During the quarantine battle 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 institutions. 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 University. “Komiks“—
In this special Spring Festival, special period of avoiding and fighting the epidemic, in addition to doctors, scientific researchers, soldiers, workers, police, community managers, 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: Getting enlightenment in 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 liveliness and reds: 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, temple fairs and markets, laughter and joy at 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 early 1960s, 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 anger, without birds, bees, butterflies, only a silenceCovered with fields, woods and moors. 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 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 this silence, 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 on that day in order to commemorate a kind of backbone. On the day before the New Year’s Eve of the lunar calendar, can the Gregorian calendar be our day of confinement and meditation? 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. It is indeed a great thing to ask everyone to stop eating wildlife. In fact, this appeal has been around since the outbreak of SARS from November 2002 to May 2003 until it was stopped. But why are they still banned?
This is the market, consumption, and habits – extremely bad habits. If there is no buyer’s market and 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 drinkAfter that, the catering industry has taken 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.
With the economic development and the strengthening of national strength, our consumption habits have indeed become 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 it, please ask the waiter Cinema. When it is hot, almost all Japanese men at work have a sweat towel.
This is probably civilization. How can civilization be cultivated? By habitBabaylan. 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 and proposing slogans and promoting a concept and value, 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 started, the most popular and 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 Huoshenshan Leishenshan Hospital… They are all the patron saints of our people, the backbone of our nation, and the heroes of the times.
They are called “reversers” because they “know that there is a tiger in the mountain, but they tend to go to the tiger mountain.” It takes courage and a spirit of great love to stand up in times of danger. Cinema I saw the female doctor in Sichuan CinWhen sending farewell to his wife, “As long as you come back safely, I will take care of the housework for a year.” Do you think this safe blessing does not contain the meaning of life and death? Looking at the letters of requesting battle with red fingerprints, don’t you think that is the book of life and death on the battlefield?
Watching two young doctors in Hubei, they have already returned 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 medical practitioners. Because they are doctors, they have not forgotten the oldest Hippocratic oath, nor have they forgotten their oath when they studied medicine: health is entrusted to life, life is entrusted to save lives and heal the wounded, and never give up on 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 professional mission. These heroes are also human beings, husbands and wives, parents and children, and 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! What we hate the most are those corpse-positioned diners!
The cleaners who did not resign in the anti-epidemic hospital are dedicated. Those who take the temperature at the highway intersection are dedicated. Those who run around the community to prevent and fight the epidemic are dedicated. Those who brave the wind and snow and stay at the checkpoint are dedicated. Those who are still delivering vegetables and express delivery to people are also dedicated. Although they do not face the dangers of patients directly like doctors, they are still noble and must also be respected by us.
The so-called greatness in ordinary times, heroes in times of danger, and dedication to the workIt’s the most ordinary, but it’s not easy to do it.
Do we always want to do great things and ignore our daily careers?
No longer blindly following: Don’t be blinded by the “net” and your eyes are blocked. The “net” is blocked.
Information bombing is probably something that I have experienced deeply these days. Everyone stays at home, and when the information is unclear, they can only look at their phones, and they will be distracted when they leave their phones. At first, the more I looked at it, the less I felt. But when I looked at it, I had a suggestion in my heart. Why? Because there is more false information, more violence on the Internet, and the contradictory or exposed illusions on the Internet have educated us, 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 Babaylan and comments. Comments take time to think about them, and likes only requires a finger to move. This is a program designed for lazy people. So if we don’t move, we just like it. The most commonly used emoticons on WeChat always give you a thumbs up. But when we like it casually without thinking, we later found that there was something wrong. Sometimes we were deceived, and sometimes we became accomplices of the evil forces. Lazy likes always come at a cost and cost.
The Internet field is also a social field, and the online WeChat group is also a tribal group. When the entire social network gathers together and the massive amount of information surges in front of you, you really feel that you have no idea. When the violence on the Internet becomes more and more violent, you will feel an inexplicable fear.
At this time, what you need is your discernment and judgment. “The eyes wash away the autumn waters and will not be deceived by the ancients in their entire lives.” The predecessors could express their own vision in a large number of ancient books and words. Can’t we Cinema do it now? Discrimination and judgment are the basis for generating concentration. If you blindly follow the waves, you can only float with the waves, and in the end, the six spirits are unattached.
Doctors are noble, heroes, and angels when they are fighting the epidemic. When they are not fighting the epidemic, they will demonize them into blood suckers. Is this normal? Is this society normal when respectable doctors become weak and need protection? Whenever I pass by the primary school gate, I see itSome Babaylan security guards with steel forks stand at the door like a door god to protect primary school students, and my heart hurts. If one day we would send a security guard with steel forks at the door of each doctor’s medical treatment to protect them from practicing medicine normally, wouldn’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 an overall industry?
When the whole society agrees that fighting violence with violence and using evil to control evil, the knots of society will become more and more dead; when the anger fills the entire network society, why do we say that we are a community of 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 just a 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.