文化多样性-少数民族分布假想

1. On the left side laid the original map of the Ethnic Groups' Distribution in Yunnan, China. On the right side is my imagination of how it should shape in 50 years——A blueprint for people's unity and cooperation different from now.
   
   - Yunnan has the most ethnic minorities （about 25） in China, besides which, Han people are the biggest racial group in China, who are distributed around every province of China.
   
   - On the surface, the Chinese government has a policy that makes some provinces and prefectures become autonomously led by their main population of races or ethnicities. The government also enacted policies in favor of ethnic minorities, but the results were not good and eventually led to the increase in ethnic inequality and discrimination.
   
   - The pale yellow part of the left diagram shows the distribution of Han people in Yunnan, which is generally located in the middle and east of this province. Kunming, which is the capital city of Yunnan Province,  contains the main population of the Yunnan Han race, or even the whole Chinese people. 
   
   - People from other counties except Kunming have much more diverse ethnicities. At those places, different ethnic groups could unite together without too much trouble. However, people from Kunming, the capital city, have discrimination problems towards them.
   
    - There is a very low possibility for Kunmingers to move to lower-level cities or prefectures. If they do, they are not welcome by those counties as well. However, in order to earn a living, people from other counties set their final goals to move to Kunming. But their diverse cultures are not allowed here, they are just the cheap workers to devote themselves in Kunming. Meanwhile, their non-standard accents reflect their (relative) subsidiary identities and classes compared to the capital, so they try themselves out to practice Mandarin（Chinese Han standard and official language）to fit in the local culture.
   

2. The right diagram combines and mixes multi-types of color bars together tightly and even errodes the border of different colours which brings a garden-like image and symbolizes the elimination of the conflicts and diversities between the capital city and the others because in fact they do really have cultural differences and need to be fixed. Nowadays, almost all of the mainland Chinese use Mandarin, and the dialects in Yunnan are quite various.
   
   - It is a fact that Han culture in some sense erodes other ethnic groups' languages, features and so on. Not only the minorities in Yunnan, people like Uyghurs living in Xinjiang Province feel the same way.
   
   - Compared to other provinces of China, Yunnan has unenlightened culture and under-developing economics, which in a great degree limits its whole development.
   
   - On the contrary, this kind of primitive culture background gives people more pure and kind personality, to which it should be paid more attention for healthy regional relations.

3. Prospect：Ethnic Integration and Eco-friendly Construction.
   Hope in the future 50-100 years, it is not just about Han people getting married with ethnic minorities people, giving birth, but the racial boundary and cultural conflicts could be more and more blurry.

   
   

   The racial and regional inequality could be eliminated by people's concerns among each other.

   
   

   The constructional policies need to be made within a more careful consideration especially for Eco-circulation.

   
   
   Blog page for more：https://v3.pebblepad.co.uk/spa/#/public/mgjxxfbR36yjskqrdhRgf9tx8r

Key words:

Climate change，Global warming and Environment protection

See more research at my blog post:

https://v3.pebblepad.co.uk/spa/#/public/mgjxxfbR36yjszqxfnnGjGGWrh

My hometown Kunming is usually called "The Spring City", famous for its weather. The sun always shines, and the heat is neither too hot nor cold. There is almost no bunning heat happening in the usual times.

But this time, it raises the warning.

Even Shangri-La, a place near my hometown, with high altitude, was nearly 20 celsius, a rare scene.

This comparison graph illustrates the extreme changes in the climate, and also proves that environmental pollution does have a serious impact on the climate.

