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"Trees Are Like This" is a self-selected collection of Bai Xianyong's essays, which mainly includes articles in which he recalls his personal experiences and interactions with relatives and friends. Among them, "The Tree Is Like This", which commemorates a deceased friend, has been deeply painful for six years. It is called "a song of life completed with blood, tears and the purest emotions in the world." Also included are two new works about friends: "Looking for the Bodhi Tree" by the painter Xi Song on his journey to practice Buddhism, and "Practice the Bodhisattva" by Du Cong, who rescued tens of thousands of AIDS orphans. This shows what Bai Xianyong has been thinking about in recent years. Most of the works in the book were written after Bai Xianyong "knows destiny at fifty". Dong Qiao was once "surprised that he was already like an old monk who was at ease and let go, letting a fallen flower silently exude instant brilliance in his palm." Written to my friends Wang Guoxiang and my third sister Xianming, the simplicity contains magnificence and compassion for the world. Guilin, Shanghai, Nanjing, Taipei, cultural nostalgia is superimposed, making it difficult to find a place to return. In the fan magazine "Modern Literature" where he devoted his efforts and youth, Bai Xianyong used literature to make friends, and his love lasted a lifetime.

The contents of this book include "Falling Leaves", "Wanting to Fly", "Seeking Medical Treatment", "My Peter", "What Should We Do When We Are Sick", "On Suicide", "The Ugly West Lake", "The Claws of Paris", "Sunrise on Mount Tarzan", etc.

The contents of this book include "A Man on the Road", "Words about the Residence", "The Night of the Beginning of Autumn", "A Letter", "A Public Statement to a Literary Youth", "Reminiscences of Lu Xun", "Miscellaneous Talks in July", etc.

"The Legend of Tao Yuanming Searching for Gods" tells the story of Tao Yuanming, who lived in seclusion in Jiujiang, and went on an excursion to Xi'an County (today's Wuning) to search for gods and wonders, despite the hardships and dangers. Using Wuling Cliff as the prototype, he wrote the famous story "The Peach Blossom Spring". The work uses the beautiful mountains and rivers of Xi'an Ancient County as the background, and narrates touching stories and legends one after another, as if it is a sparse and unique landscape painting, displayed in front of readers.

When you cross the hill of loneliness, you will find that the suffering you have suffered before will eventually become a force in life. Cai Jianjian, the columnist of Chuxin Living Room, the contracted author of Zhang Defen Space, and the columnist of the readers' public account, always believes that "standing on a sharp point, being alone, and living up to the time", he uses 41 heart-warming stories to tell the lonely and beautiful life stories that everyone encounters. Cai Jianjian was once a member of the new media trend. The hustle and bustle of society, the pressure of life, the helplessness of the workplace, the beauty of love, the longing for dreams... Are like battlefields. You can only win by going through and fighting in person. She is popular among many readers on self-media platforms and has authored many original articles worth more than 100,000 yuan.

On the train to Hue, I just raised my camera when a dark, thin old woman came up to me and asked me: "Are you Chinese?" She spoke in Chinese. She said that she guessed that I was Chinese when she saw me from a few rows away, because Vietnamese would definitely not take pictures of such an ordinary carriage. She said excitedly: "That's great. I haven't met a Chinese for a long time, and I haven't even had the chance to speak Chinese." But if she hadn't spoken, I wouldn't have been able to tell where she was from at first glance - her clothes looked similar to The old Vietnamese woman in the carriage was not much different; she asked me "how to get to Laos", and the map she carried with her had place names like "Saigon" and "Vientiane" on it, which made me mistakenly think that she was from Taiwan. Later I found out that she learned it from overseas Chinese in Ho Chi Minh City - she didn't even know that "Laos" is called "Laos" in China.

In the process of creating a chapter of life, it is those intentional or unintentional pauses that can make us warm, relaxed, and inspired to move forward. This book carefully collects some "good times you can afford". They are either a loving companionship from a daughter to her mother, or a love effort without any expectation of return, or a long journey to let go of entanglements, or a kind of last persistence in the face of slim hope... It is these little warmth and little hopes that record our lives. They are not worth mentioning, but they are irreplaceable. They are like quiet little poems. Every sentence is so gentle, and every punctuation is so precious...

