_ _ _ _ _ Beichuan experienced
Yongming Zhai
On May 17th, at 5 pm, I drove to Beichuan with some friends from Chengdu and Tian Yu, a poet from Mianyang. After Tian Yu's earthquake, I worked in the earthquake relief headquarters in Mianyang and did a lot of work for the hardest hit areas.
I left Mianyang, passed Anxian County and went north. I have been here more than once, and it was still a difficult trip to Beichuan at that time.
On May 17th, at 3 pm, it was suddenly rumored that a reservoir burst its banks and attacked Beichuan. The soldiers and civilians who were frightened by the 5.12 disaster and are now in the middle of nowhere were shocked by the roar of "burst its banks". Soon, like the domino effect, they started with two bridges and one hole in Beichuan's famous traffic fortress. People are rushing along the already congested road.
At this time, we are on our way to Beichuan. Along the way, mobile phone messages about the reservoir burst have been circulated wildly on my mobile phone. However, due to the local experience and confidence in Tian Yu, we have been marching forward. By the time it is five o'clock in Beichuan, the rumors have subsided. People have already taken their positions. < p We entered the mountain road. On the way, we could see huge rocks lying across the road, and many roads were arched. Debris flow once washed away some roads. Even now, small rubble falls from time to time. The frightening scene began from a place more than ten kilometers away from Beichuan. On both sides are all collapsed houses, some broken into rubble, and some have some stone pillars left. As Beichuan approaches, everyone's mood becomes heavier and heavier.
Beichuan is located in a low-lying ravine. It is said that the county site has been moved for a long time, but it has never been achieved. This time, it is painful to experience such a huge disaster. Beichuan has beautiful scenery and simple and kind residents. Just today, we can still see the victims who live in the mountains to the north of Beichuan and escape over the mountains. The most touching thing is that a middle-aged man carried his disabled old mother with a big backpack, walked for two days and two nights, and walked from the mountains to Beichuan, and continued to move forward.
Beichuan Middle School, which suffered the most losses in the earthquake, attracted the most attention and was shocked, is actually not in the county seat, but on a high slope about several miles away from the county seat. It should be in a relatively safe geographical position. However, in the disaster on May 12, its teaching building was so vulnerable that it caused a devastating disaster.
On the way to Beichuan Middle School, a whole street has now become a rescue center. The busy rescue workers, large-scale hoarding of relief materials and refugees fleeing from the mountains have made this place dirty and disorderly, which has made me worry about the possibility of the spread of the epidemic in the disaster area. After entering Beichuan Middle School, people can't help but feel heavy and want to cry. Although there are a large number of ambulance personnel and PLA officers and soldiers next to them, the collapsed ruins are lying there so lonely and miserable. What surprised me even more was that the whole building was like a direct hit by a shell, completely shattered into rubble, and even the frame no longer existed. The five-story teaching building next door has also become three floors. On the ruins, rescuers are struggling to rescue a student who has been buried in cement, and his life is unpredictable. The scattered cement pile is full of students' textbooks and exercise books, many of which are covered with blood. On a pile of rubble, I picked up a textbook and an exercise book that recorded the learning situation of real children all over the sky. I collected some good textbooks and exercise books, hoping that one day, I can return these school supplies to those who are still alive.
Some people have collected the articles of the students who died, with their ID photos on them. Seeing those real and vivid faces, you found that death is so specific, the names on those student ID cards are so specific, the mobile phones, textbooks, pencil cases they used, and even the lipsticks used by some girls are so specific that they knock you down with the material form you are most familiar with.
a few days ago, there were thousands of lively lives, which were blooming like flowers here. Several pictures have been circulated on the Internet, and students of Beichuan Middle School are carrying out sports activities. From the pictures, it can be seen that the teaching building is almost new. Why did it collapse into such an unmanageable state? At this time, the two lifting towers are also like two huge question marks, pointing to the sky. Because they can't display themselves and have no choice but to do something.
When I came to Beichuan, I kept thinking about what I could do for the disaster area. Now, in the face of death, I suddenly feel that all my thoughts are so powerless, and everything I want to do has become an Monday morning quarterback. A great sense of powerlessness, pressing on my heart, mixed with the flying dust and pungent disinfectant around me, made me suffocate.
