44 Years and 32 Days

Have you experienced the death of a loved one? How long has it been since you went home to see your parents?

This text in memory of my deceased mother is an elegy to life filled with tears and tenderness. Using the mother's death as the narrative anchor, the funeral scene and flashbacks of past memories create a three-dimensional outline of a hard-working, tenacious, maternally loving woman. The mother in the article is the epitome of traditional rural women and a portrayal of countless ordinary mothers. She engraved hard work into the background of her life, and integrated love and responsibility into daily trivial matters. Even at the end of her life, she still wanted to lighten the burden for her family. This is not only a memory of a mother, but also a deep inquiry into the passage of life. The plain narrative hides shocking power, allowing every reader to see the bond between himself and his mother and understand the deep maternal love through tears.

How do you save photos when a loved one dies?

I haven't read many books, and even fewer have read about death. What impressed me the most was Teacher Yu Hua's "Alive" and "The Seventh Day". This book was influenced by Teacher Yu Hua's "The Seventh Day", and after the mother's sudden death, I blamed myself and felt guilty, so I started to write about some things that happened to my mother during her lifetime and after her death. Most of the stories are true stories, and they are all trivial things in life. But it describes in detail the contradiction between rural and urban life, and the life entanglements of three generations of a family. It allows readers to understand how rural people face the aging of their parents if they integrate into the city. Life is mostly unsatisfactory, and I only hope for half-satisfaction in everything.