"Alive" The relationship between people and life and death, to be strong and alive is to live"Death" is a bright line that runs through "Alive".
An American folk song "Old Black Slave", the old black slave in the song has experienced a lifetime of suffering, his family has gone before him, and he still treats the world kindly, without a word of complaint.
Old black slaves"Repay the pain with songs"The spirit of optimism prompted Yu Hua to create "Alive".
Fugui experienced bankruptcy, the death of his parents, the death of his children, the death of his wife, and the loss of his son-in-law and grandson, but Fugui still survived.
When Youqing died, Fugui said to his parents underground: Parents, after Youqing goes, you treat him well, and I treat him badly when he is alive.
When Jiazhen died of illness, Fugui said that Jiazhen died well, and died peacefully and cleanly. Fugui was more mixed when he was young, and he did a lot of things that were sorry for Jiazhen.
Youqing is gone, and he doesn't have to suffer. Jiazhen is gone, walking peacefully, not like some women in the village, who are still gossiping when they die.
Feng Xia left, but she left Fugui with bitter roots and sustenance for Fugui.
Feng Xia's death was exchanged for the birth of bitter roots, and life and death were inherently linked in Fugui's eyes.
The bitter root is also gone, Fugui's last relative is gone, Fugui's last sustenance is gone, and Fugui is left with an old cow.
His relatives passed away one after another, but Fugui was not defeated, he refused to die with life, and survived strongly, and he had a thorough open-mindedness and detachment towards life and death.
He loved and revered life, and his fate kept approaching him, and he kept moving away from death with a strong will to live.
The old black slave and Fugui are two different people, different times and different countries, but sometimes they are like the same person. Their attitude towards life and death is the same, perhaps this is another meaning of life that Yu Hua wants to express: death is inevitable, and a strong will to live is to face a new life.
In the end, I seemed to see Fugui rushing to "Fugui", shouting in his mouth, "Today, Youqing and Erxi have ploughed one acre, Jiazhen and Fengxia have ploughed seven or eight fields, and the bitter roots are still small and have been ploughed half an acre." Well, I won't say how much you've cultivated, and you'll think I'm ashamed of you if you say it. Then again, you're old, and you're doing your best to be able to cultivate so many fields. “
Martin Heidegger said in Being and Time:"When you are infinitely close to death, you can deeply appreciate the meaning of life. "
In the turbulent second half of his life, after experiencing the pain of nine deaths and a lifetime, Fugui in the dying years of the curtain knew what was true"Fugui"。
Birth, old age, sickness and death, struggling to resist, trying their best, may only get a 10% chance of survival. They never ask what the meaning of being alive is, because being alive is meaning in itself.
All the people in "I Am Not the God of Medicine" are asking about this meaning.
For Fugui too, it is meaningful to live.
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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