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This picture describes four hands holding together that wear the Green Ribbon. It has special meaning to me because it was created after Wenchuang earthquake. It is the symbol of non-profit helping organization which offers goods and medical care to victims. It has special meaning to me since I experienced this horrible earthquake. Fortunately, I am still alive. I could not forget that day in my life and the feeling of closing death. People who had experienced this catastrophe could understand this picture more sentimental than others who had not. In my opinion, these four hands represent adamancy, union, faith and expression the love.

The inevitable fact was that tons of people died. Disaster brought huge pain to people. However, looking at these four hands, they hold each other strongly. There is not one hand but four in picture. It represents that we do not yield in front of damage since all of people stand in one line. We did not care about money and there was no strife and argument. What we did is to encourage people overcoming the disaster together. People were victim in disaster area, but none of them just think about their life rather they helped the children and women to move save places firstly.

Moreover, I can feel another meaning of this symbol strongly. It represents faiths that are hope and confidence. Disaster and difficulty are not horrible, but it is lethal thing if we lose our hope of living and confidence. Sometimes, the faith creates the huge power, especially in despaired. For example, during this disaster, a mother and her son were buried under broken buildings for five days. But they survived without eating and drinking anything. It was incredible but it was true. When reporters asked them how could they do that? The mother just said that she did not want to her son die and she tried to reduce her son scare and encourage her son to live! So they overcame the death with the faith.

It also represents the expression of love among whole people. Solders, nurses, road workers and volunteers were in first line of disaster and worked for day and night. Their goal was to save more people. Public raised the money and goods when they heard that a really big earthquake occurred in Sichuan Province. People who were in disaster area moved when they saw tons of people cared about their situation.