The popularity of "Everything’s Fine" has set off a discussion about "Family of origin". From Fan Shengmei and Andy in Ode to Joy to Su Mingyu and Su Mingcheng in Everything is Fine, the drama about family in recent years always leads to "family of origin determinism", and the view that family decides character and even fate is deeply imprinted on the characters, which has also become a gimmick that the media is keen on. Family is important, but can it really determine a person’s everything? Especially in this environment that advocates "parents are evil", exaggerating the shortcomings of the family can really let us know the truth of life?

In fact, "family of origin Determinism" caters to the long-suppressed negative emotions of the public, especially those who are angry with their parents, dissatisfied with their own environment, and class-based stereotypes among different groups, which can be expressed from "family of origin Determinism".

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The rampant family of origin determinism reinforced the stereotype of the class.

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How did the concept of "family of origin" catch on?

▲ In Sina Weibo, netizens ridiculed Su Daqiang, the role of the TV series "Everything is Fine".

The popularity of "Everything’s Fine" has set off a discussion about "Family of origin". From Fan Shengmei and Andy in Ode to Joy to Su Mingyu and Su Mingcheng in Everything is Fine, the drama about family in recent years always leads to "family of origin determinism", and the view that family decides character and even fate is deeply imprinted on the characters, which has also become a gimmick that the media is keen on. As a result, "family of origin determinism" is rampant, and it has become a craze to punish parents. It seems that all the problems in the world can be attributed to the family.

At the same time, people pay more and more attention to each other’s origin in interpersonal communication, and even adopt the method of backward thinking. According to a person’s established personality, taste and even values, people blame their families for these things. For example, in a common deduction, many commentators will blame a person’s inferiority, violence and vulgarity on his bottom family and sum up the fate of others with very simple logic.

Family is important, but can it really determine a person’s everything? Especially in this environment that advocates "parents are evil", exaggerating the shortcomings of the family can really let us know the truth of life?

When "family of origin determinism" overflows, the complicated life evolution is replaced by simple linear thinking, and our conclusion is not the truth, but the stereotype of the class is reinforced.

As early as the 19th century, "family of origin determinism" appeared in novels. At that time, there were no computers and televisions in the world, and novels were citizens’ favorite pastimes. In order to cater to the market, novelists liked to write novels related to class collision.For example, Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Hardy’s Tess of the D ‘Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure, etc., children from rural areas are often simple, pure and full of determination to struggle, while those from noble families are lazy, weak and even morally corrupt. Novelists didn’t put forward the concept of "family of origin" directly, but they advocated "birth determines character" and "character is fate". In order to take care of readers’ reading experience and create a strong conflict, these novels all have obvious binary opposition, such as the opposition between the bottom and nobles, the opposition between poor boys and rich girls, the opposition between good and evil, and the opposition between rural areas and cities, which are the sources of modern urban drama.

In modern times, the concept of "family of origin" was put forward by American psychiatrist Murray Bowen in the 1960s.It originally refers to a person’s family before adulthood, and it was not until the beginning of this century that the word became popular in China. With the establishment of Douban’s "Parents Are Evil" group and the popularity of the book "Giant Baby Country", "family of origin" has become a hot word on the Internet.

Wu Zhihong used a lot of methods to analyze the family in The Kingdom of Giant Babies, and took the family as the decisive factor. As a veteran of psychological marketing, he knew well the propagation law of popular media, so he used the words of "Giant Babies", "Chinese Family", "Mutual Harmful Society" and "Chinese Good Man" in the book. This book is not new, but it knows the market very well.

The popularity of "family of origin" is not only promoted by books and TV series, but also due to deeper historical background.China is a country with a deep parental culture. From patriarchal clan system to firstborn inheritance system, the political logic in ancient China is closely related to the family, and local governance is also inseparable from the wealthy families led by local gentry. Chinese relies on large and small families and relatives to build a huge human society, and the family structure with patriarchy as the core affects the growth of children. In modern times, especially under the background of the market economy dominated by neoliberalism, the contradiction between classical families and contemporary youth has become more and more serious. The eastward spread of affirmative thoughts has impacted the patriarchal center, while the liberal thoughts have made young people hate the bondage of family more and more.

With the loosening of family-oriented concept, family of origin’s problems have been put on the table, and they are getting more and more prosperous under the agitation of class anxiety. Behind this wave of family of origin’s discussion is not only the value division of two generations, but also the children’s worries about their identity and status.

