Reflections on Yu Hua's Work Alive 1
In To Be Alive, the protagonist Fu Gui tells the fate of himself and the people around him in a calm and almost unfamiliar tone. My father died suddenly, my mother died, my comrades were shot, my son died of blood drawing, my daughter died in childbirth, my wife died of illness, my son-in-law died of work-related injuries, and my grandson died of choking beans. At his side, all the people he devoted his feelings to left him, except the old cow named "Fu Gui" who still depended on him.
This is a sad story. On the day I finished reading this book in one breath, I said this on WeChat: "I read Yu Hua's" Alive "today. I read it very carefully at first, but later I couldn't bear to read it and read it deeply. In this plain narrative, it is really unbearable to be sad. Finally, I felt relieved when I saw Bitter Root leave. Maybe black can show the tension of life better? In the face of time and fate, how much independent space can people have? Live, really live. " At that time, my greater feeling was gratitude. I am grateful for the tolerance of fate and let me live an ordinary life, but I also have ordinary happiness.
Later, I happened to see the preface translated into Chinese in the foreign language version of Alive. Yu Hua mentioned two words in the preface of the Korean-Japanese version, fate and time. In the preface of the Korean version, Yu Hua said: "Living tells the friendship between a person and his destiny, which is the most touching friendship, because they are grateful to each other and hate each other at the same time; No one can abandon each other, and no one has any reason to complain about each other. When they were alive, they walked on the dusty road together, and when they died, they turned into rain and mud together "; In the preface of the Japanese version, he added: "Who created stories and magic? I think it should be created by time. I believe that it is time that creates life and death, happiness and pain, calm and turmoil, memory and feeling, understanding and imagination, and finally stories and magic. I think "To be alive" is a story about a person's life, so it also expresses the long and short time, the turmoil and tranquility of time. In literary narration, the way to describe life is the most direct way to express time. I mean, the change of time has mastered the change of Fu Gui's life destiny, or the way of time is Fu Gui's way of life. I know it was the magic of time that made me finish the narrative of "To be alive", but I don't know whether the narrative of "To be alive" expressed such magic again. I know that life in Fu Gui is as narrow as the palm of your hand, but I don't know if it is as wide as the earth? " Is it a friend of peers, or a catalyst for turning decay into magic? Yu Hua was thinking about it herself.
I don't know how Fu Gui views fate and time as a political party. However, I have always believed that even if I regard fate as a friend, Fu Gui has never stopped trying to defeat this friend; No matter how magical time is, time has not diluted Fu Gui's pain. For a person, at the end of time and fate, there is a friend named death. Perhaps, to understand fate and time, we should also understand death? The essence of life is a process of constant change, growth and decline. People who come and go in life can only accompany each other for a long or short walk. But no matter how long, you can only accompany the Party with your heart, trip worthwhile.
Love, please love deeply, because youth is gone.
Reflections on Yu Hua's Work "Alive" (Ⅱ)
Yu Hua said that people live to live themselves, not to live for anything else.
Being alive, as a literary work that has influenced several generations, is really thought-provoking and intriguing. In the special stage before and after the founding of New China, the characteristics of the times were outstanding and the atmosphere of the times was strong. Living is both pain and happiness. The life of the protagonist Fu Gui in the book is the epitome of the whole society, and his body reflects the ups and downs of the whole bottom people.
What do people live for? Cicero, an ancient Roman politician, believed that people live to think; Rousseau, a French enlightenment thinker, believes that people live because of self-love; Gu Long, a China martial arts novelist, insists that people live to take responsibility ... but Fu Gui said, "People live to live."
Fu Gui lost the will to play with things in his early years, his family declined, his wife cheated, and his father died tragically. Young Fu Gui lived for pleasure, walked into the trap of life step by step and couldn't extricate himself, and finally ended his life in a place where he barely made a living. At this time, although Fu Gui's family was poor, he enjoyed himself, lived a hard life and enjoyed it. When everything was getting better, he was forced to enter a strong man, leave his hometown, go to war for a few months, and then stole peace. At this time, Fu Gui returned to his hometown alive, groping in the dust and reborn in the smoke. Middle-aged rich, white-haired people send black-haired people, and bereavement carries out the whole family. At this time, Fu Gui must live to support his family. As the only man, Fu Gui is the hope of his family. The wealth in my later years finally has a little stable happiness, but it is fate that people lose their daughters, husbands, wives and grandchildren, and live by scalpers. Live without care, live just to live.
