The difference between the old man and the old woman of the stone trench 5

We know that at the end of the poem, the old woman entered the army instead of the old man. When I first read this poem in junior high school, compared with the suffering of the working people brought by the war, the deepest emotion was the behavior of the old man who left the old woman and ran away alone, which I thought was very excessive and irresponsible.

Later, as I grew older, I saw the problem less black and white, and gradually understood the difficulties of the old man, and had a deeper understanding of the profound disasters brought by the war caused by the "Anshi Rebellion" to the vast number of people.

The conscription system of the Tang Dynasty did not recruit women early in the rest of the world, so it was necessary to arrest people and fill the army, and the old man was the most dangerous, so we can guess that maybe it was the old woman who took the initiative to let the old man go first.

After that, under the persecution of the messenger three times or four times, the old woman told the difficult situation of her family one by one: three sons, two of whom died in battle, only the old and weak women and children were left in the family, life was very difficult, and the daughter-in-law did not have any decent clothes to come out to meet people. She hoped that this painful confession could get the sympathy and understanding of the messenger, after all, not many people could still be hard-hearted after knowing the tragic situation of her family, Du Fu would not, and neither would we.

She also thought that she would receive sympathy and understanding.

The old woman then said the following: "Although the old woman's strength is weak, please return from the night." In an urgent response to the Heyang service, you still have to prepare for morning cooking", this sentence is more like a symbolic expression of his cooperation with the conscription, so as to gain a little favor from the other party: This is the situation of my family, it's not that my family doesn't want to go out, it's that I can't get out

If you really want to arrest people, although the old woman is too old to use, I can still prepare breakfast for the troops when I rush to Heyang. The old woman's attitude is enough to accumulate Lu Limb.

The old woman had done her best to this extent. First, she hopes to arouse sympathy from others by recounting her own tragic experiences. Second, she hoped that through her humble and active overtures, the messenger would have a more favorable impression of her, even if it was a little bit, it was also an increase in the understanding caused by sympathy in the past.

This is the only straw that the old woman grasps in her hand, but it is tied to the giant wheel that reverses the fate of the family. In the cramped living space of the people at the bottom, fate is often in the hands of others, and what individuals can do is limited, and the changes that can be made are insignificant.

Later, the poet did not describe the official and the old woman head-on, but only wrote a sentence on the side: "The sound of the night is overwhelming, like hearing and crying", leaving a lot of room for imagination, as if it is an endless echo of this tragedy。In the last line of the poem "The Stone Entrencher", the poet implies that the old woman was taken away by writing that he said goodbye to the old man alone, and explained the outcome of the incident of the stone entrenchment officer catching people at night. The old woman's arrest can be said to be a great surprise to the old man, the old woman, and the poet, and we did not expect that although the barracks did not accept women, and despite the misery of her family because of the war, the messenger would still arrest her.

At this point in the poem, there is a very strong dramatic conflict in **. There is a saying that "life is always more exciting than ruining the high", and this is really the case.