During the quarantine period against the virus, the city slowed down and people fell into deep thought in the long-lost silence. We begin to re-examine the ancient propositions: nature and life, human nature and morality, rules and systems. The Yangcheng School and Jinyang.com Cultural Channel of Yangcheng Evening News specially set up a column of “Sinner Thoughts during the Epidemic Period” and will invite experts and scholars from all fields to share their observations, thoughts and insights during their quiet residence. This issue of “Silent Thoughts during the Epidemic” was published by Jiang Shuzhuo, chairman of the Guangdong Writers Association and professor of the Chinese Department of Jinan Komiks University –
In this special Spring Festival, special epidemic avoidance and fight against the epidemic, in addition to doctors, scientific researchers, soldiers, workers, police, community managers, and some government civil servants who are fighting on the front line of the fight against the epidemic, most of us are meditating at home. This is really an opportunity for us to practice collectively. I am thinking about everything these days, and sometimes I can’t fall asleep again as I think about it at night.
Jiang Shuzhuo, Chairman of Guangdong Writers Association and Professor of Chinese Department of Jinan University,
Silence is priceless: Revelation from silence is a great concern for life
What is silence?
This Spring Festival is silent. Silent street markets, quiet communities, quiet parks, quiet scenic spots, quiet everything. I have lived for more than 60 years. It seems that I was only so nervous when meningitis was in the late 1960s, but it was not so quiet. Our Spring Festival dictionary is always full of excitement and red color: red couplets, red lanterns, red firecrackers, red fireworks, red envelopes for visiting New Year on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the heat of temple fairs and markets, the laughter and joy of banquets, etc. During the Spring Festival of the Gengzi year, we were not allowed to go out or gather. When everything became deserted, we could not adapt and we didn’t even know where to put our hands and feet.
We are no longer used to silence. In fact, this is the blind spot where our focus exists.
In the last century 6In the early 2009, a female journalist named Rachel Carson was also a popular science writer. She wrote a book called “Silent Spring”. Through a large amount of survey data, she wrote about the damage to the environment by toxic chemicals and caused ecological damage. She could not hear frogs and birds crying throughout the spring, and the world was silent. In the first chapter of the book, “The Fable of Tomorrow”, she describes a lonely and deserted scene that seems to be the end of the world: this is a spring without any vitality, without birds, bees, butterflies, only a silence covering the fields, woods and swamps. Even anglers didn’t come here because the fish disappeared. She paid attention to this quiet spring and proposed to stop the production of pesticide “Liu666” powder, thus promoting a revolution in protecting the ecological environment. Naturally, she was also strongly attacked by the pesticide producers. Her book is like Mrs. Stowe’s novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” that could cause the American Civil War, with a strong impact.
Carson heard something strange from the silence of spring. This is a great concern for life and a great sentiment that cares about the fate of mankind. Today we are facing the silence of Komiks. Can’t we pay attention to it? Can we not listen carefully to this silence that is exchanged for the price of life and blood? Doesn’t it affect the fate of our country, nation and even all mankind? Can’t we get some revelation from this never-before-existing silence?
In the silence, there are the cry of life, the reflection of oneself, and the torture of the soul. We once had the Cold Food Festival, and we could not make fires that day, in order to commemorate a kind of backbone. Can it be our day before the New Year’s Eve of the Jihai year of the lunar calendar, January 23, 2020, become our confinement day? Just like the Sabbath that the Jewish nation has.
Silence is priceless.
Start with me: Why does eating wild animals continue to ban it?
When pursuing the source of the new coronavirus, many people are calling for the ban on wildlife trading markets and asking everyone to stop eating wildlife. This is indeed a great thing. In fact, this appeal has been around since the outbreak of SARS in November 2002 to the time when it was stopped in May 2003. But why are they still banned?
This is the market, consumption, and habits – extremely bad habits. If there is no buyer’s market, no consumers,Can eating wild animals form a trend? Market consumption data tell us that since the “Eight Regulations” were introduced in 2012 to stop official food and drinks, the catering industry has been in a U-shaped direction, and almost ordinary people have been entering and leaving restaurants in the past two or three years. If each of us doesn’t eat wild animals, will the market still exist? There are laws and rules to protect wild animals, and the key is whether there are rules in our own minds.
As BabaylanAs the economic development and the strengthening of national strength, our consumption habits are indeed a bit deformed and we are so generous. Compare and show off your wealth, and never give up until you reach the luxury or top level. We are not a big forest country and our resources are limited, but we are not stingy when using tissues. In Thailand and Japan, tissues are not placed casually in restaurants in five-star hotels. If you need Cinema, you must ask the waiter for it. When it is hot, almost all Japanese men at work have a sweat towel.
This is probably civilization. How can civilization be cultivated? By habit. I think it is not earthy to use it, it is a good habit. It is also a good habit for us to not eat wild animals.
When posting slogans, shouting slogans, proposing ideas and values, do we always exclude ourselves?
From me on it, we often turn a blind eye to it.
Retrograde dedication: What we hate the most are those corpse-positioned diners!
After this war without gunpowder began, the most popular and most tearful these days are those “reversers”. Academician Zhong Nanshan, who is determined and loving, Academician Li Lanjuan, who reveals warmth and sincerity everywhere, the military medical staff who rushed from Shanghai to Wuhan on the evening of New Year’s Eve, and the medical staff who are constantly supporting Hubei from localities and troops, and the builders of the construction of the Huoshenshan Leishenshan Hospital… They are the patron saints of our people, the backbone of our nation and the hero of the times.
