19 years ago, Yu Hua's most famous novel was made into a TV series, and I couldn't stop crying when I revisited 33 episodes

In 2005, Liu Mintao, who was not yet famous, starred in a TV series, and many viewers watched it crying.

It is based on Yu Hua's most famous novel "Alive", adapted from the ceiling of the national drama "Fugui".

When it comes to this drama today, many people must still remember the scene of shedding tears with Fugui back then.

Especially seeing the tragic episodes of his parents, wife and son-in-law dying one after another, it is really difficult not to cry.

When I was a child, I thought that Fugui, who was constantly losing his relatives, was a pitiful person, but 19 years later, after rewatching 33 episodes in one go, I found that he was not only pitiful but also very happy.

Why is this tragic figure who has lost a loved one happy?

Next, let's reveal the secret happiness code hidden in "Fugui", and see how Fugui established a touching friendship with his tragic fate.

If you always care about other people's opinions and feel that life is hard and difficult, believe me, after reading Fugui's story, you are likely to reconcile with yourself.

Fugui played by Chen Chuang, who was originally a broad young master of the landlord's family, and more than 100 acres of fertile land in Xujiachuan were all inherited by his ancestors.

Because of the wealth of his family and his father's old age, Fugui has lived in a honey pot since he was a child, and he has developed a stubborn stinky problem.

My father used good tribute rice and invited Mr. Teaching to discipline Fugui.

But Fugui either bullied his classmates or played tricks on the teacher, and the miasma of smoke in the classroom was so angry that Mr. Teaching would rather withdraw the rice than continue to teach him.

At this time, the villagers, who had been cut off from food due to the locust plague, planned to go to the city to dance the flower drum lantern to beg for food, and the playful Fugui also followed.

Who would have thought about it, Fugui met two people at once, who were enough to change the fate of the rest of his life.

The first is the treasure that brings good luck to Fugui.

Jiazhen is the daughter of Chen Jimi's luggage shopkeeper, and she fell in love with Fugui at first sight who danced the "big orchid", and finally insisted on marrying Fugui against her father's wishes.

The other is Ryuuji, who brought bad luck to Fugui.

Long Er traveled south and north to see a lot of knowledge, but he pretended to have a bad stomach, he saw through Fugui's stupid money at a glance, so he deliberately got close to him, and finally defrauded Fugui of all his family property.

At this point, Fugui began the second half of his tragic life.

First, his father was angry with him, and then the whole family was blasted out of the ancestral house and lived in a dilapidated house with ventilation on all sides.

In the past, Fugui, who did not touch the spring water with his ten fingers and relied on people's backs to walk, had to go to the ground himself and work with his own hands to support his family.

Seeing that the crops were prosperous, the family's life finally improved, but who knew that the will of heaven would make people, and Fugui was actually treated as a strong man and forcibly arrested to fight.

After two years of walking, Fugui did not think about his mother, wife and children for a day, but escaped the rain of bullets on the battlefield, and as soon as Fugui returned home, he heard the bad news that his mother died and his daughter became deaf and mute.

The parents died one after another, the daughter was disabled again, and the rich and noble heart was also bitter, but for the sake of Jiazhen and his son, life had to go on.

During this period, in order to let his son Youqing go to school, his daughter Fengxia was almost sold to an old couple as a servant, but fortunately, Fugui insisted and finally asked her daughter back.

In this way, Fugui and Jiazhen worked together, and the family lived a stable life for a few years.

It's just that the good times didn't last long, and the turmoil that happened next still made the father-in-law starve to death, and the wife fell ill because of malnutrition.

But what really made Fugui lose his head overnight was the unexpected death of his son Youqing.

Because the principal had a dystocia and hemorrhage, the hospital went to the school and called Teacher Hu to ask an adult for help, and the kind-hearted Youqing also wanted to save people, so he took advantage of the chaos to go with him.

Unexpectedly, the irresponsible nurse took advantage of Mr. Hu's absence to drain Youqing's blood.

Teacher Hu, who went to the hospital with Youqing, is Fengxia's object.

It stands to reason that Youqing's death has nothing to do with him, but Mr. Hu still feels shameless in the face of Youqing's family, so he left quietly.

