Bowman: Rational spirit makes killing Jews an industrial assembly line.

Among the exiled intellectuals in the 20th century, zygmunt bauman is undoubtedly a typical one. He was born into a Jewish family in Poznan, Poland in 1925 and died on January 9, 2017. In his 91-year-old life, he escaped the Nazi massacre, experienced the Soviet Union in Stalin’s era, participated in the war and fought against the Nazis, returned to Poland after the war, and was expelled during the socialist construction. During this period, he wanted to move to Israel or Australia, and finally settled down at the University of Leeds in England until his death.

Zygmunt Bauman

Bowman’s life has experienced many disasters in the 20th century, and the cruel reality we read through textbooks is exactly what he experienced. As he said in an interview with Al Jazeera before his death, "Young people like you have forgotten what totalitarianism is. You know it by reading textbooks, but you haven’t experienced it. I have experienced such a regime twice. "

In the face of Bowman’s life, there will inevitably be a romantic association, attributing his original ideas about the Holocaust, violence, ethics, socialism, modernity and post-modernity to his personal life story. Tester reminds us that Bowman’s life is of course very unique in detail, but from a more macro perspective, his experience is not unique. Bowman is like a "storyteller". Through the narration of his personal life story, he conveyed the ambiguous entanglement that "a generation" encountered in the 20th century, and personal narration became a structural fate. "People are placed in awkward situations out of their own will. The ambiguity of human situation bred by the contradictory but often self-defeating process of modernity, its sharp pain and its vivid vitality are fully displayed in this situation."

Exile is a common experience.

In Bowman’s view, the ambiguity of human situation is a common experience faced by all men and women, which is embodied in you and me as an exile mentality and a displacement experience. "Kolakowski" is a familiar aspiration in the 20th century. Bowman further pointed out that exile is not only held by intellectuals. In the modern state of existence, we are exiled from ourselves, others and even the environment, and everyone has become a rootless wanderer. Different from pre-modern homelessness, modern exiles have more choices.

Bowman distinguished two types of exile, one with the color of fatalism and the other with the color of vocation. The former is blind and casual, while the latter must always be cautious. The problem we have to face is how to turn the helpless fate into our duty and responsibility.

Bowman advocates making choices, accepting challenges, and experiencing mature "exile" in the process of transforming fate into vocation. Fate is a limitation, a boundary created by social structure, system and arrangement, and becoming a human means going beyond these boundaries. His task for sociology is to study these boundaries, explore how personal life stories are shaped and restricted by structural social factors, see through the boundaries set by experience, understand the familiarity of life from a novel and different perspective, and pay attention to the world that you and I really experience, rather than abstract people or humanity. Only in this way can we really take care of those who are suffering from ambiguous situations.

Zygmunt bauman: Fear of Flowing, Jiangsu People’s Publishing House, June 2012.

Bowman’s works describe the living conditions of such people, Jews in the Holocaust, intellectuals who changed from legislators to interpreters, strangers at home, immigrants, new poor people and abandoned lives, and even men and women in love. They all fell into a common fate because of displacement. Between freedom and security, between proximity and alienation, between love and hate, the ego also flows into a fragmented state.

Ordering and ambiguity

Modern society is trying to create a rational order, but individuals are gradually dissolving and fragmenting in the order. When individuals become more and more obsessed with the small world that creates themselves in the debris, it is easier for power to construct its own project according to its own will and create the rigidity of human society step by step. In Modernity and the Holocaust, Bowman’s analysis of the Holocaust is chilling. The Holocaust lies in the modern civilized society, which itself is the product of the latter. Without modern industrial technology and bureaucratic organizational structure, the Holocaust is unimaginable. It can even be said that "it started with a real rational concern and was created by a bureaucratic system that was faithful to its form and purpose."

Zygmunt bauman: Modernity and the Holocaust, Yilin Press, January 2002.

The "gardening project" in modern society is obsessed with order. In order to ensure the perfection of the garden, pests and weeds must be strictly distinguished and removed. The Nazi massacre of Jews is like the gardener’s attitude towards weeds. The rational spirit of science and technology and bureaucracy makes the cleaning of the Jewish nation an industrial assembly line, and finally completes the rational design of human beings. As a rational way of governance, the Holocaust means the elimination of ambiguity and possibility. Strangers must be isolated or exiled, and all possibilities are stifled by classified violence. Survival began to be influenced and maintained by design, manipulation, management and engineering, giving the world structure in a classified way. It assumes that all the unique and even unconnected entities in the world have a group of similar or similar entities to which they belong, and then connects them to control the randomness and probability of individuals by category, so that they can move towards a goal and an orderly world.

Zygmunt bauman: Modernity and Contradiction, Commercial Press, October 2013.

In Bowman’s view, the gardening project of order is undoubtedly a failure, and the classification has not reduced the existence of ambiguity. No matter how big and aggressive the efforts of order are, ambiguity will never disappear. It is the classification itself that creates more ambiguity, because there will always be entities that are not fully defined or over-defined, and insufficient or excessive meaning will create more confusing symbols, and further classification will be accompanied by further ambiguity.

It is at this point that Bowman saw the possibility of saving ambiguity from power and fought for it. "We must be as close as possible to the possibility of people who are still concealed so far, like real poets. So we need to break through those self-evident barriers. Within the barriers, the current ideological fashion prevails, and its significance is proved by its commonness itself. "

The Recovery and Creation of Possibility

In the struggle between order and ambiguity, Bowman believes that only ambiguity can guarantee the possibility of human beings, which makes him believe that sociology and literature have the same purpose. In fact, Bowman’s sociology benefited more from literature, and he himself said that writers had a far greater influence on him than sociologists. In his voluminous works, we see more names such as Kundera, Kafka, Georges Perec Muzil, Peric and Italo Calvino.

Borges: Garden with Crossing Paths, Shanghai Translation Publishing House, July 2015.

In an interview with him, tester asked, "If you were stranded on a desert island one day, which book would you choose to bring with you?" The answer given by Bowman is Borges’s Garden with Crossing Paths. In the process of reinterpreting the world that human beings can’t reach, these writers created an unimaginable world, full of meaning and possibility. They turned decay into magic and opened up infinite possibilities. Bowman hoped that his sociology, like these works, would point to infinite possibilities.

Sociology and literature face the same problem here in Bowman, that is, the rigidity of human society, or Lukacs’ "reification". They deal with the same problem: the major changes in the structure of social life brought about by economic development. Sociology and literature should discuss how to deal with these "changes" from the level of "heart-individual-object-society" and think about how to face the problem of "individual resolution" under the background of the emergence of an object world, or how to show how structural facts limit the possibility of human beings.

Milan Kundera

On the road of saving ambiguity and possibility, Bowman stood with Kundera, and in fact Kundera often appeared in Bowman’s works. Kundera described a kind of "fuzzy world" in The Art of Fiction, which is the world Don Quixote faced when he left home. "Cervantes made us understand the world as a kind of fuzzy, and people are not faced with an absolute truth, but with a bunch of opposite truths, so the only assurance is uncertain wisdom, which is also a great force."

