Why do life -free "it" refers to life animals?

Literature ｜ Huang Zongjie (Professor of Chinese Literature at Donghua University in Taiwan)

In July 2013, the "Lianhe Daily" editor -in -chief Xiao An, who was the "Lianhe News", made an interview with the theme of "Dark Sister Sister". At that time, she asked what was the "starting point of the animation insurance". I answered like this:

He was still teaching in the middle school more than ten years ago. One day, he saw a white cat struggling with a wet road and a flooded road and a depression in the flooded road. At that time, I was surprised that the water was not deep, but it couldn't climb. Later, I heard that the cat was hit by a car that morning. I found that it had been a whole day, and no one ignored it.

After sending it to the hospital, the doctor said that it was too injured, and the back foot was destined to be paralyzed. Even if it was saved, no one wanted it. At that time, it was not like being able to ask for help or publishing photos for adoption at that time today. Leave the veterinary hospital.

It was a white cat in breastfeeding. It should be encountered in a car accident when they came out for food, and the children who did not know where they were, I was afraid that it would be difficult to escape. I was euthanized in a wet and cold situation. I later regretted it deep: Why did I give up like this?

When I met the white cat, I was still an age of ignorance, stupidity, and enthusiasm. Many things didn't think so much, but it made me deeply regret it for more than ten years. Remind yourself on the way, don't give up easily.

Looking back at this narrative now, the mood was still there. At that time, I ran to the nearby building for help. The other party had no carton and only gave me a sack bag. Later The memories are still so clear.

But strictly speaking, it is not my "starting point" of my dynamic insurance. If the animal protection means "sounding" for animals, then the far -farther starting point should be in elementary school. , Kill the butterflies, I am very angry to blame them and run out of the classroom.

Of course, I didn't know at that time. Taking care of animals means that there will be countless heartbreaks and weakness in the future waiting for me.

For a long time, it is a very lonely thing to do the insurance protection. Most of others are just saying "love" in good faith or ridicule. There are not many people who really regard it as a topic and are willing to take action. Not to mention that if you care about the encounters of all animals, the news of various biological extinction and animals from all over the world, the news of animals being abused and killed, is enough to make you unable to maintain a pleasant mood every day.

On those days when they were still very young, the dynamic insurance groups with quite limited number of dynamic insurance groups were volunteers at that time, edited oil printing publicity publications; during the holidays, I went to the door of the zoo to ask tourists to sign the "Dynamic Insurance Law"; occasionally submitted on the newspaper and published. The view of animal issues was the method of doing dynamic insurance that I could think of at the time. But I always feel that it is not enough no matter what.

The panic caused by rabies in 2013 became an unexpected turning point. It was a dark summer, and animals were hated, abandoned, captured and killed because of human fear of disease. Various forms of death came one after another. Based on the mood of doing something for animals, several volunteer friends connected in series and launched the activities of "putting its hands on your heart" on the Internet. Make many consciousness and unknown sounds resonate.

A series of tips of the tip of the tip and subsequent online articles made me believe that changes are likely to happen. Even if it is only a very small change, it can still become the power of persistence.

More importantly, I gradually discovered that many people do not want to care about dynamic insurance, but have not understood all these channels in the past.

Although environmental education and ecological education seem to be valued in recent years, it is not much to discuss the relationship between humans and animals. Unless the teachers have certain concepts and attention to this, they rarely conduct animal ethics in basic education courses. Discussion and speculation.

For a long time, animals have been cut outside the daily life and become "personal hobbies" for a few animal enthusiasts. For others, animals are ignored and naturally have no sense. Therefore, whether it was taught in the middle school or after entering the Department of Literature, I always tried to integrate ethical thinking in the course. I hope that more people can see and feel it. The accumulated small goodwill is average, flowing along the text and discourse to a farther place.

And this "Where is its hometown: cities, animals and literature", can be said to be the summary and review of the thinking of people in the city and animal relationships so far. The context limited by the length and chapters must be considered. Many issues cannot be taken into account temporarily. For example, labor animals and animal road kills have to be discussed in the future.

The most troublesome and sadness at the time of writing is that the damage is omnipotent. There are endless use of animals to describe the endless use of animals. Whenever a chapter is written, many incidents that should be included in the discussion occur. But I look forward to this book to be a starting point for thinking about animal issues. When it is over, the discussion will inevitably continue.

In addition, the book name "Where is its hometown" not only echoed the memoir of the colonial theorist Edward Saye, "Out of Place", but also refers to Utopia novel "Her Hometown". Such an analogy is not pursuing the taste of text, but instead of observing that in the process of civilization, the party with authoritative resources always tends to marginalize the other. Therefore Many similarities. However, the advancement of civilization has also gradually matured the ethical attitude of Yuena's other. Therefore, in the field of post -colonial and gender research, we have seen a lot of results of hard work and fighting. The title of this book highlights the situation where the animal is not valued.

It must be explained that, like IT uses IT as an animal, in the context of simplified Chinese, animals can only be involved in "it" without life. Although this highlights the fuzzyness of animal subjectivity, it may also be transformed into an opportunity for thinking. Let us see how language affects our horizons. While understanding its limitations, we may also open a new field of vision.

"Where is its hometown: cities, animals and literature", Huang Zongjie, published in April 2022, Nanjing University Press, pricing: 52 yuan

(This article is "Where is its hometown: city, animal and literature" self -preface)

"China Science News" (2022-09-23 The 3rd edition of the original title "Where is its hometown: the relationship between people in the city and animals")

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