1·I couldn't understand why a man who had always been so fond of the social scene should suddenly want to bury himself alive in a one-horse village at the back of nowhere.
我不理解，为什么一位原先那么喜欢社交的人竟会突然隐居到偏僻的小村庄。
2·Then person of village raise funds and make one coffin, bury girl and cut and shed half lift coffins with handle of a knife rope according to local custom, in where rope broken where.
于是村中的人集资做了一付棺材，将姑娘下葬，按当地风俗用刀把麻绳割掉一半抬棺材，麻绳在哪里断了就在哪里下葬。
3·My uncle died in 1999 in this very village. I was in Guangzhou and didn't go home to bury him. It has been a lifetime regret for me and has become the turning point of my feeling for this village.
1999年我叔叔在这里安然离世，我在广州没有回去为他送终，这个现在我看来终生的遗憾，成为我对这个村庄情感的一个转折点。