The spirit of the novel is that it has no absolute single truth, and it creates an ambiguous world. It is precisely because of its ambiguity that it gives us the opportunity to regain the possibility from inevitability. For Kundera, "it is immoral not to find a part of the novel that has never been known in the past," while for Bowman, "it is unethical not to find the sociology of possibility."

Sociology resists alienation

Therefore, we can compare Baumann’s sociology with Kundera’s novels, face up to the modern technology, science and culture with the art of reflection and the maintenance of possibility, and resist the passion of order, neat division and tight discipline culture. By explaining the existing forms of social and cultural categories, we can break the myth that reality is self-evident, and then promote the transformation between forms, making seemingly self-evident things appear ambiguous. This is the reply and creation of possibility. It is not only the hope to restore the past, so as to make the hidden voice speak, but also the hope to find obstacles or help in the process of pursuing possibility in the future by examining the past, because "only by looking back can we understand life, but if we want to live well, we must look forward."

Sociology’s concern for possibility means not only recovery, but also creation. It is not retrospective, but focuses on the creation of possibilities. It is this part of the task that makes Bowman’s sociology strongly critical. Possibility means something that hasn’t happened yet, and its occurrence in the future is not based on factual data, but on transcending the boundaries of facts, and endowing it with human will in transcendence, rejecting the limitation of existence threshold.

Robert musil: A Man Without Personality, Shanghai Translation Publishing House, April 2015.

Bowman thinks that the image of human in traditional social science is mechanical, just a reactor of external stimuli, rather than a real actor. He quoted Muzil’s novel A Man without Personality, implying that such science and reason can’t grasp the essence of human beings. Science not only reflects the human situation, but also closes the possibility of human beings, thus creating a world without personality and a world without experience. Muzil hopes to save people in the process of forgetting through his novels, which is precisely the particularity of human beings that Bowman insists on constantly. It must be remembered that human beings are free and independent, and at the same time they are faced with ethical choices. If sociology wants to jump out of such a cognitive model, it must transform itself into a possible practice and become a form of practice. Only practice can restore human action and dignity.

Zygmunt Bauman

Such a sociological idea is quite idealistic. Levine believes that Bowman represents the humanistic tradition in sociology, and he insists on the difference between critical sociology and scientific sociology. The latter represents the rule of instrumental rationality, while the former liberates rationality in practice. Secondly, Baumann’s sociological concepts such as "flowing modernity" and "post-modernity" should be attributed to an artist’s sensitivity, more to delicate experience and explanation of the current human situation than to constructing his own theory. For him, any work that turns wisdom and inspiration into procedure is doubtful, and it will shrink our experience field. Sociology should reject such an empty abstraction and pay attention to real and concrete people. "Sociology should understand the human world by either giving strength to the powerless or allowing itself to remain powerless to understand its own existence."

The "Handcar Internet" experience is super anticipated, and no one knows the smart cockpit better than Lynk & Co 08

  At the moment when the first generation of iPhone came out, the mobile end point industry structure has since completely changed, and mobile phones have gradually changed from communication tools to life tools. People have become increasingly inseparable from the company of smart phones.

  iPhone subversion of the smart phone era, the revolutionary innovation of the evolution of human-machine interaction, and with the acceleration of the software-defined car era, the evolution of car intelligence is strikingly similar to that of mobile phones, and people are also looking forward to being redefined smart cockpit, which can improve the human-machine interaction experience of cars and cars to the same level as smart phones, and then realize the full-scene multi-end point intelligent connection of cars and mobile phones in the Internet of Everything.

  In the flood of homogenization of car cabins, Lynk & Co, who aspires to "be a smartphone on wheels", has found the entrance to break the game, and has integrated cross-border innovation with Meizu to create the LYNK Flyme Auto "handcar interconnection" intelligent cockpit car system, which solves the pain points and stuck points encountered by users in the past, and elevates the aesthetic design, interactive logic, seamless flow and scene atmosphere of car functions to a new dimension.

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  As Lynk & Co’s new new energy medium-sized SUV, Lynk & Co 08 has become the first model to be equipped with the LYNK Flyme Auto system. Relying on the strong multi-end point interconnection capability, Lynk & Co 08 breaks the boundary between mobile phones and cars, and has no inductive connection. It has advanced the upper limit of vehicle intelligence by an order of magnitude, and there is no significant difference between user life and in-car scene perception. Such a "smart and sensory" digital intelligent cockpit experience, together with the aesthetic and practical design of luxury technology, forms the core differentiation advantage of Lynk & Co 08, which will bring users a high-value intelligent travel experience that is beyond expectations.

  Crossing the smart frontier and establishing the ceiling of the cockpit experience

  Intelligent cockpit is the core carrier for realizing the car as a mobile living space, and its interactive properties largely determine whether users can have a pleasant and convenient driving experience.

  Nowadays, the development of smart phones is slowly being realized in smart cockpit applications, and it is developing in the same direction from the product form that can be directly perceived by users, such as fewer physical buttons, larger screens, more voice gesture control, more convenient operation, and more human interface. Mobile phones and cars are forming a new relationship of gradual integration, bringing powerful and practical multi-end point interconnection capabilities to the human-computer interaction experience. Under seamless docking, the car machine integrates the functions of the mobile phone, and the mobile phone content can also flow smoothly to the car machine. 

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  Lynk & Co 08 is the "super intelligent end point" that puts this "handcar crossing the line" ability on the car. Personalized design spiritual implantation and LYNK Flyme Auto system have raised the level of cockpit intelligence to the ceiling level.

  The first thing to praise is the design of the Smart Bar on the main page of Lynk & Co 08, which can be highly customized and always "understand you". Smart Bar has created the traditional solidified Dock bar into a "Dynamic Island" similar to iPhone 14 Pro, which can increase dynamic adaptive interaction according to usage habits, intelligently match the needs of the current scene, and intuitively arrange the information that different users pay more attention to, which is truly convenient and easy to use.

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  In the smart window mode, the multi-task display on the same screen is more intuitive, and the multi-interface can be opened lightly, temporarily intervened, and jumped flexibly, solving a large number of temporary interaction needs, so as to achieve seamless switching like a mobile phone.

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  It is worth mentioning that the intelligent Aicy voice assistant equipped with Lynk & Co 08 also has the ability of "Inter-App communications visible and spoken", which can be combined with the context to realize multiple rounds of dialogue, custom wake words, emotional TTS, VPA image and other functions. Even the voice control from mobile phones to cars is basically uninterrupted, so as to obey.

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  For some "traditional smart car" pain points, such as the navigation in the mobile phone needs to be re-switched to the app on the car after getting on the car, and even re-searched; for example, the waiting time for OTA push upgrades is long and the effect is not satisfactory. These problems were solved perfectly by the LYNK Flyme Auto system after the Lynk & Co 08 "Handcar Internet" was not connected.

