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Chapter 131 Miracles
West Germany, Lübeck.

"What's the matter with you? Did you not sleep well last night?"

Not only Wei Chunyu, everyone realized something was wrong.Chen Quan completely lost his previous wit.

"I've been thinking, the MEMS project is finished, what to do in the next stage?"

"You can't."

Wei Chunyu was a little surprised. "You are not satisfied with this, so how should we people live!" After speaking, he reached out and touched Chen Quan's forehead. "I don't have a fever!"

"That's right. Xiao Chen, it's time to rest. It's a combination of work and rest!"

Qu Feng, who was completely relaxed, helped to persuade him. "Besides, the MEMS project has only just begun, so why is it finished?"

"That's right, don't think too much." Zhao Liangcai said. "Is it too tense these days. Suddenly relaxed, you are not used to it?"

Everyone talked about persuasion.

Chen Quan didn't want to behave too much, so he could only temporarily put his worries aside.

"Eat quickly, I'll wait for you. We only have one day in Lübeck."

Huang Chuxiong looked at his watch. "Although it's a rest, today's photography task is still very heavy. I have prepared several rolls of film, but none of them are useful."
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After walking out of the hotel, everyone discovered that the ground was covered with a thin layer of snow.Perhaps it was the snow that had just fallen at night.The air is full of coolness and freshness.

The people living in the ice city are not so rare about snow, but the snow scene in Lübeck has a special flavor.

Since Lübeck is an ice-free port, the turf in front of the hotel is always green.The verdant green grass is covered with pure white snow, and the colors are distinct, giving it a delicate beauty.

Stepping on the thin snow, everyone marched towards the destination, the old city.

Even if you leave a distance, you can still see the famous symbol of the old city, the pair of tall towers and spires of the Church of Santa Maria, from the gaps in the buildings.This church has a history of nearly a thousand years, and its twin towers reach an astonishing height of 125 meters.

Passing through several increasingly ancient streets, when I looked up, the tall and magnificent Santa Maria Church appeared in front of everyone.

"Wow!"

A huge building with a reddish-brown tone unique to red bricks and covered with a copper-green roof occupies the entire field of vision of everyone.

Although the urban construction level and living standard of Lübeck are much higher than that of Ice City, the urban buildings are still mainly four or five storeys high.Used to seeing low buildings, suddenly seeing such a tall church, everyone felt deeply shocked.

"This church really has a history of nearly a thousand years?"

Doubts arose involuntarily in everyone's hearts.

Not long after it was completed, it set a record of "Shenzhen Speed". The China World Tower, known as the first floor in China, is only 160 meters high.In other words, in China at this time, there are only a handful of buildings taller than churches with a history of nearly a thousand years.

Not only them, there are many other tourists on the market square next to the church.Everyone took out their cameras and kept pressing the shutter.

In addition to its height, the Church of Santa Maria also pioneered the use of bricks to build large buildings.It is even called the Mother of Gothic Brick Churches.

"Is this church really built with red bricks?"

Sun Chunsheng asked. "I remember that the lifespan of a red brick building will not exceed 70 years!"

"That's right, I actually wanted to say it a long time ago." Huang Chuxiong agreed. "Most of the buildings in the old city are mainly made of red bricks."

"Can it be built so high with only red bricks?" Everyone discussed. "Do red bricks have such a high strength?"

A group of technicians were not interested in history, but instead discussed the technical details of the building.

In Ice City, the main structure of the residential buildings is also red brick, which is familiar to everyone.Generally speaking, red bricks are much lower than reinforced concrete structures in terms of pressure resistance and service life.And the lifespan of this church is close to a thousand years.

Following the flow of other tourists, everyone quickly walked into the church.

The construction and reconstruction cycle of Santa Maria Church lasted for hundreds of years, and the architectural style mixed Romanesque and Gothic styles.In addition, its service target has also changed from Catholicism to Protestantism, which is reflected in the interior decoration style.

For example, the main altar in the Catholic period (Protestant churches, both external and internal, are very simple).The altar is said to have cost 1477 marks in 2000.

Inside the Church of Santa Maria, there are many exquisite reliefs, murals, and iconic collections.These include a 17-meter-tall triumphal cross that symbolizes Christ's victory over death.It is said to be the largest mechanical organ in the world with a total of 8512 pipes.The exquisite astronomical clock is full of information such as the positional relationship between the sun, the earth and the moon, and the moon's profit and loss.