Li Xiaoyi, Tao Yanyan, Lin Tite, Han Songluo, Lu Jin, Li Yueliang, Yan Hong, Murong Suyi, Wan Shui, Ai Xiaoyang, Sesame, Coi Yi, Li Hexi... 27 Delicate writers' love roundtable discussion: Thoughts: What year is your love? Discovered: Doing a lot of things for you that you are not good at and staying together in the turbulent years. Because of you, I have become a better me, and you are still the very best you. Answer: No matter you are single, in love, or married, you are actually always loved. What could be happier than this? Change: Awaken the senses of love and wait for love and life to mature naturally. There are 29 kinds of love here, first love, secret love, missed love, lost love... Each story touches the pain points in our love, and each love makes us cherish what we have in our hands more.

This is a book that is very close to life and related to everyone's life interests. The author talks about it as if he is experiencing all his happy feelings. Let you go deeper without realizing it until you read the whole book. I was shocked to realize: I had been deceived by this middle-aged fat man - in fact, his life was just so calm, but he was also free and allowed to do whatever he wanted!

This book is a collection of hundreds of essays, all of which are the result of the author's writing for most of his life. They are also the crystallization of the author's wisdom in letting his thoughts fly and comprehending life. The book is divided into four parts: freehand brushwork of all things, flavor of the floating world, humanistic spring and autumn, and cultural depth. The works may imbue the theory with the form, and the theory will follow the form; or the meaning may be implicit, and the white part may be regarded as black, omitting a layer of pen and ink, but the capacity and artistic conception will be vast and comfortable; naturally, it is inseparable from the poetic and painterly leisurely strokes that are light and easy. The author pays attention to letting the images speak for themselves, so that the profound truth of the essay is attached to the vivid images. It allows readers to think and understand the inherent truth of objective things in the realm of "the connection between things and me" and the realm of "the blending of things and myself", which embodies the author's literary creation.

As night falls, neon lights fill the streets. Deep in the quiet alley, there is a small canteen that is famous far and wide. In addition to delicious food, there are also bizarre urban fairy tales here. Secret and bitter secret love, illusory and persistent ideals, alienated but bound family affection... All the confusion and pain, joy and longing are all in the fragrance, turning into little bits of warmth engraved in the heart. A warm lamp in a deep alley, a wisp of red dust fireworks, guard the most beautiful warmth in the world. Maybe we haven't met yet, or maybe we are about to leave. I want to warm this world with you. No matter where you are, when the night falls and the stars fall asleep, I will still have my warmth with you.

This is a wonderful fusion of prose lyricism and poetic painting. It uses poetry throughout the whole article, and integrates culture, scenery, poetry and fireworks life with the fresh and refined nature of fallen plum blossoms. The lines reveal a poetic lifestyle and a tranquil attitude towards life. Bai Luomei is like a woman walking around life with a poetry bag on her back. As soon as she lowers her head and looks back, poetry and painting emerge; when she leans over to pick up the scattered beauty in her memory, the Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty rain pours out of her full poetry bag. Carry the poem bag on your back, accompany the falling plum blossoms, travel the scenery of the world, and watch the passage of time. Savor the aesthetics of falling plum blossoms in poetic dwelling.

This book is a travel essay, which contains 50 short and meaningful articles, covering Ningxia's natural scenery, historic buildings, humanities, history and culture and other aspects. Each article is equipped with exquisite pictures, and the combination of pictures and text makes the article full of interest. The writing style of the book is fresh and concise, and it is full of the vicissitudes of history and the richness of cultural accumulation. At the same time, it shows the author's grand and delicate humanistic feelings.

Whether you admit it or not, youthful literature has become a part of the literary scene in the 1990s. Zhu Yong, Deng Hao, Dong Wenting, Zhou Dedong... When the names of young beauty writers frequently appear in periodicals and newspaper supplements across the country, their young faces and fresh writing styles, their emotions and stories with distinctive characteristics of the times, all show conspicuous signs for their growth and shaping...

Come to think of it, the reason why mortals are mortals may be because they like to ask for help when things happen. The reason why Guanyin is Guanyin is probably because she only seeks herself when things go wrong - thinking about it this way, if everyone has the strength and confidence to seek self-discipline in times of trouble, maybe everyone will become their own Guanyin!

