The holiday season is on, and the Year of the Dragon is going well. What is the hottest party in Chinese New Year? Maybe if the egg is second, no one else dares to be first. "The sound of firecrackers outside the house is non-stop, and the eggs in the house are non-stop" should be the Spring Festival norm in most of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, but this year's hot range of eggs has far exceeded the Yangtze River Delta, and it has begun to become popular all over the country with a thunderous momentum. As far as the eye can see, from Beijing and Shanghai to Zhengzhou in Henan, Yichang in Hubei and Qingdao in Shandong, Spring Festival egg entertainment competitions have been held in various places. According to incomplete statistics, the number of egg players in the country has reached 1400 million people, more than 20 million in Jiangsu and Anhui provinces alone. This homely entertainment activity has spread from the circle of government agencies and units to the first- and second-level financial circles, and has become a "hard currency" for social networking. Why are eggs so popular? There has been a professional competition introduced as follows: it originated in Huai'an, Jiangsu, and is a popular card game in politics, business and academia, and it is a social weapon for people to enter the circle. It focuses on teamwork and steady play, replacing Texas Hold'em and becoming a more suitable puzzle game for Chinese people. It is endowed with many meanings - insight into human nature, opening up the pattern, workplace wisdom, business wisdom and even life philosophy. From south to north, the eggs are completely popular, and there is a joke circulating on the Internet - on the first day of returning to his hometown during the Spring Festival, in order to make up the numbers, he was pulled by his grandfather to a group of eggs. The nicknames in the group are all "cattle" - an internationally renowned designer, the founder of a technology company, an institutional investor, an analyst of a financial institution, ......Although it is a joke, the charm of the egg can be seen. In real life, people who are keen on beating eggs may be more "hidden dragon and crouching tiger". On January 27, the Shanghai Egg Breaking Sports Association was formally established, and the chairman of Oriental Fortune, who has a net worth of 40 billion yuan, served as the president of the Shanghai Egg Breaking Association. You must know that the chairman of Oriental Fortune is actually an out-and-out "academic tyrant" boss - he studied in the Department of Materials Engineering of Shanghai Jiaotong University as an undergraduate, started during college, and later worked all the way in the financial circle, and the 2023 Hurun Report shows that it is actually ranked 66th on the list. Of course, egg hunting is not an exclusive game for the big guys. This is a folk card game widely spread in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but it has broken the circle in the past two years and has become the offline "game of the year". According to incomplete statistics, more than 20 million people in Jiangsu and Anhui provinces alone regularly participate in various egg breaking activities, and the number of egg lovers in the country has reached 1400 million people. According to the data, there are currently more than 400 egg-related enterprises in the country, and egg associations are also blooming everywhere. Being able to crack eggs seems to have become a new skill. On January 4 this year, a school in Yichang, Hubei Province assigned a special winter vacation homework: everyone learned to beat "eggs", and the egg breaking project was set as the school-based curriculum for the new semester. Although the matter has been controversial, it is not new for eggs to enter the campus, and it has previously emerged in schools in Jiangsu, with many colleges and universities holding teacher-student egg competitions, as well as primary and secondary schools holding staff egg competitions. What impressed me was that last month, the finals of the 2023 National Egg Breaking Open Championship and the 2024 New Year Elite Invitational Tournament hosted by the Chess and Card Sports Management Center of the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China kicked off, and masters from all over the country competed on the same stage. Like e-sports, Egg Hunting has become not just a pastime and entertainment, but a "regular army" of competitive sports. In addition, various districts in Shanghai, Zhengzhou, Henan, Yichang, Hubei, Qingdao, Shandong, etc., have held egg-breaking entertainment events with the theme of "welcoming the New Year", and the competition scene can be called hot. "If you don't break eggs before eating, you don't eat; If you don't break eggs after a meal, you are equal to eating for nothing. "If you beat the eggs well, it shows that you have brains; Cracking eggs is fine, indicating clear thinking. With the explosion of the eggs, all kinds of slips have also spread. After a random exchange, several VC investors I knew were ready to take advantage of this Spring Festival holiday to hone their egg breaking skills. Four friends, a square table, a pot of tea, two playing cards, a hearty egg making journey began. The craziest game around me can be played from 2 p.m. to the wee hours of the morning. In the financial circle, the egg is replacing the card games all over the country, such as the landlord in Hubei, the eighty points in Shanghai, the enough level in Shandong, and the fried golden flower in Sichuan. Source: Visual China
