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Chapter 48 heaven on earth and heaven on earth

Dear Xiaowen: Both religious believers and superstitious people believe that there is a heaven. The English word for heaven is heaven, also called paradise.The great British poet, John Milton (John Milton) in the seventeenth century - who also went to prison - wrote Paradise Lost, which is a long poem about Adam (Adam) and Eve (Eve) being driven out of Paradise, that Paradise has a special name called "the Garden of Eden" (the Garden of Eden), because Eve was tricked by a snake and ate an apple that God forbids to eat, so she was driven out. In Genesis (Chapter 2) in the Christian Bible (Bible), the story about the Garden of Eden, in which the concept of heaven was copied from Persia.Heaven is a good place that people think of from the world, so there are similar descriptions both in China and abroad, not only describing heaven in the sky, but also describing heaven in the world after people die——earthly paradise, also known as the Miraculous Heaven. A Heaven on Earth.

Heaven is like a big building with layers. Buddhism says "Thirty Three Heavens", Judaism and Islam say "Seven Heavens", there is a karaoke hall in Taipei called Seven Heavens, probably it is a paradise on earth! Tao Yuanming, a great poet in ancient China (because he liked to drink and gave birth to idiot sons), wrote an article about a paradise on earth, about a fisherman who lost his way, went there and searched for it later, but couldn’t find it.So came out an idiom - "paradise".During World War II, people asked President Roosevelt where the American planes that attacked Tokyo, Japan, took off from?He said "Shangri-la". Shangri-la is a paradise in the novels of American novelist James Hilton.

British novelist Samuel Butler wrote a strange book called "Erehwon", which is Erehwon in English, which in turn means Nowhere. No is not there, where is there, which means it is not there, there is no such place.The book describes a sheep herder who ran into Erehwon unknowingly. This place is very special. It is considered a crime to be sick, and if you get sick, you will be imprisoned. The liar is innocent, but the deceived person will be imprisoned. Later, the shepherd got on the balloon and escaped.This is also a kind of paradise, a kind of utopia.The English of Utopia is Utopia. Utopia translates the sound of Utopia and its meaning. Utopia is a hypothetical country.Thomas More, who wrote the book Utopia, was in prison and was later killed by Queen Elizabeth's father (that is, Henry VIII, Emperor Henry VIII) (Henry VIII had six wives, two were killed, two were driven away, This big fat man is very fierce).

dad November 22, 1974 Attachment: Both Thomas More and Henry VIII on the picture were painted by painter Hans Holbein. This kind of painting 400 years ago is more realistic than modern color photography.This painter looks a lot like Uncle Meng.
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