Text/Liang Yong'an
The world is full of uncertainty, and only "believing" can be determined. China News Weekly and its interesting report launched the Spring Festival special "You Can Always Believe in ______", inviting 10 guests to express their faith and write sincerely, bringing a firmness and clarity to this era of more challenges and unquenchable opportunities.
This is the first article of the Spring Festival special edition, listening to Liang Yongan, a professor of the Department of Chinese of Fudan University, you can always believe in the earth.
I have a word of self-encouragement: love the land and live freely. Among them, "love the earth" is the most important.
Earth— what a poetic name. In its boundless extension, it carries endless changes, snowy mountains, deserts, forests, rivers, lakes, plains...
We can always believe in the earth, because the earth can always tell mankind some simple philosophy of life. The logic of the earth is that planting melons to get melons, planting beans to get beans, planting beans to get beans, what kind of soil to plant something, a person is to live out his own characteristics, what he is a trait, he will live what he looks like.
But now, many of us are a bean, but we have to grow into a melon, struggle all our lives, and don't know who we are.
Planting melons on the earth to get melons, planting beans to get beans, is still a simple labor principle. Geologists say that most of the earth's surface is not suitable for human habitation, and only one-tenth of the land is inhabited by humans. However, human beings still reproduce on the earth from generation to generation, relying on labor.
In the 1970s, after graduating from high school, I joined the team in the Dai village in Yunnan. In those two years, I worked day and day, knowing how vegetables grew and fruitful under watering, and knowing the taste of the tomatoes I planted, it was simply the most beautiful in the world. That time made me deeply realize that happiness is the taste of my own labor. A person's life is created by labor.
Labor is a very remarkable thing in a person. Now, some people pursue a life that is asymmetrical with his labor, and at this time they have to rely on some external force. Some people rely on marriage, some people rely on opportunism, some people rely on power and power... Once a man takes this step, he begins to be in danger, and he is lucky to live.
Labor on earth is, of course, hard. Walking on the earth can also be difficult and heavy.
In ancient society, those who adhered to the road of the world would always walk the earth in the midst of demeaning and distribution. Lin Zexu, 56, was "re-sent from Reissuance to Xinjiang Ili to atone for his sins", and he walked from Zhenhai to Ili for nearly a year and a half. In 819 AD, Han Yu was demoted to Nanling and had no choice but to write "A letter to the Ninth Heaven, eight thousand Chaozhou Road." ”
This distant walk is not only a windy meal, but also a human body can realize the true meaning of life. Lin Zexu was warmly received by the scholars all the way, and he generously wrote the world-famous sentence "If the country lives and dies by profit, it is better to avoid it because of misfortune and happiness". Han Yu's demeaning brought the wind of culture to the barbaric land at that time. Later, the Teochew people renamed the most beautiful mountain in the area "HanShan" and the largest river "HanJiang" to commemorate Han Yu's enlightenment.
So you see, the earth seems to hide a solemn ruler, using distance to measure the value relationship between a person and history. The heavier the historical weight a person bears, the farther he travels.
From ancient times to modern times, a major achievement of China's reform and opening up is a magnificent reorganization of the land, so that in addition to the rice fields in the south of the river and the wheat waves in the north, there are also high-speed railways that stretch thousands of miles and highways over mountains and mountains.
At that time, the Qing Dynasty's ministers stationed in Tibet sometimes had to travel for a year from Beijing to Lhasa. Now with the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, it takes only 50 hours to travel from Shanghai to Lhasa. However, this great infrastructure process is by no means abstract, without the indomitable struggle of Chinese in modern times, and without the magnificent construction of the country today.
So when I say that I love the earth, I mean that people must have a feeling of the earth, and there is life and a process of growth on the earth; as a member, people are not high above, but contain the feelings of the country and the nation, and the sense of responsibility for life.
Four years ago, I went to Gaoligong Mountain in western Yunnan and walked across the shadowy Huitong Bridge on the Nu River. In 1942, it was blown up into two sections to block the passage of the Japanese army. Standing on the now-restored Huitong Bridge, the river swirled away with gusts of wind, as if you could still hear the gunshots of the two armies facing each other more than seventy years ago. Not far upstream is the cement bridge that opened in 1974, and further behind the peaks, there is the railway bridge under construction. Bridge after bridge, recording the earth's interlaced light and dark, cloudy and rainy, inscribed with China's period of phoenix nirvana thrilling journey.
Leaving Huitong Bridge that day, the road down the mountain was dark at night. Pause halfway through a bend in the Burma Highway and get off the bus to breathe in the cool mountain air. How quiet it was, and the sound of gunfire was far away. However, history will not disappear, and every recollection will last forever. The road used to be run with thousands of dusty military vehicles, young faces, and every time they went, they didn't know if they could come back.
I stood silently on the side of the road, looking up at the Milky Way silently across the sky, disappearing into the vast expanse of deep space. That is not the Milky Way, it is the distant heavenly question of a generation, and it is those hot-blooded young people who fight for the life and death of China's dignity. At that moment, I was deeply touched by the earth, and it was the blessing of the Chinese nation to have such magnificent mountains and rivers that allowed the lives of thousands of young people to swear to die and protect them. Lovely China, your road, the blue wisps of the road, your future, the earth will prove.