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  When the user brings the mobile phone with the Flyme system close to the vehicle, the vehicle can automatically unlock it, and actively welcome the guest through the semaphore logo light, which brings the user a sense of ceremony while realizing "no feeling" to unlock the seat on the car; after entering the car, the mobile phone navigation information will automatically flow to the central control large screen, and start immediately; under the "application relay", when the user accesses the mobile phone ecosystem, there is no need for distraction, and commonly used apps such as mobile music can be seamlessly transferred to the car large screen, without installation or traffic, and more services will be actively presented to the user.

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  Behind all this, relying on Geely’s full-stack self-developed technology to empower, Lynk & Co 08’s smart cockpit base Yikatong Antola 1000 Pro computing platform is equipped with two 7nm car-grade chips, under the GPU computing power of up to 1800 G (FLOPS), LYNK Flyme Auto’s car response is fast and smooth, so that the experience of Lynk & Co 08’s smart cockpit is truly "sensory" and "unbounded". This differentiated competitiveness also determines the ceiling of the user experience and the value of long-term connection.

  Design fuses technology to create an immersive atmosphere

  Lynk & Co 08 is a new evolution of the Lynk & Co brand to accelerate the transformation of new energy. Its obsession with innovation goes beyond intelligent interaction and creates a refreshing first-class atmosphere of technological luxury.

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  The moment you step into the Lynk & Co 08 car, a unique technological charm is coming. The preconceived idea is the industry’s first 92-inch unbounded AR-HUD, which can cover three lanes, 2k-level high definition resolution supports AR navigation, ADAS auxiliary information display and other functions, and can also automatically adjust the screen display height according to the height of the human eye to ensure the focus of the line of sight. With the 12.3-inch LCD dashboard, it fully meets the information needs during driving and creates a new travel experience for users.

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  Different from other car companies with serious homogeneity in the car design style, Lynk & Co 08 innovatively designed the 92-inch unbounded AR-HUD and front speaker into a futuristic "technology floating island", like a spaceship hovering on the dashboard, with a sci-fi three-dimensional atmosphere in place. The 15.4-inch ultra-clear central control display in the central control area has a resolution of up to 2560 * 1600, plus a narrow frame visual ID design, bringing the ultimate high definition large screen visual enjoyment.

  After adding dynamic effects and scene transformation effects to the LYNK Flyme Auto car system, the entire cockpit atmosphere of Lynk & Co 08 is more warm. The time engine and weather engine onboard open up the virtual and real space, not only reproducing the light and shadow changes from the rising sun to the quiet late night on the live desktop, but also pulling the sunshine, rain and snow in reality into the desktop. Through the intelligent environment adjustment of Ruran air conditioner, users can choose different ideal scenes of "cold dew, morning breeze, warm sun, fireplace", and feel the immersive atmosphere that breaks the boundary between digital and reality. It is worth mentioning that Lynk & Co 08 also provides a nap mode. After turning on this mode, you can see fireflies flying out of the screen and "hiding" in the ambient light, giving users a "wilderness "-like experience.

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  As the first medium-sized SUV built by Lynk & Co for the new generation of family users, Lynk & Co 08 pays more attention to the care of the drivers and passengers in the car. The whole car adopts shallow support seats, the front seats are fully heated, ventilated and massaged, and the main driver’s seat is also equipped with a free-standing headrest speaker, which can enjoy navigation and music privately without disturbing other people in the car to rest; the passenger seat is equipped with a seat leg rest to provide better comfort. In the rear seat, which is more concerned by users, thanks to the long wheelbase of 2848mm, not only does it leave a loose legroom of 935mm, but the seat back can also achieve 2-gear adjustment of 28-33 °, creating a comfortable and comfortable atmosphere for the whole family to travel.

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  In addition, the Lynk & Co 08 is also the model that Lynk & Co currently uses the most environmentally friendly materials and craftsmanship. It follows a new generation of high-end design concepts and cares more about the travel health of the people in the car. The details show humanistic care and elegance.

  It can not only adhere to innovation, lead the trend, but also inherit consistent high-end quality. Through a more delicate and innovative approach, Lynk & Co 08 has injected new connotations into the car’s smart cockpit in multiple dimensions such as taste, experience, and comfort, forming a closer value resonance with users. It can be called a better top-class choice. 

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  At present, the factors for the new generation of home users to buy a car have changed, and the smart technology level of the cockpit has become an important indicator second only to safety and power. Lynk & Co 08’s smart cockpit connects mobile phones and car systems, creating a new experience of intelligent and borderless interconnection with technological luxury, which is highly compatible with users’ dreams of chasing a high-quality lifestyle, and has shown explosive potential. (Text: Yang Xiaohong, Photo: Lynk & Co)

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[See you at 8 o’clock] The police informed the men’s network to show off the young girls.

  CCTV News:At 8 o’clock every day, CCTV will sort out the big and small things that happened around us within 24 hours.

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  Consumption list of 31 provinces in the first three quarters: Shanghai’s per capita exceeded 30,000, and 8 provinces outperformed the whole country.

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  Sixteen children in Dahua No.1 kindergarten in Guangxi vomited and suffered from abdominal pain, and the local disease control department has intervened.

  Former Shenhua players beat fans in Hong Kong? Shanghai police: The person involved has been detained.

  Sichuan police destroyed a pornographic live broadcast gang: 63 female anchors were arrested, involving more than 300 million cases.

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[Enough science] Do you know what is the secret of happiness in marriage and family?

Harmonious marriage and family relations are of great significance to social stability. Happy families are all similar, and the relationship between husband and wife plays an important role in them. How to maintain the intimate relationship between husband and wife? Do you need to avoid children to solve the conflict between husband and wife? Experts say that the maintenance of marriage is slowly formed over time, and it is formed by two people in close interaction, mutual learning and acceptance. The growth of a newborn family begins with the interdependence of two people. Only husband and wife can walk the longest life together, so husband and wife need to be independent and interdependent. When there is a conflict between husband and wife, if the child is present, try to avoid fierce communication, because quarreling will adversely affect the growth of the child’s young mind. (Proofreading/Liang Yaqin)

The normalized nucleic acid detection points in Shanghai will continue to provide free detection services until September 30th.

CCTV News:"Shanghai Release" WeChat WeChat official account reported on August 13th that the normalized nucleic acid detection points in Shanghai will continue to provide free detection services until September 30th.

At present, there are still reports of socially positive infections in Shanghai, and the pressure of "external defense input and internal defense rebound" is still relatively high. In order to further consolidate the results of epidemic prevention and control and quickly find positive infected people, it is necessary to further strengthen the social nucleic acid detection at this stage. In accordance with the relevant provisions of the state and the city’s epidemic prevention and control, the office of the leading group for epidemic prevention and control of the city decided:

First, the city’s normalized nucleic acid testing point free testing service, extended to September 30, 2022.

