City people and country people

City people and village people, as the name implies, are people living in cities and rural areas. From ancient times to the present, the difference between the two is very great, which is manifested in all aspects. In this article, I won't talk about the differences between the two in objective conditions such as living environment, living conditions and welfare benefits, but only what I have seen and heard and my own feelings.

Due to the living environment and the disparity between the rich and the poor, there are differences in the opportunities and levels of receiving cultural education. People in the city have seen more and seen more, and there are more people with money, power and culture, so they have a lot of superiority and are confident in front of the villagers. However, rural people feel more inferior and insecure in front of city people, while village people have a feeling of looking down on city people.

When people in the city talk to people in the village, they often like to be cocky and talk big, while people in the village only listen. I once saw such a scene when I bought food in a roadside vegetable market: an educated city man bought a farmer's food, but the refund was not necessarily right. City people are very angry. In an argument, he threw five or six small change in his hand on the ground and said, "Pick it up for me!" " I said it three times in a commanding tone. The peasant woman didn't speak again. She bent down carefully to pick up the money from the ground and handed it to him with the little money. He mumbled something while collecting money, and then she was willing to leave.

Although the villagers feel inferior and insecure, most of them are simple and hospitable. If a city dweller who doesn't dislike him goes home, they will bring him a glass of water, move a stool and ask him to sit down, whether they know him before or not. If someone asks for help, he will do his best. When I first came to Changsha a few years ago, several fellow villagers worked as migrant workers in a nearby factory. During the break, several colleagues and I like to go for a walk in the nearby mountains and often pass by their homes. Arriving at the front of the house, we were warmly welcomed into the house, looking at the seats, pouring tea and handing out cigarettes. If it is a holiday, we will also pour a glass of wine and serve raisins, fruits, peanuts and melon seeds, and do our best to entertain us. Another time, it was a summer, I rode my bike past a farmer's house in the countryside of Langli Town, and suddenly it rained cats and dogs. I quickly got off and went to his house to shelter from the rain. I didn't have the courage to enter the house and was seen by the hostess. I immediately moved a stool for me to sit in the room, then poured a cup of tea and took out an ice lolly from the freezer for me to eat. It stopped raining for more than an hour, so I caught up with their family for lunch. Both the host and hostess invited me to have dinner together. I have no courage to eat. I thought it was raining less, so I thanked them quickly before leaving them. When they did these things to me, it was natural, as if they should do them, and they were completely unprepared. They have a pure and kind heart. Their kind words and deeds remind me of my grandmother. The old man has been a farmer all his life and has a very kind heart. I remember when she was eighty-two years old, she lived with us in Guizhou 36 10 factory for three months. One day, a couple who came from rural Henan to beg for food appeared at the door. We are having lunch. Grandma didn't ask a word, and she didn't understand what they were saying. She stood up at once and said to them, "Come in, come in for dinner." And take all the steamed bread left at home when you leave. It was like a distant relative coming from home. Grandma lived to be eighty-six. In those days, there were not many rural old ladies who could live to be so old. I think people who always keep a kind heart will live longer than the average person.

Village people do business in the city, but they won't go to the city people's homes for help unless they have to, let alone ask for water. They know that they will be rejected and looked down upon by city people. Therefore, no matter how thirsty you are, you won't go to the city people to beg for water. They also have self-esteem and don't want to see eyes that others don't like. City people, even acquaintances and even relatives, have many concerns and do not easily enter people's doors. While working in Guizhou 36 10 factory, a factory leader told a Communist Youth League meeting about an incident that happened when he was in the army: a young officer's rural mother went to the army to visit her son, but his son was afraid that his mother's peasant status would "embarrass him". When introducing him to army leaders and comrades-in-arms, he said that this was his neighbor. Later, he was discovered by the leaders and was soon announced to leave the team in advance, with a warning before leaving the team. A biological son who has just left the countryside is disgusted with his mother's identity, let alone a stranger in the city!

In many city people's dictionaries, villagers and farmers are derogatory terms. In their own kind, if anyone makes a mistake or does something bad, someone will say to this person, "Look at you, just like a farmer!" " "or" just like a countryman! "Farmers' children are no longer villagers even if they work. They are not as good as the families and children of those units, especially the children of cadres, large and small. Even in the eyes of factory leaders, the children of farmers entering the factory are inferior. So the hardest and dirtiest job is to arrange the children born in farmers' families first.

Between urban residents and urban residents, there are also high and low points because of the different sizes of cities. Once I was waiting in the waiting room of the railway station, and I saw this scene: a Shanghainese and a Beijinger were fighting for seats. The Beijinger said to the Shanghainese, "You Shanghainese, hum! Great country chauvinism! " Shanghainese are not weak either: "Hum! You Beijingers are nothing! " Beijing is the capital of a country with a high political status and Shanghai is the largest city in China with a high economic status, so they have "reason" to compromise. As everyone knows, their words and deeds have lost face to the city where they live.

