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This is the 3,636th real story we have told
I am Hu Changyuan, the second year of junior high school, I borrowed "Dream of Red Mansions" from the female classmates in the front row, when I read the romance novel, when I read that Baoyu and Baochai got married, and Lin Daiyu died, I was so grief-stricken that I couldn't help myself.
After reading "Dream of Red Mansions" many times, I found that I only "read" the surface of the article at the beginning, and did not understand the deep meaning of the book at all. Now there are different interpretations of the last 80 chapters of the book.
By chance, I began to write some of my own opinions on the "Red Chamber" on the Internet, but unexpectedly, I was loved and recognized by a large number of readers, and since then I have started the agenda of knowledge monetization.
In the past 6 years, I have insisted on nearly 10,000 words a day, and so far, I have written a total of 17 million words of Anatomy of Red Mansions, and I have more than 1 million fans on the whole network.
(I'm Hu Yuanyuan)
I was born in 1982 in Liuhe County, Tonghua City, Jilin Province, a small village surrounded by mountains.
My ancestral home is Shandong, and my family follows the way of Confucius and Mencius in Shandong, and there are many rules. For example, table manners: children can't lie on the table with two hands, they can only pick up the dishes in front of them when eating, they can't use their own chopsticks to turn over the dishes, children can't eat first before adults start, they can't use chopsticks to knock on the bowl, etc.
Three of my brothers and sisters. I am the eldest and have a younger brother and a younger sister. Both parents were farmers.
Like most rural families, the conditions at home are ordinary. Before 1995, only maize could be used as a staple food. After the hard work of the parents, after slowly getting better, you can use rice as the staple food.
In the eighties and nineties of the last century, there was a shortage of materials, and I still wore pants with patches in the fifth grade of elementary school. In winter, there are no warm shoes, and it is common to wear shoes that my mother sewed with multiple layers of corn husk to make soles.
But at that time, our family was together, the parents were kind and loving, the children were well-behaved, and they didn't feel poverty and suffering at all.
The family has 30 acres of land, and in that era when mechanization was not yet popular, almost all of them relied on slash-and-burn farming. In order to do farm work, my parents went out early and returned late every day, and they had no spare time to take care of our studies.
(Young Mom and Dad and Young Me)
Seeing my parents working hard every day, I am also very conscious in my studies, going to and from school on time, doing my homework on time, and never need adults to worry about it.
I am more introverted, but very sensible, although I occasionally go up the mountain and down the river with my friends in the village to play, but more time is spent helping my parents do some farm work within my ability, and lying at home to read.
In the past, there were adobe houses in the countryside, and the walls had to be pasted before the Chinese New Year, and the families with good conditions would paste the painted paper with patterns. Usually families will buy a few pounds of newspapers and come back to paste the wall, and our family is the same.
I'm happy every time I put on the wall, not because the house has become new and happy, but because the newspaper on the wall allows me to read for a while.
I looked from room to room almost without sleeping, and I didn't miss anything. After seeing his own house, he would go to his neighbor's house to see, and the people around him were all amazed when they saw it.
When I'm done with everything and there's nothing to see, I still read the dictionary. Over and over again, the dictionary is almost broken.
Reading is as important to me as eating and breathing, and it is a must in my life.
When I was in elementary school, my academic performance was above average, and I was basically able to maintain a score of more than 90, and the situation of double hundred also happened from time to time.
(A group photo of a spring outing with teachers and classmates in junior high school)
When I was promoted to junior high school, I added history, geography, biology, physics, and chemistry, and my comprehensive results were better than before, and I took the second place in the grade in the first semester of junior high school. In the second semester, I improved even more and took the first place in my grade. The sudden explosion of my grades was incredible, even the teachers found it incredible.
In fact, I have such achievements thanks to the reading habit I have developed since childhood.
When I was in the fourth and fifth grades, I borrowed a junior high school textbook from my cousin, who was three years older. Read history, geography, and biology as storybooks. So in junior high school, this knowledge is basically already in my head.
Until my third year of junior high school, my academic performance was consistently at the top. Never dropped out of the top 10 in the grade.
After graduating from junior high school, I was admitted to high school with excellent grades.
Just when I was immersed in hard study, wanting to use reading to change my fate, fate played a big joke on me.
In those years, the village was growing ginseng as a side business. It's the same in our family, but the process of growing ginseng is tedious and laborious, and the cycle is long. Every day, from morning to night, the farm work cannot be done at all. My mother even started working in the fields a month after giving birth to her younger sister.