Overnight, Fugui lost his son and son-in-law.

The successive heavy injuries aggravated his wife Jiazhen's condition, and also caused Feng Xia's mental problems.

Fortunately, a dance expert came to the village at this time, taught Fengxia to dance, and brought her a chance to treat her deaf and mute.

People cannot be resurrected from death, but those who are alive must live well.

So, curing Fengxia's deafness and mute became the hope of Fugui's family to live well, but this hope did not last long before it was dashed.

Feng Xia's deaf and mute disease was not cured in the end, but the favor of fate still allowed her to find a lover.

With the blessing of her parents, Feng Xia married Erxi, a man from the city, Erxi was a lame, but he was lame and lame, and he was generous and optimistic, which made the Fugui family regain a lot of laughter.

Erxi built a house for Fugui's family, built a pigsty, and bought piglets and chickens, which was too good for Fengxia to say.

It's a pity that Erxi is good but not long-lived, the night Feng Xia gave birth, he rushed back to report the good news to his mother-in-law, fell into the river at the head of the village, and drowned.

Before he died, Erxi didn't have time to take a look at his newborn son Kugen.

In this way, Fugui's family suffered a heavy blow again.

Seeing his daughter, who couldn't speak, threw herself into the arms of his bedridden wife and cried bitterly, Fugui's heart was like being crushed and sprinkled with a handful of salt, and there was nothing that didn't hurt.

But no matter how hard the days are, they still have to go on.

Fortunately, with the help of Erxi's former workers, Feng Xia was called back to the city to replace Erxi's position, Feng Xia's money from work, plus the harvest of Fugui's farming, it is not a problem to feed the bitter roots.

The bitter root is getting bigger day by day, and the joy lost by the Fugui family has finally returned.

But God didn't fulfill people's wishes, Feng Xia was actually killed by the stone slab falling from the construction site when she was at work, and once again faced the pain of the white-haired person sending the black-haired person, Fugui's tears dried up.

In the end, even Jiazhen, who has been accompanying Fugui to face the ups and downs of life, is also ahead of Fugui.

In Yu Hua's original novel, the final ending is that Bitter Root also choked to death because of eating beans, but in the TV series, Bitter Root still ate beans without accidents.

When I saw this ending when I was a child, I thought that the survival of the bitter root was the only ray of light in Fugui's tragic life.

But looking back at this drama, I found that Fugui's life was wanton and wonderful, even if there was no survival of bitter roots, Fugui could still recall many sweet moments in his seemingly tragic life.

This also goes back to the question raised at the beginning of the article, why is Fugui, a tragic character, happy?

If you look at it from an outsider's point of view, his father died of anger, his mother died of illness, his children died, and his wife died before him, which is clearly a hard-working person.

But this is just a result that others have seen in a summary in a few words, and only Fugui has spent his life completely and truly.

Others may think that Fugui's life is very miserable, but the hidden happiness code in "Fugui" is: in Fugui's own opinion, his life is very happy.

In Yu Hua's words, the most touching friendship has been established between Fugui and his fate.

They are grateful to each other and hate each other at the same time, but neither of them can abandon the other, they walk together on dusty roads when they live and turn into rain and dirt together when they die.

Fugui's life is indeed full of changes and accidents, but we can't ignore the happy times in his life.

He had a wanton and stubborn youth, but he never lost his good nature, he had a father who loved him the most, and he did not hesitate to cut off his fingers in order to lead him to the right path, and he also had a mother who loved him the most, and even when he lost his family property, he still loved him very much.

Of course, he also has the best wife, the best children, and the best son-in-law...... Everyone else only saw the end of their deaths, but they didn't see the good times they spent together.

Yu Hua once said when talking about "Alive" that he did not think Fugui was a tragic figure.

Life will come to an end, just a little earlier and a little later, and whether our life is worth it or not is because of what we experienced, not at the moment when the end of death comes.

Only Fugui is the only person who has experienced his life, and he thinks that his experience is worth it, so his life is happy for him.

Fugui's life is like this, and so is our life.

Don't leave your own standards of happiness to others, and don't forget to remind yourself that happiness is not just a result, but also a process. (Written by: Ye Shi)