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In the past two years, more and more young people,
Indulge in something called "open wheat."
After work, they were on a wild stage in a tavern or café
Talk to strangers for 5 minutes,
Laugh at your own life.
A beijing open wheat site
Open wheat, as a zero-threshold talk show form,
Not only is it a new segment drill ground for professional actors,
It has also become an outlet for ordinary people to dissolve their lives and vent their emotions.
"After talking about opening wheat, I am much happier and more confident."
Since June, it has been associated with Shanghai, Beijing, Hangzhou and many other places
Young people who talk about open wheat addiction chatted about their stories.
How cool is the open wheat thing? Why cool?
What has changed with 5 minutes of happiness each time?
Written by Zhu Yuru, responsible editor Chen Ziwen
At 18:30, as soon as the end of the work time arrived, Qiu Rui got up from his workstation, crossed the colleagues who ordered a good takeaway to prepare for overtime and were tired and ready to go home and lie flat, hurriedly took the crowded evening peak subway, and finally, entered a tavern in the old hutong of the second ring road, where a group of young people had gathered one after another.
From 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., they sat in a corner of a small tavern, waiting to be able to take the stage and give a five-minute snout.
"Recently, during the holiday season, our leaders sent out red envelopes in the work group. 20 people in the group he sent 6 red envelopes, he also grabbed 1, what do you say who can do this kind of thing? ”
"I find that you are not happy when you lie at home in a daze, but you are in a daze at your workstation, how can you be so happy!"
"Ever since my mom joined this blind date, she's become extra excited. It feels like I haven't found a wife yet, but she's already found her own home. ”
At the scene of an open wheat in Beijing, many people stood in the aisle
Big factory programmers, accountants, civil servants, doctors, policemen, stay-at-home moms, students, professional talk show actors... In the spotlight, all kinds of people are fully complaining about the bad things in life, and there is a kind of light in their eyes that they usually can't see.
Some people burst into flames, and the more they talked, the more excited they became, and they jumped off the stage directly. Some nervously forgot the words and were embarrassed on the stage. The people at the bottom just look down to drink, eat, play with their phones, and don't mind.
This activity has a "scientific name" - open wheat. It is a wild stage, one of the most primitive forms of talk show. Anyone, as long as you have material, can have 5 minutes to go on stage and speak in the form of a paragraph.
In Beijing, there are at least 5 or 6 open wheat sessions every night on weekdays, mostly hidden in taverns and cafes. They are not far apart from each other, and some even live in an alley, in order to facilitate the opening of the mai actor can talk several times a day.
This is almost always the case in first-tier cities, with open wheat blooming everywhere, the atmosphere in Shanghai is particularly warm, and the provincial capital city can guarantee at least 2 times a week.
Watching these open wheat is basically free, or it only costs 10 bucks. "You get what you pay for", the host will usually start with a "friendly statement". Whether it's funny or not is not guaranteed, but it is absolutely real and direct.
An open wheat, 10-20 actors, almost a large number of spectators, most of them in their 20-35 years old. For 2 hours, they laughed intimately, like friends who had known each other for many years. After 2 hours, they returned to their respective work and life, and no one knew anyone.
More and more young people are indulging in such happiness. Day and night, over and over again, the desire is difficult to fill.
Qiu Rui's three-point and one-line life: company, open wheat, home
The backlog of negative emotions in the workplace, tell a paragraph to dissolve
How they first took the stage to talk about Open Mai, everyone's story is different, but one thing is common: they have a backlog of negative emotions, but there is no suitable place to talk and vent.
Spitting out negative emotions is the essence of open wheat. Among them, one of the biggest negative emotions comes from the workplace.
Qiu Rui spoke on stage
Qiu Rui, a 25-year-old Shenyang native, is a programmer who has been talking about open wheat since he began drifting north 3 years ago. Spitting work, or "scolding the boss", is one of the core of his paragraphs.