They call them “reversers” because they Cinema“Cinema knowing there is a tiger in the mountain, they tend to go to the tiger mountain.” It takes courage and a spirit of great love to stand up in dangerous times. After seeing the husband of the female doctor in Sichuan saying goodbye to his wife, “As long as you come back safely, I will take care of the housework for a year.”Do you think this peace blessing does not contain the meaning of separation from life and death? Babaylan Looking at the letters of request for battle with red fingerprints, don’t you think that is the book of life and death on the battlefield?
When I saw two young doctors in Hubei, they were already home to prepare for the holiday, but as soon as the epidemic was announced, traffic in Wuhan was blocked, they tried every means to finally return to the hospital in Wuhan with the support of the traffic police to participate in the fight against the epidemic. How do you understand this? Using heroes, great love, and noble words are not excessive, but I understand that what they uphold is their original intention – the “dedication” of doctors. Because they are doctors, they have not forgotten the oldest Hippocratic oath, nor have they forgotten their oath when they studied medicine: the health department is responsible for entrusting their lives, saving lives and helping the wounded, and never giving up their hardships. When the new coronavirus threatens the lives of compatriots, they must not be present, let alone become deserters.
This is two of the twenty-four words we often see – “dedication”. We say that we should pay tribute to these retrogrades and learn from these two words. If we all do these two words, we can share our worries for the country and contribute to our country, and our core values can be built from our hands.
The original intention is either empty, it is our motivation to do anything, the starting point of our career, and the driving force for our pursuit of a happy life. The nobleness of doctors lies in their unforgettable intentions and fulfilling their career mission. These heroes are also human beings, husbands and wives, parents and children. They also have pain, and they are very aware of the risks of going to war. They shed tears, crying for the threat of human life; they are not unaware of danger, but they know that they cannot retreat when performing their duties. Their nobility is based on dedication.
All a country is responsible for the rise and fall of a country, but it is afraid that it will bear a professional responsibility but not be dedicated! The ones we hate the most are those corpse-headed diners!
The cleaners who did not resign in the anti-epidemic hospital are dedicated, those traffic police who take temperatures at highway intersections are dedicated, those who run around the community to prevent and fight the epidemic are dedicated, those who brave the wind and snow are dedicated, and those who are still delivering vegetables and express delivery to people are also dedicated, although they are KomiksDoesn’t face the danger of patients directly like doctors, but they are still noble. Komiks also need to be respected by us.
The so-called greatness in ordinary people, heroes in times of danger, dedication seems to be the most ordinary, but CinemaIt is not easy to really do it.
Do we always think about doing great things and neglect our daily careers?
Don’t blindly follow: Don’t be blinded by the “network” and your eyes are blocked. “network” is hidden.
Information bombing is probably something that we have experienced deeply in these days. Everyone stays at home, and when the information is unclear, they can only look at their phones, and when they leave their phones, they will be distracted. At first, the more they look at their hearts, the more they feel, but they have opinions in their hearts. Why? Because there is more false information, more violence in the Internet, the contradictory or the illusion of being exposed in the Internet has educated us, and we no longer Blindly follow.
This is actually an excellent opportunity for self-education.
What we do most in WeChat Moments is likes, because what we set in WeChat is likes and comments. Comments need to be thoughtful, and likes only requires a finger to move. This is a program designed for lazy people. So we always like. The most commonly used emoticons in WeChat always give thumbs up. But when we like them casually without thinking, we later find that there is a problem. Sometimes we are deceived, and sometimes we become accomplices of evil forces. Lazy people likes always have to pay the price and cost.
The Internet field is also a social field, and the Internet WeChat group is also a tribal group, when the whole society is Cinema‘s network gathered together, and when information surged in front of you like a massive amount of information, you really felt unsure. When the violence on the network became more and more serious, you would feel an inexplicable fear.
At this time, what is needed is your discernment and judgment. “You wash your eyes and never be bullied by the ancients in your life.” The predecessors could express their own eyes in a large number of ancient books and words. Are we now Can’t it be done? Discernment and judgment are the basis for generating concentration. If you blindly follow the waves, you can only float with the waves. In the end, you have no control.
Doctors are noble, heroes, and angels when they are not fighting the epidemic. Is this normal? When respected doctors become weak and need protection, is this society normal? Whenever I pass by the gate of the primary school, I see those security guards holding steel forks standing at the door like a door god to protect primary school students, my heart hurts. If one day we will be in everyAt the door of a doctor, a security guard with a steel fork was sent to protect them from practicing medicine normally. Don’t you think life is ridiculous? The steel fork invented is a magical artifact, but the god in our hearts has not come. Respect for life, respect for profession, sympathy and protection for the weak, this is equality, friendship, the soul, and the God in our hearts. Our society, including the online society, is less hostility and more tolerance and understanding, and we have more peace and comfort in our hearts. When we are suffering from doctors on the Internet on weekdays, don’t we think there is a problem? Of course, I do not deny that there are some people with bad records among doctors, but is it logical to expand the individual to the whole industry?
When the whole society agrees that violence is used to fight violence and use evil to control evil, the knots of society will become more and more dead; when the hostility fills the entire online society, how can we say that we are a community with a shared future for the Chinese nation? Are we not in the same community as the doctors? Building a community with a shared future for mankind is even more distant.
A poet said that life is a Babaylan net, that’s right. The Internet society is a double-edged sword. We do not talk about McLuhan’s “implosure” theory and other high-end sermons, but we know that false and virus-carrying information will devour our golden time and life inch by inch. We must not be blinded by the “net” and the “net” will block our minds.
Let your eyes go out and don’t blindly follow. Show your thoughts and judgments and don’t believe them. Open your open mind and don’t be extreme.