This book is a spiritual inspirational book by Qiao Ye, a cutting-edge female writer who is loved by domestic readers and is famous for her prose essays. Qiao Ye is a contracted writer for "Reader", the largest circulation magazine in China, and his works have a high reprint rate in many newspapers and magazines. This book consists of about 70 short and concise beautiful articles and essays. The writing is sharp and poignant, facing the sensitive and delicate inner and emotional world of all female readers. The book conveys the author's unique insights into life, living, and love, making people sigh with infinite emotion while being moved.

"I Read: Accompanying You to the End of the World" is a collection of book reviews given by Liang Wendao. Lead readers to appreciate the essence of a good book in the most concise and straightforward way! Use easy-to-understand language and present the subtleties of a book from multiple perspectives from the perspective of the author, writing background, content analysis, etc.! The speaker, Liang Wendao, has unique taste and is a well-known "storyteller". He has a wide range of interests and has covered a wide range of topics. He has pondered, digested and absorbed every book by himself, and finally formed a true and pertinent comment. He calmly and objectively shares various trends of thought and social and cultural hot spots with you privately, so that you can appreciate the beauty of reading, and you will not be lonely when you are alone, and gain spiritual comfort. The books he reviews are very diverse: novels, philosophy, essays, memoirs, psychological readers...

This book is a collection of prose essays and a collection of poetry interpretations. Themes such as spring, life, and warmth are integrated into the elegant texts with understanding and love for life. When daily life becomes a constant fatigue, this book expresses sincere emotions, allowing readers to realize that as long as they have a pure heart, every ordinary day is a warm spring day. From this, we can read the desire of people in today's cities for nature and their yearning for pure spiritual life. At the same time, each article has poems corresponding to the theme. In the interpretation of the poems, one can appreciate the beauty of traditional Chinese characters.

Life cannot be assumed. In our lives, there is no question of "if", only results and consequences. Changing "if" to "now" is the strongest and smartest thing. This book is a trinity of body, mind, and spirit. It is for you in the time of hesitation and entanglement. The way to cure fear is to take action, and do it without hesitation. No matter how smart a person is, he must take positive actions - for example, if you like someone, express your love; if you don't like someone, block him or her.

This is a series of short stories and insights about love in a healing style. The love mentality of men and women in every era is the totem of this era. The book is composed of clever short chapters, talking about literary anecdotes at first and earthly life at second. The writing style freely moves between imagination and reality, easily analyzing topics such as men and women, love and meal tickets, spirituality and materiality in contemporary Chinese urban life. The text is humorous and sharp, with unconventional ideas. It is an urban woman's independent yet gentle interpretation of love. In these short stories belonging to the middle class, the author's compassionate feelings make the whole book like the sunshine of a winter afternoon, full of love in the playful humor.

This book tells the author's study of film works, the largest and most profound teaching material, as well as his many personal experiences from layman to audience to industry insider. It basically conforms to the life trajectory of a person (whether he has a major or not) from being exposed to movies to working in movies. As a dropout youth and literature lover, Tang Di's process of becoming a director was more difficult and bitter.

Zizhongyun, Yu Dan, Yan Lianke, Zhang Xiaofeng, Huang Lei, Lai Shengchuan, Li Jian, Wan Fang and others share the three major life themes of lovers, middle age and parents. Their identities are very different and their tastes are ever-changing. I hope their sharing will accompany you through a unique period of time.

This book is Zhou Jieru's latest prose work. It brings together a variety of topics such as food and drink, literature and art movies, trivia in life, literary circles, life insights, origins of creation, etc. It touches on food, movies, and scenery, and especially focuses on life after marriage, traveling, meeting friends, and talking about poetry and essays. As a writer who drifted from the mainland to abroad and then settled in Hong Kong, the life in Zhou Jieru's writings is full of mixed flavors. The book describes reunions with old friends, reminiscing about past events and love. Zhou Jieru observes her own life trajectory from a literary aesthetic perspective, which is full of rich personal experiences for women. She tastes the happiness and sweetness brought by family, friendship, love and literary creation. The sadness and bitterness of the world, the warmth and warmth of human relationships are all shown in the details of life.