The discussion of "family of origin" on the Internet focuses on denouncing parents. Take the discussion between Ode to Joy and Everything is Fine as an example: In Ode to Joy, Fan Shengmei’s mother is like a burden. In Everything’s Fine, Su Daqiang, the father of Su family, is also tiring. Borrowing money, borrowing money or borrowing money, cheat people, cheat people or cheat people, the audience resonated in the experience of Fan Shengmei and Su Mingyu, but they were full of helplessness and boredom with Fan Mu and Su Daqiang.

In July, 2018, Beijing Times Chinese Bookstore also published a book called family of origin, with the subtitle "How to Repair Your Personality Defects". The original name of this book was "Toxic Parents" (both parents are toxic), and the author Susan Forward described many incompetent parents, such as manipulative parents, alcoholic parents, physically abusive parents, verbally abusive parents and sexually abusive parents.

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"family of origin determinism" in film and television dramas, parents who are typed.

▲ TV series "Everything is fine" stills

"Everything is OK" and "Ode to Joy" have changed the parents’ perspective of educational dramas in the past, and faced up to their parents’ shortcomings. Together with the "Parents are evil" group, they both provided the view that "parents can be criticized or even denied", which is their unique feature in China’s film and television dramas which are full of family-orientation. However, in order to cater to the market, they filled too many stereotypes in character design, and followed the typical melodrama mode in dramatic conflicts, which stimulated the audience’s cool points, but made people logistics in types.

Everything is fine is a good play, but in some places, it pursues dramatic conflict too much, which dilutes the sense of reality.For example, Su Daqiang, played by Dahong Ni, is an old man who has been suppressed by his wife for many years. He loves calculating and secretly caring for others. He has some common habits of his parents. However, with the development of the plot, the contradiction induced by Dahong Ni gradually became a contradiction for the sake of contradiction. In the part involving him, the screenwriter pushed what he did to the extreme surface. In the end, he was like a laundry list, and the shortcomings of his parents were filled in. It seemed to make people itch. If you think about it carefully, it was still too dramatic.

Su Daqiang’s role, played by Dahong Ni, is no problem, mainly the character design of the script. The screenwriter wants to highlight family of origin’s problems so much that he wants to use Su Daqiang as the trigger point of drama contradiction, so that he pushes too hard.

There are similarities at the beginning. Xiao Mingyu complained that her mother was partial. Her mother said bluntly, we will not invest in you because you are a girl. Here, the screenwriter wants to highlight the son preference of the Su family and arouse the audience’s resonance, but such a straightforward approach is rough and different from the experience of most Chinese people. Chinese likes to hide his words, saying good things to his face and bad things to his face. The so-called secret tricks, but most of them don’t say it very bluntly like Su Mu in the play. Not to mention that because of the preference for boys in her bones, when her daughter runs away from home, her mother completely ignores her.

Film and television dramas need to be dramatized, but if conflicts are imposed to cater to the audience’s cool points and pain points, not only will the proper limit of drama be lost, but also the characters will be exposed to the risk of facial makeup.Nowadays, "hot thinking" is popular in film and television dramas. It is said that writers should actively discuss what ideas have hot potential when they hold a scriptwriting meeting. In order to respond to the market, they will rub hot spots in the script and even exaggerate everything in order to arouse the audience’s emotions. Over time, writing a script is like writing a WeChat official account push, racking their brains to cater to hot spots and output opinions. However, film and television dramas are not public articles after all, and if conflicts are imposed for too long, the audience will be tired.

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"family of origin determinism" can’t stand scrutiny.

▲ TV series "Everything is fine" stills

No matter "family of origin’s determinism" or "family decides personality", there is no strict logic in the argument. Psychologists such as Wu Zhihong only listed a series of cases in which families affected their children, supplemented by big words in new bottles and old wine, to illustrate their views. However, his argumentation process only explained the influence relationship between the two (family-children), and could not be pushed to one side to decide the other.

In fact, "family of origin determinism" has long been refuted in the research of psychologists Neiderhiser, Vukasovi?, Bratko and Briley. They found with rigorous experiments and data.: "About 40% of our personality comes from congenital genetic factors, 60% comes from the influence of non-shared environment, and is hardly influenced by shared environment."

"Behavioral Genetics" edited by Robert Plomin also pointed outThe main characteristics we have (such as intelligence, emotion, personality and health) are either most influenced by nature or most influenced by non-shared environment, but often little influenced by shared environment.(Quoted from "family of origin is not the root of all kinds of psychological problems") family of origin, which the audience is keen to talk about, is part of the shared environment.

Coincidentally, Judith Harris, the author of The Myth of Education, also stressed thatThe proportion of direct influence of family education on children’s adult personality is less than 10%.

