exempted from remoteness. Yoshiko, a native of Komori and a good friend of Ichiko, wants to put sprouted poisonous potatoes in her boss's water. "My boss knows how to think about the interpersonal relationships around him. He is just having a meeting and taking endless pictures. The boss is a sycophant, and there are people from other companies at the meeting. He pretends to be very capable, takes over all the work, and pushes himself into a corner. Then he actually blames the blame on the people next to him. It makes me so angry. If he fails, he blames others. If he succeeds, he is just a superficial person with no sense of responsibility. "Look, every adult has to face troubles in the workplace. Nine times out of ten it will be unsatisfactory. There is no escape.
Why did Ichiko return to Komori? Bored or escaping, there seems to be nowhere to go except Komori. In winter, while eating roasted sweet potatoes, Ichiko chatted with Yoshiko about urban life: It was only when I received the bill that I realized that money was spent everywhere in life. Gradually, I realized that I could not eat instant noodles, so I started to plant carrots in the instant noodles box, waiting for them to take root and sprout. When I was working in a supermarket, I met the boy I liked and made my mother's exclusive omelette for him. But I heard a boy complaining to his companions with a scarf given by another girl, "Instead of spending time knitting scarves, it is better to go to work and buy some practical gifts." Ichiko must have felt sad after hearing this. How can a scarf woven with fine stitches and food made from vegetables be compared with standardized production items? No matter how profound the reason is, there are no more pictures. However, it is not difficult to imagine the difficulties that small village girls encounter in the city. So, she came back and lived a serious life alone but not lonely. However, just as she has been unwilling to build a greenhouse to grow tomatoes, she has no plans to live there for a long time and is just trying to live in the present. Another spring came, and she gradually understood her mother's long letter, planning to choose her own destination with a positive attitude. She handed over the onion field to Yoshiko and returned to the city alone. It was not until five years later that Ichiko returned with her husband and settled in Komori. This time, I really felt at ease. After going round and round, I still returned to the starting point. Although you may feel confused and at a loss, life does not allow you to escape. Even if you fail, you must move forward.
“When I fall somewhere, every time I look back at myself, I find that I fell in the same place every time. Even though I have been working hard, I always draw circles and wander in the same place. In the end, we just return to the starting point, which is very disappointing. But every time, we accumulate experience, so whether it is failure or success, it should not be called a "circle", but a "spiral". From a certain point of view, it seems that we are going around in the same place. In fact, it will deviate from the previous point or the next point, which is okay. Maybe, the person himself is a spiral, going around in the same place. It's different every time, extending up, down, or horizontally. The circle I drew keeps getting bigger every time, so the spiral keeps getting bigger every time. Thinking of this, I feel that I should try harder.
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