A few days ago, I was tricked by a friend into skiing in Northeast China. I like this extremely high-speed sport. Within two days, you can easily upgrade from the beginner practice range to the intermediate ski slopes and then to the advanced ski slopes. Although my steps were shaky, I was descending down an advanced snow track with rolling and flipping, and my heart was trembling with fear as I fell. But that's okay, it's nice to get good balance and speed every once in a while.
Sometimes it does feel quite depressing, so this kind of exercise is needed.
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What I am talking about is actually not a utopian city, but a commercial utopian city. This is a dream project, including trees, soil and fences.
We have always felt that in the flood of information, people can hardly stop. Whether sleeping, eating, or bathing, they are oppressed by technology and information all the time, and are in a state of pressure like an invisible wall. No doubt you must be feeling the same now. When you listen outside the window, are there any noisy cars? Will there be glaring street lights or advertising lights? That low-frequency roar is unbearable, as unbearable as light pollution, but you almost get used to it.
I was wondering, is it possible to find a place with no electricity, no information, no technology, and no industrial products?
That is, go back three thousand years ago.
I once camped on the edge of the desert by Qinghai Lake. I liked the feeling of being tightly surrounded by nature. It was safe, comfortable, and almost able to let go of any guard. Except for Tibetans who collect protection fees. At that time, I was thinking, can we rent 10 miles of land and build a village?
This village may only have dozens or hundreds of houses, but why does it need 10 miles of land? That's why I thought I wanted to create a place where I could support myself and grow freely.
I have listed some items that are strictly prohibited. According to the severity, the first category is obviously gasoline, generators and all electrical equipment; the second category should be mobile phones, computers, watches and your beloved iPad; the third category is instant noodles, biscuits, cola and all your favorite snacks; the fourth category is rice, flour, coffee and tea;
And what will be inside this utopian city? There will be a village, maybe two or three villages occupying one place. There will be hundreds of farmers, herdsmen, and hunters employed, as well as stonemasons, blacksmiths, candle workshops, carpentry workshops, and water mills. There will be a lot of wild donkeys, horses or lambs, gophers and rabbits, foxes, wolves, schools of fish, and a botanical garden with a lot of randomly grown plants, and the fruits are ugly and primitive. The pomegranates will not be as plump and green as in the supermarket, and the apples will be thin and bitter. They grow crookedly and are as weak as malnourished children. There is no main road here, the roads are all trampled, just like the ridge paths, with weeds growing on both sides of the paths.
Anyway, let me tell you, this is what it was like 400 years ago. We will carefully remove the marks of the times, such as plastic bags, sun umbrellas, and instant noodle bags. The clothes should not be too bright and fashionable, otherwise they will be easily attacked by wild animals, because don’t forget, I just said that there are wild wolves in these 10 miles.
Another important point is that there will be no RMB or US dollars here. Gold is too expensive and inconvenient to trade, so we will replace it with broken silver.
I think this place may be good. Maybe my previous article "Among Wolves" was about a very primitive life experience, at least 5,000 years ago, but that may be too difficult to get, and it requires great determination to make the trip, which is not something ordinary people can achieve.
I thought at the time that no one would love this kind of life, but at least they would be curious and want to try it. Then, should I push the era forward to the Qin, Sui, Tang, and Ming dynasties? And the life experience is not one month or two months, but 5 days, 7 days, 10 days, and of course it can be longer. You can experience it during the National Day holiday, or if you are really depressed at work and lose your temper, you can also take a 5-day holiday.
At this time, you can go to a bustling travel company in the city, take the pen from the hand of the customer service girl with exquisite makeup, sign the contract, and then pay a sum of money, and then you will be disarmed, including your mobile phone, watch or gold necklace, or even your fashionable GOOGLE GLASS, put on cloth clothes and receive some broken silver that they put in a small cloth bag for you. Then you are blindfolded, plugged in your ears, and tied up like a kidnapper. They take you directly to a helicopter or a hot air balloon. With fear and uneasiness, and of course the apprehension of the unknown world, you arrive at New Utopia City in a few hours.
They throw you off the plane and fly away mercilessly like a movie plot. Then you have to go alone to the settlement 3 kilometers away. You will find that this is a place completely abandoned by civilization. They will put things such as carriage wheels, cow bones and shabby thatched pavilions on the trail. In that shabby thatched pavilion, there is an old man selling cold water.
After you return to the settlement, you have to buy things from the farmers or buy meat from the shepherds. You can have a chance to eat out once or twice, but in the future you have to buy grains, meat and vegetables yourself, go to the water-powered mill and grind it into rice yourself, and then sift out the sand and chaff so that you can have rice for cooking. There isn't much broken silver in your bag, and you will soon find that you won't survive the day you leave if you continue to buy food and meat. Then you'd better learn a craft, such as finding a hunter to teach you how to hunt, or finding a farmer to work for you. If you can even create some value in it, you can sell your harvest to new people to get broken silver.
If you want to get in touch with the outside world, please write a letter immediately. The postman will quickly ride to a secret place, convert your letter into an electronic signal and send it out. Then he will copy the electronic signal of the reply letter with a brush and send it back to you. But the postage is very expensive, because it was the same in ancient times. One message can take down a city. You have to figure it out.
Summary: This is actually a very normal and unremarkable life experience, but I think you may not be able to endure it. No cell phones, no computers, no information. In the past, you were creating the most valuable things every day and were not allowed to waste time. Now, it takes you 3 hours just to grind the millet. You usually don't want the chicken legs after one bite, but now you are hungrily waiting for a gopher for a long time.
Actually, I want to write more, but I also want to save time as much as possible to "create things that I feel are most valuable." So next I want to use this as a guide to write a novella "New Utopia City".
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