Cats Have Nine Lives, One Life and One Dynasty

It was a cat, but it lived nine lives. In the first life, it lay under the altar of apricots and listened to Confucius's voice of "benevolence" sound like a bell. It bets on an answer with one life - is there anything more important than life in this world? In the second life, it squatted on the edge of the execution ground and watched Qin official Zhao Jia write the law with blood for a lifetime. It uses a life to ask a question - if rules have no mercy, are they still rules? From the Spring and Autumn Period to the Republic of China, from the apricot altar to the alley, it traveled through China for two thousand years with nine lives. It has seen the swords of emperors and generals, and the tears of ordinary people; it has listened to Ji Kang's "Guangling San" on the execution platform, and it has also heard Zhang Qian's camel bells in the desert; it has guarded the touch of sky in the Ajiu kiln, and it has guarded a family letter on the threshold of the Zhao family. Nine lives, nine dynasties. It thinks it is witnessing history. It wasn't until its last life that it discovered that it was not witnessing history, it was history. For its ninth life, it squatted on the threshold of a Beijing alley and carved five words with its claws - "Shou, wait for me to come back." Who is it waiting for? ——Waiting for someone who has been walking for two thousand years. ——Waiting for a promise that was never fulfilled. ——Waiting for a letter home filled with nine lives. Cats have nine lives. The nine lives are unified into one, which is for the Chinese people.