For Yangzhou people, leisure time is necessary, not to mention leisure time. As the leading consumer city in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Yangzhou's status has been difficult to shake for a long time. Times have changed, and today, although the scenery of Yangzhou city is not what it used to be, the soothing pace of life of "skin is full of water during the day and water is full of water at night", Huaiyang cuisine, which is famous in the Chinese world and often hosts state banquets, still provides footnotes to Yangzhou people's leisure and enjoyment. The author, whose hometown is by the canal and on the banks of the Huaihe River, has been exposed to the knowledge since childhood that his ancestors knew that "food comes first" and lived a leisurely life in Yangzhou, although they lived in poverty, boiling dried shredded silk, crab roe buns, appetizing pickles, and making a pot of green Yangchun. Even in Nanjing, where his family was better off, he still ate Weiyang-style dishes such as crucian carp belly stuffed with chopped meat, egg dumplings, grilled whole pig heads, and braised lion heads. The days are like running water, but they cannot take away the memories of childhood. The past is not like smoke, it has long been quietly hidden in the words full of smoke and smoke.

The collection of essays "My Hometown's Scenery" is Liu Xudong's narration and review of the scenery in his hometown. The article is concise and short, and the description is to the point. It inherits the natural history tradition of Chinese literati and has the style of ancient essays. It contains a wide range of scenery and can be said to be an encyclopedia of rural life in central Jiangsu.

This book is a collection of essays by female writer Siren over the years. Years of wandering have given her a unique life and writing. Now, the author, who continues to forge and precipitate in middle age, uses this collection called "The Runner" to tell the story of an unwilling "I" that wakes up and beats the sinking and numb "I". She will be fearless again and become the runner trusted by words again.

When I grew up, I often thought of my childhood for no reason, of those people in the empty field, of my grandma napping on the kang and her story under the kerosene lamp. No. 1, Xiajiang, Mute, my dear grandma, and countless others who have passed away and those who have not yet passed away. They are so ordinary that people cannot remember their names. They are so ordinary that they cannot leave any evidence of their lives. But I cannot forget or forget those extremely vivid individual images.

"Looking at the Scenery and Reading at the same time" is Mr. Cui Jizhe's recent collection of essays, which includes 41 essays. The book contains 360,000 words, covering local customs and customs, sentiments of ancient people, Buddhist sayings and Buddhist history, anecdotes of great historical figures, and the history and culture of other countries. In this book, there are serious pursuits of historical figures or events, as well as the display of unique and interesting local culture; there are the minutiae of the present, and the ups and downs of the past; there are beautiful words born of the magnificence of the scenery, and there are also landscapes that are even more beautiful because of the thickness of the words. This book opens a crack in the world. Through this crack, what you see is Mr. Cui's dialogue with history, society, and life.

Dozens of excellent works by dozens of writers including Wang Meng, Wang Shuo, Zhang Xiaofeng, Guo Wenbin, Zhang Xiaoxian, Li Juan, Feng Jie, Xue Qing, He Xiangyang, etc., With rich themes and concise language, either face life and torture human nature, or look back at the past and think about history. They are all excellent in presenting the richness of prose themes and the possibilities of writing. This book is selected by well-known selectors in the Chinese prose field from the short prose works published across the country that year. It aims to review the creative performance of short prose of the year and fairly and objectively select the short prose of the year that is both ideological and artistic, representative and influential.

This book contains nearly a hundred prose works by the famous litterateur Mr. Feng Zhi, covering a variety of different styles but unique articles from nature prose to essays, literary essays, etc. This book has high literary value and is of great significance for contemporary readers to fully understand Feng Zhi's prose creation and his literary and artistic path throughout his life. The book is prefaced by the famous German translator Mr. Yang Wuneng.

"The Big Buddha in the Heart" is a collection of essays by Fu Weici, a famous educator, translator and coin collector in my country. In the book, Fu Weici reminisced about the past, reviewing his youthful academic career during the Anti-Japanese War and his translation work and old friends in the early days of the founding of New China; he described his experience in translation and his understanding of the translated works and the original authors; he also recalled the scenery and various people he encountered during his travels around the world. He looks back at his extraordinary life with gentle and delicate writing, which can be said to be Fu Weici's reflections on life: he can handle things freely, advance and retreat appropriately, have order in strength and weakness, and become Zen when walking.

"I have traveled far and wide and never asked when I would return. But even if I have traveled thousands of miles, you are still in my heart." Who said you can't read fairy tales when you grow up? Who says you can't read fairy tales as an adult? There is a child in everyone's heart that never grows up. The world is cold enough, there must be something to warm the heart, a pot of warm wine, or a few stories. May these bedtime stories like stars dispel the darkness in your dreams.

