"If life deceives you, don't be sad, don't be anxious! Calm is needed in the melancholy days: Believe it, happy days will come. The heart is always yearning for the future; Now it's often melancholy. Everything is instantaneous, everything will pass; And what has passed will become a gracious nostalgia..."
Pushkin's "If Life Deceives You" has soothed many confused souls and let them find their way in difficult situations!
Teenagers will always have all kinds of beautiful dreams, grow up, through twists and turns, see the truth of life, inevitably there will be gaps, disappointments, and even decadence, some people are optimistic, soon come out, some people are addicted to it.
When you encounter impermanence and twists and turns, don't bother to watch "Alive"; when you are distressed about trivialities, or even complain about life, don't bother to watch "Alive". This is a book that will make you face life head-on.
The protagonist Fugui is a person who has been beaten by life and still has hope for life and lives strongly and seriously. His experience will make you discover how insignificant your current suffering is compared to his, and thus motivate you to move forward more courageously.
"Alive" is Yu Hua's best-selling novel, as of 2019, sales have exceeded 20 million copies, far exceeding the sales of Nobel Prize writer Mo Yan's works, creating a sales miracle of pure literary works.
According to the statistics of relevant publishing houses, many post-90s readers have also joined the reading army of "Alive".
The novel "Alive" scored 9.4 on Douban, ranking second in Douban books.
Mo Yan said: Yu Hua's books are half less than mine, but their influence is half more than mine.
Yu Hua's works are loved by people who like them, but people who hate them are particularly despised. Wang Shuo said that the books written by Yu Hua were not good books at all, they just told a bunch of bad stories to stir up emotions, and they had no value at all. Yu Hua is a person who pretends to understand very well, but does not know how to write novels at all.
But despite the criticism of others, Yu Hua's works are still widely loved by readers and exported overseas, and his works have been translated into more than 40 languages.
In the 1990s, Yu Hua won the Greenzana Kafo Literary Prize, which is comparable to the Nobel Prize for Literature, for "Alive".
Foreign critics call Yu Hua the Chinese Stendhal, Hemingway, and Dickens. Domestically, he was regarded as the heir to Lu Xun's spirit.
His realistic works are cold and sharp, directly attacking reality.
"Alive" originated from an American folk song "Old Black Slave", in which the old black slave experienced a lifetime of suffering, and his family went before him, but he still treated the world kindly and did not complain at all.
The words are different, the nationalities are different, but the emotions are common. Yu Hua remembered the old farmer he had seen working hard in the field, his back was bent, and his wrinkles were full of dirt, so he had the prototype of Fugui.
Some people say that Yu Hua wrote about Fugui's fate too tragically, but he said that it would be worthless to write about a family if the four generations were in the same house, and to write about them with "living". Only when everyone is dead, and only an old man like Fugui is alive prominently, can he be particularly powerful.
It is also true that when everything is deprived and only the will to live is left, Fugui's vitality is particularly tenacious, and the impact on the reader is particularly large. After all, human beings are inherently afraid of pain, and pain can make people more sensitive.
Fugui's suffering makes people can't help but sigh: Can there be blessings and sufferings again? Therefore, "Alive" has inspired many readers and saved the lives of some people, and some depressed people have cured themselves with this book.
But some people say that Yu Hua gathered all his misfortunes on one person, which was too dramatic. It is too unreal that young people lose their fathers and mothers, middle-aged people lose their children, and elderly widows lose their wives and sons-in-law lose their grandchildren.
But in real life, why don't there be people who have to go through hardships and have to walk alone? I have seen a 36-year-old paralyzed son take care of his 62-year-old paralyzed father on the hot search, and I have also seen a wandering widow, a deaf and mute old man on the streets of Jimei, Xiamen, and a high school girl whose parents died and lived alone when she was doing volunteer work......... In the corners we don't know, how many people have lost their loved ones due to natural disasters and man-made disasters, and have to live strong and lonely?
