My name is Xiang Dongliang, given by my father, and the meaning is obvious, hoping that I will become a pillar of society in the future.
I was born in 1988. The most common names for boys of my age were Wei, Jun, Hua, and Liang. I’m very fortunate that my father was somewhat educated and gave me a name with a relatively high degree of recognition.
Don’t laugh at me, although I don’t have children yet, I actually started considering what to name my future children when I first read ‘A Step Into the Past’ twenty years ago, and I need to prepare names for both a boy and a girl.
However, I still haven’t figured out what to name my future children… I can be considered somewhat educated, right? But it’s so difficult to come up with a name, which is also very helpless.
Actually, the most difficult part isn’t picking one or two characters from the Chinese dictionary, to express good wishes, have a certain degree of recognition, and be easy to pronounce; technically, it’s not that difficult. The key is that my child hasn’t appeared in the world yet, I haven’t met TA, I don’t have any information that belongs solely to TA, nor do I have any emotional connection.
It’s very, very difficult to name a person who doesn’t exist.
It’s even more difficult to name a group of people who don’t exist.
Some people ridicule that some units are too lazy, unwilling to spend the effort to make up a few names, and actually directly copy information from the name database for public display, which is too insulting to the public’s intelligence. But in reality, although it’s not ruled out that these people in charge are indeed lazy, the more important reasons are actually the other two:
First, these people in the documents don’t really exist, and it’s too difficult to make up names out of thin air.
Second, the people who check the materials don’t really care about the truth or falsehood, and even the people who check the materials hint or even require the people in charge to fabricate fake names to go through the motions, so the people who fabricate the materials dare to directly copy the information from the name database without even changing the order.
In reality, activities that haven’t been held, fabricating a set of materials out of thin air, subsidies that haven’t been distributed, fabricating a list of recipients, are all real phenomena, especially in the fringes of the system, which is even more common.
In recent years, ‘ledger management’ has increasingly become the most commonly used method of hierarchical assessment within the system, but in actual implementation, because each level needs to keep a large number of ledgers to report, and needs to check and audit more ledgers from the lower levels, everyone eventually tacitly uses the mentality of ‘going through the motions’ to cope. Anyway, just submit a document, and they won’t delve into the specific content or whether it actually happened.
Originally a means of assessing authenticity, it has become the purpose itself in the implementation, and then breeds blatant fraud in batches.
You fool me, I fool you, why bother?
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