Dream Dam

Author: Liu Jiming
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: In a sense, the entire history of human development is a tragic and arduous story of survival in the face of relentless struggles against floods. According to the Bible, at the dawn of human existence, a catastrophic flood overwhelmed humanity, leaving no one and no animal spared, except Noah, the "righteous man" who lived to be 600 years old, who was granted divine favor by God. He led his entire family aboard an ark, taking with them "seven pairs of male and female" of "clean animals" and "one pair of male and female" of "unclean animals," including birds, livestock, and insects—all meticulously crafted in obedience to the divine will.