The Qin people's robbery
Li Li
Xi'an, in the midst of the epidemic, is experiencing its darkest moment and is surviving the disaster.
Many people on the Internet scolded Xi'an, about the various wars and chaos in the epidemic. I don't know when it started, as long as Xi'an is on the hot search, it must be negative news. Some people even say that there have been too many incredible negative events in the city of Xi'an, which can only be called a magic city. In Xi'an, which is on the hot search, the following comment tendencies are often extremely pathological, and there are even signs of developing into regional black. Many Xi'an people have also changed from being the guardians who defended and maintained the image of the city in every way at the beginning to a fighter who was angry and rushed to tear the front line. It's not fair, but Xi'an is not wronged. In addition to the connotation construction of the city, a major help of the negative news in Xi'an is also the public opinion processing ability of relevant departments.
Regarding the lockdown of this epidemic, Xi'an has long been scolded to the heart of the earth. In fact, objectively speaking, this is the real level of Xi'an at present! It is an ordinary central and western city, when the epidemic struck fiercely, becoming the most serious round after Wuhan, it was inevitable that people would turn on their horses and be overwhelmed for a while. Last year, Xi'an just broke the trillion mark for the first time with a total GDP of about 1,002 billion yuan, ranking among the "trillion club" and becoming the first city in northwest China to break the trillion yuan in GDP. By the end of 2020, China's trillion GDP cities have increased to 23 cities, in front of Xi'an, there are Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Suzhou, Chongqing, Wuhan, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Qingdao, Wuxi, Changsha, Ningbo, Zhengzhou, Foshan, Nantong, Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Jinan, Hefei these 22 cities, Xi'an is not a star city from the level of economic development. However, among these 23 trillion club cities, Xi'an, in addition to the north, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, is also a city with a great sense of existence, because in the eyes of all Chinese people, I am afraid that no city can better represent the long-standing China than Xi'an. Xi'an is definitely the "first city in history" in the eyes of the Chinese people. However, as mentioned earlier, under the appearance of the ancient capital of the Thirteen Dynasties and under the old dream of the history of the coming of all nations, Xi'an is just an ordinary central and western city, which is the dislocation of the connotation of Xi'an at the intersection of ancient and modern. Therefore, a city like Xi'an, which has both a strong sense of existence and a lot of relatively insufficient development, is born with a black physique and is the most likely to be dissed!
Originally the word diss is the English word Disrespect (disrespect) or Disparage (contempt) abbreviation, is an important cultural part of Hip Hop, rapper with this way of singing to belittle and criticize each other, I can't get used to you, I will scold you fiercely, in the postmodern cultural context, this is a culture and style of competing hip-hop, after all, everyone tears up more healthily, but unfortunately The city of Xi'an has too strong self-esteem, No joke, neither shrugging at the dashing diss, nor being able to accurately respond to public opinion to win back a round, so it often becomes a black terrier for ten thousand years.
Living in Xi'an for many years, I have deeply felt the silent and lack of humor of the Qin people. Here is the hinterland of Chinese culture, producing a Qin figurine-like figure, accumulating a huge, thick, and long-term sense of tragedy in their hearts, as soon as they are born, they are like cattle carrying heavy loads, in the poor and desolate land, with their heads bowed, holding their feet, not saying a word, step by step. Writers here like the "grand narrative" writing mode, often through the fate of a family, a personal experience, to penetrate the course of a hundred years of Chinese history. This kind of long novel, which is hong zhong da lu, long river of history, and deep and sad, is the favorite type of writing of the Mao Dun Literature Award. But it's rare to hear writers talking to the media flash about what's going on. Lu Yaochen was loyal to Jia Pingwo, almost in an unusual silence to complete their pioneering cattle-like work. It can only be said that one side of the water and soil to support the other side, here may not produce a fragmented diary like Wuhan, but tomorrow may not be as thick as a brick of the majestic and tragic novel, ten years after grinding a sword to write, worthy of the suffering endured by the people of Xi'an today. I think why are the people of Shaanxi so silent in this era of public noise? If it's not out of pretense, it must be out of thousands of years of loneliness. Gushing is an expression, and silence like cast iron is also an expression.
If you have heard of the Qin Cavity, you will understand that the Qin Cavity and the Zizi are the outbreak after a long period of suppression, and the hoarseness or roar of the struggle is simply desperate, and everything that can be shouted out is shouted out. If the elegance of Kunqu opera is related to the beautiful city of Suzhou, then the long crying and roaring of the Qin Cavity is naturally related to the thick historical genes of Xi'an City. The "change of Yin Zhou" and the "change of Zhou Qin" in Chinese history all occurred in Xi'an. The institutional legacy produced and left behind by the change of Yin Zhou, that is, the "Zhou system", is the beginning of China's institutional civilization. The zhou-qin revolution changed China from the "zhou system" to the "Qin system", the most important feature of which was the centralized system based on the "county system". Later, in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the three provinces and six ministries system and the imperial examination system were produced. In other words, China's thousands of years of institutional design are inextricably linked to Xi'an. What you may not know is that the word "county" itself is a cruel picture. "County" was originally the original word for "hanging", that is, the meaning of hanging, and both were written as "county". How is this word written in the Golden Seal? On the left is a piece of wood, on the right is a rope, hanging a bloody human head, that is, an ancient punishment - the owl shows the public, in order to kill a hundred people. Therefore, the "county" of "the head hanging on the wood" symbolizes a kind of ruling authority and also refers to the state administrative organ. This is a way of saying that "county" originated as an administrative unit. During the Warring States period of Qin Xiaogong, the Shang Martingale Transformation Law abolished the sub-feudal system and established thirty-one counties, and the counties became administrative units directly under the central government. After Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms, the county system was implemented throughout the country, and counties were set up under the county. The county thus became the smallest official administrative cell of the Great Unification Dynasty. In today's urban management, districts are the basic administrative units, and further down are the streets and districts. As the birthplace of the county system, Xi'an's social management and organizational mobilization have deep historical roots and strong cultural inertia behind it. The concept of historical system as the cultural DNA still flows in the cultural blood of Xi'an City, and still plays a role in people's thinking and concepts from top to bottom.
