Introduction and impressions of "Alive"

Yu Hua's novel "Alive" is the story of Xu Fugui and his family. The protagonist Xu Fugui has experienced a lifetime of suffering, his family has left him one after another, and he still lives in this world in a friendly way.

The last to accompany Fugui was an old cow, this cow was an old cow that Xu Fugui saved from the butcher with his savings for a long time, Xu Fugui bought it because he could not bear the old cow being slaughtered, and also named the old cow "Fugui". Since then, in that poor and remote area, there have always been two "fugui" who are accompanied by each other, working at sunrise and resting at sunset...

Xu Fugui was originally born in the old society of the "landlord" family, the family has many fields, houses, tenants and servants. Because of the problem of gambling and prostitution, he gambled and lost all the houses and fields in his family. Since then, the family has fallen, and the family has no place to live. The old father was killed alive. Fortunately, this "loser son" of the Xu family changed his past mistakes and used his diligent hands to barely support the family with his hard-working hands on the leased land. Soon after, when Xu Fugui went to the county town to catch medicine for his old mother, he was arrested by the Kuomintang as a "Zhuang Ding", experienced nine deaths in the battlefield, and was released by the Red Army prisoners, after two years, Fugui finally returned to his hometown. The old mother in the family has long since died of illness, and the well-behaved and sensible daughter Fengxia has also become deaf and dumb due to high fever and no money for treatment. Originally, I thought that fugui, who was not dead, would slowly improve her poor life after returning to her family. But at this moment, the disaster had just arrived. An accident cost his son, who was about twelve or thirteen years old and had just entered the fifth grade, with his life. His son Xu Youqing died on the spot because of a blood transfusion to the county magistrate's wife who was bleeding heavily during childbirth, and where could the malnourished child withstand the big draw? What a hateful thing! His wife, who suffers from "hypochondriasis", is overwhelmed, and her already weak body is even more dying. Daughter Fengxia reached the age of talking about marriage, because she was deaf and dumb, she could not find her in-laws. Finally, with the help of the captain, he found a son-in-law Wan Erxi, who was a porter. The daughter and son-in-law are diligent and frugal in running the family, and although the life is hard, it is also happy. However, unfortunately, her daughter Fengxia died of heavy bleeding after giving birth to her son Bitterroot. After learning the bad news of her daughter's death, her wife Jiazhen was overwhelmed physically and mentally and also fell.

The only people in this mutilated family were Xu Fugui, his son-in-law Wan Erxi, and his grandson Bitter root. The roof leaked during the overnight rain, and the son-in-law was killed by two rows of cement plates hoisted by the crane while carrying cement boards at the construction site. Since then, only Xu Fugui and his grandson Bitter Root have been left to rely on each other for their lives. In the barren and barren land, you can always see the figure of the grandfather and grandson bending over the waist to work in the field. Don't look at Bitterroot, although he is small, only five years old, but he is already a good helper for grandpa. The hard and poor days are also quiet and peaceful because of the company of a grandson who can speak the tao and understand things. In the blink of an eye, Bitterroot was seven years old. Once, Fugui was in a hurry to pick cotton that was about to be damaged by the rain, and he could not take care of the bitterroot, who was sick and feverish, and after boiling a large basket of beans for the bitterroot, he was busy. After Fugui returned from picking cotton, he found that Bitterroot's lips were blue and there was no heartbeat. Bitterroot was just too hungry to eat too many beans to die. Such a poor little life just came to an end, and people couldn't help but sigh and sigh at the cruelty of God at the same time!

Fugui, who has experienced a lifetime of suffering, watched his family leave one after another, and only spent the rest of his life silently with his family's memories and the old cow...

"Alive" is written about the suffering of peasant life and the historical portrayal of old China. From the wage-labor relationship between landlords and tenants before liberation – the guerrilla warfare between the Kuomintang and the Communists – to the cauldron period of the people's communes after liberation – the Cultural Revolution was set off throughout the country. All of them make people think deeply and lament the hardships of Chinese peasant life in the past, we

Only cherishing the hard-won life now is the best interpretation of living...