Life and Death are Wearing Me Out 1 Painting

《Life and Death are Wearing Me Out》 is the title of one of Mo Yan's books. In Buddhism, "life and death" means that once born, one cannot escape the ultimate fate of death, and being exhausted in the cycle of repetition and reincarnation. I have been to the funerals of my relatives, and people want to spend more time finishing their speeches in advance than grieving, and modern Assembly-line Mortuary welcome every tear, with high-decibel music instead of silent sorrow. Because quiet grief is not acceptable, we are asked to express gratitude out loud and reflect filial piety. The people who participated funeral (in Chinese we called it “eating the seats“ )are not caring whether they are running towards a celebration of the union of a happy man and woman, a ceremony of the birth of a new life, or a farewell ceremony lamenting the life of a young man. No matter what the purpose is, let's gathering! In every banquet， With cheap red plastic rubber chairs. Wearing red or white flowers. And gorge ourselves with expressionless faces. gathering, regardless of life or death, regardless of fatigue.