Peace is eternal

The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has been ongoing. According to some information disclosed by the media, the number of casualties of the Ukrainian army is about 30,000 to 35,000, and the number of casualties of the Russian army is also as high as tens of thousands.

According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the war has caused about 8.01 million refugees from Ukraine to go abroad. As for the economic losses caused by Russia, Ukraine and other countries in the world, it is even more difficult to estimate. Although the two sides have gone through several rounds of negotiations, each time they say that the negotiations have made progress, but after each negotiation, the war situation will change again, making the conflict more complicated.

This is a war of attrition, and no one can predict how long it will last, because the predictions of many media and experts have failed. The situation of the Russian-Ukrainian war is too complicated, because it is not only a relationship between Russia and Ukraine. It also involves NATO and Western countries as well as the European Union.

The failure to cease fire will have some impact on Russia and Ukraine as well as on other countries in the world. Especially the two warring countries, even after the armistice, will still experience the aftermath of the war for a long time.

War will make people despair and loneliness, only peace is the eternal theme of human beings.

In 1967, Colombian writer García Márquez, in his masterpiece of magical realism "One Hundred Years of Solitude", attributed the cause of human loneliness to the emptiness brought about by endless desire and war. sequelae.

"Many years later, as Colonel Aureliano Buendía stood before the firing squad, he would surely remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to see the ice. At that time Macondo was a village of twenty families, The earth houses are built on the banks of the river, and the water of the river is clear, flowing along the riverbed full of stones, and the stones in the river are smooth and white, like prehistoric giant eggs."

This is the classic opening chapter of "One Hundred Years of Solitude", and it has been imitated by writers from all over the world. Famous Chinese writers such as Mo Yan, Chen Zhongshi and Yu Hua have been deeply influenced by it, including me, a little-known grassroots writer.

The New York Times called "One Hundred Years of Solitude" the first literary masterpiece worth reading after "Genesis".

In the face of such high praise, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is well-deserved. It not only describes and reflects the lonely spirit of the people in Colombia and even the entire Latin American continent in the historical evolution and social reality, but also can be said to summarize the whole. The lonely spirit of human beings in the reality of historical evolution and social process!

When people finish reading this literary masterpiece, they will surely find a way out of the shackles of fate through the seven generations of the Buendía family, full of mysterious ups and downs and fate, thinking about the reasons for the loneliness of Macondo for a hundred years. .

"One Hundred Years of Solitude" is magical realism, and all descriptions are based on reality, so the workers' strike event is not fictional. The civil war turmoil and industrial riots are based on historical facts. During the 70 years from 1830 to the end of the 20th century, dozens of civil wars broke out in Colombia, killing hundreds of thousands of people.

From 1884 to 1902, there were three civil wars between the Conservatives and the Liberals, roughly the same as Colonel Aureliano Buendía, the 2nd generation of the Buendía family. The war ended with the agreement of Nelllandia and Visguncin.

This Russian-Ukrainian war is also a civil war in the final analysis. Russia and Ukraine were originally from the same ancestor, but due to external forces, it led to the tragedy of brothers killing each other! But for Russia, knowing that the brothers are fighting each other, but they have to fight!

The loss of personal ideals and profound disasters make people sink into great loneliness and cannot extricate themselves. And not thinking about change in loneliness is the reason why the Buendía family and the entire town of Macondo eventually vanished.

The author of this book, García Márquez, said of the creation of "One Hundred Years of Solitude": "The opposite of loneliness is unity!

The opposite of loneliness is unity, the opposite of war is peace, and only peace can human beings live on this earth forever. We call on the world to jointly pursue the path of peaceful development and strive to build a community with a shared future for mankind.