Chapter 29 Down (and pangolin)

The abbreviation of indecent, vulgar, and dirty, the meaning of the word comes from improper sexual behavior, or even general sexual behavior.After the 1980s, the Xiang dialect had the word "Xiaxiade", which refers to the habit of hooligans and rascals, which is obviously an extension and expansion of "Xia". As far as the human body is concerned, the head is on the top, and human thinking and spirit have always been oriented upward, enjoying orientation marks such as "noble", "sublime", and "metaphysical".The sexual organs are down, so sexual behavior has always been "indecent".

From this point of view, temples are built on high mountains, criminals are imprisoned in hell, and nobles live in palaces.The untouchables bow down, the winner's flag is raised high into the sky, and the loser's flag is trampled on the ground... It's hard to say that all these are accidental position selection, but must be the externalization and materialization of some kind of belief.I suspect that all this stems from the ancient caveman's confusion and initial understanding of his body. Since then, temples, nobles, and victory banners have become extensions of the caveman's head and gained an upward direction.On the contrary, everything can only be succumbed to the lower body forever like the lower body of the sense of place.

It is said that Maqiao used to be very down-to-earth, and the commune cadres dealt with it severely, so they became more serious.Minister He of the commune went down to the village to confiscate excess private plots, excrement, chickens and ducks, etc., and showed a strange thing at the meeting, which was two long mirror tubes: "What are these? Mountain mirrors! With this thing, no matter what you do, I can see it! Catch one, punish one! Catch ten, punish ten! Never relent!" In fact, it is a telescope, which belongs to the forestry station of the commune, and is used to observe wildfires.

Even Benyi looked nervous when he heard this, and glanced at the binoculars anxiously, and then again.People really didn't dare to talk nonsense in the future, Wan Yu was going to be locked up for several months, even if he was killed, he wouldn't sing the Juejue song.At night, everyone went to bed early, and the village was quiet without lights.Many people also said that they didn't even dare to touch their wives during that period. Wan Yu was very dissatisfied with Chuanshan Mirror, and once complained to me: "It's not fair, it's too unfair. People in the city have movies, a zoo, cars and trains. What do we villagers have? That's the culture. Life,"

He refers to Juejuege and the matter of men and women, "You also need to use a mountain mirror to take pictures, what kind of world! Besides, the Communist Party does not allow everyone to play, where will the small Communist Party come from in the future?" Whether Wan Yu's complaint to Minister He is reasonable or not is irrelevant for now.It is not true to regard the sexually conservative concept represented by the telescope as a specialty of the Communist Party.When the Kuomintang ruled China, ballroom dancing was banned by the military government in Guangzhou, Wuhan and other places. Ballroom dancing was regarded as "harmful to social morality".A little earlier, when the Qing Dynasty ruled China, it was listed at the top of the list of banned operas. Romance novels and poems were all "filthy works" in the eyes of the officials, and they were confiscated and burned in batches.The word "Xia" is not just a word used by Maqiao people today, it almost runs through a long history, revealing the moral prejudice of Chinese thinking about sexual behavior that has been passed down for thousands of years.As long as the naming of "down" is not canceled or changed, it will be very difficult for people to truly, comprehensively and completely get out of the shadow of prejudice.Even Minister He is a very enlightened person.It may not necessarily be able to get rid of the psychological stereotype that has been internalized in his blood.He is just a user of a traditional dictionary, sliding forward on the track of meaning with a telescope, like a donkey wearing a cage and can only go forward.In this sense, do people speak, or do they speak?In the end, Minister He should be responsible for his rigidity and rigidity, or the word "down" has already become Minister He's cage - so.Should all those who use Chinese, including people from Maqiao, be responsible to Minister He?Of course it became a problem.