Find out the details of Fan Meizhong's article "At that moment, the earth shook-a personal history of the" 5 12 "Wenchuan earthquake"

the earth shook at that moment-a personal history of the 5.12 Wenchuan earthquake

without any psychological preparation, I experienced the most horrible experience in my life in Dujiangyan, which is closest to Yingxiu, the epicenter: the 5.12 Wenchuan M8. earthquake!

As usual, this afternoon was my SL Chinese class of Grade I IB. Before class, both students and I felt the weather was extremely sultry. I walked around the classroom and opened all the windows as wide as possible. The content of this class is the thirteenth time of A Dream of Red Mansions. As usual, the students will tell it first, but the students will finish it in less than ten minutes. I think students in many places have ignored the past and asked students to ask questions. The students have no problem, so I had to go into battle in person. When talking about Qin Keqing's dream interpretation for Xi Feng, I asked the students, "Is this a magical realism technique?" The student said, "This is superstition!" I asked the students again: "Will Cao Xueqin think it is superstition? Will Xifeng think so? " The student said, "No! Because they believe this! " From this, I persuaded students: "Today, we think that dreams, fortune telling and geomantic omen are superstitions because we look at these things from the perspective of modern scientific positivism and rationality. Science and rationality have great places, but it has its limitations. For example, the meaning of my life is empty. Can scientific rationality solve it? Can science and reason comfort the loss of relatives and friends? Can science and reason guarantee our happiness? Therefore, many problems and fields can't be understood or solved by science and reason, so we should not be too conceited by science and reason, and we should be in awe of the mysterious forces in the universe ... "Just at this point, the desk shook, and the students were stunned and a little at a loss. Because I have experienced several slight earthquakes in which the table and bed shook before, I have some experience in earthquakes, so I calmly comforted the students and said," Don't panic! Earthquake, nothing! ..... "Words haven't finished, the teaching building violently shook, and even made a loud noise (because the classroom is a big study room built with wood on the basis of a bungalow), and I instantly reacted-a big earthquake! Then I rushed to the stairs, and even fell down when I went downstairs. At this time, I suddenly flashed an idea, "Is China under nuclear attack?" Then rolled and crawled to the center of the football field next to the teaching building at the fastest speed! I found myself the first person to arrive at the football field, followed by a foreigner with a two-year-old child in his arms coming out of the nearby teachers' building, and a student coming down from the boys' dormitory. At this time, the earth is a violent horizontal shaking, maybe one meter! At this time, I only feel that the end of the world is coming. People often say that they are down to earth, but when the ground is unstable, I feel that nothing is reliable! With this earthquake, the 5 cm thick football wall on the east side of the football field collapsed in a few seconds! Gradually, the students and teachers all concentrated on the football field, because during the graduation exam of grade II of IB, some students didn't attend classes, and some students were sleeping or playing games in the dormitory, so some students ran out naked in slippers and shorts! At this time, I noticed that the students in my class had not come out yet, and it took a while to see them coming to the playground one after another. I asked them strangely, "Why don't you come out?" The student replied, "We didn't react at first. We just watched you run away and disappeared. When we reacted, we were all scared to hide under the table! We won't come out until the severe earthquake subsides! Teacher, why didn't you take us out before you left? " "I have never been a dedicated person, I only care about my own life, don't you know? Last time there was a fire in the middle of the night, I also fled quickly! " Having said that, I then asked myself, "Why didn't I organize the evacuation of students and run away?" In fact, at that moment, the house was shaking so badly that I knew I was just an instinctive reaction. With a strong sense of crisis, I reacted faster and fled faster every time there was danger! However, the instantaneous instinctive choice may reflect the balance between the inner self and the lives of others. Later, I told the students who were disappointed with me: "I am a person who pursues freedom and justice, but I am not a person who dares to sacrifice myself after others!" At this moment of life and death choice, I can only consider sacrificing myself for my daughter. Other people, even my mother, will not care in this case. Because I can't hold adults, it's meaningless to escape from one when I can't send them. If it's too dangerous, I will die with you. If there is no danger, I don't care about you, and you are not in danger, not to mention that you are seventeen or eighteen years old! " This may be my self-excuse, but I don't feel any moral guilt. I also told the students: "I will never be the one who dares to fight with a knife gangster!" " Having said that, I can't estimate what I will do next time the danger comes. I only know that I am not the one who rushed to the forefront and went to prison for it when facing totalitarianism.

