Geely Automobile’s total revenue reached a new high in 2023, and the achievements of new energy transformation were highlighted.

On March 20th, Geely Automobile (00175.HK) announced its financial report for 2023, and the company achieved an operating income of 179.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 21%, a record high. The net profit of returning to the mother reached 5.308 billion yuan, compared with 3.511 billion yuan after deducting the one-time bargaining acquisition income in 2022, a year-on-year increase of 51%; The net cash level increased by 46% year-on-year to RMB 28.4 billion, and the reserves were abundant and stable.

The financial report shows that Geely Automobile’s profitability has improved significantly, and the gross profit situation has improved due to product structure optimization, cost reduction and scale effect. The total gross profit has increased by 31% year-on-year to 27.4 billion yuan, and the gross profit margin has increased from 14.1% in 2022 to 15.3% in 2023.

Behind the bright financial data is the strong market growth potential of Geely Automobile. According to the data of the Federation, in 2023, the cumulative retail volume of domestic passenger cars was 21.699 million, a year-on-year increase of 5.6%. Under the background that the overall growth of the automobile industry is slowing down and the market competition is becoming increasingly fierce, Geely Automobile has exceeded its annual target of 2023, with a cumulative sales volume of 1,686,500 vehicles, up about 18% year-on-year, and its annual sales volume has reached a record high. At the same time, Geely Automobile has also become one of the few car companies that successfully completed the annual sales target.

It is worth noting that the new energy vehicle business has become a strong support for Geely’s performance growth. In 2023, the domestic new energy vehicle market still maintained a growth trend, and the cumulative wholesale sales volume of new energy passenger cars was 8.864 million, a year-on-year increase of 36.3%.

In this context, Geely Automobile’s sales of new energy vehicles still outperformed the broader market in 2023, with a year-on-year increase of 48%, a penetration rate of 29%, and a monthly penetration rate of over 40%.

Among them, the brand-new middle and high-end new energy brand "Geely Yinhe" series has rapidly brought three products, namely Yinhe L7, Yinhe L6 and Yinhe E8, to the market since it was released in February last year, forming a product layout of pure electric+hybrid electric, car +SUV in the mainstream new energy market, and achieving a cumulative sales volume of over 110,000 vehicles in nine months after listing. Since the release of the brand, Geely Galaxy has continuously strengthened its "high-value reputation", and its models are equipped with self-developed Aegis battery safety system, Raytheon hybrid, Galaxy N OS and other technological configurations, becoming the "king of volume" in the mainstream new energy market.

At present, the Krypton brand has firmly established itself in the luxury intelligent pure electric market. 2023 is a year of accelerated evolution of Krypton, and two new models have been launched, and the product matrix continues to expand. In 2023, a total of 118,700 vehicles were delivered, a year-on-year increase of 65%. As of December 31, 2023, the cumulative delivery of Extreme Krypton brand exceeded 190,000, setting a new record for the delivery speed of new forces, and its four models have become the benchmark of market segments.

In addition, the electrification transformation of the Lectra brand has also achieved good results. In 2023, Lectra brand launched a number of new energy vehicles equipped with plug-in hybrid technology, such as Lectra 09, Lectra 08 and Lectra 06. Among them, the sales volume of LEEK 08EM-P increased steadily after its listing, and it became a hot-selling product in the high-end plug-in SUV market. According to the data in December 2023, the new energy vehicles of the Lectra brand account for 55.3% of the total monthly sales, and the electrification transformation is expected in the future.

At the same time, Geely Holding Group has owned a number of listed companies, which also provides a more solid foundation and support for Geely Automobile’s future performance growth. For example, Lotus, which recently listed on the US stock market, has aroused widespread concern in the industry.

"The listing of sub-brands including Lotus has important positive significance for consolidating the core business of Geely Holding. Geely Holding and its global strategic partners have maintained continuous, stable and growing cooperation for a long time in terms of technology authorization and technology research and development services. The development of sub-brands has created a good foundation for Geely Holding’s internal collaboration and cooperation with Geely Automobile based on the principle of marketization, and also brought opportunities for revenue growth for Geely Automobile Group. " Li Donghui, CEO of Geely Holding Group, Vice Chairman and Executive Director of Geely Automobile Holdings Limited, said.

At present, the competition of electric vehicles has entered the intelligent competition in the second half. It is very important for major car companies to master the core technologies in the intelligent field and apply them on a large scale, which is also the key to win the competition.

For Geely Automobile, intelligence is also its key business area. In 2023, Geely Automobile’s strategic layout in intelligence gradually ushered in the "harvest period", and the results of "Smart Geely 2025" successively landed.

For example, in February 2023, Geely Star Smart Computing Center was officially launched, becoming a smart computing center with leading self-built equipment scale, leading comprehensive computing power, leading business coverage, leading intelligent support capability and high security level among domestic car companies. In January, 2024, Geely Xingrui AI model was officially released, leading the AI era of China automobile in full scene.

In the field of intelligent driving and intelligent cockpit, the satellite communication technology of "integration of heaven and earth" has been initially constructed. At present, two orbital surfaces have been launched and deployed, and there are 20 satellites in orbit. Geely Yinhe E8 and Kyk-krypton 007 models have taken the lead in carrying self-developed satellite communication technology. In the case of no ground network coverage or damage to the ground network, users can send and receive satellite messages through the car to realize safe travel and "never lose contact".

In addition, the Geely NOA advanced intelligent driving assistance system and the Lectra NOA intelligent driving system have been opened, and the extremely high-speed autonomous navigation assistance of NZP has been opened in 22 cities including Shanghai, Hangzhou and Guangzhou. Starting from the second quarter of this year, the city NZP will also open the first batch of users’ public beta in the national core cities.

