Jiang He said: "I mean seriously. There is such a group of people in our Zhejiang area, mainly living in Shaoxing, about 20,000 people. For thousands of years they seemed to have been cursed to this hell on earth that was so painful for them. They do not live and intermarry with other people, they cannot participate in the imperial examination, they cannot be officials, in short, they cannot do it in the agricultural industry and commerce, they have unknown origins, they live alone, their clothes are strange, and their food customs are different from those of the locals. ”

I interjected: "Shi Nong and Industry can't do it, so what do you rely on to eat?" ”

Jiang He didn't answer, and continued: "Before the Ming Dynasty, these people didn't even have a household registration, and they were completely outside the society, which is particularly rare in a society with strict management and unification like China. The strangest thing is that the origin of this group of people is unknown, and there are various legends about their origins: some say that the Tang Dynasty court musician Anshi was degraded by Tang Xuanzong in anger after the rebellion; It is said that the clansmen of the Southern Song Dynasty generals were exiled here; It can even be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period and Gou Jian, but in fact, there is no evidence in history. In particular, the so-called Southern Song Dynasty generals are the most unreliable, and it doesn't make sense to commit treason and deceive the king without exterminating the nine tribes, Hangzhou, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, what kind of exile is it to drive people to Shaoxing? No one can tell the origin anyway, the key is that they can't tell it themselves. Successive dynasties did not assimilate them, and left them to be independent. There is no way to verify what they relied on to eat before, until the middle and late Qing Dynasty was well documented, they were mainly engaged in undertaking weddings and funerals, especially all kinds of operas, according to the current words, they mainly focused on the performing arts culture market, and it seems that they have a relationship with the musicians after the Anshi Rebellion, in fact, Tang Xuanzong is the ancestor of the pear garden, and all the people who sing opera in the world want to have a relationship with him, and there is no evidence. ”

Jiang He pointed to the six-year-old boy who was happily holding a coke: "He is from a fallen people." ”

This is really a big surprise, there are still such people like this, if it is a border and wild land, it is not strange that there are people outside the country, Zhejiang has been prosperous since ancient times, and the origin of 20,000 people is unknown, it is strange.

"Six-year-old children are degenerates? Really? ”

Jiang He smiled and said: "He himself openly said that he came from the fallen people, but everyone didn't know what the fallen people meant, when the wind blew in their ears." ”

"It seems that the great sage is a mystery of his background, just like you and me."

"You're a ......!" Jiang He braked in time: "Therefore, the spirit of questioning is commendable, but to choose the right direction, don't waste time on meaningless questions, and not all questions are capable of answering, after all, our ability to ask and answer questions is not high." Why are we comfortable with the existence of fallen people? It's not just that there is no one who is willing to dig deeper and can finally answer, but the biggest problem is that there are people who don't ask why at all. ”

"I remembered that all human knowledge is a natural response to our questions, limited by the level of our questions, and the teachers in this university have taught it, as if it were a famous quote, I can't remember it clearly. Let's not talk about the depraved, and it seems that you are not the one who knows the answer. You still talk to me, did you really go abroad for treatment later? What disease? ”

Jiang He's smile was gone, he didn't look at me, he picked up his chopsticks and fiddled: "I was very uncomfortable after leaving Xinjiang, after all, we lived in a closed circle before, but I felt very warm." I subjectively rejected, refused to fit into what I thought was a cold new environment, and always felt like I was standing in an open field, with nothing to hold onto, typical of the country kid going to the city syndrome. So I wrote to you and told you what I saw and heard every day, but I never received a reply, and I can still feel the grief and despair I can still recall. More than two months later, my father told me that Father Lou had been transferred to other units, and the station was kept secret, so I asked me not to write any more letters, and I couldn't receive anything if I wrote them. I cried and fussed, and finally my mother beat me up. ”

I nodded: "It seems that the methods of parents to deceive their children are basically the same, and the methods of suppression are also similar, I was beaten by my father and my mother together, and they couldn't stop me alone." ”

Jiang He glanced at me, and then said: "After another two months, before I finished that semester, my mother took me to Japan, I was not sick before I went abroad, and I was told at that time that it was to give me a better education." ”

"Japan happened to be engaged in liberal education at that time, and as a result, a generation of garbage Heisei waste was cultivated, so why not go to the United Kingdom or the United States."