Moreover, the number of people planting has suddenly increased, causing the price of ginseng to plummet, and only one catty can be sold for two or three yuan. After three years of hard work, the income is meager, which makes the already poor family's economy even worse.
(In the field)
Due to years of overwork and tuberculosis, my father's health deteriorated. The father's physical strength gradually weakened, his income decreased, and the family's financial situation fell sharply.
Worse happened in 1997, when my father died of tuberculosis!
With the departure of his father, the family suddenly collapsed. Leaving a frail mother and younger siblings, the family is barely able to sustain.
As the eldest son in my family, I had no choice but to give up my studies.
It was really a house leak that happened to rain overnight, not long after my father died, and my mother was also found to be infected with tuberculosis.
Without a father, you can't lose your mother again. I didn't have time to grieve, and I didn't have time to hesitate, and immediately took her to a big hospital. The results of the examination came out, and it was found that the mother's left lung had calcified, and the right lung was also a little infected, but fortunately, the basic functions were still there.
As long as I can cure my mother, I will do whatever it takes! While letting my mother receive regular treatment, I will ask all kinds of gossip to find a special medicine, no matter what, I will keep my mother.
I heard that a certain imported medicine had a good effect, but that medicine was too expensive and completely beyond my affordability, and I was a little desperate. Fortunately, some patients told me that there were other alternatives, and finally I thought of various ways to ask a friend to bring back FZ medicine from India.
(Holding Mom's hand down the stairs)
After a period of treatment, my mother finally recovered, and I was relieved that the stone that was pressing on my heart was finally put down.
There have been major changes in the family one after another, and we have to find a way to regroup.
In '97 and '98, when the reform and opening up was in full swing, I also joined the wave of part-time jobs in order to increase my income. My younger brother, who had better grades than me, dropped out of school and stayed at home to help my mother with farm work.
In 1998, I went with my classmates to work in a chemical factory owned by his father's friend in Shenyang.
Once in the factory, I was assigned to the boiler room as a coal pusher, working 24 hours from 8 a.m. to 8 a.m. the next morning, and then taking a day off.
Push coal from the coal pile to the boiler room, two or three tons a day. Push a little more during the day, it's busier. In the evening, I didn't need so much coal, and I had free time, so I used that time to spend 15 yuan to get a monthly card and go to the newsstand to rent books to read.
I am like a hungry person, reading all kinds of books: martial arts, romance, science fiction and world classics, as long as there are books to read, I don't pick at all, I can read any book.
Because of the heavy use of my eyes, my eyes began to be myopic unconsciously, but in order to read more books, I completely ignored them.
As the amount of reading increases, so does the awareness, and there are friends around me who will also give some advice. I realized that I shouldn't be in the boiler room all the time, I should get out there and see the bigger world out there.
(Friends who work together)
And just like that, I left the chemical plant and went to work as a waiter in a restaurant.
This is my second job, and it's not difficult or technical. But I've learned something here anyway. I used to be an introvert, and I never dared to take the initiative to greet others, nor did I dare to get close to strangers. After I became a waiter, I came out of my closed self and began to be able to communicate with people very easily.
I worked in a hotel for two years, a very famous teahouse in Shenyang, recruiting staff with cultural heritage, this is a cultural leisure place, I think this place should be more suitable for me, so I went to apply.
After joining the company, I found that there was indeed a lot more to learn here than in the previous venue.
In this teahouse, the boss and manager will organize us to learn some etiquette, as well as the Analects, disciple rules, legends, etc., during the learning period, they will teach the staff the truth of dealing with others, as well as the traditional etiquette of respecting the old and loving the young.
In fact, these things were taught by adults when we were children, but they were not systematic or standardized. After studying here, I gradually established a sound outlook on values, life, and the world.
I worked in a tea house and started working as a waiter, with a salary of more than 2,000 yuan. Later, he was promoted to the day shift manager, and his salary also rose, reaching six or seven thousand yuan.
Whether I'm busy or not, I find time to read consistently, but with the advent of mobile phones and e-books, I don't use my library card to borrow books anymore.
(Leisure Moments)
The financial situation improved, and I began to help my family get out of the black soil, from the farm work that could never be done.
In 2004, I first brought my younger brother out and rented a house in Shenyang. In 2006, he brought his mother over.
In 2007, my sister graduated from high school and was admitted to a university in Shenyang, and stayed in Shenyang to work after graduating from university. Since then, our family has settled in the city.
In the process of constantly breaking through the circle, I found that only by breaking through can I continue to rise.
