[Text/Observer Network Long Wei] US President Trump’s "36-hour" visit from 24 to 25 became the focus of India. On the eve of Trump’s visit to India, India renovated the former residence of Mahatma Gandhi; Build a 6-foot-high wall to block the view of slums; Reuters reported on 23rd that some residents and officials said that the scale of Trump’s visit was unprecedented.
However, on the morning of 23rd, due to the windy weather, the entrance gate of "VVIP" outside the newly renovated stadium in Mouteira collapsed, and a large-scale rally of "Namaste Trump" (namaste means namaste) is about to be held in this stadium with a capacity of about 110,000 people.
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According to the schedule announced by the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Trump’s "36-hour" visit to India is very "compact", and the rally of "Hello Trump" at the stadium is the first stop. After that, Trump will also visit the Taj Mahal and New Delhi; Meeting with Indian President Cowend in Delhi and attending the state banquet hosted by Cowend; Then go to the former residence of Mahatma Gandhi in India; Then hold formal talks with Modi and attend the Roundtable of Indian Business Leaders …
Before Trump’s visit, India made enough preparations, some of which were widely questioned as "face projects".
The Times of India reported on the 23rd that India rebuilt the sardar patel Cricket Stadium (built in 1982) in Mouteira, Ahmedabad. Previously, the stadium could accommodate 49,000 spectators, but now it can accommodate 110,000 people and become the largest stadium in the world.
However, on the 23rd, the temporary "VVIP" entrance gate made of welded steel bars was accidentally blown down by the wind. "After a while, another temporary door at the main entrance of the stadium also partially collapsed," said an Indian official. Fortunately, no one was injured in the accident. At present, Reuters said that the 30-foot-high gate has been repaired.
On the Marty River in Sabar, the former residence of Indian Mahatma Gandhi, a renovation is under way. "Workers are watering the lawn and repainting the walls," Reuters reported. Trump will visit the complex for 15 minutes on Monday (24th). According to reports, India has also deployed more than 10,000 police officers for Trump’s visit.
Indian workers do cleaning in Gandhi’s former residence, the same as in Reuters.
In Ahmedabad, the Indian government began to build a wall covering slums such as Saraniavas. In order to keep slums out of Trump’s sight, a wall at least 6 feet high began to be erected.
On the 17th, the local government also issued eviction orders to 45 families living in another slum near the cricket ground in Ahmedabad. "We have lived here for 20 years, and now we are suddenly told to move because an important leader is coming here for a day." Sanjay Patani, a local resident, said: "This is unfair!"
Meanwhile, a few days ago, officials in Uttar Pradesh, where the Taj Mahal is located, were pouring water into yamuna river, which connects the Ganges, at a rate of about 14,160 liters per second to ensure that Trump would not smell the bad smell in the river when he visited the Taj Mahal. An archaeological investigation official told India Today that they were also ordered to drive the lost monkeys out of the Taj Mahal during Trump’s visit.
Indian workers are cleaning the fountain of the Taj Mahal.
According to the official news from the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at the invitation of Indian Prime Minister Modi, Trump will pay a state visit to India accompanied by the first lady of the United States, Melania, from 24th to 25th. Indian Foreign Secretary Shrinla said that Modi will hold "comprehensive talks" with Trump in various fields such as trade, national defense, counter-terrorism, energy and cultural exchanges. The White House issued a statement saying that the purpose of this visit is to further strengthen the strategic partnership between the United States and India and consolidate the relationship between the two peoples.
It is worth noting that Xinhua News Agency quoted analysts as saying that trade issues and defense cooperation will be the key topics of Trump’s visit. This year is the election year of the United States, and Trump tried to use this visit to add points for his re-election. However, although India and the United States have been conducting trade negotiations for several months, the symbolic significance of this visit is greater than the actual significance, and the differences between the two sides on trade, arms sales and other issues are difficult to resolve in the short term.
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It has been five years since the promulgation of the "Eight Regulations", and the catering industry has been affected to the bottom and began to think about a healthy development path. Nowadays, with the upgrading of consumption, there are many delicious, fun and beautiful catering enterprises in the market, and the catering industry as a whole has begun to pay attention to experience and service. According to the 2017 China Catering Report, the annual revenue of the catering industry exceeded 3.5 trillion yuan in 2016, up 11.2% year-on-year, and it is expected to reach 5 trillion yuan in 2020. While maintaining rapid growth, the catering market is also entering a period of change.
Jiang Junxian, president of China Cuisine Association, said that with the improvement of consumption power, consumers’ desire for personalization and customization is increasing from full to good, and then to eating environment and eating experience, which tests the management characteristics and management level of catering enterprises themselves, and also urges catering enterprises to accurately position themselves. Whether they can keep up with and meet the diversified needs of consumers determines the development of catering enterprises.
Dining environment is the first choice for eating in restaurants.
As a representative of the high-end catering industry, the "Beijing Banquet" was just opened in 2012, with a daily turnover of about 500,000 yuan. At that time, like many high-end restaurants in Beijing, government departments or enterprises hosted most banquets. After the introduction of the "eight regulations", high-end catering as a whole fell into a recession. At that time, UnionPay big data showed that from the end of 2010 to the end of 2014, the overall growth rate of high-end catering credit card consumption showed a decline. The daily turnover of "Beijing Banquet" once dropped to only 2,000 yuan, which simply could not bear the cost of 180,000 yuan per month.
Many high-end catering enterprises are trying some countermeasures, such as changing large rooms into small rooms, expanding banquet halls and increasing wedding banquets, etc. Some catering enterprises have removed all the dishes above 300 yuan, and some catering enterprises have started to sell steamed buns for a few dollars, but the results are not satisfactory, and many shops have to close down.
