Chapter 5 Part Three: Two Experiences of Facing Death

Two articles in a row, all about unpleasant things, because it was the earliest social experience after leaving school, and the impression was particularly deep.Death is an inevitable result for everyone. Since the situation after death and the feeling before death cannot be transmitted in words or in writing, everyone has a sense of mystery and fear about death.This is unavoidable, unless it is really clear about life and death, without fear, then only extraordinary people can do it, ordinary people can't do it. In my life, I have experienced three near-death experiences. Life and death are really on the line. The feeling before dying is the same twice, but it is worth describing.

The two times I faced the critical point of life and death were both water disasters, that is to say, I almost drowned in the water twice. The first time, I still remember the time very clearly, was March 8, 1951.On March 7th of that year, I went from Shanghai to Suzhou and stayed in the dormitory of the Fourth Hospital of East China People’s Revolutionary University in the North Barracks outside Guanmen. After eating all kinds of salty and sweet desserts, leaving Shanghai where I have lived for 16 or 17 years for the first time, I feel that everything is new and interesting. The next day, I was supposed to participate in some Shaohong discussion, but I was free and undisciplined, so I sneaked out, jumped into a carriage, and went straight to Tiger Hill to visit places of interest.

On March 8th, the weather in Jiangnan was still quite cold, and I was wearing a lot of equipment. The coat was a Boy Scout uniform coat, and I was wearing long rubber boots, because it was raining. Before going to Tiger Hill, I went to the West Garden to see Arhats. While walking along the path, I kicked a skeleton (in the countryside in the south of the Yangtze River, the burial place is messy, and there are occasions when I see corpses when walking the path). After a while, he walked in through the moon cave gate engraved with the four characters of Huqiu Jianchi, and saw a narrow pool of water, dark and not very conspicuous. Looking up, it was the Xishi Suspension Bridge.

After wandering around the entrance of the cave for a while, I saw that the water near the cliff on the right was very shallow, and I was wearing long rubber boots. , stepping on the rocks in the water, walked inward, walked about twenty steps, reached the end, stopped for a moment, turned around, and walked back. Unexpectedly, when going in, the right hand is supporting the mountain wall, which is more able to exert strength, but when coming out, the left hand is supporting the mountain wall, and there is no place to exert strength at all. I am already panicking, and the stone immersed in the water is very slippery, and I can't stand on it. The whole person, before he had time to think about what happened, slipped into the water of the Sword Pond all at once.

At that time, I didn't know how to swim at all, and I had a lot of clothes, plus boots. After the accident, another feeling was that my body kept sinking. Of course, water poured into my mouth and nose. The strange thing is, suddenly Opening your eyes wide, you can see that it is a piece of green, endless green.At that time, what was even more strange was that his mind was extremely clear and his heart was very peaceful: So I was going to die in Suzhou, so I was going to die in Suzhou!Apart from this point, I don't think about anything, it's really extremely calm, compared to when I dreamed back at midnight, I don't know how much calmer I am now when my thoughts are ups and downs.

At that time, I didn't know what my body was doing. Suddenly, my hand seemed to catch something, and then I was pulled up.The name of the savior was Sun Pilie. According to him, he heard a cry at the entrance of the moon cave before seeing me fall into the water, but I really can't remember the call before I fell into the water. At this time, many people naturally gathered around. Several old people from Suzhou said that the water in Jianchi was two feet deep, and people often drowned. They had never heard of people who fell into the water and were rescued.I went back to the dormitory drenched all over, and had not officially started school yet, so I was publicly named and criticized.

That Mr. Sun Pilie, who came back from time to time, suddenly failed to meet him once. He had been sentenced to imprisonment for the crime of soliciting prostitutes, and his whereabouts have been unknown since then. On the verge of death, the state of mind is extremely calm, without any sense of fear, and at that time, I knew that I would die. This is just a personal experience. I don’t know if it is the same for other people who have experienced near-death experience. I really hope to have the opportunity to learn from each other Communicate. The second time I was almost drowned was in Zhalaite Banner of Hulun Buir League, Inner Mongolia, where there is a river called Chuoer River.At that time, I had already learned how to swim, which was quite a natural wonder.

After several days of heavy rain that day, I went swimming again. Unexpectedly, the river widened and the water surged, but I didn’t know that the river became so fast that the water reached my waist when I entered the river beach. I couldn’t stand still. I knew something was wrong. It has been washed away by the water, and there are still large and small eddies in the turbulent river, rolling all the way, being rushed forward, seeing a rather large wooden bridge coming head-on, it must hit the bridge pillar, eyes closed, and the heart What I thought was, after all, I was still dead in the water!The state of mind is still the same calm and fearless.

However, before reaching the bridge pillar, he suddenly didn't bump into it, instead, he passed by and hugged the bridge pillar just by a chance of a hundredth of a second. He saved his life, and he was rushed more than three kilometers away.Through this experience, I finally understood what it means for a boat to go straight when it arrives at the bridge, probably because of the current, or perhaps because of life. Facing death twice, I was very calm. Think about it, why do you need to be agitated and nervous when you are alive? However, it is easy to think, but extremely difficult to do.