Looking back at human history, there is no shortage of cruel and horrible stories. Later generations always think terrible of predecessors, just as how we look at the slave trade, Nazi concentration camps, and the Nanjing Massacre. I don't know how future generations will recall the story of the chained Chinese mother of eight in Fengxian County, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, and how they will look at us who are so indifferent.
In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch said, "If this thing’s hushed up it’ll be a simple denial to Jem of the way I’ve tried to raise him. Sometimes I think I’m a total failure as a parent, but I’m all they’ve got. Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him... if I connived at something like this, frankly I couldn’t meet his eye, and the day I can’t do that I’ll know I’ve lost him. I don’t want to lose him and Scout, because they’re all I’ve got. "
I believe many have read this book. The story happened in the 1930s in a small town in southern America during the Great Depression. There was serious racial discrimination in the backward town of Maycomb. A white father accused a black man named Tom of raping his daughter. The whole town believed that it was Tom who raped the white girl Mayella. Only one lawyer named Atticus defended him. Naturally, he was isolated by the whole town and his children suffered at school.
At this point, we, as the audience, are sure to be worried about Atticus and his children, but have we ever reflected on whether we could be one of the biased people in the town?!
When Atticus' son Jem asked him why he defended a black man against the public, Atticus said, "The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
As the great and extensive Chinese sage culture would not teach us to "sit things out", or believe in "karma" as the root of poor people.
I believe that people's compassion would be awakened sometime, because most of us have daughters, mothers and wives, and at least half of our population are women.
Data shows that, in 2010, there were 123,364 permanent residents who lived in Xuzhou but Xuzhou but their household registration was outside of Jiangsu Province ("inter-provincial floating population"), including 61,878 males and 61,486 females. It was so balanced that there seemed to have no phenomenon of male superiority over females, and it indicated that there was no indiscriminate killing of female infants. But if we look carefully, the story would be completely different. There was 85.876 million inter-provincial floating population in the whole of China that year, including 48.35 million males and 37.51 million females. Males were nearly 30% more than females. Why was it balanced in Xuzhou’s data?
In Jiangsu Province, there were 7.379 million residents with a registered residence in other provinces, of which 4.056 million were males and 3.324 million were females. There were 20% more males than females. It is not difficult to understand that more immigrants were males in Jiangsu. But in Fengxian county, there were 7,774 immigrants, including 3,372 males and 4,402 females, with a male-female ratio of 43∶57.
Obviously, Fengxian County has more female immigrants. Look at the differences between the countryside and the city. There were 2,862 males and 2,032 females who immigrated to Jiangsu in the city, while there were 510 males and 2,370 females who immigrated into Jiangsu in the countryside, with a male-female ratio of 18∶82.
The question is, why were there more women immigrants in the countryside of Fengxian county? If they came for work, what occupations could it be so that there were more women in rural areas than towns, more in towns than cities, and more in northern Jiangsu than southern Jiangsu? If they came for marriage, what were the reasons for the women to choose northern Jiangsu rather than southern Jiangsu, and rural areas rather than towns?
Clearly, there was a horrible involuntary forced marriage here.
Hannah Arendt, a great German philosopher, put forward a word that offended the whole Jewish people-"the Banality of Evil". After experiencing the suffering, she thought deeply about the question put forward by the world: Who killed the Jews, the Nazi party, or Hitler? Wasn’t it also the silent mass?
Who is the accomplice who tied the chain around that woman's neck? If we keep silent, we need to listen to the voice of Dao Erdeng, a hot online writer, again, "There is a group of people who are brave only when they are safe, generous only when it is free, emotional only when they are shallow and sincere only when they are stupid".
May our sleeping conscience wake up tonight, because conscience is the most important thing that God has given us.
