When life encounters impermanence (revised)

Spring Festival is a traditional festival of our Chinese nation. Every time at this time, every family will get together for a reunion dinner. The streets and alleys are decorated with lanterns and lanterns, the flow of people is like a tide of people, and people who have worked hard for a year, dressed in festive costumes, have gone out of their homes to enjoy the leisure of the festival. they visit their relatives and friends and wish them a happy New year, permeated with a happy and peaceful atmosphere everywhere.

However, things changed, and a sudden novel coronavirus Wuhan pneumonia swept across China. It brings disaster, infection, illness and even death to patients like a plague. It also spoiled a good Spring Festival this year.

As early as a year ago, our relatives in Shanghai agreed to reunite at my brother-in-law's son's house on New year's Eve to celebrate his housewarming, which is commonly known as the greenhouse. As early as half a year ago, cousin nephew said hello to all families and invited his parents-in-law in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. They happily accepted the invitation, saying that they would fly to Shanghai to congratulate them as soon as the holiday was over. To this end, their family bought a lot of New year ingredients, ready for a lively celebration.

It is planned that on the day of the second year of junior high school, members of large families will get together in our home in Songjiang. If the weather is fine, the whole family is going to visit Happy Valley or the Sculpture Garden. As the hotel was closed in those days, there was no hope of ordering food. So we drew up a menu, then separately purchased and collected all kinds of ingredients, and the refrigerator and freezer were all full, so I was still in charge, showing my cooking skills to ensure that my family was satisfied with their food and had a good time.

Considering that my mother is very old, as the eldest son, I do not usually enjoy filial piety around her. After the Spring Festival, I can go back to Nanchang with my son and granddaughter having winter vacation. So my son bought me a high-speed train ticket from Shanghai to Nanchang in the morning of the third year of junior high school online. Let me visit my grandmother on their behalf and bring my family's greetings to her.

Everything was going on in an orderly way, but a hasty epidemic disrupted our plans. Coronal pneumonia in Wuhan is a highly contagious demon, and it happens to occur during the busy Spring Festival travel season. Seeing the expansion of the epidemic area and the increase of confirmed cases, the epidemic is the assembly number. President Xi instructed: give top priority to the safety and health of the people and resolutely curb the spread of the epidemic. The medical personnel who are fighting on the front line are duty-bound to charge at the forefront. Faced with this situation, it is impossible for every Chinese to be alone and stay out of the world.

Academician Zhong Nanshan called for the fastest and cheapest way to solve the epidemic is for all Chinese people to be isolated at home for two weeks, which has the least impact on the national economy and is most beneficial to life and health. It is strongly recommended that all Chinese people celebrate the Spring Festival at home and not visit relatives and friends. It's not impersonal, it's life first!

The situation was urgent. After consultation, we decided to respond positively to the initiative and take emergency measures. My nephew told us to cancel the family reunion plan on New year's Eve, celebrate New Year's Eve at home, watch the Spring Festival Gala, and have a revolutionary Spring Festival. We also cancelled the plan to party and visit the garden in the second year of junior high school, feel at ease with our families, have a good rest and enjoy a quiet life. The phone told the mother and sister-in-law as far away as Nanchang that in order to be responsible for the life and safety of their loved ones, they would return the booked train tickets and wait for the epidemic to go home to visit their parents and visit their mother in the blooming spring season. mother fully understands and supports our decisive measures.

Impermanence is the normal state of life. It is inevitable and there is nowhere to hide. The experience of our ancestors, if you encounter impermanence, please let it happen. Impermanence is not only the normality of life, but also the charm of life. Because you never know what will happen next, but at the same time you have to believe that bad things don't last forever. It is the impermanence of life that makes our life lively and colorful. The mountain has its peak, and the sea has its other shore. After a long journey, there will be a turnaround. The aftertaste is bitter and astringent.

In the face of the epidemic, for each of us, the general public should enhance their awareness of health, exercise regularly, work and rest regularly, and improve their immunity. Indoor ventilation, frequent hand washing, wearing masks when going out, walking less and staying at home is a contribution to the country.