No matter how the mountains and rivers change, the times continue to change at what speed, and the value of survival to people remains unchanged. We are born to live, to fight for it, and to bear the tangible and intangible pressures in all aspects of life. In the dead of night, when we are full of worries, we haven't asked ourselves what is the meaning of living and what is the value of living.
All kinds of life are for family, money, career, society, country and peace. Everyone has a goal in life and the power to promote their own progress. But to some extent, it is not so much the goal that supports survival, but rather the constant search for goals in order to live. Life is an organic whole, small goals are connected in series, and these goals are realized one after another, which is the ultimate big goal of life. And the realization of these goals is ultimately to live.
We often see people frustrated because a small goal in life has failed once or twice. They are depressed, they fall, they lose confidence, and some people even lose the courage to live. But those who are so suicidal or just have suicidal thoughts have not fully understood the essential relationship between goals and living. And there are too many such people. They talk about the meaning of living, the value of living, and are willing to die to achieve their goals in life. Such behavior is really admirable. And this kind of life, but failed to understand the true meaning of life. It is not a good idea to realize value by death. Remember, living in this world in the form of life, and living for living is the essence of life. We are trying to live, and death is just an episode we have to do on the road of life.
Live for the sake of living, simple and clear, poised. Only by simplifying the thought of life and strengthening the consciousness of existence can we truly realize the meaning of living-laughing without crying, trying to coexist with death.
Reflections on Yu Hua's work "Living" 3
After reading Yu Hua's travel notes at the age of eighteen, I became a little interested in Yu Hua. During the break, the students kept talking about it. I don't know who said that his novel "To Be Alive" is very tasty and good-looking. So I borrowed this book with a little curiosity. On the afternoon of October 5th, 65438/kloc-0, I watched it again out of boredom. Who knows it will be an afternoon, but I know to play it.
To Be Alive is an old man named Fu Gui who spent a day describing his life's sufferings. Over the past 40 years, he has suffered a lot on earth. What will you do in the face? Four generations. He should have died, but he lived, if only to live. As the author Yu Hua himself said: Living is to live for living itself, not to live for anything other than living. Fu Gui's immortality is very confusing, but he is alive and has his own value, meaning and immortality. The author only uses ordinary narrative techniques, but it has a special rendering effect. The more you read, the heavier you feel. And this heavy feeling is not caused by the story itself. Instead, the author uses the most common and even cold tone to describe unusual things. And this feeling of being too heavy to extricate oneself sneaked into my heart. Because of this, some people describe Yu Hua as a skilled surgeon, slowly separating the cruel nature of life from false kindness. At first, what attracted me was Fu Gui's experience, that is, the plot of the novel. Then the author's writing style and characteristics. Until the end, after reading a book, looking back at the author's profile and other people's comments, I have a new feeling.
Back to the essence, I have been thinking about the purpose of living. Just to write a novel. All kinds of people have all kinds of stories. Some people say that he left a deep impression on this book just to impress people. Because reading is a psychological fear experience. Others said: In fact, this implies another fact of China literature: realism with realism as its slogan is actually the most afraid to face reality. For example, in essence, life itself has no meaning except living. Then if we must give meaning, then the only thing that can be counted as meaning is probably life itself.
The great feeling of "being alive" may come from this. It is precisely because of this that "Living" clarifies a content. Living is a process in general understanding, but living is actually a static state. Yu Hua wants to tell readers that there is no happiness or misfortune in life. Life is living, living quietly, with a touch of loneliness.
