When life meets impermanence

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. Like a plague, it brings disaster, infection, disease, and even death to people in epidemic areas. 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 impermanence disrupted our plans. Coronavirus, a highly contagious demon, happens to happen during the busy Spring Festival travel season, so it is impossible for every Chinese to 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!

After consultation, we decided to respond positively to the proposal and take emergency measures. Our 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 of gathering and visiting 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.

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, January 27, 2020