Out of Three Words Finance by DorAemon
Recently, a video uploaded by a netizen showed that several suspected Taoist priests were invited to the opening ceremony of a Xiaopeng Auto offline store in Kunming, Yunnan province.
Since then, Xiaopeng Auto has issued an apology for the incident, apologizing for the negative impact on the public caused by the inappropriate behavior of individual stores. After investigation, on the morning of February 27, a store in Kunming, Yunnan Province, after the relocation of the new store, unauthorized activities with feudal superstitions. Its behavior is contrary to the corporate philosophy of "Born Intelligent, Explore More" of Xiaopeng Automobile, and has affected public order and morals. At present, Xiaopeng Automobile has ordered the store to immediately suspend business and rectify the situation, and removed from the official website. In the future, Roc Motors will further strengthen the supervision and management of the dealers' behavior, and show the positive brand image to the society with practical actions.
After this story came to light, it sparked a heated debate among netizens.
Some netizens believe that a modern technology company to do this kind of activity is not serious, not in line with the company's image;
But more netizens think that Xiaopeng Automobile do not have to apologize, to invite Taoist priests to "do magic" is just a sense of ceremony, and Taoism is a local Chinese religious beliefs, is part of the Chinese culture, there is nothing wrong with doing so. The first part of the car is a part of the Chinese culture, so there is nothing wrong with this.
Then, the modern technology companies to ask the Taoist priests or other religious people to "make law", "open light" and other activities such as this behavior, in the end, is to engage in "feudal superstition" activities. Not worth promoting? Or is it just a blessing ritual that should be viewed with tolerance?
In fact, Xiaopeng Auto is not the first company to do so, similar situations have occurred many times.
B station housewarming ceremony to invite Taoist priests to do magic
September 15, 2017, B station moved into an independent office building. In such a housewarming, naturally there should be celebrations. But "surprisingly", B station invited Taoist priests to do magic.
According to the netizen's breaking news pictures, somewhere in the lobby of the B station office building, there were tables, baskets, and other things for the Taoist priests to do magic; and on the wall, there were some unintelligible paintings and drawings, which may be the "spells" needed by the Taoist priests to do magic.
Another photo shows three Taoist priests dressed in what appears to be religious garb performing rituals in front of an offering table, with a row of unidentified worshippers and B station employees kneeling in front of them;
This photo shows one of the three priests bowing with both hands after the rituals were over, leaving behind a photo of the ceremony. The ground is also covered with unknown debris, possibly materials needed for the ceremony.
NetEase invited Taoist priests to write talismans in code to pray for blessings
According to media reports, in June 2018, NetEase's online game "Against the Shuihan" before the launch of the service, in order to seek to open the service smoothly to ask Taoist priests to do the magic. However, and B station invited the Taoist priest to do magic in a different way, this Taoist priest in the scene directly with the code to draw talismans to pray for the company.
According to the person in charge of the ceremony, the ceremony is invited to Maoshan, the talisman is drawn in C language, in addition to writing some blessings to ensure peace of mind, but also contains the words "players, never downtime," and so on. This is the first time that a server has been used for this purpose, and it is the first time that a server has been used for this purpose.
And the company asked the monk to open the light for the server
In addition to asking the Taoist priests to do the magic, some companies also ask the monk to "open the light".
According to reports, in October 2016, a game company programmers will bring the server into the temple "open light", and accompanied by two priests will bring the server back to the server room sticker, in order to ask the game online do not appear downtime and so on.
The programmer first respectfully "invites" the server, which is covered with a red cloth, into the temple, and together with one of the priests, first to the statue of the Buddha to pay homage to;
Afterwards, the programmer from the temple to get the yellow paper with the runes drawn on it, and bring it back to the company together with the equipment;
The two priests are dressed in red robes, head of the head, and the server will be brought back to the machine room to stick the charm.
Two priests, dressed in red robes and hats with the word "Buddha" written on them, came to the company and put the runes on the server unit;
After the runes were put on the server unit, the programmer, accompanied by the priests, also put his hands together and saluted the server. After the ceremony, the three of them took a photo together.
In addition, the media reported that the company had also conducted a "10,000 people praying for blessings" in an art park in Beijing; the staff made a 2-meter-high, 3-meter-wide giant book of life and death, and invited a master of the law to conduct enlightenment activities. Passersby can write down their wishes on the book.