Li Chang'an, the author of "One Person's Collective Memory," narrates various aspects of the changes in urban life in the past forty years in the form of individual memory and from a humanistic perspective. Not only memory, but also reflection on memory. With his personal "detailed history", he witnesses the gains and losses in the spiritual world and material life of a generation.

I was born in a secluded small village in Wuhu City, Anhui Province. Although this place was remote at that time, there was no traffic. But the people living here are quite leisurely and peaceful. Because it is a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, it is rich in vegetables, fruits, rice, fresh fish and other agricultural and sideline products. It can be said that I grew up smelling the fragrance of rice flowers in the water town. After spending a long time as a student, I joined the workforce and worked successively in cultural and judicial work.

Zhou Guoping used faith, soul, writing, reading, and human nature as topics, and told from a unique philosophical perspective that having a free soul is the most valuable; plainness is a state, and being able to live a plain life itself is a miracle: there are no miracles in the world, but the world does not lose its charm because of this. I even believe that the moment when people are closest to God is not when God shows miracles to people, but when people realize that there are no miracles in the world but are still amazed by the beauty of the world.

Thirty days, four operations, and a narrow escape from death, Bai Jinhu's first work after recovering from illness is full of warmth and makes people cry. "If you don't fight against the world and fight against yourself, no matter how decadent you are, you will eventually become a beautiful existence." Life and death are topics that no one can ignore, and they are also topics that touch the soft depths of people's hearts. A sudden illness in 2016 made the author fight against the disease with unprecedented bravery, and recorded every detail in the ward, touching everyone with his personal experience.

"To Little Readers" is Bing Xin's masterpiece of prose. It collects all the newsletters of the three "To Little Readers". It is named after the first one. In the cordial tone of chatting with children, it tells about what she saw and felt while studying, traveling and inspecting at home and abroad. It expresses her longing for her family and motherland, her praise for mother's love and nature, and her consistent care for Chinese little readers. It makes people feel warm and benefit a lot from reading it. At the same time, it also includes classic prose works such as "Miscellaneous Notes from the Mountains", allowing readers to better understand Bing Xin's "philosophy of love".

"Spiritual Rain in the Sky" is Xu Dishan's only collection of essays, and it is also "the first volume of modern short essays." The name of this collection happens to sum up Xu Dishan's writing style - simple, clear, and full of philosophy and religion.

This book is a collection of prose, essays and poetry published by the author, consisting of five parts. The first series of essays is "People's Talk on the Beach"; the second series of commentaries is "Don't talk about it"; the third series of economic columns is "Economic Essays"; the fourth series of essays is "Observations by the Sea"; the fifth series of poems is "Yun Qitang Poems".

"Lu Xun and His Surroundings" is a work that studies and discusses Lu Xun and his contemporaries. The content of the book closely follows the established research objects, and at the same time pays attention to the current national conditions and the state of the world. Many topics have strong practical significance. The author does not deliberately pursue the comprehensiveness and systematicness of the discussion, but insists on starting from the actual situation of Lu Xun's research, highlighting problem awareness, and focusing on making up for mistakes. The article strives to be excavating, expanded, and innovative; the book is full of information, rigorous in argumentation, and focuses on academic quality and theoretical core. However, it stays away from the difficult and rigid scholastic style and adopts prose and essay-style expression. The writing is concise and vivid, the writing style is open and wise, and has strong readability.

Cai Yingqing believes that "no book in the world can bring you good luck, but it can make you quietly become yourself." She uses reading to absorb nutrients for her life, turns persistence into faith, and turns intelligence into wisdom. Whenever there is a problem in life, she will seek help from the books she has read. For example, when she has questions about "life and dealing with the world", she will read Master Hong Yi and Feng Zikai; when she has questions about "effort", she will read "Dear Theo" repeatedly; if time is tight and she feels that she needs some nourishment of beauty and emotion, she will read Wang Zengqi and some ancient poems...

This book focuses on those close friends of the opposite sex during the Republic of China, that is, male best friends. It mainly tells the interactions between these male best friends and her female friends, including interesting things about life, emotions and work, which also contains some details. Through these, we will have a different understanding of the close friendship between women and men in the Republic of China, and we will also have a new understanding of these celebrities in the Republic of China.