2. From now until September 30, 2022, citizens should conduct nucleic acid testing at least once a week. If citizens have no record of nucleic acid testing within 7 days, their "code with application" will be given a yellow code; After the nucleic acid sampling is completed, its "application code" will be transcoded within 24 hours.

3. Citizens who have no record of nucleic acid testing within 7 days should participate in community convenience screening or carry out nucleic acid testing at nucleic acid sampling points in time. Those who "should not be inspected" and cause the spread of the epidemic will be investigated for corresponding legal responsibilities according to law.

Four, except in and out of the residential area, go to the nucleic acid sampling point for nucleic acid testing, medical treatment, etc., the yellow-coded personnel do not go out unless necessary, try to reduce contact with others and avoid going to public places where people gather.

Five, for long-term seriously ill patients in bed, the elderly, the disabled, infants and other special groups, all districts should provide convenient services for nucleic acid testing.

Six, if the public has any objection to its "with the application code", it can be reflected through the "with the application" or the Shanghai 12345 citizen service hotline and other channels.

Seven, the follow-up will be based on the risk analysis of the epidemic situation in our city, and the relevant policies and measures for nucleic acid detection will be adjusted accordingly.

McDonald’s China’s first "zero-carbon restaurant" opened in Beijing Shougang Park, reducing carbon by about 200 tons every year.

Wen | Lu Yaning

Editor | Su Jianxun

On September 20th, Beijing McDonald’s Shougang Park drive-through restaurant officially opened, which will become the first LEED certified "zero carbon restaurant" in China.

McDonald’s Shougang Park Restaurant is designed and constructed with reference to LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design Building) zero carbon emission standard and zero energy consumption standard. It is expected to be certified in 12 months, and it will become the first restaurant in the Asia-Pacific region to obtain these two certifications at the same time.

One of the highlights of "Zero Carbon Restaurant" is the self-sufficient clean energy system. The restaurant not only meets the LEED certification standard of "green restaurant", but also achieves zero energy consumption and zero carbon. It is reported that,The roof of McDonald’s Shougang Park Restaurant is paved with an in-site solar photovoltaic power generation system of more than 2,000 square meters, with an annual power generation capacity of about 330,000 kWh, which reduces carbon emissions by about 200 tons per year. Through the solar photovoltaic power generation system, the balance of carbon emission operation is realized, and the residual electricity is used to feed back the community.

In the Shougang Park Restaurant of McDonald’s, consumers can also personally participate in energy conservation and emission reduction, such as stepping on environmentally-friendly rechargeable parent-child bicycles, driving green power generation to wirelessly charge mobile phones, and lighting the giant McDonald’s "M" LOGO.

The appearance of Beijing McDonald’s Shougang Park drive-through restaurant, with photovoltaic power generation system laid on the roof. The picture is from McDonald’s.

At the same time,The complete set of energy-saving and consumption-reducing system of McDonald’s Green Restaurant saves 35% to 40% electricity in the whole building through energy-saving and consumption-reducing of IOT energy management system, variable frequency smoke exhaust system, air conditioning system, fresh air ventilation equipment and LED lighting system.The restaurant also uses the decoration materials certified by the international authoritative standard GREENGUARD for environmental protection, and strictly controls the chemical volatilization of the materials in the indoor air.

Green recycling is also a highlight of zero-carbon restaurants. As the core of green recycling, McDonald’s China "Remodeling Good Things" project redesigns and transforms the waste plastic products in restaurants, supply chains and industries into items needed by restaurants and consumers. For example, in the Shougang Park Restaurant of McDonald’s, the dining chairs used by customers are recycled from marine plastics, and the "Meng Meng Xiao Xiang" device displayed in the restaurant is also recycled from Happy Paradise dining toys.

Like other McDonald’s restaurants in China, McDonald’s Shougang Park Restaurant provides green packaging products such as 100% sustainable forest certification base paper (FSC) packaging bags, straw-free beverage cups and degradable plastic beverage bags.

In the drive-through restaurant in Shougang Park of McDonald’s in Beijing, the "Meng Meng Elephant" recycled with Happy Paradise Dining Toys is particularly cute. The picture is from McDonald’s.

In recent ten years, McDonald’s China has been paying attention to the construction and operation of greener restaurants. Since 2013, McDonald’s China has been exploring green energy-saving ways of restaurants. In 2018, McDonald’s China introduced LEED certification, an international authority on green building, focusing on six core sectors, which provided a comprehensive framework of quantitative standards for the design, construction and operation of green restaurants.

It is understood that McDonald’s China has the largest number of LEED-certified green building projects in the world. By September 2022, nearly 1,600 McDonald’s restaurants had obtained LEED certification, reducing carbon emissions by about 60,000 tons per year.It is estimated that by the fourth quarter of 2022, McDonald’s China will complete the first phase of the construction of 1,800 LEED certified green restaurants ahead of schedule.

McDonald’s China "Green Restaurant" Development Milestone. The picture is from McDonald’s.

To celebrate the successful opening of McDonald’s zero-carbon restaurant, McDonald’s China recently launched the activity of "Green for the Future" in nearly 5,000 restaurants across the country. The paper bag seal changed from red to green, and consumers from all over the country were invited to experience the green and low-carbon lifestyle together. For example, Gaode Map and McDonald’s China jointly launched the Green Travel Medal Award, and consumers could go to McDonald’s restaurant to exchange gifts with the medal. At the same time, the coordinates of nearly 1,600 LEED-certified green restaurants will turn green on the McDonald’s China APP and applet, and you can also learn about McDonald’s green restaurants and LEED-certified environmental protection knowledge by clicking on the restaurant head.

In recent years, many catering brands are actively promoting low-carbon measures, which are not only reflected in encouraging consumers to adopt their own tableware, CD-ROM and other consumption behaviors, but also in practicing low-carbon concepts in the whole industry chain within enterprises, including reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions, adopting green packaging, green supply chain, etc., and using biotechnology, environmental protection technology and other means to achieve energy saving and carbon reduction from raw materials to consumption. Greening has become the development trend of the catering industry in the future.

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The democratic concept of "change with the change of the people"

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At the celebration of the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC), General Secretary of the Supreme Leader emphasized "developing people’s democracy in the whole process". The whole process of people’s democracy is real democracy, which reveals the essential characteristics of socialist democracy, that is, the people are the masters of the country; The whole process of people’s democracy is also concrete democracy, which is a summary of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s theory and practice of people’s democracy. The discussion of democracy has always been an important aspect of Marxist classical writers’ in-depth thinking. Engels pointed out in his letter to Ai Bernstein on March 24, 1884 that democracy is not abstract and static, and "the concept of democracy … changes with the change of people every time". It can be seen that democracy should be concrete and historical. Reviewing Engels’ assertion can provide theoretical support for us to understand more accurately the vivid practice of people’s democracy in the whole process of contemporary China.

