Zhou Xueze
Xinhua News Agency reference news on December 9**, recently US Republican Senator Scott sent a letter to US Secretary of Commerce Raimondo, saying that there is a problem with China's garlic, saying that there is a "detailed record" of the cultivation method on the Internet, cooking blogs and documentaries as evidence, it is "planted in sewage", and there are concerns about its quality and safety, and it is required to investigate the "impact of these garlic on the United States".
This is really "if you don't open your mouth, it will make people's jaws drop when you open your mouth", a head of garlic can actually affect the United States*** Many Chinese readers saw this kind of news, and their first reaction was very funny, but looking at Scott's expression when he spoke, he was really not joking.
Chinese garlic looks at Shandong", the author, as a "Shandong person" who has grown garlic, it is necessary to tell the story of garlic. Today, Jining Jinxiang, Linyi Lanling, Jinan Laiwu and Shanghe in Shandong are all famous "garlic township", of which the planting area of garlic in Jinxiang is more than 700,000 mu, with an annual output of more than 800,000 tons, and the annual garlic trading volume is more than 3 million tons, with an annual transaction volume of tens of billions, and the local garlic products are not only sold well in China, but also exported to more than 170 countries and regions, and the export volume accounts for about 70% of the total garlic exports in the country.
China has a long history of garlic cultivation, and Jia Sixian, a "Shandong person" and agronomist of the Northern Wei Dynasty, said in "Qi Min Yaoshu" that garlic is "the Han people get garlic in the Western Regions". The history of agricultural planting with farmhouse fertilizer is also very long, Xunzi lived in Shandong for a long time in the spring and autumn period, and its "Rich Country Chapter" has: "Manure field is the business of farmers." When I was a child, the author planted garlic with adults, and the scene of sprinkling farmhouse fertilizer in the garlic furrow is still vivid, which is common knowledge that everyone knows in the countryside.
Chinese have been cultivating garlic for more than 2,000 years, and eating garlic for more than 2,000 years – 10 times longer than the history of the United States. Moreover, in addition to eating, garlic also has outstanding medicinal value and has the reputation of "natural antibiotic". Now, Scott suddenly and solemnly said that there is something wrong with "Chinese garlic", which is really abrupt.
If Scott's words are not out of malice, nor is there a problem with IQ, then there is probably only one explanation: I don't know. It doesn't matter if you don't know or don't know, you can do research and research, and then draw conclusions;Jumping to conclusions without investigation and research is just a subjective belief that there is a distance between the conclusion and the facts.
Human understanding cannot be separated from practice at all". This summer, the author took a 5-year-old child to the beach to play, because of the epidemic for three years, the child has never seen the sea, the day to the beach, the weather is gloomy, the sea is dark, the child's first reaction is: why is the sea not blue?The child had seen that the color of the sea was blue, and she decided that the sea must be blue. I explained to her that the color of the sea changes with the clouds, and that the sea is blue only on a sunny day, and that the sea in the book is a picture of a sunny day. Through the Internet**, cooking blogs and documentaries, Scott judged that China's 2,000-year-old cultivation methods are unhygienic and unsafe, and this way of thinking is very similar to the way children perceive it.
Lu You, a poet from the Southern Song Dynasty of China, said: It is shallow on paper, and I never know that I have to do it. Scott's non-safe verdict on Chinese garlic reflects the estrangement of some Westerners from China, and here I think of the recently deceased former US Secretary of State Kissinger.
On November 29, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger died at his home in Connecticut at the age of 100. As a politician, diplomat and scholar with a deep relationship with China, Kissinger's death has aroused widespread concern among Chinese, and many domestic ** have used titles such as "A diplomat who knows China very well is gone" and "The American who knows China best has died".
Dr. Kissinger has made a historic contribution to the normalization of Sino-US relations, but he is not "familiar" with China. He admits that before he began his visit to China in 1971, "I didn't know anything about Beijing's actual negotiation methods, let alone the hospitality of the Chinese." But in the more than 50 years since then, he has "traveled thousands of miles, read thousands of books", visited China more than 100 times, read a large number of Chinese books, and became a real "China expert". Because of "Zhihua", he knows how to deal with China, and is generally respected by the Chinese.
According to China's official website, on December 5, Wang Yi, the chief of China, went to the U.S. Embassy in China to mourn the death of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, saying that over the years, Dr. Kissinger has always viewed China's development objectively and friendly, firmly believes that China and the United States should and must coexist peacefully, and is good at finding common ground and cooperation opportunities from the differences between China and the United States, reflecting his foresight as a diplomat, strategist and politician.
China and the West are dealing with each other, calling for more "Kissinger-style" politicians. Without investigation and research, there is no right to speak, and nonsense is destined to slip into the world's ridiculousness. Be wary of the fact that "you can never wake up someone who is pretending to be asleep". After wearing colored glasses for a long time, you need to take them off to see what color the real world is and what the real China is like, including coming to China to experience life and see how garlic grows.