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“Outside Gusu City lies Hanshan Temple; at midnight its bell reaches the traveler's boat.” In that era with little noise, in the dead of night the ancient, melodious bell rung by the early-rising monks of Hanshan Temple, piercing the heavens and reaching the ears of…

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the rice in the western suburbs gradually turned golden. Walking along the field ridges, breathing the familiar scent of straw, and in the evening watching the distant scattered lights and the starry sky by the paddy fields, I felt I was…

I got up in the morning, strolled around the yard, and by the way took the household's recycled water to water the potted vegetables in the yard. The potted vegetables do not grow very well, bearing few and small fruits, but they still have a…

Günter Grass wrote a novel called The Tin Drum, whose protagonist Oskar keeps refusing to grow up. Strictly speaking, every one of us is a bit like Oskar deep down; many people live in childhood all their lives. This can be explained by biology: certain…

As the old saying goes: after sixty, each year is worse than the last; after seventy, each month is worse; after eighty, each day is worse. This folk saying vividly describes how, as people age, the speed of aging keeps accelerating. Aging and death are…

In the afternoon I went to get a nucleic acid test, and after that went to a nearby wet market to buy groceries. I bought a chicken and a piece of beef, paid 184 yuan, and left to buy vegetables at other stalls. Just as…

Howling winds and raging rain make birds huddle; clear sunlight and gentle breezes make grass and trees thrive. Thus heaven and earth cannot be without harmonious warmth for a single day, and the human heart cannot be without a joyful spirit for a single day.

Wang Yangming wrote a line of poetry: "If this mind is not tempered in the affairs of life, where else can it be tempered?" Treating cancer patients is an excellent way to temper the mind. The partings and deaths, the griefs and joys of human…

The best friend we can have in this lifetime is time. When we are wounded, it patiently heals us; when we are lost, it patiently guides us to grow; when the whole world misunderstands and doubts us, it is still willing to stand by us…

In the early hours of today, my little nephew was born in Shenzhen. My older brother, having a son in middle age, has the whole family overjoyed; I called my father first thing this morning to share the good news, and he is beyond happy.