Ji Xianlin described his "Miscellaneous Memories of the Cowshed" as "a small book" although it was written with blood and tears. In fact, this small book is not small at all, because it records It describes the bizarre people and things that happened in a special era. As for how many incredible things and complex human nature there can be in the world, Mr. Ji Xianlin used his simple language and straightforward narrative to write down bit by bit his experiences and inner feelings after being labeled a "counterrevolutionary".

A cowshed, as we all know, is a simple shed built for cattle, giving them a place to shelter and rest. If people live in a place like a cowshed, they are like animals and have lost their human dignity. But this understanding of "Miscellaneous Memories of the Cowshed" is actually not profound enough, because after Mr. Ji Xianlin was labeled as a "counterrevolutionary", he called the "re-education through labor compound" where he was located the cowshed, and the most appropriate name for this place should be "gangster" "Grand Courtyard", once you hear it, you will feel that there are not good people locked up in it.

But this is the second meaning of "cowshed".

Its deepest level, or what should be called the most, is actually the hell of the human heart. Ji Xianlin indeed compared the bullpen to hell, and it is the most terrifying of all hells.

Ji Xianlin used the term "comparative hellology" to describe the horrors of hell in the bullpen, and let's take a look at how hells compare.

First of all, in Ji Xianlin's opinion, the hell in the West is very simple, superficial, and monotonous. Dante described the scene of hell in the "Divine Comedy". The poem is like "Huang Zhong Da Lu", but his imagination of hell is very lacking, and it even makes people feel ridiculous when reading it.

Dante's hell has 13 levels. This hell is shaped like an hourglass. The deeper you go, the greater the sin of the soul. The hells have entrances, passages, and rivers. The first hell is the underworld, the second hell is the Black Wind Valley, the third hell is the rainstorm, the fourth hell is the rolling stones, the fifth hell is the swamp, the sixth hell is the burning tomb, and the third hell is the burning tomb. The seventh hell is the Three Valleys, the eighth hell is the ten trenches, and the ninth hell is a four-circle circle, namely the first circle (the Circle of Gaina), the second circle (the Circle of Antillola), the third circle (the Circle of Doromea), The fourth ring (Judy plus ring), and finally the center of the earth.

Dante’s picture of hell is just like Westerners’ logical thinking, with clear levels, and the devil Satan is at the lowest end of the hourglass.

Different levels of hell imprison people who have committed different crimes. For example, the first level of netherworld punishes unbaptized babies and people who believe in paganism. Greek poets, heroes, philosophers, and scientists such as Homer, Plato, Socrates, Euclid and other people were punished here.

The second level of hell, Black Wind Valley, is where those who commit adultery are swept up by the black wind and rolled in the air, unable to land. Another example is the third level of hell where smelly snowballs and freezing rain fall from the sky. Overeating people are torn to pieces by the three-headed evil dog Cerberus here. These sinners also have to eat rats, poisonous snakes, and toads. The sixth level of hell is the place where heretics are punished. Those who do not worship God and do not abide by God's teachings are locked in burning sarcophagi and tortured.

In fact, it looks quite scary, but Ji Xianlin thinks that Dante's Inferno is too simple. Ji Xianlin believes that the Indian hell is already "broad and profound", but in terms of breadth and profoundness, the Chinese have taken the Indian hell to the extreme, expanded and exaggerated it, and transformed the hell into a seven-treasure tower.

The ultimate depiction of hell in China is the wonderful book "Jade Calendar Treasure Notes". This book is said to have been written during the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty. A practitioner named "Dan Chi" brought this book out of the underworld after traveling to the underworld.

In the book, everyone is familiar with it, including mountains of swords and seas of fire, oil pans and saws, complete props, bull heads and horse faces, and complete characters. There are ten palaces of Hell in the underworld. The Hells in different palaces judge different sinners and impose different punishments. Of course, the book describes in great detail what kind of punishment you will suffer if you commit any crime.

The characteristics of this book are said to be that the detailed rendering is both exaggerated and consistent with human real life experience, which makes people's hair stand on end while reading. It can be seen that Eastern Chinese people's imagination of hell is much more detailed than that of Westerners. Punishment combined with actual life experience creates unparalleled psychological fear.

But even so, Ji Xianlin still believed that the bullpen was a more terrifying place than the Ten Hells imagined.

So where is the real horror of the bullpen?

It is torture to the soul.

For example, in the cowshed, the revolutionary young general asked the prisoners to recite quotations and Buddhist scriptures, such as "Revelation, Revealing, Polo Revealing" and other Buddhist scriptures whose meanings are unclear. If they recite the wrong words, It's like a slap in the face, causing great damage to a person's soul.

Not only that, there are also lectures at night. At night, the bullpen is filled with vicious lectures and crisp slaps. Not only that, there are people outside the bullpen watching the people in the yard. Such a sight, the people being trained have already become numb.

In hell, it is just the Minotaur that destroys and tortures the human body, but in the bullpen, the soul of the prisoner suffered great torture, making the person nervous every moment, every second. In a tense state, the facial features are always pulled by the tense skin, and instinctively welcome the thorns, bumps, and misfortunes that may come at any time.

Of course, the language used by Ji Xianlin is still very restrained and he does not go into details. However, you can imagine how difficult it is for a person to maintain the confidence to survive when he is in a state of high tension and anxiety for a long time.

But this was only the tip of the iceberg. Ji Xianlin was on tenterhooks 24 hours a day in the bullpen. Labor reform, criticism, and interrogation took turns, without a moment's rest for both body and mind. At this time, everyone will want a savior. Even Ji Xianlin, an erudite and talented research scholar, has also longed for it. He hopes that a kind and compassionate savior will be kind and end this catastrophe, because in this catastrophe, many people have followed the example of human beings. Became a ghost.