There is no abstract democracy in the world.

Engels specifically talked about the issue of "democracy" in his letter to Ai Bernstein: "Democracy … this’ concept’ changes with the changes of the people every time … In my opinion, it should be said that the proletariat needs the form of democracy in order to seize political power, but for the proletariat, this form, like all political forms, is just a means."

The word "democracy" in German means "the people are in power". Engels argued that the concept of the people is changing, so the concept of democracy should also change with the changes of the people. The proletariat has its own understanding of democracy, and those backward classes also have their own understanding of democracy. Engels pointed out that "if someone wants to regard democracy as an end today, he must rely on … those dying classes". Democracy here refers to bourgeois democracy. In the eyes of "those dying classes", bourgeois democracy is regarded as an end. For the proletariat, bourgeois democracy is not impossible for us, but it can only be regarded as a means, not as an end. The goal of the proletariat is to establish real democracy. As Marx and Engels pointed out in the communist party Declaration, seizing political power and striving for democracy are the first step of the proletarian revolution. "The first step of the workers’ revolution is to make the proletariat rise to the ruling class and strive for democracy". Only after the proletariat, through class struggle, breaks the bourgeois state machine in the revolution and establishes the dictatorship of the proletariat can a real democratic system be established.

Democracy and "people in power" are always concrete and historical, because the people here are always concrete and historical. In different historical periods, the people have different contents, including different classes, strata and groups. Marx said, "The state is an abstract thing. Only the people are concrete things. " Comrade Mao Zedong put forward more clearly: "There is only concrete freedom and concrete democracy in the world, but there is no abstract freedom and abstract democracy." Therefore, we can’t talk about democracy in the abstract, but we should distinguish the specific connotation of people and democracy.

The economic base determines whether people can be masters of their own affairs.

The concept of democracy changes with the changes of the people. Fundamentally speaking, this change is determined by the economic base. Lenin pointed out: "Any democracy, like any political superstructure (this superstructure must exist before the class is eliminated and the classless society is established), in the final analysis, it serves production and is determined by the production relations in that society." The concept of democracy changes with the changes of the people, and the people’s practical activities themselves are restricted by certain social and historical conditions, among which economic conditions play a primary and decisive role. In different production relations or economic systems, people’s practical activities and their functions are different, so the form of democracy varies with the economic base and people’s practical activities, and develops with their development.

Bourgeois democracy is based on capitalist private ownership. Therefore, although it is formally a "one-person-one-vote" electoral system, it is said that the "people" and the majority are the masters of the country, but in essence it only serves the dictatorship of the minority, that is, the bourgeoisie. As Lenin pointed out, "bourgeois democracy guarantees the equality of citizens regardless of gender, religion, race and nationality at any time and place, but it has never been implemented anywhere". Bourgeois democracy just "allows the oppressed to decide once every few years who will represent and suppress them in the parliament". Therefore, although bourgeois democracy has developed in line with the capitalist mode of production, it has played a certain progressive role in the development of human history. "But it is always a narrow, incomplete, hypocritical and deceptive democracy under the capitalist system, which is a paradise for the rich, a trap and a scam for the exploited and the poor." This form of democracy will eventually be replaced by socialist democracy.

General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out that "the people are the masters of the country is the essence and core of socialist democratic politics". Socialism has eliminated the exploiting classes and enabled the overwhelming majority of the social population to be masters of their own affairs. Therefore, socialist democracy is the most extensive democracy that truly realizes the interests of the overwhelming majority of people in the history of human society.

The whole process of people’s democracy is the new development of socialist democracy.

The concept of democracy changes with the changes of the people. Only in the socialist stage, especially when the people can manage state affairs, economic and cultural undertakings and social affairs according to law through various channels and forms, and actually participate in all aspects of these democratic practices, can such people truly become the masters of the country, society and their own destiny, thus realizing real democracy. Lenin once reminded Russian revolutionaries that "proletarian or Soviet democracy does not focus on declaring the rights and freedoms of all people, but actually ensures that those working people who have been oppressed and exploited by capital can actually participate in state management." Lenin used two "realities" to emphasize that only by paying close attention to implementation can the people truly be masters of their own affairs. Ensuring and supporting the people to be masters of their own affairs is not a slogan or empty talk, but must be implemented in all aspects of national political life and social life.

Since the founding of New China, especially since the reform and opening up, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has United and led the people to successfully open up and adhere to the road of political development in Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and gradually implemented the requirements of the broadest socialist democracy. In November 2019, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed during his inspection tour in Shanghai: "People’s democracy is a whole-process democracy, and all major legislative decisions are made through scientific and democratic decision-making in accordance with procedures and through democratic brewing." People’s democracy in the whole process not only adheres to and perfects the institutional requirements of socialist democracy for the participation subject and the comprehensive content, but also emphasizes the integrity of the actual participation process itself, so that the people’s subjective status is more respected and the people’s initiative spirit is better brought into play. The whole process of people’s democracy includes democratic election, democratic consultation, democratic decision-making, democratic management and democratic supervision. The General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "Whether the people enjoy democratic rights depends on whether they have the right to vote in elections and whether they have the right to participate continuously in daily political life;" It depends on whether the people have the right to democratic elections and whether they have the right to democratic decision-making, democratic management and democratic supervision. Socialist democracy requires not only complete institutional procedures, but also complete participation in practice. " This important exposition points out that the whole process of people’s democracy emphasizes not only the complete institutional procedures, but also the complete participation in practice, the construction of the democratic system itself and the actual operation of the democratic system.This ensures that democracy in Socialism with Chinese characteristics is sustainable and can take root.

(Author: xingxing, a researcher at the Beijing Supreme Leader New Era Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought Research Center and a researcher at the Marxist Text Research Center of the School of Philosophy of Beijing Normal University)

What is the difference between the eye-catching points of Zhihu and Xiaohongshu in the variety track?

Big data focuses on hot spots 

Zhihu new comprehensive attention to young people’s demands

Zhihu’s upcoming youth round-table talk series "Talks in the Wilderness" focuses on the stories, thoughts and cognition of young people. The program invited Li Xueqin, Xi Rui, Li Haoyuan, Zhang Ruonan, Jiang Xiangui, Li Songwei and Liu Boyang, outstanding respondents from Zhihu, as guests, and adopted the mode of four regular guests and one flying guest in each session to discuss the high fever in Zhihu Station. The program production team "Everyone Records" has produced high-profile humanities documentary programs such as Thirteen Invitations, Friends and Discretion. The recording scene of the program moves from the studio to the outdoors, avoiding scenic spots and popular routes, choosing wilderness, forest and river beach, and combining the space scene with the content theme under the concept of "spiritual wilderness", which is quite aware of the unique tonality of the community.

