Yu Hua:
If God closes the door for you, He will surely open a window for you, so I often wait for good luck to come when I am in trouble again, as compensation from life.
It wasn't until I followed Fugui down the salt-drenched road and touched his almost stiff back that I realized that the normal state of life was the gravel that suddenly stood in front of me.
He caused you to fall and bleed but reminded you that you are still alive.
'Alive' is full of power in our Chinese language, and its power does not come from shouting or attacking, but from enduring and enduring the responsibilities given to us by life, to endure the happiness and suffering, boredom and mediocrity that reality gives us.
"Never believe that suffering is worth it, suffering is suffering, suffering does not bring success, suffering is not worth pursuing, tempering the will because suffering cannot be avoided."
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I read the book "Alive" in high school, but I had never experienced the loss of life at that time, and it was difficult for me to understand the true meaning of "alive". I just feel sympathy for the sorrow of wealth and injustice for the manipulation of fate. Now, three years later, with a different experience, looking back on this book, the understanding of living is very different—that people live to live for the sake of living itself, not for anything other than living. At first I disagreed, thinking that people live for an ideal goal higher than "living". And such a simple "living" will make life seem empty and boring. It reminds me of people who are busy for life, those who get up early and greedy to support their families, those who are as poor as rich and have a difficult fate. They live to live, have a full stomach, clothes to wear, and a room to live in. Like the cattle herding baby once interviewed by a reporter, herding cattle in order to make money, making money to build a house, building a house in order to marry a daughter-in-law, marrying a daughter-in-law in order to give birth to a baby, giving birth to a baby, and then herding cattle... I do not understand such a life, although I cannot deny it, but I cannot tolerate the life of a serf under the yoke of fate. Living without spiritual pursuit is like a starry sky that has never been bright, but it is lonely in the vast universe over and over again. However, in fact, it is my own understanding of "alive" that has been narrow. All those who are working hard to stay alive are honorable people, brave and strong. "Alive" itself is the best interpretation of life, a complete and vivid embodiment of life, not a mere material life, this is the life of wealth. The ill-fated fate of wealth worries everyone's heart, and reading his story will cause heartache, sadness, warmth, strength, anger, and peace. As a rich child, he has the loud name of "rich", but because of his gambling addiction, he ruined his family, and his old father became the first relative to leave Fugui. The wealth that had been reduced to a peasant also had an epiphany, and he was determined to be a down-to-earth person and change his appearance. So his wife who left home took her newborn young son home to reunite with him. Life was miserable and poor, but the rich mother said that as long as everyone was together, it would be fine. The dilapidated home began to come to life and live steadily. But where could a stable life be allowed in the era of war and chaos - the rich were captured and charged in the army. He was gone for two years, and his family heard from him. And the riches who survived in the heap of the dead on the battlefield finally returned home with the optimism that it was lucky to be alive. The joy of the reunion is indescribable, but the departure of the mother makes the rich and noble's heart ache. "But it's better to live than anything, just to live." An unpretentious family of four began a new era of life. Life is still poor, but it is simply satisfied by everyone's mutual support. However, bad luck once again befell the family - son Youqing was forgotten because the irresponsible nurse drew too much blood. This time, the young life left Fugui. The family is heartbroken and sad, but the times are still moving forward, and the days continue to go as always, fortunately, there is still Feng Xia. But Fengxia, when Zhenfugui was immersed in the joy of a new birth for Feng Xia to conceive and give birth, fate gave Fugui a thunderbolt on a sunny day and took away his only daughter. Feng Xia left, and her son-in-law Erxi also died of a work injury a few years later. Jiazhen, who accompanied the rich from beginning to end, also left the world with illness. Only Fengxia's son Kugen remained. Life is still hard, but the grandfather and grandson depend on each other, so that the rich still have a support. The cruelest thing is that Kugen actually left Fugui in the end. All the relatives left Fugui one after another, but Fugui was still alive, and an old buffalo accompanied him and lived together. It's hard to imagine how Fugui came out of the tribulation again and again and became strong. "Alive" may only write a story of tragic fate, a life of suffering for a person. But it's extraordinarily powerful. Because living is much more than that. Wealth is strong. A simple heart to live well is the best companion in his life. What do people live for, and what does it represent to live. Of all the words about life, the word alive is perhaps the best explanation for itself. The life of wealth is the most powerful proof of life, even if he is alone and lonely in the end, he is still trying to "live". Hope is something that Fugui never gives up like "living". Whether facing the threat of death on the battlefield closest to death, or watching the living smile of his beloved children turn into a permanently stiff nostalgia, Fugui has never given up on living. What kind of great strength is enough to support him to continue living. The parents are gone, and there are family treasures and children, they need wealth; You Qing and Feng Xia are gone, and there are Jiazhen and Kugen, they need wealth; Jiazhen and Kugen are also gone, what else does Fugui have, and who else needs him? Only the fate that remained with him was inseparable, which made him love and hate, encouraged him but also took away his happiness. As the author said, this is a friendship between a person and his destiny, which is the most touching friendship. "They walk together on dusty roads when they are alive, and turn into rain and dirt together when they die".When their loved ones are there, Fugui lives, in order to bring hope to the family who need him, and after everyone leaves, they live, in order to bring comfort to the dead. This is also the most touching part of "Alive". Death is always inevitable, but that family affection will be more eternal than death. Some people will be immersed in grief after loss and stagnate; Some people will turn loss into another indescribable force of life and move forward bravely. Rich is brave. Those relatives who have accompanied Fugui to share joy and sorrow, those who support and encourage each other in the most desperate times, and those who have endured hardships but still choose to be strong, have all turned into a tenacious faith, so that Fugui can face life calmly in fate and live well. The beauty of life is that as long as wealth is there, everyone lives in his heart and never goes away. To live, for hope, for strength, for the struggle of fate, for the attachment to life, for the love that does not leave the loved ones, for living. This is our strength to live, to bear the weight of life, all suffering and splendor, optimism about life. To be alive is to be happy.
