Zhao Dapang, who reads the History of the Song Dynasty | Spring Festival Gala actors who have been demonized by “educating the audience”

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It’s also quite magical. I, who have never liked watching the Spring Festival Gala or live broadcasts in recent years, have actually been precisely located by a live broadcast clip of a Spring Festival Gala actor these days.

A female sketch actress from the Spring Festival Gala answered a question from the audience in the live broadcast: “Where do old farmers find jobs?”

She began to educate people very naturally and confidently: “You old farmers, you should just farm well. You grow corn, beans, what can’t you grow? An income of 100,000 to 200,000 a year is not more than what you earn working in the city? There are no poor people now? Poverty is because you are lazy.”

Sometimes I don’t know whether society is progressing or spiraling. In the past, we all said that when the rich eat meat in front of the poor, try not to smack your lips. Now it’s good, not only do they smack their lips, they also stick to your face and say you are lazy.

If it weren’t for the internet, the spittle would be sprayed on people’s faces.

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I remember more than ten years ago, the Spring Festival Gala began to pursue “educational significance”, for fear of missing the opportunity to educate the backward masses on the night of the 30th of the Lunar New Year, which has the highest ratings.

At first, everyone was still discussing, saying that they had been educated for 364 days, and it didn’t matter if they had one night, let the audience be silly and happy. But others said, “If you walk a hundred miles, you are only halfway there.” If you don’t advance, you will retreat. Even if you are short one night, you will be in vain.

At first, everyone had to argue, but later everyone realized the situation, and there must be “educational significance”, just like Cheng Dieyi crying and scolding Duan Xiaolou, even if it’s short one hour.

Gradually, we accepted its educational significance. Although we don’t necessarily watch it, we have reached a consensus that the Spring Festival Gala should educate the audience.

Look, now even the sketch actors of the Spring Festival Gala have reached a consensus. They should not only educate the audience on the Spring Festival Gala, but also educate the audience in daily online live broadcasts.

Especially those lazy farmers who don’t go to farm with an income of 100,000 to 200,000 a year, they need the sketch actors of the Spring Festival Gala to shout and educate them well.

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Whether farmers can earn one or two hundred thousand a year by relying on hard work, and whether farmers are poor because they are lazy, I don’t want to continue discussing these two topics. Because there is no need to discuss it at all, anyone with a little conscience and insight knows the answer.

What I’m more surprised about is that this Spring Festival Gala actor also came from the countryside. Although I don’t guarantee that she still has relatives in the countryside, at least when she shapes the image of rural women in film and sketches, she should experience it.

Oh, right, their status as first-class actors and artists cannot be called “experience”, such a low-level term, it should be called field research.

I especially want to invite her to our hilly areas of Sichuan and Chongqing to conduct field research, experience plowing the fields in early spring without cattle, and harvesting rice and digging sweet potatoes on the mountainside where large machinery cannot go in the midsummer, and then try it for a year, and see if she can earn one or two hundred thousand without being lazy.

You ask why there are no cattle? Because the cost of raising cattle is too high. In the past, several families would jointly raise a cow to get back the cost. Now there are fewer people farming, and they can’t get enough families together.

You ask why there are fewer people farming, how should I answer? I can’t say: They are lazy and have to go to the city to work, to be the cattle and horses of the capitalists.

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In fact, judging from her answers, she hasn’t paid attention to news about farmers for a long time. As an actor who shapes the image of farmers, this situation is very unacceptable.

Of course, I also understand that this is not entirely her responsibility, because the roles she needs to shape are only the kind of roles they want to show to everyone, not the truly representative farmer roles.

Therefore, they don’t need to understand those farmers who work hard all year round, grow corn and beans, are more diligent than most people, but can’t earn one or two hundred thousand. It’s meaningless to understand, but it will pollute their artistic image.

It seems particularly impure, with ulterior motives, and it’s a nuisance to the people of the whole country on the 30th of the Lunar New Year.

But it’s really far away from the real world to educate the audience in the live broadcast room with the words “There are no poor people now, poverty is because you are lazy”.

It’s not terrible to be far away, what’s terrible is that you resolutely don’t look back, even if others remind her to look, she will also arrogantly scold “That’s because they are lazy”.

If being a farmer is so energetic, why do you want to perform Errenzhuan and not farm?

Why do you send your son to study acting and not let him farm?

Isn’t it more than what you earn working in the city?

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To be honest, in the past two years, in order to sell books, I have also participated in several live broadcasts. In my opinion, whether I write public accounts or live broadcasts online, it is essentially begging for food, hoping that passers-by will give me a bite to eat.

Many years ago, when Weibo first came out, it called followers “fans”, and this term has been used ever since. I’m not used to it at all. Friends who pay a little attention will find that I write essays in the public account, and I never say “my fans”, I always say “my patrons”.

You don’t know what you are like, and you still call yourself a fan, really thinking of yourself as a life idol, an opinion leader, and a spiritual totem?

It’s often these people who like to consider themselves as totems and want to educate their “fans” from time to time.

To be honest, in this oral expression process lasting one or two hours, it is a very rare ability not to make serious mistakes. Generally, people cannot do it without rehearsal or preparation.

Some people think that they are quick-witted and are in the business of performing, and it’s no problem to repeat the same words for one or two hours.

But remember, speaking in circles is your professional skill, and it’s entirely possible that you won’t make mistakes in this range.

But when it comes to topics outside of your profession, such as employment and farmers’ income, if you don’t pay attention, you can’t answer. If you can’t answer, just shut up and show your idol temperament, and you have to give your fans some educational significance, who will you blame if you are not scolded?

Really think that you have always been educating people on the Spring Festival Gala stage, and after educating, you go home to make dumplings, with gongs and drums, firecrackers, and then a year full of pots and bowls.