"The Career I yearn for" is a documentary observation program for young people in the workplace. In each issue, an outstanding post-90 s workplace person leads the audience to experience different careers in an immersive way. During the program, the audience can feel the daily work of programmers in Silicon Valley, walk into foreign companies and Internet giants, and get close to the lawyer industry … At the same time, the program sets up a second observation room to invite professionals to discuss topics, so that users can gain interesting and useful workplace skills. The regular guests of the program include Yang Tianzhen, Ming Chen and Ran Gaoming.

College entrance examination is the focus of the whole society. During the college entrance examination in 2022, there were 7.67 million questions related to the college entrance examination in Zhihu, and the number of related search words was 197 million times. Many college entrance examination "experienced people" share their knowledge, experience and opinions in Zhihu, and many candidates look for the "answers" they want in Zhihu. In this context, the college entrance examination documentary interview variety show "My College Entrance Examination Forgetting Book" came into being. The original script of the program comes from the college entrance examination topics that young users pay attention to and discuss hotly in Zhihu, and the user’s question-and-answer interaction. Respondents ranged in age from 20 to 40, covering a variety of occupations.

Jiang Mingxue, head of the pan-entertainment operation team in Zhihu, told the reporter of Variety Daily that there are a lot of professional discussions and high-quality contents in Zhihu in the fields of college entrance examination, workplace, life and emotion. "The upcoming three variety shows are an extension of Zhihu’s content ecology. The program invited many Zhihu hosts as guests, which will provide a broad development space for the creators. From the content point of view, these three variety shows not only have innovative breakthroughs in themes, but also conform to the current cultural and ideological trends of young users, and are an interpretation of the development direction of Zhihu as a question and answer community. "

Love women homemade variety show

Xiaohongshu focuses on young lifestyles.

The diversified little red book is also expanding the territory of entertainment products and joining the self-made variety track. In July last year, Xiaohongshu launched the travel reality show "Escape from the City Plan". Subsequently, the same type of "Two Days and One Night Camping Plan" was launched in Xiaohongshu, inviting bloggers to camp in various places. Xiaohongshu also launched a cultural program "Night in the Corner", in which Liang Wendao, the host, together with Chen Danqing, Chen Di, Liu Qing, Li Houchen, Huang Zhizhong, Jiang Sida and other guests, expressed their opinions on topics of concern or hot discussion among young people at present, such as love will, consumption concept and investment proposition.

At the end of 2021, Xiaohongshu’s self-made life program "I’m going to live like this" went online, and traveled around the city through "life home" and "experience officer", opening up lifestyles in different scenes such as sports, travel and art, and driving users to share their hobbies. In May of this year, the program started the second season of "camping season" with a new theme. Under the wave of reasoning variety sweeping across major platforms, Xiaohongshu recently launched a self-made variety "Let’s Reasoning Together", inviting bloggers at the head of the platform to participate and launch an immersive script killing.

Judging from the content and form, the variety show launched by Xiaohongshu has a short duration, and KOL and fashion stars in the station are invited as guests. These variety shows are quite platform-oriented, basically focusing on the lifestyle of young people, and the content also focuses on the common tourism, food and other sectors of the platform. Little Red Book’s self-made variety shows are biased towards female theme content. According to the "2021 Little Red Book Active User Portrait Trend Report", women account for 90.41% of the active users of Little Red Book. Taking female theme as the starting point is a major feature of its vertical marketing.

Variety enhances user stickiness 

Differentiated advantages produce "long tail"

"Compared with film and television content, variety shows have stronger social attributes and are easier to drive community fans." Bao Ran, a member of the Science and Technology Committee of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television and the Network Audiovisual Professional Committee, told the reporter of Variety Daily that Zhihu and Xiaohongshu are both community platforms. In order to stimulate the stock and growth, they need to broadcast and share new stories, so as to increase the user’s stickiness and strengthen the connection between communities.

Bao Ran takes Xiaohongshu as an example. The advantage of UGC (user-generated content) in the station is that it is fast in quantity, but the disadvantage is that quality control is difficult to grasp. "At present, the regulatory authorities are more and more strict in the management of MCN institutions and online celebrity, and Xiaohongshu needs to constantly optimize and improve the community content ecology. Homemade variety shows are not only more formal, but also have a production threshold, which is conducive to the transfer of traffic to high-quality content. " Bao Ran bluntly said that many Internet platforms are now facing the bottleneck of the disappearance of user growth dividends. Both Xiaohongshu and Zhihu have been exploring new paths beyond their core business in recent years.

However, compared with Tik Tok, Aauto Quicker, bilibili and Watermelon Video, Zhihu and Xiaohongshu have not made such a big step, and a series of actions are just constantly strengthening their platform attributes. For example, several programs launched by Xiaohongshu are typical micro-variety shows, closely following social topics such as camping and travel; Zhihu’s upcoming program also focuses on issues of concern to youth groups based on its own characteristics of "professional discussion". "The cost of traditional variety shows is gradually rising, and the income depends solely on advertising sponsorship, and the shelf life is also short. Zhihu and Xiaohongshu exert their strength in variety shows. Naturally, they have to take a differentiated route to get a slice of the market. This small and beautiful strategy is a good choice. " Bao Wei said.

Talking about the expectation of self-made variety shows on the platform, Jiang Mingxue said that the layout of self-made variety shows is an attempt by Zhihu to extend high-quality content and an innovation of traditional variety shows. The production, dissemination, interaction and aggregation of the contents of the three programs are all completed in Zhihu. At the same time, the opinions and topics in the program will be widely discussed by users on Zhihu, which will precipitate and accumulate, resulting in the long tail effect. "We hope that Zhihu’s high-quality content can form a positive content closed loop and create a better community ecology."

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What benefits will the merger of national tax and local tax bring to taxpayers?

  On the morning of June 15th, the State Taxation Bureau and Local Taxation Bureau of all provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) and cities under separate state planning merged and listed in a unified way, marking a key step in the reform of the national tax and local tax collection and management system. After the listing of the new provincial tax bureau, before the end of July, the municipal and county tax bureaus will complete the reform issues such as centralized office and listing of new institutions step by step.

  (Wang Jun, Party Secretary and Director of State Taxation Administration of The People’s Republic of China, and Chen Jining, Deputy Secretary of Beijing Municipal Committee and Mayor jointly unveiled the Beijing Municipal Taxation Bureau of State Taxation Administration of The People’s Republic of China)

  Reforming the collection and management system of national tax and local tax is a major reform to strengthen the party’s overall leadership over tax work and enhance the role of tax service in national governance. What is the significance of this reform? How will the reform be promoted step by step? What sense of gain will the reform bring to taxpayers?

  Why to build an optimized, efficient and unified collection and management system?