See more research at my blog post:

https://v3.pebblepad.co.uk/spa/#/public/mgjxxfbR36yjszqxfnnGjGGWrh

• Decolonising nature from anthropocentrism

Therefore, it  brings many ridiculous facts and fantasies from the politicians and capalists who wish to transfer the natural  and spacial phenomena into artificial tools of man's quest for armforce competitions, nation's fame and insterests. And those politicians assumed that this would also sooner or later triggers the space war. (details in blog post)

Regarding this, back to the political arms race, either the earth and its weather, or human's further destiny, are all becoming the competing products for nation's positions and status.  It astonishes me because this type of "human would conquer nature and be the master of nature" fantasy. In particular,"... to change the tides and raise the levels of the sea, to divert the Gulf Stream and change temperate climates to frigid“,[1] this quote sentence seems selfish and less intellectual of the spokesperson. No need to mention that in geophics, tides could be the sun, moon, and the earth's combined effects in the solar system, and the tides could even have huge effects on the earthquakes happening; [2] the intention of changing those mentioned is not eco-friendly either. The politician could barely concern any feature that these dangerous developing ideas could not only lead the earth to chaos, but also lead humans to extinction. Is there any point in sustainable development? Nowhere to fit in.

Hence, please allow me to predict in 100 years, there would be no doubt that the ring of fire surrounding the Pacific would have more volcanic explosions because of the dangerous intentions based by politicians and capitalists. What's worse, massive waste discharges would cause extreme pollution of the ocean. So in my imaginative creations, the sea colour mainly becomes polluted green. Worse still, the main picture of the sea turns into another face which we have never seen before, the combination of multiple polluted colours mixing into a landscape, and we could only tell the Pacific sea from the satellite map because it has its iconic structure of the delta and coastline like what I captured from the Japan Sea area below.

Footnote:
1. Tom Stevenson, ‘Where Are the Space Arks?’, London Review of Books, 4 March 2021 < https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n05/tom-stevenson/where-are-the-space-arks> [accessed 1 September 2022].

2. Juan Zhao and Yanbei Han, ‘Progress of research on astronomical factor and earthquake’, Progress in Geophysics, 22.4 (2007), 1386–92. ​​​​​​​ ​​​​​​​

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1. Under the research subtitles, I mentioned that, the some so-called "democratic countries" draw the "ecologically global plan" plan, which has an idealised meaning but to transmit pollution to developing countries.

According to the citation organised by Demos originated from Serres (1990) ^[3] and the quotes I presented in footnotes ^[2] and ^[4], they revealed that the capitalists not only aim to exploit nature but also disguise the target as "ecologically global plan" to advocate for globalisation.

2. Based on the reading,“Where are the space arks? ”, Stevenson also demonstrated, 

"[...] The vice chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, John E. Hyten, has described space war as 'inevitable'."

Meanwhile, these paragraphs of quotes highly drew my attention when I read it:

‘But there is something more important than any ultimate weapon,’

Johnson told the Senate.

‘That is the ultimate position – the position of total control over Earth.’

As Johnson saw it, it was in space that decisive power over humanity’s future would be won or lost:

Control of space means the possession of the global, far more certainly, far more totally than any control that has ever or could ever be achieved by weapons, or by troops of occupation... From space, the masters of infinity would have the power to control the Earth’s weather, to cause drought and flood, to change the tides and raise the levels of the sea, to divert the Gulf Stream and change temperate climates to frigid. [7]

Regarding this, back to the political arms race, either the earth and its weather, or human's further destiny, are all becoming the competing products for nation's positions and status. The bold and underlined part of the quote, in fact, to a great extent, astonished me because this type of "human would conquer nature and be the master of nature" fantasy. In particular,"... to change the tides and raise the levels of the sea, to divert the Gulf Stream and change temperate climates to frigid", this quote sentence seems selfish and less intellectual of the spokesperson. 

No need to mention that in geophics, tides could be the sun, moon, and the earth's combined effects in the solar system, and the tides could even have huge effects on the earthquakes happening; ^[8] the intention of changing those mentioned is either anthropocentrism or non eco-friendly as well. The politician could barely concern any feature that these dangerous developing ideas could not only lead the earth to chaos, but also lead human to extinction. Is there any point in sustainable development left?

