-Ba Jin's "Lights"
Although drunk, we lit a lamp to see the scenery.
After another war, you came back, and you drank with the soldiers, exhausted from the battlefield. You smiled at the soldier, and your deep eyes were confused. You have no idea how much you can do for your country. You just do your best and go all out. Back to the tent camp, you are slightly drunk, quietly holding a sword to accompany you to the battlefield. By the dim light of the old oil lamp, you saw how many soldiers died by a sword and how many drops of blood soaked the sword. Keep your head down, because only you know that the bloodshed of a few people now is for the peace of the people of the world in the future. Suddenly looking back, the lights are dim and the sun is rising.
Facing the Sea With Spring Blossoms
I know you long for the light. You've been wandering in the dark for too long, and you're too tired. "In the dark/I have three kinds of sufferings: vagrancy, love and existence/I have three kinds of happiness: poetry, the throne and the sun." You wander in the dark, you lose your love, and you don't want to exist anymore. But what you can't give up is your favorite poem, the throne you've always wanted, and the sunshine and warmth you're striving for. But in the end you chose to leave: the body is the beginning of the soil. The body is not anger or disease, it contains fatigue, sadness and genius. So you want to start over, with fatigue and sadness about this life, you want to be a genius. You believe in reincarnation, and you believe that the sun will light up the darkness.
See you for three days.
How did you grow from a stubborn little girl to a caring and kind person? How do you find the lamp of life from the boundless darkness? How do you bring courage and warmth to countless blind people with your perseverance? I admire you, really, just like the god in the sky, just like the sun hanging high. I still can't imagine the setbacks and difficulties in your world, and I still can't know whether you can see the faint light. I think you can tell. There is always a lamp in your heart, a lamp eager to light up the world and darkness. Even when the sun sets and night falls, we can still light up the darkness with the light in our hearts, can't we?
Xin Qiji, Haizi and Helen Keller, you are the bright lights in my life. When I am covered with branches and leaves on the road of life, you light up the road ahead for me, and you bring me courage and warmth in the dark.
Yes, I just hope you will never die.