Recently, Hu Xijin posted a micro-headline post criticizing people who miss the previous 30 years as ultra-leftists, which caused widespread heated discussions on the Internet, and many netizens expressed their opinions one after another. There are those who are for it, and there are those who are against.
Today I would also like to talk about my thoughts on Hu Xijin's post.
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Hu Xijin said: "From time to time, I see people openly denying the development achievements and all-round social progress that China has made since the reform and opening up, and preaching that the society before the reform is better and more ideal than after the reform. If it's a young man who hasn't seen the past, that's it. But it is unforgivable that some people who have traveled through two eras have said the same. ”
My Comments:
Since the beginning of reform and opening up, China's development achievements are obvious to all, and no one can deny them. However, Hu Xijin's so-called "comprehensive social progress after reform" is a bit exaggerated.
What are the criteria for comprehensive social progress? Specifically, it can be summed up in two points: the progress of material civilization and the progress of spiritual civilization.
There is a way to divide problems into two, and historical materialism is the most objective and fair.
Since the beginning of reform and opening up, the mainland's national strength and people's living standards have developed to an unprecedented level, and its material civilization has achieved unprecedented and rich results.
But what about spiritual civilization? Is it progressing or regressing?
Take the words of a netizen: "We are people from the past, without reform and opening up, there would be no today's high-rise buildings, private cars, and food, and we are a very contented generation." In terms of economic and living conditions, I don't want to go back to the pre-reform period, not at all! But in terms of social and interpersonal relations, I very much want to go back to the way before!"
On the one hand, he affirmed the progress of material civilization, and on the other hand, he also pointed out the troubles caused by the regression of spiritual civilization to the Chinese people, which objectively exists.
Hu Xijin is referring to some people who "preach that the society before the reform is better and more ideal than after the reform." ”
The question is, are these people nostalgic for poverty?
Hu Xijin sees these people as ultra-leftists who do not respect common sense, and I think this is a suspicion of being a hat. Doesn't Hu Xijin understand the minimum common sense?
The common sense is that even if you are left, you will not be left to the point of not eating pancakes and fruits and eating sorghum rice, right? In the past, eating meat once a month and eating white rice was like the New Year, which is not comparable to today's era.
However, nostalgia for the past does not mean that the past is fully affirmed, let alone the present is completely denied. The old Red Army and the old Eighth Road miss the war-torn years, which does not mean that they like war and death.
If we look at the problem realistically, we should come to the conclusion that every era has its advantages and disadvantages, and not use one era to belittle another! If you think that this era is perfect, then how do you face the problems of this era that others have raised?
Qi Xiang Guan Zhong of the Warring States Period said: "Cangli knows etiquette and knows honor and disgrace when he has enough food and clothing." In fact, this sentence is not applicable in a society where the gap between the rich and the poor is too large and morality tends to decline. In this kind of society, the morally degraded rich can still be unkind to the rich, and the morally degraded poor will still cry and steal for the sake of livelihood.
In today's society, people with a conscience still have a sense of social responsibility, and their conscience in pursuing the spiritual realm is still intact. Therefore, they miss the first 30 years, they were not full of food, let alone pick up the bowl to eat meat, put down the bowl and scold their mother!
The chief designer of reform and opening up emphasized that "grasping with both hands, both hands should be firm." The connotation of this sentence is very wide, including grasping the construction of material civilization with one hand and the construction of spiritual civilization with the other. We must not only use diligence and wisdom to create a world miracle in the development of material civilization, but also reap the fruitful results of the development of spiritual civilization.
The question is, why do people still feel nostalgic for the past, in today's conditions of great material abundance, what are their demands, and what is missing now?
Reform and opening up is a good thing, but we should not ignore the problems that exist in the process of development.
From a logical point of view, the nostalgia for the past is, of course, the people at the bottom after the differentiation between the rich and the poor. They are burdened with unpaid mortgages and worry about the huge medical and pension costs in the future. He also put his hard-earned wealth on his children, and his children lost in the social environment of competition, lost many battles, and had a decadent mentality, lying down at home and gnawing at the old.
Some people say: "The world is a human world, population growth is a good era, population decline is a bad era, the only standard!" Although this is a bit extreme, it is undeniable that people nowadays are reluctant to have more children.
It's so good now, why don't you have children?
