Chapter 145 What is involution?

We talked until about 3 o'clock in the evening, and everyone was a little sleepy.

The carriage gradually became quiet, with only the sound of the train running.

The three girls opposite began to doze off, dozing shoulder to shoulder.

After all, this trip is not close. I originally thought that no matter how far a province is, there is a limit. When Chen Zhihe bought the ticket, he found out that it actually took 17 hours.

This is probably the longest train ride that Chen Zhihe has ever taken.

Wang Nan on the side was also a little sleepy, so she leaned on her seat and closed her eyes.

Chen Zhihe was strangely sleepless. He looked out the window at the train speeding by and the stars in the night sky.

Suddenly, he felt something approaching.

He turned around and glanced, it was Wang Nan.

Chen Zhihe did not disturb her, and continued to lean on the car window, looking out the window in concentration.

This trip to Mohe was a planned itinerary. He did not tell Ruan Mi, nor did he tell Lu Caiwei.

This was a promise between him and Huang Huan, and he just wanted to complete it independently.

Besides, Lu Caiwei may not have time at this time, so there is no point in calling her.

Moreover, if he really wanted to call her at this moment or that moment, it would not be appropriate to hide it from Ruan Mi.

An hour passed and the east became white.

The further north you go in the Northern Hemisphere, the closer you get to the summer solstice, and the longer the days. This is a scenery that people living near the Tropic of Cancer will never be able to appreciate.

Chen Zhihe, who had been excited late at night, now felt sleepy.

Closing his eyes and listening to the rhythm and rhythm of the train, Chen Zhihe gradually fell asleep.

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Chen Zhihe has a habit of taking trains and planes: he starts sleeping as soon as he gets on the train or plane, without eating or drinking, and sleeps until he reaches his destination.

However, the journey of this train is really long.

When Chen Zhihe woke up, it was already noon, and the new car was still almost 5 hours away.

He was woken up by peeing.

After waking up, Wang Nan and three other girls were eating and looking out the window curiously.

Opening his eyes, Chen Zhihe found Wang Nan looking at him with a smile on his face.

Chen Zhihe was a little confused and touched the corner of his mouth. He thought he was drooling.

When Wang Nan saw this, he smiled.

Chen Zhihe shook his head, stood up, and prepared to go to the toilet.

Wang Nan also stood up and stepped aside to let Chen Zhihe go out.

After returning from draining the water, Chen Zhihe found that Wang Nan was already sitting in his seat.

Seeing Chen Zhihe come back, Wang Nan patted her for what she had done and said with a smile: "Sit down for a while instead?"

Chen Zhihe nodded, it's a small matter.

Looking at Wang Nan, who was sitting by the window, she closed her eyes and let the sunlight shine through the glass and hit her face, with a quiet look on her face.

Only then did Chen Zhihe really see what she looked like.

At this moment, he felt that his judgment last night was hasty.

If you don't look at Wang Nan's front face and ignore her eyebrows, but look at her from the side, you can see that Wang Nan is not bad at all. On the contrary, she has a strange sense of beauty, and is so soft and charming that there is no pretense at all.

This contrast made Chen Zhihe a little stunned.

At this time, a girl sitting in the middle opposite, wearing a peaked cap, joked to Chen Zhihe: "Junior brother, stop looking, come and have something to eat."

After saying that, Chen Zhihe pushed a box of biscuits on the table over.

Chen Zhihe shook his head, because he never eats on the train.

The girl didn't mind, but nodded and said jokingly: "I understand, it's beautiful and delicious."

Chen Zhihe chuckled.

The girl continued to chat: "Junior brother, what do you study?"

Chen Zhihe said: "Finance."

The girl sighed: "There is a future."

Chen Zhihe asked: "Where is senior sister?"

The girl said: "The four of us are all accounting majors. We are hard-working accountants. It's hard to find a job."

Chen Zhihe smiled and said: "It's not bad now, it's not so involution."

The girl asked curiously: "What is involution?"

Chen Zhihe was stunned, as if the word was indeed not popular at the moment.

When involution became popular in the past life, Chen Zhihe also studied the meaning of the word, so he thought about it and organized the language.

"Involution, the corresponding English word is Involution. Everyone knows this meaning, which is evolution. Later, an American anthropologist developed its connotation, which means to describe a certain cultural model that cannot stabilize itself after reaching a certain final form.