Thanks to the core intelligent technology, Geely Automobile’s product strength has grown strongly, and in the new round of market ‘ Inner volume ’ It is expected to form differentiated competition and win the initiative. In the beginning of 2024, the domestic auto market set off a new round of "price war", and the competition was extremely fierce. Under this background, Geely Automobile broke through the tight encirclement and ushered in a "good start". From January to February, the cumulative sales volume of Geely Automobile was 324,900 vehicles, up by over 55% year-on-year, among which the sales volume of new energy vehicles was 99,300 vehicles from January to February, up by 208% year-on-year.

"In 2024, the competition in China’s automobile industry will be more intense, and the knockout round will begin in an all-round way. The industry will enter the integration period and reshuffle. Geely Automobile adheres to the basic practice of internal strength and long-term, and insists on quality first and safety first for a long time. At the same time, it gives full play to the advantages of scale, systematic efficiency and innovation ability, improves product quality and achieves cost reduction and efficiency improvement. " Yan Jiayue, CEO of Geely Automobile Group, said.

The profound technical background and constantly evolving product strength have given Geely Automobile the confidence to continue to soar. In 2024, Geely Automobile set an annual sales target of 1.9 million vehicles, up about 13% year-on-year, of which 810,000 vehicles were new energy vehicles, up more than 66% compared with the total sales achieved in 2023, and the penetration rate of new energy increased from 29% in 2023 to 42.6% in 2024.

At the product level, Geely Automobile accelerated the iteration, launched a new round of product offensive, and continued to push the brand upward. In 2024, Geely brand will push three new energy products; The lectra brand will push three brand-new new energy products, and the first new energy medium-sized car, Lectra 07 EM-P, will be launched in May. Extreme brand will push three new energy products.

Shen Wanhongyuan said in the research report that in the complicated competitive environment, only the brand is the element that can be remembered and preserved by the market. Geely, Link, and even Krypton have all proved Geely’s brand operation ability. Shen Wanhongyuan is still optimistic about the high-quality independent brand enterprises that insist on operating brands, and believes that they will eventually occupy a bigger sky after the big waves.

(This article does not constitute any investment advice, and the information disclosure content shall be subject to the company announcement. Investors operate accordingly at their own risk. )

A deputy director of Chongqing wrote a novel and was transferred to the vice chairman of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles on the rich list (Figure)

  Writing online novels to earn milk powder money, thinking that he wrote social novels rather than officialdom novels, has been transferred to the vice chairman of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles.

  Text/Figure Guangzhou Daily reporter Zhang Dan

  Zhang Bing, 46, stood in front of the reporter, glowing with the brilliance of a mature man.

  From 2010 to 2012, for three consecutive years, under the pen name "Xiaoqiao Laoshu", he won the list of rich writers through royalties of more than one million yuan per year. In 2010 and 2011, Hou Weidong’s Notes on Officialdom was selected into the China Book Power List selected by Guangzhou Daily twice. In 2012, Notes on Hou Weidong Officialdom won the Bronze Award of the West Lake Type Literature Biennial Award jointly selected by Zhejiang Writers Association and China Literature and Art Newspaper.

  Zhang Bing modestly told the Guangzhou Daily reporter that he was not even an "official", but a "petty official" at best. He prefers to call his novels "social novels" rather than "officialdom novels".

  Recently, Zhang Bing is rushing around Beijing and other major cities for his new book "The Past of Bazhou". At this time, his identity is a best-selling novel writer on the Internet. And his other little-known identity is a place class cadre. Zhang Bing used to be a member and deputy director of the Municipal Garden Administration Bureau of Yongchuan District, Chongqing, and now he is a member and vice chairman of the local Federation of Literary and Art Circles.

  On famous novels

  Struggle is the hero’s way to success.

  Guangzhou Daily: You are famous for Notes of Hou Weidong Officialdom. What do you think of this novel?

  Zhang Bing: The so-called officialdom novels are classified for the purpose of sales. In essence, I feel that I am only writing a social novel. Just because the protagonist is a civil servant, the name of the novel is called "Official Notes". In fact, the characters involved in the novel are all kinds of people, including farmers, entrepreneurs, pyramid schemes and all professions.

  Guangzhou Daily: Was there a similar novel on the Internet at that time?

  Zhang Bing: No. At that time, many of the online "officialdom novels" were written in the way of crossing. For example, the author crossed back into the officialdom and used his later knowledge to change his fate. This is the mainstream. The novel I wrote is a purely documentary theme, without any trace of fantasy. To put it more professionally, there is no "golden finger" in the novel that changes the protagonist’s fate, and struggle is his way to success.

  Guangzhou Daily: It is called a must-read novel for civil servants, even a "textbook". What do you think?

  Zhang Bing: I think it’s not just a textbook for civil servants, but a textbook for all young people. Because all "shopping malls", "officialdom" and other industries have the same cultural genes, the same ideas and methods of doing things, but each has its own geographical and industrial characteristics. It solves the problems that young people encounter when they enter the job, and these problems are common.

  On novel creation

  It’s time to change.

  Guangzhou Daily: There have been media reports before that you originally wrote online novels to earn money for children’s milk powder?

  Zhang Bing: Yes. After graduating from college, my wife was assigned to Beibei District, and I was assigned to Yongchuan District. There was a two-hour drive between them. Because of the separation between the two places, she resigned and came to my side, but she lost money in business and was pregnant with a child. I was working in a government office, and my monthly salary was only 13,400 yuan. There was a child who was eating milk powder, and his wife was breastfeeding, so she couldn’t go out to work. What should I do with this income?

  I just want to make money legally. At that time, I saw that a novel website advertised that an online writer could earn one million yuan a year writing novels, so I moved my mind to write online novels. This money is unimaginable in government agencies.

  Guangzhou Daily: What office were you working in?

  Zhang Bing: I was in the Political and Legal Committee, and then I went to the Bureau of Landscape Architecture. Before that, I also stayed at the grassroots level.

