Life and Death: Chapter Ten

"Life and Death" is a youth epic that spans time and space. It takes the growth of young Nuoer as the main line and connects the joys and sorrows of three generations in the torrent of the times. When close relatives passed away, parents' marriages broke up, and loved ones died in car accidents, seventeen-year-old Nuoer took to writing to build a bridge between yin and yang. From the white roses in front of the ancestral graves in Xianyang to the butterfly candy paintings in Suzhou's Yuxiang, from the charms of the Huashan Taoist Temple to the old photos in the demolished ruins, he traveled through the gap between life and death, and as a Taoist priest, he managed to overcome people's obsessions, but he was still unable to resolve his own knot. The work uses magical brushstrokes to outline the scars of reality. Memory is like a root system under the frozen soil, growing tenaciously despite the collapse of the ancestral home and the changing of times. Nuoer's reconciliation with her parents, her conversation with the dead souls, and her bond with her adopted son Xiaoyan all turned into sparks in the wrinkles of time. Those unsent love letters, unsaid apologies, and unmelted sugar paintings are condensed into amber in the long river of life and death - some people plant white roses on this bank, some ring bells on the other bank, and all unfinished love will eventually be reborn as a fluttering butterfly in the words. This is the love letter of life and death written by Generation Z to the world, and it is the totem of life shared by everyone who is looking for light in the cracks.