When Paleolithic mankind lifted the stone axe and cut the first axe to nature, the prelude to the construction of artificial nature was played. Xinjiang's land is vast and the sky is long, and primitive nature occupies too much space. Thousands of years ago, the ancients of this land issued a "desperate area of the vastness of the more" lament until the eve of reform and opening up, although there have been many years of fruitful construction, still can not be resolved by the desert, the Gobi, the wilderness radiating from the vastness and depression. Many people from the Bohai Sea to Xinjiang want to Beijing, Tianjin; from the Yangtze River Basin to the people miss Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuhan, Changsha ...... from the Pearl River Basin to the people miss Guangzhou. People a quiet down, the feelings of the wild horse to the hometown Mercedes, the heart will float since the heavy return to the idea, in some weak-willed people, are to the point of the soul. Lu You has a poem: "The heart is in the mountains of heaven, the body is old to fall into the continent." A slight modification of the verse, "The heart is in the mountains of heaven, the mind is in the continent," is a complete reflection of the psychology of some people at that time. This mentality of separation of body and mind has existed for a long, long time, and at the beginning of the reform and opening up, it still hasn't receded. 30 years have passed, and when I look back, it's hard to find any traces of that state of mind and body separation, which was once observed everywhere in the society at that time. Many people have buried the roots of their lives y in the land of Xinjiang. This is a major change in the psychological depths of the people of Xinjiang, and this change is due to the fact that we have been placed in a new material world. This material world is by the Tianshan Mountain north and south of the many modernized construction of large and medium-sized cities (including the Corps Division seat) and by the monochrome into a multi-colored new rural areas, this is a brilliant artificial nature, in front of this nature, the original nature is dwarfed.
In the past, the differences between Xinjiang and the mainland were mainly between cities. Now, Xinjiang's cities have towering high-rise buildings; there are rows and rows of residential districts; there is a wide range of supermarkets; there is a wide and straight road; there are spitting colorful street lights; there are among the star hotels and restaurants; there is a refreshing plaza ...... in terms of the city's due to modernization of the content of the Xinjiang and the Mainland is almost homogeneous and homogeneous, and the difference between The difference between Xinjiang and the mainland is almost homogeneous and homogenous, and the difference between Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou only exists in the degree of prosperity and scale. In the past, Xinjiang people from the mainland to visit the meeting back, talk about the mainland cities, colorful, full of praise, contact Xinjiang, always inevitably to blame a few sentences. Now return to not so much interest, and will even absent-mindedly said: "Alas! That's just the way it is." There has even been such a reversal that a man from Shandong who comes to Urumqi will be surprised and say, "It looks better than Jinan to me." People from Shaanxi will say, "Yo, it's better than Xi'an." People from Hebei will say, "This is no worse than Shijiazhuang." A Kazakh reporter from the newspaper went to the border to meet her cousin from Kazakhstan. It was windy that day, and her cousin was bareheaded and didn't wear a hat, so the reporter asked, "Why don't you wear a hat?" Her cousin replied: "I heard that the buildings in Urumqi are too high, look up at the buildings, the hat to fall, I did not wear." This is a humor, but more or less reveals a foreigner's view of Urumqi.
Xinjiang has been upgraded from a humble and fragmented material world to a rich and prosperous one. Previously that material world is too weak base, the primitive nature of the pale, depressed attack, almost pervasive, it always want to rampage in the human heart, adding a touch of autumn color. Nowadays, the material world is a huge block composed of modernized copper walls and iron walls, which can remove the pallor and depression radiated by the primitive nature from a long distance.
This material world is built according to human will and human purposefulness, which not only adds many eye-catching material landscapes, but also constructs a new material way of life for human beings. Once upon a time, the need to go to the wilderness to pick up firewood to build a fire; drinking water to the river, the well to pick to mention; winter heating, you have to use adobe to play the fire wall; laundry must be scrubbing boards rubbed with a stick whacked ...... This forms a tight life procedures, which can not be omitted in any part of the man in the occupational labor in addition to adding a heavy domestic labor, really life can not bear the weight. The weight of life cannot be borne. It is often in the dead of night that people drag their tired bodies to bed. This is the way it is every day and every month, and it is not fun for people. Religionists say that life is like a sea of suffering, which is easy to accept and to bow down to the dignity of God. Today's material world, on the other hand, offers a new way of life, with buildings, flush toilets, water heaters, gas, running water, washing machines, refrigerators, telephones, cell phones, constituting a new program of life. Once upon a time it was dependent on nature, and that kind of dependence depended on labor inputs, but now the dependence on nature has shifted to the dependence on modern goods, and this kind of dependence excludes manpower, and the hand only needs to flick the switch and press the keyboard, and the intensity of housework is instantly reduced to zero, and the life is comfortable, easy, and pleasurable, and the life is decoupled from the hard work, and the life is intermingled with the enjoyment, and it is a time for a change in the life of human beings with a great impact on the past, and is the gift of reform and opening up. The newest and most important of all, the newest and most important of all, is the gift of reform and opening up.
The new way of life allows people to have a new way of living, all wealth is generated in the process of time. In agricultural societies, time is a cheap thing, people can endlessly kill time, although this can torture people, but over time, people are numb and do not react. The market economy has doubled the value of time, and the slogan "time is money" has emerged. The direct effect of the new materialistic lifestyle is to save time. Today, people have enough time to travel and visit, skiing and ice skating, visiting friends and relatives, chatting on the Internet, horse racing, playing golf, strolling in the park, practicing songs in the bar, dancing in the ballroom ...... In a word, people have leisure activities. Life is about tension and relaxation, and it needs to be refurbished in leisure. Leisure is categorized as enjoyment in the position of life, and one has a new way to live and enjoy life. Back then, life was called "making a living", "making a living", "begging for a bowl of rice", which all revealed the difficulty of survival. Nowadays, life has been added to leisure and enjoyment, and life has changed from a cold color to a warm color. The value of life has suddenly soared, health care has become a **** the same tendency of all classes.
