One must eat bitter in order to taste sweet; this saying comes from the Chinese, and it has so much more meaning than simply eating. This saying can be interpreted several different ways, but what it means actually symbolizes the hard times endured in which this case is the ‘eating bitter’ part while as the tasting sweet represents the times in our life that are pure ecstasy.
In Yua Hua’s novel To Live, the protagonist, Fugui, has encountered a numerous amount of hardships and through it all he has managed to find a reason to live. This novel isn’t primarily about the concept of living as opposed to how one is living. “If you escape a calamity with your life, there is bound to be good fortune to follow.” This quote from To Live represents
In Yua Hua’s novel To Live, the protagonist, Fugui, has encountered a numerous amount of hardships and through it all he has managed to find a reason to live. This novel isn’t primarily about the concept of living as opposed to how one is living. “If you escape a calamity with your life, there is bound to be good fortune to follow.” This quote from To Live represents