Jerusalem

I believe Mao Jin will not drop "Swan of the Underworld", but I don't know if Jinjiang will still be there at that time. If the teacher will update the novel on other social platforms in the future, please continue to use the pen name Mao Jin!

It has been six years since I finished reading this book. Time flies so fast! I still remember that I cried after reading it and posted my first comment on Jinjiang with the feeling that I would never get an answer (because it had been many years since the last update of this book at that time). Unexpectedly, Dadada just responded to my comment. T T told me that Lancaster will always love Garcia. From then on, all my reading websites were named after this. Hehe, to commemorate the happiness I felt when I got the answer, this book also became my favorite novel to introduce to anyone! ^ ^ It has been six years since I graduated from college. I never like to read a book a second time. But I have read this book and many others over and over again. I really like it

The article I read when I was in middle school has since become the existence of Bai Yueguang and Cinnabar Moles in my heart. It is no exaggeration at all!! I really love Da Da Da's writing style, the fateful entanglement of the characters in the text, and the pseudo-canonical style of writing. I even wrote a short article imitating Da Da Da Da's style at that time. Love you forever!!

"Holy Land" and "Jerusalem"——Comments on "Jerusalem" This is a very complicated era, and it is also an era that can break people's hearts. This may be the most indescribable point. Let me first briefly talk about the two protagonists I know. Sassanid is like the sum of all the beauty and mystery in the world. He attracts us as an individual, but the sum of his beliefs, positions and elusive beliefs indifferently push us away thousands of miles away. So this person is like a drug to Garcia, unable to abandon him, unable to break away and unable to integrate him into his own flesh and blood. Because any kind of contact will make him shaken. In the West and the Holy See, Garcia was mysteriously bewitched by the mission he was supposed to complete and lost his original self-control. Perhaps it was because of this that he had to think that he had to step on such emotions under his feet to overcome it and defeat it. It cannot be regarded as Garcia's fault, because before he came to Antioch, the mission he carried embodies his beliefs and value identity, his family and mission. In his eyes, none of this should be ruined by so-called emotions, so he wanted to get rid of it and overcome it. The worldly cruelty shaped Garcia's ruthlessness, but in the end, the return and reshaping of faith, the removal of the cloak of deception and the re-examination of the self shaped Sassan's lover, Garcia. In the concept of ancient Hebrew aesthetics, the reshaping of the God-based monistic value system is rooted in the inspiration of humanism and the awakening of people's own virtues. But the ensuing "love" can be portrayed as a virtue, or it can be transformed into a category of vices. If Garcia is truly devout to the Lord, he will know this, but from his performance, he regards him more as the latter, so it is difficult for Garcia to consider this emotion from the perspective of pure emotional awareness, because behind it is more of a mystery of faith. So I really admire Mao Da for setting the story around "Jerusalem", a time when faith and killing go hand in hand, a very mysterious era, and designing such a real and touching, complete individual shaped by the interweaving of secular emotions, rational choices, and religious impulses. Regarding the "Holy Land" Jerusalem, just because - "Jerusalem", it is nothing more than a tragedy. I have my own understanding. All the characters related to Jerusalem in the article are all gathered here more or less because of their faith or destiny, but they are all deceived by Jerusalem. This deception, starting from Godfrey, the first king of the Kingdom of Jerusalem (i. E., The Guardian of the Holy Sepulchre), is like an inevitable curse. It is destined that no kingdom in this land and the faith on it will not last forever. Jerusalem is an empty homeland across the world. Sasanian loneliness and arrogance are very similar to several outstanding kings in the history of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, but who remembers their names? If he could see but didn't believe the future he saw - a generation that would eventually become silent and as vague as dust. After waiting for thousands of years to be saved, none of them had been truly saved. He must have hoped to get rid of this curse and deception, so he struggled in Jerusalem all his life, trying to use his soul to save a "lonely tomb" destined to become the Holy Sepulcher. But Sasan didn't do it after all. Let's not talk about his relationship with Garcia. As far as his identity is concerned, finding a home for his wandering faith is an idea that any ordinary believer has. From this point of view, he is very ordinary, but what is different about him is that he hopes that this suffering can be saved and will not continue. When he said, "Only this desert and Jerusalem will last forever," his words were vague. Whether he really saw it or was just telling himself this is unknown. But I guess this is what he hopes. The difference between him and others is that he has seen all of Jerusalem, so he will say that Jerusalem "is nothing but everything." (The earliest sentence I saw was "Jerusalem is priceless, Jerusalem is worthless." From the kingdom of heaven) He is even somewhat similar to Saladin in this regard. They both see clearly and want to save, but they still can't. Saladin wrote this in his letter to Charlemagne - "Jerusalem is ours and yours - in fact, she is more sacred to us." Why did Saladin say this? He recognized Jerusalem's "value to everyone" but believed that she was more sacred to him. Such a contradiction is not uncommon. In the final analysis, nothing can override faith, but when people really make decisions, many secular relationships go hand in hand with them and cannot be avoided. I have had doubts for a long time, and I think the most terrifying indifference of Sasan is-not knowing why he is alive. And it can be seen that he is very tired from living. This is the most ordinary, but it is also the highest. In this regard, it can be said that he is an overloaded collection of contradictions. I originally thought that Sasan was the only one alive, but after reading the