• Hence, please allow me to predict in 100 years, there would be no doubt that the ring of fire surrounding the Pacific would have more volcanic explosions because of the dangerous intentions based by politicians and capitalists. 

What's worse, massive waste discharges would cause extreme pollutions of the ocean. So in my imaginative creations, the sea colour mainly becomes polluted green.

Worse still, the main picture of the sea turns into another face which we have never seen before, the combination of multiple polluted colours mixing into a landscape, and we could only tell the Pacific sea from the satellite map because it has its iconic structure of the delta and coastline like what I captured from the Japan Sea area below.

Footnotes:

1. T.J. Demos, ‘Chapter 6: Making the World Matter’, in Decolonizing Nature. Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology (Sternberg Press, 2016), pp. 199–228 (p. 199 ).

2. Demos, p.227.

3. Michel Serres, The Natural Contract (1990), cited in ibid., pp.199-200.

4. Demos, ​​​​​​​p.228.

5. Demos, p.211.

6. Ibid., p.227.

• The hydrological cycle of the sea controls the balance of the ecosystem between the sea and the land. In particular, it keeps the temperature at the right level.

• The continously and rapidly growing average temperatures in the world 

  
  

  Due to the rising features of Greenhouse Gas emission, it has led to more serious problems such as global warming, manifested in particular by the rise in sea levels and changes in climate.

See in my blog post for more details

I went out and took the pictures of the city I lived in, Kunming, it was really full of city constructions around the living spaces. Ditches picture at the bottom were just at the place of the residental building's entrance, really a big shock for me.

Temporary damps were everywhere surrounding the living spaces, seemed no one cared about these things.

Kunming's main tourist and sightseeing road, Weiyuan Street was built to look like this.

Tubes are exposed on the road. Waste dirt and floor tiles are being digged everywhere.

There is no block for pedestrians and the construction, it is a raw way of planning and conducting. Tourists are just right close to all of these.

The Asia-Pacific region is made up of different continents and oceans. This illustrates the great circulation of ecology through topographic changes.

I  have been living in Asia-Pacific region from the time I was born. It has one of the world-known geological structures, "The Ring of Fire", marked by its most frequent seismic and volcanic activities on the Earth.

The Asia-Pacific region has various continents and seas, illustrating a grand circulation of ecology in topographic changes.

As more and more environmental pollutions and destructions caused by human beings, the ocean-land water cycle ecosystem has been gradually damaged. The ring of fire would be in no doubt to be influenced，which would lead to strange volcanic activities and natural disasters, and extreme climates around the world.

According to the research about global warming, it is estimated that the sea level and the average temperature are keeping on rising.

The benefits of the ocean-water cycle in balancing the ocean-land ecosystem cycle have gradually been broken down. If the maintenance of this system was to be damaged, the climates between the sea and the land could become shaky and unpredictable. The decline of the sea water and the growth rates of the extreme weather could happen at the same time.

Yet so many people do not seem to accept this global community with a shared future, and are not really prepared to protect it, even though they live on the same planet.

I am the Pacific,

An Ocean’s Monologue

How I get along with humans, that is far more to say.

Especially from now on till 100 years later, do situations really get better?

Human beings excavate the materials and potentials from me and my other brothers, such as the space and solar system, in order to earn a fortune or status,

Which is, in a way, not hard to imagine.

However, as they damage our living circumstances, they also ruin themselves.

Because we live on the same planet and are based on the same necessities to maintain our lives.

What would the future look like?

Am I being eroded by humans' aggressive ambition?
Or disappear from the pain together?

Buried in the dust...

Oh, almost forget, if there was no me,

There would be no dust...

https://www.gardensbythebay.com.sg/en/learn-with-us/for-schools/learning-activities/cool-strategies.html

• Rising Sea Temperatures

  
  

  When corals are stressed due to warmer waters, they expel the zooxanthellae from their tissues and turn white. This phenomenon, known as coral bleaching, causes a loss in coral population.