Yang Xiulong, the chairman of "Beijing Banquet", changed his mind and decided to "move from high-end to high-end", from the high-end of "saving face" to the high-end of "satisfying the pursuit of a better life after the people get rich".
This just proves the result of a survey made by China Cuisine Association last year. The survey shows that the first choice of consumers is the dining environment.
Not only that, consumers are also changing, choosing mobile payment more and paying more attention to dining experience. Kong Lingbo, the chairman of Aoqiwei Company and the founder of Beichuangying Modern Service Class, concluded that the current consumers in China are developing from satisfying consumption to pleasant consumption, and satisfying consumption means satisfying satiety or showing off mentality.
It was then that in 2014, Zhang Tianyi entered the catering industry as a "cross-border practitioner". Although it was only a small shop at first, the new attitude of Peking University master selling Hunan beef powder exploded the catering industry at once. Zhang Tianyi recalled that when he entered the catering industry, he felt a strong sense of anxiety in the industry.
Zhang Tianyi found that a large amount of investment has entered the catering industry, and the emergence of the post-90s generation who just had spending power represents the transformation of the demand side, and cross-border practitioners like him have brought different thinking logic. All factors indicate that the direction of the catering industry is changing, and the industry is welcoming an inflection point.
Good cooking is the foundation, and good experience can win.
Even if everyone is sensitive to change, it is not easy to change. Kong Lingbo believes that the competitive factors between catering enterprises are changing, and new technologies have brought about changes in the flow of consumers. "Doing a good job is the foundation, but if we still regard this as the only element of competition, it will definitely be mercilessly abandoned by the market."
Kong Lingbo said: "Most contradictions stem from cognitive mismatch. If we want to understand them, catering practitioners will find that they are facing great subversion and innovation in management, operation, product innovation and sustainable marketing."
The "Beijing Banquet" has experienced this change. Yang Xiulong decided to work hard on the service of "Beijing Banquet" and launched a private customized service. They divide every scene of life into 36 segments, such as birthday, marriage, further education, etc., and carefully plan every detail from customer reservation, arrival, dining and departure. This idea is different from the previous product promotion, but thinking about demand from the customer’s standpoint, which is a supply-side reform in the catering industry.
"A service that doesn’t leave customers with good memories and stories worth telling is zero service." This strict standard was set by Yang Xiulong, who asked all employees to try their best to satisfy, surprise and move customers. The "table conversion rate" of "Beijing Banquet" (that is, the proportion of the next meal scheduled on the spot after the meal on the same day) has been around 30%, far exceeding the industry average.
Once, a customer gave his old mother a birthday party, and the "Beijing Banquet" specially changed the name of the private room to the "Nanshan Hall" which means "Longevity is better than Nanshan". In the private room, photos of the old mother were placed for everyone to recall the past together, and even the person who cooked longevity noodles finally revealed that it was actually a son, which not only surprised the old mother, but also expressed her son’s deep gratitude. This "Nanshan Hall" story has become a service model within the "Beijing Banquet" and even within the industry.
Zhang Tianyi thinks that solving the problem of catering industry can be divided into several levels: McDonald’s solves the convenient food and clothing, Xibei solves the fresh feeling of dining, Japanese food meets the exotic customs, and Haidilao focuses on service.
"In the past, if a catering company did a good job, it would be successful. Now customers need a compound experience and require the catering industry to do its best in multiple dimensions." Zhang Tianyi said.
"Funiutang" has performed well in the taste of beef powder, dining scene, brand value proposition and appeal. Today, "Funiutang" accounts for 35% of in-house food, 25% of take-away, and 40% of other cold and fresh products sold in convenience stores and online, which is quite different from traditional catering enterprises.
Informatization makes catering enterprises smarter.
Informatization makes the catering industry more intelligent. Jiang Junxian observed that informationization has brought two changes to the catering industry: first, the operational data of the catering industry began to be uploaded to the cloud, and the information companies analyzed the data to judge the development of enterprises; second, AI was entering the catering industry, and many enterprises were trying to integrate the two.
The "Funiutang" that young people like is the forerunner of informationization. In terms of food itself, "Funiutang" has developed a higher standard of original soup beef powder, and in terms of store operation, 90% has achieved mobile payment, which enables catering enterprises to understand consumers better, thus analyzing consumers’ dining data and making appropriate promotion. Today, with the high cost of obtaining customers, this personalized push will directly bring traffic and guide offline and online consumers to convert each other.
Zhang Tianyi revealed that in the future, "Funiutang" may introduce fingerprint payment and face-brushing payment, discover the heat map in the restaurant through smart cameras, analyze the changes in the turnover rate, and make better decisions.
The traditional operation processes of catering enterprises are procurement, warehousing, processing, distribution, cooking, service and marketing. Aoqiwei is a company that provides information services to catering enterprises. Kong Lingbo believes that a flexible process system is the key to the operation of catering enterprises. In the future, a large-scale catering enterprise must be upgraded to a light asset enterprise based on industrial cooperation environment, so that it is possible to build a leading enterprise.
In Kong Lingbo’s view, the three elements of the catering industry are brand operation, product innovation and quality control. China catering enterprises should establish the brand connotation that can make the target customers trust, and not just regard the brand as a carrier of marketing.
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Beijing plans to introduce self-driving car regulations. Driverless service is expected to stand on the wind.
Microsoft requires China employees to use iPhone for work and not Android.
Xiaomi’s third car is an extended-range SUV: the main home will be listed in 2026.
Due to insufficient incentives in Vietnam, companies such as Intel gave up investing in the country.
Apple’s market value is close to 3.5 trillion US dollars, surpassing Microsoft and returning to the first place in US stocks.
Deep Blue S07 Core Information: Huawei Gankun ADS SE Intelligent Driving System will be equipped.
