“海并不深，怀念一个人比海还要深。”
“时光可以让一个人面目全非，也让另外一些人愈加清晰。”
“山形依旧，流水澹澹，江月年年，星汉灿烂，原都不是要衬得人世无常的。”
“对于我们平凡人而言，生命中许多细微小事，并没有什么特别缘故地就在心深处留下印记，天长日久变成为弥足珍贵的回忆”
……
这些饱含深情的句子，都出自一本绘本——《平如美棠：我俩的故事》。
在相伴近60年的妻子毛美棠过世后，饶平如开始用毛笔画下脑海里一点一滴的记忆，一边整理家庭的照片和信件，一边配上文字和小诗，画成了这本绘本。
这样一本记录生活点滴却饱含深情的书，感动了无数中国读者。2018年，《平如美棠：我俩的故事》还在英国、美国、法国、西班牙、韩国等9个国家和地区出版。
然而这个清明，平如、美棠，终在天上重聚。
饶平如老先生3月23日因胆囊疾病入院，住院后突发多器官衰竭，于4月4日上午9时在上海瑞金医院去世，享年99岁。
Rao Pingru, writer of popular love memoir "Our Story," died at a hospital in Shanghai at the age of 99 on Saturday morning.
Rao was hospitalized on March 23 due to a gallbladder disease that developed into multiple organ failure, according to a post by his granddaughter Rao Xinxin in her WeChat friend circle.
"The funeral will be simple during the epidemic prevention period," wrote Rao Xinxin.
"My grandpa had lived a peaceful and happy daily life before hospitalized. After this year's New Year's Eve dinner was canceled for some reason, there was no chance to get together again at all."
Rao was born into a big family in Jiangxi Province in 1922. In 1940, he dropped out of high school and applied for the Huangpu (Whampoa) Military Academy. After graduation, he joined in the national revolutionary army to fight against invading Japanese troops.
He began to paint memories of the love and life between him and his wife Mao Meitang, who had Alzheimer's disease, after the latter passed away in 2008. The painted book "Our Story" became a hit in countries including Britain, the U.S., France, Spain, and South Korea in 2018.
在绘本的最后一页，彩霞漫天，二人携手，如神仙眷侣般走向远方村落。
或许正如图画中所画，饶平如老先生并没有走远，他只是去和钟爱一生的美棠相聚了
“我空空的来到世间，只有这些最爱。”
“在遇到她以前我不怕死，不惧远行。也不曾忧虑悠长岁月。”
斯人已逝，但深情永存。
CGTN根据饶平如老先生的经历和所创作的绘本拍摄了纪录片《相思绘本》，让我们一起重温平如、美棠平淡温馨的真挚情感。
WATCH THE FILM <painted> , please go to: /<painted>
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A letter from Pingru
平 如 寄 语
Life is too good to pass up.
人生苦短，青春难再。
Leave no regrets regarding those you love.
莫负初衷，相敬相爱。
Bear all things and hope for all things.
凡事包容，凡事期待。
Believe all things and endure all things.
凡事相信，凡事忍耐。
Happiness is only real when you truly love.
白头到老，幸福愉快。
Love never fails.
天长地久，真情永在。
Rao Pingru | 饶平如
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