Wake up（253）

 

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Sun Yulan accidentally found her former alumnus Wanru. After graduating from middle school, Wanru was admitted to the Department of Psychology of Central Plains College of Humanities and was a student of psychology professor Shen Zhirui.

Under Wanru's introduction, Sun Yulan, Li Aiwen and Qian Xiaojuan met Shen Zhirui, a professor of group psychology at the Central Plains College of Humanities, and Hong Wenxuan, a professor of sociology at the Central Plains College of Humanities.

Li Aiwen is the host and invites Wanru, Shen Zhirui and Hong Wenxuan to gather at the Lianxiang teahouse. Sun Yulan and Qian Xiaojuan also came.

Hong Kong's food culture is the intersection of Eastern and Western cultures, and a set of eating habits has been developed that combines Chinese food and Western food. As a meeting point for people from all over the world, restaurants such as Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Indian, Shanghai, Beijing, and Taiwanese are all very common in Hong Kong. Hong Kong people like to refer to Cantonese cuisine as Hong Kong Hong Kong style, such as "Hong Kong style" siu mei, "Hong Kong style" wonton noodles, "Hong Kong style" morning tea, etc. Hong Kong people call Hong Kong a "food paradise". Among them, Lianxiang tea room is very popular among Hong Kong people.

Lianxiang Tea Room was formerly known as Lianxiang House, an old historical store in Hong Kong opened in 1926. The teahouse was taken over by the old man from the original class. Nostalgic snacks, duckbill teapots, environmental decoration, etc. also retain the old flavor.

Li Aiwen got up early in the morning and went to Lianxiang Morning Tea with her friends.

After coming to the Lianxiang teahouse, Li Aiwen asked Zuo Tieguan to drink first without saying a word. He is a pot of tea for one person. The same family uses iron kettles to boil water to make tea, and they know how to pay attention to the master's hand gestures. After that, it's called left dim sum. It's so special, and it's called Dim Sum. Seeing how fresh the egg tart is, Wanru wants to eat it.

The puff pastry here is so crunchy and flavorful. Rice rolls, you can eat nostalgic flavor. The chicken feet are delicious, just like soft fruit.

The most special thing is the environment here, a nostalgic scene, I always feel that the movie is already there, and after sitting down for ten minutes, people have already returned to the feeling of more than 50 years ago.

So Li Aiwen asked Shen Zhirui and Hong Wenxuan for advice: "Recently, my girlfriends Sun Yulan and Qian Xiaojuan and I have established an alumni network. I am very happy to meet old alumni Wanru and two professors. Recently, Going to the mountains and going to the countryside has suddenly become a hot topic on the Internet, how should we think about the movement of going to the mountains and going to the countryside more than 50 years ago?"

Sun Yulan said: Someone posted an article on Weibo, saying that "'Going to the mountains and going to the countryside' is a great initiative to promote social progress", taking a matter that was basically completely denied by history as positive publicity. Although this strange article is extremely absurd and distorts the historical facts, many netizens still follow it and make a lot of noise on the Internet.

Qian Xiaojuan asked: Why was a matter that was not controversial and denied long ago, why was it overturned after many years? Why do children from rural areas used to go to university and enter the city to change their fate, but now there are a lot of news promoting "returning to the countryside to work in agriculture" or "going to the countryside to start a business". One returns to his hometown to start a business and sells pickles and earns a million a year, and the other returns to his hometown to sell dandelions and makes a million a year. News like "the guy makes 8 million a year raising horses" is flooding the Internet. It seems that staying in the city has no future. Go to the countryside to get rich. But after thinking about it, I found something wrong. Why do people in the news always live in the news, but never see anyone in their lives? Why do hundreds of millions of people not stay in their hometowns to start businesses, but also go to big cities to work?

Professor Shen Zhirui said with a smile: "Let's ask Professor Hong Wenxuan to talk about it. He is a professor of sociology, and he will definitely be able to answer your questions."

Professor Hong Wenxuan: "I have been living and working in the Mainland. This time I was invited by Professor Shen Zhirui to attend an academic conference in Hong Kong. I am very happy to have the opportunity to meet you Hong Kong students. In my opinion, I would like to ask you to mention more Questions and opinions, and then we can discuss it together.”

Li Aiwen said: I heard that there are a lot of exhibitions and activities in the Mainland that praise the educated youth going to the mountains and going to the countryside. For example, the Beijing Bird's Nest "Museum of Educated Youth", which was "approved by the national and provincial levels" and "personally checked by Wang Weiguang, the president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences", officially opened. The educated youth and the suffering of the ten-year catastrophe are not mentioned at all. The "Global Times" also published an article "The Positive Memories of the Educated Youth Generation Deserve Respect", arguing that the museum's "description of going to the mountains and going to the countryside is a selective memory", and bluntly stated that the going to the mountains and going to the countryside movement "obviously cannot be equated with the Cultural Revolution Number".

Qian Xiaojuan said: As early as October 2013, the "People's Daily" published the article "Going to the Mountains and the Countryside Cannot Be Denied, and Discussing the Roots of Corruption", which fully affirmed the movement of going to the mountains and the countryside to harm the country and the people.

