Zang Ye continued: "What is told here is a story about death, and what we need to learn is how not to die. "To Be Alive is one such book. While telling the story of death, it also makes the reader think about facing it

How to survive in such a predicament. Yu Hua uses concise, clear and simple words to bring the life of the old farmer Fugui to the palace of literature. His life is a story, a story told by the old farmer Fugui. Both the reader and the author seem to sit next to the old farmer and listen to him tell him about his rough life.

There are no undulating tones, no intense emotions, no frustrated and complaining cries, everything is so calm, so peaceful. The protagonist of the story is obviously the old farmer himself, but "listening and listening" will make you feel that the old farmer is telling someone else's story. Maybe it's because he's too calm, too calm, and the words he says seem to be inconsequential to him, so he thinks about why the old man can be so calm in the face of such a bumpy life? Is it numbness, or something else? I think it's stoic.

The author, Yu Hua, explains "alive" in this way: "Alive, full of power in our Chinese language.

His strength doesn't come from shouting, it doesn't come from attacking. Rather, it is to endure, to endure the responsibilities that life gives us, to endure the happiness and suffering, boredom and mediocrity that reality gives us. ”

"Alive" is a record of Fugui's life, although it is short, it can write Fugui's life vividly and vividly. There are no flowery words, colorful language, no carefully carved and piled up words, and no ups and downs, endless plots. Some are just simple and easy-to-understand sentences, plain and simple words can portray a rich and extraordinary life in plain language.

The life of wealth can be said to be full of disasters and difficulties. Because a series of deaths continued throughout his life. He witnessed how his loved ones went from his side one by one, and he built monuments and tombs for them with his own hands. From his parents to his wife and children to his son-in-law and grandson, from old to young, no one can stay with him for the rest of his life, or no one will clean up the aftermath for him.

In his life, he experienced seven life and death partings with his loved ones, and finally left him alone, living alone. He buried his son, daughter, wife, son-in-law, and seven-year-old grandson, Kugen, with his own hands. The people around him died one by one, but he was not that "lucky". He can only live, because this is his fate, "An old cow will not let her life flee before he has ploughed all the ground, and before a man has carried the burden he should have carried." Whether he wants it or not, he has to stay and live, because this is his fate.

Fugui is alive one by one, and he still chooses to continue to move forward with his pain, even if only he and an old cow are left, people often say: This is fate. In fact, this is not a kind of perseverance in life, a kind of perseverance in life. It's just that the traditional Chinese are used to vulgarizing it.

Perhaps all the difficulties, frustrations, hardships, ups and downs, pains, sorrows, etc., in life, are reduced to "life must be sometimes", and perhaps then people's hearts will be a little more at ease, and it will become a little more natural to accept them. Because this is predestined, manpower cannot be changed, and since it cannot be changed, it can only be accepted. This requires a bit of "resignation" in the depressed mind.

It's just that life is in the world, and sometimes it's not good to "accept fate"! Fugui said: "It's better to be a normal person, fight for this and that, fight for your life." In Fugui's eyes, "ordinary is a blessing" and "resignation" is the strength to live. But the attitude of resignation among ordinary people is not the kind of perseverance that the literati say! Fugui is one of the hundreds of millions of Chinese peasants, and it can also be said to be synonymous with Chinese peasants in an era.

In the vast land of China, among the hundreds of millions of Chinese, Fugui is just an ordinary representative. There is no shortage of people in life, and there is no shortage of ordinary people like Fugui who have such life experiences; There are everyone around, and people like Fugui who live stoically are even more visible. Fugui's existence is only a representative figure of an era, and he does not represent a person, but the universal ownership of that era.

In life, we cannot choose whether we live or die, we cannot choose which family we will be born in, and we do not know when, minute, and where we will die. Life may be like this, life and death are not predictable to us, but every day to be able to watch the oncoming morning light and the slowly rising morning sun in the hurried steps, is not a kind of happiness, a kind of happiness of living!

To be alive, we must smile at the rising sun every day.

For ordinary people like Fugui, life is like this: without a great pursuit of life, they have never escaped from the bottom line of survival; Although they do not have metaphysical support such as religion and belief, they have "nostalgia and attachment to the origin of life" in the depths of their spirits. What they have to do in their lives is not to fight against fate and suffering, to shout, let alone to prove the greatness of their lives by dying; On the contrary, they are silently obedient, enduring, and challenging death with "living --- alive". At the end of the text, Fugui and a cow are dependent on each other, enjoying themselves, which seems to be a kind of tranquility and peace, but behind this surface, we should see the lack of pursuit and despair of life.

And "Alive" tells how the people survived at that time through Fugui; How to suffer the coercion and temptation of suffering and death all the time, not to obey, not to give in, but to choose the way to endure and endure to fight against suffering and death.

The strength to live does not come from shouting, nor from attacking, but from enduring, to endure the responsibilities that life gives us, to endure the happiness and suffering that reality gives us, boredom and mevalality, difficulties and frustrations, life and death, and suffering.

In fact, there is no great significance in being alive in the first place! Everyone is also asking themselves to keep moving forward every day in order to live a better life, and constantly overcome obstacles and move forward! This is the duty and duty of being born as a human being, and when you come to this world, you must be worthy of the mission that God has given you to be born as a human being. No matter how hard and difficult life is, as long as you are still there, you will continue to move forward

In life, we cannot choose whether we live or die, we cannot choose which family we will be born in, and we do not know when, minute, and where we will die. Life may be like this, life and death are not predictable to us, but every day to be able to watch the oncoming morning light and the slowly rising morning sun in the hurried steps, is not a kind of happiness, a kind of happiness of living!

To be alive, we must smile at the rising sun every day.