Yangcheng Evening News launches a special edition of "Seven Cups of Tea" every Sunday, specially invited from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Singapore six experts and scholars in different fields to write column articles, plus for the majority of readers to call for papers "hand-clap" graphic column, although the article is short, seven cups of tea have rhyme, please slowly taste ——
·There is a saying · ·
See a doctor in the United States
Text/Liao Junping[Professor, Lingnan College, Sun Yat-sen University]
Seeing a doctor in the United States is very troublesome, and I have heard many people say it. I fell ill in the United States this time and needed to see a doctor, which I really didn't expect. Travel abroad can buy medical insurance, bought before, but never used, this time abroad did not buy, but to see a doctor. Travel insurance had to be purchased before I traveled, and my local health insurance had to be a local resident to buy it, so I had to see a doctor in the U.S. without health insurance.
The first is to see a family doctor. I used to think that family doctors were already linked to medical insurance, and without medical insurance, I couldn't find a family doctor, but in fact, it wasn't. Some of the so-called family doctors also practice in a medical institution, and more are independent practitioners, renting or buying a house to open a clinic. The clinic I went to for the first time had only one doctor, but there were seven or eight people equipped with nurse technicians and clerks. The first diagnosis registration fee is nearly 100 US dollars, at the beginning of the statement that there is no medical insurance, the doctor said that it is only to do the most necessary examination, the examination fee ranges from tens of dollars to hundreds, and the doctor is also repeatedly considered when prescribing drugs. The most unexpected thing was that the doctor finally said I would help you find some coupon, that is, coupons. He printed it out of the computer and gave it to me when he went to the pharmacy to get the medicine, and the cost of the medicine was saved a lot, which was close to the price of medical insurance.
Later, almost as long as the doctor prescribed medicine and knew that I had no health insurance, he would give me coupon. Because in addition to the original heart disease has become serious, there are some chronic diseases, and I have been taking drugs, and these drugs also need to be prescribed by a doctor in the United States. For example, the treatment of glaucoma eye medicine, the doctor prescribes a three-month amount at a time, gives a coupon, gives it to the pharmacy, the pharmacy does not give a full three months of the amount when the drug is administered, look closely and find that the prescription attached to the medicine bag says that you can also take the drug three more times, and when the medicine is almost used up, the pharmacy will notify that your medicine can be taken again. The second time you get the medicine, you don't have to show the coupon, because the discount information has been entered into the pharmacy computer the first time, so the price of the next few times is the same as the first time, and it is automatically discounted.
In addition to professional pharmacies such as Walgreen and CVS, almost all chain supermarkets in the United States have pharmacies, which can be said to be full of pharmacies, and it is very convenient to take medicines, so it will not be very troublesome to divide the three-month drug into four times.
Rejection of popularity ·
"Another Narrative"
Text:Cao Lin[Beijing Current Affairs Commentator]
Recently, I have been looking at various "essay annual selections" and "annual selections of current evaluations" more than 10 years ago, which are very rewarding as a kind of regurgitation and retrospection of current affairs thought. I have always encouraged young friends not only to care about what is happening now, not only to read the "distant history" written in the book, but also to understand what happened before they were born, which have not yet been written into history, and not far away, and see today's yesterday. This generation of young people can not only know only B station, Li Ziqi, chain women, Russian-Ukrainian conflict, but also know Sun Zhigang and Magajue before the memory.
Advocates of critical thinking have particularly embraced "retrospective reading": a way of reading that opens our minds to different experiences in order to offset social conditions and media influences. Hegel said that the so-called common sense is often nothing more than the prejudice of the times. How to transcend the prejudices of the times? There must be sufficient retrospective reading to see "an alternative narrative" that may not be understood in the present.