There were also many netizens who shared some similar experiences on social media platforms:
A netizen said that when he was working at his former company, he had seen with his own eyes a god sign invited from Japan in the server room. Before the large medical imaging equipment is started, manufacturers and hospitals will "offer" the pig's head, burn incense, and then "worship" the machine.
The reason is that when this medical equipment is used, it requires imported consumables from abroad, and the cost is very high; if there is a malfunction in operation or something, hundreds of thousands of dollars, or millions of dollars will be lost.
There are many similar cases ......
A netizen broke the news that his company's business group, no matter where they move to, must be on the 8th floor, harmonic "fortune"; a netizen revealed that the company specifically asked the so-called "Feng Shui masters". "Feng Shui masters" to analyze the layout of the company to arrange the distribution of the location of the company's various departments. To give executives fortune-telling, if the boss is "guilty of Taiyue", the company's performance that year may not be good; there are also netizens who said that their previous work of the company to invite the same "feng shui masters", the results of the masters said that the company and the year of the Chinese zodiac, "collision! "
And not only that, but also the fact that the company is not allowed to use the same type of products as the current year's zodiac sign.
And not only Chinese companies believe in this set, foreign companies also have. 2017, according to netizens broke the news, foreign game company Ubisoft asked the priest for server "baptism". In the photo, a priest is waving a "broom"-like object to carry out the ceremony, and there is a photographer behind him to record the shooting.
The technology company invited monks and priests to do the deed, this behavior is not considered to promote "feudal superstition"?
The term "superstition" refers to the blind belief in the worship of a particular thing.
If you interpret this behavior of tech companies from this perspective, they are placing all their hopes for success or failure on so-called "superstitious" activities, rather than on their own efforts.
If we follow this logic, the sales of Xiaopeng cars must depend on the practice of the Taoist priests, the completeness of the ceremony, and so on; the success of the B station also depends on the Taoist priests; and if the game company doesn't look for monks to open the light, the servers will inevitably go down. ......
In this case, shouldn't all companies have a new "open the light" program?
In this case, is it not better for all companies to open a new "light prayer" department, specializing in various Taoist temples, temple masters resident in the company, not better?
Clearly, this is not the case, and all the tech companies, including the ones listed in this article, are not counting on this kind of activity for everything. Therefore, you can't just dismiss this type of behavior as "superstition" across the board.
Three words of finance, we need to look at this kind of behavior of companies dialectically, and distinguish scientifically whether it is "superstition". And the behavior of the Peng car, B station, and several game companies, it is more of a "blessing" behavior for a better future.
Indeed, as many netizens have said, this is part of Chinese culture. For example, every festival, people always have to carry out some very ceremonial activities, such as the Spring Festival to firecrackers, the first month of the fifteenth to eat the Lantern Festival, the fifteenth day of the eighth month to eat the moon cake ......
This activity from a scientific point of view, there is no meaning: firecrackers is just a chemical reaction, there is no "year" this monster; to eat Lantern Festival, there is no "year" this monster; to eat the Lantern Festival, there is no "year" this monster. "This kind of monster; eating Lantern Festival, mooncakes are just different flavors and ingredients of food.
But the core of these rituals is to support people's spiritual emotions, is a unique human culture, emotional expression.
So this kind of activity in technology companies, strictly speaking, is not wrong, as long as we remember that the company's operational performance is dependent on the results of the efforts of all the people up and down the company, then the "blessing" type of activity is also a kind of spiritual and cultural expression. This kind of activity can also be active in the company's atmosphere as well as improve the motivation of the staff to work.
Of course, there are two sides to every story. For example, as mentioned earlier, the company invited a master to fortune-telling, the boss if the "crime of the year", the company's performance is not good; or by the "feng shui" influence, the whole company banned the placement of specific items.
This belongs to the real superstition, if the company's performance can be predicted, what is the meaning of the current efforts of all? Tying the direction of the company to a particular item is even more nonsensical.
So, to look at the problem scientifically and dialectically, for the company, a moderate blessing activities, to help active company atmosphere, improve employee productivity; for the melon masses, can be tolerant attitude. However, for those who are really superstitious activities, it must be resisted in the end.
In any case, success comes only from everyone's own efforts.