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It is indeed strange that the East and the West have invariably regarded the sword as a symbol of honor.

And the knife, lack of appearance, vulgar identity, and lack of force, that is.

Is it because it is a non-practical item?

Luxury is not a product of vanity, the meaning of its existence is to distinguish classes.

First of all, after the gap between the rich and the poor appears, the right to speak will gradually shift to the high-ranking people, and due to the status gap, they will guide something from outside to show their noble status.

Ancient Chinese porcelain, silk, a little bit older, different meals, different weapons.

In ancient India, the pharaoh was considered one scepter, and the funeral goods after death were also different.

With the development of social productive forces, many things no longer have uniqueness, but some luxury goods have become more varied due to the cherishing of materials and handmade reasons, and the gap between the rich and the poor will not allow luxury goods to disappear. Luxury represents the upper class to a certain extent, not that if you buy a LV bag, you are the upper class in the eyes of people,

From the perspective of consumerism and identity, it is easy to understand that the value of luxury goods is not based on the practical value of the object, but more on the value of consumption symbols contained in it. And even if you don't agree with the value of luxury, you will be forced to consume by consumerism because of a certain social need.

Baudrillard argues that the utility value of objects in a consumer society is not based on their own usefulness, but on the result of the encoding of a particular social symbol. The use value of an object is nothing more than a guarantee for the operation of the object, and more fundamentally is the exchange value of the symbol based on the construction of the object.

In modern society, there is a serious surplus of material productivity, and people no longer pay too much attention to the use value of goods, but are obsessed with the "exchange value" of goods. The focus of human beings has shifted from the reality of the object to the abstract meaning of the non-reality of the object. Through the functional simulacrum of things, the symbols are constructed, including not only conceptual abstract language signs, but also the differential signifiers represented by the way things are manipulated and the properties of things.

Unlike the traditional society, which symbolizes identity and status through the total amount of occupied objects, modern people in the consumer society construct society through the manipulation of objects and the coding of symbols. The object thus becomes a bearer of social meaning, social status and cultural hierarchy, which is reflected in many details such as form, material, color, durability and spatial placement of the object. Through the analysis of the meaning of objects, we can distinguish objects and complete the role of social segmentation and stratification, and society thus completes the process of hierarchical differentiation.

The most important thing is not the object itself, but the symbols built on the object.

Among them, the symbol itself does not have the signifier of the actual material, and the meaning production of the symbol comes from the differential operation of the signifier of the signifier, and the core of the production of the symbol is to create difference or difference.

The so-called differential operation, in popular terms, is to artificially create differences, but this difference is based on the difference in the circulation of symbols on the same material carrier, rather than the difference between different material carriers. In this sense, a single symbol is meaningless, and the value of the symbol is always reflected in the multiple selection and combination of symbols.

As the carrier of symbolic value, the object itself may be discarded due to the weakening of the symbolic value, but the abandoned symbol may be reborn again, become a symbol that endows itself with differentiated value, and participate in the cyclic construction of individual or group identity again through the consumption process.

The above is the principle of the generation of the symbolic value of luxury goods. Consumerism produces corresponding values and cultural standards through the cultural industry, and people obtain symbols that give commodity exchange value through the way of consuming goods, and use these symbols to shape their own personality and identity, and establish a group identity on this basis.

Individuals shape a unique way of life through consumption behavior, and seek group identity in the public sphere with consumption concepts and aesthetic tastes as judgment criteria, forming a corresponding value community. Consumerism is involved in the process of self-identity and social identity of each individual. As a consumer product, luxury goods are endowed with extremely high value attributes by the social power order, and the consumption symbols of luxury goods themselves participate in the construction of people's aesthetic taste, self-personality and identity. People complete their self-identity according to the symbolic value of luxury, and carry out various cultural practices according to the cultural habits and aesthetic tastes based on consumer symbols, and then complete the function of social class differentiation, and establish group identity on this basis, and social stratification is formed.

