How many years these two big elm trees have lived is unknown, but it was like this when I was a child. There is a clear spring next to the big elm tree, the spring water is cold and sweet, and it is not frozen in winter, and you can always see herders rushing to the car to get water here.
Sixty years have passed, and the appearance of the big elm tree has not changed, the body of the tree is thick, and the branches are luxuriant. What changed was the neighbor, the big stone, which was big, hard in texture, with a nice pattern. Pieces that had been cut were loaded into trucks and transported to the city, becoming building decoration materials.
Seeing this scene, I thought leisurely of Zhuangzi's uselessness. Because this big tree is useless, it can live so long. Stone beauty harms itself. Only the gods know that their material is afflicted, so they abandon their wisdom and are drowsy and dull, and have no intention of being on earth. This is why it is useless, to be able to maintain the whole body, in order to do the world also! The implication of this caution is profound.
"Agate Spring in the Depths of the Grassland" 200cm X200cm, Zhang Jungen (Yansheng) wrote in Lucheng.