Postscript after reading "The world is like a brocade and the heart is like a shuttle"

"The world is like a brocade and the heart is like a shuttle" is a cultural geography prose written by the spiritual writer Bi Shumin after traveling around the world in 2008. I have always liked Bi Shumin's writing, which is warm and powerful! I heard from a friend that she had a new book out, so I couldn’t wait to buy the electronic version and read it. It was indeed quite good! Traveling around the world may be a dream for most people. Fortunately, from this book, we can follow the author to perceive the codes of civilization during the journey and embark on a cultural journey on paper.

The book introduces the beautiful scenery of many countries, different customs in different regions, as well as different cultures and different beliefs. These are the places that impressed me the most.

1. Iceland

Iceland is a country very rich in resources, especially water resources, which are inexhaustible and inexhaustible. Iceland has a large number of people. It’s sparse, and with glaciers everywhere, it’s simply a large natural reservoir! Iceland also has Arctic scenery that is as beautiful and cold as the moon. If you go to Iceland in the extremely cold weather of December on a clear winter day, you may even be able to see the aurora!

2. Norwegian Fjords

The fjords of Norway are known as one of the 50 best tourist destinations in the world! The fjords of Norway are filled with deep blue waters. The water in the fjords is very deep, usually a few hundred meters, and the deepest reaches 1,200 meters. The peaks on both sides are often thousands of meters high, and the cliffs are tens of thousands of meters high, tightly clamping a blue sea. The water is particularly spectacular! There are so many waterfalls in the fjord that it is almost dazzling. Often, at a glance, three or four waterfalls fall for nine days at the same time. They are as thin as silver threads and as thick as white ribs. From the Varanger Gorge in the north From the bay to the Oslo Fjord in the south, wherever you go, there are countless large and small waterfalls, like thousands of horses galloping, roaring and noisy one after another, gradually entering a fairyland, forming a fairyland of misty rain and flying rainbows! This is a kind of shocking beauty!

3. Greenland Iceberg

Greenland’s iceberg is a crystal clear beauty. When people talk about catastrophic climate warming, Greenland is always mentioned, because the earth Every corner of the world is closely related to each other. Nature is a whole and cannot be bound by national borders or completely blocked by humans. Although Greenland is thousands of miles away from us, what happens there is related to the entire world. The development of human beings is closely related. Scientists now call Greenland a "turning point" in the destiny of the earth, because the direction of humankind in the 21st century will largely depend on the ice on this island. If these ices completely melt, then the global sea level will Rising seven meters, the ice cap here disappears, which is the first potential climate disaster that humans will face.

The author came here in the summer of 2008. At that time, the climate in Greenland was warm and pleasant. The warming weather was good news for the ice-covered Greenland, but for people in other parts of the world, global climate warming will bring unexpected consequences. Natural disasters, I hope people can find ways to deal with them before this happens!

4. The Pyramids of Egypt

The greatest and oldest man-made structures left on the earth are the pyramids. The most famous of them is the Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt. The Mystery and Hongda ranks first among the top ten wonders of the world!

In fact, not only Egypt has pyramids, Mexico also has the Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon. The pyramids discovered in Peru are not inferior to the pyramids of ancient Egypt. Moreover, pyramid groups have also been discovered in Europe. The author also visited Guatemala. I saw many pyramids in the Kal Tropical Forest, all with a history of more than 1,000 years. This feeling was not only shocking, but also horrifying!

The pyramid does not use any adhesive. It is completely held together by the gaps between the stones (similar to the mortise and tenon of Chinese carpenters). They are closely connected without any gaps, not even a needle or You can't fit even a piece of paper in, how do you do this? Moreover, these stones weigh up to more than 160 tons, and the light ones are more than two tons. How did people stack these huge stones layer by layer without cranes and cranes four or five thousand years ago? There are still many unsolved mysteries about the pyramids, and these mysteries are waiting to be solved one by one after human technological wisdom reaches a higher level!

5. Swiss Chocolate

Why does Switzerland have the best chocolate in the world? Because Switzerland has the best cows, the best cows squeeze out the best milk, and the best milk and sweet cocoa butter make the best chocolate! How to have the best cows? That's because the Swiss have carefully studied grass from the beginning, cultivated excellent grass seeds, and sown them on the grass, so that nutritious grass will grow. Only then can the cows that grow up eating this kind of grass be able to squeeze out fragrant and fragrant milk. Milk, and then people can make the world's first unique tasting chocolate! It turns out that the chocolate production line starts from pasture. What a long-term strategy!

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The above are just some of my favorite excerpts from this book, my favorite places and customs. If you have the chance, you must go and see it! You still have to have dreams, what if they come true!

The world is like a brocade, and my heart is like a shuttle, and what is strung together are its warp and weft threads; the world is like a brocade, and my heart is like a shuttle. May you also weave the most beautiful picture!