In addition to the need for self-identity, people's demand for luxury goods is also due to the compulsion of social relations. It may be that you value the practical value of the item more, and do not recognize the high-value attributes of luxury goods, and sneer at the people who blindly worship luxury goods. However, as an individual in the state of social beings, you are inevitably affected by social relationships, so due to the compulsion of certain social relations (pretending to be a social need, showing your identity, etc.), you have to consume luxury goods to be consistent with others or maintain differences.

In this process, you yourself are forced to participate in consumption, and your own subjectivity does not play a role. Consumerism drives or forces you to identify with it through social needs, otherwise you will be disconnected from others or society, and then be alienated or marginalized by the mainstream society, becoming a flawed "new poor" in the consumer society that everyone rejects, and is considered to have low aesthetic taste, in a low position in the aesthetic order, and at the bottom of the mainstream contempt chain.

As a result, in the consumer society, there is a grand trend that everyone flocks to luxury goods. As if luxury is not a non-essential luxury, but a necessity that everyone must have.

Therefore, for the so-called upper class, the lower the practicality, the more useless things that cannot participate in labor or battle, and can be admired by them.

That's why, the aristocracy of the old times, liked to have long nails, and even carefully maintained and protected, just to show that I never did manual work, I was superior.

It's hard for them.

And the dancing knife, the knife, is cheaper than the sword in terms of production cost.

If you have too much, it's worthless.

And scarcity matters.

Wang Jian had already noticed that the three Bai brothers and sisters had swords.

Of course, having a saber does not necessarily mean sword dancing and swordsmanship, just as a person who buys a car does not necessarily drag race, and a person with a head does not necessarily have a brain.

Of course, Wang Jian has not specifically learned the so-called sword technique, and he does not need to learn it.

Of course, from Tang Dadao, I learned the trick of using this weapon.

"With a knife, the most important thing is to take the momentum, that is, when you wave it, raise it high, and then use all it to cut down, as if you are cutting down your husband and enemy, chopping wood, this is individual work, don't believe what kind of knife method on the Internet, knives, is to rely on strength to speak. ”

Wang Jian understands this very well.

Knives are cut on one side, and there are many people who stab people with knives, and they basically use the bladed side to cut over.

So, a lot of times, it's just a matter of opening and closing and slashing people with brute force.

Swordsmanship, on the other hand, is a little different.

Swords, due to being more beautifully crafted, that is, spending more money, and double-sided blades, more often than not, swords can be used to kill targets with the sharpest and best steel mouth at the tip of the sword.

Therefore, it is no problem to use a knife and have the strength of the arms, but the use of a sword does require some technical training.

And as we all know, the poor don't have time to spend on this.

Poor and rich in martial arts.

Poor literature is because papermaking and printing have been popularized, the national script has been unified, books and grassroots teachers have been cheapened, so children from ordinary families can also try to read as a social upward channel.

The reason for the abundance of military is that the chemical fertilizer has not yet appeared, and the population in China is already very dense, and the per capita land is tight. Ordinary people can't afford to eat high-protein and high-calorie foods such as meat, eggs and milk, they can't afford to hire a combat instructor who also wants to eat meat, and they can't support the retinue needed to pull the pole and join the army in troubled times (similar to Western knights and servants).

Therefore, the upward channel of training military and joining the army (being a bandit, organizing a regiment to practice and extorting money from the township) is higher than the starting point of studying.

Furthermore. The age of gunpowder was not yet mature, and it was also an important reason for the poverty and wealth.

Once muscles are no longer the primary element in combat, and once years of cold weapon training are no longer the main source of combat effectiveness, the size of the army will expand rapidly, and at the same time, it will be accompanied by the lower-level and lowly occupation of grass-roots soldiers.

Of course, this sentence is a folk proverb, that is, the life standard of ordinary mountain villages, and it is a law summarized from the perspective of the people at the bottom.

In fact, the channels for the rise of the agrarian society are very narrow. If you really want to make achievements in reading, at least you have to be a down-to-earth master to have hope.

