The change of living habits was not built in a day. What does it have to do with?

When it comes to habits in life, some people don't care and think it's just a trivial matter. Only when you are accused or laughed at by outsiders will you feel really indecent and ashamed, and you will make up your mind to correct it. And some habits, even bad habits, are hard to change even though they know they are wrong, so they have to let go. For example, spitting and blowing your nose in public. As for seeing some people shouting and talking loudly in public places, people will frown, look askance and scold a few words of "no quality", but on another occasion, maybe the protagonist of "no quality" is you. Those ubiquitous square dance aunts even twisted their dances abroad when they had the conditions. Pedestrians are quite complacent when they stop to watch, thinking that they have exported "culture" to foreign countries. How difficult it is to change some bad habits in life.

In order to improve these bad living habits, Chinese people have not made corresponding efforts. In 1930s, the state initiated the New Life Movement. According to the official documents at that time, the new life movement set two goals of "discipline and cleanliness" and formulated 95 "new life instructions" for this purpose. The requirements of the Rules are: clothes should be neat, buttons should be buttoned, hats should be straight, chewing should be quiet, houses should be neat, walls should not be smeared, appointments should be punctual, people should wait until the end, people should be helped when they fall down, meetings and theatres should be quiet, cars and boats should not be noisy, and tickets should be bought one by one when they arrive at the station. "Cleanliness addiction" requires going to bed early and getting up early, washing your face, washing your hands, gargling and washing your hair, often cutting your nails, washing your bedding in the sun, cleaning your house, putting paper on the road, and cleaning hotels and tea shops. It can be said that everything is fine with good intentions.

In all fairness, this new life movement has played an excessive role in these details of life, and in the process of promoting the movement, there have also been some radical practices. For example, in order to advocate getting up early, Taiyuan once set up an "early meeting", in which members knocked on doors to warn those who didn't get up and sleep late after 6 o'clock, and let the tentacles of power intervene in people's daily lives; In Wuhu, Anhui Province, "if you find that you have to unbutton one or two buttons to enjoy the cool or smoke on a hot day, you will be rudely accused", which is unreasonable. Even the normal examination made people uncomfortable, and then they simply adopted an attitude of obeying the rules. "The general public thinks that when they go to work (picket) on Saturday or Sunday, they will be prepared at that time, and after the picket, they will relapse."

In fact, the change of living habits is not a day's work. It is subject to people's material conditions, a certain concept of life, and also related to group habits and tolerance.