Another busy and boring 7 days.

Although yesterday was the summer solar term, with the hot weather across the country, Beijing was also very hot for two or three months. Looking at the poplar leaves blown by the breeze outside the window and the traffic on Chang'an Street, Hongyi was a little distracted: it had just rained, why couldn't he see the stars on the ground at all? Beijing's climate, you are indeed atmospheric! ……

"Once, it's time to get off work!" When he was about to match his thoughts and give a thumbs up to the majestic "imperial capital" outside the window, Hongyi heard the soft whispers of Xiao Ai, who worked in the same office, and had to restrain his spirits and calmly replied: "Oh, get off work, you go first, I'll turn off the computer and leave." ”

"Zengju, tomorrow is the weekend again, what are you going to do?"

"Nothing, sleep. Huh"

"You've been in Beijing for two years, and you're almost all over the city, right?"

Hey, do you know what "hehe" is this girl? If I keep talking, I'll only have "hey, hey, haha, eun, quack" to deal with you! Hongyi said: "Beijing is so big, take your time...... Is your dad's car coming to pick you up? Xiao Ai's father seems to be a cadre of a certain level, and occasionally asks the driver to turn an extra corner to pick up his daughter by the way when he gets off work.

"He, I can't count on it, sisters, I'm squeezing the subway! Have a great weekend! See you on Sunday! Xiao Ai picked up her Gu Qikun bag with interest, turned around in a chic manner, and quickly withdrew.

"Oh, see you on Sunday!" Hongyi replied, his eyes unconsciously attracted by Gucci's logo, and drew an arc in the air very cooperatively, and then firmly pressed against the closed office door.

The beings of the imperial capital, even if you can really afford to buy Guqi, you may not be able to do the subway. Just like your own career, hope is always there, but it is always out of reach. Hongyi remembered the conversation between the leader in charge and himself in the afternoon, as well as the sentence "Work hard, continue to work hard, don't relax, there are still opportunities......" After that, his eyes were attracted by the sudden raindrops outside the window.

Hey, what should I do tomorrow? By the way, the unit is near West Chang'an Avenue, and I have walked a lot of old houses in the past two years, but I haven't gone to the north and south long streets on the west side of the Forbidden City, so let's go there and take a look. Work!

Saturday, August 24, 2013, Beijing Changjie, Beijing.

Zeng Hongyi got up early today and slipped into Tiananmen Square at half past five, just in time to raise the national flag. When the majestic national anthem sounded, Hongyi stood solemnly outside the crowd and meticulously gave himself a solemn patriotic education.

"Get up! People who don't want to be slaves! Build our flesh and blood into our new Great Wall! The Chinese nation has arrived

At the most dangerous time, everyone is forced to let out a zuihou roar! Get up! Get up! Get up! As one, we braved the enemy's fire, braved the enemy's fire! Advance! Advance! Enter!!"

Every time he hears the phrase in the national anthem, "The Chinese nation has reached the most dangerous time...... he always can't control his thoughts, and the first time point in his mind can not accurately focus on the suffocating moment of "going back to 1,840 years ......", but the words "1644" appear flutteringly: the seventeenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, the first year of Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty...... Chongzhen hanged himself and entered the customs of the Manchu Qing Dynasty......

In fact, that year, whether it was for the Manchurians who "settled in the Central Plains", or for the Han people who "humiliated China with the Tatars", so that the Mongolian, Tibetan, and Huizhuang ethnic groups in the territory, and even admired the vassal countries of Korea, Vietnam, Burma, and Thailand that had been civilized for a long time, it can really be said that the hidden danger of the backward shijie trend has been buried-

In Europe in the middle of the 17th century, the long Middle Ages had come to an end, the Renaissance brought about an awakening, and the dogmatic authority of cumbersome philosophy and theology, which constrained the free development of people's thoughts, was gradually destroyed. The feudal society began to disintegrate, replaced by a capitalist society, and the productive forces were greatly liberated, and its landmark event was the reconvening of Parliament by Charles I in 1640 to deal with the Scottish people's uprising, and the Glorious Revolution in England in 1688, marking the quiet beginning and completion of the first bourgeois revolution in human history. The ensuing boom in capitalist workshop crafts and the transition to machine production led to the rapid development of jishu science and mathematics.