Seeing the 2006 "Essay Annual Selection", I happened to see a self-description of Magaju, and the name and the bloody incident of hammering 4 roommates shook public opinion, and "Magajue" also became a symbol of violence that made people talk about their names at that time. In the public opinion of everyone shouting to kill, Magaju's confession has also been circulated on the Internet, and almost 20 years later, it still makes people feel very heavy to read. "Confessions" restores the psychological process of a peasant college student from humble to distorted: "There are always some classmates who intentionally or unintentionally discriminate against me, sometimes saying something that hurts my heart, and they always feel that I am dressed strangely. "Although my family is very poor, we all care for each other, feel very happy, have no discrimination and contempt, and never know what personality trampling is."
In the framework of public opinion narratives that "strongly condemn criminals", this narrative of "restoring the psychological processes of criminals" is often questioned, and they fear that this will form a sympathy for the crime. In fact, don't worry, don't underestimate the public's judgment, listen to this self-psychological analysis of criminals, just like listening to the confessions of corrupt officials and lawyers defending bad people, the sky can't fall. "Hating Magashule" and "listening to Magashule's confession" are not opposites, will not counteract the voice of justice and dissolve mainstream values, but will only move towards deeper critical thinking beyond shallow condemnation.
As the saying goes, a sign of a person's maturity is that two seemingly opposing views can exist in their minds at the same time. This kind of "seeming opposition" will not form a hedge and offset, not a "split personality", but provide a sufficient information space for open and dialectical thinking.
Ephemeral Words·
Ugly oranges
Text/You Jin [Singapore writer]
In July, in Bali, when the oranges are ripe, the fruits are hung on the trees in a variety of ways; The breeze is gentle and the placket is perfumed. Walking between the trees, the orange gardener Yemo gleefully picked the oranges at his fingertips and let us taste them. I noticed that what Yemo had given us was a greenish-yellow fruit with brown spots. I thought to myself: This man, however, really cut the door, and specially picked these unassuming oranges for us to eat.
Perhaps Yemo read my mind and explained with a smile: "I have always been mainly growing coffee, and last year, I decided to try to plant oranges in the newly purchased field; I chose four different varieties and found that the ugliest one was the tastiest. Saying, he reached out and picked a few peels and gave them to me: "Now, you compare yourself!" ”
I can't wait to taste, hehe, Yemo is not wrong at all, those oranges that seem to be covered with scars, the flesh is delicate, no residue and no seeds, plump and juicy, it is indeed the best; As for those who are fat and shiny, sweet but not fragrant, lack personality and soul, the gap between the two cannot be calculated. Unfortunately, buyers are only willing to buy those with perfect appearance and bright colors, and they are blunt: even if they are "wise and heroic", these ugly oranges are not popular in the market. Yemo had no choice but to sell those high-quality ugly oranges to street vendors at a low price.
The world's preconceived notions about people by their appearance, as a result, the regret of "fish eyes mixed with pearls" has also brought about the hatred of "pearls left behind in the sea"; What's more, it may make those who "have gold and jade outside and defeated in it" flaunt their might and run amok. How!
·Big beads and small beads·
The lord is the master
Text/Lin Yong [Guangzhou painter]
Before Yu thirty years old, riding a bicycle across the Xiaogang Bridge on a winter night, losing the car and hitting the ground, the appearance of the front teeth was changed after the loss of treatment, and the front teeth of the cover crash were arranged "depressed". The daughter said that she had listened to her mother, and that the loss of the car was terrible, and her appearance was good.
Yu Zeng and Chen Yanning watched the Brazilian women's basketball game at the Beijing Gymnasium, and there was a lot of applause during the game. Yu saw the player's posture leaping beauty benefits, forgot the form of the call, but the whole field did not respond, all of them were stunned. Yan Ning was very embarrassed, and yu whispered: "There are rules for winning and losing in the game, and it is not possible to applaud at any time, and it will cause people to laugh at all, please be careful." Yu solemnly ran. Since then, he has not entered the field, and he has not yet understood the rules of the ball game, and it is difficult to judge whether it is win or lose. Occasionally watching the event on the screen, no matter whether you win or lose, where the posture is beautiful and beats the legs, self-proclaimed and sighs, and is not happy. Yu yu game, habit but not enlightenment, always did not get the point. Gaiping was afraid of "rules" and liked field battles.
