In "The World", in order to welcome the arrival of the governor and his wife, Zhou Zhigang's family did not make a fire to cook, and the scene of the family eating steamed buns was uncomfortable, sad, and a trace of unacceptable shock.
In China and even around the world, there are social classes, ranging from the poor who can't eat to the rich who spend a lot of money. There are commoners struggling at the bottom, and there are privileged classes at the top.
Everyone understands that equality for all is only the best desire of people's hearts.
The little people at the bottom of the ladder live a tight life for one clothes, one meat, two catties of vegetables, thrifty, and thrifty, and sometimes they eat grain. It is my ideal for the whole family to have a comfortable house, and I have never dared to live in any high-rise buildings or villas.
The hardships of life and the lack of hope in life make them have an instinctive jealousy and jealousy towards some privileged classes compared to those who live well with them.
Zhou Bingkun, Cao Debao, and Lu Chuan came to Secretary Qu's house for the first time, eating food they had never eaten before—stall eggs, Songhua eggs, roast chicken, salted duck, salmon, and they also ate things they had never even heard of but had never seen before, such as Da Lieba, Russian-style red sausages, canned fruit lychees, red wine, etc.
One by one, they ate and drank well, and they were very angry when they went out, Cao Debao was angry that the restaurant in Secretary Qu's house was bigger than his house, and Lu Chuan was very unbalanced about the special treatment enjoyed by Secretary Qu's family.
Lingering or psychologically unbalanced, they can't do anything but shout "Long live privilege and equality" to dredge up the resentment in their hearts.
After envy, they are even more envious.
They are not jealous of the individuality or respect for their own character of those who live better than themselves and enjoy a privileged class, but they are jealous of their rich life and the power in their hands.
Sun Catch-up once said with great emotion that it would be better if he had ten old friends who valued feelings, and he had meditative expectations for these ten old friends.
has a friend who is an official like Zhou Bingyi, which will give people face, and people will also make a deep impression. has a friend as knowledgeable as Zhou Rong, and it seems that he still has some knowledge. There is a public security chief who is friends with a court president so that you don't have to worry about being bullied. I have a dean friend who is very convenient to see a doctor in the hospital. There is also a friend who has a 10,000-yuan household that is also easy to borrow. There are also some friends with matching personalities, so that they can often get together, talk about friendship, and be prosperous.
Sun Catch-up's wish is simply that life is perfect, a man with such ten friends must have no worries about food and clothing in life, and even a little bourgeoisie, and there is no need to worry about mixing in this society, not only there are friends who are officials, but also the director of the public security bureau and the president of the court to escort him, and he can also get like-minded friends together in his spare time.
Most ordinary people may have this kind of life desire for Sun Catch-up, the life is too difficult and painful, and there is no hope, so they can only hope for fantasy, when fantasy may become some kind of reality, they will try their best to capture it.
My mother, Zhou Bingkun, has always been a more unworldly person in my heart, with a high reputation on the streets and alleys, and often helping others.
Such an otherworldly person, deep down, still wants to climb a powerful family, and never even causes trouble to others, and has a sense of stability in life in his heart.
Mother once had a grudge with Cai Xiaoguang for Zhou Rong, who went to rural Guizhou, and after helping Zhou Bingkun transfer to the soy sauce factory, this grudge not only disappeared, but also apologized, so during the Spring Festival, I wanted to take the initiative to invite Cai Xiaoguang to my home as a guest.
If we sympathize with Zhou Bingkun's mother's psychology, then Zhou Zhigang's efforts to welcome the governor and his wife, we are not only sympathetic, but also bitter and sad.
When guests come to the house, clean up the room, tidy up the courtyard, and tidy up inside and outside, this is a project that respects the guests and gives the guests face.
Zhou Zhigang did not only clean the room and tidy up the courtyard, but also instructed his son, daughter, son-in-law, and daughter-in-law to re-wipe the windows and roofs of the house, just like they did not clean up during the Chinese New Year.
If all this can be said to be a polite act of welcoming guests, then the act of not letting the fire burn the rice, worrying about the taste of the house, smoking the guests, and eating the buns as a whole is not only sympathetic, but also poignant.
It is no longer polite, but a deep reflection of inferiority.
He clearly knew that they were a big difference from Governor Hao, and there were several classes in between, and it was the people they couldn't raise their heads. Therefore, when he learned that Governor Hao was coming, he had more than just low self-esteem, so he had to do his best to show Governor Hao the best of his best.
The actions of Zhou Zhigang and his wife are no better than those of the Jia family in "Dream of Red Mansions" for the Yuan Spring Festival and the use of financial resources to build the Grand View Garden, while the Yuan Spring only returned home for a few hours.
The same is true for Zhou Zhigang's family, the family photo that was originally planned was not taken, and the whole family mobilized to clean up and welcome the governor and his wife, and he had unprecedented high hopes for this meeting.
As the saying goes, the more hope there is, the more disappointment. The governor had an asthma attack and the secretary came to give gifts, all his disappointment and regret were written on his face, and there was an embarrassing mentality, and his face was a little unbearable.
Seeing the two large boxes of tea and southern specialties they sent back intact, my embarrassment turned into a deep sense of inferiority, which was difficult to express under the class gap, and could only be understood and not spoken.
It made him feel the deep pain of being up to please others, but others didn't take him seriously.
The gap between social classes, I know that's one thing, it's one thing for me to look up at others, and it's another thing to be trampled to death.
Even if others don't think about stepping on you, in this case you will see that someone else is stepping on you, and psychologically think that someone else is stepping on you.
When you put yourself in a place as low as dust, you will automatically and consciously defend others, and at the same time, you will have an inferiority complex that gives others the opportunity to hurt yourself, and then your inferiority complex will arise, and the most painful, regretful, poignant, and sad part of the social class gap.
The class gap has always existed, and it is impossible to change, only the hearts of the people will change.
Only by looking at the social class gap with a normal heart, accepting the social class gap, trying to change the status quo, and reaching the level we want to achieve, can it become our goal in life and the expectation of struggle.
After all, everyone is an ordinary person, and when it is time to vent, they have to vent, and finally vented a sentence, calling the class hell.