Sun Yulan said: Since 2008, the Chinese educated youth group song "Oasis of Time" written by Su Wei, a Chinese professor at Yale University, and composed by an outstanding entrepreneur Huo Dongling, has been performed in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Beijing, and Hong Kong. On July 11th, just 9 days ago, it was "grandly staged" in Frankfurt, Germany. When it was staged in Hong Kong, I went to see it. Most of the actors in "Oasis of Time" are educated youths who are currently residing in the United States. They say that life was bitter, tiring, and poor, but they seldom have any resentment; "Worship", they feel that "that is a vigorous life, full of pride and heroism." I read the promotional materials of "Oasis of Time", the whole song consists of eight sections and nine tracks, and the singing length is forty. In five minutes, it is a large-scale narrative choral divertimento including solo, duet, and lead vocals. It reproduces the experience and scenes of intellectual youths saying goodbye to their loved ones, reclamation, labor, homesickness, love, confusion, sacrifice, etc. in the countryside. Propaganda materials say: Since 1968, as many as 20 million middle school students have responded to Mao Zedong's call, went to the vast world of great achievements, spent their precious years of youth in remote areas, and changed the life trajectory of an entire generation in China. "Oasis" reflects the special life mileage of the educated youth era full of romance, tragedy, confusion and laughter.

Wanru said: I have also watched "Oasis of Time", but after the performance of this Chinese educated youth group song, it aroused sharp criticism from Hong Kong and overseas educated youth. Critics said that "this work is very similar to the "Red Guards Songs" during the Cultural Revolution in terms of theme, tone, language, and form. , eulogizing the nightmare of the educated youth era, which is a brutal trampling on the feelings of the vast majority of educated youth." "As an educated youth in Guangdong, Su Wei will not be unaware of the massive, tragic, and far-reaching wave of educated youth fleeing Hong Kong at that time. "I'm most sorry for those educated youths who were driven out of the city and couldn't survive in the countryside, and had to resist the movement of going to the countryside at the cost of their lives!" "I have been in the United States for more than 20 years, and I have been influenced by the true democracy, freedom and fairness here Damn, I haven’t learned to tell the truth yet! I still have to whitewash the Cultural Revolution and sing about the evil! I’m ashamed of them!”

Li Aiwen said: That Su Wei has plausible words. He said, "This work is a kind of collective memory and collective emotion that the generation of educated youth who have gone to the mountains and the countryside can't forget this unforgettable youth experience, and seek group identity." "Educated youth complex is indeed a product of nostalgia, but nostalgia is a kind of 'human nature' naturally produced by the passage of time. It cannot be ridiculed and scorned on the grounds of political correctness." "As a flesh and blood The youth of the educated youth generation is not only worthy of memory, but also worthy of betting on emotions, resorting to singing and chanting." "There are two modes of dealing with suffering: one is the mode of Xianglin's wife, indulging in suffering, sorrowful, nagging, and forever Difficult to extricate themselves; the second is Su Dongpo's model, which has survived hardships, is still free and easy, majestic, and optimistic." "Absolutist thinking that is either black or white, and pan-politicizes and pan-moralizes all topics is the most extreme form of the so-called 'Cultural Revolution Legacy'. Outstanding features. When someone asserts that there is only bitter water in a bitter well, and no sweet spring can be dug out, they are actually trapping themselves in the thinking of the Cultural Revolution intentionally or unintentionally.”

Wanru said: Su Wei is making excuses. Obviously, when he "remembers", "sings and sings" "Oasis of Time", he carries a strong cultural imprint of the Cultural Revolution, but deletes all the crimes and sufferings of the Cultural Revolution. "Oasis of Time" does not respect and face up to history, and replaces the presentation and reflection of historical truth with nostalgic emotions. It interprets the suffering of educated youths as the salvation of the country, and attempts to earn glory for the educated youth with the sacrifice of a generation, and turns it into that era. the glory. It strives to praise the so-called "majestic" at the cost of youth, paints the movement of going up and down to the countryside with romanticism and idealism, narrates and positions it with "tragic and lofty", and projects disillusioned idealism onto the history of failure. , This is a blasphemy to the many educated youths who died abnormally back then, it is a disregard for those weak educated youths who paid the double price for the Mao Revolution and Deng's reforms, it is another emotional trampling of countless female educated youths who were raped and persecuted, and it is a violation of the law. After Li Qinglin sued the "imperial petition", Lao Mao's denial of "there are many such things in the country" and "it should be resolved as a whole" is to whitewash the movement of going to the mountains and going to the countryside. "Oasis of Time" conceals history, expresses gratitude to a sinful history, and reconciles with history with ease.

Professor Hong Wenxuan: "I agree with your views. Today, more than 50 years after the Movement to the Countryside has ended, no matter whether it is official or private, domestic or foreign, there are still sharp oppositions to the Movement; Gothicists who have the right to speak are singing praises for the movement to go to the mountains and go to the countryside. Many young people have been successfully bewitched because they don’t know the truth; The field of vision and thinking are still limited under the will of the authorities. They lack independent and correct judgments on the movement to go to the mountains and go to the countryside, so they follow the crowd and follow what others say. Professor Shen, you study psychology. You might as well analyze these from your research perspective. group psychology of people.”

Professor Shen Zhirui said with a smile: "There is still a long way to go to theoretically liquidate the crimes of the Cultural Revolution and the Movement to the Countryside. However, to clarify these issues, we must first analyze them from a sociological perspective. Let me start with a question: Is the rural movement a crime or a great cause?"

The two professors and students began to discuss. The nostalgic snacks and old flavors of Lianxiang Tea House have more taste of crusade against the Cultural Revolution.