From 1978 to 2008, these 30 years were the 30 years that changed the destiny of China's history, that is, the 30 years when the Republic rose up, stirred up, changed, opened up, made progress, and strived for strength. A magnificent and immortal poem.The major events that have happened in the past 30 years are the jewels in this poem, which has become an important content of many writings reflecting the 30 years of reform and opening up.This book is different. It does not describe the pearls in the poems of the past 30 years, but picks up those inconspicuous shells that have been "buried by sand and stones" in the past 30 years-the lives of ordinary people.

The life of the people corresponds to the development of the Republic, or it is the two sides of a mirror, and to some extent it may even reflect the progress of the country more directly and practically.The Prophet of the Spring River Plumbing Duck, the prosperity, civilization and progress of the country, the country's policies, guidelines and plans, etc., can all be directly reflected in the lives of ordinary people. Hegel clarified his views on the layers and functions of history in Lectures on the Philosophy of History.In his view, the first level of history is a sketchy history, which mainly answers the "what" of the past; the second level is reflective history, which mainly answers the "why" of the past; the third level is philosophical history, which mainly answers "what to do" in the future .The higher the level of historical research, the greater its functional value and significance of the times.However, it is undeniable that "line drawing" is the basis of all cognition and research. It is not only the most extensive and popular, but also the most specific, vivid and vivid. "Baihua" is a popular history, it requires both refined and popular tastes, and it is a pleasure to hear and see.This record of common people's lives before readers is "Blank Sketch", which is a detailed description of the detailed characteristics of the reform and opening up of the Republic in the past 30 years, and is the cornerstone and material for historical reflection and philosophical thinking about "what to do" in the future.

People's life includes marriage and family, basic necessities of life, culture and study, work and leisure, travel and fitness, financial management and business, social insurance, customs and fashion, etc. The 30-year record of people's lives is actually the real history in which each of us lives and participates today.However, in the blink of an eye in 30 years, many past events in civilian life are fleeting, passing by like smoke.How can we reproduce the lives of the common people in a more authentic, complete and detailed way?Limited by means and materials, perhaps we can only pick up the fragments that reflect the lives of the people, and conduct unified screening and sorting to form a "fragment chain of roughly the same type, size, and color."In the end, it is roughly an outdated news report, which is to gather the original fragments of social life during the 30 years of reform and opening up to form a real chronicle.

In actual operation, we focus on the People's Daily, combine various newspapers, magazines and books, select news and pictures that can reflect people's lives in various aspects, edit and arrange them in chronological order, and form a 30-year history of people's life changes.Readers can walk into this folk banquet that shouldn't be forgotten, and enjoy the delicious food on the table. Of course, delicious food focuses on raw materials and cooking skills. How to choose from the vast amount of news that reflects people's lives?The basic standard or principle we have is: according to the above-mentioned aspects of people's lives, select those that can reflect the progress of the country, are common (national) or have an impact on the lives of the people across the country, and are pioneering (first occurrence) Or directional, positive documentary news (except for a few that have a relatively large negative impact on the whole country), extract the main points, and then arrange them into a book in chronological order.In this way, readers may feel "a little messy" and cannot form a systematic impression of a certain aspect of people's life (food or clothing, housing, transportation, etc.) The overall life situation in a period of time, just like life itself, is rich and colorful and varied. If it is artificially organized or theoreticalized, it will lose its original appearance, which is not conducive to recall.In this way, taking time as the longitude and events as the latitude, it has the taste of a chronicle of people's lives and is closer to the actual living conditions of the people at that time.After reading the book, readers will naturally feel the overall development and changes in the lives of the common people.

The small life of the people is closely related to the major events of the country, and the life history of the people is naturally indispensable to the description of the macro.For this reason, this book has an introductory paragraph before describing the lives of the common people every year, which focuses on the description of macro national events, so that the macro and micro of the book complement each other. Although we tried our best to make this book a rare historical book with authoritative, scientific, historical materials and appreciation value for recording the 30 years of China's reform and opening up, due to the limited conditions and author's level, for example, not enough relevant materials and pictures were collected, some The lack of content makes this book still have some shortcomings, and I hope to get criticism and help from readers.