What is the meaning of Hengshui involution?

The involution of Hengshui means irrational internal competition among students.

The original intention of involution refers to the phenomenon that human society stagnates or cannot be transformed into another advanced model after reaching a certain form at a certain stage of development. The earliest source of the involution is a few pictures of famous schools. Now many college students refer to irrational internal competition or voluntary competition. This word is widely circulated among college students, causing waves of online discussions.

Involution is a popular saying, which college students use to refer to irrational internal competition. Some students give an example: the teacher asked for a paper of 5000 words, and many students wrote more than 10000 words for evaluation. Everyone overfulfilled the task, but the proportion of getting an excellent one has not changed.

Now the college students are out of involution, and the irrational competition in all walks of life is called involution. Professionals pointed out that it is normal for development to stagnate, and the key is to effectively carry out rational competition, calling on relevant industries to face up to irrational involution and actively explore the road to reform.

The development process of involution;

A few pictures of college students exploding their circle of friends are like this: some people are reading books on bicycles, some dormitory beds are full of books, and some even write papers on computers while riding bicycles. These photos were first circulated among the principals of Tsinghua Peking University. Later, popular words such as "watching computer while riding a bike" and "Tsinghua Wang Juan" appeared in hot searches, and related emoticons also appeared in many social software for college students.

Is "involution" in people's daily discussions the same as the academic concept "involution"? You can see it from some buzzwords on the internet. Someone said, "What is involution? To put it bluntly, it is to put the surplus population into the competition for limited resources. "

Some people use "inner paper" in educational competition, for example, "the enrollment quota is certain, and the number of applicants is also certain, but some schools begin to make up classes, and the rest are worried that their exam results are backward. As a result, everyone's test scores have improved, but the admission scores have also improved. "