My family of three generations and six members have been living at home since the closure of Wuhan on January 23. So far, more than half a month has passed, but as long as the government has not announced the end of the epidemic, we will stay at home all the time. This is our solemn commitment.

Every day, I spend time with my family to pay attention to the information and trends of the epidemic; feel the patriotic enthusiasm of the whole people inspired by the fight against the epidemic; and witness the touching deeds of medical personnel and scientific and technological workers in the battle against coronapneumonia. To understand the people of the whole country and various industries to courageously support Wuhan's boundless love and national spirit, and to share and read the literary works written by writers affectionately to praise the heroes of the epidemic has become my homework every day.

In this extraordinary day, the epidemic affects the hearts of every Chinese and forces everyone to think calmly and deeply and reflect on past mistakes and lessons. Let us personally experience the urgency of respecting science, caring for nature, and protecting wildlife; and realize that the responsibility of Communist Party cadres is that people's lives and safety should be put above all else. Although this awakening is too costly and heavy, it is unforgettable and will go down in the annals of history.

I often stop for a long time in front of the TV screen, unable to help myself: for the pain of the patient, for the angel in white day and night, willing to take the risk of being infected by the virus to save the patient, for academician Zhong Nanshan, such as the octogenarian old people, worry, worry for the country, work hard to pray for fuel, respect! Moved to tears for the noble character of their selfless dedication. Whenever at this moment, a kind of gratitude will rise in my chest, and there will be an impulse and passion that I want to express in words. When my family goes to sleep, I will pick up a pen and write for the warriors to fight the epidemic. So I wrote two poems "Let's face it together", "the epidemic shows Great Love" and "when Life encounters impermanence". As a grass-roots writer, he should make a modest contribution to this magnificent fight against the epidemic.

During this period of staying at home, each member of the family has his or her own harvest. What moves me in particular is that my 10-year-old granddaughter and 6-year-old grandson are very sensible. They learn and make progress together with the careful company of their parents. I finished my winter vacation homework early and read a lot of extracurricular books. I clocked in to attend online courses every day, read and recite ancient poems, and watched the popular poetry conference of CCTV during the Spring Festival on time every day. They do not forget to skip rope every afternoon, and their granddaughter also consciously dances and practices; the grandson has learned to play the Rubik's cube, and he can complete the game with the same color on six sides of the Rubik's cube in three minutes. In addition, our family's three meals a day are also rich and colorful, just to eliminate the chicken, duck, fish and other ingredients prepared for the treat years ago. For half a month, except for his wife, who went downstairs to throw garbage, picked up vegetables and other ingredients bought online every 3-4 days, and picked up express deliveries, other people never left home.

In my 65-year-old life experience, I have never experienced such a long period of closed-door isolation. However, it is because of this unprecedented epidemic that our lives are wonderful and wonderful. We will isolate as a resting place, enrich monotony, and make impermanence orderly. Just in the 100 square meters of limited space at home, to create a broad world for monks to take what they need, combine work and rest, warm and cozy, and gallop freely.

It is this year's impermanence that makes this Spring Festival doomed to have too many extraordinary, there are too many moved. It is precisely because there are too many impermanence that we show the national temperament of the Chinese nation, which is difficult to rejuvenate the country, cohesive force, boundless love, and becoming more and more brave. Of course, there are also malicious rumors and troublemakers who create panic, but with strong and transparent publicity and public opinion and the popularization of scientific prevention and control knowledge, the rumors break themselves. However, what is more terrible than panic is contempt, and what is even more terrible than contempt is the weak hearts of the people. Wuhan pneumonia is definitely not as simple as wearing a mask. It requires mass prevention and mass governance, and a game of chess for the whole country. Today, some people stop, some people contribute, some people retrograde, as long as we 1.4 billion Chinese people work together with the motherland, we will certainly win this war without gunpowder smoke! Wuhan, come on! Come on, China!

Shanghai, February 8, 2020