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What kind of city is Shenzhen in your mind?

Based on your first feeling, do you think of adjectives that are prosperous, rich, open and beautiful, or luxury, chaos, indifference and nothingness?

Where did your impression of Shenzhen come from?

A few years ago, when more and more people in China dreamed of going to the paradise of the rich in the United States for gold, a large ladle of cold water was poured on their heads. A TV series called "Beijingers in new york" frightened them. The title of each episode reads: "If you love him, send him to new york, because it is heaven;" If you hate him, send him to new york, because it's hell. "The TV series also tells you that in this place, your close lover will betray, your children will fall, you can't find happiness, and you can only wander in pain. For many people who will never have a chance to live in New York, what they know about new york is the city full of loss and sinking, desire and pain in TV series. This city represents all our imaginations of capitalism: prosperity and wealth, but decadence.

Now, this city has been replaced by Shenzhen.

In a best-selling novel recently sold in major bookstores, the author said: "If you love him and send him to Shenzhen, he may make a fortune;" If you don't love him, send him to Shenzhen, and he will definitely betray you. "This undoubtedly equates Shenzhen with new york, and even tells you more bluntly that Shenzhen is a city that is" likely to get rich "and" definitely betrayed ". All it has is a greedy dream of getting rich overnight; There is only betrayal, and it is completely fragile and disloyal. The title of this best-selling novel also clearly shows the image of "Shenzhen" that the author wants to express-"Heaven is on the left and Shenzhen is on the right." Shenzhen runs counter to the sky, but what is the opposite of the sky? It's simply "hell"!

This is not the first time we have seen such words, and this description is not unique to it.

From the novel My Life has nothing to do with you named Shenzhen People Writing Shenzhen Life a few years ago, to Shenzhen, Passion Tonight, In the South, Shenzhen Love Song and so on. , popular in the network and publishing industry, have written a depressing and depressing city. If readers pay attention consciously, they will find more than these works. Even earlier, in almost all the literary works that mentioned Shenzhen, Shenzhen was a dark city and almost became synonymous with material desire and lust.

Therefore, the positioning of Shenzhen can't be separated from these words, which seems to condense all the scars of China, greed, sin, lust and betrayal, and all the dark sides in people's hearts have been greatly enlarged. No matter whether you live in Shenzhen or not, no matter how well you know the city, you must have heard of this kind of Shenzhen more or less, and you must have had an ambiguous and unclean association with this economically developed city.

It can be said that Shenzhen is an extremely "demonized" city in contemporary China culture. It carries more negative rumors than any other city in China. Let's see what image they have created for the city.

The demonized image of Shenzhen

Confusion between men and women

Shenzhen, in the mouth of some people, has become the distribution center of "escort girls" in the country ("Paradise Left, Shenzhen Right"); But it is also gentle and implicit: this is an "ambiguous" city, and everything is easy to "rot" ("My life has nothing to do with you").

In a serial article "Shenzhen, Passion Tonight" widely circulated on the Internet recently, he wrote in more vulgar language: "It seems that he really fell in love with this place after coming to Shenzhen several times, or rather fell in love with the bitch in Shenzhen. He once said to me with deep feelings: Shenzhen's reform and opening up has brought' prosperity and prostitution', which is unmatched by any mainland city. Suitable for life, suitable for life! "

The rumors about "mistress" in Shenzhen are even more rampant. Foreigners talk about how many mistresses there are in Shenzhen. Everyone who comes to Shenzhen from Hong Kong can't escape the suspicion of "keeping mistresses". Later, it was said that there was a "mistress" story behind every Hong Kong-licensed car parked in Shenzhen.

The public security environment is in jeopardy.

The recent arrest of Ma Jiajue has once again confirmed people's understanding of Shenzhen's "chaos".

When Ma Jiajue was wanted by the national police, the Shenzhen police were particularly nervous. The second-line customs clearance, which is already in a semi-revoked state, has been tightened again, and everyone who enters the customs has been subject to stricter scrutiny than before. Some people began to speculate that Ma Jiajue might have fled to Shenzhen. Then the credibility of the guess becomes more and more credible, more and more like the fact. Soon, some people began to believe that Ma Jiajue did escape to Shenzhen.

And what is the logical basis behind this? This is because of another exaggeration: fugitives from all over the country have fled to Shenzhen! Of course, Ma Jiajue should also flee to Shenzhen! Why not? There are so many rental houses in Shenzhen, 10 yuan Store, which are a mixture of good and evil people and shelter evil people from evil. Before and after the Spring Festival, there was even a joke that a robber in Shenzhen sent a text message to a colleague in the mainland saying, "There is a lot of money here, and people are stupid. Come quickly."

