I often read some light and pleasant non-fiction books, some of which are really well written. Every time I come across a good book, I ask myself if I can write it, and the answer is yes: in terms of writing style, no problem; in terms of thought, what’s the point of “seriousness” when it’s light and pleasant? So why haven’t I written it until now? The answer is also very simple: lack of experience. To put it bluntly, I haven’t seen much of the world.
I thought I hadn’t seen much of the world, but I didn’t expect the blogger Derek-Q to have seen even less of the world—for the convenience of writing, I wanted to abbreviate his name, and suddenly found that the first and last two letters of his name happened to be the same as two characters in Lu Xun’s works. In that case, let’s call him Ah Q according to “custom”. Here, there is no meaning of discrimination or ridicule. The blogger can be called Ah Q, and I can also be called Ah Q. Ordinary people in the eyes of the old Buddha are all Ah Q. If some people are called Old Q, it means they are “temporarily settled”.
What happened to Ah Q? Ah Q ran from Shaanxi to Sanya, and after seeing the Terracotta Army, he was ready to come up from underground to bask in the sun. But he found that there had been no change for thousands of years, and the underground and the ground were the same: on the bus, he saw a foreign family of three, who were very skilled at not buying tickets, and the driver also pretended not to see them very thoughtfully.
So, Ah Q couldn’t stand it anymore and posted a message shouting “Unequal treatment is unreasonable”. To prove that what he said was true, Ah Q also swore a “promise” under the post and gave a detailed description: time, place, characters, the cause and result of the matter, all of which were present, in line with the five elements of news, and he also inferred that it was not the first time.
The little nun from the Jingxiu Nunnery came walking towards him. Ah Q would always curse at her, and even more so after being humiliated? … Ah Q approached her, and suddenly reached out and rubbed her newly shaved scalp… “The monk can touch it, but I can’t?” He twisted her cheek. The people in the hotel laughed. Ah Q was even more proud, and in order to satisfy those connoisseurs, he twisted it even harder before letting go.
As Ah Q, he only bullies the little nun, and there are some things he really can’t touch. Don’t look at it as taking a bus, it’s a matter of one or two yuan. Try if Ah Q doesn’t pay, and see what the bus driver will do. He will definitely shout first, and if you don’t listen, he will shout again to get off the bus, and if you still don’t listen, the bus will not start and will directly park at the bus stop—will he grab Ah Q’s collar and kick him down? He would before, but not now, after all, there are mobile phones everywhere, and if you take a video and upload it to the Internet, the driver will be in trouble.
It’s strange, why is the gap so big when they all get on the bus without buying tickets? Ask Ah Q if his surname is Zhao and you’ll know. Ah Q said his surname is Zhao, are you trying to say that? If you say that, you are definitely asking before Ah Q was slapped by Old Master Zhao.
Saying that Ah Q hasn’t seen the world is really not seeing the world, it’s too trivial. How much is the fare? Not to mention a family of three, even a family of fifty, it doesn’t cost much. Ah Q is in Hainan, right? You can ask the international students in Hainan University: how much is their tuition, how much is their living expenses, and how much are their round-trip tickets? Not only do they not spend money, but they also get money.
Shandong Culture and Tourism has a slogan called “Shandong Welcomes You”. “Confucianism and Mencius” is not only limited to Shandong, but is all over China. Do you know why foreigners are willing to come and play here? It’s not because they don’t have to pay for the bus, but because they can have the whole city looking for their lost bicycle. Getting lost is even more deadly, it can drive people crazy. Even in those three years, Nanjing could write a lot about “for the health of 684 foreigners”, and Shanghai not only had foreign sons-in-law, but could also launch a defense war for the “foreign son-in-law’s” penis.
Who wouldn’t love such a place, who wouldn’t want to come: take a walk on the streets of Guangzhou, and some places will make you恍惚,恍惚 to the point where you become a foreigner.
Of course, it’s not just the matter of Old Master Zhao, the Ah Qs are not doing well either. Foreigners take a video and praise a few words, it’s deadly, they are overjoyed; if they say “awesome”, “great”, “fantastic” in Chinese, they are ecstatic and can almost fly to the sky.
Therefore, many foreigners have figured out this psychology and learned two things: either praise you to death, with honey on their lips; or be fierce and look like a boss, domineering to the extreme. Anyway, there are not many normal faces.
If Ah Q goes abroad, will he also be treated the same as a foreigner? In the comment section of the post, the compatriots who have been to Russia chuckled, the compatriots who have been to Italy laughed even more, and the compatriots who have been to Serbia laughed even harder—they specifically checked foreigners. The compatriots who have been to Poland didn’t laugh, but cried and said: I didn’t pay in Poland, and I was fined more than a hundred for getting on the bus.
Ah Q not only saw the world in Hainan this time, but also saw the world online. Look at the last three sentences of his “promise post”: it was released four times before it was seen by the public. Even after it was released, Ah Q still kept talking and complaining in the new post: 300,000 views, and the flow was limited. Are foreigners superior?
Why does this little book want to do this? It seems that they are afraid that when they reconcile at the end of the year, the American netizens will see: Wow, there is such a thing, you are so awesome. Here, who dares to take the taxpayers’ money casually? The bus driver either pays for it himself, or goes home to feed the baby.
To be honest, I like Ah Q very much, and I like not only his appearance of not having seen the world, but also his spirit of being serious. Of course, Lu Xun “doesn’t like” this kind of Ah Q. Because if there were such Ah Qs everywhere back then, he would not only be unable to write “The True Story of Ah Q”, but also “Kong Yiji”, “Diary of a Madman” and other classic masterpieces.
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