The argument of "family of origin determinism" is not sufficient. Why can it be popular in public opinion? Because it caters to the long-suppressed negative emotions of the public, especially those anger towards parents, dissatisfaction with their own environment, and class-based stereotypes among different groups, which can be expressed from "family of origin determinism".

These stereotypes are not only aimed at the bottom, but also pervade all classes. The poor families will have parents’ discord and domestic violence, and the rich family of origin will also have divorced, husband and wife’s discord and indifferent children. However, in the discourse of "family of origin determinism", different families are smeared with heavy stereotypes, as if the poor must be uneducated and vulgar, and the rich must be intoxicated and arrogant and superior, which is derived from it.These superficial binary opposition views, originally just narrative strategies of popular novels, are now widely used in point of view preaching. Instead of solving practical problems, they intensify people’s hatred of the other and deepen stereotypes, but after the noise, nothing really valuable is left.

　　

　　Will the price of gold finally break through the "sky-high price" of $1,000 per ounce? (data picture)

　　Xinhua Online Haihai, January 19 (Reporter Lu Wenjun, Huang Tingjun) On the first trading day in 2008, the international gold price hit a record high, and since then, it has been out of control and has repeatedly set a new record, and the domestic gold price has also had a high fever and reached a new high. After the international gold price successfully stood at the $900 mark per ounce on the 14th, the eyes of global investors turned to the next suspense: will the gold price eventually break through the "sky-high price" of $1,000 per ounce, as predicted by many researchers?

　　The international gold price broke the ceiling of $900 per ounce.

　　Since 2007, the international gold price has changed from "slow cow" to "fast cow", and it is even more bullish in 2008. In 2007, it rose by 31%, and in just a dozen trading days in 2008, the increase has exceeded 9%.

　　The trend of gold in the past week is like a rainbow, breaking through the $900 mark in one fell swoop-

　　On the 8th, the price of crude oil rose by nearly $2, and gold surged sharply under the influence of investors and nervous geopolitics. the New York Mercantile Exchange February gold futures closed at $880.30 per ounce, which exceeded the historical record of $875 per ounce set on January 21st, 1980.

　　On the 10th, influenced by the speeches of European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, the US dollar fell sharply, and the US dollar suffered heavy losses. Gold gained momentum to refresh its high point. Comex February gold futures closed at $893.60 an ounce.

　　On the 11th, gold briefly broke through $900/oz, and the expectation of interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve made investors focus on gold with hedging function out of inflation worries. Comex February gold settled at $897.70 an ounce.

　　On the 14th, the international gold price once again reached an all-time high, with the spot gold hitting an intraday high of $914.2 per ounce. The data of that day showed that the US trade deficit expanded to the highest level in 14 months, which kept the US dollar under pressure and once fell to a seven-week low. Comex February gold closed at $903.40 an ounce.

　　Analysts pointed out that at present, the unilateral upward trend of international gold price is obvious, and the rising rhythm and amplitude are obviously increased. After the important psychological barrier of 900 US dollars/ounce is effectively broken, with this "ceiling" being broken, the future rising space of gold will suddenly become clear.

　　The depreciation of the US dollar is too fast, and it is not out of reach for the gold price to "break thousands".

　　With the sound of gold "rising", breaking through the historical high in 1980 and the threshold of 900 US dollars/ounce is like a bamboo. Many analysts at home and abroad have predicted that the next stop of the "golden age" will be directed at $1,000 per ounce.

　　"One or two years ago, $1,000 an ounce might have been considered sky-high, but now many people believe that this target will be achieved and will be achieved soon." Li Qi, a gold industry insider, said this. He believes that the current rise in gold is a general trend. As long as there is no major negative interest, there is a high probability of rushing to $1,000 per ounce.

　　Shi Weiping, a researcher at orient securities Research Institute, believes that the real leading trend of gold price increase is not only the continuous depreciation of the US dollar, but also the expectation of global inflation and the expectation of rising crude oil prices. These reasons lead to the prominent function of gold as a "hard currency". Under the collective pursuit of investors, $1,000 per ounce is not nonsense.

　　"The rise of gold has become an obvious trend in the international financial field, and even the correction of oil prices has no obvious impact on it, and there are few factors supporting the fall of gold at present." Yang Hongjie, an analyst at Haitong Securities Research Institute, said.

