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Why do you think "Lotus Dian" shows the spirit of revolutionary optimism?

Lotus Dian is Sun Li's masterpiece. Against the background of the fierce and cruel anti-Japanese war, which is related to the survival of the nation, the novel chooses a small corner of Baiyangdian to express the character and spirit of rural women, who are gentle and affectionate, but also chaste and brave. In the midst of the war, the love of husband and wife, the love of family and country, the pure beauty of humanity, noble character, like the blooming lotus in Baiyangdian, beautiful and brilliant.

Although the novel depicts the anti-Japanese war, it does not directly write about the intensity and cruelty of the war, but focuses on the love of husband and wife and the love of family and country of ordinary people. These kind, simple and innocent people shine the glory of humanity in the war environment, showing the people's great sentiment of defying violence and defending their homeland. The war of aggression is anti-humanity, the people who resisted the aggressor with pure and beautiful humanity, noble personality, in the spirit of the aggressor has overcome the aggressor. This is the spiritual source of victory in the war of resistance.

In the novel, out of the family's favor, the enlisted people entrusted Shuisheng to do the family's work, which is a manifestation of their sincere feelings for their loved ones; Shuisheng's wife and other women, although euphemistically revealing their husbands hard to let go of their feelings, but still unhesitatingly for their own husbands to pack and send them to the battlefield to fight against the invaders. As for the women's feelings later to visit the conscripts, and for their husbands to share the task, to participate in the battle, but also from the love of husband and wife to the love of the family and the country.

There is a home only when there is a country, and conversely, there is loyalty to the country only when there is deep love for the loved ones.