Chapter 26 Guozhen

Guozhen Feng Tang Feng Tang @ 2007-6-4 13:11:56 Fifteen years ago, when I worked as a part-time tour guide, I found that for foreign teenagers, Beijing was a very boring city: dirty, messy, windy and sandy, girls with naked faces and violent tempers, visiting temples during the day and sleeping at night.Fortunately, these teenagers don't matter.Their parents decided to buy all kinds of fake and shoddy handicrafts, and I shared 30% to 60% rebates with the driver.A young man of Chinese descent who cannot speak Chinese has thick chest muscles and freckles all over his face, as if he had a Donglaishun sesame seed cake on one side of his face. He asked me in English, do you know where there is a game console near the hotel?I said, I don't know, probably not.He asked again, you have so many temples, do you believe in God?I said, I don't know, I shouldn't believe it.

We grew up in a non-religious environment and never knew to be afraid. We have an ideal, and this ideal is a simple beauty. In the future, material things will be extremely abundant, and milk and beer will flow from the tap. My spaceship will be your spaceship, your palace will be my palace, and my wife will be yours. Wife, your wife is my wife.For this ideal, everything can be sacrificed, and all individuals are far smaller than the collective. I asked the teacher: "If by that time, there is still only one Forbidden City, and we all want to live in it, what should we do?" "At that time, things will be extremely rich, and the Forbidden City will be everywhere. You can apply for one at any time, and one will be issued to you to live in at any time."

"If at that time, there is still only one school beauty, and we all want to be nice to her, and we don't want others to be nice to her, what should we do?" "At that time, the young man's ideological awareness will be so high that you can't imagine it now. You especially hope that the school belle who is with you will also be good with others. You can apply at any time, and a time slot of the school belle will be sent to you at any time." So in my mind, the details of that simple beauty are further enriched.In that beautiful scenery, each person has a Forbidden City, and every school girl drags her heavy legs every day, and is very tired.

My mother said that in addition to this distant ideal of all mankind, I also need a personal ideal that can be realized in this life. I never watch TV. My mother repeatedly forced me to watch an advertisement about "Guozhen" brand orange flavor saccharin granules.In the ad, it’s a cold winter in a stylishly decorated house, with a garage, a living room, a bathroom, complete appliances, and warmth like spring. A boy with a short cut, big and strong, and a silly smile, and a man in trousers, a shirt, and a happy man. .A woman with a pan-haired, long skirt, and sophisticated, brought three steaming cups of "Guozhen", and both men and children rejoiced.At the end of the advertisement, it pointed out that this "guozhen" is the designated drink of NASA.My mother said that if you were born in the primary stage of socialism, everything described in this advertisement should be all your ideals in this world.

This "Guozhen" has actually become the ideal of our generation.Sincerely cultivate Qi Zhiping, we have only one right path, go to the best middle school, go to the best university, don’t choose liberal arts, don’t engage in rock, sports, fine arts, don’t prostitute or gamble, enter foreign companies or go abroad after graduation, and save money After the annual salary, they borrow money to buy a house, marry a wife and have children. In winter, the family drinks a cup of steaming "Guozhen" together. Fifteen years after graduating from high school, those who want to do things organize dinner.The men who went to the bureau started to have bald heads, big stomachs, and slowed down their speech like a leader.The women who went to the game, their skins began to rust, their buttocks began to collapse, and their tempers began to improve like mothers.We have basically realized the "Guozhen" ideal, and we wonder what is going on.A boy who said weird things from novels and was often reprimanded and punished by the Chinese teacher said quietly, "Do you still remember how the little official Jiao Zhongqing died in "The Peacock Flies Southeast?" We almost remembered the secret code at that time and answered in unison , "It's all fucking forced."