When it comes to Yu Hua's "Alive", there will be such a question, why do people live?
Mr. Lu Xun wrote in "Tomb":
I only know one end for sure: the grave. However, this is known to all, and no one needs to guide it. The problem is on the road from here to there. Of course, there is more than one, and I don't know which one is good, although I still seek it sometimes.
It can be seen from this that Mr. Lu Xun is also pursuing the meaning of life and trying to live a good life.
He also said: I read the books of Confucius and Mencius the earliest and most familiarly, but it seems to have nothing to do with me. Most of them are also lazy, and they tend to forgive themselves, thinking that there are always many intermediaries in the transformation of everything.
Yes, if we can't find the meaning of life, then we can only be regarded as an intermediary.
Mr. Shen Congwen said in "Who is not limited by time": The same value of living is to live for dozens of years, and finally wait to be collected by the coffin, buried by the loess, and cleaned up by maggots. But how to survive these dozens of years is another problem. Some people seem to be able to jump out of this time limit and live in eternal time, which is worth thinking about.
That is to say: some people have the same pattern of life, and the beginning to the end is very patterned;Others live in eternal time.
This may be the fulfillment of Mr. Lu Xun's words: some people are alive and they are dead;Some are dead, and he's still alive.
So what enlightenment does Mr. Yu Hua's "Alive" give us?
1. As long as people live happily, they are not afraid of poverty.
2. As long as the family is together every day, they don't care about any blessings.
3. It's better to be a normal person, fight for this and that, and fight for your life. Like me, the more mixed it is, the more useless it becomes, but the life is long, and the people I know are dying one by one, and I'm still alive.
4. Don't be confused, the dead still want to come back to life, you can't die as a big living person.
5. Man lives for the sake of life itself, not for anything other than life.
I don't think Fugui is just the person named Fugui.
Fugui is a loser, the rest of his life after the war, the loss of children and daughters, and even the cattle that ploughed the fields, these are not the misfortunes of Fugui alone, but the epitome of the suffering of that era.