  Guangzhou Daily: How much can you earn every month by writing online novels?

  Zhang Bing: At that time, I was still at work, and I couldn’t guarantee to update my novels every day, so I didn’t subscribe much, but I still got three or four thousand yuan a month. This is much higher than my salary. I was late in writing novels, and I was older. I was 35 years old. I have never worked in writing before, but I have come into contact with a lot of people and things, and I have a certain life experience, which has become my advantage.

  In addition, my writing experience is consistent with the development of online novels. I entered from the development stage of novel websites, when there were subscriptions online, and novels could be supported by online fees. Since then, the novel website has entered the capital stage. After a large amount of capital enters, it is accompanied by IP fever.

  Guangzhou Daily: What was the theme of your first novel?

  Zhang Bing: The first novel is a travel novel, which is called "Yellow Sand Wears Golden Armor in Hundreds of Battles". Later, I found that although time-travel novels were not my specialty, they were still rated as one of the more representative time-travel novels in those years.

  The novel I wrote was in a relatively cold dynasty, and people’s understanding of this history in the late Tang Dynasty and the early Song Dynasty was not high.

  On the Novel’s "Big Sale"

  It’s true, not a "trick"

  Guangzhou Daily: When did Hou Weidong’s Notes on Officialdom become popular?

  Zhang Bing: After I wrote Notes on Hou Weidong Officialdom for a year and a half, I found that this novel has become popular. At that time, it was 2010, and the search engine would publish the search list of online novels, and "Hou Weidong" had already ranked in the top ten. It is actually a novel that changes the fate of the protagonist. Changing the fate is a problem facing many young people. If you want to survive, you must change your destiny.

  Guangzhou Daily: Your brushwork is still very delicate.

  Zhang Bing: My mother is a Chinese teacher. When we were young, the most annoying thing she said was that no matter where we went to play, she would definitely say, "Watch carefully and write a diary when you come back." At that time, I hated this sentence most, which made us have no fun.

  But in retrospect, diary writing at that time still played a certain role in later novel creation.

  Guangzhou Daily: Why do you think your novels stand out among many online novels?

  Zhang Bing: True.

  Because I have rich grassroots experience, the stories I write are those things that happened at the grassroots level. Everyone likes it because it is true. I didn’t judge it. I just told it out, which is relatively objective.

  My book is about the changes of the times and the fate of characters. Therefore, I have always denied that this is an "official novel". It is about an era, but the character is a civil servant.

  Many of the things I wrote are "officials" and can’t reach "officials". Many people read my novels, and they must feel the fate of the characters before they like them. Everyone is very supportive of my "entrepreneurship"

  On Cultural "Matrix"

  This is the limitation of every author.

  Guangzhou Daily: When did you go to college?

  Zhang Bing: In 1992, so the background of all the protagonists in my novels was in the early 1990s. At that time, it happened to be my youth, and it was the time when my work began. Every author has certain limitations in time and space, which cannot be avoided.

  In other words, every author has a "matrix" of writing, which is composed of time and space, and is both a "matrix" and a limitation. Every author has his favorite place and time. If the author can completely transcend the place and time, he must be a great writer, which is rare.

  It should be said that "Bashu" is my cultural "matrix".

  Guangzhou Daily: When you first joined the civil service, was it what you imagined?

  Zhang Bing: My father works in a prison. I know that it is impossible for a civil servant to make a fortune. What I am thinking about is that I can change my family’s situation by legal and proper means and with my own ability. I thought of writing in my spare time. Fortunately, I succeeded as soon as I wrote it.

  Guangzhou Daily: If you write "Hou Weidong" now, will you still be able to achieve the success of the past?

  Zhang Bing: This is not a question of the times, but a question of people. After so many years, I can’t write the same works as at that time. It may be better or worse than at that time. If the writing is the same, in this era, I think the work will still be successful. The gene of culture goes deep into people’s bone marrow, and people may not realize it themselves.

  Guangzhou Daily: Do you always write after you get home from work?

  Zhang Bing: All of them. I spend all my spare time writing. I don’t play cards, dance, sing, smoke or keep mistresses. I have no time. My spare time life is writing life.

  Guangzhou Daily: Did the unit know that you were writing a novel?

  Zhang Bing: I didn’t know that before. But in 2010, I was on the list of rich writers, and the unit knew.

  On the Transfer of Literary Federation

  I volunteered to go there.

  Guangzhou Daily: Does it affect you if the company knows that you write novels?

  Zhang Bing: It doesn’t have much impact. Now it is a pluralistic society, and people are already very inclusive. They are more appreciative of my "entrepreneurship" and won’t think I am eccentric.

  Guangzhou Daily: What is the reason why you transferred from the deputy director of the Bureau of Landscape Architecture to the Federation of Literary and Art Circles?

  Zhang Bing: I went to the Federation of Literary and Art Circles to be a member of the leading group, vice chairman, and also a deputy division level, which is a level tone. This is my decision to combine my personal wishes with organizational needs.

  In fact, the main reason for the transfer is that I applied for it myself. Because in the functional department, things are too complicated, which takes up a lot of my time. Personally, I feel that I am a very mediocre deputy director, but as an author who specializes in writing novels in Bayu area, I am excellent. I think I should be put in a place of greater value.