"When I interviewed, the boss didn't understand the business and wanted to lower my salary. Knowing that I couldn't do it professionally, he played metaphysics with me and asked me, 'Do you feel like writing poetry when you type code?' ’”
Coincidentally, the number of programmers among the open wheat participants is extremely high. They are a bunch of "lying flat" programmers, who do not take the initiative to work overtime, do not take the initiative to jump jobs, and do not take the initiative to ask for promotion and salary increases. Qiu Rui is one of them.
Weekday nights, brightly lit office buildings and overtime Qiu Rui
When he first came to Beijing, Qiu Rui was actually very willing to work overtime, willing to give himself a full schedule of time, and felt that he could learn something and get ahead. "Later, I slowly found that no matter how long you worked, you were also a part, and when you left the company, you would immediately find another person to fill your position."
Unlike open wheat, no one can tell your paragraph. "As soon as I compare, slowly I will focus on a place that I cannot replace."
"My boss is the kind of struggle that makes you struggle all day long." You asked him if he could leave early today without working overtime, and he replied: 'Have you come true to your dreams by leaving so early every day?' ’”
囧 is talking about open wheat
The person who said this was a 32-year-old middle-level bank in Hangzhou, 囧 (personal name), who was tormented by performance pressure. And the leader he described as a high-quality leader was transferred to his unit about a year ago. It didn't take long for Lu to start talking about open wheat, complaining about all kinds of things that made him speechless.
"Every time we were called to a meeting to convey the document, the document was read in 5 minutes, and I had to read it several times until half an hour before he felt that it was a meeting."
After laughing and making trouble, he went to work the next day, and he magically found that this leader didn't seem to be so annoying, but it was actually quite interesting. "When these things become your source of inspiration and make others laugh, in fact, it becomes a very positive thing, which is a big adjustment." 」
Little Joe was talking about open wheat
Audiences are always enthusiastic about such content. "It's like someone did something for me that I didn't dare to do," said Xiao Qiao, a 27-year-old employee of a State-owned enterprise in Beijing.
Last August, she was cooled to see open wheat for the first time. After being an audience member for more than a month, she plucked up the courage and decided to try it on stage.
At that time, she had just entered the current company, and the leader sat directly behind her, and she was so nervous that she felt that the pores of her whole body were in a state of high vigilance.
After talking about open wheat, she felt that she was much more relaxed, and she slowly adapted to work. "It was all before, Oh my God, negative emotions are coming, what should I do? Now, come on with a negative emotion, and I'm going to write it down as a paragraph. ”
Little Joe's residence in Beijing
Those things in the relationship
Little Joe began to talk about opening up Mai in fact, there is another reason, she and her boyfriend of many years broke up because of a different place, "it is very uncomfortable, need something to fill." ”
The issue of feelings is another topic that is often mentioned on Open Wheat. Little Joe has seen a well-dressed, well-dressed woman talking about Open Mai, complaining about the scumbag who just broke up with her with text messages.
"She wasn't really funny at all, everyone was actually embarrassed at the time, but she was given a lot of applause, as if to encourage her."
囧 also talks about emotional problems and is urged to marry by his parents. "They can put all the problems down to my non-marriage."
Before opening the wheat, 囧 had to stay in the office until 9 o'clock almost every day, and did not dare to go home until his parents were asleep. "I'm like a trash can, accepting all the bad emotions but having no place to pour them. Now that I have found this way to speak outwardly, I can be more tolerant and get along with them better. ”
Lonely onion, always alone
Old Onion also talks about feelings, but his problems are different from these people.
"As soon as I stop here, you should know how bumpy my love road is." There are few men in this world who, like me, can so perfectly avoid all the criteria for a girl's mate selection. ”
Old Onion is 31 years old this year, and his friends around him are basically married and have children, and his life has entered another track, only he has been single.