  
  

  海水升温

  
  

  海水升温会导致珊瑚把细胞内的虫黄藻排出体外从而变成白色。这种现彖被称为：珊瑚白化，致使珊瑚面对失去种群数量的后果

• Ocean Acidification

  
  

  At least a quarter of carbon dioxide emissions is dissolved in the ocean.

  
  

  This causes seawater to become more acidic, resulting in shells and skeletons of some animals to grow slower and become weaker.

  
  

  海洋酸化

  有至少四分之一的二氧化碳溶解于海洋中，这导致海水酸化，造成有些生物的壳与骨骼生长变慢也变得更脆弱。

• Thousands of marine species' "home"
  
• Provide shelter and breeding grounds for many sea animals.
  

• Carbon Sequestration-Store the carbon, protect it from emitting into the atmosphere, contribute to the climate change.
  
• Along with examples such as mangroves, tidal and salt marshes and seagrass meadows, experts believe that kelp forests have the potential to be blue carbon ecosystems.
  
• They are able to store large amounts of carbon dioxide. Kelp forests absorb CO2 from the surrounding water, thus reducing the acidity that kills marine life. Through photosynthesis, kelp forests increase the oxygen content of seawater and help protect the seashore from erosion by reducing the speed and strength of waves.
  

Source:https://www.natgeomedia.com/environment/article/content-11279.html

I imagined myself as the pacific ocean, so I captured the selective part of the pacific ocean from the Japan Sea of Google Satellite Map which has shown this area's multiple geographical features with coastline, mountains, deltas and the sea entrance. 

The Asia-Pacific region is made up of different continents and oceans. This illustrates the great circulation of ecology through topographic changes.

——If I were the Pacific Ocean

——If I were the Pacific Ocean

•  Inspired from the "fractal geometry" to rebuild my modelling topographic map

  ​​​​​​​

  ​​​​​​​Benot B. Mandelbrot is the father of fractal geometry​​​​​​​. Meanwhile，he creates fractal geometry which also critiques how mathematics tries to regulate the natural laws without really considering the “formless” of nature.

  
  

  Mandelbrot (1983) argued that the mathematical revolution was driven by the discovery of mathematical structures that did not conform to the patterns of Euclid and Newton. He stated, "These new structures were regarded as 'pathological,' ... as a 'gallery of monsters,' kin to the cubist painting and atonal music that were upsetting established standards of taste in the arts at about the same time" (p. 38). According to Mandelbrot, the mathematicians who created these "monsters" considered them important in demonstrating that the world of pure mathematics contains a richness of possibilities far beyond the simple structures observed in Nature. He further claimed that twentieth-century mathematics flourished with the belief that it had transcended the limitations imposed by its natural origins.
  
  Moreover,  "the fractal geometry of nature" was describe as "Mathematical Art Museum,” “Gallery of Monsters,” and  “Museum of Science," respectively. (p.72) It feels grotesque but artistic in science. 

• Quotes from The Fractal Geometry of Nature (1983), by Benoit B. Mandelbrot, which summarises The natural patterns are “fragmented”, “irregular”, "formless", "amorphous" in the morphology, unpredictable, shaping in process and contain the great level of complexity. Not simply as Euclid could generate them all.

“Why is geometry often described as ‘cold' and ‘dry’? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline, or a tree. Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.

More generally, I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid—a term used in this work to denote all of standard geometry—Nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity. The number of distinct scales of length of natural patterns is for all practical purposes infinite.

The existence of these patterns challenges us to study those forms that Euclid leaves aside as being “formless,” to investigate the morphology of the “amorphous.” Mathematicians have disdained this challenge, however, and have increasingly chosen to flee from nature by devising theories unrelated to anything we can see or feel.
Responding to this challenge, I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals." (p.46)
[…]
In addition, fractal geometry reveals that some of the most austerely formal chapters of mathematics had a hidden face: a world of pure plastic beauty unsuspected till now.”（p.54)

Reference：

Mandelbrot, B.B., 1983. The Fractal Geometry of Nature. 3rd ed., New York: W. H. Freeman and Company.