After I came back, I read an article on Li Chengpeng's blog: "The truth behind the miracle of no death in Beichuan Hanlong Primary School". He said: In the Beichuan earthquake with the worst casualties in the unit area, none of the 483 students in Dengjia Primary School there were missing, and none of them were killed or even seriously injured. Even a small piece of the glass curtain wall on the front of the teaching building, which is more than ten meters long and three stories high, is not broken. Compared with the school teaching building that killed hundreds of students in this earthquake, this is a miracle.
the person who handled the construction project of the supervision school was the office director of the donation group at that time. The school is now extremely grateful to the supervisor, the "director of the office". Mr. X, who does not want to be named now, talked about several important inside stories when talking about the quality of primary school construction. So let's talk about two most important things here.
ten years ago, the boss of the group said to him, "You can't lose anything on education. You must ensure good quality this time. If something happens to the building, you can leave the company." Mr. X used to be the vice president of a company that produces cement. He poured at least 5, tons of cement by his hand. He was an absolute expert. He found that the cement of the construction company had problems and contained too much mud, so he asked the construction company to clean the mud in the sand and not use flat stones. From the perspective of architecture, it was a disaster for the flat stones to be mixed in the cement pouring process, and the cement firmness was greatly reduced. He was furious with the construction team and asked them to wash the mud in the sand. Once again, according to the principle of donation, the enterprise donation must first go to the local relevant departments, and then the relevant departments will distribute the enterprise's money to the specific construction company, but the construction company did not get the money from the relevant departments in time (as people can guess, this is a Chinese practice), so Mr. X got angry again, pursued it, and finally got the money in place.
Mr. X later sent a short message to Li Chengpeng; "The construction of five hope primary schools in Mianyang was handled by me, but this earthquake failed to shake one and stood tall!"
Mr. Wang later sent a short message to Li Chengpeng. "The construction of five hope primary schools in Mianyang was handled by me, but this earthquake failed to shake one and stood tall!"
On my way back to Chengdu, I called my friend, an architect. I said that after seeing the scene, I couldn't understand why a building could be smashed to pieces in a few minutes. And an old building next to it is undamaged. As a layman, I want to know if there are any other reasons besides natural disasters, and I hope he can give me and the people who raised this question an explanation from a professional point of view. After reading this blog post by Li Chengpeng, I think I have a general idea.
On the way back, I looked through the exercise books I picked up from the rubble. In addition to the exercise books, there were also some books for girls to copy poems and lyrics. One of the girls named Zhang Lala copied many lyrics in a beautiful book with her slightly clumsy handwriting. It can be seen that this is a rose girl who is still in the romantic fantasy period. One of the lyrics made me meditate and grieve for a long time. The name of the lyrics is "Every girl is an angel without tears". I copied it in the back:
Every girl is a tearless angel/When an angel falls in love with a boy, she has tears/The angel falls into tears/So every boy should not fail your girl/Because she once gave up the whole heaven for you!
I just found out that most of these exercise books are girls' names. They are all tearless angels. They may not have fallen in love with boys, maybe they have fallen in love, but they haven't had time to give up heaven. I hope they will continue their fantasy when they have no tears in the future, in heaven.
I just found out that most of these exercise books are girls' names. They are all tearless angels. They may not have fallen in love with boys, maybe they have fallen in love, but they haven't had time to give up heaven. I hope they will continue their fantasy when they have no tears in the future, in heaven.
Here are the names of these tearless angels: Zhang Lala, Rollin Wang, Yang Qingping, Zhong Leilei, Mu Songping and Chen Feiyun. God help me, I wonder if any of them are still alive. On a beautiful notebook of the girl Rollin Wang, almost every page is pasted with a photo of her idol Liu Yifei. Those photos were obviously carefully collected by her, small and exquisite, and were posted in the middle of the exercise book. I wonder if that movie star Liu Yifei is also paying attention to the Sichuan earthquake. Do you know that there is such a girl whose fate is so different from hers, who once cared for and worshipped her in the distance?
After I came back, I looked up the information about the tearless angel on the Internet. Most of the lyrics on the Internet did not include the next paragraph in my notebook. I don't know if this passage was written by the girl herself. If so, it's really a frightening prophecy:
Can you reach a happy country by catching the happy balloon
?
I wish
that in the season when the scattered fragrant mud was ground into dust
it was you who drove away the wind and frost of the world for me.