Xiaomi 15 series battery fast charging details exposure: 90W fast charging starts.
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Tencent video or advertising-free version will cost extra.
Tencent Video APP launched a survey of "signing up as a product experience officer" and emphasized that "members are preferred". The "high-end version" of Tencent video is mentioned in the application form for recruiting product experience officers. The main selling points are no advertising, more convenience and visual upgrade, but the price is not disclosed.
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Beijing plans to introduce self-driving car regulations. Driverless service is expected to stand on the wind.
Recently, Beijing Economic and Information Bureau solicited opinions from outside on the Regulations of Beijing Municipality on Self-driving Vehicles (Draft for Comment) (hereinafter referred to as the Draft for Comment), and will focus on solving the main problems faced by innovative activities of self-driving vehicles in specific regions through legislation, and provide clear, transparent and predictable institutional norms for the market participants of L3 and above self-driving vehicles on the basis of adhering to the safety bottom line.
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Microsoft requires China employees to use iPhone for work and not Android.
According to media reports, as part of the overall security action, Microsoft told its employees in China that starting from September this year, they can only use the iPhone at work, not Android phones.
Employees of Microsoft in China who currently use Android phones will get an iPhone 15, and Microsoft will provide iPhones in various centers in China for employees to collect.
The news said that Xiaomi’s third car is an extended-range SUV: the main home will be listed in 2026.
According to 21st century business herald news, the third car planned by Xiaomi Automobile is an extended-range SUV, which is mainly used for home use and will be launched in 2026.
According to the previous plan, the release rhythm of Xiaomi Automobile is three cars in three years, namely, the pure electric car Xiaomi SU7 in 2024, the pure electric SUV in 2025 and the extended-range SUV in 2026.
Big company
Due to insufficient incentives in Vietnam, companies such as Intel gave up investing in the country.
According to foreign media reports, according to the report documents obtained by the Ministry of Planning and Investment of Vietnam, the country has missed the investment of many overseas companies including Intel and LG Chem due to insufficient incentives.
Even Samsung Electronics, the largest overseas investor in Vietnam, is considering moving some of its production capacity from Vietnam to India.
Apple’s market value is close to 3.5 trillion US dollars, surpassing Microsoft and returning to the first place in US stocks.
At the close of US stocks on Monday, local time, Apple reported $227.82, a record high, up $1.48 or 0.65% from $226.34 at the close of the previous trading day. At Monday’s closing price, Apple’s market value is $3,493.41 billion.
Apple announced the launch of Apple Intelligence, a personal intelligence system, last month, and said that it is integrating ChatGPT of OpenAI into iOS 18, iPadOS 18 and macOS Sequoia. They are becoming more and more active in artificial intelligence, which has also pushed up their share price.
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Deep blue S07 core information exposure: Huawei Gankun ADS SE intelligent driving system will be equipped.
Deep Blue Auto officially announced that the new Deep Blue S07 model will be equipped with Deep Blue Super Extended Range, and Huawei Gankun ADS SE Intelligent Driving System will also be adopted.
It is reported that the new car is a modified model of the current deep blue S7, and a brand-new naming method is enabled. The new car positioning technology, the new mainstream medium-sized SUV, will provide extended-range and pure electric dual-power versions.
Xiaomi 15 series battery fast charging details exposure: 90W fast charging starts.
According to the latest information released by well-known digital blogger @ Experiencing more, an iterative cup flagship is testing 4900mAh battery +90W fast charge, and also supports 50W wireless flash charge, while the big cup is testing 5400mAh battery +120W fast charge, and the wireless charging power will exceed 50W. At the same time, the flagship of this series will also be equipped with self-developed small chips. If there is no accident, it will be the battery management chip and intelligent fast charging chip of the family.
Combined with the previous related news, this machine is likely to be the flagship of a new generation of Xiaomi 15 series. It is said that this series will release two models of medium-sized Xiaomi 15 and large-sized Xiaomi 15 Pro in advance, and the ultra-large-sized Xiaomi 15 Ultra will debut in Q1 next year.
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"Xiao Han is even a big Lu, and Huanque is a new nest."
On January 5, 2022, we ushered in a slight cold.
The coldest season of the year has arrived.
Slight cold occurs at 239.
It’s freezing cold to shake.
In the meteorological record
There are often times when "slight cold" is colder than "great cold"
Author: Jin Hang Tongbao
Three phases of slight cold
There are three stages of slight cold: first, waiting for Yanbei township, second, waiting for magpies to start their nests, and third, waiting for pheasants to start their nests.
At the first time, although the geese are still wintering in the south, they have already sensed that the yang is about to rise, and the geese began to fly back to their hometown from south to north;
Author: Wang Weichen
In the second season, magpies will brave the cold and start building nests, ready to give birth to offspring;
The pheasant in the third stage was a pheasant, and the pheasant in the mountain also sensed the sun’s spirit and began to sing for a companion.
It can be seen that although the weather is cold in the slight cold solar terms, the creatures of nature can still feel the sun be the spirit sprouting between heaven and earth in the snow and ice.
Author: Huang Fang
Slight cold custom
Tanmei
At this time, Chimonanthus praecox is in bud, and the excellent scenic spot with plum blossoms is selected, and it is enjoyed carefully, elegant and fragrant, refreshing and exciting.
Author: Tao Yong
Ice play
In the northern provinces of China, it is very cold after winter, and the ice age is very long. People have ice beds in places with extra thick ice for pedestrians to play, and some wear skates to race on the ice, which was called ice play in ancient times.
Xiao Han’s poems
Poem on Twenty-four Qi, Slight Cold December Festival
Tang yuanzhen
Xiao Han Lian Da Lu, Huan Que built a new nest.
Picking up food to find meanders, holding purple around the treetops.
