In October 2021, nearly ten young people from Taiwan, Hong Kong, France, South Korea, Italy, Malaysia and other countries and regions, who are also graduate or undergraduate students of Tsinghua University, opened a business called "Pure · Life" café. In less than half a year, this café has become the first place in the list of public comments on Yiwu city cafes, and is popular with locals, especially Local Youth in Yiwu.
Yiwu Pure· A corner of the Life cultural space
This "Pure Life" café can also be called a cultural space, because this former abandoned house, less than 200 square meters of space contains a spirit, a "Pure" spirit.
Simply put, "Pure" means "pure", and the pure milk we drink on weekdays is "Pure milk". By extension, "Pure" means materially pure and natural, spiritually pure and noble. Not isolated, not exclusive, the same is close, different is respectful. This is a spirit, a "Pure" spirit.
This "Pure" spirit is not made out of thin air. In the documentary "Post-90s", which was released a year ago, Yang Zhenning, Xu Yuanchong, Pan Jiluan and 16 other students of the United University told the glorious past of Southwest United University. Among them, "Pure" is a high-frequency word in the film , Yang Zhenning recalls: "(Deng) Jiaxian praised a person, or the language used for an act was 'pure'. Whoever has pure thoughts and noble realms will say that this person is truly 'pure'. This criterion of his evaluates others as well as himself, so that his classmates simply call him 'pure'. It can be seen that nearly a hundred years ago, the students of Southwest United University had a "Pure" spirit. In the turbulent times, a majestic force is born in the pure land of the heart, patriotic and self-reliant, and resolute and strong.
Poster of the post-90s movie
Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching has clouds: "The beginning of all things, the road to simplicity, the derivation to the complexity." Zhuge Liang also said in the Book of Commandments: "The journey of a husband and a gentleman is to cultivate oneself quietly and cultivate virtue through frugality." Non-indifference is not clear-sighted, non-tranquility is not far-reaching. "Simplicity, thinness, tranquility, is this not the spirit of "Pure" contained in Chinese culture?
At present, we need to adhere to such a "Pure" spirit. On July 6, 1921, Russell came to China and gave a parting speech entitled "China's Road to Freedom": "Our Western civilization may be destroyed by such wars (that is, wars for the market, then wars for raw materials), and parts of wars between capitalists and laborers." Even if our Western civilization is not destroyed by war and can survive, he who is feared will become more mechanical, with increasing contempt for the status of the individual and his characteristics. This mechanical civilization is quite difficult to hope that it has the slightest value, so Chinese not to specialize in imitating Western methods, in order to seek happiness for their own country or the world. Perhaps, in the face of a modern society with increasing conflicts, divisions and contradictions, the spirit of "Pure" has an irreplaceable healing effect, and it is also what modern people, especially modern youth, pursue.
Bertrand Russell was a twentieth-century British philosopher, mathematician, and logician
In his book "Evoking Young China," Russell wrote: "By abandoning the conquest of foreign races, devoting all our energies to science and art, and creating a better economic system than it is now, China has done its most appropriate duty to the world and has given mankind a whole new hope in our disappointing times." "May my youth find a new hope with a "Pure" spirit.
The author, Zhao Pingguang, is a research assistant at the Institute of Cultural and Creative Development of Tsinghua University, and the article was originally published on the WeChat public account of the "China Cultural Exchange Association".