Last year's epidemic, he lived alone in a 10-square-meter rental house, opened his eyes to work every day and closed his eyes to sleep, and the loneliness of being single was magnified to the extreme. "Isn't it possible to call customer service for takeout to complain?" I kept talking endlessly, not letting the other person hang up the phone. ”
Old onion was abused by the dog's single daily routine
As soon as the epidemic ended, he began to talk to Kai Mai about his single daily life that he was disliked. In the movie theater with the ticket check brother a vicious battle, the other side looked up and down, "Just one?" ”
On the bus and subway, a girl came up, and the first choice was definitely not to sit next to him, or to remove it as soon as there was an empty seat.
The first time he opened the wheat, through the light, the old onion saw the people in the front row looking at him with glowing eyes, a feeling he had never experienced before. The more he talks about old onions, the more addictive he becomes, and now he has to talk 2-3 times a day from Monday to Thursday.
"I'm an ordinary person offstage, but on stage, I'm the focus of attention. When I go on stage to brush up on the sense of existence, I don't feel so much need for a sense of existence in my life. Opening up the wheat may be like living a sex life, the same pleasure, the same desire to fill, always want to perform better. ”
Old onions are talking about open wheat
Some words are easier to say to strangers
For Lao Onion, meeting a group of good new friends in Open Mai is another important reason for him to keep coming back here.
Now, after talking about open wheat, a group of actors can still put together a drinking party. On weekends, everyone also has workshops to help each other change the paragraph. "It's amazing, in fact, our understanding of each other is still limited to what is said in the paragraph, but there is a particularly strong sense of trust and connection between each other."
The audience gave encouragement to Little Joe, who forgot the words, and Little Joe signaled to "come more"
This subtle sense of intimacy may also explain why so many people choose to confide in strangers about their private affairs.
"But everyone's life is not easy, and they may not be able to bear it when they always convey negative emotions to friends and family around them," Little Joe said.
It's different from strangers on open wheat. "Someone will listen carefully, and generally won't coax me down." I'm not worried that they're involved in my life, and their reactions aren't going to hurt or affect me. ”
Konishi was talking about open wheat
Konishi, 34, is an outlier among open-mouth actors. She is the vice president of the company, married happily, and basically has no negative emotions. "You feel very strong and in a state of infinite conceit." When she talks about open wheat, she wants to sometimes be poured cold water by strange audiences.
To a certain extent, open wheat has become a simple and straightforward new type of social networking. Whether this group of people is happy or not, laughter is the only judgment. You can choose to return to your life after it's over, or you can choose to make it a part of your life.
Open a party of McEpers and spectators
Qiu Rui and 囧 both met many audiences who came to add their own WeChat after the performance, and they pulled these people into a group, and there were hundreds of people at many times.
"People of all kinds of jobs and ages have it, and some post-00s have given me science popularization why they are willing to queue up for three hours to buy a cup of milk tea," 囧 said.
"I used to share a house in the suburbs, and I said that for the first time I knew that 1 room can accommodate 7 people, and as long as things are broken, no one will repair them, which is a big resonance." Qiu Rui said, adding, "In fact, everyone is very lonely." ”
Qiu Rui took the stage
Reach some kind of reconciliation with yourself who does not accept your fate
"I used to be very vain, everything had to be blown up, when I first came to Beijing for internship, I told my family that I was going to Beijing to make a lot of money. It's hard before it's done, and you can't talk to your family. ”
Qiu Rui felt that the biggest help that talk shows gave him was to make people sincere. "It made me slowly reconcile with myself."
After the opening of the wheat in the middle of the night, Qiu Rui went home alone
"Everyone didn't want to reconcile with themselves at the beginning, they wanted to make themselves better and change all their shortcomings." After speaking on stage for more than half a year, he began to ask in his heart, "Why did I come to Beijing to stay, and why did I do with my girlfriend?" Why am I? Then, to accept some of your flaws, "be the one who passes a little bit or a little bit lower." ”
Now that he has been talking for 3 years and has become famous, he still feels anxious from time to time, does not know how to balance his job with talk shows, and does not know which side to give up.