extra story, I found out that his mother was a member of the Shin Sect, and he helped those believers, but he did not admit that he had a direct relationship with any of them. The secular kinship did not help him choose his own faith, but he was willing to devote his strength to this relationship to help those people, but this is not enough evidence to say that he also lives for these people. This may only show that Sassanid's ideas are the same as those of the old Sid, who do not believe in orthodoxy and do not talk about heresy. Although it is sophistry, it is closer to the truth. Such venerable authorities as the triple great Hermes of Egypt and Plato himself may have drank from the wellspring of revelation in Moses, or they may have been directly inspired by the Word of God without realizing it. This is also the inspiration given to me by the word "heresy" in this article. It is this kind of distant relationship that brings Sassanid and "Jerusalem" and "heresy" closer and closer. They are all the same mystery, the same loneliness, the same pain, and the same inability to be saved in the world. So if I had to give an answer, I don't know what this cat would think. He might live for Jerusalem, because if he could really see the future, he would not be so persistent at all, because Jerusalem, as the so-called "Holy Land", is a fortress of ashes and the tomb of the kingdom, which makes no sense. So this may be the reason why Sassanid denies his direct relationship with any religion. He does not want to become one of the guardians of the Holy Sepulchre, so he avoids talking about the "Holy Land". What he sees more is the vastness of Jerusalem. It is also a city and a territory. It is the hometown of countless people, and it is also where he believes that people who are like the dust of history can finally return. Therefore, it has infinite meaning, not just a "Holy City" with endless wars. The Jerusalem for which he lived was the myriad reasons for which he lived. Jerusalem was itself a myriad of reasons, itself a myriad of contradictions, and the only faith, for Sassanid, if indeed he had told Garcia that he had denied any connection to Persia or to Persia. Sasanian gentleness, indifference and aloofness all have the characteristics of divinity. If he is more indifferent and "not human", then based on the logic of the God of Kabbalah and Judaism, it can even be said that any place in the world can be Jerusalem, and it is Him anyway Created, people's entanglement, pain and persistence all come from sinful self-worship. That God cannot tolerate this, so in His view, the birth of Jerusalem as the "Holy City" is a mistake made by people themselves, and the consequences will be borne by themselves. It is not that no ruler in the history of the Kingdom of Jerusalem thought this way. But Sasan probably doesn't. For this reason, I love him enough. His gentleness may be due to the simplicity of his soul, so he will not be as cruel as Melisande or Garcia. He is very proud, which is the posture of a king, but he is not as entangled like Garcia, who uses love to punish and flog himself, but his pain comes from a deeper level, directly related to his own beliefs and destiny - he was shy when he was a child, maybe he could see the future and see the ending of Garcia and himself, but Garcia did not go to Antioch with him. That may be the first time he believed that his ability was a punishment, because everything he saw made him suffer. This is what he is escaping from, but there is no escaping it. At the same time, he knows the cause and effect but wants to shake them. He is in the prospect of suffering, denial of himself, and huge mental torture. What is the purpose of such a person's life if not to want to change? But failure after failure wears away at his life. Every time he sees the future, he has to endure the pain of "eternal return". That kind of torture is undoubtedly nailing his life to eternity, an eternal cycle of suffering and hopeless salvation. His life followed a potentially fixed trajectory, but he forced himself to change. His life was rather a microcosm of Jerusalem, a trajectory repeated from generation to generation. Those who wanted to change it and every traveler who loved and respected him could not see the future, but the future was here, in Jerusalem. Garcia once said, "As long as something happens, the walls of Jerusalem will never collapse." Garcia is a pitiful man because he cannot see that he initially regarded Jerusalem as a "holy city". To get him, he is no different from thousands of people in history. But until the end, he responded to Sassanid's "love" with faith. He dedicated his life to Jerusalem in the sense that the Sasanians recognized it, rather than just protecting its borders, and in his final moments he really penetrated into the heart of Jerusalem and understood what it was that the Sassanids were living for. Secular war and the power of faith beyond the mortal world have created two people who, although living in the human world, can make the pride of the Son of God bow. But in the end, from the perspective of salvation, that is, from the perspective of Jerusalem, just as Andre said - "The world is shrouded in conspiracy as always, and countless dear souls have been buried. Will Jerusalem change at all?" Nothing will change. Sasan has probably seen it for a long time. This is an unsolvable situation. Although you have seen too many unyielding and aloof souls in the secular world gathered here, as well as too many diverse beliefs, who doesn't want to find a land for their beliefs to rest on? But what he saw was that no one could complete this salvation. So he just smiled but said nothing, as if he were a god on the throne. Sassanid just hoped that while he was still alive, Jerusalem would not fall into the hands of the West. This showed that Sassanid had finally bowed to this unsolvable situation. It was destined that neither he nor any ruler of Jerusalem could escape the predetermined fate. Jerusalem would be what it should be. Therefore, he told himself from the beginning that Jerusalem will last forever, and people are just the dust of history, whether they are Easterners, Westerners, themselves or others. Therefore, even if his dignity was defeated in the end, he remained calm and showed no emotion - because this was just destined and no one could change it, including me. ——2020.2.18

In a blink of an eye, even the subsequent return was 20 years ago... There are always a few midnights that open Jerusalem, my white moonlight.

