Chapter 46 Series of surveys: Marital Status Survey of Coal Bosses

The private life of coal bosses has always attracted social attention, and their marriage and family are the focus of people's attention. Marriage is a major event in life.The attitude and understanding of marriage and family represent a person's "life principles" and "life value orientation" to a certain extent. We investigate the marital status of the coal bosses group by using age group indicators. In this survey, we call the coal bosses aged between 40 and 50 the "middle-aged" coal bosses. Respondents in this age group account for about 60% of the total coal bosses in Shanxi.Coal bosses aged 50 to 60 years old, which we call the "elderly" type of survey respondents, account for about 40% of the total number of coal bosses in Shanxi.

Among them, the marital status of the coal bosses in the "old age" stage is relatively stable, and all of them are the original spouses of "knotted hair".Most of the coal bosses at this stage have achieved success in their careers after experiencing the ups and downs of starting a business. Before them, there are groups of children and grandchildren, and it is time to enjoy family happiness.This can be interpreted by a saying in the local countryside that "young couples come to accompany each other when they are old". As they grow older, they don't want to "toss" about their personal emotions, and they are willing to go to the end of their lives with their wives.

The situation of coal bosses in the "middle-aged" stage is "worse." According to the survey, 30% of coal bosses have "mistresses" in society. The "second wife" is also their mistress, which is consistent with the realistic portrayal of "getting rich overnight" and the empty mentality of extravagance and corruption. In addition, in the special survey on the "number of marriages" of this group, we found that 30% of coal bosses in the "middle-aged" stage belonged to "second marriage" or "third marriage".

They have worked hard in life, and their career prospects are bright. They deal with handsome men and beautiful girls all day outside, but they have to live a boring life with the "yellow-faced woman" after returning home.There are all kinds of temptations in the colorful world outside. Under the influence of this environment and conditions, they can't help but choose the latter. Most of these chosen objects are young and beautiful unmarried urban women.These young women are educated and have received higher education. They have lived in big cities since childhood and have seen the world. They are full of youthful vigor and have unique insights into new life.The emergence of women in this class satisfies the abnormal vanity mentality of some coal bosses to eat "swan meat" to a certain extent.As a result, an atmosphere of "raising young" gradually formed in their circle, and they compared each other and "exchanged experience".

From another perspective, this shows that the energetic Shanxi coal bosses have been striving to pursue a diversified and fashionable "spiritual" life. They have a desire to "change" and hope to change their inherently deficient traditional status quo. . Among the coal bosses in the "middle-aged" stage, 90% of the coal bosses admitted to having been "unfaithful" to their wives. This shows that while possessing huge wealth, they are not yet psychologically prepared. Perhaps, they are not yet qualified to be rich, so under the control of primitive desires, they satisfy their inner emptiness and anxiety, and engage in behaviors such as whoring and finding lovers.

Of course, this situation is only the "initial stage" after the coal boss has wealth resources. What I want to emphasize here is that the biggest characteristic of this group of people is that under the pressure of the traditional world, they "like the new and never tire of the old" or "they must first settle inside when fighting against the outside world." Generally speaking, Shanxi Coal Bosses, a special group, tend to be traditional and conservative in their attitudes towards marriage and family.The concept of "home and everything" under the "backyard fire" has been dominating their lives.