The frost eagle is near the north head, and the pheasant is hidden in the bush.
Don’t blame strict and strict, spring and winter pay in the first month.
Author: Xu Zixing
Small garden drinking alone
Southern Song Dynasty Luyou
The horizontal forest shakes down the micro-Dan, and the deep courtyard is depressed for a slight chill.
The autumn atmosphere is already high and gratifying, and the old man is full of feelings and no joy.
The deer is still shallow from the mother spot at first, and the orange is still sour after frost.
Do you need to lose your admiration and your crown when you have a quiet drink?
Author: Wang Huilin
Slight cold
Yuan Zhangyu
The east wind outside the flower is a slight cold, light red, light white and full of dryness.
Spring does not pity people, but stays clear with peony.
Author: Yin Hongying
Xiaohan health
Slight cold is adjacent to Laba Festival,Drink a bowl of Laba porridge.It’s people from all over the worldA tacit understanding with a sense of ceremony.
During the slight cold season,Strong cold air and cold wave activities are frequent,It is the coldest season of the year.Pay attention to the head, abdomen, back and feet.Cold and warm. Proper motionCan promote the blood to flow faster,Keep your body warm.
coldest days of the year
Remember to add more clothes when you go out.
Every winter
All come for spring.
Let’s look forward to it soon.
Gorgeous sunshine
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Disaster has always been an important content and theme of drama narration. Shakespeare’s plays are undoubtedly the highest achievement of English drama in the Renaissance and an important part of English literature. In many plays, Shakespeare described a particularly special and terrible disaster-plague.
For example, there is a key scene in Romeo and Juliet. Father Lawrence sent his confidant John to send a crucial letter to Romeo. Because John accidentally walked into a plague-infected family when he passed through the plague-stricken area, the patrolman locked him in an isolated room, which delayed the delivery of the letter to Romeo as scheduled. It was because of the delay in this letter that Romeo took "dead Juliet" for granted and chose to commit suicide. Actually, Juliet is just in a deep coma after drinking medicine.
This scene not only reasonably explains why the letter didn’t arrive on time, but also truly describes the situation of everyone fearing for themselves after the plague. We learned from this that even in the 16th century when Shakespeare lived, the plague areas would take corresponding isolation measures. During the plague, the infected people were blocked in the house and were not allowed to go out; People who enter the city from outside should also be isolated in order to prevent the spread of the epidemic.
In addition, there are descriptions of the plague to varying degrees in plays such as Antony and Cleopatra, Coe Leoline, King Lear, Trollos and Cresida, and Timon of Athens. Shakespeare described plagues many times in his plays because he experienced and witnessed a dangerous and special era with frequent plagues.
1. Venus and adonis made Shakespeare famous.
In Shakespeare’s life, he suffered many major plagues. Peter Akrod mentioned in Shakespeare’s Biography that in the summer of 1564, the year when Shakespeare was born, in less than six months, about 237 residents died one after another, accounting for 1/10 of the total population of the parish, and only one third of the babies born in the town lived to one year old. Shakespeare became a survivor after the plague when his mother took him to a nearby village to take refuge.
Shakespeare is indeed a survivor and lucky one blessed by God. In the summer of 1592, the large-scale Black Death broke out in London until 1594, resulting in the death of one in every 12 residents, and Shakespeare, who made a living in London at that time, was lucky enough to escape again. Like contemporary writers, he was always threatened by plague and death, and his career was invaded by plague many times. Many of his neighbors, friends and audiences died in the plague one after another, but it is a miracle that he survived the plague and wrote immortal plays.
At that time, London, like other places in Europe, had limited official measures to control the spread and spread of the plague. Compared with the epidemic prevention and control mechanism all over the world in today’s Internet age, the plague control method at that time was very simple, and posting public notices was one of them. After a particularly serious plague, the government will print relevant notices and post them in more conspicuous public areas of the city to educate the public on matters needing attention in epidemic prevention. After the disaster, the government will also print a "Death List" with the parish as the unit to count and publicize the number of deaths.
Due to the spread of the plague, the London Public Theatre was forced to close in February 1593 and did not reopen until a year later. It rained all night, and after the public theater was briefly opened, the Privy Council ordered that acting be banned within 5 miles of London, and Shakespeare and his theater were in trouble. What was Shakespeare doing during the plague period from 1592 to 1594, when he lost his livelihood because of the closure of the theater? What does he do for a living? Although he can play some plays in the private houses of court nobles, this kind of gag performance is unreliable, and that meager income can’t guarantee him to support his family at all. During the plague, Shakespeare, if he wanted to stay in London, had to find other ways to make money, on the one hand, to support his family in Strafford, on the other hand, to find other jobs and outlets to replace acting. For those who were engaged in literary and artistic creation at that time, the most important thing was to find a sponsor.
As we all know, the most important patron of Shakespeare’s life is the Earl of Southampton. Venus and adonis, a long poem dedicated to the Earl of Southampton, was published in April, 1593. It is the first known poem published by Shakespeare, with a total of 1,194 lines. The creation of the long poem coincided with the plague in England. The main material of this long poem came from Ovid’s Metamorphosis. Young Shakespeare’s ideal was to be Ovid’s successor in England. Shakespeare wrote this long poem, on the one hand, because during the plague, he urgently needed to win the trust and support of his patron, Earl of Southampton; On the other hand, I want to show my talent in drawing lessons from and using classical literature resources, which is not inferior to those Cambridge students like Marlowe and Spencer, because they once ridiculed Shakespeare as a peasant who didn’t know grammar.
