Where does the phrase "I would like to be a tree if there is an afterlife" come from?

From Sanmao's modern poem "Tell Yourself". The book says: If there is an afterlife, be a tree and stand in an eternal position, neither sad nor happy. Half is peaceful in the soil, half is flying in the wind, half is cool, and half is bathed in the sun. Very silent, very proud, never dependent, never looking for.

Sanmao (1943- 199 1 year 65438+1October 4th), female, formerly known as Chen Mao, a modern writer in China, was born in Dinghai, Zhejiang. 1943 was born in Chongqing and moved to Taiwan Province province with his parents. 1967 to study in Spain. 1973 settled in the western Sahara desert and married Jose. 1984 resigned from the faculty and concentrated on writing and speaking.

Sanmao is tall, with long hair fluttering, roaming the world with books and pens. Young, strong and lonely San Mao's charm to young people in Chinese mainland is beyond anyone's imagination. For many years, everyone has been talking about Sanmao everywhere, and I am one of the readers. Art exists by conquest. I worship Sanmao, a real writer.

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Sanmao's works are emotional and real, without too much whitewashing, but they show the true colors of life, wisdom and interest of life. In her works, there are no flowers and moonlight described in general love works. At most, she only writes about how they sit on benches in Spanish parks, shivering in the cold wind and thinking about how to solve the problem of food and clothing.

Sanmao experienced gloomy girlhood and troubled youth and middle age, which made sadness the keynote of her works. This sensitivity to pain has always remained in Sanmao's character and has had a great influence on her later writing. She pays attention to herself and the world around her with kind, sad and pitying eyes, so the lines in her works are always full of sad beauty.

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Sanmao-Baidu Encyclopedia