At this time, I began to care about the safety of my family, Fox and Li Yulong in Chengdu. But at first, there was no signal on my mobile phone. Obviously, because of the power failure, the station could not work normally. After a while, the mobile phone got a signal, and maybe the station started the standby power generation equipment. But at this time, there are too many people calling, and my phone can't be dialed at all, and so can other people's phones. Water, electricity, communication and traffic were interrupted, so we had to wait quietly in the playground. Some students even played football when they were so nervous, and I joined in wearing hiking shoes. At this time, we need to take such a calm attitude to relieve our inner nervousness! In this way, it was not until five o'clock in the afternoon that the teacher picked up the broadcast of Deyang Radio Station with a micro-radio: an earthquake of magnitude 7.8 (editor's note: it was later adjusted to magnitude 8.), with its epicenter in Wenchuan! It's the same magnitude as Tangshan earthquake! Everyone was dumbfounded! And the epicenter is so close to Dujiangyan! Everyone guessed: "Wenchuan must have been washed white!" At this time, one of my students looked heavy, because his parents, brothers and other relatives were in Wenchuan County. At this time, we didn't know that the epicenter was Yingxiu in Wenchuan, not at the foot of Wenchuan County! I don't know that Dujiangyan is actually closer to the epicenter than Wenchuan County! Wenchuan completely lost communication with the outside world, and the traffic was completely interrupted! This student told me: "Wenchuan often has earthquakes, and there was an earthquake of magnitude 6.5 the year before last, but except for some old houses, Wenchuan's houses were repaired according to magnitude 7 earthquake resistance, so nothing happened." But this Dujiangyan is worse than the Wenchuan earthquake in the previous year ... "Speaking of which, the student almost choked! Then I remembered that I couldn't sleep in the dormitory office. Don't I live in the playground at night? That also needs quilts and clothes! If I go back to Chengdu, I also need money! I opened the building and went back to my dormitory in fear, and found that the bucket had been shaken off the water dispenser, and a few pieces of clothes on the stool had been shaken off. In my hurry, I only took the money but forgot to take the clothes and quilts, because the dormitory where I lived was a house that had been repaired for 16 years, and there was a big crack between the wall of the bathroom and the wall of the room! So after I came out, I never had the courage to go back to the dormitory!

After that, I wandered around the former playground and found that all the students in the primary school and kindergarten were there. President Qing was there, too, so I went to chat with him. I said, "In my impression, the house of Guangya School is not very strong! How come none of them have fallen down? " President Qing somewhat proudly replied, "The house in our school was built like a bunker. How could it fall down?"? I am a contractor, not a contractor! Those contractors are arguing with me to contract for materials, but I'm determined not to do it. I bought the materials! I can pay more, the house is cast in situ! The ground and the walls are connected together! Fix it. We checked the content of reinforced concrete with instruments! " It turned out that he was not prescient, just didn't cut corners, and didn't have any special quality assurance and shock-proof design! I'm relieved that even the houses in Guangya School that don't look very good haven't fallen down, so there isn't much problem in other places. At this time, I received messages from Guo Chuyang, Lu Dong and Radish Pit asking about safety, and all of them responded successfully. In addition, I also sent a message to Li Yulong successfully and received a reply, knowing that he and Fox were all right. At this moment, it occurred to me that my mother, brother and sister in my hometown might have seen the news of the earthquake in Dujiangyan and were worried. They should call home. At this time, only the landline could be connected, but there were too many people calling. I waited for a long time without waiting for the opportunity and had to give up! At this time, a student who came back from walking to the city to observe the situation said, "Dujiangyan city suffered badly, and 2% of the houses collapsed!" The house of Guangya School really stood the test this time! " The teachers and students of the school have been complaining about the building quality of Guangya school. After the earthquake, they can't help but sit up and take notice of President Qing and his Guangya school house!

At this time, the principal's wife in Chengdu also came back. She said, "Chengdu is fine, but the teaching building of Juyuan Middle School in Dujiangyan collapsed, and eighteen classes of students were buried under it, killing hundreds of people. The director of education knelt there and cried!" Another resident near Guangya School who came back from Juyuan Town said, "At that time, I was shopping and running fast. The houses on both sides of the street collapsed in an instant. I ran over the dead body. It was terrible!" Another parent of Guangya School said: "It seems that the quality will be better if I pay more money, and my children will be fine in Guangya!"

From five or six o'clock in the afternoon, some parents of students in Dujiangyan and Chengdu came to the school one after another to pick up their children. I also took the parents' car back to Chengdu at nine o'clock. The traffic in Dujiangyan was so bad that excavators and ambulances couldn't move forward smoothly because there were too many cars straggling in the driveway! It took nearly an hour to walk on the Second Ring Road. At ten o'clock, the bus finally got on the Chengguan Expressway. After the bus ran for a while, I received a short message from Wei Yong: "You are still alive!" I quickly replied: "I am fine. Our school is fine, but Dujiangyan is in serious condition!" After the car drove out of the toll station, we found that the west line had been used as a special passage for disaster relief, and the vehicles bypassed the city from the expressway around the city. Then I took a taxi and went home directly, and there was no one at home. Before that, I had received a short message from my wife, knowing that they had taken refuge in the open space of the nearby Waldorf School, so I quickly rushed to Waldorf School after taking the bank card, and found that the school had set up two big tents and a dozen small tents, and my daughter had fallen asleep in her car! My wife is sitting around chatting with some Waldorf teachers and parents of students. My sudden appearance surprises my wife, because my phone has been disconnected since the earthquake, and she has been worried about me! That night, I slept on the school bus of Waldorf School. I couldn't stretch. I felt bored with the door closed, and there were mosquitoes with the door open. In short, I didn't sleep well. Between dreaming and waking, I felt the car shaking obviously twice again, because it was outdoors and there was no psychological burden, so I didn't make any response.