In fact, life is like a field. Someone needs to farm. Spring sows its own suffering, summer waits for its own suffering, and autumn slowly harvests its own suffering. In winter, use suffering to taste your own suffering. Finally, wait for the next year to continue sowing suffering until the hope of suffering is harvested. Because they are our own riders, no matter what they carry, no matter what they wear around their necks, no matter what they carry on their shoulders.
After reading this book, I cried several times, and my tears wet a large pillow towel. The first place that made me cry was the place where Youqing was killed while donating blood to his teacher. What a sensible and lovely child, mowing the grass and herding sheep before and after school every day. Sheep is his other half, he is so filial and studious! This not only reminds me of my childhood. I grew up with sheep in my childhood. So what caused the tragedy that Youqing was worried to death alive? I think it may be caused by this social reality! As a doctor at that time, you can get a lot of benefits from saving the county magistrate's wife, but failure to save may bring disaster! And how much can the life of an ordinary farmer's child be worth? It stinks. Big deal, lose some money! In their view, Qing's life is like sheep and pigs, which is very easy to use! This not only reminds me of a report I read a few years ago. A farmer and an engineer in the same car died in a car accident. During the project, hundreds of thousands of compensation were paid, while the farmer only had 5000! The engineer's life is life, but the farmer's life is not life. Why is the gap so big? Why grading? Why does the law say equality and fairness, but at the same time it does something that violates its promise? I am not a foreigner, but in many ways we really should learn from western countries!
Look at the full text, when rich parents, sons, daughters, wives, son-in-law and grandchildren died one after another, he was still alive! But it is harder to live than to die. It takes courage and boldness to live in those days! Because as long as you live, you have to bear the responsibility of fulfilling your obligations and endure poverty and mental torture! In the face of poverty and the death of relatives, I dare say that 90% people will lose the courage to live and choose to die, just like Chunsheng, the county magistrate. In fact, what is her little blow compared with wealth? In real life, how many people choose to die because of frustration such as unsatisfactory work, failure in college entrance examination and lovers' direction! They don't know if this is courage or victory! Their lives not only belong to themselves, but also to their parents and so on! They still have unfinished responsibilities and obligations in this world! Fu Gui personally buried six relatives. I don't know if this is a special favor of fate or another punishment, but he survived. After so many unimaginable hardships, he learned to endure and endure the weight of life. He lives just to live.
I remember a sentence:
Life is a field of life, and every suffering sown will grow into a hope. They are our hands. No matter what you bear, no matter what you wear around your neck, no matter what you carry on your shoulders!
So either a kind of happiness is also a kind of suffering! But anyway, there is only one life, and life is precious! We should be like riches and honour, no matter what happens, we must live strong!
Reflections on Yu Hua's work "Living" 4
I always thought that the meeting between a person and a book was a precious fate. Maybe I opened the page and saw Zhiyi's words.
However, hidden under these dull ink colors is a real living soul, which will often dodge, but will not be ashamed to show it. Its depth is difficult to judge by its thickness, because they are full of thoughts. I often think about the power of a book, but the pure words have shocked people's audio-visual feelings, shocked people's hearts like waves, shocked people's thoughts and sneaked into consciousness.
Living is such a vivid and infectious book. I deeply remember the feeling of reading Alive for the first time. From the initial carefree to the later dignified, the fingers turning pages are more and more hesitant. I feel that there seems to be a hidden expectation in my heart-calling for a turning point, a turning point for the protagonist Fu Gui to move towards happiness. However, I was disappointed. The author is too cruel and stingy, and I almost watched all the way with heartache. When I closed the page with sadness, I suddenly saw a dark red like blood on the cover: harsh like blood on a long wound, but like the surge of life; It seems to be sadness, heavy sigh, warm rhythm ... my tears are falling straight down.
In the book, with Fu Gui's long laugh, he tells his life. From a young man eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, to the last ruin, he was reduced to living in the fields. He survived the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, civil war and famine years, but his family was dismembered by fate. His beloved relatives passed away one by one-his mother died of illness, his youngest son died of blood drawing, his wife died before him, his deaf-mute daughter Xia Feng died in childbirth, his son-in-law was caught in a steel plate and died unexpectedly, leaving only a little grandson to choke to death at that hungry age. His calloused rough dark hands buried all his relatives and tears, and finally he was alone with the cow. It should be a tragedy that he laughed and cried to death. But he told lightly that there was no great sorrow, and this man, who had been honed by bad luck all his life, actually smiled. In the book, the author, like the reader, is a listener. He doesn't comment or even sigh. He just presented, but he said everything he wanted to say.
