Fu Gui, the hero of To Be Alive, was born in a landlord family. In the old society, he ate, drank, gambled and ruined the property of his ancestors. This behavior angered his old father, and then he was taken to be a soldier by the Kuomintang army. When he came back, his old mother was dead. Fu Gui was released after being captured by the People's Liberation Army, and he also caught up with the land distribution. He is bent on being with his family and "living well". However, the commune and the subsequent famine, the Cultural Revolution, and the household production quota all spread to this ordinary farmer. Overworked and malnourished, Jane suffered from an incurable disease and finally died. Her son, Youqing, was drained of blood by the doctor in order to give blood to the county magistrate's wife, and her daughter, Xia Feng, finally married a husband who knew how to be warm and cold, which made Fu Gui feel happy in life. Unexpectedly, Xia Feng died in childbirth, and then. Production quotas confirmed. Old Fu Gui is exhausted, and his grandson has helped him with farm work since he was a child. First I got sick in the rain, and then I died because I ate too many green beans. In the end, only poor Fu Gui died alone.