Chapter 16 sun god

I used to only know about sunflowers, but now I know that almost all trees are sunflowers, all grasses are sunflowers, and all flowers are sunflowers. The cannas and cycads planted in my house tend to lean to one side as they grow. The reason is nothing else but that there are other canopies covering their heads.Many catalpa trees in my forest are thin and slender, and they seem to have a "skinny beauty". . I now understand that everything depends on the sun for growth - agriculture is actually the most primitive and the most beloved solar industry, which has been spreading golden energy, including benefiting end customers such as human beings.

Then, the so-called sun god is just the image logo of this traditional industry, showing the daily reality in the biosphere every day, not some fiction of the ancients. In a long-term competition for sunshine, once the failed vegetation is shaded, it will lose its vitality, listless and weak, and it is likely to become an old dwarf tree in the future, and even fall into withering or rotting.This reminds me of Sweden, Norway, Iceland and some other Nordic countries, which are located near the Arctic Circle. Once entering the gloomy winter with long nights and short days, it doesn’t dawn until ten o’clock in the morning, and it gets dark after three o’clock in the afternoon. Most of them were frowning and dark clouds emerged.One of the government's huge welfare expenditures is to distribute pills to prevent and treat depression for all citizens until spring and summer.Girls dressed up as Lucia, the god of light, will also hold lovely candles on the longest day of the night, parade around and condolences, and encourage people to resist the long winter night. Tropical countries may be difficult to understand.

Part of me seems to be suffering from Nordic depression, needing some kind of pill, or needing a vacation to the Caribbean or Indian Ocean.As the nearby catalpa and bamboo forests expand more and more, wherever the shade reaches, they can only become sparse and dying. The price of sunlight is generated in this case.It is the price of melons and vegetables in my family, or the price of air tickets for rich people in northern Europe to go to the Caribbean Sea or the Indian Ocean to bask in the sun. Everything in the world turns out to be very expensive, even something that is inexhaustible and universally available like sunlight.Conversely, the so-called expensive is usually an artificial result, a short-lived phenomenon in some specific situations, or even just a psychological phantom in a value maze.Think about it, once the oil runs out, cars are nothing but scrap metal.Once the currency system collapses, gold banknotes can only be a pile of waste paper.When the imperial concubine is seriously ill, she will definitely envy the lively and healthy village women.When the plutocrats are imprisoned, they will definitely envy the free beggars... In the ever-changing situation, any expensive thing may suddenly be worthless, and any cheap thing may suddenly be worth a lot.

So the ancients had a sun god. So the ancients had sea gods and mountain gods. So the ancients had fire gods, wind gods, and tree gods... The ancients' ultimate understanding of noble and humble is usually dormant in human history and forgotten in our busyness, such as when the heavy setting sun falls over the autumn mountains, and it is also when I go home step by step after buying salt.