After the publication of this long poem, its popularity was unexpected by Shakespeare himself. It is said that almost every woman in a noble family in London has a copy of Venus and adonis on her desk, and it is also popular to copy Shakespeare’s poems among college students in Cambridge and students in the four major law schools. It can be said that what really made Shakespeare famous overnight was this long poem written during the plague. It is with this long poem that Shakespeare’s genius was appreciated by the Earl of Southampton. Scholars believe that Shakespeare’s second narrative poem "The Humiliation of Lucretius" may have been written during this period of avoiding the plague, and the poem reflects the true story in Roman history.
During the outbreak of the plague in London in 1592-1593, Shakespeare’s two narrative long poems, Venus and adonis and the Disgrace of Lucretius, made him famous and gained fame and fortune. The plague in Elizabethan period not only did not destroy Shakespeare’s poetic genius, but in a sense allowed him to stay away from complicated affairs temporarily. Under the protection of the Earl of Southampton, in a relatively comfortable environment, Shakespeare was able to devote himself to poetry creation and survived the terrible time when the plague prevailed.
Never let sad tears soak his plays.
Great changes in the history of the times can influence the rise and fall of drama, but not the talent of poets.
From December 1592 to 1593, London closed public theaters because of the plague; After a brief opening in 1594, it was closed in April and mid-May of that year because of a new epidemic. This repeated tossing caused some actors to change careers during the epidemic, and a large number of troupes were dissolved, and few troupes finally survived.
Shakespeare himself still insisted on preparing for the post-disaster reconstruction troupe during the plague-ridden period. He knew that many troupes would not persist, and those who persisted would be the final winners. In February 1594, Shakespeare completed the revenge tragedy Titus Andlau Knicks, which was the first published Shakespeare play. Then he created several historical dramas such as Richard II and King John.
Shortly after the plague, in May of 1594, under the protection of Baron Henston, the "Palace Minister Troupe" was established. Shakespeare also joined the troupe, and he contributed all the plays he had written in the past as the capital of his shareholding. Shakespeare is one of the eight shareholders of the troupe. According to The Chronicle of Shakespeare, it was from 1594 that he began his great cooperation with richard burbage.
During this period, Shakespeare, as the main actor and screenwriter of the troupe, wrote and acted. In 1594, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet and Richard II premiered one after another. As the first stage of Shakespeare’s creation, He has completed the futile love (1594), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1596), The Merchant of Venice (1596), Henry IV (Part 1 /1596), The Merry Wives of Windsor (1597) and Henry IV (Part 2/1596). On the eve of the Earl of Essex’s rebellion in 1601, Shakespeare’s troupe performed charles ii at the Globe Theatre. Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night also premiered in this year. Perhaps to bring some joy and comfort to people who are negative and world-weary after the plague, Shakespeare created many comedies after the plague.
However, the good times did not last long, and then in 1603, a large-scale plague broke out again, which made the originally turbulent national situation even more precarious. On March 24th, 1603, the Queen died at the age of seventy. The Tudor Dynasty, which began in henry vii and lasted for 118 years for five monarchs, came to an end. The air of death all over London aggravated the sadness of the queen’s death. As the Queen’s designated heir to the throne, James I succeeded.
James I brought changes to the theatre environment in London. On May 17, 1603, the "Palace Minister Troupe" was officially reorganized into the "King Sacrifice Troupe", and on May 19, the King of England issued a letter of patent. It probably means that no matter where Shakespeare’s troupe performs after the plague subsides, all localities should not only allow but also give the best support and assistance, but also give considerable courtesy. In the first ten years of James I’s reign, the actors of the Globe Theatre were invited to perform at the court more than ten times a year on average. At this time, Shakespeare already had the privilege of symbolizing identity.
In 1603, when the plague reached its peak, London officially printed the Death List, which was published every week for a penny, and thousands of names appeared on the death list with a huge print run. As today, once the citizens knew that the plague appeared in the city, the only way they could think of was to flee, but fleeing caused a greater spread of the plague. The nobles fled to the country villas to take refuge, but it was the same for the poor everywhere, so the poor were the ones who died the most in the plague. In order to prevent the people who fled the city from further aggravating the spread of the plague, the government will also issue regulations on isolation and confinement to restrict freedom of movement. Nevertheless, the plague in 1603 killed one fifth of the population.
During the plague, Shakespeare never put down his pen, and after the plague, he ushered in a turning point in his personal destiny. He not only wrote tit for tat (1604), Othello (1604), All’s well that ends well (1605), King Lear (1605) and Macbeth (1606).
During the plague, the theater was forced to close, and the official announcement prohibited "the audience gathering together" because it was particularly easy to lead to "large-scale infection of the plague or the epidemic of other infectious diseases". Without an audience, the troupe can’t survive. In order to survive, most troupes have moved to other provinces, from fixed places to traveling performances, and Shakespeare’s troupes often tour other provinces. In the history of London, the longest periods of theater closure were: 1581-1582, 1592-1593, 1603-1604, 1608-1609, 1625, 1630, 1636-1637, 1640 and 1641, respectively. The impact of theater closure on the troupe was as follows
In 1605, Shakespeare didn’t take part in the touring performance of the King’s Sacrifice Troupe. After Othello in 1604, Shakespeare devoted himself to the writing of King Lear, which was completed in early 1606 at the latest. Perhaps it is the direct context of the plague. Shakespeare asked King Lear to use the words "revenge, plague, death and chaos" in his curse on his daughter Reagan and her husband Cornwall, and denounced her as "a plague sore hidden in my corrupt blood". The exact time of script writing has been controversial in academic circles. Some scholars speculate that King Lear was written around the end of 1605 according to Gloucester’s lines in one scene and two scenes, "These recent solar and lunar eclipses are not good omen" and the phenomena of solar and lunar eclipses that occurred in September 1605.
Since then, Shakespeare has entered the most mature creative period of his life.