In the sensational online post "Shenzhen, Who Abandoned You", there is such a description about the harsh public security environment in Shenzhen: "People who leave Shenzhen to work in other places always have a fear when talking about the public security in Shenzhen. Just take a walk in Dongmen Pedestrian Street, or take a look at the overpass across Rainbow Shopping Mall in Shennan Middle Road, which will surprise you. In this way, Shenzhen has formed a very interesting phenomenon. On the one hand, temporary residence permits or border permits are constantly being checked on the road, and people with' three noes' are constantly being taken away by cars. On the other hand, thieves are rampant, and brick parties and motorcycle parties are rampant. "

In this way, Shenzhen has become an extremely horrible city. Before Ma Jiajue was arrested, even Shenzhen people believed the news that Ma Jiajue had fled to Shenzhen. Fortunately, it soon proved that Ma Jiajue had never been to Shenzhen. Otherwise, this mountain of "irrefutable evidence" once again proves that Shenzhen is a concentrated place for fugitives.

Interpersonal communication is ruthless.

"I can invite you to dinner, but I can't lend you money, because I don't know if I can see you again. Don't beg me to find you a job. I found all the jobs myself. Yes, you are my friend, so you can stay with me for a few days. This is the principle of Shenzhen. " ("Heaven to the left, Shenzhen to the right")

Indifferent human feelings and fragile feelings are probably the most classic impressions of Shenzhen, and they are also the biggest crimes that Shenzhen people have been criticized repeatedly.

Since Miao Yong, a writer in Shenzhen, wrote My Life has nothing to do with you, Shenzhen people have been frozen as such a cold image, as if everyone is declaring that "my life has nothing to do with you" and at the same time admitting that "your life has nothing to do with me". The author of "Shenzhen, Who Abandoned You" vented his indifference in Shenzhen like this: In this society, loneliness and loneliness will come to you at any time, from duckweed to water, I don't know where to find it, to sleepwalking in the space of desire ...

Murong Xuecun in Paradise Left, Boudoir Right said more specifically and strongly: "Without indestructible love, the pledge of eternal love is too easy to be defeated. No matter how strong the feelings are, they can't match the temptation everywhere ... there is no friendship between life and death. If you can make a fortune by selling yourself, no one will give up the money for you. A good brother when he is drunk and his ears are hot, and a true friend who curses when he is down and out are strangers. "

All these tones are conclusive, absolute, affirmative and partial.

In this regard, I agree with a netizen on Tianya Forum: "The city is impersonal, and I have never seen a city with human feelings." A city full of too many migrants and young immigrants is bound to be more unfamiliar and alert. Because of this, it has reason to become a demon and a cancer, and then be completely denied?

Social law, money is paramount.

As the most developed city in China, Shenzhen seems to have something to do with money.

In the popular literature works set in Shenzhen, whether it is novel creation or documentary works, the framework of the story is always inseparable from several designs: the vain girl becomes the boss's mistress for money, struggling with desire and money; The poor boy made a fortune through various illegal means or speculation, but lived a luxurious and painful life; Lovers or lovers in love hold hands in Shenzhen and eventually develop, but they are inevitably changed by money. ...

Money, or money, has become the highest law in Shenzhen that they want to construct. In their works, Shenzhen has become an extreme city with materialistic desires. Men can do anything for money, and women can sell their bodies for money. The city is full of swindlers and thieves, and people who are eager to move for money are everywhere.

In a word, this demonized Shenzhen is a "money first" city.

Who is demonizing Shenzhen?

Who smeared Shenzhen into such a corrupt city? Who is the initiator and who is the accomplice?

Back to the beginning of the article, the commonly used phrase of "new york" and "Shenzhen" just explains the root cause of Shenzhen being demonized: Shenzhen is the New York of China, and the darkness of new york is the darkness of Shenzhen, and they are two corresponding cities.

In retrospect, in our education, the descriptions of capitalism are invariably gloomy: economic crises break out from time to time, the gap between the rich and the poor is extremely widening, the relationship between men and women is chaotic, the rich are unscrupulous, the poor are miserable, the social order is chaotic, and the public security is bad ... This impression of capitalist society can never be erased in our minds.

When Shenzhen emerged as a special economic zone, there was always a discussion about whether Shenzhen's surname was "she" or "zi", which was duly stopped. This is what we all know: "no matter whether it is a white cat or a black cat, it is a good cat to catch mice." But in the eyes of China people, Shenzhen's development model and trajectory are undoubtedly very similar to "capitalism". The rapid expansion of capital, rapid economic development, highly developed commerce, and even its external forms: high-rise buildings and colorful neon lights ... all conform to the well-known "capitalist society", so our impression and evaluation of capitalist society are naturally grafted on Shenzhen, so it is not surprising that it will be shaped into such an image.

For a while, we realized the undercurrent of hatred of the rich in society, and Shenzhen was demonized, perhaps partly because of this hatred of the rich. People with this mentality, while envious of the great wealth of others, often believe in their hearts that this wealth must have an unknown source, must have been obtained through illegal means, and there are dirty transactions in the middle. Those who get this wealth are nouveau riche. If they have money, they will be dissolute and shameless, profligate and create more crimes. The development of Shenzhen has also taken more than 20 years, and it was exchanged with the hard work and sweat of countless people. However, compared with the cities that have developed in the mainland for many years, it is still "getting rich overnight". Under this social logic, it can't escape suspicion.

