Don't break eggs, don't mess around in the workplace
Break the egg, completely fire.
It turns out that the happy hometown and social code of the middle class are frisbees, camping, and script killing.
Now, it's all playing with eggs.
First of all, the bigwigs in the financial circle, once Texas Hold'em was the first choice in the financial circle, but now they have begun to indulge in eggs.
Even once rushed to the hot search #Financial institutions are either beating eggs, or exploring shops in Qingbar#.
Source: Weibo
There are also bloggers who complained that one night they heard 8 people who were brokerages discussing weekday night beating eggs:
Source: Weibo
So much so that netizens couldn't help but ridicule: "Egg breaking is a necessary skill in the current financial industry." ”
Not only that, the leaders in the system also began to team up to play eggs before and after tea.
Even eating is no longer the point, breaking eggs is the main thing.
Open social media, a variety of egg breaking strategies emerge endlessly, there are hand-in-hand to teach you egg breaking strategies:
Source: Network
There are even a variety of zero-based "egg breaking training courses" and "egg breaking lectures":
Source: Little Red Book
It seems that there is nothing left to stop the egg from coming out of the circle!
However, what is the sacredness of the eggs that are all over the country?
In fact, egg breaking is not a new thing, like Texas Hold'em, egg breaking is a card game, it originated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions.
It's just that compared to Texas Hold'em, egg breaking is a more social card game, which requires players to team up with each other and play well.
Two decks of poker, two teams in pairs, you can play the game.
Source: Network
This game combines the rules of the game of "eighty points", "fighting landlord" and "upgrade", and by combining "bomb", "flush", "pair" and "three with two" card types, and playing cards with teammates, the cards in the hands of players on the same team are the first to be played, that is, the victory.
To put it simply, it gathers the spirit and rules of various poker games such as upgrading and fighting landlords, but it is simple to play and full of variables.
In Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, egg breakers abound.
Walking into a restaurant in Jiangsu, there is usually a round table for eating, and another square table for breaking eggs.
As a necessary pre-dinner ritual, the game is not finished, and the waiters have to serve the food slowly.
If there are really not enough people, Jiangsu people will call the waiter or restaurant owner to make it up, and it is not fragrant to eat without playing a few rounds!
Source: Network
There is an old saying in Jiangsu: Break eggs before meals to wait for others, and break eggs after meals to sober up wine.
Therefore, all kinds of entertainment after meals must be indispensable for breaking eggs.
Walking into the KTV private room in Jiangsu, you will find that no one is grabbing the microphone from you at all, and everyone is busy breaking eggs.
I thought about going to the bathing center to take a bath and relax after the party, but what you didn't expect was that Jiangsu people were still breaking eggs in the pool.
Source: Cangwu Evening News
Once four Jiangsu people appear on the same occasion, taking out two poker pictures casually is as natural as breathing.
Even the big joy of marriage is indispensable for "milk tea with broken eggs":
Source: Network
As recently as 2017, the Jiangsu Provincial Social Sports Center also formulated unified rules for breaking eggs and began to organize various competitions.
In other words, learning to break eggs is about the same as entering the field of a competitive sport.
Source: Network
Egg breaking in the Suwan region is no longer just a card game, but a culture and love integrated into the blood of the locals.
And what was originally a pure egg in Jiangsu Province has now begun to kill all of China.
Breaking eggs, first became the social darling of the financial circle.
In big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, "egg breaking" has replaced Texas Hold'em as a must-play for financial people at gatherings.
Just in February this year, a securities team issued an invitation to egg breaking activity in Shenzhen, which caused a heated discussion, claiming in a small essay circulated on the Internet, claiming that egg breaking has become "a core skill to integrate into the photovoltaic circle".
In March, Zheshang Securities held an employee egg breaking competition, and a leading brokerage even launched egg breaking rules and instructions, and various versions of the "Egg Breaking Textbook Compilation" began to be widely circulated on social platforms.
Source: Little Red Book
Many netizens directly ridiculed on Weibo that they could not mix in the financial circle.
I can't even play eggs, and I'm embarrassed to say that I'm in the financial circle.
The above is nothing, CITIC Securities is more able to play, specially produced a set of joint version of egg poker:
Source: Network
Not to be left behind, the Agricultural Bank of China and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business held a special egg-breaking lecture.