Turkey officially changed its English name and stopped being a "turkey"

On May 31st, local time, Turkish Foreign Minister cavusoglu posted on his social media platform that he submitted a letter to the UN Secretary-General that day, requesting to change the name of Turkey’s foreign language country to "Türkiye". Cavusoglu said on the social platform: "Under the leadership of President Erdogan, the process initiated by Turkey to improve the national brand value has already yielded results. I submitted a letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations today to register the foreign name of our country as’ Tü rkiye’ at the United Nations. "
Turkish foreign minister shows UN documents. Image source: Internet
According to a report by Anadolu News Agency of Turkey on June 1st, at the request of Turkey, the United Nations changed the name of Turkey’s foreign language from "Turkey" to "Türkiye". Earlier, some media believed that the demand for name change in Turkey might not be smooth sailing, because it was not in the Latin alphabet, which would make it difficult for relevant international institutions to change their registered names.
The name change in Turkey has been going on for half a year. As early as December 4 last year, Turkish President Erdogan issued a presidential decree to change his name. Erdogan believes that the new name "Türkiye" can "best represent the culture, civilization and values of the Turkish nation".
In December 2021, Turkey began to use "Türkiye" as its foreign language country name in domestic and international occasions.
In Turkish, Turkey’s name is "Türkiye". In English, the name of Turkey is "Turkey". The word "turkey" has the meaning of "turkey" in English, and is even defined as "a serious failure" or "a stupid person" in Cambridge dictionary. This is also the reason why Turkey launched the name-correcting action.
"British Weekly" believes that this is a rebranding of Turkey, and the Turkish government will give up the English name that has been used for 100 years. This move is also intended to "ease the diplomatic pattern dominated by English." In January this year, Turkey began to ask for a name change. The Turkish government began to negotiate with the United Nations, hoping to replace "Turkey" with "Türkiye" in all international formal occasions.
The Turkish government also requires the use of "Türkiye" in various activities and communications, including formal relations with other countries, international institutions and organizations.
Upstream news is based on CCTV news, extreme news, etc.
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Recalling the Year | Wang Shuixiong: The "Year Taste" I experienced in those years

[Editor’s note]

North and south of the great river, inside and outside the Great Wall, the customs of different regions are very different. What is displayed behind the Year is an epic of the life of China people. The Paper, please speak column launched a special topic of "Remembering the Year", telling about those years, that city, that village, and those people and things related to the Year.

The Paper Gongwei Cartography

First, the "taste of the year" and the year

When this article is published, my daughter will be three years old. Yes, she was born in January 2016.

My daughter is now attending a nursery near her home and can sing "Happy New Year, Happy New Year, Happy New Year to everyone".

Come to think of it, during the New Year, except for the one in its infancy, the other two Spring Festivals she spent were not at home, so she could not feel the "flavor of the year" of family reunion in a larger family; In fact, I have done the same in recent years, because I am more than forty years older than her, and I have failed to feel the "flavor of the year" more times than her.

I failed to feel the "flavor of the year". On the one hand, I failed to return to my hometown and was in a different place. On the other hand, as far as personal experience is concerned, the "taste of the year" in the Spring Festival itself has also faded.

Second, Nian is a monster.

As a male, in the childhood concept, celebrating the New Year in the countryside has a series of benefits, the first of which is to set off firecrackers in a big way. Unlike girls, they seem to pay too much attention to new clothes and wear red and green.

Adults set off firecrackers in the hall house (the house of the older generation in our village is usually shared by two households, and later it gradually became an independent hall house for each household), and the little boys in the neighborhood will step on it. At that time, firecrackers were not as violent as they are now, and many urchins stepped on them together. After a hanging firecracker was trampled out, they could pick up a lot of unfinished firecrackers. Take them apart and set them off one by one, so they can play for a longer time.

Such behavior, of course, is dangerous, and it is not pleasing-the incomplete setting off of firecrackers is not always auspicious; But firecrackers are scarce, and boys are eager for them, so adults can’t stop them, and they are not likely to stop them. The reason should not be that adults are ashamed of their own pockets; More likely, during the Chinese New Year, especially on the first day of New Year’s Day, adults are afraid of children’s crying. In this way, the only thing they can do for such "urchins" is to warn them in advance.

When I was very young, I seemed to cry once on New Year’s Day because I didn’t get the firecrackers I wanted, and my demands were soon satisfied. This surprised me. At that time, I thought, maybe adults are afraid that the monster "Nian" will be attracted by my crying.

I saw the power of this monster on New Year’s Eve. On the morning of New Year’s Eve, my mother had an important job. She filled a sea bowl (a big bowl) with almost stewed pork and chicken, walked to the shrine with incense sticks in the hall, faced it, and held the sea bowl high above her forehead, mumbling something. After reading in front of the shrine, I went to the gate of the hall house (the gate of the hall house is usually opened when I get up and lasts until I go to bed) and repeated it in the middle. After that, pour the meat from the sea bowl back into the pot.

At that time, I thought it was probably to use the aroma of meat to feed the monster Nian. Later, I learned that my mother was "worshipping God" and praying for the blessings of our ancestors. Before "respecting God", people can’t touch the meat in the pot, not even taste the salty soup. The priority of commanding his ancestors at this time made me misunderstand the power of the monster "Nian" when I was young, so that I could control my desires with fear even though my mouth was full of saliva.

At that time, many people in the village still had the standard portraits of Chairman Mao and Chairman Hua above the shrines of their halls! Later, it was worn out, leaving only white traces that were not cleaned. I don’t know whether the mother’s "mumbling" content, in addition to the blessing of the ancestors, will bring the protection of the two chairmen.

After the portraits of the two chairmen, the position above the shrine has been vacant for so many years, but people’s lives are getting better day by day.

Third, New Year’s Eve "Group annual lunch"

Hot air fills the air, red candles are flourishing, and after setting off firecrackers, every household has lunch on New Year’s Eve.

Unlike many places where we eat "New Year’s Eve", the lunch at noon on New Year’s Eve in my hometown is a grand family reunion dinner (the dinner at night is a simple meal for small families themselves). This lunch is cooked by the brother who is the best cook in the family, and the women help. The cooked dishes can be served all over the table. Brothers (whether separated or not), sisters (unmarried), sisters-in-law and sisters-in-law, including grandchildren, all come to the appointed place for dinner, usually the "living room" of their parents’ house (let’s use this name). After the death of their father, the place for the reunion dinner is often chosen at the brother’s house who cooks the reunion dinner.

