Every city has a unique culture of contempt. In Guangzhou, the culture of contempt is complex.
With the deepening of the run-in between foreigners and locals, Guangzhou's contempt culture has not only existed between Cantonese-speaking areas and non-Cantonese-speaking areas, but also spread to the contempt between urban areas and urban areas, contempt from all dimensions, there are economic dimensions, cultural dimensions, development potential dimensions, ecological dimensions...
To understand the impression of Cantonese people on Guangzhou's 11 districts and the ecology of contempt between them, we found 20 Cantonese and tested the first key word that appeared in their minds when they heard each district. These keywords roughly depict the districts of Guangzhou in people's minds, and to a certain extent, reflect the superiority of residents in different districts.
(Note: The more people mention the keywords, the larger the font size)
During 2011, the contradiction between "Lao Guang" and "Xin Guang" intensified, and the Liwan people at that time stood at the top of the chain of contempt in the struggle between indigenous people and outsiders by virtue of being "old" and "wide enough".
The "oldness" of Liwan lies in qualifications, as well as age and temperament.
As a specialty of Liwan District, the three-inch tongue of the teacher milk and the Abo is famous throughout Guangzhou. Even the wildest Guangzhou drivers in the country are also frightened, and the turtle speed forward is their hat-off ceremony for the old Liwan people. In terms of knowledge, someone once said that there is a popular sentence in the driver circle in Guangzhou: "I am afraid when I see this class of god main cards." ”
The "wideness" of Liwan lies in authenticity and authenticity.
The decline of the Guanggang Guangchuan era has taken away the glory of Liwan, but the charm of Liwan has not changed in the slightest. In addition to the unique Xiguan architecture, the phrase "food in Guangzhou, taste in Xiguan" is enough to make foodies from all over the country come to pilgrimage. Perhaps out of curiosity, I want to get a glimpse of what the legendary Guangzhou natives who stand at the top of the food chain and threaten to eat the Fujian people look like.
In the eyes of authentic Guangzhou people, Liwan's temperament is classical and simple. Looking at the lament tea is their daily worship, bargaining is their philosophy of life. In this small circle, the criterion for distinguishing people is not money and power, but whether they are well versed in the authentic Cantonese philosophy of life.
The Yuexiu people have always been dismissive of the chain of contempt, after all, their pride is innate. As a "Guangzhou nobleman", Yuexiu is not necessarily richer than Tianhe, but he can definitely win in terms of nobility.
The Yuexiu people, who flowed with the blood of the nobility, always believed that Guangzhou was flat and Yuexiu was the center of Guangzhou. Although Tianhe's later rise to the top broke the beautiful illusion of yuexiu people, they still stubbornly believed that if Guangzhou was round, then Yuexiu was the axis of Guangzhou!
Although Tianhe often secretly scolded Yuexiu in his heart, he would still whisper to him. First, the small white-collar workers cannot resist the East Mountain Pass, and the second is that countless facts tell us that the noble heads of the middle class always have to be educated.
I'd rather have a yuexiu degree room than Tianhe Cuihuzhuang. For parents, Yuexiu District, which has the largest number of high-quality schools and teachers in Guangzhou, is more attractive than Tianhe, which is full of land.
Although Yuexiu is no longer the center of Guangzhou, as a central urban area that has accompanied Guangzhou for more than 2,000 years, Yuexiu's status as a jianghu cannot be questioned, and when walking on the road, the brothers still have to respectfully call Yuexiu a "big guy".
As a member of the old third district, it is better than the "old" than the Liwan District, and the "more expensive" than the Yuexiu District, and the Haizhu District is the most embarrassing one in the old third district. However, it is this embarrassment that makes it characteristic – pluralism and conflict.
The longitudinal distribution makes the different plates in Haizhu District have very different personalities. On one side is the towering Canton Tower, on the other side is the dilapidated Second Palace of the City; on the other side is the vibrant Jiangnan West, on the other side is the quiet Xiaozhou Village; on the other side is the human fireworks of Baogang Avenue, on the other side is the isolation of the wetland park... Different ages can find their own fun in Haizhu District.
