Nothing soothes the heart more than flowers in ruins

Today's media are remembering "May 12" in their own way, leaving everyone in a trance. It has been ten years since the unforgettable grief of 2008.

An earthquake ten years ago destroyed a lot of things, both people and plants. But plants always seem to heal earlier than human hearts. They grow savagely on the ruins and give us comfort and encouragement. When we see them, we will think of what the disaster took away and what we can't take away. Perhaps we are more dependent on plants than on us.

Sichuan earthquake for ten years, we will never forget, but also continue to live.

When the wind blows through here, my hometown is far away.

Mo Xi Zi's poems

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{Shaoyao girl Vol.734}

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Waiting for healing.

A month ago, Aba, Sichuan, was once Xuankou Middle School.

The dormitory is already covered with grass and shrubs.

They're on the ground, on the wall.

Take root and sprout in every other gap that can be found

Courageously occupied this place.

There are no people, no reading, no laughter and no fighting.

Only the plants that grow silently have become the present masters.

On May 12, 2008, 14:28 Beijing time, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck Wenchuan, the earth cracked in half and the earth and rock ejected buried everything. The middle school was also forced to stop teaching until ten years later, slowly recovering and becoming a natural spectacle.

Around it, more than 10,000 lives are buried here.

A tree grows savagely on the roof, as if continuing life here.

There are still cars that were damaged in the ruins.

The Tangjiashan dammed lake formed after the earthquake completely submerged Xuanping Township.

The water level has receded in recent years, and shrubs several meters high have grown on the roof.

This is not only a natural spectacle brought about by the earthquake, but also a form of healing after the pain.

Many young people who visited later cried when they saw the ruins, and they could still feel what had happened there and feel the emotional shock shared by human beings.

In the face of natural disasters, human beings are small passers-by. The dead are destroyed and hurt, but the living have to endure grief and live.

The Ya'an earthquake on April 20, 2013

The home where the old man lived all his life suddenly collapsed.

She sat on the cloth sofa and wept silently.

April 25, 2015, after the earthquake in Nepal

A famous victim lies outside a hospital full of wounded.

With flowers and money on his body.

And the terrible nuclear leak at the Daiichi nuclear power plant.

In the restricted area of the nuclear power plant, the flowers are slowly withering and dying.

Whenever these natural disasters come, there seems to be no more effective way for people to pray for the dead, shed tears and silently offer a bouquet of flowers.

The tomb chrysanthemum is tall and long, and this kind of flower has also become us.

The flower of choice when celebrating the dead.

An 88-year-old man from Sichuan

Walk ten kilometers up the hill every day

To sing and dance for his dead wife.

His wife died in the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, in which a total of 69227 people were killed, 374643 injured and 17923 missing.

The earthquake took away his family and home, and he survived.

To see his dead wife in this way every day.

It's like she's just gone a long way and always comes back.

Two-year-old Ayakura and her family prayed for her grandmother in the clearing.

She disappeared in the earthquake.

In front of the earthquake resistant memorial wall in Tangshan, Hebei Province

A little girl with flowers in her arms looked at the words on the wall.

After the 11.15 fire in Shanghai

A large number of citizens and masses came spontaneously from various districts.

They held flowers to pay tribute to the dead who died in the fire.

On the day of "the first seven", a bunch of white chrysanthemums could not be bought near the fire district.

After the ceremony, there is a long recovery period, what can be seen is the healing of the earth, and the healing of the people is even more unfathomable, there is no time limit.

Although some people survived, their hearts stayed on that day forever, unable to continue as if their souls had been taken away. Some people dry their tears and pack their bags and leave the original place to find the meaning of life again. There are also people who take positive actions and insist on doing one thing to comfort the dead and the living.

After the leak at the Fukushima nuclear power plant

A glider researcher who graduated from the architecture department of a famous university

Putting aside the high-paying job, I decided to plant cherry blossoms on the mountain.

This is the story of the "ten thousand cherry blossom planting plan" (reviewing that the billionaire gave up his worth and went to the mountain to plant 99000 cherry trees just to "atone"). After the disaster, keeping warm food and clothing can no longer make people happy. It seems that only then can we see clearly that the flashy world that we usually pursue is meaningless.

Then choose to plant trees and flowers. Seeing the trees grow and the flowers bloom, it is as if life has been extended.

"I hope that children in 20 or 30 years' time

You can see cherry blossoms all over the mountain.

Let people in the future know how much we love this land.

See more and more cherry blossoms blooming

People should be happy. "

Many people came all the way after hearing about it.

Joined this "ten thousand cherry blossom planting plan".

Last year, there was a "Cherry Blossom Festival" here.

They invited musicians from nearby to perform.

People gather here happily, accompanied by music, food and wine.

Flowers and green plants always symbolize the connection with the earth, hope and the continuation of life. When the earth blossoms again, life must be better again.

If not yet, let's draw a picture.

Volunteers from the architecture department came to Yanmen, Wenchuan.

Draw a tree for the people who rebuilt the new house.

Like O'Henry 's "the Last Leaf".

Under the hard broken stone of the ruins

Puergen poked his head out quietly and jumped out half a meter high.

The old table is no longer lonely.

The vine crept up and wound it.

Shuimo Town in Wenchuan is also completely different.

The land is full of beautiful women.

The granny walked through the flowers, carrying a hoe and a basket.

It looks like a normal life.

Never take the initiative to think of it, and never forget

This is our response to the Wenchuan earthquake.

The attitude of natural disasters and accidents.

Disasters remind us that human beings are really small.

But the vegetation comforts us in a withered and glorious way:

"when the wind blows through here, everything has been reborn."

Live well and pass on your life.

Pass on the hope

For those who have passed away.

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