The book "Alive" is about an old man who tells his own life.
The old man's name is Xu Fugui, born in a landlord's family, idle, with the family business of 100 acres of land, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling everything, and finally losing because of "gambling" and bankruptcy.
Xu Fugui grew up at the moment when his family went bankrupt, and then the death of his father forced him to shoulder the burden of life.
In order to live, Xu Fugui learned to bow to Brother Long, who won his own property, and changed from a young master of a landlord's family to a farmer who rented land and farmed. Turning from a landlord's son to a tenant farmer was not the biggest obstacle in his life.
In the days when he was growing up, he experienced being arrested and strong, his mother died, his daughter was deaf and dumb, his wife was seriously ill, his son died because of a medical accident to save people, his daughter died in childbirth, his wife died of illness, his son-in-law had an accident at the construction site, and his grandson fell ill and died.
The old man rescued an old cow from the butcher's hand, and he took the name "Fugui", which was exactly the same as his own name. In his old age, the old man was still lonely and not lonely and "lived".
The hardships did not break him, and he still smiled vividly in the face of the young man who accosted him.
Fugui's life can be said to be extremely miserable, but you will find that the wealth at the beginning of his life did not bring him happiness. And those passers-by who appeared in his life and soared were suddenly destroyed by the times when they were most proud.
Does the meaning of life lie in smooth happiness and the so-called "getting better and better"?
Not necessarily. When he was young, Fugui was addicted to brothels and gambling, but he didn't know what he wanted, he didn't know what he wanted to do, and he didn't know what the meaning of living in this world was.
But it wasn't until he ruined the family's fortune and his father died that the entire Xu family fell into turmoil and unrest, when he made a long atonement for what he had doneWhen all the superficial happiness disappeared, he realized in an instant what responsibility and responsibility are.
I even feel that the blessing of having nothing at this moment can be called a kind of happiness.
As he said, "Jiazhen is right, as long as the family is together every day, they don't care about any blessings." ”
At this moment, Fugui has actually obtained from the suffering the happiness that he had never felt in the luxurious life before.
We are living lightly now, but we are empty and bored, and sometimes, it is the weight of those lives that makes us truly feel alive.
When a person goes through all kinds of hardships in life, and he still lives tenaciously, then he is an extraordinary person, this extraordinary, so that he can withstand the blows that come one after another, so that he can have the courage to be reborn after the catastrophe, and the protagonist Fugui is this kind of person. In such a special era, the fate of the individual is the epitome of the times, and in the background of that era when all living beings are suffering, in the merciless destruction of fate, I read the tenacity of life from Yu Hua's words, even if I watched my relatives leave in trembling, I stubbornly grasped a glimmer of hope, did not lose my life, and did not succumb to fate.
* At the end, Fugui led the old cow and walked away, the smoke rose in the countryside of the field, and Fugui's song came:
"The young man wanders, the middle-aged wants to dig the hide, and the old man becomes a monk. ”
To live, not only to endure the pain and suffering of life, but also to endure all the possible chaos and absurdity, perhaps, this is the idea that ** wants to convey to us:
Man lives for the sake of being alive itself, not for anything other than being alive.
Yu Hua's "Alive" is a classic that must be read in lifeIt tells you that man lives for the sake of being alive, not for anything other than being alive.
At each stage, the goal and direction of life are different, so the blessing of old age is in silence and lonelinessBe in the company of old cows.
A person of this age lives for the sake of living, he does not have to live for himself, nor does he have to live for his family, but for the sake of living.
Even after going through life and death, and encountering many unimaginable hardships for ordinary people, Fugui never gave up his life. Instead, I chose to live well, with a calm attitude, and live every day of my life in a down-to-earth manner.
It turns out that "Alive" is the best luck and the greatest courage.
Life should not stop pursuing a challenge, life is difficult, Fugui is a portrayal of ordinary life, every blow, he has survived strongly, when hovering on the edge of pain, it is better to hold on, he has been happy, has been happy, enough.
I have read the book "Alive" many times, and every time I have a deep understanding and am deeply touched.
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