- Translated by Oliver Zuo
回顾人类历史，向来不缺乏残忍而又恐怖的故事，后人总是觉得前人可怕，就像如今我们看待贩卖黑奴、纳粹集中营、南京大屠杀等等。我不知道未来我们的后代是怎样看今日的丰县铁链女子的故事，又会是怎样看待如今冷漠的我们？
在《杀死一只知更鸟》一书中，阿蒂克斯·芬奇说：“如果我们隐瞒这件事，那就完全否定了我教育杰姆的做人原则。有时候，我觉得自己做家长很失败，可是我就是他们拥有的一切。在杰姆仰视别人之前，他首先仰视的是我，我希望自己正直地活着，以便能坦然面对他……如果我默许这类事情发生，坦率地讲，我就没法再正视他的眼睛，一旦我不能正视他的眼睛，我就知道自己已经永远失去了他。我不想失去他和斯库特，因为他们就是我的一切。”
我相信很多人都已经读过这本书，故事发生在20世纪30年代，大萧条时期美国南部一个小镇上，落后的梅克姆镇存在严重的种族歧视，一位白人父亲污告一位名为汤姆的黑人强奸自己的女儿，全镇的人都相信是汤姆强奸了那位白人女孩马耶拉，只有一位律师名为阿蒂克斯为黑人汤姆辩护，自然，这位律师也就遭到全镇的民众孤立，并且他的孩子也在学校遭受欺辱和嘲笑。
故事到这里，作为观众的我们肯定会为阿蒂克斯和他的孩子们感到担心，可是我们有没有反省过我们自己若是在故事里是不是又是那个镇上任何一个站在全民里携带偏见的那个普通民众呢？！
当阿蒂克斯的儿子杰姆问他为什么与公众对立替一位黑人辩护时，阿蒂克斯说：“有一种东西不能遵循从众原则，那就是人的良心。”
我相信伟大而又博大的国学圣贤文化教会我们的可不是“事不关己高高挂起”，更不是可怜人的根源是“因果报应”。
我相信人们的恻隐之心总会在某个瞬间被唤醒。 因为我们大部分人都有女儿、母亲、妻子，我们至少有一半的人口都是女性。
资料显示：2010年，常住徐州但户籍在江苏省外(“跨省流动人口”)共有123364，其中男性61878，女性61486，如此平衡，貌似不存在男尊女卑、重男轻女现象，因为男女比例平衡也就貌似说明没有滥杀女婴现象，但其实深究不然，仔细查看当年全国共有跨省流动人口8587.6万人，其中男性4835万人，女性3751万人，男性比女性高出近三成，为何到了徐州这里反而平衡了呢？！
而江苏省共有省外户籍人口737.9万人，其中男性405.6万人，女性332.4万人，男性比女性高出两成多，这样看大部分省外户籍人口中男性在苏南的人口更多，这也不难理解。那么到了丰县，共有7774名省外户籍人口，其中男性3372人，女性4402人，男女比例43∶57。
很明显，丰县的女性省外户籍人口更多。 再看丰县的乡镇差异，镇上有2862名省外户籍男性，2032名女性；乡村有510名省外户籍男性，2370名女性，男女比例18∶82。
问题来了，省外户籍为什么一层层的往乡下延伸的时候，女性却越来越多，如果是工作，那么有什么职业对于女性来说农村比乡镇多、乡镇比城市多、苏北比苏南多？如果说出嫁，女性又有什么原因宁愿选择苏北不愿选择苏南、宁愿选择农村不愿选择城镇？
显而易见，这里恐怕存在恐怖的非自愿的强迫式婚姻。
德国有一位伟大的哲学家汉娜·阿伦特提出一个得罪整个犹太人的词语—“平庸之恶”。 她经历过当时的苦难之后，对世人提出的问题发人深省：是谁杀了犹太人？只是纳粹党吗？只是希特勒吗？难道不也是千千万万沉默不语参与其中的民众吗？
谁是那个将锁链绑在那个女人脖子上的帮凶？若我们沉默，我们需要重新听一听刀尔登的声音:“有一群人，只有在安全的时候才是勇敢的，免费的时候才是慷慨的，浅薄的时候才是动情的，愚蠢的时候才是真诚的”。
愿我们的沉睡的良知在今夜可以醒来。 因为良知是上帝赐给我们最重要的东西。
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八孩女事件后重读《杀死一只知更鸟》:“有一种东西不能遵循从众原则，那就是人的良心”
Looking back at human history, there is no shortage of cruel and horrible stories. Later generations always think terrible of predecessors, just as how we look at the slave trade, Nazi concentration camps, and the Nanjing Massacre. I don't know how future generations will recall the story of the chained Chinese mother of eight in Fengxian County, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, and how they will look at us who are so indifferent.
