Mr. Jia Pingwa used Xi'an as the background to lay out "Waste Capital". "Waste Capital" was a big seller, and the hat of "Waste Capital" seems to be worn by Xi'an.
So, what is a wasted capital? Literally, when it is a deserted, abandoned capital, the city is also. China has been going on for thousands of years, the imperial court has taken turns to sit, the rise and fall of the dynasty is usually accompanied by the rise and fall of the capital, many cities in the red dust of the years have been the first good districts, some have led the way for hundreds of years, and some have been fanghua in March and May, so the "waste capital" can be described as one of the derivatives of China's historical process. Among the eight ancient capitals, except for Beijing, the great capital of People's China, yudu is now in ruins. Where there are crowds, there are left, center, right, and who is the most wasteful, and which city can afford the pick of the most wasteful capital?
Although Xi'an has Mr. Jia's book mapping and examples, with today's national positioning and empowerment, as well as the theory of the city's administrative level, economic and social development level, science, education, culture and health and other high-quality resources, Xi'an, which is firmly in the vanguard of the Great Northwest, is competing for the most abandoned capital? In the same way, Nanjing and Hangzhou are not eligible to compete for the most ruined capital because of "strength does not allow". According to the principle of determinism of strength and the people's decision, I am afraid that everyone has a most ruined capital in their minds, and there are as many as many people as there are the most abolished capitals. The brothers have little contact with the people of the eight ancient capitals, and if you talk about the customs of the people and the mentality of urban culture, you think that the most wasted capital generally has the following faces and temperaments:
The first is to unswervingly think that their ancestors live in the first place of goodness, their ancestors are smarter and smarter than the people of other places, they have seen the world, they have eaten a large plate of thorns and mustard, and then they firmly believe that they have completely inherited the style and mantle of their ancestors, they are born "self-red" and "self-reliant", although they were born under the red flag and grew up in the new society, although they know the Qin, Han, Wei and Jin, they are still obstinately obsessed with the old era of the N generation ancestors, and they are full of inexplicable sense of regional superiority, cultural superiority, historical superiority, cultural psychology, Historical identity rests on a decaying dynasty that has long since lost its shadow. Its cultural logic and psychological stereotypes take historical determinism as values, selective preaching and operation as methodology, and in a word: you must respect history, respect history must admire my ancestors, and admiring my ancestors must look up to me. When a city or a group of people regards the ambiguous history as a strong needle and a continuation of life, without which it is difficult to maintain pride and self-confidence, the invisible urban atmosphere must be filled with the sacrifice of the souls of the old and the young, so that the waste is both suitable.
The second is to regard the glory of the city as the glory of the distant ancestors of the family, the glory of their own family, and their own glory, and be proud and proud of it. Outsiders quote scriptures or open their mouths to say some views and perceptions that are not in line with the will of the people of the capital, as if insulting their ancestors.
The core purpose is to "talk big and spend small money", in an attempt to use the "power of culture" to create a lofty effect and maintain their own face at a low economic cost. For example, many Chinese delicacies and flavor snacks originated in agricultural civilization and became famous over the years, so each waste has more than one self-contained and well-known famous food, and has a long-standing brand that has been passed down for many years. Good things are never cheap, the old brand pursues a high premium, Beijing's Quanjude, Tianjin's dog ignores, Xi'an's old Sun family, Luoyang's real difference, the first floor of Kaifeng, food or not, the price is not cheap is the consistent experience of the people. Foreign guests came to the waste capital, the people of the waste capital remembered that they used to go to other people's homes, people ate well, drank well, and entertained, and they did not stretch their heads to entertain a local famous meal, which was detrimental to their own ancient road hot sausages and generous hospitality. Please return, but he does not lead the guests to the most famous and expensive old-fashioned brands, but mostly takes the guests to find a small shop in the hutong, and then must seriously and profoundly tell the visitors from other places: "The old-fashioned brands are all pit foreigners, and the local knowledgeable eaters never go." Don't look at the location of this shop we came to, the storefront is small, the palm stove master is a long-established retired head chef! People sell craftsmanship, we eat today is the taste, we don't eat the environment today! You'll know it in a moment, hundreds of times smarter than the old brand. "My brothers don't know how to eat, but they've seen a few long-established brands, and I think that if you leave aside the price factor, the buns on the first floor and the really different water mats are almost superior to all their local counterparts." The decline and landslide of the old brand are hot topics of discussion, but is it related to the fact that they are often pulled by locals to pad their backs? I think there is.
The fourth is to emphasize that everything is good for waste. When the people of the waste capital went to other places, you invited him to dinner, and he pretended to eat and drink it reservedly, saying that the taste was not as good as that of the waste capital. Invite him to see the exhibition of calligraphy and painting in the art museum, he will probably say when he walks around: "Calligraphy is not as good as Wang Xiao'er who rubbed his back there, and painting can't catch up with Tian Fatzi who fried fritters on the front street of lijia..."
So you get angry and hire the underworld to beat him up.
After the beating, he wiped the blood marks on his face, stalked his neck, opened his swollen mouth with difficulty, and said, "You can't fight here, you can't fight as well as the people in the waste capital society." ”