3. Look at the impermanence of life with rational eyes
Shakespeare, who has experienced the test of plague and death, naturally has a deeper understanding of the nature of the world and life. In The Tempest (1611), he borrowed Prospero’s words:
Our party is over. Our actors,
I once told you that it was a group of elves;
All of them have vanished into thin smoke.
Like the illusory composition of this illusion,
A castle in the clouds, a magnificent palace,
Solemn temples, even the earth itself,
And everything on earth, will also dissipate,
Just like this illusion, there is not even a shadow of smoke.
We are all dream characters,
Our life is in a deep sleep.
The characters and scenes on the stage are fleeting like a mirage, and so is human life. Plague eliminated the differences between society, class, gender, dignity and individuals. In this line by Shakespeare, the meaning of "the whole world is a stage" is perhaps more complicated than we realized before-the great poet has refined the truth contained in the "stage" of "the world", that is, "impermanence".
Shakespeare always enjoys light and shadow, reveling in ugliness and beauty, loftiness and inferiority, richness and poverty, smallness and magnificence. He created Iago and imogen with the same pleasure. No matter in the dark and horrible image of tragedy or the graceful and dreamy image of comedy, we can see the development of his English historical drama to Roman drama, his exploration of the national identity of England and Britain, his interest in the marginal "other" (such as Shylock the Jew and Othello the Moor), and the complex female images he created … In his great works, the thinking about life and death runs through.
Shakespeare’s plays show people’s attitude towards death-not to deny death, but to give it special meaning and gain wisdom from it. In tragedy, those who are doomed to be destroyed by fate will not leave this world casually. On the contrary, they have a special mission. They always convey the noble and rational spirit of human beings seriously and fully through philosophical language, just like Hamlet. Only after completing such a mission will they leave the stage in a solemn way.
Great art is a spiritual vaccine given to the world by great writers.
When viruses and plagues threatened mankind, Shakespeare wrote the most brilliant poems. When Shakespeare looked at the impermanence of life and the truth of existence with rational eyes, he affirmed the human appeal of love, freedom and perfection buried behind it, the moral laws from the ideal kingdom of beauty and the sacred inner light beyond religion, all of which made us feel that the plague stopped in the poet’s poems. For Shakespeare, who was immersed in art, the plague hardly existed. By creating a bright and poetic world, he revealed why Shakespeare was so extraordinary in the Renaissance when the stars were shining.
(Author: Gu Chunfang, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of Peking University Art Institute)
At the 2025 Shanghai International Auto Show, SAIC Chase MAXUS created a wealth-creating ecological matrix belonging to the strugglers in Hall 3 with the theme of "Young People Creating Wealth and Better Life". This booth not only reshapes the industry cognition with the attitude of "global commercial vehicle eco-leader", but also shows the strategic ambition of China commercial vehicle brand to go global through technological breakthrough, ecological construction and policy support.
Strategic upgrade:
Commercial vehicles have never been just "tools", but also a kind of life, and it is also a leap of the whole "ecology" Datong released the "Open Commercial Vehicle Ecological Strategy" for the first time in the industry, upgrading the positioning of traditional commercial vehicles from "wealth creation tools" to "smart life partners". At the same time, Datong has also cooperated with technology companies like Huawei to build a "car cloud service platform" and online OTA upgrade. In the future, it will go deep into the intelligent cockpit and the combined assisted driving system, becoming the first light commercial vehicle brand equipped with Huawei’s intelligent solutions. This cross-border cooperation not only fills the gap in the industry of intelligent commercial vehicles, but also marks the reconstruction of commercial vehicle competition rules by Datong with technical ecology, all of which are concentrated in Datong’s products.
Product destruction: technical definition, scene creation and wealth creation
New way and far boundary:
As the world’s first super-mixed light passenger Taking "water and electricity worry-free" as the core, it solved the core pain point of domestic electricity consumption of RV. It can quickly charge 1 kWh in one minute, generate up to 28.5 at idle speed, and discharge 6kW inside and outside the car as standard. It also jointly reformed the enterprise to set up the "Play RV Alliance" to create a complete RV ecosystem. The whole vehicle has a comprehensive endurance of up to 1100km, an intelligent assisted driving system and dual-motor power splitting technology to create a "large-scale mobile living station".
G50 hybrid:
At this exhibition, Datong also brought the only 100,000-class hybrid MPV in the world. Facing the pain point of domestic MPV space and energy consumption, the standard of "national domestic MPV" is redefined with the advantages of measured battery life of 1412.8km, real 7-seat large space (trunk 406L in three rows) and annual fuel saving of 12,000 yuan, combined with the interactive experience of Tencent TAI 2.0 car networking and Chaoku.
Montana V1 Diner Custom Edition:
At this auto show, there is also a customized version of the Dining Car V1, which can be called an entrepreneur’s "money-making machine". Through 98% space utilization, 52cm ultra-low floor and modular modification design, it can be transformed into mobile shops such as coffee carts and tea shops. With a down payment of 60 loans and a special fund of 30,000 yuan for retired military personnel, the threshold for starting a business has been greatly lowered. At the same time, the scene also showed that Bawang Chaji’s joint dining car is absolutely eye-catching. The customized version of Dining Car Dining Car Dining Car Dining Car Dining Car Dining Car Dining Car Dining Car Dining Car Dining Car Dining Car Dining Car Dining Car Dining Car Dining Car Dining Car Dining Car Dining Car Dining Car Dining Car has a battery life of 1 km and 405km, realizing the promise of "low cost and high return".
As the global leader of commercial vehicle ecology, SAIC Chase also put forward the concept of "creating wealth for strugglers and opening the way for dreamers" at this auto show, and officially launched a 1 billion yuan wealth creation fund (including 100 million yuan for retired military personnel) to support the whole cycle of "car purchase-finance-security" and reduce entrepreneurial barriers.
