Chapter 43 we don't cry

I will leave Jerusalem tomorrow, so I wandered around the old city again early this morning.No direction, no purpose, I just want to take another look at it and bid farewell to it. Jerusalem has too many landscapes. As far as my personal interest is concerned, my favorite road is from Jaffa Gate to Zion Gate, and then enters the Qitren Valley through Dumen.This road not only has a variety of ecological contrasts, but also has a quiet and clean community. It does not have to bear an excessive religious burden, but ancient sites thousands of years ago can be seen from time to time.During the walk, there is a kind of full leisure.

In Jerusalem, if you are not worried about being full, you are afraid that you will not be leisurely.Religious passion, historical passion and national passion are all poured into these small streets, and both locals and foreigners have a little blood.Therefore, it is not easy to find a perspective that can maintain distance. To be honest, I have watched it for so many days, and I feel that Jewish friends really have many advantages, but unfortunately they are too selfish and narrow, and lack of freedom and leisure.If the Arab friends here are too indifferent to self-ecology, then the Jewish friends are too concerned and nervous.

Several Chinese tourists saw the moving performances of the Jews in front of the Wailing Wall and asked, why don't we Chinese have such a strong national passion?Seems a bit self-ashamed, which I beg to differ. I said to the Phoenix TV camera in front of the Wailing Wall: The Jews have not had their own land for two thousand years and have been wandering for a long time. Therefore, they must carefully plan and strictly defend themselves, otherwise it will be difficult to gain a foothold in a foreign country.China has always had a vast territory and rarely migrated.In this regard, we need neither be proud nor ashamed.But standing in front of the Wailing Wall today, I suddenly felt a corresponding relationship between civilization and the space I own, so I added a little bit of group self-consciousness, that is: the great country gave me a more calm state of mind, and the vast space gave me It gave me a more relaxed nerve.There have been many disasters in the Chinese nation, but compared with the Jews, if you look at it from the perspective of a thousand years, it is much more comfortable after all.We don't have the Wailing Wall, we don't cry.

I walked and stopped in the streets of Jerusalem, and I kept thinking about a question: From the perspective of a foreign traveler, what is the best direction for it in the future? This question is very acute.At present, archaeological excavations are still being carried out on a large scale. When I went to the archaeological site, I was shocked to see that there was a city gate under a city gate. It turned out that every time the city was destroyed, it was a kind of burial, and subsequent reconstructions were layer upon layer.Then, when the temples are excavated one by one, the dating will be staggering. Will it bring new evidence to the real disputes?

It seems to me that all monuments are of value only when the anger is removed.It would be unbearable for today's world if every historic site vigorously proved something and confessed something. The wife said next to it: Jerusalem is best to become a museum.Jerusalem is too large to be a museum as a whole, but its various ruins and monuments (including holy sites) must reduce the intention of confrontation and enhance cultural connotations so that future generations can enjoy them more happily.This kind of statement seems unrealistic in the face of the vortex of conflict, but after much deliberation, what other directions are there?At this point, I am suddenly nostalgic for Florence.Although the Romans were very sorry to the Jews, and even though this kind of apology was once part of their militarism, Florence in the Renaissance had a trend worthy of reference for Jerusalem.There, when people are no longer obsessed with war, many religious themes (including Judaism) have become art classics shared by all mankind through the creation of a generation of art masters, which immediately set the center of gravity of the whole city, and other weights are no longer important. .On the sculpture on the exterior wall of a baptistery in Florence, I found that the group portrait of the artist is placed between God and angels.

I have seen this scene of integrating history into art and religion into aesthetics in Rome, the Vatican, and Paris again and again.With art and aesthetics shining in front, the millennium years have turned into a human structure, and cities, monuments, and churches have also become relaxed and clear.I think that if this trend also occurs in Jerusalem, then the reasonable structure of Jewish friends and Arab friends will also become healthier. By the way, it needs to be remembered that Mr. Jacob, a doctor of history, is a little unhappy and has ignored us for the past two days.One of the reasons was that he saw us driving without a license and was terrified all the way. He begged us to set a strict speed limit to prevent the police from noticing. We thought that a convoy that was driving slower than any other car on the road was the most likely to attract attention.The second reason is that he took a fancy to an unmarried woman in our group.First ask the captain if he can praise, and after getting permission, he walks up to this woman and praises the moon at every turn, which is very annoying.Our woman finally got angry: I am also considered a Chinese martyr. I say goodbye to starving to death.Because of Lie's tough attitude, Jacob was sad for a while and stopped coming.

November 2, 1999, Jerusalem, overnight at the Renaissance Hotel