"To Live" by Yu Hua is a must-read classic in life. It tells you that people live for life itself, not for anything other than living.

The novel "Alive" uses simple and calm language to describe the life of wealth and living in death. The young master of a landlord lost his family business and began a miserable life. His family was in decline and his parents died one after another. After the war, he wanted to live a stable life, but his wife was exhausted and his son died because his comrade's wife drained his blood. Her daughter died in childbirth, her son-in-law was crushed to death by a concrete slab, her grandson was eaten to death by eating beans, and she no longer had any relatives. The so-called misery is to give you hope and dawn in a miserable life, and then smash this hope to the ground. Knock you down, but use blood to remind you that you are still alive. Ridiculous but true. When you see suffering happening orderly around Fugui and your loved ones dying one by one, you will feel sad, desolate but helpless. Just like Fugui, life goes on and you have to live.

Only those who have been crushed by fate can understand the mercy of time. The words in "Alive" are sad but touching. Here are some classic sentences for your appreciation.

1. Nothing is more convincing than time, because time can change everything without notifying us.

2. People live for living itself, not for anything other than living.

3. Don’t forget the four principles of life: don’t say the wrong words, don’t sleep on the wrong bed, don’t step on the wrong threshold, and don’t touch the wrong pockets.

4. No matter how big a person’s life is, if he wants to die, he will never survive.

5. Today, Youqing and Erxi plowed one acre, Jiazhen and Fengxia also plowed 70-80% of the field, and Kugen even cultivated half an acre. As for you, I won’t tell you how much you have plowed. If I tell you, you will think I am trying to shame you. Having said that, you are old, so you have to do your best to cultivate so many fields. ”

6. As long as the family is together every day, it doesn’t matter what blessings you have.

7. Only those who have been crushed by fate can understand the mercy of time

< p> 8. I looked at the winding path leading to the city and could not hear the sound of my son running barefoot. The moonlight shone on the road like it was sprinkled with salt.

9. I know you are not feeling well right now, but no matter what, you have to endure it and suffer it

10. Jiazhen kept throwing herself at her until dark. I was afraid that the night dew would hurt her, so I forced her to be carried behind me. . Jiazhen asked me to carry her to the entrance of the village to have a look. When we arrived at the entrance of the village, my collar was soaked. Jiazhen cried and said, "Youqing will not come here on this road." ”

11. “Sometimes I feel sad when I think about it, and sometimes I feel very at ease when I think about it. My family members were all buried by me, and I buried them all with my own hands. One day when I stretched out my legs, There is no one to worry about. I also figured out that when it was my turn to die, I wanted to die with peace of mind. There would be no need to wait for someone to collect the body. Someone in the village would definitely come to bury me. Otherwise, I would stink, and no one would be able to bear the smell. I won't let others bury me in vain. I put ten yuan under my pillow. I won't touch the ten yuan even if I starve to death. Everyone in the village also knows that after I die, I will be buried with Jiazhen and the others. together. "

12. The old man sitting opposite me talked about his wife who died more than ten years ago in such a tone, which made me feel an unspeakable warmth, like a piece of green grass. Swaying in the wind, I saw the tranquility undulating in the distance

13. The old man and the cow gradually went away, and I heard the old man's rough and touching voice coming from the distance, his singing in the open space. The evening is blowing like the wind, and the old man sings - The youth goes wandering, the middle-aged wants to dig, and the old becomes a monk.