The classic quotations from Yu Hua's "Living" are as follows:

1. People live for life itself, not for anything other than living.

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

3. Don’t be confused. The dead want to come back to life, but you, a living person, cannot die.

4. As a human being, you must not forget four things: 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.

5. As long as the family is together every day, no blessings matter.

6. No matter how big a life is, if you want to die, you will never survive.

7. Cry with laughter and live with death.

8. Living is wonderful in itself.

9. If people are so tired that they have no energy all day long, they will not think about it.

Introduction to "Alive":

In the 1940s, Xujiachuan was located in the south. Fugui, a young master from a wealthy family, has been naughty and unwilling to make progress since he was a child. Such a dandy chose to marry Chen Jiazhen, the beautiful and virtuous daughter of the owner of Mihang, as his wife, which is really enviable to others. It's just that although the family is well off, the parents are healthy, and the wife is virtuous, the fortune is not cherished at all.

Under the temptation of the swindler Long Erye, Fugui became addicted to gambling and eventually lost his family property and his ancestral home. He became angry with his father, chased away his pregnant wife, and became pauper overnight. Jiazhen persisted and brought her daughter Fengxia back to continue living with Fugui. Civil war, liberation, land reform.

In the following decades, various hardships were imposed on Fugui's family alternately, death came unexpectedly, and pain followed them like a shadow. Fugui, who has long since changed his past, can only laugh with tears, silently savoring the bitterness, sourness and sweetness of life.