Jiang He looked at me: "I said brother, it seems that you don't like Japan very much, at that time, it was popular in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai to go to Japan to study and go to the United States to make money, at that time, most of the people who really went to study in the United Kingdom and the United States were northerners or Cantonese, as for you Fujianese, there are few people who study, and they all went out to work." Listen to what you mean, do you wish I could go further?"

"When I talk a lot, you go on to say, how many years have you been playing loose in Japan?"

"What to play for a few years, they taught my mother not to relax, my violin was improved during my time in Japan. We chose to go to Japan at that time, not because we didn't follow the trend or like Japan, and my mom didn't have any experience going abroad at that time, so I chose Japan entirely because my dad had relatives there who could take care of us. I really got sick after almost three years in Japan, I was treated in China, and Daddy Lou's words to lie to you back then were prescient, but they were the opposite. I went to high school in China when I got better, and I didn't want to stay in China for some reason when I was halfway through my studies, and the only place I was familiar with was Japan, and I also had an advantage in language, so I went to Japan to continue my studies, and after finishing my undergraduate degree and studying for a master's degree, I didn't want to graduate long ago. Report complete. ”

"What disease did you have at that time, and you went back to China for treatment? Doesn't it mean that little Japan is more developed in terms of medical care? Came back and was completely cured? ”

Jiang He smiled slightly: "A disease related to genetics, it's okay at the moment." She paused for a moment and then said, "I was just wondering, will you ask me what illness I have first, or why I haven't contacted you after returning to China for a few years, if you ask the former first, then nothing will happen, otherwise," she picked up a chopstick and threw a scream in the air.

I pouted, "I expected." I've known you since I was a kid that you want to pump me all the time, and human nature doesn't change. I won't ask anything next, I will tell you directly how hard you worked to find you in those four years, how many pits were dug in Hangzhou, and how many boxes were buried. ”

"The story of your digging was told yesterday, although it is quite stupid, but it is very touching, and it is just right to deceive the little girl."

"Why do you call me stupid?"

Jiang He pursed his lips and smiled: "You asked the right person." Let's not expand on the sociological behavioral roots, simply put, you dig a pit and bury a box is the act of burial, digging a pit and burying people is the collective primitive memory of human beings, you may not realize it, in fact, you are saying goodbye to the past in this way, and you are also using this exaggerated ritual to emphasize the fulfillment of previous promises. ”

"What a farewell, a burial, the collective unconscious, you think it's so easy to find someone out of thin air." There was a strange feeling that flashed through my mind and I didn't capture it.

"That's the way it is, if I don't come to you, you won't actually have any more search for me, and for you, when you bury the last box, it's all over."

I looked her in the eye and pondered her words, not wanting to respond further, except to say, "At least we've been looking for each other for more than ten years, and this spirit is as precious as the result." ”

"You have negative tendencies."

"What did you study?"

"Anthropology."

After checking out, slowly walk back with Jiang He. The mist had not yet completely dissipated, and the soft morning sun reflected on us dappled through the fiery red flowers of the phoenix tree.

I don't understand what anthropology is at all, and Jiang He can't explain it clearly, she said that she is most afraid to answer this question, and list botany, zoology, and anthropology for me to experience. She said that she majored in sociocultural anthropology as an undergraduate, but she was more interested in institutional anthropology and dabbled a lot in her spare time, but her graduate studies focused on anthropology and archaeology.