At the same time, the oriental civilization with the Chinese civilization as its chess player is in a state of stagnation. Although there was a period of "China Tide" in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries with the encouragement and advocacy and cultural feedback of missionaries in China[1], with the rapid development of European civilization and the gradual strengthening of European production capacity, China is no longer the rich, strong, orderly and intelligent mysterious empire that Europeans revered and yearned for. China's system has been criticized, Chinese culture has been attacked, and Chinese products have been ostracized.

The most important thing, the national sea ban, the Northeast ban, Jishu backwardness, cultural confinement, self-containment, refusal of traffic, etc., began in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, and it was self-isolation from the West and self-restraint in Shijie, which eventually led to the complete defeat of the Opium War in 1840, leaving behind a hundred years of shame and absolute backwardness for more than a hundred years!

As a college student who graduated from a second-rate university in China with a bachelor's degree in international political and economic relations, Hongyi's major is not excellent, and he always thinks that he is not even qualified, and many professional theoretical knowledge has been returned to his amiable and respectable alma mater and teachers more than ten years after graduation. Although in order to make achievements in his career, according to the routine of most civil servants, he took a master's degree in public administration (MPA) after work, and now he also takes an on-the-job doctorate in international politics while studying. In the work of the organs, those things of international politics and public management cannot be said to be useless at all, but they can often only be said to be four words - "a sigh".

“…… Advance! Enter! The flag-raising ceremony was over, and the crowd slowly dispersed. Hongyi looked up at the five-star red flag fluttering in the hunt and the magnificent Tiananmen Tower behind him, settled down, and followed the flow of people into the underground passage on the west side of Tiananmen Square, and walked towards Nanchang Street.

What to do with the Diaoyu Islands! Xiao Ri ~ Ben stuffed his head in the crotch of his pants and used his toes to think about his China strategy, and the United States also stuffed his hand into the Oriental Bird ~ The crotch of the human being caresses the back of the head of the Japanese slave, disgusting you, and an innocent face, and even "righteous and awe-inspiring"! It's infuriating, it's hateful...... Perhaps it was because he had just experienced a solemn and sacred political consciousness that Hongyi began to lose control of his thoughts.

There are also the demarcation of the Yellow Sea between China and the DPRK, the East China Sea demarcation between China and Japan, the Beibu Gulf, the islands and reefs in the South China Sea, the land border between China and India, Kashmir, Outer Mongolia, the Trans-Khingan Mountains, Sakhalin Island, and Vladivostok...... After this circle, the surroundings of the motherland are still not so smooth! Ay! Coupled with the Taiwan issue, as a Chinese, I am even a little aggrieved: you Yankee, anti-Asia-Pacific, strategic rebalancing, ill-intentioned!

Like all angry youths, Hongyi sometimes complains on the Internet, shouting about being tough on Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam, and India...... However, as a half-drawn "insider" who has barely "systematically" studied international political theory, he knows that once any of these "hardlines" become a reality, the consequences will be very complicated and troublesome. The relationship between countries, both on the surface and behind the scenes, affects the whole body, and in this series of cooperative struggles, often due to various historical reasons, the current China will always be controlled by others in certain points - high and new technology, geopolitics, international practices, and historical baggage......

History, or history, the history of the Chinese and the Chinese nation! Two thousand years of glory, a hundred years of humiliation, and two hundred years of missed opportunities! Yes, humiliation began in 1840 (the twentieth year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty), but the seeds of humiliation began to be planted in the 16th and 17th centuries! On the occasion of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was tangled! No, it's not tangled, it's choke! Strategic! Choke ......

"Whoa—whoa—" This kind of ghost crying wolf howl, frightened passers-by avoided one after another, and a few good things stopped their bicycles and looked around with their hands on the pergola:

"Where did the old eagle come from?" An eldest sister looked around with her head tilted.

"Come on, this is a wolf cub!" An eldest sister of the same age next to her also stopped her bicycle and accompanied the search while responding.

