Author: Yu Hua
Category: novels
Publishing House: Writers Publishing House
Release date: 20 12.08
Douban score: 9.4 points
Yu Hua, 1960 was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province on April 3, and is a contemporary writer.
Member of the 9th National Committee of Chinese Writers Association.
1977 After graduating from high school, he entered Beijing Luxun College of Literature for further study.
1983 began to create, and entered the Haiyan Cultural Center in Zhejiang Province in the same year.
1984 began to publish novels. Living and Xu Sanguan Selling Blood were selected as the ten most influential works in the 1990s by hundreds of critics and literary editors.
1998 won the Italian Greenzana Carver Literature Prize.
In 2005, he won the China Book Special Contribution Award.
Living (new edition) tells the tragic life experience of rural people.
Fu Gui was originally a rich young master, but he was addicted to gambling and eventually lost all his property, leaving him penniless.
His father was angry with him and his mother was seriously ill and poor. Fu Gui went to ask for medicine, but he was arrested as a able-bodied man by the Kuomintang on the way.
When I got home after many twists and turns, I realized that my mother had already passed away, and my wife's family had worked hard to raise two children.
Since then, more tragic fate has befallen Fu Gui again and again. His wife, children and grandchildren died one after another. Finally, Fu Gui and an old cow were left alone, but the old man was still alive, as if he were more free and powerful than before.
Alive (New Edition) won Greenzana, Italy? The highest prize of Carver Literature Award (1998), Taiwan Province China Times 10 Good Book Award (1994), Hong Kong Boyi 15 Good Book Award (1994), and the 3rd World Chinese Bingxin Literature Award.
(Preface P 1) Let him really know himself in his heart. Once he knows himself, he knows the world.
(Preface P4) People live for living itself, not for anything other than living.
(Preface P5) As a word, "alive" is full of power in our China language. Its strength does not come from shouting or attacking, but from enduring, enduring the responsibility given by life, enduring the happiness and pain given by reality, boredom and mediocrity.
(Preface P7) Life is a person's feeling about his own experience, while survival is often a bystander's view of others' experience.
(Preface P 10) Nothing is more convincing than time, because time can change everything without telling us.
(Preface P 13) People's experiences and desires, as well as imagination and understanding, will eliminate all different boundaries and make a person feel his own destiny from experience. It's like seeing your own image in a different mirror.
(Preface P 15) Sometimes reality is fabricated, and sometimes fiction suddenly becomes reality.
(Preface P 16) We are all lost in this world, and we are all looking for our own direction. Maybe we are right, maybe we are wrong, or sometimes we are right and sometimes we are wrong. Before China's final judgment, before the birth and death of ancient Rome, none of us knew what was waiting for us in the time ahead.
(Preface P 17) Life belongs to each of us, not others' opinions.
(P3 1) As long as people live happily, they are not afraid of poverty.
He likes to look back and talk about himself. It seems that in this way, he can live seriously again and again.
(P67) As long as the family is together every day, they don't care about the blessings.
(P 126) The moonlight shines on the ground, as if it were sprinkled with salt.
(P 134) We have experienced a lot in our life. People will mature, just like pears, and they will fall from trees.
(P 157) No matter how big a person's life is, he can't live if he wants to die.
(P 165) People, no matter how much they suffered when they were alive, will find ways to comfort themselves when they are dying.
(184) Teenagers wander, middle-aged people stubbornly want to hide, and old people become monks.
When you find it difficult and tiring to live, you must read this book carefully, which will give you strength and courage when you go through the hardships of life.
To be alive is an American folk song, The Old Slave. The old slave experienced a lifetime of suffering, and his family left him first, but he still treated the world well without saying a word. The song deeply touched the author, so he decided to write this novel.
Write about people's tolerance for suffering and optimism about the world.
Fu Gui, the hero of the novel, also experienced the hardships of the old slaves in his songs. He has experienced extraordinary sufferings, but he is still strong and alive.
Yu Hua, the author, recalled his life to the author in the way of the protagonist Fu Gui's self-report, and told the history of China in the 20th century in the tone of Fu Gui.
Before Fu Gui's family came down, his family had 100 mu of land, and he and his father were both famous rich young men. Because he lost all his property by gambling, he was as poor as a church mouse.
His father mortgaged 100 acres of land and houses, and people sent copper coins to Fu Gui to pay off his debts.