There are many small halls on the side corridors on the north and south sides.Some chapels also contain sarcophagi or tombs.

But everything is not as impressive as the building itself.In the middle of the church, above the rows of simple benches, there is a 38.5-meter-high headroom.The tallest brick dome in the world.

The people who were tired from walking simply ran to the bench and sat down to rest for a while.

Since it was not Sunday, there were a few foreigners sitting on the benches with their heads bowed, not knowing whether they were praying or falling asleep.

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Chen Quan and Wei Chunyu sat side by side.The others sat for a while, then ran out to take pictures.

One is the age relationship, and the other is that the two of them had been to Germany before, so they didn't care so much about taking pictures, so they just sat and chatted all the time.

"Can you imagine? This church was built 800 years ago by the ancients in the Middle Ages without modern machinery!" After sitting for a while, Chen Quan pointed to the 13-story building directly above his head high roof.

The overall building of St. Mary's Church is magnificent, both in appearance and interior, with a visual impact that shocks the soul.Against the background of the huge space, people appear extremely small.

"Yeah, it's really hard to imagine. However, it took a long time to build this church. It took more than a hundred years to build this church, and it took hundreds of years to renovate it."

Wei Chunyu lived in West Germany and was used to seeing buildings of a similar style. "The cathedral in Brunswick was 200 years earlier than this church. Although it was not as grand as this one, it was considered a miracle at that time. Among other things, at least they are willing to spend hundreds of years and generations to build a building. This is impossible in China."

"I discovered a new pattern." Chen Quan sat up straight suddenly.

"Oh? What did you find again? Even taking a short break, you can find something?"

"In several cities I have visited, the core buildings are churches."

Chen Quan snapped his fingers. "In Brunswick it's the Brunswick Cathedral, here in Lübeck it's the Church of St. Mary."

"What else? You have been to these two cities too!"

Wei Chunyu waited for Chen Quan to break off the third finger, but it didn't happen. "But what you said is indeed correct. I have been to several surrounding cities, and the general situation is indeed the same. However, there are reasons for these."

"what reason?"

"First of all, 1000 years ago, in the Middle Ages, the era ruled by the Papal States, the churches were magnificently built, with historical background and reasons. Secondly, some civil buildings comparable to churches will be destroyed first in wars due to their military functions. .Many buildings in Brunswick were destroyed by the war. Churches often survived the war.”

Wei Chunyu talked eloquently.

But after talking for a while, he found that Chen Quan had been in a state of contemplation. "what are you thinking?"

"I have a question. These churches were built by man for God. But does God really care about these buildings?"

Chen Quan thought of "them".

Compared with beliefs in religion, "they" are more like real gods.And what 'they' want is completely different from the church in front of them.

"You are wrong. Churches are not built for God, but for people."

When Wei Chunyu is free, in order to expand his social circle, he occasionally goes to church services.

"How to say?"

"Religious places such as churches, in a sense, appear as the incarnation of God. The more magnificent the church is, the smaller people feel in it, and the easier it is to accept that God is a higher-level existence far beyond human beings."

Wei Chunyu is a new generation of Chinese who has been educated in materialism. His thinking is significantly different from that of the Hong Kong and Taiwan generations educated in traditional culture. His thinking is bolder and his perspective is higher.

Of course, this point has been criticized by the descendants of Hong Kong and Taiwan, because the consequences of being unrestrained are lawlessness, boldness, blackness, and cruelty.

"If a god can only rely on external buildings to promote his greatness, isn't it a sign of incompetence?"

Chen Quan asked back.

"Ha! How dare you think. If only they could understand what you're saying."

Wei Chunyu pointed to the left and right, sitting on the bench with his head down, a few foreigners who didn't know what they were thinking. "What do you think will happen? It's okay now. If you put it in the Middle Ages, your remarks are enough to be hanged."

"Do you destroy the soul by destroying the body? Isn't that even more incompetent?"

"What you say is what you say."

Wei Chunyu simply stood up. "I always feel a little uncomfortable discussing this kind of thing in the territory of God. Let's go, let's go out."

Although Wei Chunyu has not changed his beliefs, under the influence of the surrounding community and the atmosphere of public opinion, he still has a little awe of religion.

Among other things, the church in front of me is indeed a miracle.

(End of this chapter)