I asked me what it meant to be a monk, if I was a graduate student, and how it sounded like a monk. Jiang He explained that this is the name of the national university in Japan, and the monk is equivalent to a master's degree, and the concept of graduate school is different from that of China, which refers to the preparatory student of the monk, and the graduate student must study for one year before studying for a master's degree.

I remembered yesterday's controversy about the Japanese race, so I asked her by the way, and it seems that we will also ask questions.

She looked at me strangely: "You're also interested in these?" Most Chinese think that the Japanese are descendants of Xu Fu. The Japanese can be roughly divided into Jomon and Yayoi people, the Jomon people are from South Asia, and the Yayoi people are from the Korean Peninsula. Language is naturally a mixture of these two language families. The Japanese royal family belongs to the Yayoi people. If you have lived in Japan for a long time, you will find that some Japanese people look very different from us, those are Jomon people, and Yayoi people who are very similar to us Chinese and Koreans. Historically, the Yayoi people have always considered themselves superior to others, discriminated against the Jomon people, and even brutally persecuted them. In addition, the Jomon people originated from the Andamanese people of South Asia, not the Dravidians, who now have more than 200 million people in India, and the Andamanese are basically extinct. Ironically, one of the main reasons for the extinction of the Andaman people was precisely the massacre during the Japanese occupation of the Andaman Islands during World War II. ”

"Yo Xi, Sodesne, this is really ruthless and even slaughtered his own ancestors. We have fifty-six nationalities and fifty-six flowers, and they can't get along with only two nationalities, so is their dualistic division of chrysanthemum and knife related to this? ”

"Your perspective is very special, no wonder my teachers often say that laymen dare to think and dare to speak, which often brings different inspiration. "The Chrysanthemum and the Knife" is a novel by the American female anthropologist Ruth. Written before the end of the war, Benditek's main survey was Japanese civilians isolated in American concentration camps, which was a simple summary of the Japanese national character by Americans, and was more based on the performance of the Japanese in their predicament, which was of great guiding significance for the US government in formulating Japan-related policies after the war. However, after all, there are limitations of the times, and the main thing to investigate is the negative side of culture, and the influence of human race and genes seems to have only been brought in a few sentences, and your thinking direction is actually more respected by modern scholars. ”

"I have always wondered how impulsive and naïve the two nations of Germany and Japan were to go to war with illusions, and after slaughtering tens of millions of people, they themselves died miserably and were almost annihilated. But within a few years after the war, he succeeded in creating a rigorous, down-to-earth, decent, and meticulous national image with his good craftsmanship. ”

The appreciation of the female master in anthropology gave me great encouragement, this is a topic that I can immediately think of that I am familiar with, after all, I have been in the patriotic forum for a few days, and I can feel the desire to show myself, and now I finally realize that the book is used in time.

"It is far-fetched to talk about national character before industrialization, which is actually a century-old false proposition. For example, our country has been strong for a hundred years, and naturally needs to self-examine, and some scholars really use this to spur the whole nation. Especially in a period of important historical transitions for a nation, criticism is more valuable than praise. But at the same time, it has led to a low level of self-deprivation of critical voices, which has been experienced in many countries. Jiang He looked at me and said, "What about yourself?" Can you see yourself clearly? How do I feel that you also smell of self-denial? ”

"Why should I be self-denying?"

"I feel like there's something about you that doesn't even shadow you in the sun."

"Nonsense, aren't the shadows only visible in the sun?"

I've been good at reading words and emotions since I was a child, and that strange feeling just now has reappeared, and this time I captured it, and the feeling she said these words gave me was like a teacher asking me, "Think about it, is there any homework that you missed and didn't do?" ”

"Nothing you want to tell me?" Jiang He asked.

I shook my head.

We walked around the corner of the street, and our home was 100 meters away. Jiang He turned his head to look at me, the sun shone on her facial features, reflecting the regret in her eyes, when I was a child, I fought with others and suffered a loss, and she looked at me like this.

"I have something to talk to you about when I get home."