When the Paleolithic man raised his stone axe and cut the first axe to nature, it played a prelude to the construction of artificial nature. Xinjiang has a vast territory, and primitive nature occupies too much space. Thousands of years ago, the ancients lamented that "in a place of death and blue void, there was nothing in front of it". Until the eve of reform and opening up, despite years of fruitful construction, the vastness and desolation radiated by deserts, Gobi and wasteland could not be resolved. Many people who come to Xinjiang from the coast of Bohai miss Beijing and Tianjin very much. People in the Yangtze River Valley miss Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuhan and Changsha ... People in the Pearl River Valley miss Guangzhou. As soon as people calm down, the wild horses of feelings will rush to their hometown, and their hearts will naturally float with heavy thoughts. In some weak-willed people, they have reached the point where they are troubled by dreams. Lu You has a poem: "The heart is in Tianshan Mountain, and the body is old." A slight change in the poem: "Being in the Tianshan Mountains and falling in love with the mainland" is completely a psychological portrayal of some people at that time. This mentality of separation of mind and body has existed for a long time. At the beginning of reform and opening up, I still didn't retire. Thirty years later, looking back, it is hard to find the mental state of separation of body and mind that was once everywhere in society. Many people have deeply rooted in this land of Xinjiang. This is a great change in the deep psychology of Xinjiang people, which is caused by our new material world. This material world consists of many large, medium and small cities in the north and south of Tianshan Mountain (including the headquarters of Corps) and the new countryside that has changed from monochrome to multicolor. This is a brilliant man-made nature, and the primitive nature is dwarfed by this nature.
In the past, the difference between Xinjiang and the mainland was mainly manifested in the gap between cities. Now, cities in Xinjiang have towering high-rise buildings; There are rows of residential quarters; There are many kinds of supermarkets; There are wide and straight roads; There are street lamps spitting light; There are star-rated hotel restaurants; There are relaxing squares ... in terms of the modern content of the city, Xinjiang and the mainland are almost homogeneous, and the difference from Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou is only in the degree and scale of prosperity. In the past, when Xinjiang people came back from meetings and inspections in the mainland, they were all very happy and full of praise when talking about cities in the mainland. When they are in contact with Xinjiang, it is inevitable that they will make some derogatory remarks. Now I'm not so interested in coming back, and I even say absently, "Alas! That's it. " Even with such a reversal, Shandong people will be surprised to say, "I think it is better than Jinan." Shaanxi people will say, "Hey, this is better than xi 'an. "Hebei people will say that this is not worse than Shijiazhuang. "A Kazakh reporter from the newspaper went to the port to meet my cousin from Kazakhstan. It was windy that day. My cousin was bald and didn't wear a hat. The reporter asked, "Why don't you wear a hat?" Her cousin replied, "I heard that your buildings in Urumqi are too high." I looked up at the building, and my hat almost fell off, so I didn't wear it. "Although this is a humorous remark, it reveals a foreigner's impression of Urumqi.
Xinjiang has upgraded from a simple and scattered material world to a rich and prosperous material world. In the past, the foundation of the material world was too weak, and the vastness and desolation of primitive nature came almost everywhere. It is always stirring in people's hearts, adding a touch of autumn. Today's material world is a huge block composed of modern copper walls and iron walls, which can remove the vastness and desolation of primitive natural radiation from far away.
This material world is established according to people's wishes and purposes. It not only adds a lot of striking material landscapes, but also constructs a new material life style for people. Once upon a time, it was necessary to collect firewood and make a fire in the wilderness; Drinking water must be connected by rivers and wells; Heating in winter, you have to use adobe to make a firewall; The clothes to be washed must be rubbed with a washboard and beaten with a wooden stick ... This forms a strict life procedure, and no link can be missed. It is really unbearable for people to add heavy housework to their professional work. People often drag their tired bodies to sleep on kang in the dead of night. Every day, every month, this life has no interest in people. Religious scholars say that life is like a sea of suffering, and it is easy for people to accept it and bow down to the dignity of God. Today's material world provides people with a new way of life. Buildings, toilets, water heaters, gas, tap water, washing machines, refrigerators, telephones and mobile phones constitute a new life program. In the past, we relied on nature and labor input. Now, it has changed from dependence on nature to dependence on modern commodities. This dependence does not include manpower. As long as you press the switch and keyboard, the intensity of housework will immediately drop to zero, and life will be comfortable, relaxed and enjoyable. Life is decoupled from hard work, and life blends with pleasure. This is a revolutionary change in people's lives and a gift of reform and opening up.
The new way of life has given people a new way of life, and all wealth is produced in the process of time. In an agricultural society, time is a cheap thing, and people can kill time endlessly. Although it can torture people, people will not respond if they are numb for a long time. The market economy has doubled the appreciation of time, and the slogan "Time is money" has appeared. The direct effect of the new material lifestyle is to save time. Today, people have enough time for sightseeing, skiing and skating, visiting relatives and friends, chatting online, playing golf at racetracks, visiting parks, practicing songs in karaoke bars and dancing in dance halls ... In short, people have leisure activities. Life should be relaxed and need to be renovated in leisure. Leisure is classified as enjoyment in the position of life, and people have a new way of life and can enjoy life. Life at that time was called "making a living", "making a living" and "begging for a job", all of which revealed the difficulty of survival. Now leisure and enjoyment have been added to life, and life has changed from cold color to warm color. The value of life has suddenly soared, and health care has become a common trend in all walks of life.