　　Yang Hongjie pointed out that what really makes gold "popular" in the world is actually the transformation of global economic structure, frequent geopolitical and military crises, the possibility of economic recession in the United States, the challenge to the status of US dollar reserve currency, and the reduction of US dollar reserves and the increase of demand for gold reserves by central banks. The more in the transition period of the global economic structure, the more it shows the value-preserving function of gold as a monetary attribute, and the "hard currency" force has led to the high fever of gold prices.

　　"But even if gold rises to $1,000 an ounce, it doesn’t fully explain the problem. If gold is priced in pounds and euros, there may be no big increase, but the dollar has depreciated too fast." Yang Hongjie said so.

　　Investment is risky, and it is too high to be cold.

　　Even though the upward trend of gold will continue, for ordinary investors, gold products that are already at a high level, although there is still a lot of investment space, also have huge investment risks.

　　"It goes up quickly and falls sharply." Li Qi, an insider, analyzed the characteristics of this special variety of gold. He believes that many reasons, such as small plates, hot market, the entry of international hot money and the demand for safe haven of capital, have led to a sharp rise in the current international gold price.

　　For example, Li Qi said that gold trading is a small market in the world. If a small part of global foreign exchange transactions enter the gold market, the price of gold can be pushed up by tens of dollars in an instant. Great fluctuation also means great risk, and the investment value of the gold market, which is currently at a high level, has been reduced.

　　The risk of the gold futures market is self-evident. When the gold price sword refers to $1,000 per ounce, more and more investors may flood in, and profit-taking or even short-selling may trap a large number of new investors. Yang Hongjie reminded that the derivatives market fluctuates greatly, and ordinary investors are inexperienced. Moreover, as gold is an investment product, investors must study complex international financial issues, instead of just studying supply and demand issues like investing in copper.

　　Li Qi added that from the operational point of view, China’s gold futures and Comex futures are closely linked, and investors must pay attention to the risk of staying in the warehouse overnight by adopting the market mechanism of various industries.

　　For spot gold investment, there is also cost risk. "Even though the price of gold may rise to $1,000 per ounce, the current price is still high. For investing in spot gold, the cost problem is inevitable, and we must consider who will eventually fall on the’ pass the parcel’." Yang Hongjie reminded.

　　Shi Weiping, a researcher in orient securities, believes that even if investing in gold is used as a hedging tool, it is based on the expectation of the future decline of the US dollar and the increase of inflationary pressure, then there may be a problem that investment is out of cost, and the risk will naturally increase.

　　As an insider, Li Qi suggested that ordinary investors should not regard gold as an important investment product, but as a good allocation product. Controlling the investment ratio and acting according to one’s ability is conducive to effectively allocating assets and resisting price risks. "If the price of gold is $400, you can even allocate 50%, but at present, if you want to offset $1,000, you can only allocate 10%." Li Qi gave such investment advice.

Editor: Zhou Zhongxiao

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Feng Chun ‘an (a pseudonym), who works in a cultural company, brushed a message on the Internet last year. A company claimed that it could evaluate junior, middle and senior engineers nationwide, but the evaluation could be fully refunded, so he paid a registration fee of 6,500 yuan, hoping to take a shortcut to get his favorite intermediate engineer title. But today, he didn’t get the title and didn’t refund the registration fee.

The title evaluation failed to refuse the refund through the agency company.

In April last year, Feng Chun ‘an saw an advertisement issued by Chongqing Jiuer Education Company to evaluate the title of mechanical intermediate engineer in Tik Tok. "Because of my work, I need an intermediate title certificate." He said that the company claimed that the pass rate was high and it was declared nationwide, but it was fully refunded, so it called for consultation.

The salesman of the company promised Feng Chun ‘an that as long as he paid the registration fee of 6,800 yuan, he would be able to evaluate in December of that year and receive the certificate in April 2024, and he also claimed to sign the Service Agreement for Title Declaration.

"I read the agreement, and there is no title review but full refund clause. I have some doubts, but the salesman said that after paying the money, you can sign a supplementary agreement, and the content can’t be fully refunded."

In order to dispel Feng Chun ‘an’s suspicion, the salesman also provided the company’s business license, which reassured Feng Chun, so he paid a registration fee of 6,800 yuan and signed the Service Agreement for Title Application and the Supplementary Agreement.

On November 29th last year, the salesman of the company informed Feng Chun ‘an that the title was not declared successfully through WeChat, and promised to make up the declaration. If the application is unsuccessful on May 1, 2024, you can get a full refund.

On May 1st this year, Feng Chun ‘an failed to declare his middle-level position again, and he can get a refund according to the Supplementary Agreement. On May 7th, Feng Chun ‘an offered a full refund. However, the company refused a full refund on the grounds that it used most of the expenses, which was rejected by Feng Chunan. The company was only willing to refund 30%, but was rejected by Feng Chunan.