For Haizhu District, the mood of Guangzhou people is complicated. Once everyone said, "I'd rather have a bed in Hebei than a room in Henan", and Haizhu is the slum behind the statue of Jesus.
But now, people who laugh about Henan's dirty and messy are stunned by the haizhu house prices that have surpassed the tianhe.
Although there is no brilliance everywhere, as long as the hand is held in the middle of the big, haizhu can still smile proud of the river and lake - the more beautiful and proud, the more crazy the tianhe, is not the same as hoping that I will have a dormitory bed in the middle of the university?
According to legend, Tianhe is "Guangzhou X". Whether it is the price, function, or style, they are at the forefront of the "Guangzhou system".
They don't need contempt, contempt already exists. For other districts, it is an honor to be able to compare with the "Tianhe". After all, the four words "beyond the Tianhe" must appear in the report, and the audience is willing to click on it and explore the reason.
The charm of Tianhe is called paper drunken gold fans. Although Guangzhou people hate the 30-minute journey to and from Tianhe, and how much they hate the traffic jam on the ring highway, they will still be stuck on the road to Tianhe at 8 o'clock every day, after all, no one will go away with money.
The smell of Tianhe is called five flavors of miscellaneous Chen. In Tianhe, you are elusive and the next second you are facing you, is the Dior true self of the Pearl River New Town Gold Rush Girl, or the keyun road program ape's head has not been washed for several days... But everywhere, the smell of capitalist copper is permeated.
Tianhe's temperament is self-contained. The noble mystery of Taikoo Hui, the elegant atmosphere of AutoNavi Land, the fashion vitality of Grandview Plaza... Let Tianhe show its unique fashion, and automatically generate a Chu river Han boundary with the Taobao texture of other districts.
As a Tianhe person, daily hair coordinates are the main source of superiority - the daily running mileage of Tianhe Park in Tangxia, the daily night view of Zhujiang New Town where living in Wuyang Estate... The two words "Tianhe" have become the number of praise guarantees in the circle of friends.
If "the sewer is the conscience of the city", then Baiyun is the conscience of Guangzhou.
Someone once said that Baiyun is The Pandora's Box of Guangzhou, full of bad people, darkness and illegal trade.
Although most people in Guangzhou do not want to be related to Baiyun District, in our daily life, there are white cloud elements everywhere. Tear off the label of Make In China, and you will find that the toothpaste, drinks, and masks we use every day are actually Make In Baiyun.
Before entering Baiyun, the older generation will usually recite a tight mantra to you: Sanyuanli is the black street of Brooklyn in Guangzhou, and the black people in the streets are full of dangerous atmosphere; people and people are not kind, everyone carries a sack, and the side business is a human trafficker; TongDewei has long been lost, everyone goes out with a knife, and a beating will cut you down... When it comes to Baiyun District, everyone talks about tiger discoloration.
But no matter what color of the person, what kind of hukou, the charter wife in Baiyun District does not refuse, no matter the black cat or white cat, the one who rents their house is a good cat.
In Baiyun, the chain of contempt comes from land resources. Those charter wives who face the mahjong table all day long, earn tens of thousands of dollars a month, relying on a building, they have realized the dream of getting rich, and the bright little white-collar workers next door, no matter how good the skin bags, are just migrant workers who are begging for late rent at the end of the month.
Among Guangzhou's 11 districts, Huangpu is the most overlooked.
Even with the honorary blessing of the "Second CBD", the remoteness and desertion of Huangpu and the serious shortage of entertainment venues make Huangpu only stay in the "Huangpu Military Academy" in the impression of Guangzhou people.
What is even more pitiful is that under the dazzling light of Tianhe, the development of Huangpu has not been known. Although economic strength has always been at the forefront, the people of Guangzhou have very few memories of Huangpu. Compared with foreigners, Guangzhou people entering Huangpu District are more like foreign tourists.
In the economic data of the first three quarters of Guangzhou's 11 districts this year, Huangpu District's GDP surpassed Xiu District with an advantage of 3.49 billion yuan and ranked second in Guangzhou. Similar to the personality of Guangzhou people who "make a fortune in a muffled voice", Huangpu District has also unconsciously climbed to the front end of Guangzhou's economic contempt chain.