At this time, the media familiar with the public psychology, whether it is the book publishing industry or the Internet, have played a great role in fueling the situation.

Those popular literary works with Shenzhen as the background are almost everywhere shaping the "demonized" Shenzhen that we are facing. What these works want to show is the evil of human nature and the tragedy of human beings. The occurrence of these stories needs a soil, which must allow evil to blossom here. It must be a strange place where a man can get rich overnight and a woman can sell herself. It seems that in real life. Shenzhen does have the advantages of being selected: the economy is developed and it has risen rapidly in the past two decades, so it has the "characteristics" of material supremacy; The proportion of young men and women is the highest in the country, so there are more emotional topics to discuss; It is close to Hong Kong, and Hong Kong is a "capitalist world of flowers and flowers". Everything in it will cross the Shenzhen River and affect Shenzhen. ...

Indeed, in the early stage of Shenzhen's development, both weaknesses and negatives existed, which is also the inevitable price of reform and opening up. But today, the excessive exaggeration and amplification of its negative effects is not the natural result, but the result of manipulation by some forces for the same interests. Demonizing a city is to satisfy the public's desire to peek at "money" and "sex" and "decadence" to get direct reading pleasure, but behind it, it is a mercenary business behavior.

From online literature to anecdote literature, writers will not be responsible for this consequence, nor will booksellers who publish books for them, because they satisfy the public's desire to peek at "wealth" and "eroticism". These books sell well and earn them a lot of money, while some readers unconsciously participate in the process of demonizing Shenzhen while reading and spreading them.

Who will clear Shenzhen?

Although we know that literature can't be equated with reality, and no one will take the protagonist in the work to sit in the right place, literature does affect reality.

Shenzhen, Passion Tonight has a high click-through rate on the Internet. In this work, which is full of words such as "* * *", "whoring", "selling" and "fuck", all the names of Shenzhen are used, and all the stories are true. The truth of this place is easy for readers to mistake it for the truth of the whole.

People who have seen Paradise Left and Shenzhen Right all admire the authenticity of the author's description of Shenzhen, and think that he is writing about a developing Shenzhen. But we know that Murong Xuecun, who was born in 1974, is not even a person who has lived in Shenzhen for a long time, and it is impossible to have early memories of Shenzhen. He just created a Shenzhen of course, but this creation may make a very large group of people who don't know Shenzhen and have never lived in Shenzhen regard it as the real Shenzhen.

The power of literature is sometimes immeasurable. Phoenix, a small town in western Hunan, has become one of the most popular tourist destinations in China because of Shen Congwen's novels. You can fall in love with Phoenix because of Shen Congwen, or you can hate this disgraced city because of these words.

Three men make a tiger, and everyone is praised. Under this wave of demonizing Shenzhen, Shenzhen people suffer greatly.

It is precisely because of this exaggeration and exaggeration that the normal struggle life is ignored. Millions of people living in Shenzhen, especially women, suffer greatly. Female migrant workers returning from Shenzhen are questioned more than other sisters. Their marital problems began with proving their innocence. What they learned in Shenzhen, and their attitude towards freedom and equality in marriage and love, sometimes become "evidence" that they become "bad" for no reason. Some people even gave such a heavy sigh: who should we marry when we return to our hometown? Who will believe us?

Irresponsible rumors make us distrust each other, become wary and suspicious, do not believe in love, and do not believe in friendship. The high proportion of single men and women in Shenzhen may also be related to this. Desperately rendering human indifference, desperately rendering public security is not good, people and talents dare not approach, and even dare not talk to strangers. Rumors and reality, who is the cause and who is the result? Is the reality really so bad, or is it such a rumor that makes the reality worse?

In the twenty years of development, Shenzhen has introduced countless elite talents, and it is still one of the most attractive cities for college graduates. These talents are the vast majority of Shenzhen society. They work down-to-earth and strive for their ideal life. But because of this demonization, everyone living in this city can't avoid all kinds of suspicions. They have nowhere to complain and nowhere to clear their names.

Outsiders look at Shenzhen people, in addition to praising Shenzhen people's living standards in the forefront of the country, but also disdain, spy and sometimes gloat.

In Tianya Forum Shenzhen Edition, there is a post called "Why Come to Shenzhen", which was first published in April 2004 10. Some netizens said, "This is a city you won't regret." Some netizens said, "In order to breathe the free air, there should be less insincerity among people and more reality. Here, I trust your ability more than your relationship "; Some netizens said that "the greatest charm of Shenzhen is that it is fair to everyone, although this fairness is only relative"; Some netizens said, "First of all, I came for one person. After coming, I fell madly in love with this place, the faint smell of sea water in the air, the sea breeze in the evening and the free breath in the air. You will love it "; Some netizens said, "Shenzhen is a beautiful, young and vibrant city! You will lose a lot here, but you will also get a lot! " ……

After reading so many negative descriptions and reading this post, my nose is a little sour and my eyes are a little moist. I think these speakers are the people who really live in Shenzhen, the people who really know Shenzhen, and the people who really know what the city is like, but they have the most say, don't they?