after six o'clock, my aunt called me and said that her elder sister stayed up all night, because she didn't adapt to the environment, because mosquitoes kept biting, and the little guy kept waking up and crying. We had to hurry home. But at this time, everyone has become a frightened bird, and the response to the earthquake has reached a state of fear and fear. I stare at drinking buckets and teacups at any time to see if the water is shaking. When I feel the sofa move when I sit on the sofa, I will solemnly say, "It seems to have moved again just now!" " And get ready to get up and tell everyone to run! In fact, there are many aftershocks of the water shaking in the cup in one day, and there are two large aftershocks of the chandelier shaking! We have packed our clothes, bought dry food, stood at the door with umbrellas, ready to rush down, but finally we didn't rush out, and many people have already rushed out! Because it was too uncomfortable to sleep outside, we simply slept at home on the evening of the 13th, but I was always very alert and didn't sleep well at all because I was worried about the little guy. I can run very fast by myself, but if I hold the little guy, it may not be! And panic is likely to stumble, so you must respond quickly to buy time, careless! In fact, I infer that the aftershock can't exceed the magnitude of 5.12. Since 5.12 Chengdu is not dangerous, then the aftershock Chengdu is definitely not dangerous. But Chengdu residents who have never experienced such a violent earthquake are obviously frightened, and the tension they created has also infected me! I am also nervous! At noon that day, I received a short message from Li Yong, informing me to store water quickly, because the Dujiangyan chemical plant leaked and the water source in Chengdu was polluted! So everyone scrambled to find pots and pans to store water! I don't think water can be used. How come? So I quickly asked the water delivery company to send five buckets of water, and as a result, there were only two buckets of water left there! And people in shopping malls are also snapping up mineral water! At this time, I have considered whether to withdraw from my hometown Longchang or simply to Kunming where my wife and brother are located! Turn on the TV, the TV station is repeatedly rumoring that there is no such thing as a leak in the Chinese factory, and there is no problem with the water in Chengdu! I should be relieved, but because our party is a liar, even if it is telling the truth this time, I can't believe it, so I made a phone call directly to President Qing Guangya in Dujiangyan. He said, "There was no chemical plant leak, but a gas explosion caused the fire!" I'm relieved!

I didn't eat comfortable meals for two days in a row. On the morning of 14th, I finally cooked a three-course soup with great care. The steaming dishes with all colors and flavors were ready on the table, and the tomato and egg soup was almost ready. At this moment, I suddenly got a call from Fox saying that there was a big earthquake between one and two, and told me to evacuate quickly. As soon as I saw that it was 1: 16, a big earthquake could happen at any time, I immediately turned off the fire and called everyone. My wife is still reluctant to part with delicious food! And my aunt's five-year-old son is reluctant to eat one or two dumplings just after cooking! I am in distress situation. Compared with life, what is a good meal and a bowl of glutinous rice balls? If there is a devastating earthquake suddenly, will it be too late for your mother-in-law to do so? Women are as irrational and indecisive as children! Rushed to Waldorf, where many students and parents have gathered. It's raining lightly in the sky, so we've been sitting under the big tent, because many children are noisy there, and the little guy hasn't been able to sleep well, as if he were in a depressed mood! After a while, we felt two obvious shakes. I estimate that the magnitude of the epicenter is about five or six, which is still worrying for people in the epicenter area, but the magnitude generally decays by two levels from the epicenter to Chengdu, which is three or four. What's the problem? People are really panicking. Because the shaking was too slight, we even judged that the big earthquake had not yet arrived. After five o'clock in the afternoon, my wife and I finally decided to go home. Because even if we can stand such an environment, the little guy can't stand it anymore. On the 14th night, I still got up the courage to sleep at home. Considering my family, especially the little one, I was still alert at any time, still half asleep. Only then did I feel that I cared more about my family, especially my daughter, than my students! At about eleven o'clock that night, there was another strong earthquake. The mothers of three children under one year old who lived in my house reacted quickly and rushed out of the room with their children in their arms, while everyone else in the same community had basically gone downstairs. As soon as I saw that the vibration had gradually subsided, I told everyone not to go out, but I didn't trust them, so I told them to sleep at ease. I sat alone in the living room and watched the night, so I stayed up all night. In the future