Talking about Panyu in the Guangzhou chain of contempt seems out of place. After all, both Guangzhou people and Panyu people see each other as a thorn in their eyes.
The Panyu people are a faction of their own, "Nan Fanshun" is their identity, rather than being called "Panyu Lao", rather than accepting the title of Guangzhou people. In the eyes of the Panyu people, their sense of superiority stems from their strong identification with the history and cultural customs of Panyu.
Guangzhou people paint the ground as a prison, and non-central urban areas are all confused. In the minds of many Guangzhou people, Panyu is still a county-level city and the base camp of the new Guangzhou people.
The concentrated meeting between the people of Guangzhou and the people of Panyu carried a bit of sadness about the cowherd weaver girl, and only the annual Chimelong Halloween could bring down the Berlin Wall.
Fortunately, in recent years, Guangzhou and Panyu love and kill in the Dafu Mountain and Tianhe business circle to achieve reconciliation, although the two see each other, extra red eyes, but can not withstand the leisure in The Dafu Mountain, the Tianhe business circle in the dazzling, in the face of carnival and development, everyone must finally shake hands and make peace.
Although Nansha has taken full advantage of the policy dividend and has been reported frequently, for the people of Guangzhou, it has always been a distant myth:
"You see, the newspaper is again the news of the Nansha Free Trade Zone..." "Oh, so the full name of nansha district is called Nansha Free Trade Zone?"
"I heard that the wetland park in Nansha has recently had another activity..." "Oh, isn't the wetland park in Haizhu?"
I heard that Nansha's housing prices have great potential in the future... Oh, there is a house in Nansha where birds don't?
"Last week I went to Nansha with a friend to eat seafood..." "Oh, I know when I talk about this, fourteen chung is cheap, nineteen chung is lively."
A thousand Guangzhou people, a thousand Nansha people. Some people think that Nansha is all sea, and some people think that Nansha is all sand. Only when it comes to seafood do people remember the seafood mecca that is three hours away.
As Nansha people, they will not mention the grand blueprint of Nansha, nor will they mention the land they are about to soar, they will only take a deep breath, and then say leisurely: "The air of Nansha is something that you Guangzhou people can't breathe." ”
The north of Guangzhou is lonely, but the people of the north are entertaining themselves. They are optimistically convinced that no matter which link you stand in the chain of contempt, you can't do without Huadu's airport, Conghua's hot springs, lychees in Zengcheng, and farm houses in the north third district.
Although it has always been at the end of the chain of contempt in Guangzhou, the people of the North Third District do not care. They do not yearn for the unrealistic prosperity of the distant places, and even some residents are still invisible rich people who come to the northern third district to cultivate land, just to live a hermit life of "knotting in the human realm, and no cars and horses".
It is precisely because of the strangeness of the north third district, the old Cantonese can put them into the seat very well: "The flowers are all an airport, Conghua is a hot spring, and the lychees in Zengcheng are good, but will they all change when they are transported to Guangzhou?" ”
If you occasionally hear the people's livelihood news of the north third district, perhaps the neighbors sitting in the city center sighing tea will be sad and compassionate: "Infinite distances, countless people, are related to me." ”
Compared with Beijing, which is despised by the level of power, and Shanghai, which is despised by style, Guangzhou's chain of contempt is more easy-going - it is not divided by a single standard, but mixed with many aspects, there are economic considerations, and there is a sense of identification with local culture...
This allows people in each region to find their own sense of superiority in the culture and characteristics of each district.
Although such a standard seems subjective and not rigorous, in fact, it coincides with Guangzhou's open and inclusive temperament.
Because there are different criteria for consideration, whether it is Lao Guang, who has been influenced by Lingnan culture since childhood, or Xinguang, who has helped Guangzhou's development, no matter how high or low the status, how much wealth, whether there is a Guangzhou hukou and Lingnan bloodline, they can find their own place at the top of different chains of contempt, and they can also better relate to the city of Guangzhou.