So, after my mother and younger siblings came to Shenyang, in order to seek greater development, I went to a bigger city: Beijing.
When I first arrived in Beijing, there was a gap period, and then I was introduced by a friend, I went to a photo studio to do post-sales, and the work content was: after the customer finished spending in the early stage, I would find a way to let the customer take out the money to spend. This sales model didn't match my personality and three views, and I quit after 11 months.
After that, I followed my friend's advice and submitted my resume to Beijing SPK, and a luxury optical store accepted me for pre-sales.
Looking back, since I came out of the chemical factory, several jobs have been related to sales, some are the same, but there are differences, the same is that they are all in the foreign service industry. The difference is that each subsequent job will improve their communication and coordination ability to deal with emergencies than the previous one.
(Optical shop does event)
Especially in the optical store, when I work in luxury sales, I have a higher level of contact with people, and their vision has brought me more insight. I felt that there were more opportunities in the city and the quality of life was better than in the countryside, which also strengthened my determination to move out of the mountain village with my family and take root in the city.
So, I started looking for a way to break through the status quo again.
By chance, I read a Q&A section in Toutiao, answering questions related to "Dream of Red Mansions". After reading it, I felt that his understanding of the Red Mansion's answer was different from mine. I didn't want to go to the comment area and the author's theory, but I wanted to express my own opinions, so I used my spare time to write an article about my own views on the Red Mansion, and then wrote a few more.
I love "Dream of the Red Chamber" very much, I have read it more than ten times, and I think I have some say in "Dream of the Red Chamber".
At that time, it was the expansion stage of today's headline graphic section, and the analysis article I posted was discovered by the operation officer. He DM me and asked if I would be interested in being a full-time writer, and I replied, "I don't know how." "Then, he taught me how to register, how to go from user to registered author, how to be vertical.
With the help of the operating officer, I became a Q&A writer for Toutiao, specializing in answering cultural questions. Mainly based on "Dream of Red Mansions". Plus some historical questions.
(I read all kinds of books related to the "Red Chamber")
In 2017, I quit my job in an optical store and worked full-time as a self-media. I've also opened a number of other media accounts to distribute my content across multiple media.
At the end of 2017, I registered an account, and I didn't make any money at first, but in 2018, I caught up with the self-media outlet, and began to have a certain income, among which I used my insights on "Dream of Red Mansions" to write an appreciation article about "The Relationship between Jia Lian and Ping'er", and the account exploded all of a sudden, gaining more than 50 million views.
From 2017 to the present, I have insisted on doing this account, and the whole network has gained more than 1 million fans, more than 1 billion clicks and readings, and more than 2 million after-tax income.
I used the money to buy my own house in Shenyang for my family, and the family finally had their own home in the city.
The tax rate on self-media income is 20%, and if the monthly income reaches 40,000 yuan, the tax rate will be increased, and many people persuade me to set up a company, so that the tax rate can be reduced to 3%, but my thoughts are different.
I came from the countryside, and I have witnessed the despair of poverty and backwardness, and the country's development needs tax support, and I have the ability to contribute more to the country, so why not.
I pay tens of thousands of yuan in taxes every year, if I can build an extra library for rural children, I can be able to open my eyes to more children like me who are eager to read, see the world outside the countryside, and thus change their lives, what a great public welfare?
(My results for 2023)
I often feel that I am the group of people who have eaten the dividends of the times. Thinking about it, if there had been universal health care, my father might not have left us so early. And the process of the country from poverty to prosperity requires the conscious dedication of all capable citizens.
I am grateful that my country is getting stronger, and I am extremely pleased that I have the ability to give back to my country. I am not as great as Teacher Zhang Guimei, and I am committed to changing the fate of girls in mountain villages. I can only pay taxes in a down-to-earth manner to express the correct three views I have cultivated since I was a child, and contribute to the country within my ability.
My father's migration from Shandong to Northeast China changed the fate of his generation. Through continuous efforts, I moved from the countryside to the city, and also changed the fate of myself and my family. Knowledge is power, and it's happening to me. Now, I have returned to Shenyang to be with my mother, younger siblings. Seeing the joy of the family, my often restless heart gradually calmed down. As the saying goes: contentment is always happy, and my current daily life is what I have been dreaming of for many years. Do what you love and be with the family you love, what more could you ask for?
In the future, I will continue to operate this account with my heart, and I also welcome the majority of netizens to supervise me, follow me, and make me a better me.
(Welcome to follow my account "Junjian Yakan Red Mansion")
[Dictation: Hu Changyuan]
[Editor: Zi Yue]
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