The Yellow River water rushes down wrapped in the flesh and blood of the Loess Plateau,
It flooded to the point of destroying villages, but it could not overwhelm people who were still kneeling and chewing tree bark to survive.
An iron pot can cook Guanyin clay paste, and can also make steel to lift the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge.
Half a copper spoon scooped out the tears of the famine years, and finally became the ruler used to measure the world at the state banquet.
This is the story of an ant's rebirth towards death——
The stove is the starting point, and the boom is the extension.
And deep in the mud, our nation sleeps
The humblest struggle and the proudest spine.