Hello Cat. I've read "Jerusalem" many times, as well as "Blue" or "Tower of Ashes". I sincerely want to praise you... I hope you give me a chance. After reading your words more than three times, I can't stop thinking about it. Some of my little insights are as follows - from the perspective of writing conception, I pay attention to your selection of materials, the characters you write, every inspiration element and the meaning behind them, and every detailed clue. The characters in your works, such as Sasanian, Adrian, and Cesare, have some things in common, such as beauty and mystery, which are elements that can be expressed. The ambiguity is not the same, different backgrounds of the times, different ideological values, each has something suitable for them. Each character and the elements in them, you can express their most vivid images and the most wanton love and hate, either tactfully or openly, but all of them are reasonable. It's like the most authentic and perfect product of this era. Such as Sasan, Garcia, such as Adrian, such as Elijah and Giuliano. It's fascinating how many puzzling qualities and puzzle-like backgrounds and character traits these people have. They exist for a short time, but yet give people the feeling of being in touch with eternity. They are symbols of an era and a living life. As a symbol, they bring us the eternity of the world in the painting. As a person, they have such dripping emotions and quiet loneliness. Therefore, when reading your words, I feel distant but not distanced. It extracts the eternal beauty from static symbols, and truly explains the real pain and cruelty of dynamic life. The combination of the two gives me the feeling of eternity in a moment. Maybe this is the love you describe. Perhaps it is the ending of knowing each other and cherishing each other but destined to separate, the game of misery, loss, and undecided faith, and the intersection of temporary and eternal moments. I never dare to characterize, label or anything else about the characters in your works, because love means understanding and respect. Their images are very clear and hazy. To be honest, when I read "Jerusalem" or "Blue" or "Tower of Ashes", I can feel that death and loss are only separated by a wall. Standing behind the characters and breathing, it is real and lonely. But there are countless scenes full of joy and publicity, with no boundaries in between, because this is reality. What's more, the symbolic brushwork and romantic tone that I personally love are no longer deliberately sketched in your words. Their presentation is extremely natural and real. It can be seen that the author's skills and knowledge are indeed profound, which is also evident from the selection of materials, characters and background story structure. However, there is no trace of deliberate showoff or meaningless carving between the lines. Therefore, reading your words is like embarking on a journey. Therefore, I do not think that giving such praise to such words is "over-interpretation", because I just recognize that you have such a high level. When I was writing a long review of Jerusalem - "Holy Land and Jerusalem", I really wanted to have further communication with you. I really like you so much, but at the same time I felt that you might be very busy or have no time right now and didn't want to bother you too much. But I read your postscript, and I was really moved when you said that "the original intention has not changed." So I mustered up the courage to come here and write some more comments, hoping to get a chance to communicate with you. I really hope that, I really like you so much, I don't know if this is rude, I'm extremely sorry, but it's true. I love you. I am in your readership, q q is 1 6 1 5 5 2 4 0 2 9 Thank you! Thank you for bringing me these wonderful experiences, they are already living in my heart.

Jerusalem is a land that cannot be turned over. Thousands of years of time have frozen it firmly. Under the ice bricks that are difficult to pry are the bones of countless believers. I think Sasanian should also have seen this ending, that unchangeable destiny, and finally became the tombkeeper of Jerusalem without hesitation, and proudly reached eternity under the nameless tombstone. The idea of a knight guarding the king really stung me to death. Garcia, a knight without faith, finally regarded Sassanid as his god. Faced with his deep love, he knew it would always be guarded... I thought of "My faith is you, Adrian" in the dance. I am really fascinated by this kind of sacrificial love. When I saw the end, I felt a sense of relief. The wind of the twelfth century blew away. Those beliefs, culture and love engraved in the bone marrow were all truly dissipated in the wind. Fortunately, some people believed and remembered.

It's so frustrating. Thank you. Because of you, I think, I must go to Jerusalem once in this life. Every one of your stories is at the level of white moonlight in my heart, revealing heavy and gorgeous beauty. Only death is the best filter. As a be lover, I really cried. Thank you for bringing me such a good story

Let me go, it turns out this is not written according to history... Face covering

It's enough. When co-author dies, he still has to be responsible for burying his lover and rival together. It made me cry when I saw Henry holding the kitten and saying, "The knight is back to protect me!"