Many people believe that animals possess a wisdom and awareness that can be difficult to explain. That’s because all living beings possess a spirit. A story in the Qiandongnan region of Guizhou, China, offers a striking example.
A natural instinct for compassion
One day, as a villager prepared to slaughter poultry for the Chinese Lunar New Year, a large goose suddenly stepped forward and appeared determined to protect not only itself, but also a rooster. The goose’s actions so moved the villager that he abandoned his plans and spared both birds — an extraordinary event that has since attracted widespread attention.
According to the Qianjiang Evening News, as the owner sharpened his knife in preparation for the holiday, the goose repeatedly approached him in what appeared to be an attempt to stop him. Unable to bring himself to kill the bird, the owner decided to continue raising it.
Mr. Pan, who posted the video online, explained: “This goose is very smart. We’ve raised it for several years now. It likely became nervous when it saw my brother sharpening the knife and came over to stop him. We all felt the goose showed such spirit that we couldn’t bear to kill it.”
In the viral video, a man is seen sharpening a knife when a goose approaches and steps on his hand. It then burrows into his arms and uses its feet to pin the knife down. Later, when the man picks up a rooster, the goose remains by his side, refusing to leave and appearing determined to protect its companion. The bird’s behavior struck many viewers as an extraordinary display of intelligence, awareness, and loyalty.
Netizens in mainland China left comments such as: “This goose is so spiritual,” “It moved even a simple person like me to tears,” “A goose that is almost human must never be killed,” “Don’t kill it. Let it live out its natural life,” “I wouldn’t dare kill it either if I were there,” and “Keep raising it — don’t ever kill it. It has such a spirit.”
‘All things possess a spirit’
Numerous videos on social media platforms demonstrate that many animals understand humans. For example, a dog acting as a “nanny” to care for an 86-year-old woman; a dog weeping and desperately protecting a goose from its owner, even kissing the owner; and a mother cow kneeling to beg her owner not to sell her calf.
Traditional Chinese culture holds that “all things possess a spirit,” yet the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propagates atheism and brainwashes the public into elevating the Party itself to the status of a god — an act of extreme evil. In the eyes of the CCP, human life — let alone animal life — is considered insignificant. This stands in stark contrast to normal societies, where people coexist peacefully with one another and with animals.
Analysts argue that the communist party acts less like a human institution and more like an entity driven by a destructive spiritual force. When Karl Marx wrote in The Communist Manifesto that “a specter is haunting Europe,” he was, in the most literal sense, describing the nature of the ideology itself. To put it plainly, the force controlling the CCP is demonic in nature, standing in direct opposition to the inherent spirit and empathy found in all living creatures.
This is why more than 400 million Chinese people have chosen to quit the CCP and its affiliated youth groups — they are not merely leaving a political party; they are choosing to break free from the specter’s control and restore the fundamental conscience and compassion that the Party has long sought to extinguish.
Conclusion
Ultimately, the goose’s plea for its own life and that of its companion is a testament to the innate, spiritual awareness that exists in all living beings — an awareness that the CCP’s forced atheism and destructive ideology actively seek to suppress. By promoting a worldview that denies the existence of the soul and treats life as disposable, the Party alienates humanity from its own conscience.
However, the viral resonance of this story proves that the human heart still yearns for compassion; recognizing the spirit in all things is the first step toward breaking free from the specter that has long sought to dominate the Chinese people.
Translated by Patty Zhang and edited by Tatiana Denning
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