May you meet the best mountains and waters and the best people in this life.

Oct. 1, 2025, 11:23 a.m. Essays

In this world, the most beautiful thing is to meet.

Experiencing and gaining insights are for meeting better selves; yearning and pursuing are for poetry and distant starry skies.This hundred turns and backtracks, gatherings and separations, all originate from meeting.

Cold meeting warm, then there is rain; winter meeting spring, then there is time; heaven meeting earth, then there is eternity; people meeting people, then there is life.Each other's experiences, the beauty of encounters, even if it's a fleeting splendor, is a warm memory for a lifetime.

Some have described the encounter like this: there are flowers, butterflies, fruit, and a gentle breeze here; but if she didn't come, everything would have no meaning; if she does come, everything will also have no significance.

One is a beautiful flower in the Elysian Fields, and the other is a flawless jade;

If not extraordinary affinity, then this life is still met;

If there is extraordinary affinity, how can the heart's longing be finally extinguished?

One is regretting and sighing in vain, the other is merely lingering in vain.

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One is the moon in the water, the other is the flower in the mirror.

How much teardrops can be in my eyes,

How can the autumn wind be grieved and the painting be sad; how can the spring wind be blown over the winter and the summer?

——Cao Xueqin's 'The Plum in Winter'

In 'Dream of the Red Chamber', the most beautiful is the first meeting of Ba and Dai.

Ba's first encounter with Dai, carefully examined, said: 'This sister I have seen before.'

Jia Mu joked: 'You are still saying this, have you ever seen her?'

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Ba smiled: 'Although I haven't seen her, I think she's kind, and I feel like I've had a long-separated reunion.'

All encounters in the world are long-separated reunions. Like Ba and Dai, like Yang Geng meeting Qian Zhongshu, like you meeting someone who shocks your life…

Some data statistics were made: a person will meet 2920 people in his life, the probability of two strangers meeting is only 0.00487.

But it happens unexpectedly, neither early nor late, neither far nor near.

When you first know someone, it's like meeting an old friend;

The moon is bright in the east, the moon is full in the west, the moon is new in the morning and evening.

——Anonymous 'After the Moon'

The moon is beautiful in the eastern sky, it makes fallen stars like rain.

Horses with jade carvings, fragrant roads.

The sound of the pheasant flute rings, the jade pot shines, the fish dance in the river overnight.

The willows and reeds are covered with snow,

The wind blows, and the moon is beautiful.

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Looking for him among the crowd, a thousand steps,

Suddenly looking back, he is at the flickering lights.

——Song·Wang Zhiyuan 'Suikang'

The destiny is a mysterious thing.

It's like a lost button falling on a sofa; when you try to find it, it's nowhere to be found, but when you stop thinking about it, it suddenly appears in front of you.

You meeting someone is a fate, you losing someone is also a fate. I wish this life meets well, and the ending is also complete.

Meeting a beautiful mountain and water can change your mood for a day;

Meeting an astonishing person can change your life afterwards.

Just as Ximu Rong wrote in 'A Tree with Flowers', 'How to meet me, at my most beautiful moment.', 'For this, I have prayed to the Buddha for five hundred years to establish a connection.'

Each encounter is a gift from heaven, every meeting is a blessing of fate.

Every time you meet is a gift from heaven, every meeting is a blessing from fate.

Wishing someone to accompany you to walk through thousands of mountains and rivers, to understand your thoughts and feelings. I wish you a lifetime, meet the best mountains and waters, and the best people.

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