In fact, for many egg lovers, the charm of egg cracking lies in the moment when the bomb is thrown. In the local dialect of Huai'an, Jiangsu, the birthplace, "掼" is the meaning of falling, smashing, and the player smashes the "egg" in his hand, that is, the "bomb" to the table, "what stands out is a momentum". Writer Wang Gan fell in love with eggs on a train from Yangzhou to Beijing. He believes that in today's peaceful society, people still have heroic plots and fighting passions, and the egg is just enough to meet the demand. "You see, the excitement, the blood, the wildness, the domineering when the egg lovers throw the bombs are not at all the gentleness, shyness and sweetness of the usual roses. "Far from it, it comes down to socializing. Egg cracking is known as a "social artifact" and "an icebreaker game for middle-aged people". In many places, the eggs bring neighbors closer together and create a harmonious atmosphere. "Eggs defeat people and people e", no matter what type of character they have, they are very friendly to eggs. Yu Mingyang, a professor of management at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, has been beating eggs for 15 years, from fishing islands in the East China Sea to the Gobi Desert, from Singapore to Tokyo, from Boston to Vancouver, teaching Amway eggs to thousands of people, and even published a book called "The Heart of Eggs". He believes that the benefits of egg cracking are healthy, cost-effective, and civilized. One table, four chairs, two decks of playing cards, and four cups of tea can be played for hours. Some card games can't be played without gambling money, but the pure entertainment of egg hunting also makes people happy. He has been fighting for 15 years, has never gambled a penny, and does not hurt his feelings. In the daily poker scene of the egg, there is often laughter and noise, various psychological tactics, harmless jokes, and talking and laughing to shorten the distance between people. Fun is one thing, but it's the financial circle that really brings the egg to fire. Especially in the past year, in the primary market, eggs are replacing Depo and sweeping the social circle of investors. Behind this, it is not only a microcosm of the absolute position of the RMB**, but also an alternative embodiment of the vigorous venture capital circle in the Yangtze River Delta. According to Qingke research data, China's equity investment events in 2023 will be concentrated in the Yangtze River Delta, of which Jiangsu Province has the most investment events, reaching 1,713 cases, with an amount of 95.1 billion yuan. From the perspective of fundraising, the provinces with the most capital contributions in 2023 are Zhejiang and Jiangsu. The amount of newly raised funds is also the largest in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. A friend in charge of fundraising talked about how high-net-worth people in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai generally play eggs, and their way of socializing is to find a place to drink tea in the afternoon, play a few handfuls of eggs, and then go to dinner. As long as you learn to break eggs, talk and laugh, and talk about cooperation on WeChat. There is a joke circulating in the industry that a GP wants to go to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to raise funds and ask friends about their experience, and the other party directly sent him a copy of "Analysis of 100 Techniques of Egg Fighting". Jokes belong to jokes. But it needs to be admitted that in a game of egg slotting, the smart people play chance. Life is like an egg, when we sit at the poker table, we play eggs, not eggs. I am reminded of the words of Peter Lynch, a famous Wall Street investor: "Texas Hold'em can teach you more than the whole of Wall Street." "In Chinese society, this also applies to egg hunting. Texas Hold'em, which was popular in the financial circle in the past, can be said to be the abbreviation of the Western financial industry - high risk and high return, completely alone, and obvious personal characteristics. But the egg is completely reversed, do not require yourself to play the cards first, teammates can win on the line, it is considered low-risk, steady income, quite the characteristics of the current domestic venture capital market. Financial circles aside, if you want to get to know someone, take him to play Egg Hunt - people who play cards quickly and without thinking are generally upright; People who love to throw cards and throw cards when they are unlucky, will inevitably be angry when encountering difficulties; Those who prefer the big names to come out first, but can't go away in the end, often lack the vision of the overall situation. Writer Wang Gan also shared: "The card table sees human nature. People who play cards quickly are either simple and straightforward, or they are both businessmen; People who play slowly and play well are likely to be good at planning and more cautious; Those who simply play slowly may have a hesitant personality or be more tepid. In addition, the rules of the egg break determine its own teamwork attributes, in the process of playing cards, you can bluff by squeezing your eyebrows, win the game by playing psychological warfare, and also test the cooperation of the people in the game. In the world of egg hunting, every card, every deck, every card played, every upgrade has the potential to affect or even change the course of the entire game. This will test the player's experience and skill, as well as teamwork and intelligence. Just like a Huai'an slogan on the popular Internet said: Life is like an egg, you are not alone in the fight, don't only care about yourself. Whether it is yourself or your teammates in the game, it is inevitable that there will be mistakes, and some people will disturb their aura because of mistakes, affecting the mood and morale of teammates, and it is also important to learn to be happy and angry. A person who can beat the eggs well must be calm and pampered. There is another point, starting with a handful of cards, can not be chosen, but in the egg game, good cards do not necessarily win, bad cards also hope to turn over; Taking a step back, even if it is broken, the rules of the game give a chance to start over, which has some correspondence with life, which makes people think deeply. 
Recognize people, cooperate, and calm down. This after-dinner entertainment is summed up in the height of cognition, pattern and human nature. As for what the eggs have taught us, everyone has their own different experiences, whether in life or work, many trivial things have disappeared in the indiscriminate bombardment of the eggs. As Professor Yu Mingyang once said, "If life is a deck of cards, it is a process of turning disorder into order." "It's better to break eggs, and solve a thousand sorrows.