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when traveling in Shanxi, has been holding a guilty feeling.
A long time, as I actually put in Shanxi province, one of our very poor, and have never been on such a view doubted. perhaps moving folk song a lament to the tears uprooted? Perhaps also by Zhao and others called unforgettable power. Of course, the most decisive influence on the eastern part of Shanxi Province that was well-known village called Dazhai, which was once used as a microcosm of rural China, it is too, but in the eyes of most Chinese people as Shanxi is no doubt a microcosm. face wrinkles, heavy Jue head out on the barren hills of the neat terraces, less sleep in rows of corn planted hh largest consumer hard connected to the lowest , Dazhai simple and honest people do not complain, they can not imagine that in addition to fiddle around with the foot of the muddy, what other way to live, but on earth can these dry and sallow what the requirements are too high then?
until today We are not qualified to laugh at them under the sun light to the most honest, most honest farmers. However, when the village has suddenly become the object of national worship, travel long distances to visit and study team from the mighty crowded mountain , we can not but the big excitement in the back of formalism to find some deep implications. I think Dazhai's popular because it inadvertently impact the ecological approach to the hearts of many people was a delicate scale. We do not like the poor, but very worried wealthy. We spent decades involved in that field of social revolution, based on poverty as called for change, revolutionary change is to deprive the poor off to illustrate the reasonableness of this denial , and it must logically to equate wealth and crime. The results, not only poverty but also prohibitive to change the opposite of poverty, had to plug everything possible to get rich, to eliminate differences in any interest to sustain hard work uniform uniform hard life. because there is no prosperity, but also the feelings of poverty does not exist, and the days of poverty than ever before but also some kind of comfort. so there is a psychological eradication of poverty; eradication of poverty has not been off the corrosion, not the pursuit of wealth but a hazy vision of imagination, which is found in people in this village are to promote the measure of value.
, of course, a closed environment, the psychological feeling, a kind of exaggeration through focus the spirit of passion, after all, can not hide the fact of poverty. from around the country to visit learners to see everything, eyes were red, half sympathy half moved. At the time, Shanxi Dazhai also affect your reputation, Shanxi is Dazhai foil, foil out of a similar proposition: moving hard, staggering poverty. Even today, people can forget Dazhai, Shanxi is difficult to rub off on the proposition that.
However, this proposition is not fair. probably eighty-nine years ago, one day, I was flipping through a pile of historical time, I was surprised that some of the facts, they rapidly switch their other work aside and dedicated to studying them. a very long period of time, I search out a book after another, reading a paper and a manuscript, and finally to accept such a skeptical conclusion: in the last century and even earlier for a long period of time, China's richest provinces than those areas we can imagine, and even Shanxi! until the beginning of this century, Shanxi, China is still imposing the financial and trade center. Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan and other cities for those in decent financial institutions, the Supreme Headquarters probably in Pingyao County, and several unusual street Taigu between these cities is only the wealthy merchants of Shanxi's Wharf just a small test their skills.
the rich Shanxi merchants, many astronomical figures cited, This article does not specifically described as economic history, tentatively omitted it, anyway, the national commercial area in the Qing Dynasty, the largest, most capital-thick, the most widely spread is from Shanxi; to discharge the richest in the country families and individuals, the foremost long list of names are mostly from Shanxi; even in the capital declared out of business in various business back home, carrying the most money is from Shanxi.
in accordance with our usual concept of a small number of wealthy people must be ruthless exploitation of the majority results, but the fact is, Shanxi commercial trade developed, the rich and powerful people luxury consumption, greatly improving the local employment rate and the overall standard of living, and those business persons who are in the thousand mile course among the profitable financial flows, when Shanxi general standard of living of urban people are not the lowest. have a material interesting illustration of this problem, in 1822, cultural thinkers Gong Zizhen in the Since the late Qianlong has been, and the people of corruption, worrying fortunes, the city Shaanxi, Gansu, Jiangxi, Fujian and other provinces were less people in the region and more large-scale westward, so that there is no capacity into production, the unemployed into a business. He felt that China can not consider only two places (Shanghai People's Publishing House version of 106)
Gong Zizhen referred to here is not just rich, but also a native of Shanxi people, they will because of > In fact, careful retrospect, even in the limited I saw and heard, you can verify that the rich Shanxi have often seen cases, unfortunately I ignored them. just like Suzhou, now has a sizeable ; Museum of Chinese opera, However, the site of the museum is Hall took a beautiful reap. to find a perfect stage for the South opera performances as permanent preservation of cultural relics, asking many people actually in a temporary club Shanxi found. I remember when I have this hair for a while stay, but not dwelt.