Besides, "Alive" condenses the suffering that China has suffered for more than sixty years on Fugui alone? During this period, he experienced the Republic of China, the Civil War, the Agrarian Revolution, the Three Antis and Five Antis, the Great Leap Forward, the Disaster, the Cultural Revolution...
With his strong brushstrokes, the author depicts the breathtaking changes in China's rural areas, the irreparable decay and the sadness of wandering without land, evoking the common historical memory and life memory of generations of Chinese. Among them, the pain of human nature and the suffering of life have made tens of millions of readers have a spiritual resonance.
In the era of frequent natural and man-made disasters, the fate of the people at the bottom, mainly based on small-scale peasant economies, was like ants, and it was fortunate that they could survive.
There is a saying in the Count of Monte Cristo: There is no happiness and unhappiness in the world, there is only a comparison of circumstances, and only those who have experienced suffering can feel supreme happiness.
After the fall of the family road, Fugui is undoubtedly a person who knows how to feel happiness very well. When he was captured by the People's Liberation Army and eaten steamed buns, he was grateful and excited. He didn't hate the Kuomintang that had captured him on the battlefield in the first place, and some of them were just happy to survive.
Misfortune and happiness depend on each other, and fate makes people. It was a misfortune for Fugui to lose his family wealth when he was young, but it was not a fortunate thing for Fugui to later design to take away his family property, but it was not a fortunate thing that Long Er, who later designed to take away his family property, became his substitute ghost; after filling the army, Fugui was reluctant to give up his wife and children to accompany the army and returned to his hometown to live a poor life, and Chunsheng chose to continue to join the army and become a county magistrate, but eventually he was abused to commit suicide during the Cultural Revolution.
Blessings and misfortunes depend on, misfortunes and blessings depend on, and the blessings and nobles who choose a plain life live the longest.
Some people may think that Fugui's longevity is not a blessing, after all, the loved ones around him are gone. But the warmth of the past was real, and he had worked hard for the life he longed for. The tragedy in the eyes of outsiders is nothing more than a life in his eyes!
His family was lost, and he became the pure man who lived only alive himself. He said: "I am left alone, so I don't have to worry about anyone when I leave." ”
In today's materialistic and noisy world, how luxurious is it to be able to live only for the sake of living itself? Who can completely abandon fame and fortune? Who can live without despair after all hopes have been dashed?
However, for thousands of years, the vast number of poor people have done it, and even if they suffer a lot, they will not give up the right to live, they will refuse to die with life, and they will turn their hard work into the cornerstone of our rich life today.
It is their life that they pass on their good qualities and precious materials and skills. To live is not only to pass on the generations, but also to pass on other tangible or intangible wealth. The working people have passed on their qualities such as hard work and tenacious vitality, and writers have carried them forward throughout the world with their pens.
Fugui's suffering was not only his personal suffering, but also the suffering of thousands of ordinary people in that era. Readers not only cry for the fate of Fugui, but also for the fate of the poor people.
Living in the company of death is a subject that everyone must face. Life, old age, illness and death are the norm in life. Growth is a process of continuous gain and loss. How to face loss has become an important life proposition.
Life is between breaths, and we don't know whether tomorrow comes first or impermanence comes first. While grasping the present moment, we should also face loss calmly, not to be happy with things, not to be sad with ourselves.
Maybe we can't sing like Zhuangzi after the death of his wife; we can't calmly face the cries of losing relatives in the morgue opposite the residence like Yu Hua as a child, or sleep directly on the cement slab of the morgue because of the heat; let alone run to the river like Shen Congwen to watch the beheading.
But we can learn from Fugui, not to blame ourselves, not to complain, not to despair after losing, and to live seriously with good memories of our loved ones. As long as we remember the names of the deceased, they will not really pass away. And because we once had it, we won't be alone.
Let's walk into "Alive" together to feel the fate of the little people under the torrent of the times, and see themselves, see the heavens and the earth, and see all sentient beings! At the same time, please record your thoughts and thoughts in Radish Ben, let us read good books together and share the harvest!