Bright future (original)

"Zhang Hua was admitted to Peking University, and Ping Li entered a secondary technical school. I worked as a shop assistant in a department store. We all have a bright future. "

This is an example of the revised edition of Xinhua Dictionary (version 1998).

If I asked you at this time, how would you feel this sentence? Yes, what you are thinking now is irony and contempt.

In fact, it is normal to feel this way. Imagine that you are a technical secondary school student, a salesman, and he is a Peking University student. How can it be equal, or even say that "all" has a bright future?

This sentence is seriously divorced from reality, but how to interpret this sentence?

Obviously, this sentence is not for any individual to decide. Up to now, if you look it up online, this sentence has a new variant.

And "we all have a bright future" has become a fixed irony.

What can I say? Let me give you an example:

(1) Your father opposes homosexuality, your mother snaps up Shuanghuanglian, your sister reports ao3, your brother protects girls in China, and men who don't marry in China all have a "bright future".

(2) You study American stocks, he hunts for crude oil, and I Man Cang kohlrabi. We both have a "bright future".

(3) My sister is writing an article and contributing, and my brother accepts a bonus in the company of Bank of China. My brother made a mistake and was sentenced to a high fine by the court, while I watched TV series in Bili Bili, and we both have a "bright future".

Yes, the above are all examples of ridicule I gave. From here, we can see how the creator who wrote this example interpreted that sentence in Xinhua Dictionary.

And all this points out that "we all have a bright future" is whitewashing peace, and reality tells us that hope will not appear when we are desperate.

Xinhua Dictionary is a book of words. According to the truth, we should not be given such a sentence, but it gives us such a sentence, which can show that there are real examples in the past.

The source of this passage is 1990 state language commission's revised usage of punctuation marks. Then, in the reality before 1990 reflected in this passage, Zhang Hua, Ping Li and I can really have a bright future. I'm not from that era, so I'm not sure what the society was like thirty years ago.

However, there is such an article on the Internet, which was jointly published by two scholars, Tsinghua and the National People's Congress. You can look at the paper "The Value of Education in the Workplace and Educational Inequality", and there will always be research objects.

Their research objects happen to be middle school students around the 1990s. More interestingly, the name of a project to which this research belongs is called "Bright Future".

This article explains why Ping Li in technical secondary school can be on an equal footing with Zhang Hua.

First, the background of the times is very important. The original background of the times was "in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, everything was in ruins."

All walks of life need a large number of professional and technical personnel, and the word "a large number" is very important.

But! At this time, higher education is seriously inadequate.

"Serious shortage" and "large quantity" just hit.

So in the early 1950s, the state introduced the education model of middle schools from the Soviet Union, and middle schools paid attention to three words: "short, flat and fast".

After three or four years of professional education, junior high school graduates directly enter the jobs arranged by the state (the state arrangement is very important).

College students are the soul of universities, and universities are people.

This is today's academic contempt chain, junior college is still the same, and secondary school is also one of the objects of ridicule, but what I said above is now, and what I said is the past. Secondary school students are really people, because this is the need of the times, pushing secondary school students to the peak of their lives!

1952, in the educational literature, the state stipulated that "the responsibility of secondary school education lies in cultivating future national cadres".

After that, many documents especially emphasized the status and value of secondary school students.

And the time is up 1984. In view of the fact that a quarter of secondary school students in local departments were working as workers at that time, the relevant departments considered in a report that secondary school students were of high quality but were not used.

From here, we can see how high the country has positioned middle school students.

That's true.

Ok, back to the paper "The Value of Education in the Workplace and Educational Inequality",

This paper has a set of data, 1990 and 2000 national census data, and calculates the socio-economic status index of middle school students in different periods, that is, SEI.

In SEI, the secondary school students reached 35.7 1, and the gap between ordinary high school graduates was 57.53 and 22 points. At that time, the SEI of undergraduates was 63.73, which was almost the same (1990).

At this time, some people will ask, since there are college students, how can a secondary school student be a master?

I tell you with facts that China was very poor at that time, and many students in China came from poor rural areas. They are burdened with family expectations and pressures, which also creates middle school students. When the education mode of secondary school students is short, flat and fast, maybe you will understand why these poor children choose to go to secondary school instead of university. Because of poverty, at that time, after graduating from secondary school, you can find excellent job opportunities to earn money and support your family, and you can be one step ahead of the country than undergraduates.

This is a shortcut, rich and promising, and various factors make technical secondary school the most popular choice at that time.

Before the 1990s, people's enthusiasm for secondary schools was quite high. At that time, the situation of further education was completely opposite to that of us now.

One kind of students go to technical secondary school, and the other kind of students go to high school. In some areas, the admission scores of secondary schools are even higher than those of key high schools.

For example, for example,

(1) At that time, "my mother" went to high school and college, while "my father" was the fourth in the city, but went to technical secondary school.

My teacher said something that can also be used as an example. He said: "At that time, when I was in junior high school, most of my students entered the system, and my teachers were all' second-rate', that is, they went to college and became high school teachers. However, their income and so on are not as good as those students who come out of secondary schools and enter the system. "

Unfortunately, however, the glory time of secondary school students is not long. By the end of the 1990s, this status lost its original generous treatment and fell from the altar, and no one cared.

Ok, let's get back to the original topic. Before 1990s, why was "I" on an equal footing with Peking University graduates (salespersons in department stores)?

As for this, you can watch the micro-recording "Don't beat and scold customers". A short film satirizing the bad attitude of some salespeople at that time.

In this short film, we can find that the position of sales staff at that time was not low.

