Chapter 7 introduction

Sometimes when I think about death, I suddenly feel nothing.No matter how brilliant the career, no matter how intense the emotion is, no matter how rich the savings, what is the use? In the blue sky and broad daylight, you and I are living well, so naturally we rarely think of this dead word.In other words, you and I are in a reality full of colorful blooms every day, full of competition and hope, every moment, in a hurry, full and full, and there is no time to think about this unlucky word. "Great luck", "fafafa..." In front of the dining table, in the venue, in the dance hall, in the ears, eyes, and hands, aren't you and I all overwhelmed and intoxicated by these colorful and prosperous things? What a mess!

It is said that there are two kinds of people who have the most transcendent experience of death: one is purely natural death; the other is people who die suddenly without preparation, such as air crashes, car accidents, electric shocks, etc.The former mental state can be understood as the return of the soul; the latter can be interpreted as the instantaneous disappearance of the soul. What I want to say is the second type. It is a death that is painless to the dead and too much pain and suffering to the living. Life and death, in fact, in an instant. Not to mention distant and detailed examples, let's just talk about a few catastrophes that have occurred in China itself in the past century.

In 1887, due to torrential rains and floods, the Yellow River burst at a sharp turn in Zhengzhou City. More than two million people were killed overnight by the water monster, which became the most serious flood in the history of the world. Eighty-nine years later, on July 28, 1976, we still remember the Tangshan earthquake. In just a few moments of snoring, a city with a million people was instantly razed to the ground, and 242,369 souls fell into hell at once. The most tragic record in the history of world earthquakes for more than 400 years. Later, there was a new catastrophe record, and that was the huge forest fire in Daxing'an Mountains in 1987.This time, the deforestation area was 1.01 million hectares, the number of casualties reached more than 56,000, and the direct economic loss of 500 million yuan made the whole country feel sad.

From 1988 to 1989... until 1994, when we were saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new at the end of each year, almost every year we had to regret and grieve for other relatives and friends who suddenly left or disappeared from us. Don't you watch "News Network" every day? The annual rings in 1995 have just turned in front of us.More than 5,000 lives were lost in the Kobe earthquake in Japan; the flood in New Zealand left hundreds of thousands of people homeless; the once-in-a-century blizzard swept across Northern Europe and the Americas, paralyzing thousands of cities...

What's the matter, my God! Are our lives so fragile, so impotent? Chinese people, should we be vigilant?