The so-called "living room" is directly connected with the living room, which has the functions of kitchen, dining room and small living room at the same time (large banquet guests are usually in the living room). In the corner near the window, there are often large benches that are basically fixed against the wall on both sides, and the center of the square they enclose is a kitchen stove. Ground stoves can be used to keep warm at ordinary times; When cooking, you can go to the iron pot; When eating, put the table on one side directly above the kitchen stove, with a wide bench on the edge and parallel to it, and then put a smaller bench on the remaining two sides of the table, so that the family can sit down and eat around the table.

When eating this meal, my father and brothers go to the table together, sit on the first wide bench against the wall, and drink some wine; Women and grandchildren, on the other hand, have to squeeze into the next narrow bench. When there are many people, they can’t even sit in a fixed seat. They can only stand by and eat, and sometimes they have to help their uncles who have finished drinking on the big bench.

This "Group annual lunch" will set off firecrackers when it is eaten. Apart from being serious, it may have a special function now: it is to prevent others from visiting at this time-visitors only need to look at the firecrackers set off in the hall to know that the family is eating "Group annual lunch".

The reason why it is a "group annual lunch" is that after lunch, you have to work until you fall asleep at night. After cleaning the front and back of the house, we should also clean the inside of the house. After that, the family has to take turns to take a shower, so they are often busy until eleven or twelve at night.

The cleaning in front of and behind the house needs the cooperation of the neighbors, and it is often started the day before New Year’s Eve. The focus is on road cleaning and dredging of ditch silt; After cleaning, you need to rinse it with water. Everyone swept, picked, rushed, and worked hard.

Fourth, killing pigs and smashing.

Similarly, uncles, brothers and sisters-in-law need to work together, as well as the preparation of Chinese New Year food and important food that can still be eaten for a long time after the spring of next year; This started as early as the off-year period.

What is particularly lively in my impression is killing pigs and smashing rice cakes.

These two characteristics of adults’ collective labor are: high labor intensity; High technical requirements; It involves a wide range-in addition to uncles, brothers and sisters-in-law in the extended family, it also involves children.

Before killing pigs, the pigs should be driven from the pigsty to the front of the main house. This matter needs the cooperation of a number of able-bodied laborers. In addition to the surgeon controlling the pig’s head, two or three people are needed to control the pig’s front legs, waist and hind legs, lift the pig and move it to the bench placed in advance in the hall. The pig will bark extremely bitterly at this time; After the surgeon tied its mouth with hemp rope, its cry became muffled.

When the housewife or her children are signaled, they have to set off firecrackers in the hall (which may be intended to cross the soul of the pig), and the butcher leans over and takes out the pig-killing knife from the basin with clear water placed under the bench in advance, aiming at the pig’s throat, and the white knife enters and the red knife exits. Blood spurts out and falls into the basin under the control of the surgeon.

The pig’s muffled sound will slowly sink and gradually become quiet. The surgeon loosens the rope at the right time and shakes the pig’s front leg. Occasionally, a sound or two can be made in the pig’s throat, and the residual blood flows out with the shaking of the front leg, which tends to be sporadic. The housewife stepped forward again and opened the basin of steaming blood. When the men released their hands, the pig fell over the bench. On one side is pig blood spilled out of the basin.

Then, the dead pig was moved to the gate of the hall. At first, it was scalded with boiling water (the saying "dead mouse feels no cold" may have originated from a wise man’s personal observation of this real life), and then it was shaved. After that, the pig’s two hind feet were hooked up with a shelf, hung upside down, cut open, and finally split in half.

Its meat is first "divided" among several uncles and brothers at preferential prices, and when it is spare, it is sold in the market. After each family is given the meat, it will be divided into several portions according to seven or eight pounds, and sent to the relatives’ homes such as their grandfathers, uncles and uncles. These families will either transfer the meat they received (sometimes the same piece of meat will even return to the original transferor after several transfers) or cook directly for guests. Or cut into pieces the size of a fist, fry them thoroughly, put them in an urn, sprinkle salt layer by layer, cover them and put them in a cool place, so that they can be stored for months at room temperature without deterioration.

In the case of killing pigs years ago, my father was often the mastermind of the big family. One year, when he was helping one of my cousins to kill pigs, he bit one end of hemp rope with his mouth in order to tie the pig’s screaming mouth. As a result, the pig’s head swung and brought out a few of his teeth. However, he still insisted on killing the pigs. As a result, while he made the pig bleed, the pig also made him bleed a lot.

Afterwards, although my cousin apologized deeply, my father didn’t ask this cousin for any compensation for medical expenses.

Killing pigs is a potential safety hazard, and the dazzling pig-killing knife makes me a little psychologically stressed as a bystander.

It’s much better to pound Ciba-while watching the collective work, you can also taste glutinous rice and soft Ciba with the smell of glutinous rice steaming. At this time, it’s really delicious to put some sugar in my mouth.

When making Ciba, a large amount of glutinous rice must be washed with clear water in advance, soaked for at least one night, taken out and drained, and then steamed in a large steamer to make glutinous rice; Then put it in a stone trough and pound it into mud; Then press it into a round cake with the size of palm open; Finally, several small red flowers are printed on it, dried and put away.

Among them, steaming glutinous rice in a big pot and mashing it into mud are all men’s jobs; After that, the women are in charge.

When ramming Zanba, it is necessary to place the washed stone trough in the center of the hall. The stone trough is very heavy, and the outside is round-the inside is a hemispherical groove, which often needs two lean men to hold it with hemp rope before it can be carried into the hall.