A set of relevant data from the National Bureau of Statistics for 2022, one of which has attracted the attention of netizens: 2022 is the first negative population growth in nearly 61 years, falling below the 10 million mark, and the annual birth population is only 9.56 million.
Why are young people reluctant to have more babies now?
Poverty is the main reason, housing prices, medical care, and education are regarded as the three mountains that ordinary people are facing, and if these practical problems are not solved, no amount of slogans will be empty. On the one hand, young people who are suitable for childbearing are trapped in low incomes and high housing prices, while on the other hand, the cost of raising a child is constantly rising. Nowadays, the cost of raising a child in Chinese families is very high. In Shanghai, where the cost is the highest, the cost of raising a child from birth to 17 years old is as high as 1.02 million yuan. Tibet, where the lowest cost, is 290,000 yuan, while Sichuan and Anhui, which are in the middle of the pack, are 430,000 yuan.
In contrast, the previous family raised children, just add rice to the pot, the male owner of the family goes to work, the job is stable, there is no problem with a person's salary to support five or six people, the hostess takes the baby at home, the eldest child can also take the child to play, the eldest brother is like a father, the eldest sister is like a mother. Generally speaking, the pressure in the past was borne by the state, and the pressure now is borne by the individual.
Therefore, the liberal birth policy and comprehensive medical security in the first 30 years, as well as the doubling of grain production, created a sufficient labor force for the subsequent reform and opening up. In the first 30 years, the mainland had a net increase of 420 million people, and the average life expectancy increased by 30 years.
According to a report by HSBC on global education spending, China ranks sixth with 43,000 US dollars or more than 300,000 yuan in education spending from primary school to university. Some people will say, "What can you do if you don't invest? In the past, who raised so many children, who invested in this? Didn't you grow up and start a family?" Can it be the same now as it was in the past? Unless parents can't bear to let their children beat their children.
Now, the children are growing up, and the parents are collapsing. The son can't find a wife if he doesn't compare. The girl gave up her dignity in order to live an easy life, and would rather cry in the BMW than laugh on the bicycle.
This shows that people's value orientation has changed, becoming more hypocritical and cold-blooded, and this change is the result of the catalysis of the materialistic commodity economy and society. In this way, the lightness and joy on people's faces in the past are gone, replaced by lingering anxiety and exhaustion.
These are the most simple feelings of the common people who consider the problem from their own interests.
There is a way that the rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband. How do people with a strong sense of social responsibility view these two eras?
To tell the truth, there are problems in any era? It depends on the stance thinking. Of course, the "ultra-leftists" in Hu Xi's imports will not miss the living standards of the first 30 years, and they do not want to return to the poor life of the past, but they are nostalgic for the social outlook and the people's mental state in the first 30 years, and what they are worried about is the change in the value orientation of today's society, and the side effects brought about by it will cause great harm to the future of the Chinese nation.
Seeking truth from facts is the source of progress, and what should be praised should be praised, and what should be criticized should be criticized. We can't do things that cover our ears and steal bells! This has a bearing on whether or not we are faced with objective problems, whether we have a honest attitude of being responsible for the people, and whether or not we are facing problems.
To be honest, in today's society, the sludge and muddy water that was eliminated before have made a comeback!
The resurgence of pornography, gambling and drugs, which had been eliminated before, has become a gateway to making quick money.
Extreme right-wing people say that in the past, slogans shook the sky. Now there are no more slogans. In the past, he also lectured on Lei Feng, Xi heroic and exemplary figures, and also lectured on five stresses, four beauties and three loves. Nowadays, thick black studies are prevalent, and even anti-guest has replaced it with the mainstream ideology. changed the Mo language quotation, "Take care of yourself, don't cross others." "Poisonous chicken soup like that. Whether the elderly can be helped when they fall has become a problem, is this something that can be replaced by material abundance?
Is it normal that "one side is in trouble and all sides support" has become "one side is in trouble and all sides are liked"? Is it normal to be sentenced for righteous and courageous acts, resulting in indifference spreading like a virus, and the majority of people being forced to "slip morally," and even a small number of people to "lose their morals." Is this a lie with an open eye?
The articles that promote the national spirit in the textbooks have been replaced, and the illustrations that appear in the textbooks are flattering and flattering, which are "called poisonous" by the common people.
