The name Yu Hua is not unfamiliar to people who love literature. His works such as "Alive" and "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" are classics in contemporary Chinese literature, and their unique narrative techniques and profound revelations of human nature have won the love of readers.
What many people may not know is that Yu Hua did not choose to write in the first place. He was born in an ordinary family in Haiyan, Zhejiang, with a father who was a doctor and a mother who was a nurse. When he was a child, the clinic at home was his "playground", and all kinds of patients came in and out every day, which also gave him his first contact with humanity.
Later, Yu Hua was admitted to the Department of Stomatology of Shanghai Second Medical University and became a dentist. However, it was here that he also began to think about life and began to try to record his life in words. In his writing, both the suffering of patients and the trivialities of life become vivid and real.
In 1983, Yu Hua published his first novel, Dusk, and began his creative career. In the decades that followed, he continued to explore the nature of human nature and social issues, showing the impermanence of life and the warmth and coldness of the world through vivid characters and plots.
Among them, "Alive" is undoubtedly Yu Hua's most well-known work. This novel focuses on the life course of Fugui, an ordinary farmer, and shows the changes in his life and personal destiny during the war. The questions of life and death, parting, illness and pain in the book have deeply touched the hearts of many readers.
In addition to his great achievements in the literary world, Yu Hua has also been praised for his perseverance and persistent artistic pursuits. He once said, "I don't write for the sake of writing, but because I want to express." This sentence also reflects his attitude towards his work and his understanding of art.
Yu Hua is an innovative writer whose work is imbued with humanistic concern and social criticism. Although his life experiences are rich and varied, he has always maintained a sensitive heart and a keen eye to capture all the details of life and translate them into the language of art. This is also the reason why his works have attracted so much attention and repercussions.