  The Plan for Deepening the Reform of the Party and State Institutions clearly states that the main content of the reform of the collection and management system of national taxation and local taxation is to merge the national taxation and local taxation institutions at or below the provincial level, implement a dual leadership management system with State Taxation Administration of The People’s Republic of China as the main body and the provincial (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) governments, and hand over various social insurance premiums such as basic old-age insurance premiums, basic medical insurance premiums and unemployment insurance premiums to the tax authorities for unified collection.

  Wang Jun, director of State Taxation Administration of The People’s Republic of China, said that this is a major reform to strengthen the Party’s overall leadership over tax work, to enhance the role of tax revenue in serving the country’s governance, to build a strong tax image for the people, to facilitate the people and to benefit the people, and to build a strong foundation for the long-term development of tax revenue.

  Why should the tax authorities be merged from the separation of national tax and local tax?

  The "Proposal" points out the purpose of the reform: reducing the collection cost, rationalizing the relationship between responsibilities, improving the efficiency of collection and management, and providing taxpayers with better, more efficient and convenient services.

  The "Proposal" requires that the structural layout and strength allocation should be improved in accordance with the principle of combining "slimming" with "fitness" to build an optimized, efficient and unified tax collection and management system.

  Hu Yijian, dean of the Institute of Public Policy and Governance of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, believes that the reform of national tax and local taxation institutions from separation to merger is conducive to improving operational efficiency, including reducing collection costs, improving collection and management efficiency, and promoting fair competition. After the merger of national tax and local tax agencies, tax-related information exchange, unified collection and management, consistent treatment, preferential transparency, promote the normal and reasonable flow of enterprises between regions, and allocate resources more effectively and rationally.

  How to change the seven stagesstepcarry forward

  The reform of tax institutions involves both tax collection and fee collection. It is necessary to integrate a variety of complex issues across sectors and promote them at different levels at the provincial, city, county and township levels. How will the reform be promoted?

  According to Wang Jun, director of State Taxation Administration of The People’s Republic of China, according to the overall schedule, which is a little later than the ministries and commissions and a little earlier than the local institutional reform, the reform of tax institutions can be divided into seven main stages: unifying thoughts to ensure stability, designing top-level plans, mobilizing deployment, improving the model of provincial bureaus, promoting full coverage in cities and counties, summing up experience to find gaps, optimizing and improving and upgrading.

  In order to ensure that the reform is vigorously, orderly and effectively promoted, the State Administration of Taxation has established a three-level system of "reform plan+supporting measures+operation documents" and formulated a task account, road map and timetable for a package of reform matters to ensure the smooth progress and implementation of the reform.

  According to the overall arrangement of the reform of the national tax and local tax collection and management system, the institutional reform of the tax system will be promoted in the order of listing first and then "three decisions", making the provincial bureau reform sound first and then solidly promoting the reform of the municipal bureau and county bureau, merging the national tax and local tax institutions first and then transferring the social security fees and non-tax revenue collection and management responsibilities. Before the end of July, the municipal and county tax bureaus will complete the reform of centralized office and listing of new institutions step by step.

  Fan Yong, a professor at the Central University of Finance and Economics, said that after the reform of the tax collection and management system, non-tax revenue and social insurance premiums will be included in the tax department’s collection and management. This will undoubtedly make social security fees and non-tax revenue more standardized in the system, which will not only help reduce the cost and improve the efficiency of collection and management, but also create conditions for future tax and fee system reform, unify the government revenue system, standardize the income distribution order, and consolidate the modernization foundation of national governance.

  New changes optimize taxpayers’ tax experience

  After the reform of the tax collection and management system, how will the collection and management business and information system be integrated?

  Rao Lixin, Director of the Department of Tax Collection and Science and Technology Development of the State Administration of Taxation, introduced that the State Administration of Taxation has formulated the Work Plan for Reforming the Tax Collection and Management System of National Taxation and Local Taxation. With the listing of new tax agencies at the provincial, municipal and county levels, the tax system will realize "six unifications" at that time, namely "one office for national taxation and local taxation", "one network for national taxation and local taxation", 12366 "one-click consultation" and one-time collection of real-name information.

  The State Administration of Taxation has made it clear that after the listing of new institutions, in order to facilitate taxpayers to pay taxes, most tax service offices will keep their existing tax service places and locations unchanged. Another direct change is that taxpayers will reduce the submission of tax information. The tax authorities of all provinces sort out the list of items in the same business of the original national tax and local tax, integrate the submitted materials, and archive the materials in a unified way, so that taxpayers only need to submit one set of the same materials and apply for the same tax-related items once.

  In addition, taxpayers can also handle all tax-related matters in one office. At present, there are 9,365 tax service offices in China that have achieved "one hall for all".

  Zhao Xiaogang, a financial officer of Buchang Pharmaceutical Company, said that "one office for all" not only avoids "running back and forth", but also further unifies, degenerates and standardizes the submission of tax-related information, simplifies and optimizes the tax payment process and reduces the tax payment cost.

  Li Wanfu, director of the Tax Science Research Institute of the State Administration of Taxation, said that the smooth merger of national tax and local tax agencies will definitely improve the capacity building of tax collection and management in an all-round way, lay a good institutional and institutional foundation for the sustainable growth of national fiscal revenue, and provide a strong guarantee for tax collection and management to further deepen the tax reform.

There is such a legendary life behind "Dream of the Dream"!

Poster of "Dream of the Dream"


Special feature of 1905 film network On October 14th, the Hollywood fantasy film Dream of the Giant was released in mainland China. As we all know, it is a masterpiece of the great director Steven Allan Spielberg this year, but most people may not know it very well. There is a more legendary figure behind this film. The following small series will take you to understand the shocking life experience of this great children’s literature writer. 

  • He used to be a pilot in World War II, but he survived a plane crash.

  • He is a Norwegian, but he serves Britain and works as a spy in the United States.

  • He declared himself an anti-Semitic, so he was boycotted in Israel.

  • He married an Oscar-winning actress, but divorced because he cheated on her best friend at the age of 67.

  • He is an outstanding British children’s literature writer, and his position in the hearts of British readers even exceeds that of J.K. Rowling;

  • He is the original author of Dream of the Dream, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Fantastic Mr. Fox — — Roald dahl.

A giant, a witch, a flying peach, and a little girl with special functions, Roald has created many fantastic and ingenious fairy tales, but if you get to know him better, you will find that his life is no less wonderful than his stories.

A naughty childhood is the source of works.

 

In 1916, Roald was born in Cardiff, the capital of Wales, England. His parents were Norwegian, and Roald’s name also came from the famous Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen..

 

Roald Amundsen was the first person in the world to reach the South Pole.

When Roald was 3 years old, his 7-year-old sister died of appendicitis, and a month later, his father died of pneumonia. Because of his father’s early death, orphans often appear in his fairy tales. For example, James, the protagonist in The Adventures of Flying Peach, whose parents were eaten by rhinoceros, Luke in The Witch and Sophie in The Dream of a Giant are orphans (Sophie’s name comes from Roald’s granddaughter).