Listening to the old people's words, the common people deeply hate these ugly phenomena that they had never even heard of before! This shows that the problems that did not exist in the first 30 years have emerged as by-products in the 40 years of reform and opening up, resulting in the degeneration of many humanities, the collapse of the social moral system, and the formation of an impetuous and deformed society. These problems have not been solved, and only by having an urgent mindset to solve these problems can we maintain credibility.
It can be seen from this that Hu Xijin's so-called "all-round social progress" is absolutely a big pie that is deceived and deceitful. Forty years after an objective evaluation, judging by the facts, it is that the achievements are great and there are many shortcomings. Therefore, it is necessary to profoundly summarize the gains and losses of development over the past 40 years for the benefit of the future.
Therefore, we should not separate the 30 years before and after the reform and opening up, and we must not only have a positive attitude toward the reform and opening up, but also not deny the problems that exist in reality and are the people's urgency, hardship, and longing.
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Hu Xijin continued: "Such people should live in the building, eat food stamps, only half a catty of oil a month, the main means of transportation are bicycles and buses, I have never seen the subway when I leave Beijing, I can't afford to take a taxi, I have never taken a car, I have never had the experience of traveling with my family, and my wife and children wear patched clothes......
My Comments:
Some netizens commented on Hu Xijin's remarks very spicy, he said: "But some people used to live in a tube building, and later lived in a building, but they emptied the family's savings and took on a heavy mortgage." They say that this building is not as comfortable as the previous one, is that wrong?"
In response to Hu Xijin's remarks, another netizen shouted to Hu Xijin: "Old Hu, the material life has improved, but what about the spiritual world!
Yes, Hu Xijin is using selective arguments as a means of rebuttal, trampling on the spiritual nostalgia brought to the people by the spiritual world created in the Mao Zedong era.
In fact, they think that the past 30 years have been good, and they measure social fairness, good atmosphere, and noble morals, and compare spiritual civilization.
At that time, despite being poor, why did the Chinese people still follow the Communist Party with all their hearts? This is a mystery that the whole world is studying.
To give an example from Mr. Sima Nan:
Yan'an is a place of pilgrimage for many aspiring youths, an enlarged version of the Republic after 1949.
Before 1949, why did many young people from exploiting class families take the initiative to give up their clothes and food after they arrived in Yan'an, and lived such a hard life willingly?
Although it is not accurate to say that he was wearing tattered clothes, the coarse cloth clothes were indeed very simple, the homespun cloth was dyed deep and shallow, and there were lice on his body, and there was no quilt to cover him even in winter. Eating black beans that are used by the folk to mix horse feed, the stomach is very uncomfortable, but even if you eat so badly, sometimes you will still be hungry, and it can be said that life is quite hard. But why did Yan'an have such a strong attraction at that time?
Xiao Hua's memoir is called "Revolutionary Ideals Are Greater Than Heaven", although the construction of a country cannot completely rely on ideals, but Yan'an at that time, in any case, was a microcosm of the first 30 years of the People's Republic. The first 30 years of the Republic were an enlarged version of the Yan'an period, and where did the great attraction of that time come from? It was the common lofty ideals and the inspiration of advanced culture, and this was the power of spiritual civilization.
Therefore, I think that just having more GDP will naturally produce attraction, and I will naturally be respected by others, but that is not necessarily.
Yes, it must be admitted that the period when the Chinese people felt the greatest sense of harvest was definitely the more than 40 years after the reform and opening up. But after the harvest, is there really no sense of loss in my heart?
The problem is that, considering the material conditions alone, no one wants to go back to the past, unless he is crazy. People just feel that their bodies and minds are soaked with indifference, and they begin to miss the clean and upright, warm and simple social environment at that time. In other words, these "ultra-leftists" in Hu Xi import just want to summon back that clean and upright social atmosphere.
Ordinary people are nostalgic for that era and have little spiritual pressure. That's why there was a real smile on people's faces at that time, and now people only recognize money. At that time, compared to now, life was hard, but from a macro point of view, the social atmosphere was positive and the people's customs were simple, was there no merit in this?
In addition, it should be pointed out that everything must be seen dialectically, otherwise it is not a mouse's eye, it is malicious slander.
Hu Xijin said: "After 1949, the party led the establishment of an independent New China, and the country's industrial infrastructure made important improvements. However, the road has to be taken step by step, and it is also difficult to explore, coupled with the harsh external environment, China's economic and social construction has not been fully carried out in those years, but while developing, it has made important paving and trial and error for the great release of reform and opening up. ”
Hu Xijin's words are right! So why did Hu Xijin exalt that era while belittleing that era?