If a person always shows his identity as a city dweller in front of a city dweller who is older than him, he will be satirized, sarcastic and even attacked by big city people. I remember 197 1 When I was working in Luodian Farm, a young man in Guiding County near our factory always liked to say, "How are you country people?" I always want to squeeze into the "circle" of other Guiyang people. One day, a young man born in Guiyang as young as us finally couldn't help it and said sarcastically, "Haha! So you are from a big city? " Then he told a story: "A countryman went to Guiding, the county seat, and went home to tell his companions that Guiding was really big. Soon the man went to Guiyang, the provincial capital, and when he came back to meet people, he said Guiyang was the largest city. Later, he went to Chongqing, only to find that Chongqing was the largest ... "The guiding county person was no longer ashamed to show off his identity as a city resident. But it was too late for him to find out his ignorance, because he had a nickname from then on, called "Director Xiao"! Here, "Guiding" stands for "urban residents", and "small" has two meanings, one is that he is young (less than twenty), and the other is that Guiding is only a city at the bottom. Up to now, most people in the factory (including me) have long forgotten his real name.

There are also many city people who show understanding and respect for the villagers. Especially now, many city people are willing to volunteer, go to the countryside to help those who have difficulties, help out-of-school children, help ambitious rural children realize their dream of studying, and help rural elderly live a happy old age … and so on. They make those city dwellers who are still discriminating against farmers feel ashamed!

There are also many people with lofty ideals and great wisdom in the village. Mao Zedong is an outstanding representative of great wisdom among rural people who have never been here. Chiang Kai-shek, a city dweller from a rich family, the president of Whampoa Military Academy and the supreme commander of the national government, is nothing. Was it finally defeated by the army led by the son of the farmer with the farmer as the main force? When Mao Zedong announced the establishment of People's Republic of China (PRC) at Tiananmen Gate, Duke Jiang could only sigh the changes of the world on the island of Taiwan Province Province: "Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river"! In the long history, while many urban residents with great wisdom and courage have emerged, countless successful people with both wisdom and courage were born in the countryside! Therefore, in our society, each of us should not look down on the villagers.

Sadly, some villagers later became city dwellers, forgetting that they used to be village dwellers, and looking at the villagers with the secular eyes of city dwellers, even becoming "city dwellers" than those who were originally city dwellers. For example, as mentioned earlier, the food buyer with status was originally a rural child who suffered a lot, and later joined the work and became a city dweller. If the peasant woman selling vegetables is his mother, he will see someone nearby treat his mother like him. I wonder how he will feel. China is a big agricultural country, with a large rural population. Most of our city residents were farmers at first. When we were young, we should all be farmers of the previous generation, at most two generations. So we have no reason to look down on our ancestors, and there is no reason to discriminate against rural people or rural people!

In a word, the people in the city and the villagers have their own strengths, and the villagers don't have to feel inferior, and the people in the city should never be proud. Many village people can do what city people can do, but what village people can do, city people may not be able to do. Someone wrote such a joke that a countryman and a city man went hiking. The city man asked, "Have you ever worn such clothes?" The countryman shook his head. The city people sneered, "Then you are really rustic." The city man asked again, "Have you ever used my mobile phone?" The countryman shook his head again. The city dweller sneered, "Then you are really backward." Soon they fell into a deep ditch, and the countryman quickly climbed up along the crack in the stone head. The countryman asked the townsman, "Can you climb up like me?" City people shook their heads. The countryman sneered, "Then you are really unlucky."

Now the gap between urban and rural areas is narrowing rapidly, and even village people look down on city people. There are also paragraphs to prove:

A city man went to the countryside to take pictures. I want to show off my new camera. I saw a little guy sitting at home. Just say, "Hey! Take a picture of me. I can teach you how to take pictures for free. This is high technology, you have never seen it. " The young man was silent for a while, took out an 8-megapixel digital camera from behind and said, "I'll take a picture of you, tell me your email address, and I'll send it to you by computer."

Now most people in the city live in their own communities, a two-bedroom or three-bedroom apartment, with a maximum of 100 square meters. Now many people in the village have built their own buildings, including the second, third, fourth and fifth floors. Each floor is bigger than ours, comparable to villas in urban rich areas. Do you still look down on the villagers? Generally speaking, villagers are generally more hardworking and bear hardships than urban people. They are changing their lives with their own hands and wisdom.

Country people are more modest than city people. They are constantly learning the advanced ideas of urban people and trying to let their children receive the best cultural education. At the same time, they are constantly participating in and improving their cultural life. They want to have what city people have and what city people don't have!

In the past, it was difficult for a countryman to become a city dweller, but now it is even more difficult for a city dweller to become a country dweller. In the past, one of the purposes of rural girls marrying urban people was to turn themselves into urban people through marriage. Now a city man with a rural girl, not only does not change his wife and children's hukou into urban hukou, but also wants to change himself into rural hukou. Ha ha! People in cities and villages are also "thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river"!

History is changing, national conditions are changing, and people's ideas are changing! The villagers who used to feel inferior everywhere gradually raised their heads, and some city people who still looked down on the villagers, you are amazing!

Changsha 201February 8, 9