A few years ago, I attended a listening class of teaching Chinese as a foreign language in a university in Shanghai. In class, the teacher asked the students to listen to two stories and then answer the questions. The students come from all over the world, from America, Europe and Asia. The content of this listening class shocked me a lot. One story is about a person who started selling pancakes in Taiwan. When he was a teenager, he worked in a pancake shop to deliver pancakes. He grew up in humiliation, gritted his teeth and swallowed the humiliation and suffering, determined to open a big pancake shop in the future, and finally realized his dream and became the "pancake king". Another story is about how a very rich man in China found the "first pot of gold". Where did the man borrow money, buy a lot of things, how to resell, how hard, finally got the first pot of gold, and later became a billionaire. These two stories, one about "Han Xin's humiliation at the crotch" and the other about how to make use of the environment to make a difference with others. Both stories tell about being outstanding. Being outstanding is success. The sign of success is making a lot of money and becoming a person with industry or money. When I left that classroom, I wondered what those foreign students were thinking and how they accepted the naked concept of "success is money". The "success" advocated in this classroom makes me very depressed, makes me escape, and makes me realize the bad side and snobbish side of Chinese culture. I am incompatible with such snobbish eyes. This lesson was deeply engraved in my mind and triggered my thinking about my obsession with "success" in Chinese culture. For several years, I have always wanted to write about this little thing and talk about the single-minded madness of Chinese culture for "success". In fact, I grew up listening to such stories in the first half of my life, but the so-called success story has never felt the "success worship Mania" and "money worship Mania" of Chinese society as deeply and almost painfully as at that moment. Chinese society is full of people who aspire to success and status. Watching Zhang Ailing's "little reunion" two or three years ago, it talked about the protagonist's life in the countryside, the success of money, fame, wealth and beauty in the big reunion of two and three beauties, and sighed that "these people are a point in mathematics, only status, no length and width", while "Jiuli in a bulky blue cloth padded robe, only length, width, thickness, no status". Sitting there, I couldn't help thinking that I felt the same as Zhang Ailing. I think those who are successful have only status but not. The length and breadth of life, because if the of life is focused on "success" and the status of being superior to others, what is the length, breadth and thickness of life? Standing out is one of the ideological pillars of Chinese traditional Confucian culture. China's Confucian tradition emphasizes "glorifying our ancestors" and "standing out", and we should become "people first", which has become the fundamental driving force for Chinese traditional Confucian scholars to study hard. The Chinese American tiger mother's way of education is also the expression of this thought, which is greatly carried forward in the United States. I admit that I envy this strict way of education. Maybe her child can really become a "man", a professor who lives in a very luxurious house like herself. However, I don't envy her way of life, no matter how big her house is and how luxurious her car is. I don't envy anyone who drives a luxury car and lives in a luxury house. If everyone in China or the United States should become "superior to others", who will become subordinate to others? I have always thought that the world is very big. Everyone's road is not either one or the other. It's not others who can't get through in front of you. Obviously, my understanding is biased. Chinese traditional culture teaches people that if you climb up, you have to squeeze others down. This feeling of always feeling that others are in the way is very significant in China's "stand out" culture, so Chinese talents have distrust of the essence of others. China's credit crisis is actually the product of Chinese culture itself, which has been for thousands of years. The Chinese people are not good at group cooperation. The Chinese people's "people's hearts are separated from their belly" do not believe in anyone. They are the product of being outstanding and always feeling that others are in the way. Maybe it's the rebellious thought against this culture. I like brother Bao. The second brother of Bao is far away from those who talk about progress and success at first sight, and calls them "people of Lu bark". "Bark" is a very interesting house. A lot of small insects are crawling around under the stone mill. It's strange. It's a portrayal of this kind of person.

A few years ago, I attended a listening class of teaching Chinese as a foreign language in a university in Shanghai. In class, the teacher asked the students to listen to two stories and then answer the questions. The students come from all over the world, from America, Europe and Asia. The content of this listening class shocked me a lot. One story is about a person who started selling pancakes in Taiwan. When he was a teenager, he worked in a pancake shop to deliver pancakes. He grew up in humiliation, gritted his teeth and swallowed the humiliation and suffering, determined to open a big pancake shop in the future, and finally realized his dream and became the "pancake king". Another story is about how a very rich man in China found the "first pot of gold". Where did the man borrow money, buy a lot of things, how to resell, how hard, finally got the first pot of gold, and later became a billionaire. These two stories, one about "Han Xin's humiliation at the crotch" and the other about how to make use of the environment to make a difference with others. Both stories tell about being outstanding. Being outstanding is success. The sign of success is making a lot of money and becoming a person with industry or money. When I left that classroom, I wondered what those foreign students were thinking and how they accepted the naked concept of "success is money". The "success" advocated in this classroom makes me very depressed, makes me escape, and makes me realize the bad side and snobbish side of Chinese culture. I am incompatible with such snobbish eyes. This lesson was deeply engraved in my mind and triggered my thinking about my obsession with "success" in Chinese culture. For several years, I have always wanted to write about this little thing and talk about the single-minded madness of Chinese culture for "success". In fact, I grew up listening to such stories in the first half of my life, but the so-called success story has never felt the "success worship Mania" and "money worship Mania" of Chinese society as deeply and almost painfully as at that moment. Chinese society is full of people who aspire to success and status. Watching Zhang Ailing's "little reunion" two or three years ago, it talked about the protagonist's life in the countryside, the success of money, fame, wealth and beauty in the big reunion of two and three beauties, and sighed that "these people are a point in mathematics, only status, no length and width", while "Jiuli in a bulky blue cloth padded robe, only length, width, thickness, no status". Sitting there, I couldn't help thinking that I felt the same as Zhang Ailing. I think those who are successful have only status but not. The length and breadth of life, because if the of life is focused on "success" and the status of being superior to others, what is the length, breadth and thickness of life? Standing out is one of the ideological pillars of Chinese traditional Confucian culture. China's Confucian tradition emphasizes "glorifying our ancestors" and "standing out", and we should become "people first", which has become the fundamental driving force for Chinese traditional Confucian scholars to study hard. The Chinese American tiger mother's way of education is also the expression of this thought, which is greatly carried forward in the United States. I admit that I envy this strict way of education. Maybe her child can really become a "man", a professor who lives in a very luxurious house like herself. However, I don't envy her way of life, no matter how big her house is and how luxurious her car is. I don't envy anyone who drives a luxury car and lives in a luxury house. If everyone in China or the United States should become "superior to others", who will become subordinate to others? I have always thought that the world is very big. Everyone's road is not either one or the other. It's not others who can't get through in front of you. Obviously, my understanding is biased. Chinese traditional culture teaches people that if you climb up, you have to squeeze others down. This feeling of always feeling that others are in the way is very significant in China's "stand out" culture, so Chinese talents have distrust of the essence of others. China's credit crisis is actually the product of Chinese culture itself, which has been for thousands of years. The Chinese people are not good at group cooperation. The Chinese people's "people's hearts are separated from their belly" do not believe in anyone. They are the product of being outstanding and always feeling that others are in the way. Maybe it's the rebellious thought against this culture. I like brother Bao. The second brother of Bao is far away from those who talk about progress and success at first sight, and calls them "people of Lu bark". "Bark" is a very interesting house. A lot of small insects are crawling around under the stone mill. It's strange. It's a portrayal of this kind of person.