Frozen Planet is a five-year documentary by BBC Television that captures the melting poles of the earth with realistic footage.
This is a film that not only satisfies visual enjoyment, but also can gain popular science knowledge, and has received a high score of 9.7 on Douban. The mysterious and fantastic veil of nature has been lifted little by little, showing us a pristine ice and snow country.
Here, the earth is shrouded in a white, frozen all year round, like a sleeping giant. Blue blood flows across the ice sheets and eventually into the oceans, where 80 percent of the planet's fresh water is stored.
There are many species here, and in addition to the polar bears, penguins, seals we know well, there are many strange and interesting creatures. For example, in the second episode of Frozen Planet, a slowly creeping lamp moth caterpillar caught my attention.
When the snow and ice begin to melt, the spring of the Arctic quietly comes, a large area of land is exposed to snow, and everything recovers. The Arctic tundra unveils the mystery. The Lamp Moth Caterpillar begins to appear, the first insect to appear after the ice and snow melt.
Its skin is dark brown, covered with orange-yellow fuzz, and it makes a living by nibbling on leaves. Spring in the Arctic is fleeting, and lamp moth caterpillars must feed quickly and store enough energy to carry through the harsh winter.
When winter comes, the lamp moth caterpillar will find a rock, hide it underneath, and freeze again with the ice and snow. It stopped breathing, the blood clotted, its heartbeat stopped, and it was eventually drowned in snow and ice. Together with this white land, wait quietly for the spring of the coming year.
Four months later, after a bitter cold and dark night, spring came again. The lamp moth caterpillar comes back to life, shaking off the melting snow on its body, climbing out of the rocks, and repeating the scene of spring foraging. But no matter how fast it eats, it is still too late to get enough food. The cold soon fell, and year after year, the lamp moth caterpillar was frozen in the winter and awoke in the spring.
Finally, in the spring of the year he was 14 years old, he had stored enough food and began to spit out cocoons. It had managed to weave a white cocoon and wrap itself in it, its body ready to fly, just waiting to break out of the cocoon.
It has been waiting for this spring for more than a decade, after a dozen hibernations. It is about to leave the cold Arctic and start a new life.
The tiny lamp moth caterpillar, tiny as a speck of dust in the vast Arctic, makes me awe-inspired, and many people may not be as good as a lamp moth caterpillar. Not to mention more than a decade, one or two setbacks are enough to beat the majority.
I think of the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, who, after he decided to start writing novels, stipulated that he had to write 4,000 words a day, a 400-word square paper, and write 10 pages a day. He himself describes his writing as something on a factory floor, producing things in quantities every day. It is precisely because of this persistence that he has become a person in the literary world.
Dostoevsky said: As long as there is a strong will, nature will be capable, intelligent and knowledgeable. In real life, there are too many people who are eager for quick success and pursue immediate benefits, while ignoring the long term.
Those who succeed are often purposeful, tenacious, and no matter how great the suffering, they will not give up. What we have to do is to survive the harsh winter and wait for the spring to bloom, and one day, like a lamp moth caterpillar, we can break through the cocoon into a butterfly and fly to the vast sky.