"Book of Books" is the famous novelist Zhang Kangkang's first collection of prefaces and postscripts about the creation of books. It includes writing, reading, and discussing books. It contains a total of thirty-two works, divided into four parts: prefaces and postscripts, creation talks, book reviews, and lectures. The writer closely focuses on the theme of "books", starting from her own creation and years of reading, and expresses her unique thinking and understanding of literature, art, society, life and women. The writing is meticulous yet lively, the structure is free yet rigorous, and the book is highly emotional yet rational. The unique humanistic care and delicate emotions of the female writer are revealed between the lines, making it interesting to read. This book is one of the series "Novelist's Prose".

Only words are flowing in the long river of history, inheriting human civilization. In early December 2014, I saw an article by Chen Yimo on WeChat forwarded by Dong Xiaohan, and my eyes suddenly lit up. It can be seen from Chen's article that he is a rare and outstanding person in the contemporary era. From then on, a flash of light flashed through my mind, and I felt that something good was about to happen. I toss and turn at night, sorting out my thoughts, and recalling my acquaintances with outstanding talents such as Zhang Shuyong, Li Xiao, Pingzi, Qingqing, and Su Shi over the years. I deeply feel that when everyone talks about culture, everyone's eyes light up, especially on the road of creation.

"I Will Act, I Will" contains more than 100 essays and remarks written by the author in recent years, most of which have been published in various newspapers and periodicals. The author said: "I act and I complain" is an image portrayal of his writing process over the past several decades. "Since I started working as a news editor in 1977, I have been walking on the road of life, observing, thinking, and constantly telling my experiences and feelings in words." Some people compare life to a long-distance race, but everyone's roles on this long-distance race are different. The author creates his own unique landscape with his own words.

In 2009, her father, who gave birth to her but never raised her, came to Beijing to see her and wanted to beg for her forgiveness. However, it was too late to make up for the lost time of more than 20 years. As children, we lose our toys. When you grow up, you will lose love. If you work, you will lose your job. If these things are lost, they can be found again. But there is no turning back in our lives.

There are more than twenty essays in the book, all of which are compiled into books for the first time. The writer uses simple and affectionate writing to describe the people and things he met at various stages of his life, including his parents and brothers, teachers and classmates, and fellow travelers... All of them left their mark on his life. There are years that we can look back on, and there are also realities that we are deeply moved by. Most of them are the nostalgia of friendship, the sigh of experience, and the true knowledge of what I saw and heard. The author's feelings and gratitude are filled with words. At the same time, the self-anatomy is sincere and magnanimous, which makes people admire...

"Haisang Essays" is selected from the works "Art and Literature Series" and "Haisang Yiyu" by the famous Hong Kong scholar Chen Jinghong. They are both essays about Lingnan scenery and culture. They are elegantly written and insightful. They were published in Hong Kong newspapers at that time and attracted widespread attention from scholars in Hong Kong, Taiwan and overseas. This book is roughly classified according to its content and has about 40,000 words. It is one of the "Lingnan Cultural Knowledge Book Series·Yunlu Wencui".

Classical elegance, the illusion of words, the elegy of youth, the Secret Record of Confession, several handwritten notes bequeathed by friends, each one sewed together a life-long love affair, the hundreds of thousands of words of the Confession, and testify to the age of handicrafts. Only one book like this can be written in a lifetime. Jian Yu, a master of prose in the contemporary Chinese literary world, commemorates the 30th anniversary of his writing - dedicated to those possessed by the God of Love. If I am tired of walking to the end of the world, tired of seeing the scenery, and tired of tasting the bitterness, will you become a soft straw couch for me to lean on for the rest of my life? All love stories are wonderful how they begin, but touching how they end.

Newtap, a great storyteller on Zhihu, writes about lonely souls. Here, you can find your lonely story. I hate being alone. I squeezed out all the loneliness in my body and wrote about a lonely man who raised dinosaurs, a lonely old lady who was a martial arts master, a lonely thief, a lonely noodle stall owner, a lonely planet saved by cats, an artificial intelligence that fell in love with humans, and even a lonely zombie fan. Even God occasionally gets bored and plays a few games in the human sky. The game is over and hundreds of years have passed by.