In ancient times, in the long stretch of mountains, there lived a group of strange-looking apes. Their brownish-yellow fur is dotted with mottled black spots. His thick arms can easily climb the cliffs, and his long, powerful legs leap and move through the rapids.
On this day, a young ape-man walked by the stream. The morning air was filled with the fresh scent of grass, and it was looking high for the berries in the trees.
At that moment, its gaze suddenly fell on a sharp pebble at its feet. The ape-man's eyes lit up, and he quickly grabbed the pebble and threw it at the eagle! Impartially, the pebble hit the eagle's head, and the eagle fell to the ground in response.
The ape-man jumped excitedly and let out a high-pitched roar, its first prey. It walked over and stood proudly beside the eagle's corpse, puffing out its chest proudly and howling.
From then on, the ape-man learned the benefits of bipedal walking and the use of tools, and became the most fierce hunter in the tribe......
Under the leadership of that ape-man, the entire ape-man tribe gradually mastered the use of fire. One day, after a storm, they were pleasantly surprised to find fires burning all over the valley.
So they learned to pick up the tinder with a twig and carry it into the valley.
At first, the ape-man simply used fire to drive away wild beasts and roast food. But they soon discovered that wildfires could easily burn down large swaths of trees and scorch the hiding places of their prey.
As a result, they learn to set fire to their hunting grounds on their own initiative. With the help of fire, they gradually dominate the valley.
In the process of expansion, conflicts between different ape-man tribes inevitably arose. Some tribes have a large number of people but cannot find enough food sources.
So they took the burning branches and crossed the mountains to the neighboring valley, and used fire to drive out the original ape-man and take possession of it.
After several tribal wars, a powerful ape-man stepped forward and became the leader of the apes. It led the collective relocation of the ape-men to the depths of the valley and built rudimentary huts along the river with stones and branches.
This was the beginning of the first tribes and sedentary life of mankind.
After settling in the river valley, the ape-man ushered in the budding of civilization. They sharpened stone tools to forge simple spears. Men go out hunting in groups, while women fish in the river to gather berries.
Children frolic in the sun, and old people sit by the campfire telling legends.
However, their lives still cannot escape the cycle of nature. After the harvest of autumn, snow covers the land. In the harsh winter, food is scarce, and the tribesmen are hungry and cold.
In order to survive, they learned to store food and migrate to the lower hills for the winter. These migrations also often lead to rivalry and bloodshed among neighboring clans.
On a cold winter morning, a young man returns from a hunt with a raging fire in his hand—a forest fire has broken out on the other side of the valley. The whole village waited expectantly for the fire to spread.
And when the fire came, the villagers rushed forward with torches in hand. In this way, for the first time, humans took the initiative to control and direct the fire on a large scale.
Fire brought greater hunting and more food to humans. At the same time, brutal wars and supernatural legends followed. The dawn of this civilization is accompanied by a leaping fire, permeated with the dialectic of life and death, sin and redemption.
However, when the dawn of civilization finally illuminates the planet, the cruel nature of humanity is also exposed. We have launched one massacre after another against our kind. In the fireworks and the light of the sword, our compatriots and flesh and blood fell in pools of blood.
The image of us holding torches to drive away wild beasts has become a scene of fighting each other with artillery in hand. The flames of the explosion turn life to ashes, and the industrial system of civilization supports the escalation of destruction.
We use our wits to create more and more lethal weapons, but the nature of killing remains the same.
Looking back to ancient times, our ape ancestor Whistling Cliffs celebrates the fall of the first prey. To this day, those who possess nuclear arsenals are still intoxicated by the desire for power that can be pressed at the touch of a button at any time to launch destruction.
Civilization does not seem to have brought us out of the wild, but on the contrary to the shell of nuclear weapons. We must reflect on our own nature and find a balance between creation and destruction.
Embrace the light of fire, not the plague of fire.