The Connotation of Mother Culture

①Mother's blood pressure remained high, I suspected that the cold climate of my hometown, and advised her to come to Harbin to live for a period of time, to change the water and soil, she came. Oddly enough, the day after she arrived, her blood pressure came down and returned to normal. She looked better every day, and her nails had a rose-colored luster. She was restored to health in the springtime, and her mind was naturally in a better place. She loved to dress up, loved to eat, loved to play, and even hummed occasionally. Every day she went out for a walk with me and regarded each flower with pity.

②During the day, when I read, so did my mother. She chose a stack of books from my bookshelf, Dream of the Red Chamber, Mao Zedong's Later Life, Cixi and Me, and so on. Influenced by her father, she read Dream of the Red Chamber more than once, and then familiarized herself with which maid belonged to which house and who the master of which boy was. About a week later, she put "Dream of the Red Chamber" back and told me that she had not read the last two volumes very carefully. My mother said that the best thing about Dream of the Red Chamber is the first two volumes, which are all about eating, drinking, and playing, and are very readable. Moreover, Baoyu and Daiyu were naive at that time, and the sibling fights were delightful. Mother of Gao Osprey's continuation of the text is particularly intolerable, said he did not understand the fun, hard to write, the people are so miserable, read chilled. Her understanding of A Dream of Red Mansions surprised me; at least, she emphasized the importance of fun in fiction.

③Mother's understanding of history was also intuitively simple. During that time, I was reading some books about Kang Youwei. Then one day we talked about Kang Youwei with her at dinner. She said, "This person is not good, he urged Guangxu to change the law, how? The reform failed and he ran away. If you do not listen to him, Guangxu Emperor can die? In order to prove that her judgment is correct, she brought "Cixi and I", said that there is something in there about Kang Youwei, can also prove that he is not benevolent. My mother flipped through the pages and couldn't find the page, so she left the book and said to me, "No matter what, the one who dragged others down with him is not a good person. Kang Youwei was thus characterized by her.

4 Liu Laogan stage in Harbin every night there are performances, the scene is very hot. I asked my mother to go with me to see, she said: What is the point of that thing? It's just a show! She said she couldn't stand it. But she didn't argue with me, and one day I dragged her to the theater. It wasn't a weekend, but the attendance was good. My mother was right, as soon as the show started, the actors asked for applause from the audience, and some of them even jumped off the stage and encouraged the audience to applaud from the auditorium. The high-decibel music was deafening, and once again, my mother plugged her ears in a state of agony. Then, only halfway through the show, when another actor came out and shrugged his shoulders and asked for applause playfully, my mother finally relented and said to me loudly, almost in a commanding tone: Let's go! I didn't expect the performance to be like this, so I hurriedly followed her out. After leaving the theater, she took a long breath and said to me, "How was it? I said, "It was just a trick. I'm going to have a heart attack if I sit down any longer!

⑤One day, my mother and I were walking at dusk and passed by the Palace of Culture. We saw Wang Quan'an's The Marriage of Tuya in theaters and immediately bought two tickets. I knew that the movie had won an award at the Venice International Film Festival. According to the time on the ticket, it should have started 5 minutes ago, I was chagrined that I couldn't see the beginning of it, who knew that when I arrived at the door of the small screening room, I was shut out. It turned out that only two tickets had been sold for the movie, and the projection room was not yet open. I approached the projectionist, who opened the door and showed the movie exclusively for my mother and me. The story was very simple: a woman was looking for a woman to marry her useless husband, who had become useless because of the well. This is the grim reality of water shortage in the steppe. The movie was simple, natural, bleak and warm, and my mother and I were captivated and finished watching it in its entirety. When we left the theater, we saw that the Liu Laogan Stage performance in the amphitheater was culminating in a wave of applause as the actors were hilariously interacting with the audience on stage.

6 My mother and I returned home in the night with some frustration. Almost home, my mother suddenly sighed and said to me: I understand, you wrote those books, just like the movie we watched, not many people see ah. Those fancy books, just like that Liu Laogan stage, many people see ah.

⑦My mother's words moved me and made me sad. I didn't expect that this movie for two people would touch her so much. In that moment, I felt lucky, because with my mother there, the movie in my life, will never be alone ah.