Steaming glutinous rice was put into the stone trough, and four lean men each took tamping tools and began to work around the stone trough. These four tamping tools are all made of wood, two straight and two curved. "Straight" is thick at both ends and small in the middle (easy for two hands to hold), like an elongated and enlarged circular seal; The "bent" person, like an enlarged mallet, has a thick and deep head. After hitting the glutinous rice in the stone trough, the handle can still be a lot higher than the edge of the stone trough.

When operating, stand on the four sides of the stone trough and strike the head of the tamping tool against the glutinous rice in the stone trough in turn in a counterclockwise direction. At the moment of hitting the glutinous rice, the hitter also shouted "Hey!" At this time, the sound of pounding and shouting came one after another, which merged into a busy scene of harvest.

The glutinous rice was pounded more and more sticky, so that when it was taken out by the pounder again and again, the beating work could almost stop. At this time, the people holding the "curved" tamping tools retreated to one side, and the people holding the "straight" tamping tools stepped forward and put the top of their respective tamping tools into the stone trough. While the people turned counterclockwise around the stone trough, the tamping tools were constantly twisted in their hands.

In this way, the quickly rammed and sticky "Ciba" was "scooped" out of the stone trough by two rammers and placed on a plastic cloth sprinkled with oil on the table against the wall. At this time, the women hurried forward and took the "Ciba" from the tamping tool with their oiled hands and piled it into a ball.

After that, the hall was filled with the laughter of women and children. Women will knead the rice cake into the shape of a round cake and dot some "flowers" on it with red ink. In this process, some scraps will be picked up for the children. Children usually can’t wait to eat some, and when they have a bottom, they will pinch out various shapes to play with, and then eat them after playing to a certain extent.

Ciba is dried, stacked together and placed in a vat. It needs to be soaked in water before beginning of spring, covered (it is said that it will not crack), placed in a cool place, and then covered. When the water smells a little, change it again. Ciba preserved in this way can be eaten until almost the Dragon Boat Festival!

Five, that year’s "booming"

On New Year’s Eve, there is another activity called "Sticking Red" (writing and pasting Spring Festival couplets). Compared with killing pigs and smashing rice cakes, the neighborhood involved is limited to the cousin’s house in the same room.

At first, my cousin was in charge of writing and pasting. My cousin was the headmaster of the primary school in our village at that time, and he wrote well in calligraphy. This work is not too tiring, because there are not many Spring Festival couplets to be posted: two doors running through the hall, two doors directly facing the outside of the two "living rooms", plus the door facing the outside of the hall and the shrine; A total of five pairs of small couplets, one pair of big couplets, plus one horizontal batch each, will be done.

Probably after I went to high school, I took on the task of writing and posting Spring Festival couplets for my extended family. At that time, my eldest brother, second brother and third brother were all married and moved out to live in a newly built house. The new house is connected together and divided into three buildings, one for each person, with its own hall, living room, bedroom connecting the hall, and so on. The number of doors that need to be pasted with Spring Festival couplets will also increase greatly.

Therefore, "writing and posting Spring Festival couplets" is enough for me to be busy all day on New Year’s Eve.

"Sticking red" means that the new year is booming, and the memory is also booming, as well as the fire of the kitchen stove in the "living room" on New Year’s Day.

Although I go to bed the latest on New Year’s Eve, my father always gets up the earliest on New Year’s Day. All the vents of the stove are opened, and the coal inside will be burned very brightly, reflecting my father’s bright smile. It is rare to waste coal like this at other times.

The year before my college entrance examination, my father got up early and got greedy for the dark even harder, regardless of his nose cancer. After he married his daughter (my sister) with great prosperity, he was busy planning the tuition fees for me and my little brother (who took the college entrance examination with me that year because he was repeating his studies).

Later, according to the second brother, my father picked a load of cabbage in the early morning of autumn and winter, took a dirt road of five or six miles, and waited for the bus by the asphalt road; Later, I got on the stopped dump truck with the young people and went to the market twenty or thirty miles away. There was no shelter in the car, and when the cold wind blew, his sweat became ice. I caught a cold when I came back from selling vegetables, and my nose cancer turned into liver cancer.

In the early morning of the New Year’s Day in the year of the college entrance examination, I heard firecrackers ringing in my own hall for two or three times, thinking that it was difficult for my father to get up. It is estimated that the firecrackers were set by my little brother except my cousin.

When I opened the door, I still saw my father sitting by the fire. Although the smile on his thin face was no longer bright, his eyes were full of warmth.

"I wish my father a happy new year and good health!"

"good! I wish Xiongxiong a high promotion! "

After a simple conversation, my father took out a hanging 1000 rings and asked me to set them off in the hall.

Stop! Recalling "Nian" was an easy topic. How can I write more and more heavily? At this point, my eyes are full of tears.

I remember that Mr. Jiang Xueliang, the head teacher who had some knowledge of my father’s situation that spring, also asked me during an evening inspection of the dormitory: "Shuixiong, is there any news about your father’s health at home?"

"No news!" I went on to say, "No news is the best news!"

However, about two months before the college entrance examination, the situation of "no news" was broken, and the news from home was brought to school by my second brother.

The second brother said that the reason why he didn’t keep secrets from my little brother and me and risked affecting our college entrance examination was to tell us the "news from home" and take us home for fear that we would blame them for not giving us a chance to give our father a ride in the future.

As for whether this "news from home" has affected my college entrance examination, I think it still has some influence.

After I finished the first course, Chinese, I knew I didn’t do well. Because after writing the composition and checking the answer sheet repeatedly, it was not until 3 minutes before the end of the exam that I found that there were two whole pages, and about 30 points of reading comprehension questions were blank, and I didn’t do them … Finally, I could only fill them out at random while holding my urine!

The inner remorse can be imagined! Sitting in an empty classroom before lunch, my mood fell into a trough. After the silence, there was a strong heat flow in my heart: my father died, and I didn’t have the opportunity to repeat my studies like my little brother. This college entrance examination is my only opportunity, and it may also be the only opportunity to leave my hometown to study. At present, the only thing I can do is to do well in every course behind.