One place has the scenery of mountains and rivers in one place, and the customs and customs of one place have one place. In the long run, the generational order is followed, and the people in one place have the character of the people in one place. When it comes to Qin personality, it can be summed up in one word: hard. Hard as iron, not flexible enough, lacking some temperature, but also lacking some dimension, dimension refers to the judgment, evaluation and determination of a thing of multi-directional, multi-angle, multi-level perspective. The Qin people who uphold this personality trait are relatively rigid in their dealings with the world in reality, and lack a little flexibility. For example, in this epidemic, a series of operations from epidemic prevention to lockdown cannot help but make people spit out an order, one size fits all, and it is necessary to cut through the iron and a knife. This kind of management form with strong social penetration, relatively broad management content and relatively tough governance methods is originally a long-standing governance model in this land. At the heart of the Qin system was a form of strong state, Max. Weber once focused on China's tradition of a strong state in Confucianism and Taoism, which is deeply rooted in Chinese history, and the strength of the state has greatly affected the development of society. In modern China, people's debates about the changes in Zhou Qin are, to a certain extent, different attitudes towards the tradition of strong countries. However, no matter how profound the changes and reflections, they cannot instantly erase the imprint left by thousands of years of civilization. From the early morning of December 23, 2021, Xi'an urgently adopted closed control measures, and then continued to increase control efforts, and the city was completely shut down. The essence of this strong control measure, the obedience and command of the people of Xi'an for more than ten days of lockdown, and the consideration of the overall situation, can be understood as a kind of institutional civilization thinking that strengthens the traditional system of the country, which not only exists at the institutional level of city managers, but also widely exists at various social levels and in the ideological concepts of each individual. There is no way, this is where the Qin people, Qin Cavity, Qin Feng, Qin Ling, Qin Blood, Qin Pulse, Qin Root, and Qin Soul are located, and this is the birthplace of the traditional institutional civilization of a strong country. The Chinese-style epidemic prevention experience explored and precipitated by the strength of the city here is the most Chinese.
In the face of the surging epidemic, the institutional gene of strong national tradition has once again been stimulated and highlighted. The lives of tens of millions of residents in Xi'an City are all wavering in the contradictions, conflicts, and tensions generated by this system and civilization, showing the thousands of forms of great love and hatred, great loyalty and great adultery, great beauty and great ugliness, great good and great evil, and great wisdom and great foolishness in the world. At the right time, place, crowd (society), the implementation of the appropriate management methods and methods is a good method. The positive significance of the imperial examination system to China in the feudal era cannot be erased. Future generations cannot, cannot, and should not stand at today's point in time and criticize the examination system. It is not that the imperial examination system is not good, it is just that it is not suitable for today. Of course, there are obvious pros and cons to the traditional governance model of a strong country, depending on what kind of historical situation it is placed in. I remember that the famous American sinologist Gu Liya once said that before the Common Era, China sent bureaucrats to recruit tens of millions of people to collect taxes and accept lawsuits and criminal cases, and already had the posture of a superpower in the 20th century. For Xi'an researchers, after more than 2,000 years, the rise of the Qin Empire is still a mysterious oriental political miracle. Back in xi'an, the Qin people who are robbed in the middle of the epidemic today have been forced out of magic plots such as triathlon, modern hunger, and turnip-pulling transport, which are really "long and too long to cover up the sniffles, mourning the many difficulties of the people's livelihood", but some of the immoral individuals who do not have the quality of citizens that have emerged during the epidemic have also put forward an observation perspective for us to reflect on China's strong national tradition.
For the past century and a half since the beginning of the Western affairs movement, China has been in the turbulence of great transformation. The winds and currents of thought are diverse, making this period an era of intricate intersection of ancient and modern China and the West. This era, more than a century and a half, is the most significant setback and the most significant transformation that China has encountered in the past two thousand years after the change of the Warring States and the Qin and Han Dynasties. During this period, China's historical concept was in the intersection, polyphony and struggle with different concepts such as Western historical concepts, thus constituting an extremely complex intersection of times, and its disorder and strands not only showed the greatness of the transformation, but also showed that this era had not yet come out of the realm of chaos and needed to continue to work hard.
It is believed that Xi'an will soon be able to get out of the shadow brought by this wave of epidemics. Finally, I would like to say that through the ancient capital of Xi'an, which has passed through the Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang Dynasties, it is of course able to cross this small robbery; through countless chinese civilizations that have risen and fallen and turbulence, and of course it is possible to cross the world game of the masses and the masses, complete this great change of ancient and modern times, and re-embark on and dominate the stage of history.