Chapter 50 Chapter 9 The Human Revolution

The wallets of Zhejiang farmers are as famous as their brains, and they are famous all over the country. In 1981, the per capita income of farmers in Zhejiang was 280 yuan. By 1996, it had increased to 3,463 yuan.Since 1985, the National Bureau of Statistics has announced the per capita income of farmers in various provinces and cities across the country every year. Since that year, farmers in Zhejiang have won the first place for 11 consecutive times. The wealthiest people are most concentrated in township enterprises and areas with well-developed professional markets. In 1986, someone conducted a survey of 106,000 specialized households in Wenzhou, Taizhou, and Jinhua, and found that the average household income was 6,800 yuan.In that year, at Qiaotou of Button Market, there were more than 5,000 households in the town, and there were already 4,200 households with ten thousand yuan.

In China at that time, whether it was urban or rural, ten thousand yuan household was an enviable title. The wheel of time turned to the 1990s, and a jingle sung by Zhejiang people exposed their pocketbooks to the world: "The poor households with 10,000 yuan, the households with 100,000 yuan have just started, the households with 100,000 yuan are just starting, and the households with 100,000 yuan are so-so. Yuanhu is really rich." The mountain villages and countryside that used to be a desert of money have become lively and "rich" in just over ten years. Thus, a Pandora's Box of Desires was opened... In a village along the coast of eastern Zhejiang, such an incident once happened.

It used to be very poor there. A few years ago, the local fishermen opened a fish market, which attracted merchants from far and near. Once the business boomed, the life of the villagers became easier.After having money, first build a house, then buy appliances, and after that, buy boring. One day, a rare yellow croaker appeared on a stall in the market, causing a sensation immediately.There is a local custom that if anyone can eat the isinglass of King Yellow Fish, it will be a lifetime of good luck.Thus, a bidding began, from 10,000 yuan to 20,000 yuan, all the way up.At this time, some fishermen from other villages also joined in, and they shouted 100,000 yuan.The people in this village were breathless, but the family was reluctant to buy it. After a while of discussion, six big households in the village "stepped forward" and jointly bought Yellow Fish King for 120,000 yuan.

That night, the village was as joyous as a festival, and everyone gathered around Huang Yuwang Haosheng to celebrate.Then, a big pot was set up at the head of the village, and a pot of yellow croaker soup was boiled, and each household shared a bowl. After eating, they scattered, and the whole village had good luck. With gray humor like this, you can almost compile a book after running around Zhejiang. Material and money have brought to its creators dazzling appliances, buildings, furniture and sound and light enjoyment. At the same time, material and money have also made its creators more and more difficult to control themselves amidst the eccentricity. .

Seemingly overnight, the world suddenly became strange to the peasants who had become better off. At one time, in southern Zhejiang, if a woman did not have "four gold hairs" in the street, she would be embarrassing her man. Four golds: gold rings, gold necklaces, gold bracelets, gold earrings, Ding Dingdang went out, and a person was half a gold shop. Yimao: A knee-length fur coat in winter, and a fox-fur skirt in summer. At one time, in some places, people of style always served two soups when they invited guests. One soup is a small boat made of hundred-dollar bills floating in a large seafood basin, which is called "smooth sailing"; the other soup is a small basin floating in a large seafood basin, on which ten imported watches are placed in a regular manner, All of you here have one watch, which is to "express your heart".

Once, when getting married, the woman's parents first had to visit the other's "ghost house". Because in the eyes of these people, whether a family's grave is well-built or not, at least two problems can be explained: first, whether it is a rich family or not.Second, is it filial to the elderly?With these two, if you don't marry this person, who will you marry. In 1987, Susan Tift, a reporter from the American "Time Magazine", visited the Zhejiang market for three days. After returning to China, she wrote a report that was not without regret and a little bit of schadenfreude: There, the abandoned farmers and engaged in small handicrafts were successful. However, the ever-increasing disparity between the rich and the poor has brought about vices similar to those in western countries... For a long time, the graves of Zhejiang people have become a scene of discussion among people from other provinces.Mai Tianshu, a reportage writer from Shanxi, once described it in a very surprised way: "When a boat sails on the Oujiang River, the thousands of graves that rush towards it are people's first impression of Wenzhou.

"White flowers are all over the mountains and plains, which is the world-famous Wenzhou chair tomb. These majestic, condescending, and arrogant chair tombs contain not only the flesh and blood of the ancestors of Wenzhou people. This is the flow of the traditional spirit, which is also from the The flow of new wealth in the market. Following this clue that can be seen at a glance, one can discover the important secret of the spiritual confrontation and blending of different cultures. "Here is also a fierce competition battlefield no less than the market. Yours is big, mine is bigger than yours, yours is beautiful, mine is more beautiful than yours, you repair your ancestors and your own, I repaired the ancestors If you cultivate your own, you will also cultivate your son's.

"Of course, this competition is also based on the wealth of the owners. Therefore, there is such a well-known rule in the search for chair graves in Wenzhou: whichever village is the richest, the tombs there will be the most splendid." Chen Jianfa, who had been stationed in Wenzhou as a reporter for Xinhua News Agency for eight years, was no longer in the mood to repeat the above description. All he felt was: "Under the current mixed system in our country, a considerable part of the capital of individual entrepreneurs in Wenzhou remains in the field of circulation, and they would rather make speculative capital than industrial capital. What is even more disturbing is that they also use most of their profits as consumption funds, squandering This part of the funds gradually withdrew from production and circulation, amounting to several billion yuan.”

Getting rich suddenly is still an "unbearable burden" for those who lack ideological and cultural preparations. There seems to be no need to continue telling such a story. After all, in any social form in today's world, the pursuit of luxury will never disappear, and all kinds of ugliness and corruption will corrode every weak-willed person like bacteria.We don't even have much reason to blame farmers who have just emerged from millennial poverty. Here, we would like to provide a few fresh legends of characters. We would like to say that they are the representatives of contemporary farmers.In this rural revolution, farmers not only turned around economically, but more importantly, they transformed themselves while transforming the world.