Such an idea may help me seize the only opportunity. In fact, this college entrance examination has indeed become the only college entrance examination in my life-because I was admitted to Jilin University.

According to the second brother, "at that time, some people in the village said sarcastically:’ I passed the exam, but I still can’t afford it!’" It means: after I die, my brother and sister-in-law may not pay for you to study, so wait and see a joke. I told my family at the time that we must fight for this tone. "

As a result, my three brothers and sisters, my mother and my sister’s brother-in-law, each went out of 400 yuan, totaling 2,000 yuan, which was enough for my school year’s expenses (including tuition and fees in 800 yuan each year). My little brother went to a local teachers’ college that year (later upgraded to a university) and spent a lot of money.

This is 1994.

Six, Nian and "Nian Wei Er"

Originally, it was an article recalling "Year", but Lala was miscellaneous, and actually wrote a lot of "heaviness" under the name of "lively" and "prosperous". I hope I won’t leave you with the impression of "sadness and sorrow".

To sort out my thoughts, in fact, I think what I want to express is that in my heart, and possibly in the hearts of people my age, the "taste of the year" is precipitated in the communication between people. It is not only a "human taste", but also a "human touch" for people to communicate and communicate with each other.

This kind of "human touch" of neighborhood cooperation and family reunion embodies and strengthens a small social trust and support system in the form of "reciprocity" to a certain extent, which constitutes a kind of social capital in the countryside-a social relationship that can be used as a resource by people, thus bringing benefits to people.

Of course, "reciprocity" doesn’t mean that there is no "friction", no "war", no "haggle over every ounce" and no "clear accounts with brothers"; Moreover, this "human touch" will change with the general trend of society.

When there is more and more money, people’s lives are getting better and better, when fresh pork can be bought in the village at any time, and when the machine can easily mash glutinous rice into glutinous rice, the lively collective labor at the end of the year has turned into a noisy individual market at ordinary times, and the small social exchange system of "neighborhood watching each other" in rural areas has been replaced by a larger market trading system.

No wonder the old people in the countryside say that nowadays, every day is like Chinese New Year!

Today’s small families, in order to make "Year" look different from usual, will take advantage of annual leave to go out, travel and relax.

Society is becoming more and more modern, communication is becoming more and more transactional, support is becoming more and more systematic (non-interpersonal), family is becoming smaller and smaller, life is becoming more and more personalized, and Chinese New Year is becoming more and more tourist. Even in today’s rural hometown, it is rare to see big guys killing pigs and smashing rice cakes together.

"It is better to forget each other in the rivers and lakes"; Generally speaking, a year without "flavor of the year" means that people as social individuals have more space and greater freedom.

However, I think that the "flavor of the year" in my memory has its own value, especially when "it is necessary to hold a group to keep warm when the winter comes". After all, a systematic (non-interpersonal) social support system may not hold up one day or become a monster to bite itself.

Seven, "Happy New Year to everyone!"

My daughter is three years old. She was born in January 2016 and can already sing "Happy New Year to everyone".

Since she went to Sanya, Hainan for the Spring Festival when she was just one year old, I guess, in her mind, "Year" may mean the sea, beaches and waves.

But when I was her age, all I could think about was: "Nian" must be a "monster" that only adults were afraid of. If I was a little careless, the whole family would be punished by Nian.

I have to say that our days are getting better, although our memories are getting "old".

I wish that "the sea, the beach and the waves" will always accompany the memory of the new generation about "Year".

When Wang Shuixiong’s daughter just turned one year old, the whole family spent the New Year in Sanya.

(The author is a researcher at the National Development and Strategy Institute of Renmin University of China)

The price of cherries has been halved, and the "traffic star" has begun to be close to the people?

  Dajiang Net/Dajiang News Client News All-Media ReporterXie Mengli, internZhang Pingting, Zhang YingReport: With the coming of winter, "cherry freedom" has once again appeared in people’s field of vision, and cherries and strawberries known as "high-end fruits" have become the "signature fruits" of many fruit shops. In particular, the terms "the price of cherries was halved" and "the price of cherries finally began to fall" were once rushed to the hot search, causing widespread discussion among netizens.

  Have Nanchang people really achieved fruit freedom this winter? What is the price of cherries in Nanchang market? In this regard, the reporter visited.

  The price of cherries varies from store to store.

The cherries sold by Shangchao

  On January 8, the reporter went to a large supermarket chain on Zhongshan Road and saw that people came and went in the fruit area, and many customers bought all kinds of fruits. As a popular fruit in the season, cherries are filled with two stalls, from one J to four J’s, from 500 grams to exquisite gift boxes, all kinds and dazzling. As can be seen from the price tag, two J cherries imported from the supermarket are priced at 69.9 yuan per catty, while three J cherries from Chile are 79 yuan per catty. "This cherry is still quite expensive. If I buy it in Pinduoduo, it is about 5 kg, which is about 150 yuan, but the imported one is more expensive." Grandma Yang, who is shopping, told reporters.

  Compared with the price of large supermarkets, the cost performance of street fruit shops and farmers’ markets seems to be higher. During a visit to a fruit shop in donghu district, the reporter found that two J cherries were 58 yuan per catty and three J cherries were 68 yuan per catty. According to the owner, Mr. Huang, compared with the end of last year, cherries of different qualities have dropped by 10 yuan to 20 yuan per catty. "It’s cheaper to buy cherries with three J’s like this pure Bing3 together, as long as it’s 298 yuan a box, and it tastes like a stone, so crisp and sweet, and there is more water." The owner enthusiastically introduced.

  At the farmer’s market not far away, Mr. Liu, the stall owner, told reporters that two J cherries were in 120 yuan at the end of last year, and this year, as long as they are 63 yuan per catty, they are nearly half cheaper.

