Me and the Temple of Earth

Me and the Temple of Earth

by Shi Tiesheng

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About This Novel

A collection of essays by Shi Tiesheng. Shi Tiesheng is one of the most admirable writers in contemporary China. His writing is completely isomorphic with his life. During his "writing night", Shi Tiesheng used his incomplete body to express the most sound and full thoughts. What he experienced was the suffering of life, but what he expressed was the brightness and joy of existence. His wise words illuminated our increasingly dark hearts. The Temple of Earth is just a carrier, but the essence of the article is the process of a desperate person seeking hope and missing his mother.

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Happy Opening27mo ago

Looking for the Temple of Earth

What is the meaning of life? After reading this book, I suddenly wanted to ask myself this question. Maybe each of us has asked ourselves this question before, when we are confused, when we are empty, when we encounter setbacks, when we are depressed, but is there really an answer to this question? Do we really need an answer? Most of us see the world through our own eyes and perceptions. We change ourselves based on other people's opinions, but rarely truly examine ourselves from the inside. We have all escaped from life in the altar of earth, but rarely learned to face life in the altar of earth. We have all complained about the injustices given to us in life, but have we ever understood that life is only a reflection of ourselves? Be relieved, be relieved, be calm, friends, armchair asking for directions is not to tell us the injustice of armchair, but to tell us the courage to ask for directions.

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Little Zhuyan71mo ago

Philosophy, life, value

I cried several times, the words are beautiful and sad

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Yunqi Sake23mo ago

A flower blooms in despair

Today I was really bored sitting around having my hair permed all afternoon. I remembered this book that I had collected for a long time and started to read it carefully. Shi Tiesheng is so delicate. His description of the mother's son who wants to support her but refuses to be kissed will make people shed tears uncontrollably. There are also the couple who have separated for twenty years regardless of rain or shine, the athlete who runs to death, the idiot sister who likes lantern fruit and the brother who protects him, and the "Good Luck Design" that fictionalizes a beautiful life, all of which make people unable to help but think about life. Shi Tiesheng's writing is simple and ordinary, but full of power and very healing. If you are in a trough, be sure to read it, Tiesheng will heal you, it is like a flower blooming in despair. If you feel happy, you can also take a look at it. He reminds us in a unique way that every moment in life is unpredictable. We cannot predict the future, but we can choose how to face it.

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Tasteless.74mo ago

This book is suitable for junior high school students and high school students to read. It can improve composition skills and reading comprehension skills. It is good

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Later, No One Was Like You_ae72mo ago

Good books but no one reads them

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Xr_be25mo ago

Fortunately, there are words to help us understand life more deeply.

I still remember that when I was in elementary school, autumn nostalgia appeared in Chinese textbooks. At that time, I only felt that the simplicity of Teacher Tiesheng's writing and bland narrative, and the exam-oriented learning method made me just recite the meaning of each sentence and always emphasized: "The importance of detailed description in this article." Then I was 21 years old or older, alone in a foreign land. After encountering setbacks as a young and energetic person, I called my mother. On the other end of the phone, my mother just asked relatively plainly how my life was recently and whether I should mail some specialties from my hometown to eat? I always feel that my mother and father cannot really get into me, and the separation between us due to age is unavoidable. Coincidentally, nearly fifteen years later, I once read "Autumn Memories" and couldn't help but burst into tears. At the same time, I was glad that I still had the opportunity to read this article again. There is always a saying in the world that human beings can never have youth and the feeling of youth at the same time. Presumably the same is true for youth, and the same is true for life. As my Beijing friend Brother Cao said: "How can healthy people fully understand the feeling of Teacher Tiesheng losing his legs? Because of this, you and I are lucky. You have read Teacher Tiesheng's words. No matter what, you know that no matter what, you must live well..." Finally, rewrite a quote from Director Ang Lee: Movies are not darkness, but take everyone through the darkness and test it again in the darkness, so that when you return to the sun, you will understand how to face life. It's the same with movies, and it's the same with literary works. The spirit that Teacher Tiesheng wants to convey to us, in my understanding, is the same. May my friends be healthy, happy, resilient, and encourage each other.

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Endless Starry Sky Wanderer26mo ago

🔥Book 140 in 2022

🔥Book 140 in 2022 🦼🦼🦼Everyone has a period of time when they are at a low ebb, feeling depressed, sensitive, irritable, and arrogant. Every time at this time, I like to take a bottle of wine, sit on the sofa, turn on the TV, and watch food programs from all over the country, late-night snacks, breakfasts, and night markets with my children in bed in the middle of the night. Drinking your own wine, eating other people's delicacies on the screen, and then thinking about troubles comfortably, it can be regarded as a different kind of retreat. It's really good to drink in the dark without turning on the lights and think about things in the dead of night. The same is true of Shi Tiesheng's Temple of Earth. Everyone has his own place and environment where he can relax. At a certain moment of enlightenment, reconciliation with himself, and relief, he may become a Buddha immediately, and we will be enlightened and God will return to his own soul space. Steady your own god, steady your own god. You will not be confused by other people's words, the complexity of time, and materialistic desires, and your eyes will not be lost, and your mind will be lost. The altar of earth is also the altar of heaven. We revere and worship our own gods, because that god is ourselves. We don't need to look outside ourselves, but look within ourselves. As an outsider, if you step out and look at yourself from a high place, you will know that your current worries will not matter tomorrow, but you will be confused at that time. I didn't realize it at the time, but when I did, I tortured myself for many days, so why bother. Peace of mind and uneasiness are just separated by a screen. If you tear it open, you can see her. There is a thin line between peace and uneasiness. You can see it from a place not far from you! Starry Sky God - Endless Starry Sky Wanderer! You are God, your only God

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U Deserve29mo ago

I don't want to use Shi Tiesheng's physical disability to motivate myself, as that would be in vain. What I really need is to appreciate his attitude towards life.

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Chang'an16mo ago

The sentences are beautifully written, but aren't they full of regrets?

I have to say, the sentences are beautifully written. But it's full of regrets. Another name for this book should be "Sorry Mom, I'm fine, let's go out for a walk together" One of the biggest characteristics of literary youth is that when faced with an unchangeable reality, they can naturally beautify the consequences of reality. This behavior looks full of beautiful brilliance. It looks like there is an aperture + background brilliance. It reminds me of Lin Daiyu and "Norwegian Wood" So the book written by Yu Hua is so similar to Shi Tiesheng's, but also so different? The books written by Huazi are very explicit. He just wants to dissect the reality one by one and collapse it in front of the readers. He said with a smile, "Hey, hey, a pile of broken corpses", and then turned around and left without saying anything. If Shi Tiesheng were a girl, I would probably be too distressed to express my feelings after reading it. (Laughing) but this is a good book

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Luoyuexiantan22mo ago

I think of a popular saying that I saw recently, "Love, experience, and get hurt." When you encounter setbacks, don't question your fate, but feel your fate. As written in the book, don't chatter to the wall, listen to the wall and ask. Such communication is considered communication. It's a pity that I only read this book now. The process of enlightenment is too painful. Only books can resonate with the soul and soothe the spirit.

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