Datong will cut down the start-up cost of the venture with a price model, starting from 88,800 yuan for "Da Na", 86,800 yuan for "New Way" and 69,800 yuan for MPV, and launch 60 long loans with 0 down payment, as well as a powertrain with a value of up to 20,000 yuan and worry-free after-sales maintenance, so as to make the road to wealth worry-free!
SAIC Motor Corporation LimitedThe layout of this auto show of Datong is not a simple product stacking, but a trinity strategy of "technology ecology+scene customization+policy humanization" to accelerate the transformation from "the first brand of light passengers in China" to "the global ecological leader of commercial vehicles". Empowered by Huawei’s intelligent technology, its commercial vehicles are breaking through the traditional tool attributes and becoming intelligent nodes linking people, cars and life; The 1 billion wealth creation fund will deeply bind business value and social responsibility, and open up a new path of "technology inclusiveness".
With the deepening of global layout (such as 90% market share in Europe and the first data of new car growth rate in Australia), Datong is writing a new story of "China’s wisdom" in developed markets with the model of "high quality and price ratio+compliance and innovation". In the future, when the commercial vehicle ecology truly realizes the seamless connection of "travel-wealth creation-life", Datong may become a "breaker" to define the global commercial vehicle industry standards.
Today, I saw a picture of REE air conditioner in the "wrench community" in the park. Both the REE trademark and the name "Hongli" are very similar to Gree. A closer look on the Internet shows that there are more frightening contents: the air-conditioning manufacturer Zhongke Hongli Group not only owns two brands, namely "REE Hongli" and "Jinghong Hongli", but also the legal persons of Jinghong Air Conditioning (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd. and Zhongke Hongli Electric Appliance (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. are both "Dong Mingzhu".
Many people who don’t know the inside story will see that the legal person of the company is Dong Mingzhu, and the company brands "REE Hongli" and "Jinghong Hongli" are similar to Gree air conditioners and Jinghong refrigerators, so they naturally think that this company is owned by Gree Dong Mingzhu.
▲ Zhongke Hongli Dong Mingzhu Information
I didn’t expect this to turn out to be a big lie. This Dong Mingzhu is not Gree Dong Mingzhu, but some air-conditioning manufacturers who tried their best to find a person with the same name as Gree Dong Mingzhu to register the company, and then they swindled themselves in the market as Gree. This Zhongke Hongli company has gone a step further than those ordinary famous brands, but it’s a pity that such a clever IQ is not used on the right path.
▲ Gree Electric Dong Mingzhu Information
From the above comparison, it can be seen that the famous brands in the home appliance industry have reached the point of "doing all kinds of evil", and Gree Dong Mingzhu, a counterfeiter, has repeatedly declared his opposition, but there is nothing he can do about it.
Fortunately, the recent spate of holidays in Pinduoduo has attracted the attention of the national regulatory authorities, and a massive anti-counterfeiting campaign is under way. On August 1st, official website, the State Administration of Market Supervision, issued an important news, saying that the State Administration of Market Supervision required local industrial and commercial and market supervision departments to seriously investigate and inspect the problems reflected by the media and complaints and reports from consumers and trademark owners about selling fake products and brand-name products on the Pinduoduo platform. No matter whether it is a third-party platform or an operator within the platform, as long as it constitutes an illegal act, it will be dealt with seriously according to law.
For these counterfeiters who have tried their best, Wrench thinks that all friends of home appliance dealers should take a long-term view. Speculation may make a short-term profit, but in the future, the market will be dominated by genuine brands. We should not help others and stay away from these counterfeiters.
GEE will never die next to famous brands, and Gree Dong Mingzhu can’t sleep. In the face of these fake goods flying around the market, every household appliance user is frightened. If China’s home appliance industry wants to go further, it must shovel the cancer of the market, otherwise it will destroy the Great Wall.
"It’s too hot! There are more than 300 tables in the restaurant, "Flower viewing lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns, and crowds of people everywhere" … It continued the "good start" of consumption during the Spring Festival holiday. During the Lantern Festival this year, consumption scenes such as catering, tourism and culture in many places across the country continued to be hot.
In 2022, the domestic consumer market remained basically stable with the implementation of a package of policies to stabilize the economy and successive measures. At present, with the epidemic prevention and control entering a new stage, the potential and vitality of consumption recovery continue to be released.
Looking back last year, what characteristics did the consumer market present? Based on this year, how to further promote consumption? At the press conference held by the State Council Press Office a few days ago, the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Commerce introduced the relevant situation.
The consumer market remained basically stable last year.
"In the past year, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council issued a package of policies and measures to stabilize the economy in a timely manner. In this package of policies, consumption promotion has always been an important part. " Xu Xingfeng, director of the Department of Market Operation and Consumption Promotion of the Ministry of Commerce, said.
-focus on key points and continue to boost bulk consumption. "We usually refer to cars, home appliances, restaurants and homes as’ four donkey kong’, and these four categories account for about a quarter of the total amount of society." Xu Xingfeng introduced that last year, the state introduced policies to invigorate automobile circulation and expand automobile consumption. Driven by the policy, the national automobile sales stopped falling and rebounded in the second half of last year, with a year-on-year increase of 10.7%. Among the new car sales, the proportion of new energy vehicles increased from 1/8 in 2021 to 1/4 in 2022. At the same time, the Ministry of Commerce, together with relevant departments, actively promoted the consumption of smart home appliances and green building the countryside, and introduced targeted support policies to boost the recovery and development of catering consumption, which achieved certain results.
-Grasp innovation, and new formats will stimulate consumption vitality. Guo Tingting, Vice Minister of Commerce, said that in 2022, the development trend of new consumption was good, and the online retail sales of physical goods increased by 6.2%, accounting for 27.2% of the total social output. In the new consumption format, live e-commerce performed brilliantly, and the cumulative number of live broadcasts, cumulative number of viewers, number of live products and number of active anchors all increased exponentially compared with 2021.