James and Luke


Roald used to be naughty when he was a child. There is a candy store on his way to school. The proprietress is very hard on the children, and she won’t let them touch the candy. She also said that they would leave if they didn’t buy anything. So Roald and his friends put a dead mouse in her candy jar.

 

To this end, Roald and his friends were called to the principal’s office to spank. The headmaster is very good at hitting people. He will hit them every five seconds, because the pain is usually delayed for a while, and the second stick comes at the same time when it hurts the most. It is conceivable that this is probably the prototype of the cruel and irritable principal in Matilda.

The headmaster in Matilda

 

When he was in middle school, Cadbury Chocolate Factory would send new chocolate products and ask students to help test the taste. Roald’s dream at that time was to invent a new type of chocolate by himself, which was recognized by Cadbury, which was the source of inspiration for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Second, the open life does not need to be explained.

 

After graduation,RoaldJoined the famous oil company Shell, and was transferred to Tanzania, Africa. At that time, he needed to cross Tanzania to provide oil for customers, so he was attacked by lions, cobras and other wild animals on his way, but they all survived.

 

During World War II, Roald joined the British Air Force, and he conducted flight training with 20 companions. As a result, 17 people died in air combat. Once, an air force commander asked him to fly to a seaside town. At that time, pilots didn’t have navigation equipment, and they all relied on maps to identify their directions. He flew in accordance with the instructions and found that it was a desert and could not find the airport to land. At this time, it was getting dark, so he had to risk landing. As a result, the wheels of the plane hit the gravel, causing the plane to crash and catch fire. He climbed out of the plane and took his life. Later, I learned that it was the commander who made a mistake in his position.

 

Roald was taken to the hospital. He was injured in both eyes, and his vision had not recovered. He fell in love with the nurse who looked after him by voice. Eight weeks later, the first person he saw when his vision recovered was the same nurse, but he decided not to love her anymore. Why do you think this is?

 

In 1942, Roald, who was discharged from the army, was sent to the British Embassy in the United States, during which he met the famous writer C.S. Forrest.Because Forrest worked for British intelligence, Roald was also influenced by it and began to engage in espionage. During the war, he gave information about Washington to his boss, William Stephenson, a Canadian spy leader who was famous for his bravery. It is said that,RoaldIts main task is to gather intelligence by luring powerful American women.

 

Later, when Roald returned to Britain, the intelligence department doubted his loyalty to Britain and kicked him out of the intelligence unit.After that, thanks toStephenson was promoted to his official position so that he could return to work in Washington.

Roald dahl Square


In 1990,RoaldDied, in order to commemorate him, Cardiff’s landmark Oval Basin plaza was renamed as Roald Dahl Plass. "Plass" means Norwegian square, which is to express his recognition of Norwegian nationality. His birthday, September 13th, was also designated as roald dahl Day.

Third, the legendary marriage is like a tragicomedy.

Roald was married twice. The first wife was Patricia Neal, a beautiful woman and the winner of the Oscar for Best Actress. Her major works include day the earth stood still, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Heidi.


Patricia Neal in his youth.


They have five children. When his son Theo was four months old, he was hit by a taxi in the stroller, causing severe brain edema and almost losing his eyes. Roald and experts developed a medical product to relieve symptoms, which made Theo gradually recover and grow up smoothly. Later, their seven-year-old daughter Olivia died of measles.

Roald and Patricia

 

The disaster didn’t stop. Patricia suffered three strokes when she was pregnant with her fifth child Lucy at the age of 39. Roald tried every means to help her recover, and it was a year before she could walk and talk again. However, love can’t last longer than gold, and sharing weal and woe doesn’t necessarily last forever. In 1983, Patricia found out that Roald had an affair with his best friend, and then decided to divorce.

Fourth, I never stop writing and finally embark on the road of literature.

After coming to the United States,ForrestEncouraged by him, Roald began to write war memoirs, and thus embarked on the road of writing. Roald wrote three novels and more than 60 short stories, and won three Allen Poe Literature Awards.

 

Roald’s story is not only sought after by American magazines, but also favored by the film and television circles. Walter Disney had planned to adapt his first children’s literature work, The Naughty Elf, into a film, but it failed.

Walter Disney andRoald

His adult novel The Smoker was included in Hitchcock’s Suspense Stories, and was later adapted into a part of the film Four Rooms by Quentin Talentino.Roald himself has been a screenwriter, and his works include the 007 series "Lei Ting Gu" and his own work "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" in 1971.


Five, Roald’s major film adaptations


Dream of the Dream Giant 2016


Sophie, a girl in an orphanage, couldn’t sleep at night and found a giant several stories high. The giant took her back to her cave. It turned out that she was a kind-hearted giant who specialized in collecting dreams and then blew them into the children’s room with a trumpet. But other giants are terrible, and they all take people as food. The film tells the story of Sophie and a good-hearted giant against a man-eating giant.


Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009.

Father Fox bought a tree house, and the neighbors across the street were three ruthless farmers. The delicious food on the farm aroused the desire of Father Fox to be a "Jiang Yang thief", so he made a detailed plan and successfully looted three farms. But the farmers are not good. They decided to catch Father Fox by all means. This protracted war is on the verge of breaking out, even involving all the animals in the surrounding area. Who will win or lose in the end?


Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2005.

The film tells that the little boy Charlie and his family live a poor and harmonious life. Charlie’s favorite is the chocolate produced by Wonka Chocolate Factory. This is the largest chocolate factory in the world. His owner, Mr. Wonka, is very creative and invents all kinds of sweets, but the factory alwaysgateLocked, it seems that no one has ever come in or out. One day, Mr Wonka announced that he would invite five lucky children to visit his factory, and Charlie became the last lucky one. So, what amazing secrets are hidden in this mysterious factory?

Adventures of Flying Peach, 1996


The little boy James’s parents were eaten by rhinoceros, and two vicious aunts adopted him. The daily abuse made him miserable. One day, James met a mysterious old man. The old man’s magic made a huge peach grow in the yard. James climbed into the peach and met six insects who were also enchanted. They went to dream new york by giant peach together, and went through all kinds of difficulties along the way.


Matilda 1996


Matilda was gifted since she was a child. She began to take care of herself at the age of two. At the age of four, she was able to read books in the library by herself, but her parents were not proud of it. Instead, they always tortured her for her eagerness to learn. After Matilda went to school, her principal was a strong man who liked to abuse students and threw them out of the window at every turn. The only thing that brings Matilda comfort is her teacher, Miss Henny, but Miss Henny also has her own secrets. Matilda gradually discovered that she had the special function of moving things with her mind. She used this skill to teach the headmaster and help Miss Henny.

The Witch 1990


Luke, a little boy whose parents died, lived alone with his grandmother. When the grandparents and grandchildren went to the hotel for a holiday, Luke broke into a big gathering of witches all over Britain and was turned into a mouse by witches. Luke decided to fight with the witches in order to prevent them from hurting other children.