There are not many opportunities for a real humble family. The peasants just intuitively summed up their evaluation of the first threshold of the civil and military paths. As for which road has a high threshold in the back, and which road has more and more helpless thresholds, farmers who rely on farming to listen to dramas to understand the world can't think of it and won't think about it.

From today's perspective and standards, the grassroots of ancient agricultural societies are in a state of semi-barbarism and half-out of control. At the grassroots level, violence is a very common factor in the distribution of benefits.

The only trained force that can be used in the county is dozens or hundreds of people, and a dozen or so men who can fight and have training can already occupy a lot of resources through unspoken rules, such as water sources, such as the right to sell special products, and such as newly reclaimed land.

In this comparison, the modern profession corresponding to the ancient "martial arts" should be "business", that is, obtaining daily economic resources outside the government and the system.

Corresponding to "Wen" is to take the university entrance examination, study, and fight for academic qualifications, which provides a good stepping stone for future work. In this way, the poor and rich (business) are still meaningful to today's grassroots people. The children of ordinary people rely on studying, and the children of rich families have the capital to engage in business. It's just that there are many social opportunities today, the upward channel (below the middle level) is relatively smooth, and various assets can be freely converted between different industries through the market, so the path of civil and military (business) is not so obvious.

Finally, the principle mentioned earlier. This proverb is addressed to the most basic people, and it is the most basic threshold they use to describe various occupations. Once you've crossed this threshold, the rest of the story has little to do with the sentence.

There is a very important characteristic of learning martial arts, you have to eat meat to learn martial arts, you must ingest animal protein, several famous martial artists in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, not to mention how kung fu is, the family is a big landlord, only the landlord can afford to eat meat, the poor can't even take care of the food, how can they afford to eat meat? Not to mention that they can't afford to eat meat, there is a Chinese proverb, "eat dry when you're busy, eat thin when you're free", if you don't do heavy physical labor, you have to save your dry meal, and finally eat a full meal, fight an hour of boxing, your stomach is empty again, and you don't even know where the next meal is, how to practice martial arts?

Secondly, it takes a lot of time to practice martial arts, and this sentence is not said casually, standing on piles, beating wooden people, and sparring all take time, if you want to practice martial arts fighting, it is definitely not that you can practice for a few minutes to learn a move, and for the poor, they still have to work in the field, tired and stinky to death, and they will just study on the line, where can they do the same physical strength of combat training.

When you get to this world and learn spells, it's even more so.

Meditate, consume mana, meditate again, consume again.

This requires the consumption of food, supplements, and a living labor force, so that young people from the bottom of the bottom have to work at least ten times and eight times as hard if they want to be motivated.

It takes a lot of time to practice martial arts, and the phrase "boiling muscles and bones all day long" is not said casually, standing on piles, beating wooden people, and sparring all take time, if you want to practice martial arts fighting, it is definitely not that you can practice for a few minutes to learn a move, and for the poor, they still have to work in the field, tired and stinky to death, they will just study, where can they do the same physical consumption of combat training.

Young people, you can earn hundreds a day by moving bricks, so why should you suffer yourself.

As long as there are books and pens in learning, children are smart and have good memory, they can have a good background, and there is no famous teacher in learning martial arts, and they don't know if they are wrong. Shi Jin began to learn martial arts and found a few martial artists, but they were all half-hanging, and they were beaten by Wang Jin with a stick, Chai Jin raised a group of instructors at home, and when he met Lin Chong, he knew that they were all cowards. This is a huge sunk cost, and it is difficult for the poor to eat by themselves, let alone raise a martial artist.

It's much safer to study literature. A poor family of several or even several generations, hard work, can support a smart child to study, such a child is called reading seeds, the hope of the family is in this seed, once it dies, the whole family for several generations of hard work in vain, and learning martial arts in the army, there is a great risk, so the poor do not dare to learn martial arts, the rich are not, can give birth to a few children, each can ensure adequate diet, even in case of death, can also ensure the continuation of the incense.

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