•  Inspired from the "fractal geometry" to rebuild my modelling topographic map

  ​​​​​​​

  ​​​​​​​Benot B. Mandelbrot is the father of fractal geometry​​​​​​​. Meanwhile，he creates fractal geometry which also critiques how mathematics tries to regulate the natural laws without really considering the “formless” of nature.

  
  

  Mandelbrot (1983) argued that the mathematical revolution was driven by the discovery of mathematical structures that did not conform to the patterns of Euclid and Newton. He stated, "These new structures were regarded as 'pathological,' ... as a 'gallery of monsters,' kin to the cubist painting and atonal music that were upsetting established standards of taste in the arts at about the same time" (p. 38). According to Mandelbrot, the mathematicians who created these "monsters" considered them important in demonstrating that the world of pure mathematics contains a richness of possibilities far beyond the simple structures observed in Nature. He further claimed that twentieth-century mathematics flourished with the belief that it had transcended the limitations imposed by its natural origins.
  
  Moreover,  "the fractal geometry of nature" was describe as "Mathematical Art Museum,” “Gallery of Monsters,” and  “Museum of Science," respectively. (p.72) It feels grotesque but artistic in science. 

• Quotes from The Fractal Geometry of Nature (1983), by Benoit B. Mandelbrot, which summarises 

  
  

  The natural patterns are “fragmented”, “irregular”, "formless", "amorphous" in the morphology, unpredictable, shaping in process and contain the great level of complexity. Not simply as Euclid could generate them all.

“Why is geometry often described as ‘cold' and ‘dry’? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline, or a tree. Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.

More generally, I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid—a term used in this work to denote all of standard geometry—Nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity. The number of distinct scales of length of natural patterns is for all practical purposes infinite.

The existence of these patterns challenges us to study those forms that Euclid leaves aside as being “formless,” to investigate the morphology of the “amorphous.” Mathematicians have disdained this challenge, however, and have increasingly chosen to flee from nature by devising theories unrelated to anything we can see or feel.
Responding to this challenge, I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals." (p.46)
[…]
In addition, fractal geometry reveals that some of the most austerely formal chapters of mathematics had a hidden face: a world of pure plastic beauty unsuspected till now.”（p.54)

Reference：

Mandelbrot, B.B., 1983. The Fractal Geometry of Nature. 3rd ed., New York: W. H. Freeman and Company.

“Why is geometry often described as ‘cold' and ‘dry’? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline, or a tree. Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.

More generally, I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid—a term used in this work to denote all of standard geometry—Nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity. The number of distinct scales of length of natural patterns is for all practical purposes infinite.

The existence of these patterns challenges us to study those forms that Euclid leaves aside as being “formless,” to investigate the morphology of the “amorphous.” Mathematicians have disdained this challenge, however, and have increasingly chosen to flee from nature by devising theories unrelated to anything we can see or feel.
Responding to this challenge, I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals." (p.46)
[…]
In addition, fractal geometry reveals that some of the most austerely formal chapters of mathematics had a hidden face: a world of pure plastic beauty unsuspected till now.”（p.54)

Reference：

Mandelbrot, B.B., 1983. The Fractal Geometry of Nature. 3rd ed., New York: W. H. Freeman and Company.

“Why is geometry often described as ‘cold' and ‘dry’? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline, or a tree. Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.

More generally, I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid—a term used in this work to denote all of standard geometry—Nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity. The number of distinct scales of length of natural patterns is for all practical purposes infinite.