When Fu Gui picked out all the copper coins to pay off his debts, his silk clothes were worn out and blood oozed from his shoulders, which made him understand why his father wanted copper coins instead of silver dollars, just to let him know this truth and that money is extremely difficult.
After that, Fu Gui's family moved out of the house where several generations lived, moved into the hut and lived a poor life.
His father died after the family moved to the cabin. Fu Gui thought his father was angry with himself. Mother was poor due to illness, and Fu Gui was arrested by the Kuomintang when she went to town for medical treatment.
Later, I went to an unknown village surrounded by the People's Liberation Army. I experienced hunger, cold and bullets, and watched countless casualties in the war. Death is approaching him step by step, and I can't see the hope of life. When I thought I wouldn't live until noon, he and other living people were captured. The PLA sent them food and brought them home money.
He finally came home after many twists and turns, and saw that his wife and a pair of children were alive and well, but his mother died.
Fu Gui, who survived on the battlefield, did not answer the sentence "If you survive, you will be blessed". Since then, tragic fate has befallen him again and again.
His son, Youqing, was bled to death for donating blood to the county magistrate's wife who gave birth to the child. It really hurts to see that Youqing, who is kind-hearted, donated blood with the enthusiasm of saving people, but was drawn alive. The doctor didn't take it seriously, just scolded the blood-drawing people for fooling around.
What is even more irritating is that when Fu Gui went to the hospital to find Youqing, the doctor said to him, "Why do you only have one son?"
In this way, this young life will always be fixed at the age of fifth grade. The sentence in the book "Moonlight on the road seems to be full of salt" tells all the sadness and grief.
His daughter Xia Feng had a high fever when she was a child, and she was deaf and dumb. When Xia Feng was twelve or thirteen years old, she had to give her away to others in order to save some money for school. Later, she took Xia Feng home because she couldn't stand it. After that, she finally found a man who loved her, gave birth to a son, but died of postpartum hemorrhage.
Less than three months after Xia Feng's death, his wife Jia Zhen also died of rickets.
His son-in-law, Hill, was accidentally killed by a concrete slab during the handling work, leaving only his 4-year-old son, Kugan.
When Coogan was seven years old, because he said he was dizzy and rich, he felt sorry for him, so he picked half a pot of fresh beans for him to eat. When he came home from work in the field, he found that Coogan's lips were blue. He died because he ate beans. The children in the village are better off than Coogan, because they seldom eat beans and cook too much, but Coogan died without thinking.
Watching his relatives die one by one, he gave all the burials and buried them himself. In the end, he was left alone. After repeated painful blows, he did not lose the will to live, and he still firmly faced life.
The year after Kugan's death, he had enough money to buy cattle. Fu Gui thinks he still wants to buy cattle. Cattle can work for him and have a companion when he is free.
He bought an old cow with tears waiting to be slaughtered from a shirtless man who was sharpening a knife, and gave the old cow similar to him a Fu Gui name. Since then, he has lived together with the old cow.
Fu Gui had happiness and joy in his miserable life. He believes that his wife is the best wife in the world, and his children are also the best children in the world, as well as his son-in-law, his grandson, the old cow named Fu Gui, his friends together, and the little things in life. ...
Fortunately, he narrowly escaped death in the battlefield of bullets; When he found a home in the village to find the treasure house of boiling steel, his wife survived because she knew Mr. Feng Shui. Coincided with the land reform, Long Er, who succeeded his local owner, became his scapegoat.
Fu Gui's miserable life, after repeated blows and the death of his relatives, only the living can understand the meaning of living.
No matter how difficult you encounter, you must have the spirit and courage to live.
When he came home from the battlefield, he said to himself, "Now you must live well." . When his relatives left him one after another, he said, "Sometimes I feel sad, sometimes I feel practical." Because my family left before him, he didn't care about anyone and looked down on everything.
His ups and downs of life are like waves on the sea, and finally he returns to peace.
He accepted all the misfortunes of fate calmly. Sick and sick, suffering in life is the normal state of life, as long as you live, you must live well. This reminds me of a sentence: even if the wind is strong, life will not give up.
People live for living itself, not for anything other than living.
Yu Hua, the author, said, "Being alive as a word is full of power in our China language. Its strength does not come from shouting or attacking, but from enduring, enduring the responsibility given by life, enduring the happiness and pain given by reality, boredom and mediocrity. "
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