我出生、成长在辽南的山村里,小时候长得俊秀,加上老爹是读书人,村里人都说,这丫头皮毛好,长大得进城嫁个工人!什么是工人呢?老爸告诉我:工人是在工厂里生产机器的人,比如我们家的缝纫机、钟表、自行车,都是工厂生产出来的。可是,当年我的目力范围内,所见职业十分单一,学龄前我见到的只有农民,知识青年,还有当教师的老爸。工人什么样子呢?我于是有意无意地找寻工人的影子。村子里有一家铁匠铺,我经常去看人打铁,不知道这些打铁之人算不算工人,因为,大家都叫他们铁 I was born and grew up in the mountain village of southern Liaoning, a handsome young man, plus the father is a scholar, the village people say that this girl fur good, grow into the city to marry a worker! What is the worker? Dad told I: Workers are people who make machines in factories, such as our home sewing machines, clocks, bicycles, and so on. All are factory-produced. However, in my eyesight, I saw only a very small number of occupations. I saw only peasants, young intellectuals and daddy as preschool teachers. What does the worker look like? I consciously or unconsciously look for the shadow of the worker. There is a blacksmith shop in the village. I often go to see people doing blacksmithing. I do not know whether these blacksmith workers are counted as workers because everyone calls them iron