Earlier Xi Jinping visited Chaozhou, stood in the street for a few minutes, said a few words, one foot back to Beijing, the next foot he stood in the place became a holy relic. The local government made a gold brick and paved it in the center of the street where he stood, and the event actually made the news.
On the mainland, the patriotic public treated it as a political event, but to the outside world, it was just a joke like “the emperor’s new clothes”.
The gold brick, in all probability, is not made of gold as fake, in order to mainland officialdom habits, this kind of thing is superficial, do out to let the top reward with, can not have to spend real money to show loyalty. Gold brick paved to the ground, the surrounding area must be circled to protect, can not be stepped on, President Xi stood in the place, who dares to disrespect, must be asked for the crime. So, with gold plating is also enough, why spend money in vain?
Think of the Beijing Olympics, Beijing city along the street residential, to the street side of the wall to be painted, while the back side of the street is dirty and tattered, the reason is that the back side of the street no one saw. Chinese people are the most decorative, the whole city painting cost too much, only decorate the side along the street, let foreign reporters marvel at some, the purpose is achieved.
This is our Chinese tradition, peasant consciousness, peasant insight, peasant habits, for thousands of years traditionally so. So the Xi Jinping brick in Chaozhou should only need to be gold-plated.
With the habits of foreigners, if a great man really came to a certain place, very commemorative value, the most is to set up a stone monument, write so-and-so once to this, what has been done, worthy of future generations to remember, so on and so forth. I have limited knowledge, and I have never heard of a celebrity visiting this place to erect a monument to commemorate the event, which only happens in mainland China and North Korea.
The gold-plated bricks to commemorate Xi Jinping’s visit here reveal the Chinese people’s taste in life. The Chinese have been poor for generations and regard gold as a treasure, having gold ornaments is a status symbol, this gold worship tradition, reflected in the worship of the leader, only to appear sincere, otherwise the establishment of a stone monument cement monument, it is blasphemy leader.
Things are rare, gold is expensive, only in rare, a four-square flat plate of gold bricks in poor taste, no aesthetic value at all, only weighing money. Chinese people are used to being poor, worship money, invariably sentimentalize it beauty, which is the performance of our thousands of years of cultural shallowness.
Local government officials are bent on flattery, do not know a gold brick, in turn, Xi Jinping’s cultural tastes pulled down. Xi Jinping has falsely read some of the world’s most famous literature, and he worries about his family and country every day, so a gold brick would not be magnified in his eyes to the point of making him feel beautiful. As the leader of China, the supreme, the country’s 1.4 billion people set in a respect, the gold brick ugly appearance, only a symbol of wealth, shadow decayed his lofty image. It is a pity that those small officials do not understand this at all. If the top finds out that the gold brick is counterproductive, and blames it, someone else will lose his hat.
China has gone back to the Cultural Revolution, and the cult of leadership among the people has reappeared in the absurd legacy of Mao’s era. Sixty years after the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese people still have not grown up, and it is not easy to change this country.
The country is not easy to change. Therefore, it reminds me of the years of the Cultural Revolution, when Mao once gave some mangoes to the workers who were stationed in the university, which was a gift from the foreign minister of Pakistan, and the whole country rejoiced. Those few mangoes, of course, no one dared to eat, it is said that the preservative pickled up, the four sides of the faithful queued up in turn to see, everyone shed tears.
Later it was reported that the mangoes were improperly preserved, dry and wrinkled, very unsightly, and had to be disposed of as garbage. Throughout the Cultural Revolution, how many sacrosanct things, but later when the garbage is disposed of, what has been left?
Chaozhou gold bricks paved to the center of the street, after the inevitable construction of a pavilion to worship, and then the Chinese people come in droves, in front of the pavilion kneeling and kowtowing, the Chinese people can still do such things. Although the gold bricks do not decay, history is progressing day by day. One day in the future, the gold bricks will be dug up from the ground and thrown into the furnace to melt, probably not much real gold to refine. A big dragon and phoenix, and will become the laughing stock of the ages – history is iron-faced and disinterested, regardless of what the leader does not lead.
The U.S. presidential election has not yet come to fruition, and the effect of vaccination is uncertain, everything is in uncertainty. There’s nothing to write about today, so bring the gold bricks to the hilarity and get a laugh.
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