- People say that once there was a man named Peng Zu, who at 800 years old lived the longest life ever.Wow, he is old!You can say that again!
- In contrast, there is a small bug called Zhaojun that is born in the morning and is dead by nightfall. It doesn't even know what a month is.
- There is also an insect called the winter cicada, which is born in the Spring and dies in the Summer. It doesn't even know what a the four seasons are.
- However, in the southern part of Chu, there lived the giant wonder tortoise to who five hundred years was a mere Spring.
- And a long, long time ago, there lived the geri-tree to which eight thousand years was a mere Autumn...
- The Zhaojun and the winter cicada are called "short lives", while the wonder tortoise and the geri-tree are called "long lives".
- To the wonder tortoise adn the geri-tree, wasn't Peng Zu just another "short life"?I'm 20,000 years old...I'm 12,000 years old!I'm only 800 years old!
- People see Peng Zu as having lived a long life, but wasn't he really just another tragic "short life"?
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