What kind of man is Yu Zhanao in Red Sorghum?

The protagonist: "My Grandpa" Yu Zhanao.

Yu Zhanao, a tough guy bred by tall red sorghum in the north. He is a real farmer. He was so vicious that he killed the monk who committed adultery with his mother and became a lowly sedan chair bearer. An accidental sedan chair experience made him fall in love with Dai Fenglian in despair. Yu Zhanao pillaged all his life and indulged in sexual intercourse with "my" grandmother in sorghum fields. "Wild" is crude but not vulgar, which describes the outstanding nature of my grandmother and my grandfather, is a symbol of anti-feudalism and pursuit of happiness, is also the spirit of my grandfather and my grandmother fighting feudal morality for the freedom of human nature, and is the most prominent expression of the original ecology of the characters in "Red Sorghum". Although he did not go down in history, it was these people who made history and forged the national spirit.

Yu Zhanao has a dynamic beauty. What people listen to is the call of destroyed and repressed human nature, the groan of the struggle between soul and flesh, the warning of the accumulation of national spirit worth remembering and remembering, and the philosophy about human value, national spirit, ethics, historical process and the essence of the whole human life that can only be realized when growing up in red sorghum land. Mo Yan integrated these profound philosophies into Yu Zhanao's pursuit of freedom and original ecology, which made Yu Zhanao shine a unique human brilliance in the original ecological art and called for the beauty of human nature.

"Gaomi Northeast Township"-This black land gave birth to Yu Zhanao, a bandit leader who combined good and evil. Yu Zhanao is a typical figure who combines goodness, evil, beauty and ugliness. In the whole process of the Anti-Japanese War, his resistance was thorough, but the means were also quite cruel. His way of expressing love and hate is to kill people, including his own uncle Yu Daya, his opponent Hua Neck, and his opponent single father and son. This kind of "killing" behavior is undoubtedly "evil" and unforgivable in traditional ethics. But in the concrete value behavior, his killing behavior is highly "good" and highly heroic and patriotic. On the criterion of love, Yu Zhanao killed the single father and son who bullied others in order to save the lover who was in deep trouble; He killed Yu Daya, who was promiscuous after drinking, in order to give justice to the innocent girl Cao; In order to save the local people from exploitation, he killed the gangster "Flower Neck" ... These just show a kind of "goodness" with profound humanity. There is no contradiction between the goodness of Yu Zhanao's nature and the evil of his means. "Their life behavior has been difficult to be measured by the usual ethical norms, and it is also difficult to be evaluated by such a simple binary judgment as good, evil, beauty and ugliness, but there are evil in goodness and ugliness in beauty, and the two are intertwined." He is just wandering and drifting on another level of moral ethics and legal norms. As a brave and uninhibited original hero, he can't jump out of the limitation determined by this specific historical environment, but it is in this historical limitation that he shows the heroic character and tenacious survival consciousness of the nation.