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Dali is a place that has been labeled a lot. Let’s talk about Dali. Starting from the early days, the first time I came to Dali was in 2003. I passed by Dali when I was going to Lijiang and stayed for two days. I didn’t have much impression.
Many years ago, Dali used to be a haven for many people who were frustrated in life. Prices were low, food and accommodation costs were low, and there was a tolerant environment. Coming here can give people who have nowhere to rest their bodies and minds in the city a kind of long-lost lightness that they only had in childhood. Pine, freedom and relief. Among the backpackers who come here, some stay for a few days, use Dali as a base, wander around and come back, and some become long-term residents after staying here. They may stay here for half a year, a year, or several years. Maybe many people at that time couldn't understand why they settled down after agreeing to travel. It depends on the mental state of the travelers. If they are fleeing the mentality of big cities, it is easy to settle down in Dali, and they feel that there is no need to escape here.
Gradually, more and more such long-term residents came to live in Dali. These should be considered the first batch of people who came to live in Dali for a long time. At that time, these people were relatively simple and pure. When they finally found people similar to themselves, they would sigh, it turned out that there were not many outliers like me. After the number of these long-term residents increased, their stay brought some changes to the ancient city of Dali. Some of them opened shops in Dali, interesting shops and more artistic shops, because many of them were early literary and artistic youths and gathered on Renmin Road. At night, they set up stalls on Renmin Road, selling their own things and their own handicrafts. Leather products, handicrafts, and strange things collected from all over the world, as well as spontaneous performances, guitar playing and singing, various interesting and intense dances, and some strange juggling. People are very happy on the road at night, and all this happiness has little to do with money. Gradually, there is a kind of There is a saying that compares Dali to a paradise for losers. My opinion on this is that if you live your elitist life, you can constantly compete with others in the social arena and constantly prove your strength. There is nothing wrong with worldly success and fame. This kind of success is not easy, and it is certainly worthy of admiration, but some people can't compete. , either you don’t like to fight, or you are not fighting but are just tired of it. Please let go of the people who have already laid down and fled. People have already withdrawn from the battlefield that they cannot adapt to. It is unnecessary to chase them out with harsh words. The captives who have surrendered will not be exterminated on the battlefield. They are only temporarily surrendering to the secular battlefield.
To quote a passage from Thoreau, we can praise and regard a life as successful, but it is just a kind of life. Why should we praise one kind of life while rejecting another kind of life?
The concept of elitism did not apply to Dali at that time.
In the years that followed, as more and more people got to know Dali, they began to go all the way west to Dali. More and more people came, and there were all kinds of people. Gradually, Dali began to have more of the atmosphere of a big city. The atmosphere here refers to people's views on many aspects of life, and it began to converge with big cities. These people who stayed in Dali to open shops were affected. With the large number of people and the commercial value appearing, the land was speculated. The landlord began to increase the rent, and conflicts with the tenants began, some of which intensified. Many unpleasant and embarrassing things happened.
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Among the first group of people who stayed in Dali, some lamented that Dali had changed and left the paradise in their hearts. When I return to the city and continue to work hard, I may be able to start over again with a little bit of the foundation I have worked hard on before. It feels like the prisoners who have escaped from prison in the movie are caught again midway and will be punished more severely. And they will be squeezed by the social environment more heavily than before, and there is also a reasonable basis: this is the price for indulging themselves in recent years. I have no right or wrong judgment about this. According to each person's own outlook on life and world view, there are multiple judgment angles. Different judgment angles will naturally lead to different results. Therefore, just like the quarrel between men and women in a family, sometimes right and wrong don't mean much. Year after year, Dali, this small stage of the world, staged and ended, staged and ended again, and groups of people came and left, one after another. I don’t know which year started, people with careers in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou came one after another, some were engaged in antique business, some were engaged in futures, various financial traders, some were just for retirement, some were renting for a long time or buying houses, and they set up camp here and started a new kind of life that they longed for. Living, relatively speaking, they were financially free at that time. Of course, the social environment will change, the economic environment will change, the investment environment will also change, and their financial freedom status will also change. Those who cannot continue or lose money may return to Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou and continue to find another way to make a living.
Such departures occurred one after another in the next few years, leaving only stories that will be circulated in the Dali world for some years.
On Renmin Road in the ancient city of Dali, there are many small shops opened by people who were once quite famous but low-key. The author of the first book to record the identity of backpackers in Tibet, "The Tibetan Oxhide Book", had the same pen name. Early backpackers in China have read this book. The author of the Tibet Guide later opened a noodle shop here. When you sit down and eat, you realize that the boss who just ordered the noodles is actually the author of the Tibetan Oxhide Book. . . There are many more such examples. There used to be a tavern, which was actually a restaurant. There was only one boss inside and outside the restaurant. Guests would write their orders on slips of paper and put them on the kitchen window sill. The boss in the kitchen would call the order and pick them up by themselves. The names of the dishes on the menu were all very interesting. The boss basically didn't talk and had a bad temper. He only cooked in the kitchen and ignored people. He was good at cooking. It seems that Zhao Lei before he became famous also frequented here.
It is still unrealistic for most people to really stay in Dali. There are problems of how to make a living, or there is no problem of making a living. However, over time, they are unwilling to break away from the mainstream and begin to feel that everything is boring. Life has no goals and is boring. In fact, it is the contradiction of human beings. There are such problems and such problems. The question is, life is a pile of unsolvable contradictions. If all the things and pursuits that people need can be spread out on the ground, you will see that many of them are contradictory. What you pursue is impossible to achieve just from a theoretical perspective. It is a paradox. Many things will not meet expectations, so people's pain is inevitable. If there really is a Creator who designed such a contradictory species as human beings, such a set of mutually nested contradictory designs would be truly amazing.