The original prose "The State of Etiquette"

Is this Liu Yu's country of etiquette? I used to save it on my computer and paste the original text. The following is the original text!

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Every time I return to China, the biggest reverse culture shock is that China people stubbornly refuse to smile at strangers.

I used to smile at people who made eye contact in the street, but I was soon despised by the "China people" in my heart: Are you sick? This is China. Don't be so melodramatic, okay? I soon got over this problem, and I still couldn't help laughing when I saw strange children: they were children. Maybe they don't know that smiling at strangers is detrimental to the dignity of national culture? But the children in the street are very "dignified" and one by one severely refused my smile.

Well, when in Rome, do as the Romans do. Don't smile at strangers. But what about neighbors? According to the principle of "once born, twice familiar", neighbors are bound to evolve from strangers to mature people with you, so smiling, as an event that will happen sooner or later, should be said to be logical. If it is a neighbor, it should be safe. Laughing is better than laughing. Laughing late is better than laughing early.

This summer vacation, I lived in a community most of the time. As a "wanderer" who loves excitement, is keen on sightseeing and misses the "human touch" of the motherland, as soon as I moved in, I began to eagerly look forward to meeting my neighbors. After half a month, I finally met my first neighbor. The process we understand is as follows:

One morning, my video intercom rang. A lady shouted, "Is this your car at the door? Blocking the aisle! " I went to the intercom and said, "We don't have a car!" The lady said angrily, "You don't have to be so cross without a car!" " I was shocked and went downstairs and asked, "Sister, why did you say that about me just now?" "Who told you to talk so cross!" "Then how can you call it a cross? You ask me a question, and I will answer your question. Where is it? " The elder sister gave me a white look and chattered with the people around her.

Oh, I forgot, China is a country of manners. I shouldn't just say "we don't have a car", but I should say: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I haven't bought any large-scale transportation that can block the aisle at home yet. I'm really sorry, I apologize to you on behalf of the people who get in the way! Nora is in the sand!

The second neighbor I met was like this: I just opened the unit door and a middle-aged man was coming out of the elevator with a garbage bag. I am ready for a warm smile, and I am ready to throw it at him. As a result, he lowered his head and avoided my eyes, so I had to take back that smile. Seeing that he was holding a garbage bag in his hand, my bad habit of being a fake foreign devil broke out again-I helped him hold the iron gate at the door and waited for him for three seconds to let him pass before releasing the door. The middle-aged man was obviously shocked, looked at me suspiciously, murmured "thank you", and of course remained expressionless.

My meeting with my third neighbor was like this: I was waiting for the elevator on the first floor, the elevator door opened, they (a couple) came out and I went in. Because I was so close to my face, I opened a big smile to them with the mentality of "see where you run", and as a result, the two of them drifted past me as if they could not see.

Today is particularly memorable-because today I finally met my neighbor across the hall! I think the neighbors upstairs or downstairs are still separated by a floor. The neighbors across the hall are people who may borrow a garlic, a ladder, a vise and a light bulb from your house. If someone in their family has a heart attack, they may have to call me 1 12! The process of our meeting is like this:

I was about to go downstairs and take out the garbage when I saw a middle-aged woman coming out of the elevator on this floor with a big bag. I thought someone had finally moved in 106. I stared at her with joy, just waiting for her to look at me, and then gave a smile to the "near neighbor" in "Far relatives are better than near neighbors". As a result, the lady walked past me half a foot without lifting her eyelids.

Then I went to the first floor and saw a young woman (estimated to be the daughter of 106) walking into the elevator on the first floor with a lot of bags. I thought this young woman might look at me, so I stared at her with joy, just waiting for her to look at me, and then gave a smile of "near neighbor" in "far relatives are not as good as near neighbors". As a result, the young woman walked half a foot away from me without lifting her eyelids.

Then I took out the garbage and went home and walked to my door. I saw a middle-aged man (probably my husband) coming out of the elevator with a lot of bags. I don't think this man can turn a blind eye to me anyway. It's not that coincidence. It is impossible for a family to hold a general meeting and pass a resolution on how to treat its neighbors. So they stared at him with joy, just waiting for him to look at me, and then sent me "a distant relative is not as good as a close neighbor."

Facts have proved that not only their families, but also the people of the whole country have probably reached an agreement on "how to treat those suspicious strangers in the streets and corridors" and written it into the Constitution. Foreigners joining the China Nationality Examination are likely to have such an examination question, which is placed behind the question "Whose father is Laozi" and "Is the Spring Festival Evening a spring night?" Option A is "smile", option B is "detonate the bomb" and option C is "ignore it". If you choose A, unfortunately, the Immigration Department will tell you to go back to the United States. If you choose B, please return to the arms of Iraq. If you choose C, then Beijing welcomes you! Share your breath in the sun! Refresh your performance in the yellow land!

Why do China people always say that they are a country of etiquette? The etiquette here refers to the etiquette of "letting grandma or grandma be a free nanny for grandchildren"? Etiquette of "Let the leaders go first"? The "artistic" etiquette of keeping silent in the face of different forms of rape? It is said that Confucius Institutes have spread all over the world. I really want to know what courses are taught in Confucius Institute, and how many credits is the course "How to resist strangers' smiles"?

Of course, some people smile at me. It's an avalanche, a rainbow, a peach blossom, and an endless smile. They come from shopping guides in shopping malls, toll collectors in residential property offices, waiters in restaurants and ginger in French bread advertisements.

I really want to know which dynasty and generation this stubborn "tradition" of refusing to smile began, and who planted this magnificent national flower-Confucius? Han Feizi? Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty? Zhu Yuanzhang? Jiang? Mao? Who created enough expressions to apply for "World Cultural Heritage"? A full face of indifference, eyes full of vacant, evasive eyes, suspicious expression. Most of my compatriots in Taiwan Province Province and Hongkong don't have such expressions, although I don't know whether this is because they kept our earlier tradition or because they created a new one.

When I moved to my new home in England at the end of last year, an old English lady on the first floor sent me a card with the words "Welcome to Community X". In order to walk to the third floor to send this card, the 93-year-old lady is said to have "walked for ten minutes". Another old lady on the same floor bought me a bunch of flowers. Of course, according to our understanding principle that "nothing better than us can be sincere", such a move means nothing but hypocrisy. The civilization of our country of etiquette has long gone beyond hypocrisy and moved towards naked indifference and naked malice. Our indifference and malice are so sincere that we directly build the building into tofu residue! Add melamine directly to milk! Lock people directly in the black kiln as slaves! Look at the clothes you are wearing. Take off your clothes is the most sincere!

Like many China people between 65438 and 050, I often think about a question: How many years will it take for China to catch up with Britain and the United States? After visiting the high-rise buildings in Beijing and Shanghai, I can confidently say: five years is no problem. After observing the way and process of China's political operation, I can hesitate to say: maybe 50 years? But when I got closer, I saw the indifferent expression in the city, but there was no answer at all, only a cold sweat. When it comes to the rupture of "traditional civilization", many people invariably point to the Cultural Revolution. But in Lu Xun's works, in the years before the Cultural Revolution, the people watching the Holocaust had that kind of look, "I saw the backs of a bunch of people; The neck is very long, as if many ducks were pinched by invisible hands. " Nearly 100 years have passed, and this group of people is still the same group. Maybe for thousands of years, there has always been only one group of people.