Whenever people from big cities or small places come to Dali, in ancient cities or markets, they see boys with long hair and barefoot feet, girls with dirty braids and no underwear, mixed with strange and colorful exotic costumes, under the eyebrows and lips and even on the tongue, dotted with a few diamond nails that hurt to look at, sitting in groups of three or five, snuggling up to each other regardless of you and me, drinking wine without guilt in the daytime, and passing around with a cigarette of ingredients, not caring about disease infection. Visitors either feel like they are old hats or feel uncomfortable as uninvited guests who have broken into paradise lost.
As shown in the network diagram, it is not worthy of Dali's real picture, so as not to offend people and curse
The originator of this group of people comes from the US empire in the 1960s and 1970s. They were born into the post-World War II baby boomer and grew up in a middle-class white family with no worries. Under the influence of scientific and technological progress, material abundance, interpersonal alienation, the Vietnam War, and Marcuse's ultra-leftist thought, these idle and rich young people, even with good looks and talents, broke with mainstream society, elites, and capitalism in a passive and active anti-war manner, and actively chose to live a wandering life and become the "Beat generation".
Readers who do not understand the image and historical background of hippies can refer to the movie "Forrest Gump", as well as the simple infatuation of Forrest Gump, the heroine of the green skin - Jenny.
At the end of the film, Jenny dies of AIDS, which is very meaningful
As mainstream society supported arms dealers in the Vietnam War, totalitarian political parties, and traditional religious figures banded together to suppress and discredit the hippie community, coupled with the gradual corruption within the hippie community, from smoking marijuana and hallucinogens to injecting heroin (promoting the requiem of the movie dream), the murder and robbery caused by the unemployed nomads without a source of income (promoting the movie Hollywood past), the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and abortions caused by sexual liberation group promiscuity (recommending movies to guess the train), breeding a series of social problems that allowed "hippies" to be "hippies". The word gradually took on a pejorative meaning.
From that era, those who really understood the core of the hippie spirit and became hippies under this spirit were: Haruki Murakami, who broke off relations and refused to have children because his father was a Japanese army invading China, Jack Kerouac, a writer who has been on the road but never bowed to mediocrity, Bob Dylan, a folk singer who refused the Nobel Prize, John Lennon who died at the hands of fans, Jimmy Hendricks, the god of guitar, Jobs, the founder of Apple, who opened various patents for free, saying that Musk who built rockets will send rockets to the sky. Bezos, the founder of Amazon who is not afraid to die in space.
As Jobs said, "If I had to choose one or the other, I would be a hippie, and all my colleagues would be hippies." I was impressed by the hippie movement of the sixties and seventies, and some of the events held in my backyard inspired me something that transcended the daily hectic trivialities of life, just like the coin has another side, and in the gap between lives, we can all feel a certain impulse to find the true meaning of life. ”
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For most hippies who followed the trend at the time, it was just a "cool" thing. They have neither a clear understanding of life nor society, and from an early age they have a well-off family and are well educated, so they have a kind heart and noble ideals.
However, because they are not at the bottom and have been beaten by society, they cannot recognize the cruel truth in practice; unlike the gifted philosophers, who can know things without leaving home, summarize the laws of heavenly path, and just rely on their heartfelt love and hot pillow, thinking that inserting a flower in the barrel of a gun can change others and the world.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono
There is a family behind it, in the rebellious age of flesh and blood, can not find the exit of the soul, there is nowhere to put the lower body, can only use the rebellion of behavior to escape the complex international situation and social responsibility faced by that generation.
This substitution of emotion for reason, subjective good wishes against the real laws of social operation; disregard for the irreversible natural advance of civilization, anti-technology and anti-commercial anti-material; through tribal freedom and free sharing of food, these things that cannot be achieved on a large scale and lasting, try to disintegrate the foundation of the existence of modern civilization.
Anything that violates the "law" is doomed to not last long, and hippies gradually withdrew from the stage of history in the 70s after the "Summer of Love" movement, which was at its peak in 1967. Disappointed, this group of people left Europe and the United States and marched towards the mysterious East.
Goa, India, Pai, Thailand, the deep mountains of Nepal, and various sunny, cannabis-rich places in Southeast Asia are their new utopias. Yunnan, which connects many countries in Southeast Asia, has become the big front for hippies to enter China.
When they came to Dali before and after the millennium, they sighed what a fairy place this was! The livable environment, low prices, good security, friendly locals, and especially the pure cannabis that spread over the mountains made them decide to take root here. Former friends and hippies in the country are constantly smelling the wind.
In this way, this eighteen-line small city in the southwestern border area of China, when the Olympic Games were not yet held, Renmin Road and Foreigner Street were already very international. The gathering of these people gave Dali two nicknames "Dali Funia" and "Nanzhao Stedan", which represented marijuana and sex respectively.
Because of the domestic social environment and legal system, the space for sexual freedom and drugs itself is very small, coupled with the Attitude of the Dali Police towards Marijuana, a big turn of one hundred and eighty degrees. From the herbaceous leaves that can be seen everywhere in Cangshan, the Bai aunts have carefully rolled up and can openly sell high-priced cigarettes in the ancient city, and gradually transformed into a conventional drug that will never be allowed to circulate. And through genetic modification technology, the cannabis on Cangshan Mountain has lost its "medicinal properties". This has made the "old pilots" from all over the world living in Dali have to leave one after another.
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In addition, in the past few years, Dali's post-90s, there are more and more post-zero. The cannabis trees at the mouth of the village, before they have produced vigorous fruits, are remembered by the hippies who live here in the village, and they are harvested in advance late at night; there is no fixed job, resulting in money in the pocket, and there is not enough to buy chemical synthesis. Dali, which does not have marijuana, has no soul for those who have reduced the style of "hippies" to addicts, so the "new pilots" who insist on Dali because of low prices can only claim to be the "last hippies" in the end of the law era.
It is said that the old hippies in the United States have indeed taken to the streets and done practical things
Idealism, which is not based on reason, cannot blossom into a flower that transforms the material world, but only bears the fruit of self-abandonment. Most utopians, inevitably at their best age, slide into the abyss of hedonism, indulge in sensory stimulation and rush to every party, drinking cheap beer, and chaos cannot be stopped. When the tide of youth fades like a fig leaf, the naked swimmer has nowhere to hide.
True hippies, who have the ability to achieve material freedom, turn to the pursuit of spiritual freedom and dedication to the freedom of others; pseudo-hippies use wandering and decadence, these external forms, to express the pursuit of freedom, not to create social value, to look down on screws, and finally have to rely on the welfare system established by the taxpayers of the whole society to support them.
When I first came to Dali, I often communicated with these people who called themselves hippies, thinking that they had at least seen Jack Kerouac's "On the Road", or Salinger's "Watchman in the Wheat Field", but they had never heard of these books, but told me that when they were in middle and high school, they read "So-and-So" and "Amitabha Buddha Mengda" and were full of yearning for Dali Lijiang, so they went to the factory for a few days without screwing and not finishing the plate for a few days, and then immediately resigned and wandered the world. They asked me if I had read the book, and I said I had read it. They asked me again, are you also a hippie? In fact, I am indeed a hippie at heart, but I am afraid that they will ask me to borrow money, so I can only shake my head and deny it.
Winter in Dali is coming and needs the warmth of money
Unguarded, self-help appreciated
Nobility, very much need for money