"Silent Record"

Introduction to "The Record of Silent Voices" "Silent Voice" is a realistic novel focusing on the spiritual plight of contemporary youth. The work adopts a two-line parallel structure, telling the story of the struggle and awakening of the mountain village girl Lin Xiaomei and the urban boy Lu Mingyuan in their respective survival dilemmas. Lin Xiaomei lives in a closed mountain village, and her value is reduced to the number on the betrothal gift sheet. Wrapped in clan ethics, tradition has become a shackles that bind life. Lu Mingyuan lives in a bustling city. In the education system where performance is paramount, his soul is quantitatively ranked time and time again. His personality and dreams pale in comparison to the standard answers. Two young people who had never met began to write diaries to record their inner confusion and resistance. Lin Xiaomei wrote down the pain of being objectified on a yellowed exercise book, and Lu Mingyuan wrote about the suffocation of being disciplined in an encrypted document. When these two records met by chance, they discovered that they were facing the same invisible web - control in the name of "love" and taming with the threat of "the future". The novel uses a cold writing style to dissect the mental symptoms of contemporary society: the tender emotional exploitation in the countryside, and the domestication of civilized and efficient rules in the city. Under seemingly disparate living conditions, there are actually the same undercurrents of the times - individual values ​​are alienated and spiritual freedom is eroded. This is not only a work that records the pain of silence, but also a song of brave men who break the silence. When the voiceless people begin to record, when the silent people choose to speak out, those seemingly indestructible iron houses will eventually reveal cracks in the light of connected stars. "Record of Silent Voices" is not only a profound warning to reality, but also a persistent watch for hope. Purpose: A warning about the mental illness of the times. Through the narrative structure of the mirror image of two cities, it reveals the two kinds of sacrifices packaged by modern civilization - the flesh and blood materialized by clan ethics in the countryside, and the soul quantified by performance rules in the city. When gentleness becomes the perfect excuse for oppression, when hope becomes the best tool for domestication, we approach a cruel truth in the record: the cannibalistic feast has never gone away, it has just been replaced with more exquisite bowls and chopsticks.