"But now all of a sudden there's a voice saying that that anxiety is normal." If you can't solve it, just put it aside, set a goal, and then go in that direction. ”
The old onion always said that opening wheat is like a dream, drunken dream death for a few minutes, over, the medicine has passed, found that reality is still that reality, but your mentality in the face of it has changed a lot. "I'm happy, I'm confident, and I'm less presumptuous."
A core of graduation photos in North Shadow
A 26-year-old Quzhou girl has the same feeling. YiXin was an actor before, and he came from the North Film Acting Department. "The imaginary future is particularly bright and beautiful, and when you really go to the running crew to get a role, you find that it is all bubbles, and there is a big sense of gap."
At that time, she felt depressed, locked herself in the house for more than a week and did not want to go out, nor did she want others to walk in, feeling that everything was meaningless.
"But as an adult, you still have to find a way to digest it yourself." Last October, she found Open Wheat.
A core is talking about open wheat
The main content of a core paragraph is to ridicule yourself, ridicule your poor acting skills, your voice is said to be like green tea, and ridicule your love and life.
After the actor's dream was shattered, Hexin once felt ashamed to see people, especially when he returned to his hometown. "It's not going to be like this anymore, and after the ridicule, I think it's not a thing." Maybe my life is very ordinary, but I feel that there is a head, and if I work hard, it will get better and better every day. ”
After talking about open wheat, a core became more and more positive and cheerful
People of all ages and classes are better off
Yixin felt that more and more people wanted to do this, "Every time I go to talk, I can see a lot of new faces." Some people don't dare to come after 'dying' once, and some people don't want to blow up the field if they don't accept defeat, and they don't want to leave after tasting fresh. ”
"The first time I talked about open wheat, I sent a circle of friends, and there have never been so many people who have praised me, and they are particularly envious." Wu Zhiguo, director of the Department of Neuropsychology at Shanghai Deji Hospital, said to us.
He came on stage to talk about Open Mai because of an event of a talk show label that "everyone can be a 5-minute talk show actor."
Wu Zhiguo was talking about opening up Mai
Wu Zhiguo found that while complaining about his own life, he could also eliminate some of the public's misunderstandings about his industry. He hopes that after listening to him for 5 minutes, more people can know that psychiatrists can also be very humorous and do not have to be afraid of mental illness.
Wu Zhiguo has a student, called Black Lantern, who began to talk about open wheat in 2018, saying that he has suffered from a rare disease of ophthalmology since he was 12 years old - juvenile macular degeneration.
Sunglasses are the standard for black lights on stage, not handsome, but he can't face the glare (laughing comedy signed artists)
"Blind people say that talk shows have innate advantages and are not afraid of the problem of cold fields. If I tell a joke, if no one laughs, I think, oh, this audience, it didn't come. ”
He was diagnosed with the disease at the age of 12 and had a long struggle to accept the disease. After gradually accepting, when looking for a job, he will take the initiative to tell the other party that his vision is not good, and he finds that there are actually many units that can accept it.
He met a group of patients and their families, especially the parents of children, who were anxious and helpless. His talk of opening wheat is a great comfort and encouragement to this group of people. "They watch my scenes, videos, listen to my ridicule, and then laugh, and they feel as if this disease is not so bad."
"There are a lot of young people like black lights on the open wheat, they talk about some topics that are actually a bit heavy, domestic violence, verbal attacks, but they are very relaxed and funny to say, especially shocking me, you can see the power of self-healing." 」 Wu Zhiguo, a psychologist, said, "From my professional point of view, humor is a sublimated and mature defense mechanism for facing difficulties. ”
After 2 hours of revelry, the quiet venue awaits the next group of people looking for happiness
Nowadays, talk show labels across the country have opened open wheat, "but the people who talk about open wheat now may still be too young, and they are all about young people." ”
Whether it is the actors on the stage or the audience offstage, if more people of different ages, jobs, and classes can join in and speak together, the perspective will be richer and the layers will be fuller.
I believe that this human comedy will also heal the hearts of more people.