"Why" such a person should live in a tube building, eat with food stamps, only give half a catty of oil a month, and his wife and children should be dressed and mended. ”
Do you think that the Mao Zedong era was all about making the common people so miserable? Do you Hu Xijin turn a blind eye to the tremendous efforts made by the proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation to improve the people's livelihood?
New China was built on the basis of poverty and whiteness, and it is impossible for the people to live in a helicopter and ascend to the sky in one step. Although from today's perspective, poverty has been with our predecessors until the end of the seventies. However, if you look at it from the perspective of people at that time, compared to the old society, life is many times better. It is inevitable that the proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation will carry out arduous explorations, and it is inevitable that they will encounter bumps and turns, and it is also inevitable that differences of opinion will arise among the leaders.
The crux of the matter is that without the arduous explorations of the older generation, how could there have been later reform and opening up? Without the trial and error of the predecessors, how could there have been shortcuts later? On the premise of evading the original intention of the proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation, Hu Xijin has never forgotten their mistakes; if they have the purpose of staying sober, if their purpose is not pure, this kind of talent is the most dangerous, because they never complain about the harm caused by the Chiang dynasty to the Chinese people.
Compared with the old society of eating chaff and vegetables, and poor children who have no shoes to wear, stepping on hot cow dung to warm their feet in winter, and Zhao Guangyu, who has a defenseless wife and children, I don't know how much the conditions have improved. Therefore, the people at that time were content, and every time they talked about the New Year, they had to say a word of thanks to Chairman Mao and the Communist Party.
On 7 percent of the world's arable land, China had a population of about 540 million before liberation, and the situation at that time was that it was difficult for most ordinary people in China to have enough to eat. In 1949, China's annual grain output was 113 million tons, and the per capita grain was only 416 jin, deducting seeds, feed, etc., the per capita raw grain was less than 1 jin a day, and this year, the life expectancy of Chinese was 35 years.
By 1969, the first three decades, the total Chinese population had reached 800 million. Total grain production has reached 210 million tons, nearly double the pre-liberation level of 1949. That is to say, on the same land area, under the condition that the new China in the first 30 years raised 260 million more people than the old China, the per capita grain of the whole country was 542 catties, and the per capita daily supply was 1.48 catties.
The People's Commune still existed until 1978, and in 1978 the country's total grain output had reached 300 million tons, and the country's per capita grain share was 634 catties, which had already passed the food and clothing safety line of 600 catties per capita per year, and the daily per capita grain supply was 1.74 catties, and China was completely self-sufficient in grain. By contrast, although India has 400 million hectares of arable land more than China, its total grain production has only reached China's 1950 level.
At that time, China was facing an impenetrable blockade by the West, and the only bit of wealth in old China allowed the Chiang family to take the isolated island to develop Taiwan. Do you have the conditions for reform and opening up? According to Chairman Mao's words:
"What can we make? We can make tables, we can make teabowls and teapots, we can grow grain, we can grind flour, we can make paper. But you can't build a car, an airplane, a tank, or a tractor. ”
Under such conditions, if we do not stand on our own feet, work hard, and rebuild China from a blank sheet of paper with nothing, will we be able to survive?
However, after Chairman Mao and his old man left, he left us a rich family foundation, 500 billion catties of war-ready grain, more than 5 million tons of cotton, 12.8 million ounces of gold, and 2.35 billion yuan in foreign exchange reserves! A complete military industrial system and a complete industrial and agricultural production system! Moreover, we have achieved no domestic or foreign debts! Speaking with a conscience, this has laid a solid material foundation for the subsequent reform and opening up.
According to the "Resolution on Several Historical Issues of the Party since the Founding of the People's Republic of China" adopted by the Sixth Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on June 27, 1981, the output value of China's machinery industry increased by 53 times in the first 30 years, reaching more than 127 billion yuan. A number of new industrial bases have been built in the vast interior and minority areas. The defense industry was gradually built from scratch. The results of resource exploration work have been great. Railways, highways, water transport, air transport, and post and telecommunications have all made great progress. 】
In good conscience, without the country's infrastructure construction under the premise of tightening the belt in the first 30 years, reform and opening up would have been built on a sandy beach and would only be a castle in the air. Without the development of the first 30 years, the starting point of reform and opening up would not be very high. Without the establishment of China's full-fledged industrialization system in the first 30 years, the mainland's reform and opening up would have relied on selling resources and manpower to attract foreign investment, and the investment environment would have been greatly reduced, just like in India.
