“这孩子真野!”城里人说这话时,常常具有轻轻的谴责、恨铁不成钢的无奈的意味。一个野孩子在城里人眼里绝对不是好孩子。但在海岛,对野孩子却有着与城里人截然不同的评价,他们觉得,“野”也是一种今后生活必备的品性。因此,他们说这孩子真野时,往往带着一种赞许,一种夸耀,一种沾沾自喜。这里所指的“野”其实是一种勇敢精神。为了采访,我在汪洋大海中的嵊泗列岛住了将近一个月,在与许许多多家长的日常接触 “This child is real wild!” When the city people say this, they often have a soft condemnation and they hate the helplessness of iron. A wild child in the eyes of the city is definitely not a good boy. However, on the island, there are quite different opinions on the wild children from those in the city. They think that “wildness” is also an essential feature of life in the future. Therefore, when they say that this child is a real man, they usually carry a kind of praise, a kind of boast, a kind of complacency. The term “wild” as used here is in fact a brave spirit. For the interview, I lived in the vast Shengsi Islands in the vast ocean for nearly a month, in daily contact with many parents