The nobleness mentioned here is not pure beauty, but detachment after understanding everything, treating good and evil equally and looking at the world with sympathetic eyes.
It is precisely because of such values that he was deeply touched when he heard the American folk song Old Black. The old black slave suffered a lot all his life, and his family died before him, but he still treated the world kindly without a complaint.
So he decided to write a novel about people's tolerance for suffering and optimism about the world. So, alive is born.
Living was published in 1993. Xu Fugui, the hero, experienced ups and downs and hardships all his life, but he suffered misfortune again and again and lived seriously.
In the face of fate, he lived devoutly; In front of his family, he felt with his heart. He has no remarkable wisdom, but he can bravely live in the present, feel love with his heart and give love.
1. Life kisses me with pain, but I return it with songs.
Fu Gui was born in a landlord family, with a hundred acres of fertile land, and was a famous rich young master. His wife, Jia Zhen, is the daughter of the owner of the rice shop in the city and a rich boy. Such a combination was relatively expensive at that time. In Fu Gui's own words: When a rich man marries a rich man, he piles up the money and it flows on it.
As the only son of the Xu family, he was willful since he was a child. When I was a child, I didn't study hard in a private school and bullied my teachers. When I grew up, I fell in love with whoring and gambling.
People addicted to gambling are confident in one thing, that is, they believe they can win.
Naive Fu Gui not only hopes to make money from gambling, but also hopes to win back the 100 mu of fertile land that his father lost when he was young. But in the end, he was disappointed Not only did he not earn a penny, but he also lost all his property. It was not until dad was so angry that he found that he had been disciplining him and was regarded as the most annoying old man, his backbone and his reliance. Now that the backbone is gone, he is as weak as the plague.
Helpless, the creditor came to collect the house, and he could only move into a thatched cottage with his mother, wife and daughter. Fu Gui was unhappy to see her elderly mother and young daughter suffer with her. He resolutely chose to shoulder the burden of life and rented five acres of land to start farming.
Fu Gui is true and optimistic. The days of farming were bitter and tiring, but it made him feel more at ease. He thought that the Xu family would rise again by their own efforts one day.
One day, Fu Gui was caught on the way to call a doctor for his mother. Life as a soldier is hard, but fortunately I met two friends who can encourage and help each other. During his days as a soldier, he missed his family all the time and wanted to see them.
After leaving home for about two years, when he finally returned to the home he missed day and night, he learned that his mother had died of illness and his daughter was deaf.
Fate sometimes likes to play jokes on people. You want to live a quiet life, but it insists on making waves in your life.
After a few years of quiet days, my son Youqing died of excessive blood draw while donating blood to the county magistrate's wife. Sad Fu Gui looked at the winding path leading to the city, but he could no longer hear the sound of his son running barefoot: moonlight sprinkled on the road, like a layer of salt.
The days that followed were not peaceful. My daughter Xia Feng died in childbirth, my wife died of illness, my son-in-law died in a construction site accident, and my grandson died of eating beans. In the end, he was left alone.
Romain rolland said: "There is only one kind of heroism in the world, and that is to love life after recognizing the truth of life."
Fu Gui is not a hero, he is just a member of the general public. He lives bravely in this turbulent society. Even though life has not treated him well in this life, he still gets along with the world with inner goodwill.
In his later years, Fu Gui saw the pity of the old cow waiting to be slaughtered in the market and spent two years of savings to redeem it. Life is bitter and lonely, and he can also sing "The emperor recruited me as a son-in-law, and I won't come all the way." Folk songs.
Life kisses me with pain, but I can respond with a song. This attitude towards life is rare in the world, but it is also what we need most in difficulties.
In the face of many hardships, I would like to live in the present.
With a little attention, it is not difficult to find that many people around us are always dissatisfied with life. If the workload is heavy, you will spit everywhere; If the love story collapses, you want to die; Even if you have a bad lunch outside, you can talk for a long time.
I feel that they always live in their own emotions, and their emotions are always filled with the smell of mourning. What happened a year ago can make them angry for a long time if they mention it today.
On the other hand, Fu Gui has experienced unbearable hardships for ordinary people, but she is still strong and optimistic and always looks forward.
I think he has a special ability to always live in the present.
This is a kind of life attitude and wisdom.
There is a story about Zeng Guofan that impressed me deeply.
Someone asked Zeng Guofan: "You are busy with everything, military affairs and government affairs, and you can still do so well in your studies. How did you do it? "
Zeng Guofan replied: "When you study, you have no intention of meeting guests." See the guests, see the guests, and have no intention of reading. Once you have it, it is private. There is nothing in the spirit, and things come in line with it, but the future does not. At that time, I didn't mix, I didn't love or love. "
Things come in line, but the future doesn't. At that time, I didn't mix, I loved too much. How thoroughly you understand life, don't panic and escape from anything that happens, let nature take its course; Don't worry too much about things you can't control; Live in the present and don't miss the past.
Fu Gui has the wisdom to live in the present, which he was born with.
When he became a rich young master, he was notoriously arrogant and capricious, and he gambled excessively.
When he lost all his property and was forced to farm in order to support his mother, wife and daughter, his heart was calm.
There is a monologue in his heart in the book, which says: If people are too tired to have strength for a day, they will not think about it. After renting Longji's field, I fell asleep as soon as I went to bed and had no time to think about anything else. Speaking of it, life is very bitter and tired, but my heart is solid. I think we have a chicken in Xujia. If this continues, chickens will become geese in a few years, and the Xu family will grow up again one day.
Live in the present, weaken the connection with the past, worry about the future, and become calm.
But if we can't accept the present calmly, the pain will continue.
Sister Xianglin is a classic figure in Lu Xun's works. Because her son was taken away by the wolf, she fell into remorse all her life and couldn't get out. She told everyone about her unfortunate past, and in the end everyone stayed away from her.
We can't stop the gears of fate. The only thing we can do is to adjust ourselves, not to think about the past, not to be afraid of the future, and to live soberly in the present.
Only by learning to perceive happiness can we have happiness.
When I first read Alive, I thought that the story in the book was really heard by Yu Hua while traveling in the countryside. He really met an old man named Fu Gui. I was quite surprised to learn that Living is really a novel and its plot is fictional.
Yu Hua believes that life is a person's feelings about his own experience, not a bystander's view of others' experiences.
Therefore, instead of telling the story in the third person, he asked Fu Gui to tell his story and feelings in the first person.
Yu Hua appreciates Fu Gui. He said: Fu Gui is completely different from other rural elderly people. He likes to look back and talk about himself. It seems like this, he can live this life again and again.
In others' eyes, Fu Gui's life is a painful one. There is nothing but pain, but I feel more happiness in Fu Gui's own narrative.
Mother loves him unconditionally. When he lost all his property, his mother often said to him, "As long as people live happily, they are not afraid of poverty." Jia Zhen is the best wife in the world. No matter how life ups and downs, she is firmly by his side, without complaint. The two children are sensible and kind, the son-in-law is honest and reliable, and the grandson is smart and lovely. Even the old cow named Fu Gui brought him warmth. ...
In his book The Method of Happiness, Ben Hashar pointed out that happiness has nothing to do with state, happiness is a kind of ability, and the ability of happiness is the perception of happiness.
Xu Yuanchong, a famous translator in China and a professor at the School of Journalism and Communication of Peking University, once said: "Life lies not in how many days you live, but in how many days you remember."
There is no doubt that Fu Gui's ability to perceive happiness is outstanding. Rich family, dead relatives, white-haired people send black-haired people. These human sufferings happened to him one after another, but he recalled that this life was more about love and happiness.
This ability is worth learning by people of our time.
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