In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch said, "If this thing’s hushed up it’ll be a simple denial to Jem of the way I’ve tried to raise him. Sometimes I think I’m a total failure as a parent, but I’m all they’ve got. Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him... if I connived at something like this, frankly I couldn’t meet his eye, and the day I can’t do that I’ll know I’ve lost him. I don’t want to lose him and Scout, because they’re all I’ve got. "
I believe many have read this book. The story happened in the 1930s in a small town in southern America during the Great Depression. There was serious racial discrimination in the backward town of Maycomb. A white father accused a black man named Tom of raping his daughter. The whole town believed that it was Tom who raped the white girl Mayella. Only one lawyer named Atticus defended him. Naturally, he was isolated by the whole town and his children suffered at school.
At this point, we, as the audience, are sure to be worried about Atticus and his children, but have we ever reflected on whether we could be one of the biased people in the town?!
When Atticus' son Jem asked him why he defended a black man against the public, Atticus said, "The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
As the great and extensive Chinese sage culture would not teach us to "sit things out", or believe in "karma" as the root of poor people.
I believe that people's compassion would be awakened sometime, because most of us have daughters, mothers and wives, and at least half of our population are women.
Data shows that, in 2010, there were 123,364 permanent residents who lived in Xuzhou but Xuzhou but their household registration was outside of Jiangsu Province ("inter-provincial floating population"), including 61,878 males and 61,486 females. It was so balanced that there seemed to have no phenomenon of male superiority over females, and it indicated that there was no indiscriminate killing of female infants. But if we look carefully, the story would be completely different. There was 85.876 million inter-provincial floating population in the whole of China that year, including 48.35 million males and 37.51 million females. Males were nearly 30% more than females. Why was it balanced in Xuzhou’s data?
In Jiangsu Province, there were 7.379 million residents with a registered residence in other provinces, of which 4.056 million were males and 3.324 million were females. There were 20% more males than females. It is not difficult to understand that more immigrants were males in Jiangsu. But in Fengxian county, there were 7,774 immigrants, including 3,372 males and 4,402 females, with a male-female ratio of 43∶57.
Obviously, Fengxian County has more female immigrants. Look at the differences between the countryside and the city. There were 2,862 males and 2,032 females who immigrated to Jiangsu in the city, while there were 510 males and 2,370 females who immigrated into Jiangsu in the countryside, with a male-female ratio of 18∶82.
The question is, why were there more women immigrants in the countryside of Fengxian county? If they came for work, what occupations could it be so that there were more women in rural areas than towns, more in towns than cities, and more in northern Jiangsu than southern Jiangsu? If they came for marriage, what were the reasons for the women to choose northern Jiangsu rather than southern Jiangsu, and rural areas rather than towns?
Clearly, there was a horrible involuntary forced marriage here.
Hannah Arendt, a great German philosopher, put forward a word that offended the whole Jewish people-"the Banality of Evil". After experiencing the suffering, she thought deeply about the question put forward by the world: Who killed the Jews, the Nazi party, or Hitler? Wasn’t it also the silent mass?
Who is the accomplice who tied the chain around that woman's neck? If we keep silent, we need to listen to the voice of Dao Erdeng, a hot online writer, again, "There is a group of people who are brave only when they are safe, generous only when it is free, emotional only when they are shallow and sincere only when they are stupid".
May our sleeping conscience wake up tonight, because conscience is the most important thing that God has given us.
- Translated by Oliver Zuo
Reread 'To Kill a Mockingbird' After the 'Chained Chinese Mother of 8' Issue: 'The One thing That Doesn't Abide by Majority Rule Is a Person's Conscience'