Yu has myopia, where the mind is in, the left side. In the past years, Yu First entered the movie, Yanning came later, its position was on the remaining side, the black field was not allowed to enter, Yanning was in a hurry, half-crouched to see the head shadow, saw the left side, that is, the nearest, the result was not unexpected.
There is no "one-room place" in the forty front room, and the paintings are hung on the wall and written vertically, and then it becomes a habit, and all paintings are written upright, because they are not allowed to sit, so the paintings have a sense of instability.
Around 1982, the remaining living rooms were forced to be cramped, and the painting was only one and a half of the 12 square meters of the room, with a long strip and a half door, but the oblique opening was sideways to get people. The guest can not sit opposite, into an oblique angle opposite, just the remaining side of the left disease, into the mind, more side left, the more into the diagonal, also "beautiful things". It is time to paint many titles "inch inch dwelling". The guest asked what to understand, Yu Yue: "Inch by inch, inch by inch, inch by inch, unremitting art is also said." "And whenever there is a sketch, the room does not allow people to be connected to the corridor. In front of the building, there is a banyan tree, the branches stretch into the corridor, the long whiskers are fluttering, there is no lack of poetry, so it is engraved "Banyan whiskers in the corridor" to remember.
·Unconsciously·
The last piece of Sachima
Text/Zhong Hongming [Associate Editor of Shanghai Harvest Magazine]
A few days ago, I went to the Shanghai Theater Academy to see the drama "Outpost". The drama, which began the fourth round of touring performances, revolved around the stories of five young writers of the "Chinese Left-Wing Writers Alliance", Rou Shi, Hu Yipin, Li Weisen, Feng Hao, and Yin Fu, and the word "outpost" reflected on the screen came from the organ publication of the "Left League" in 1931, when Feng Xuefeng and Lu Xun agreed that its inaugural issue was a special number to commemorate the five martyrs. It was on that special title that Mr. Lu Xun wrote "Remembrance for Forgetting".
The play is a nested narrative framework with three temporal threads: the 1930s, 1990s, and 2020. The first main clue is that in 2020, several performance graduate students at art universities decided to rehearse a drama about the five martyrs of the "Left League" created by their mentors in the 1990s, but found that the script was incomplete, so they began to study the script, consult materials, visit the Martyrs' Memorial Hall, and conduct on-site interviews, trying to solve their inner doubts. 90 years apart, young people of different eras have a dialogue over the air, which is also a question of faith.
Another main clue is a real-life reconstruction of the arrest of the five young writers at the Shanghai Oriental Hostel in January 1931, from the patrol house in Laozhabei to the public security bureau, and then detained in the Detention Center of the Songhu Police Headquarters of the Kuomintang in Longhua. In prison, they put on heavy shackles, and in just three weeks of prison life, they jointly recalled their past lives and literary creations, invited Mr. Lu Xun to give lectures, their interactions with Mr. Lu Xun, and they haunted civilian schools... In the end, he gave his young life for faith.
Mr. Lu Xun's "For the Memory of Forgetting" in the soft stone details are the most detailed, he is highly myopic, but he always goes out to help Mr. Lu Xun; He and the lady will walk in the middle of the street three or four meters apart, the husband sees if there is a young lady next to him, always wonder if it is his girlfriend; And Yin Fu, who first appeared in the article, also appeared in the play: "The third time we met, I remember it was on a hot day. Someone knocked on the door, and when I went to open the door, it was white and reckless, but wearing a thick cotton robe, sweating profusely, and they couldn't help but laugh at each other. Mr. Lu Xun hurriedly asked Roushi to settle the manuscript fee, paid a sum of 50 yuan, and asked him to buy a jacket, and he was the poet who translated Pei Duofei's poems and biographies. There is a scene in the play that has a particularly memorable point: Yin Fu is opposed to the eldest brother who is a Kuomintang official, the eldest brother is affectionate to his brother, and Yin Fu decides to leave for ideals and faith...