Once upon a time, the theory of Marx's "comprehensive development of man" was always so abstract. Now there is a factual verification, comprehensive development of many elements to be reflected in the leisure, the original is an abstract theory, now into our lives.
In this new material world, not only has a new material life been constructed, but also a new living environment has been created. The living environment and the way of life are the relationship between the safflower and the green leaf, without the living environment to set off, the way of life will not be beautiful. Once upon a time, people used the words "Guanshan Express" and "Road Cultivation" to describe the geographic characteristics of Xinjiang, which is the poetic language of the literati, and the true meaning of this language is remote and closed, which is the geographic disadvantage of Xinjiang. I am a reporter, I have to move, it turns out that most of my time spent on the road, all day long dusty. At that time, not to mention the narrow highway, the road surface is also uneven. That kind of bumps, that kind of collision, often unbearable, which is also said to be asphalt, many counties and townships are dirt roads, people are more like dancing in the car, a day running down, back pain and bone pain, really appreciate the "dust of the labor", "trekking pain! I really experienced the "dusty labor" and "pain of trekking". At that time, because of the poor quality of roads, often accidents, one winter, I and my partner Hu took a broken car to Yili, Tacheng, Altay to engage in the issue, not more than 50 kilometers along the way will see a car turned over on the side of the road, can not help but call people alarmed. At that time, the long-distance trek, as if it is to bet on life, whenever I walked into the back of the ditch or Gan ditch, on the fear and trepidation. Today, as dense as a spider web of air routes, interlocking high quality highway to fill the geographical disadvantages of Xinjiang, there is a new living environment, in this environment, long-distance running triggered by the "trekking pain" was melted, travel in turn became a pleasure. Interested, you can enjoy the scenery on both sides of the road, not interested, you can close your eyes to rest, that fast speed to people is brought by the columns of the Royal wind line floating cozy. This is to say that the car, as for the airplane, the morning to the afternoon, or afternoon to the evening, that is more satisfactory. This kind of infrastructure to create a new living environment and other provinces and regions are almost indistinguishable, Xinjiang and the mainland on a par, in this regard, no longer hear the complaints of the people of Xinjiang.
The physical environment brought about by the infrastructure is already satisfactory, plus a good ecology to decorate, is the icing on the cake. Yesterday is not grass barren mountain, now become a forest of green trees; yesterday is pebble cloth all over the river bank, now become a beautiful garden; in the center of the fire island of Turpan City, you can swing in the lake; in the Jiangnan Korla City, you can stroll along the Peacock River to see the swan mallard; in Keramay you can enjoy the attractive green; Ili River Yining is the scenery is infinite ... ... ...Green water and green mountains are no longer unique to Jiangnan, in today's Xinjiang has frequently appeared.
The media in Xinjiang have reported huge changes in the general environment of material survival from many sides and viewpoints, but they have overlooked an important fact, which is the elimination of flies. A small insect is worth mentioning the height of the living environment to comment? It is! Its significance is not trivial. The fly has an unflattering nickname - "the man who seeks odor", where there is a bad smell, it will fly to where. From the first day of mankind's birth, it has been harassing and offending people, and it also spreads bacteria to people. A plate of food, after it stings, immediately on the anorexia, since ancient times, people curse it, hate it, but it can not be completely expelled from the field of life. The existence of it in the living environment, do not want to live in peace. In the 1950s, it was designated as one of the four evils, and a great campaign was launched to crush it, but later it still did evil in the human living environment. But now, the city almost disappeared its traces, even in the countryside, is not as rampant as in the past. Isn't the elimination of this evil from the human environment an important victory that deserves to be written about? Now the material world, overflowing with humanity, everywhere embodies the will of man, nature will not leave room for pests, in the process of the material world is becoming more and more perfect, with the bottom of the kettle, so that the material living space has greatly improved the purity.
People are creating the new material world, the new material world in turn creates people, the material world is created according to the principles of modern human civilization, so that in the new material world is pervaded by a strong atmosphere of civilization. Entering into this atmosphere, man cannot but curb his wildness and abandon his backward customs. For example, spitting. In the past, large and small meetings mobilized, the media propaganda, and even posted notices, threatened with fines, but spitters remain the same, has become a major sticking point in Chinese society. Now, the size of the building's ground is no longer land and brick floor, paved with flooring, tiles, and some even carpet, that is, outside the road, are cleaned up, people can not bear to spit down that spit, the stubbornness of a complete cure. Once upon a time, public **** occasions are often crowded, into the restaurant, yelling and shouting deafening sound of guessing, some also bare shoulders. And in today's star hotels, only to see people swaying, can not hear the clamor. In the new material world, the original freedom of man is being transformed, the material world and the spiritual world of man to form a two-way transformation of a good relationship, which is a healthy interaction between people and things to help each other, which is a higher level of modernization.
In the past, because we have overemphasized the power of subjectivity and belittled the power of matter, we have not clearly recognized the two-way relationship between matter and mind, that is to say, we do not have a comprehensive understanding of Marx's classic language about transforming the objective world while transforming the subjective world. Often it seems to us that a very small civilized action is easy to build up in society, but it takes us a lot of effort. Like spitting, is slow to change the vice, once the material conditions are ripe, will spontaneously disappear, which gives us a very important inspiration, many of the psychological functions of people need to be in a certain material atmosphere in order to be able to form, this atmosphere does not appear, how to call, how to make efforts, are doing useless. In this new material world, there is a newer understanding of matter. This inspires us to work harder to mold the world and make it more luminous.