Once upon a time, understanding Marx's theory of "man's all-round development" was always so abstract. Now that the facts have been verified, many contents of all-round development should be reflected in leisure. Originally an abstract theory, it has now entered our lives.
In this new material world, not only a new material life has been built, but also a new living environment has been created. Living environment and lifestyle are the relationship between red flowers and green leaves. Without living environment, lifestyle will not be happy. People are used to describing the geographical features of Xinjiang with "Guanshan Express Line" and "Lu Xiu Yuan", which is a poetic language written by literati, but the real meaning of this language is remoteness and seclusion, which is the geographical disadvantage of Xinjiang. I am a journalist. I want to walk around. It turns out that I spend most of my time on the road and travel-stained all day. At that time, the road was narrow and the road surface was uneven. That kind of bump, that kind of collision, is often unbearable. This is also asphalt road. Many counties and towns are mostly dirt roads. People are more like dancing in a car. After running for a day, my back ached and my bones ached, and I really felt "hard work" and "the pain of trekking". At that time, accidents often occurred because of poor road quality. One winter, my partner Lao Hu and I took a broken car to Yili, Tacheng and Altay for distribution. Within 50 kilometers along the way, we will see cars overturned on the roadside, which is shocking. At that time, long-distance travel was like risking your life. Every time I walk into the back ditch or trunk ditch, I feel uneasy and nervous. Nowadays, the criss-crossing cobweb-like dense air routes and high-quality highways have filled the geographical disadvantage of Xinjiang, and a brand-new living environment has emerged. In this environment, the "pain of trekking" brought by long-distance running has been melted, but traveling has become enjoyment. You can enjoy the scenery on both sides of the road when you are interested. You can close your eyes when you are not interested. That kind of speed brings people the comfort of Liezi Royal. This is a car. As for the plane, it is more satisfactory to arrive at noon or at noon. The new living environment created by this infrastructure construction is almost the same as that of other provinces and regions. Xinjiang and the mainland have drawn an equal sign, and there are no complaints about Xinjiang people in this respect.
The physical environment brought by infrastructure construction has been satisfactory, and it is icing on the cake to decorate it with a beautiful ecology. Yesterday, the barren mountain was barren, but now it has become a forest of trees; Yesterday, the beach was covered with pebbles, but now it has become a colorful garden; In Huozhou, the center of Turpan, you can row boats in the lake; In Korla, south of the Great Wall, you can stroll along the Peacock River to see the swan water. You can enjoy attractive green in Karamay; Yining, on the banks of the Ili River, has infinite scenery ... Green water and green hills are not unique to Jiangnan, but also appear frequently in Xinjiang today.
The media in Xinjiang reported the great changes in the material living environment from many aspects and angles, but ignored an important fact, that is, the eradication of flies. Is a small insect worth mentioning the height of its living environment? Worth it! Its significance is no small matter. Flies have an indecent nickname-"Get rid of the smelly husband". Where there is a smell, there are flies. From the first day of human birth, it has harassed and invaded people and spread bacteria to people. A dish, bitten by it, makes people anorexia immediately. Throughout the ages, people have cursed it and hated it, but they can't completely expel it from life. If it exists in the living environment, don't try to live a quiet life. In the 1950s, it was designated as one of the four pests and launched a massive movement. Later, I still did evil in people's living environment. But now, cities have almost disappeared, only in rural areas, not as rampant as before. Isn't it an important victory that people's living environment has got rid of this kind of harm, which is worth writing a book about? The present material world is full of humanity and embodies people's wishes everywhere. Nature will not leave living space for pests. In the process of improving the material world, the purity of the material living space has been greatly improved through radical measures.
Man is creating a new material world, which in turn creates man. The material world is created according to the principles of modern human civilization, so the new material world has a strong sense of civilization. Entering this atmosphere, people can't help restraining their wildness and abandoning backward customs. Like spitting. In the past, mobilization, media publicity and even posting notices at meetings and conferences threatened to impose fines. However, people who spit out their words remained a chronic disease in China society. Now, the ground of buildings of all sizes is no longer land and bricks, but floors, tiles and even carpets. Even on the road outside, it was cleaned up, which made people unable to bear to vomit, and the stubborn disease was completely cured. Once upon a time, public places were often crowded with people. Walking into a restaurant, the sound of guessing boxing was deafening, and some of them went barefoot. But in today's star-rated hotels, what I see is that people are shaking and can't hear loud noises. In the new material world, people's original freedom is being transformed, and the material world and people's spiritual world have formed a good two-way transformation relationship, which is a benign interaction between people and things and a higher level of modernization.
In the past, because we overemphasized subjective power and neglected material power, we didn't clearly understand the two-way relationship between matter and psychology, that is, we didn't fully understand Marx's classic language about transforming the subjective world while transforming the objective world. It often seems to us that a small civilized action can be easily established in society, but we have spent a lot of effort. Just like spitting, it is a bad habit that can't be changed for a long time. Once the material conditions are ripe, it will disappear spontaneously, which gives us a very important revelation. Many psychological functions of people need to be formed in a certain material atmosphere. This kind of atmosphere did not appear. No matter how hard you make a phone call, it's useless. In this new material world, there is a new understanding of matter. This encourages us to work harder to shape the world and make it more exciting.