Some fund brokers have also launched egg breaking training within the company, focusing on a "customer accompaniment".
In fact, the game mode of egg breaking can naturally make strangers quickly familiar and even become friends.
So egg breaking is not only a game, it is also a social currency or workplace survival skill.
Even, as long as you continue to improve your game technology, you can greatly expand your network, and the people you know in the egg game are likely to become resources for future work.
So in the financial world, mastering the social skill of breaking eggs is crucial to personal career development.
Source: Network
In other circles, egg breaking is also played just as hotly.
In the past two years, the pattern of going to the bureau in the Beijing system has slowly changed, and some leaders who are usually reluctant to participate in the wine bureau prefer to go out earlier.
It turned out that the leader came early, just so that he could get together and beat a few eggs for entertainment.
Breaking eggs quietly replaced golf as the favorite social activity of the leaders in the system.
Source: Network
The academic circle also began to gradually play eggs, some netizens are in graduate school, and the tutor takes him to beat the eggs:
Source: Little Red Book
Alumni gatherings, but also to organize a few rounds of eggs.
Even entrepreneurs, investors, engineers, professors, doctors, directors of calligraphers' associations, and other cultural people love to play eggs.
Old friends bring new friends, and the circle of playing egg breaking is getting bigger and bigger.
Eating without breaking eggs is equivalent to not eating
Breaking eggs is now the most common "saving from the beginning" in major circles, and has become a "new social tool" for both men and women to love, and politics and business to kill.
Its emergence has greatly changed our old way of socializing.
After all, the benefits of breaking eggs are too many.
It's better to start an egg break than an awkward greeting.
After playing a game, you can quickly get acquainted with unfamiliar faces, and even adding WeChat is as smooth as clouds, which is the best tool to enter the circle of acquaintances.
After all, what friendship is stronger than a "card match"?
Source: Network
And the sword and shadow between chess and cards, without words, you can understand the opponent's temperament and even ability.
There is such a joke circulating in the egg ring -
"Beat the egg well, have a brain in business; Beat the egg well, and the calculation of the account is clear"
Some are conservative, some are aggressive, some are straightforward, some are treacherous... After a few rounds, you can see the background of a person's personality.
Source: Network
Even the wine table culture has run directly with the emergence of eggs, wine can not be drunk, drinking affects the leadership play ah!
But the question is, is the emergence of this new social tool just because it is too fun?
The answer, of course, is no, and the explosion of the egg cannot be separated from the economic reasons behind it.
The job of a securities firm should be investment research, and spending a lot of time on studying egg breaking is really suspected of not doing business.
In fact, the popularity of egg breaking in the financial circle reflects the development trend of China's financial industry from the side.
Source: Weibo
A financial analyst once said: "Texas Hold'em is a Western game, it represents the characteristics of the Western financial industry, such as high risk, high yield, individualism, etc." With the downward trend of the economy in recent years, the emergence of egg breaking represents the characteristics of China's financial industry, such as low risk, steady income, teamwork, etc. ”
According to insiders in the financial industry, it is difficult for them to raise funds now, foreign capital is withdrawing abroad, and the bosses of private enterprises have no money, so they have begun to find the government to do LPs.
The government in the Yangtze River Delta region is still very rich and has the courage to invest, and it just so happens that the leaders of these local governments like to play eggs, and in order to be able to talk with the leaders, everyone has learned to break eggs.
As a result, the regional game of egg breaking naturally spreads to the entire investment circle, and you can team up to play a few handfuls in your spare time, and you can get the latest news and resources in the circle between conversations and laughter.
From national affairs to the way out for children, inadvertently, all important things are negotiated and decided, and the business is done in a short period of time between parents.
And Texas Hold'em, which used to be known to everyone in the financial circle, also quietly ended in the torrent of the times.
Source: Network
Since then, egg breaking is not only a card game out of the circle, but also a new model for brokers to open up business and understand business in the game.
However, from another point of view, egg breaking as a game social tool still needs to be vigilant.
In the past, games such as mahjong and landlord also developed into gambling, and businessmen and officials played mahjong together, ostensibly socially, but in fact became corrupt.
Perhaps, as the old saying goes, entertainment is entertainment after all, and it is not appropriate to treat entertainment as a serious matter.
Author: Xiaofuzi
Responsible editor: Watanabe