The existence of these patterns challenges us to study those forms that Euclid leaves aside as being “formless,” to investigate the morphology of the “amorphous.” Mathematicians have disdained this challenge, however, and have increasingly chosen to flee from nature by devising theories unrelated to anything we can see or feel.
Responding to this challenge, I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals." (p.46)
[…]
In addition, fractal geometry reveals that some of the most austerely formal chapters of mathematics had a hidden face: a world of pure plastic beauty unsuspected till now.”（p.54)

Reference：

Mandelbrot, B.B., 1983. The Fractal Geometry of Nature. 3rd ed., New York: W. H. Freeman and Company.

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/qFKM2GhVoUUurUxFsQkyBA

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艺术家坚果兄弟 及 策展人郑宏彬 在常识被瓦解的日常里，从不愿意挪开聚焦现实的批判目光、放下对这片土地上之生命的真挚关怀。如西西弗斯般，他们坚持以童真幽默而戏谑的方式，划开魔幻与真实之间的裂缝，把社会化作展览场地，暴露严峻的环境问题，让装睡的人看见现实，

Amidst an everyday reality where common sense has collapsed, artist Nut Brother and curator Zheng Hongbin have never turned their critical eyes away from the real world, nor have they abandoned their deep, genuine concern for the lives rooted in this land. Like Sisyphus, they insist on using a childlike humor and irony to pierce through the gap between magic and reality. They turn society into their gallery to uncover critical environmental crises, opening the eyes of those who choose to stay asleep.

Image1：Hot Pot Fish, Zi Bo, Shan Dong, China.

Due to the contamination caused by the illegal emission from the industrial work, the river was dyed like a hot pot soup base. The fishes died because of this. Then Nut Brothers bought some fake fishes and put them into the river to mimic a fish hot pot.

在山东淄博岳阳和与孝妇河，有一段达6000平方米的河流，像重庆火锅的汤底一般油而不腻、黄而不邪，当地居民反映这也是重金属污染的结果。于是坚果把充气“鱼”下放到河中，打造了重金属乡村巡演的号外项目——淄博火锅鱼 ......

Image 3: Smog Brick

One year, Nut Brother suddenly noticed that the Beijing he remembered as beautiful was now trapped in heavy smog, and people on the streets were wearing 'pig-nosed' respirators. So, acting as a special street cleaner, he spent over 100 days pulling a vacuum cleaner all across the city of Beijing. He then used the air pollutant dust he collected to create a 'smog brick.'

某一年，坚果兄弟突然发现：印象中美丽的北京被雾霾封锁了，街上人戴上了“猪鼻子”。于是他充当了一个特别的清洁工，在100多天里拉着一个吸尘器跑遍了北京城，以收集到的空气污染物尘埃做成了一块“雾霾砖”；

Images 2 & 4: Out of deep concern over heavy metal contamination in the local water supply, the artists staged a 'heavy metal' concert to protest and criticize the severe drinking water pollution caused by corporate negligence.

对很多人而言，饮水安全是理所当然的，但陕西小壕兔村的农民却喝了十几年重金属水、上访无果，艺术家坚果兄弟及策展人郑宏彬自费购买了一批普通矿泉水，与当地人换来了日常饮用的污水、进行了“农夫山泉”公开展览，后又发起了无声的重金属音乐会；

Image 5：The Artificial Milky Way-Irony of Light&Air Pollution

Due to air and light pollution, 60% of the Earth's population has never seen the Milky Way. Yet, it is not just physical pollution that blinds human hearts. To help more people reconnect with the intimacy between humanity and nature, Nut Brother created an interactive installation of an artificial starry sky. When people speak words that align with universal values—such as 'freedom,' 'tolerance,' and 'equality'—the starry sky brightens; conversely, when confronted with negative words like 'violence' or 'pollution,' the sky darkens.

空气污染和光污染导致60%的地球居民从未见过银河系，当然，蒙蔽人心的不只物质性污染。为了让更多人重温人与自然的亲密，坚果兄弟打造了一片人造星空互动景观，当人们说出“自由”“宽容”“平等”等符合普世价值的词汇，星空会变亮，而面对“暴力”“污染” 等负面词汇时天空就会阴暗下来；