, and cannot transform into a new form, it can only make itself more complicated internally.”

"At the end of the 1960s, another American anthropologist, Clifford Geertz, borrowed the concept of involution in his article "The Involution of Agriculture: The Process of Ecological Change in Indonesia" to study Java's

Rice agriculture. Geertz believed that the intensification of rice cultivation in Indonesia over many centuries produced more social complexity than technological or political changes. This process was also called 'involution' by Geertz.

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"In 2000, Chinese historian Huang Zongzhi and others introduced it into the study of rural China. At this time, 'involution' referred to the lack of economic competition that led to the failure of agricultural societies to enter industrialization and transform into a capitalist economy."

"The involution I use here refers to internal vicious competition, excessive competition, or competition to the bottom, a phenomenon of downward spiraling. For example, when opportunities are limited, everyone wants to get opportunities.

Then everyone is involved in vicious internal competition. In the past, a passing score of 60 points is now required, but now a passing score of 90 is required. This is involution."

"Bah bang bang", Wang Nan on the side clapped his hands, "Wonderful".

"Do you who study finance know so much?" Wang Nan looked at Chen Zhihe with admiration and admiration.

Chen Zhihe shook his head and said with a smile: "A full bottle of water doesn't make any sound, but a half-full bottle of water sloshes around, which makes senior sister laugh."

Wang Nan was noncommittal and sighed: "Now it's a bit like the involution you mentioned. It's not easy to find a job."

The girl wearing a peaked cap opposite was not happy. She looked at Wang Nan and said, "Sister Nan, what you said is a bit too much. You have already been admitted to graduate school, and you still say such sarcastic words."

Wang Nan retorted: "Don't you think that graduate school itself is a phenomenon of involution? If you can find a good job, ask how many people really want to engage in academics?"

Chen Zhihe looked at Wang Nan and praised: "Senior sister understands it very well. There will definitely be more and more people studying for graduate school in the future, and then the papers will become more and more complicated."

Wang Nan looked at Chen Zhihe with a smile and nodded.

…

At around five o'clock in the afternoon, the train finally arrived at the station.

Chen Zhihe did not book a room in advance, so he followed Wang Nan and the others.

They booked a B&B with a room for four people.

The location of the B&B is very good and it is very famous in the local area. It is a three-story building with a wide view of the surroundings. It is said that as long as there is an aurora, you can see it by opening the window.

Because it is the peak tourist season, there are many people coming.

After the four people checked in, Chen Zhihe asked the front desk if there were any rooms available.

There was a little girl at the front desk. Seeing that Chen Zhihe was alone, she hesitated and said that there were no beds, but there was a starry sky room on the top floor with a glass roof. You could watch the stars while lying on the bed at night, and you could also watch the aurora.

arrive.

Of course, the price is not cheap either.

Chen Zhihe asked: "How much does it cost per night?"

The front desk said: "800 per night."

Chen Zhihe took out his wallet, took out his ID card, counted 2,400 yuan, and put it on the bar: "Booked for three nights."

Thinking that he might be able to see the aurora tonight, Chen Zhihe asked again: "Can I leave early?"

The front desk said: "Yes, but you need to check out before 10 o'clock that morning."

Very few people book rooms at this price. Now that someone is coming to stay, she can't drive them away.

Chen Zhihe nodded and took the ID card and room card.

After saying hello to Wang Nan and others, Chen Zhihe carried his suitcase upstairs.

Watching Chen Zhihe go upstairs, Wang Nan and the other four also carried their boxes to the room on the first floor.

When he came to the room, the peaked hat looked at Wang Nan and exclaimed: "Sister Nan, it's 800 yuan a night, and I booked it for three days. This junior brother is a rich man."

Wang Nan smiled and said: "Then why don't you seize the opportunity?"

Wang Nan rolled his eyes, took off his cap, and sighed: "I'm about to graduate, and I'm leaving Jiangcheng soon. I hate that I was born a few years earlier. This junior brother has a good school, a good figure, and looks rich, although

He looks extremely handsome, but he looks masculine, which is such a pity."

After saying that, she looked at Wang Nan and said, "However, Sister Nan, you still have a chance. You still have to stay in Jiangcheng for several years."

Wang Nan was lying on the bed and said, "I'm not interested in little boys."

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