The two of them did not notice a young man on the side of the road who was half-hunched, grinning and stomping his feet. This is Hongyi, who was still worried about the country and the people just now.

It turned out that thinking of the suffocating place, Hongyi shook his hand angrily, and it turned out that the tip of the ring finger of his right hand fell on something. And this finger is exactly the same place where he was stabbed by the copper piece when he fumbled in his backpack after returning to his dorm last Saturday night. Originally, it would be fine if I was wrapped in a band-aid for a day or two, but I didn't expect this shake of my hand, and then hit the bull's-eye, scored twice, and began to ooze blood again, and the recurrence of the old injury was painful. It's no wonder that Hongyi is learning to be a wolf cub.

After a while, Hongyi came to his senses, looking at the blood beads on the tips of his fingers, he was really depressed, and subconsciously turned around to find the culprit, it turned out to be several rows of dense yellow door nails! At this moment, the ninety-nine eighty-one doornails were lined up neatly, as if they were smiling at Hongyi's teeth - "Boy, let you walk without looking at the road again, and your head will be angry!" ”

Yellow door nails, red palace doors, where is this? Hongyi looked at it and found a nameplate on the red wall: No. 20 Beichang Street? It looks like a royal place back then. Looking at it again, the cement sign next to him made him can't help but read it out loud: "Beijing Municipal Cultural Relics Protection Unit - "Fuyou Temple"? ”

What is this? Hongyi unconsciously looked back at the two big red doors with nine horizontal, nine vertical and eighty-one door nails, and found that there was a drop of drooping blood on one of the door nails! It can't be your own, right? Historical relics should not be defaced! He stepped forward to wipe the bloodstains, but as soon as his right hand touched the door nail, he felt suddenly dizzy and sweaty

, the small pits and puddles left by chickenpox on his face are itchy and unbearable, but he can't raise his hand to scratch it...... All of a sudden, I felt that the palace door in front of me was wide open, and I actually strode into the ......

"Are you alright, young man?" A confused and anxious voice sounded in his ears, allowing Hongyi to travel back to reality. When I looked closely, it turned out to be the concerned question of the two middle-aged women next to me just now.

"It's okay, it's okay! xiexiexiexie！ "It's really embarrassing, Hongyi quickly withdrew his hands and ran away.

Back in the dormitory, it was already noon, but there was no desire to eat at all, Hongyi put on his band-aid ring finger vertically, turned on the computer and searched for "Fuyou Temple"-

- Fuyou Temple is located in the east of Beikou Road, Beichang Street, Beijing. It was built in the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty and was the acne avoidance place of the Qing Saint Ancestor Xuanye...... [2]”

Kangxi? Acne?

With his left hand touching the acne scars on both cheeks, and his right hand stroking the copper plate of the window lattice of Jingren Palace that he just found, Hongyi felt that he had a little bit of "relatives" in his heart, but "where are the relatives"? I really don't have a clue!

[1] In the 17th and 18th centuries, Chinese products such as silk, porcelain, tea, and lacquerware flooded Europe. A "Chinese trend" in pursuit of "Chinese fashion" is booming in Europe. China's philosophical ideas and social system are highly respected; Merchants and missionaries returning from China were sought after; Chinese architectural styles were imitated; Chinese culture and art are pursued. Many upper-class families are fashionable to use Chinese products and emulate Chinese living customs. They set up Chinese furniture, drank Chinese tea, used Chinese porcelain, wore Chinese silk, learned to use Chinese chopsticks, and collected Chinese paintings and calligraphy. However, this "China wave" did not last long in Europe. The rapid development of European economic development has given Europeans more and more self-confidence; It also led European governments and businessmen to increasingly pursue the production and sales profits of local industrial development. When Europeans could obtain porcelain and high-quality silk from the European mainland, and tea from the colonies, Chinese products were squeezed out of the European market. At the same time, China's image has also declined. China is no longer the rich, strong, orderly, and intelligent mysterious empire that Europeans revered and yearned for. China's system has been criticized, Chinese culture has been attacked, and Chinese products have been ostracized.

[2] For details, see "Attachment 02"