Who said that the first 30 years were useless? In the 70s of the last century, the West had already judged China to be the world's seventh largest industrial country. From a completely agricultural country in the 50s to a satellite in the 70s, I feel that China's industrialization speed is also a miracle. Its growth rate is about the second largest in the world, second only to the Soviet Union, slightly higher than Japan, Germany, and the United States, and much higher than that of Britain and France.
Seriously, in the early fifties of the last century, relying on the British legacy, India was higher than the mainland in many key figures such as power generation and steel production, but by the sixties, China had fully caught up with India.
Hu Xijin said nonsense about people who miss the first 30 years: "They should live in a tube building, eat with food stamps, only half a catty of oil a month, and the main means of transportation are bicycles and buses, and they have never seen a subway when they leave Beijing, they can't afford to take a taxi, let alone a car, they have never had the experience of traveling with their families, and their wives and children wear patched clothes...... "What is the difference between looking down on the cause that the older generation of proletarian revolutionaries have worked so hard to create, and forgetting their ancestors?"
Everything has to have a process, no one can eat a bite to become fat, only when the water arrives can it be completed, and the spring sowing can be harvested in the autumn. Hu Xijin is also a person who has long passed the age of knowing the mandate of heaven, is he not clear about this? Talking about success or failure out of the times is all hindsight.
postscript
Recently, an AI's evaluation of Hu Xijin's position is really incisive, and it goes deep into the bone marrow.
AI artificial intelligence commented on Hu Xijin's position as follows:
Hu Xijin's stance is reformist, that is, from the perspective of the interest group he is in, hoping to soothe the anxiety of the masses and close the cracks in society. He worked hard to convince people that vested interests had the human power to be trusted, capable of compromising and making concessions. His position is not fixed and changes with circumstances and events, so his remarks and opinions are often perceived as neutral.
Although Hu Xijin never answers which side he is on in the game, judging by "who is beneficial", his tendencies are often at a glance. It is not that Hu Xijin does not understand the basic logic of the people's anger, but he still does his best to eliminate this anger according to the needs of his position. ”
Many netizens said that the AI artificial intelligence evaluation of Comrade Hu Xijin is very objective and accurate. Suffice it to say, no one knows him better than AI!
After Hu Xijin retired as a folk V, he didn't know what he was stimulated, and his speech gradually became absurd, because it was too ridiculous, so he became the target of public criticism, and he secretly deleted many posts he had just posted.
As a well-known media person, Hu Xijin is a controversial figure, and sometimes Hu Xijin's remarks are really confusing.
I just saw a netizen's comment, saying that Lao Hu always talks about Sino-US relations and is still sarcastic about North Korea, I don't know what his intentions are?
Some netizens said: "After Hu Xijin retires, he is really different from before. Look at today's Hu Xijin, yesterday's Hu Xijin fart and urine, I don't know what words to use to describe him. ”
He always behaved somewhat out of place, either saying that "China cannot win" or that "China cannot push itself to the side of the United States".
It can be said that sensible people know that the quality of Sino-US relations mainly depends on the United States. This is a typical "tree wants to be quiet but the wind does not stop".
Hu Xijin has not been idle for a moment since his retirement, but whenever there is a big or small matter, he will always make long speeches, and from time to time he will throw out some surprising opinions. And the most jaw-dropping thing is his contradictory remarks, just as netizens said, today's Hu Xijin can overthrow yesterday's Hu Xijin, which is really shocking! Some netizens call Hu Xijin Hu Xini, nonsense, although it is very vivid, but this kind of personal attack is not advisable.
Hu Xijin claims to be "nonsense", but he also said that he is "nonsense", whether he has nonsense or not, just look at the supporters in his comment area to know.
What I saw in Hu Xijin's comment area was peaceful, and many 250 cheered for Hu Xijin as new fans, which is different from Sima Nan's comment area 250's slander and scolding. Why is this?
The above is my point of view and perspective, please criticize and correct the majority of netizens.
(The author is a special commentator of Kunlunce; source: Kunlunce [author's authorization], revised and released; the picture comes from the Internet, invaded and deleted)