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"Alive" tells the story of an old man named Xu Fugui...
He was a rich child with a good background, but because of gambling and going to a brothel, he lost more than 100 acres of land left by his ancestors, and also won out the big house where his ancestors had lived for generations. His father became seriously ill because of his son's indisputability, and finally fell to his death because he fell from a dung tank at the entrance of the village. Since then, he has changed from a young master of a wealthy family to a tenant who wants to rent land from others; He began to repent and wanted to feed his family with his own hands. His mother also grew old and ended up seriously ill. His wife took some silver rounds and asked him to go to the city to invite Langzhong. But Langzhong did not succeed, but was forced by a small company commander of the Kuomintang to pull the cannon, and became an artilleryman who did not know whether he could see the sun tomorrow. The life of the artillerymen was hard, and they had to scramble for food. Fortunately, after meeting two friends, life will not be too boring. The artillery of their company never fought, but groups of people died every day. Finally, he and his other friend Chunsheng survived the liberation of the whole country, and he took the entanglement given by the head of the Communist Party and embarked on a journey home. He went home. In the past two years of playing with his life, he has been thinking about this small hut all the time. He saw his daughter, his son, and his wife, whom he thought about day and night. That night he couldn't sleep at night, hugging his wife at the door and looking at the stars all night, thinking: I'm back. This is where the miserable life begins. His mother died more than two months after he left, and now he is raising two children with his wife. But his son Xu Youqing wanted to study after all, and the family's food rations became a problem. His daughter Xu Fengxia had a high fever when she was a child, leaving sequelae, and has since become deaf and dumb, otherwise no one will come to mention relatives when she is of the age of marriage. Therefore, he discussed with his wife to give his daughter away. Although his wife was reluctant, she was also forced by life to give her daughter to work with an old couple. His daughter secretly ran back, but when he sent her back to the city, when it was almost time, he suddenly felt sorry for his daughter: his daughter was very sensible, and he was reluctant to give it away. So, he carried his daughter home. That night, he told his wife: "Even if the whole family starves to death, they will not send Feng Xia back." "The family is struggling to live on a meagre income. Although poor, he never abandoned the warmest side of human nature. However, bad news followed. His wife suffered from osteomalacia, which was incurable at the time, and gradually became unable to work, became unable to walk, and finally could not hold even a needle. His wife had thought she would leave the family first. But what they didn't expect was that their son was only 10 years old, and he returned to the West at a young age. The wife of the county governor of their village was bleeding heavily when she gave birth and was in urgent need of a blood transfusion. But no one's blood type matches. As it happened, his son's blood type happened to be the same, so the doctor began to draw blood. Originally, minors are not allowed to donate blood, and there is a certain limit on the amount of blood donated. However, doctors at that time were extremely irresponsible, so to speak, and had no morality at all. As soon as this blood was drawn, it couldn't stop. His poor son Xu Youqing was drained of blood alive and died. Burying his son, he never dared to tell his wife. But in the end his wife found out and cried heartbroken. Time is the best medicine to cure heart disease, and gradually, thinking of their son is only sad. They began to worry about how to find a good wife and marry off their daughter. Finally, with the help of fellow villagers, his daughter Feng Xia married a good husband. Although his daughter is deaf and mute, his son-in-law still loves his daughter very much. Soon, his daughter became pregnant. This is a happy event, but it seems that when they arrive at their home, it becomes a funeral event. When his daughter gave birth, she also lost forever because of heavy bleeding. The daughter gave birth to a boy. His wife saw that her grandson was so pitiful, just born without a mother, so she named this baby boy "Kugen". Soon after, she also died. His son-in-law has taken Kugen seriously since his daughter's death. His son-in-law is a porter who carries bitter roots on his back every day. Well, when Kugen could speak, walk by himself, and play by himself, Kugen's father also left his life and returned to the West: his son-in-law was crushed alive by two spans of cement slabs, and the whole person was flattened and became a puddle of meat sauce! He took on the responsibility of raising his little grandson. Kugen grew up day by day, and gradually became sensible, and would help his grandfather do some work in the fields. This naturally made him very happy. But the sky was not satisfactory, Kugen once had a high fever, but he didn't know it, and when the burn was severe, he knew that his grandson was sick. At that time, the family was so poor that Ben had no money to buy medicine. Hearing that ginger soup could cure colds and high fevers, he went to get a bowl of ginger soup. But some people felt that this was too bitter and spicy, so they borrowed a little sugar from the villagers. Originally, he wanted to pay it back, but others knew his family's situation, pity him, and told him to forget it. My grandson naturally got much better after drinking ginger soup. He felt guilty that his grandson didn't know that he was sick. So I cooked the beans overnight and put them on the table, and put some salt. His poor little grandson was supported to death because of such a bowl of beans! Since then, such a poor family has broken up like this, and he is the only one still alive. So he bought an old cow that was supposed to be slaughtered as a companion. "Two old immortals" just lived an ordinary life ... If someone encounters such a life treatment, he must not want to look back. But this old man is still so detailed with the author, as if he is living such a life. Not to mention this, many people, when they encounter a little setback in life, shout "can't live", not to mention the difficulty encountered by the elderly: burying all their relatives with their own hands. But the old man still lived, and lived a full and happy life. So all the difficulties we encounter can be solved, and we can't be a timid snail. Presumably, this is the life principle that the author Yu Hua wants to tell us. Just like the title of the book - "Alive". You know, to live is to create life.
Part of it comes from the Dictionary Composition Network