Poplar, golden dreams

Poplar, golden dreams

In the northwest of the motherland, in the dry desert, a beautiful plant grows. Its color is the most dazzling in autumn, its roots are deeply rooted in yellow sand, and people say that poplar is like a golden dream...

It's hard to imagine how a plant could survive in a desert where there wasn't a drop of water at all. When we walked through the barren grass beach in Golmud, Qinghai, and saw the cascading sand mountains, we couldn't see a single plant, not even a small grass. I struggled to find the shadow of the poplar. Friends told me that if I wanted to see the poplar forest, I would have to climb four or five sand mountains to see it.

We braved the extremely strong ultraviolet rays, stepped on the soft and smooth sand, and worked hard upwards. Look at the sand dunes from a distance, blown by the wind, forming a beautiful texture. Climbing over the sand mountains, your eyes lit up. Poplars appear in front of us. They are leafy and have thick trunks. On the sandy mountain, those trees were full of life. In the most beautiful late autumn, they are dyed in layers, and the leaves are golden in color and shining with a moving brilliance. The intense yellow color looked so magical and illusory in the vast and boundless desert. I secretly thought to myself, how poplar survives in such a desert, it is incredible.

The branches of the poplar stretched hard into the clear blue sky, and the leaves were golden. Their background is the blue sky, the white clouds, the vast sea of sand. Everything seemed to be static, and time seemed to have frozen, unchanged for a thousand years. The picture in front of you is so bright and full of life. I looked up at the poplar, and its leaves were so many, some pointed, some round, some like willow leaves. The colors are also slightly different, some are already golden, some are yellow and half green. The sun plays among the foliage, shimmering. The poplar is between heaven and earth, so pure, like a giant, standing up between heaven and earth, writing a poetic narration.

Some poplars have withered, but they stand proudly, maintaining the posture of life. They condense the deepest love in their hearts and pour out silently in the most beautiful seasons. When you see the poplar, you understand that "living and not dying for a thousand years, not falling a thousand years after death, falling to the ground for a thousand years" is so real. Some poplars are very stout and have their heads held high. Others are already creeping to the ground, intricately intertwined. However, there seems to be some belief that supports the poplar, even if it falls to the ground, it does not rot. What kind of persistence makes poplar so insistent in the desert?

The sky was clear, and I sat under the poplar tree, feeling its unique charm, and the branches of the poplar tree just held up a shade for me. In my ears, I seem to hear poplar saying: "Try to live as a tree, stand in eternity, without sorrow and joy, half serene in the dust, half flying in the wind, half sprinkling shade, half bathing in the sun." Very silent, very proud, never dependent, never looking. ”

If there is an afterlife, live like this tree. Toward the sun, full of happiness, never give up, exalting life and passion. Perhaps, in the end, we will not live as a tree. But we must learn its upright posture, learn its arrogance when the wind blows, meet suffering with an indifferent state of mind; be independent in the wilderness, be silent in the storm, pay homage to the earth and the sky, live out our own life, our own beauty...

Yellow sand, poplar, and blue sky are all silent around me at this time, and the heavens and the earth seem to be unchanged. Golden poplar, telling me a thousand-year-old myth, is also silently telling me: to have life, you must be so tenacious and persistent...

Wang Nanhai

【Source: Wuhu Daily】

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