Stage art participates in the creation of theatrical narrative and performance space, which is the essential requirement of theatrical art. The choreography of "Outpost" is very exquisite in the design of virtual reality, cold and warm, light and dark, and is integrated with the film clips, which is very exquisite. At the end of the play, the pink-purple lights, the peach blossom petals sprinkled in the sky, and a grand peach blossom rain fell on the side of the protagonists, and the hope and light carried by the Longhua peach blossom also fell in the hearts of the young people.
As you descend the steps of the theater, the twilight is deep, and the bright lights shine on the stacked pieces of pale yellow with the word "outpost" written in red. In an instant, the resolute and rather childish Yin Fu wanted to eat Sachima at Mr. Lu Xun's family banquet, and The gentleman told him: There is only one last piece left, and this scene resurfaces.
·If I smell ·
"Waiting" is a virtue
Text/Li Xuetao[Professor, Beijing University of Foreign Chinese]
After the college entrance examination in June 1985, I was always nervous because I had already learned a lesson of "failure" a year ago. During a month or two of suffering, one day I waited for the postman who came by bicycle. I took my acceptance letter and danced happily. The postman also followed me and asked about the university, but I didn't know anything about the school at the time.
People's ability to wait seems to be more and more degraded with the advancement of science and technology. When I read Matteo Ricci's Notes on China, I knew that it took about 3 years to come to China from Europe at the end of the 16th century, and Kinnige translated the Italian Notes of China into Latin on the ship back to Europe after Matteo Ricci's death. Diplomats of the late Qing Dynasty traveled to Europe by boat for 2-3 months. Later, the Trans-Siberian Railway was completed, and it could be reached in half a month: recently I was doing research in Ji Xianlin Liude and found that he left Beijing on August 31, 1935, and arrived in Germany on September 14. When I was reading spoken German in The North, the textbook at the time also said that it is really convenient to travel between China and Germany now, and it can be reached in 17 hours through Abu Dhabi. When I went to Germany to study in the mid-1990s, I was already flying directly for 10 hours. But our ability to "wait" has become worse.
In the past, the news was in the letters, the domestic letters were calculated on a daily basis, while the international letters were often a week or two, or more. And since we had e-mail, it seems like every request we've had to meet right away.
Of course, life is not always a problem that can be solved in a "timely" manner. If you are impatient, the Germans will say: Abwarten und Tee trinken. This means that people have to wait patiently and use tea slowly in order to achieve something. Why tea and not coffee here? Because tea can make people awake, and coffee will make people more excited. In addition, if it is not a "tea ceremony" that is so complicated that it resembles a religious ceremony, at least it must wait until the tea is brewed before drinking.
Therefore, "waiting" is indeed a virtue of life that needs to be learned.
【Hand Clap】
Son becomes cool Photo/Wen Chen Yani
The child left home to go to school, and I looked at the empty room and couldn't help but think of the back of the lamp in the past. Now, I receive several deduction messages for student-specific cards on my phone every day, which is the highest frequency and only signal that Wa gave me when she spent at school.
When he returned from a few days of military training, his arms were hot and lined with heat, and the people were as black and shiny as paint. Sending him back to school, he told me, "Mom, don't help me carry my luggage." "Although I borrowed a hand trailer, my son hung 3 bags on the trunk rail and pushed them away, and I didn't want to take any of them. I said son, take a picture at the school gate. He said, Mom, I don't want to shoot, now I'm in.
The first time I left home to go to school, I didn't say I didn't adapt; The first time to take so much luggage alone, don't want your mother to help; For the first time, he disposed of his own funds and was in order; The first time I talked about the phone call, I had to count down, and set aside 30 seconds to facilitate the later students...
The back fades away. The son is not getting cold, he's getting cooler.
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September 4, 2022 "Yangcheng Evening News" A8 "Seven Cups of Tea" special page
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