It's another year of Qingming.
As the most important traditional festival in China, on the day of the Qingming Dynasty, since ancient times, there are folk customs such as ancestor worship, tomb sweeping, tree planting, willow planting, and green walking, which contain people's most simple nostalgia and also pin infinite remembrance on the deceased.
In such a slightly sad festival, perhaps, we can pick up a book, sit down, and read a story about life with friends and children, so that we can slowly understand: the meaning of life, like flowers blossoming and falling, growth and zero, are all beautiful.
Life goes on, and love goes on. On the second day of the Qingming holiday, while sending mourning, I have time to read a few books, learn to cherish the present from the book, and feel the meaning of life from the book.
"This Life Is Not Complete"
This is a book about life and reflections on life, written for people who are soft in heart but lost in the world: how much price we have to pay to recognize the meaning of living! What reminds us again and again is to grasp the present moment and live in a way that we will not regret in the future.
In the book, in December 2009, after Yu Juan was diagnosed with breast cancer, she wrote a diary of more than a year of illness, reflected on the details of life in the diary, and issued a sigh of "buying a car and buying a house cannot buy health", which aroused the attention of netizens and many media discussions. Yu Juan passed away in the early morning of April 19, 2011, and many netizens mourned online.
A young life, on the brink of life and death, uses his life to write a diary of illness. In the last days of her life, Yu Juan completely gave up life and death, let go of fame and fortune, and nakedly reflected and wrote. All the impetuousness precipitated, all the disguises stripped away, all the hustle and bustle gone, all the attachments let go. There is only one ordinary woman, ordinary daughter, wife, and mother who has the purest sense of life.
In this story, many readers see not Yu Juan, but themselves.
"Alive"
"Alive" is one of the representative works of writer Yu Hua, telling the story of the background of the great era, with the civil war, the three anti-five anti, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and other social changes, Xu Fugui's life and family continue to suffer, and in the end all his relatives have left him, leaving only the old man and an old cow to rely on each other.
"Alive" also tells about the vastness and richness of tears; about the non-existence of despair; about people who live for the sake of living itself, not for anything other than being alive.
"Alive" has touched countless readers in the past 25 years since its publication, and after the precipitation of time, it has become a well-deserved classic of Chinese literature in the 20th century.
"Human Disqualification"
Human disqualification is the disqualification of being a human being. This is the last work of Dazai's life and his most important work.
The whole book is composed of the author's preface, epilogue, and three codexes by the protagonist, Dating Yezang, describing the protagonist from adolescence to middle age, constantly sinking in order to escape from reality, experiencing self-exile, alcoholism, suicide, numbing himself with drugs, and finally stepping towards the tragedy of self-destruction, in the process of self-denial, expressing his inner bitterness, and the desire to be loved...
Through the life experience of the protagonist Ye Zang, Dazai Osamu cleverly portrayed his life and thoughts, this novel has always been recognized as his autobiographical work, and thus put forward the most real pain problem of being a human being, from the stagnant writing can also understand his deep inner pain, after completing this work, Dazai Osamu finally chose to throw water and draw the final end for himself.
Grandpa's Angel
This picture book is a masterpiece of life education by German children's illustrator Yuta Bauer, winner of the 2010 International Hans Christian Andersen Children's Literature Award.
The seriously ill grandfather lay on the hospital bed and told his ignorant little grandson about his life: When grandpa was young, he met an angel, and since then, the angel has been with him, helping grandpa to successfully survive one difficulty after another... When Grandpa was asleep and the little grandson left the hospital, Grandpa's angel flew out and came to the little grandson and became his angel.
The author describes the story with simple and concise words, and sketches lively illustrations with free lines. The winged angel reminds us of someone around us: Grandma, Mom, Teacher... Those who have good hearts, they are your eternal guardians.
"A Leaf Falls"
This is a fairy tale about life, the author uses a leaf to experience the story of the four seasons to tell the delicate balance between life and death, the text is simple, the meaning is profound, the most suitable for life education textbooks, can be called the graphic version, children's version of "Meet Tuesday". Dedicated to all children who have experienced life and death, and adults who do not know how to explain life and death.
A leaf in the book called Freddie and his companions have undergone the changes of the four seasons, and have come to understand that the meaning of life is to experience the good and bring happiness to others; to understand that death does not mean all destruction but another form of rebirth. Coupled with photos and paintings that represent the changes of the four seasons, it creates a warm mood.
This thought-provoking fairy tale fable is warm, concise and full of wisdom, and since its publication in 1982, it has helped thousands of people to deal with the issue of life and death well, and has always deeply touched adults and children.
"The Other Side of the Sky Blue"
The novel tells the story of Harry, a young boy who died in a car accident, who is worried about his father, mother, sister and friends, and with the help of the ghost Arthur, returns to the human world to say a final farewell to them and express the love he will have time to tell in the future.
Through warm and elegant tones, childlike perspectives and philosophical language, the novel evokes the beautiful emotions in people's hearts and enlightens people's deep thinking about life and death.
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