The reporter was informed that at present, the two sides are still negotiating.

The company has been deserted.

Offline registration was rejected.

On May 30th, the reporter searched for Chongqing Jiuer Education Company in Tik Tok, and still could see the company’s agency title advertisement. The advertisement content was that the professional title of engineer was universal all over the country, and it was 100% covered, which saved the trouble and effort, but it was fully refunded.

In order to convince everyone that it can be packaged, there are also information such as the company address, photos of the company’s office space, business license, legal person ID card, and professional title certificate that has been processed.

On the afternoon of the same day, the reporter went to the 9th floor of Block E of Power International in Yubei District, and found that the company had been deserted, and the original office space had been replaced by a technology company.

The front desk staff of this technology company told reporters that the previous company had checked out in April, and their company was newly renovated in May this year.

The reporter also contacted a person in charge of the company, surnamed Zhang, who said that his company no longer accepts the business of intermediate title of engineer. "Now that the market supervision department is in strict control, we can only digest the stock in our hands first." He said that they sent advertisements for platforms such as Tik Tok, but he denied that they had "packaged" the advertisements. When the reporter mentioned the "but refundable" clause, he faltered.

When the reporter said that he needed a junior title, the person in charge became interested again, and said that he would act as an agent for the junior title, with a registration fee of 3,800 yuan and a time of 3 to 5 months.

When the reporter said that he was going to register in person and pay the money, he was very vigilant and asked the reporter many times what he did. Seeing that the reporter still insisted on paying the bill to the company, he hung up the phone directly.

"They all do this and accept online registration fees." Mr. Liang, who has paid the money for one year and still hasn’t got the title certificate, said that he once visited the company and found that the office space didn’t have the name of Chongqing Jiuer Education Company. When asked why the company name was not hung, the employees said that the previous one was too old and a new company name was being made.

Feng Chun ‘an said that in mid-May, the company refused to refund. He called the Jiangbei District Market Supervision Bureau to complain. Law enforcement officers came to the door and found that there was no company name, and the employees did not admit that they were employees of Chongqing Jiuyi Education Company.

"Finally, the employee took out the business license and found that the registered address was in Shapingba, so the law enforcement officers had to hand over the case to the market supervision department of Shapingba District." Feng Chunan said.

Paid agency suspected of fraud

Can report to the public security organ.

Pei, from Heilongjiang, paid a registration fee of 6,800 yuan on February 17 last year. In April this year, he was informed that he failed to declare successfully, but he did not get a refund. At present, Pei has entrusted a lawyer to apply for arbitration. The reporter’s investigation found that there are still many people who have been cheated in the country.

In addition to Chongqing Jiuer Education Company, many companies in Chongqing are also doing title agency. On social media such as Tik Tok, the reporter entered the keyword "agency title" and searched for a number of such companies, whose advertising content was similar to that of Chongqing Jiuer Education Company.

The reporter contacted a staff member of Shapingba District Human Resources and Social Security Bureau. He said that they have received many complaints that the job title was cheated.

"These paid agency titles are actually used as bait to implement fraud." The staff member said that at present, the city is carrying out special rectification actions for intermediaries in the field of professional titles, focusing on rectifying false advertising, contract traps and false title fraud.

The Shapingba District Human Resources and Social Security Bureau reminded that if consumers encounter illegal acts suspected of fraud with the title of paid agency as bait, they can report to the public security organs, and the public security organs will investigate and deal with relevant clues according to law. If a crime is constituted, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law.

At present, the market supervision department of Shapingba District and Shapingba Human Resources and Social Security Bureau are conducting investigation and handling.

A little more news.

The Municipal People’s Social Security Bureau reminded that the title package is fake.

At the beginning of this year, for online intermediaries, "the title evaluation is only a full refund", which attracted the attention of netizens. The Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau reminded that it is false to review the title package, not to charge if it is unsuccessful, not to pass the promise before payment, and to declare a full refund.

The Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security reminded that after paying fees through social media, titles can be entrusted to companies and individuals, and after claiming to pay fees through social media such as Tik Tok, websites and small advertisements, titles can be entrusted to them, but the refund of fees and other methods are all suspected of fraud.

At present, Chongqing has not designated any intermediary or agency to handle professional titles. For the catalogue of professional title evaluation committees and organizations at all levels approved for filing, please refer to official website of the Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, and charge professional title evaluation fees in accordance with relevant regulations. (New Chongqing-chongqing morning post reporter Zheng Sanbo)