Illuminate the Hidden Pain in Our Hearts——Analysis of the Image of “Aunt” in Mo Yan’s Novel Frog

Abstract

Frog is a long-form masterpiece created by Mo Yan with the great concentration that touches the most painful part of the Chinese soul. The novel consists of four long letters and a drama written by the playwright Tadpole to the Japanese writer Sugitani. It is about the life experience of an “aunt”, a Chinese rural obstetrician and gynecologist, with vivid and touching details showing the sixty years of undulating birth history in rural China.