When I recall this incident, I am often surprised. It's as if I saw a lock of extremely fine fur-forced to bear the weight of thousands of pounds, but it didn't break. The resilience of this life seems to tell us that there is no despair in life. Fu Gui's life is like an exploited winter bamboo shoot-one layer has lost its vanity, one layer has torn off its dependence on happiness, and the other layer has destroyed people's strength. But in the end, there is only one person's softest and purest humanity, and there is only one reason for life-to live, to live for the sake of living. Being alive and clinging to life-it is the only description that can describe Fu Gui, and it is also the best affirmation and praise for Fu Gui. As for happiness or unhappiness, we can't assert that perhaps in the eyes of others, Fu Gui's life is a life of suffering; But in himself, he may feel more happiness. Horace said: people's happiness will wait until the end. No one has the right to say that he was happy before his death or funeral.
Reflections on Yu Hua's work "Living" 5
Live, how to live? What are you living for? Such questions only pop up when I'm bored. But with my qualifications, I really can't think of such a profound question. In fact, the birth of a person is very remarkable because it is the result of the combination of sperm and eggs extracted from hundreds of millions of similar species. Please allow me to analyze this fertility problem from such a microscopic point of view. I just want to explain that since born this way is hard, why not live a good life?
When I was very young, my friend recommended me to watch the old man's movie-Living. During that time, I always rejected sad movies, so I never watched them. This time, I finished reading Yu Hua's "Live in a hurry". The whole novel gives people a faint feeling, without flowery rhetoric, and every sentence seems so simple and sincere. This unusual rich life is described by Yu Hua in an almost cold style, with a calm narrative tone.
The rich man's life is really full of legends, and the most tragic things in the world happen to him. From the destruction of his family and the death of his parents to the loss of his son, wife, daughter, son-in-law and grandson, he has been losing his loved ones all his life. Fortunately, I finally had an old cow with me. When the author described the death of Yu Hua's relatives, I found it ridiculous. Youqing died of excessive blood drawing, Hill was stoned to death by cement, and Gu Gen choked to death by eating beans. I think it is reasonable to put such a thing in the background at that time, which is also the author's deep intention. When reading this novel, I can vaguely feel the sadness of that era. From steelmaking, we can highlight people's ignorance. It can be seen that the author is also critical of the society at that time.
Whenever Fu Gui's life is a little better, someone in his family dies again, and the way of death is always so abrupt. However, Fu Gui didn't fall down again and again. In the end, he bought a cow to keep him company. Maybe some people will really find a rope to hang themselves. Fu Gui didn't do it, but he chose to live. Does he still have expectations for life? His heart was so strong that after Gugen's death, he comforted himself that all his family members were sent away by themselves, which was very practical. Fu Gui's words left a deep impression on me. He said, "It's better to be a normal person. Earn this, earn that, earn your own life. " He took himself to take notes with Long Zi and Chunsheng. They just entertained themselves for a while, but they all lost their lives in the end. Life is the most important thing.
We contemporary people often say that the body is 1 and everything else is 0. Without this 1, no matter how many zeros there are, they are still 0. Living is the last word! As Yu Hua himself said, people live to live themselves, not to live anything else. In this society plagued by money and money, people are increasingly pursuing material things and living for money, fame and profit. When they get these things, what should they live for?
Living, a simple word, contains this responsibility for life. When we get a life from competition, it is already a life. Only by living can you experience the ups and downs of life, look back on yesterday and look forward to tomorrow, and feel the warmth of family, friendship and love. Like Fu Gui, when you get old, you can quietly tell others about your past and what you have gained in life.
In fact, living is also a kind of happiness, so live happily.
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