And this can be searched online for a report that "our store will never beat and scold customers". Believe me, after reading this report, you will feel how crazy the salespeople were at that time.

This can also be found in the report "Investigation on the Use of Polite Language by Salespeople in State-owned Shopping Mall in Shanghai".

In the report, the rate of "using polite expressions" of state-owned shop assistants is 30%, and that of individual vendors is 100%.

Why is this happening?

The reason is that they are in a monopoly position in commodity circulation. No matter you are a national cadre or an expert or scholar, whoever can buy things is in charge.

So to sum up, Xinhua Dictionary is true. Before 1990s, you can have a bright future in Peking University, technical secondary school and sales staff.

However, the world has changed a lot, and the unchangeable things will be eliminated sooner or later. Today, we thought this sentence was funny at first, but it's not the author himself who is to blame. The change of the times is the real root.

Sometimes it's just hard for you to judge what fate different choices will bring.

For us today, the fate of life seems to be separated from the majors in the university, and it is indeed true. Different majors represent different futures.

While poking fun at the sentence Xinhua Dictionary, we are also voicing our own major.

There is an interesting saying, "The peak of an engineering soft worker's life, the recycled materials live in drag out an ignoble existence." So some people joked that "I" and "Ping Li" and "Zhang Hua" have a bright future. In fact, many people can interpret it as "Zhang Hua was admitted to Peking University, but he studied chemistry. Ping Li entered a secondary technical school, majoring in mechanical manufacturing. I have worked as a salesperson in a department store, and we all have a bright future. "

This shows that the different major choices made him begin to doubt life.

And this, you can search "the glory of the king Project Year-end Award", which is a huge year-end award. At this time, some doctors who graduated from materials science are still receiving thousands of dollars a month.

If you know the result today, will you regret not choosing a computer?

Life is full of choices. What is the answer to this question?

There are always lucky people and there are always wrong people. Some seniors say that the road after graduation is so muddy, while others find that there is no road at all after graduation.

In the folk history archives collected by the University of Hong Kong, you can see the life choices experienced by a young man named Huang.

Born in 1970, Huang Li, who loves martial arts novels, went through all the hardships and was admitted to Hunan University of Finance and Economics, then known as "Financial Huangpu". It is also a top financial institution with a bright future, so Huang followed his father's advice and chose three professional national economic plans (financial statistics, national economic plans and statistics) in the department (at that time,

The writer Cai Jun had a similar experience with him. He majored in civil telegraphy. He said before that when he tried to remember 2000 irregular civil codes, the society eliminated the civil telegraph and he could set foot on his job. ...

The same fate is the BP machine, and when the BP machine was eliminated, it also broke many people's hopes and dreams for the future.

1993, the Chinese pager with independent intellectual property rights was successfully developed, and its research and development unit later became famous for a mobile phone advertisement "Bird mobile phone, fighter in mobile phone".

In just five years, the number of pager users in China has exceeded 60 million, ranking first in the world. At that time, there were more than 300 wireless paging stations in Beijing alone, and its popularity made paging station operators the hottest occupation at that time.

At that time, the average person's salary was 600 yuan/month, while pager operators could reach 800 yuan/month to 1000 yuan/month. In some companies, switchboard girls could even get 3 yuan's annual salary! That is, 2,500 yuan/month. At that time, 2,500 yuan was already a lot.

In order to get this job, the applicant must pass a strict Putonghua test (for example, I am now in Dimethyl Putonghua, and my Putonghua level is relatively good, but at that time my Putonghua was only Level 2. Although my oral English is not bad, there is a big gap between second-class and second-class )

Five-stroke input method typing speed test, and then you need to know a lot of knowledge, such as chemical engineering, medicine and other professional scientific names and terms.

At that time, it was the dream of many women to pass the exam and become a paging girl, which was also a way to prove themselves.

But unfortunately, the time to page the miss is very short.

1984 "China Youth Daily" once made a survey of readers about occupations.

According to the survey, the top three most popular occupations are taxi driver, self-employed and cook (my grandfather used to be a truck driver, but now he is over 90 years old), while teachers, scientists and doctors rank in the last three.

Today, will you choose the top three?

Taxi drivers in the 1980s and 1990s were shrines.

You can watch a TV series "Love You Is Non-negotiable".

The content of the story is a love story between a theater actress and a taxi driver, but today, this kind of scene is hard to appear.

Because, the taxi vs network about the car, the taxi lost.

Then, let's look at the first sentence, "Zhang Hua was admitted to Peking University, Ping Li went to a technical secondary school, and I worked as a salesgirl in a department store. We all have a bright future. "

At that time, Ping Li was the best performer. What would you think if you let it go now?

However, if she knew her later grades, would she still choose to study in a technical secondary school?

People always have to face all kinds of choices in their lives, but today we are always confused by all kinds of choices.

Where to study in high school?

Study literature or science?

What do you choose for your university major?

Do you want to take the postgraduate entrance examination?

Should I confess to TA?

Go to the big city or go back to your hometown?

Which industry has a better future?

Do you want to marry TA?

What should I do?

There are always choices that you regret, but there are always choices that you look forward to.

In fact, many choices are just like flipping a coin. Can God throw a sieve?

Simple and casual, until afterwards, we will give more meaning to the choice at that time according to the situation at that time. Who can be sure which choice will be brighter?

For this problem, we have to go back to the beginning to find it.

In the latest usage of national standard punctuation marks on June, 2065438 1 day, the original example became "Zhang Hua was admitted to the university, Ping Li entered the technical school, I became a worker, and we all have a bright future."

No one can tell you which way is right, because no one knows what the future trend should be.

There may be only one bright road, but there is more than one definition of beauty.