  There is little difference between online and offline prices.

The cherries sold in boxes.

  Subsequently, the reporter saw on the major e-commerce platforms that all online shopping of cherries can be reached the next day, and the price is distinguished by J number, which is not far from the price of offline fruit shops. The more you buy, the more favorable the price is, usually starting from 2 kg.

  On another e-commerce APP, the discount is even stronger. The price of three J imported cherries is 198 yuan per catty, and each person is limited to 2 pieces, which is still in the replenishment state.

  Overall pricewhyDescending?

  Compared with the average price of cherries in 120 yuan per catty at the end of last year, supermarkets, fruit supermarkets and farmers’ markets all showed a certain downward trend. Just listed for about a month, the price was greatly reduced. What makes the value of "traffic star" half off?

  "This is of course related to everyone’s needs. When cherries first came out, more people bought them. Most of the domestic cherries have not yet reached the season. Although imported cherries are fast but costly, they are naturally more expensive." A boss who has been doing fruit wholesale all the year round tells the reason. It said that the quality and price of cherries are different due to different places of origin. "Every time cherries are popular in winter, imported cherries with high cost and fast air transportation are more circulating in the market, while the time to market for domestic cherries in China is often spring and summer, so at the end of the year, demand is often in short supply and the market selling price is generally high. With the recent large-scale listing of cherries by sea, the transportation price is lower, and a larger number of cherries flow into the market, and the relationship between supply and demand changes accordingly. It is not surprising that there is a phenomenon of’ price cuts’. "

  Although the price of cherries has gradually become popular with the people, there are certain differences in the selling price of cherries of different sizes, grades and places of origin in the market, and the price difference between each grade is quite large. Many fruit shops also remind them to be vigilant and cautious when buying, in order to prevent merchants from shoddy, filling small with large, and buying rationally.

World Taekwondo Federation Team World Cup Finals, China mixed team team went straight to the Paris Olympics.

On December 19th, the finals of the 2023 World Taekwondo Team World Cup Championship officially started in Wuxi Economic Development Zone, with nine teams including China. After a day of fierce competition, China won the championship, Uzbekistan won the runner-up, and Brazil and Daejeon City Hall won the third place. As this competition is a straight-through qualification trial for the mixed team exhibition of the Paris Olympic Games, according to the pre-competition regulations, the champion China and the runner-up Uzbekistan took the lead in locking in the qualification for the mixed team exhibition of Taekwondo in the Paris Olympic Games. The two third-place teams were judged according to the total score advantage of the audience, and Brazil won the last place to go straight to Paris.
The World Taekwondo Team World Cup Championship is an event founded in Wuxi, and the World Taekwondo Federation will settle in Wuxi for the annual World Cup finals. The rules and competition system of mixed team events have also been explored and shaped in this event. At present, Taekwondo mixed team events have been an Olympic performance event for two consecutive years (Tokyo and Paris), and have become an official event in the Asian Games and Youth Olympic Games. At this year’s Hangzhou Asian Games, China won the championship of this event.
China team sent Jay Song, Zhou Zeqi, Xing Jiani, Cui Yang, Xiang Qizhang and Meng Mingkuan to participate in this tournament. According to the rules of mixed team competition, athletes can only be composed of two men and two women in each competition. Two women generals, Jay Song and Zhou Zeqi, and two men, Cui Yang and Meng Mingkuan, will form the final team against Uzbekistan. According to the principle of male before female, from light to heavy, the four athletes were numbered from 1 to 4 respectively.
The game is divided into three games. The first game lasts for 4 minutes, and the traditional team competition form is adopted. Athletes should compete with athletes of the same number from the other side in the order of light to heavy, and each pair of competitions lasts for 1 minute. The last two games are 3 minutes each. The competition is played in the form of free rotation confrontation. In the battle, the sexes of the athletes of both sides should match. There is no limit to the number of substitutions, but before proposing a replacement, one’s own player should play for at least 15 seconds.
In the first game, Jay Song, who took the lead in the game, scored points in a row, helping the China team to start at 9:0. However, Uzbekistan, with good strength, continued to chase after points, and once overtook at 14:10. Cui Yang scored a precious 3 points at the last moment of his game, followed by Meng Mingkuan, and China led at 16:14 in the first game. In the second game, the two teams played very closely, and the score was alternately ahead. The two games were tied to 20.
After the third game was tied at 24, the China team made a sudden effort, and several players performed extremely well, scoring 11 points in a row to lay the foundation for victory. In the end, China won the championship with 36:30. After the game, Zhou Zeqi said that the game could be won mainly by uniting with everyone and implementing the tactics arranged by the coach. Meng Mingkuan, who participated in the team competition for the first time, said that his task was not to let the other team score. "The performance was ok." Finally, according to the cumulative scores obtained by the two teams in the third game, the outcome was judged.
From December 13th, the 2023 World Taekwondo Grand Slam Championship Series, the 2023 World Taekwondo Grand Slam Series and the 2023 World Taekwondo Team World Cup Championship Finals were held one after another. The three important international competitions are all through cards for the Paris Olympic Games. Among them, the first two competitions produce eight through qualifications for individual taekwondo events and the latter one produces three through qualifications for mixed team events. A total of five competition days, in Wuxi Economic Development Zone, a blessed place, the China team got a full harvest, including the through cards for men’s 68kg class, women’s 57kg class, 67kg class and over 67kg class, and obtained a through Olympic quota for a mixed team Olympic exhibition.
Seize the opportunity, take the tournament as an opportunity, and rely on the World Taekwondo (Wuxi) Center, Wuxi will further improve the operation mode of the whole industry chain of Taekwondo, promote the further flourishing of Taekwondo in China, and actively contribute to the development of global Taekwondo.
Source: China Daily.
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