-grasping the carrier and constantly optimizing the consumption environment. Accelerate the cultivation and construction of international consumption center cities; Hold the first international consumer center city forum; Popularize the first batch of 14 typical experiences and practices in four aspects; Implement the three-year action of county-level commercial construction … Last year, driven by a series of policies to promote urban and rural consumption, the proportion of retail sales of consumer goods in counties and townships in the total social zero increased steadily, helping the consumer market to remain basically stable.
Give play to the pulling role of automobile consumption
Issuing automobile coupons, extending subsidies for replacement of new energy vehicles, and improving the layout of infrastructure construction for charging and replacing electricity … Around promoting automobile consumption, many new policies have been launched in many places across the country recently, which has aroused widespread concern.
According to reports, automobile consumption has always accounted for 10% of the total social zero. According to the data, in 2022, the annual sales volume of new cars in China was 26.864 million, a year-on-year increase of 2.1%, ranking first in the world for 14 consecutive years. "Since automobile consumption is the first of the’ four donkey kong’, policy support is consistent." Xu Xingfeng said that this year, the Ministry of Commerce will continue to work with relevant departments to take multiple measures, focus on the whole industrial chain, highlight key points, and continue to stabilize and expand automobile consumption.
On the one hand, stabilize the consumption of new cars. This year, we will continue to promote the transformation of automobile consumption from purchase management to use management. At the same time, various forms of automobile consumption promotion activities will be carried out to stabilize the increment of new car consumption.
On the other hand, support the consumption of new energy vehicles. Guide all localities to further optimize the use environment of new energy vehicles in terms of licenses, charging, and traffic, so that consumers have no worries about using them.
In addition, continue to expand the circulation of used cars. Accelerate the construction and improvement of a national second-hand car information inquiry platform, and revise the Measures for the Administration of Second-hand Car Circulation to make vehicle information more transparent. Smooth car scrapping update. Revise and improve the management regulations on motor vehicle scrapping, improve the recycling system of scrapped motor vehicles, encourage qualified places to carry out automobile trade-in and promote automobile recycling consumption.
"We will keep automobile consumption in a good environment through policy incentives and measures, so as to play its role in pulling and driving the whole consumption." Xu Xingfeng said.
Stimulate market vitality and promote consumption growth
Watching movies, shopping, traveling … Spring Festival in the Year of the Rabbit, the domestic consumer market is full of excitement. Data show that during the Spring Festival this year, the sales of key retail and catering enterprises nationwide increased by 6.8% compared with the same period of last year.
A few days ago, the the State Council executive meeting called for efforts to expand consumption. We will promote the comprehensive implementation of mass consumption policies such as helping life service enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households to bail out and promoting automobiles. Organize a variety of consumption promotion activities to accelerate the recovery of contact consumption.
Xu Xingfeng said that this year, while continuing to implement the policies that have been introduced, we will promote the introduction of a number of new policies according to the new situation and focus on key areas to maximize the effectiveness of the policies.
At the same time, continue to plan key activities to stimulate market vitality. A few days ago, 2023 "Time-honored Carnival" and "Enjoy Shandong Consumption Year" were launched in Qingdao, Shandong. This is not only an important part of the national Spring Festival consumption season, but also one of the important consumption promotion activities this year. "We have established this year as the’ 2023 consumption boosting year’, taking this as the main line and coordinating the national consumption promotion activities." Xu Xingfeng said. From the "2023 National Online New Year Festival" during the Spring Festival holiday to special events such as "Time-honored Carnival" and "Chinese Cuisine Fair", a series of consumption promotion activities will continue to create a strong consumption atmosphere and ignite residents’ consumption enthusiasm.
Xu Xingfeng said that the platform carrier will continue to be optimized this year. Deepen the construction of an international consumer center city, expand the protection role of smart shops and smart business districts, further enhance the convenience of life brought by the 15-minute convenience life circle, and increase quality supply through multiple channels. At the same time, strengthen the construction of county commerce to better meet the needs of the people for a better life. (Reporter Liao Ruiling)
What the United States has done can’t stop the people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang from pursuing a better life, let alone the historical trend of China’s continuous development and growth, and will only make itself a stumbling block to global development and progress.
The United States pushed the so-called "Uygur Forced Labor Prevention Law" and imposed unilateral sanctions on Xinjiang, China enterprises and personnel, trying to separate Xinjiang from the global industrial chain and create "forced decoupling". This move by the United States not only wantonly tramples on international economic and trade rules and harms the interests of Xinjiang enterprises, but also ignores the law of economic development and seriously undermines the stability of the global industrial chain supply chain.
In recent years, the United States has been addicted to decoupling from China in an attempt to contain and suppress China economically. Xinjiang, which occupies an important position in the global industrial chain supply chain, naturally becomes a thorn in its side. Xinjiang is the most important production base of polysilicon, the basic material of photovoltaic industry in the world. Xinjiang cotton is recognized by the global industry as a high-quality natural fiber raw material, which is an important raw material guarantee for the healthy and sustainable development of China and even the global textile industry, and its output accounts for about 20% of the global cotton output. Xinjiang also produces about 25% of the world’s ketchup, 15% of hops and about 10% of walnuts, peppers and artificial fibers. Xinjiang is also home to China’s largest wind turbine manufacturer, accounting for 13% of the world’s output. The real intention of the United States to concoct draconian laws is to suppress advantageous industries in Xinjiang, thus undermining its peace, stability and prosperity.
The formation and development of global industrial chain supply chain is the result of long-term market law and enterprise choice. The United States has indiscriminately imposed unilateral sanctions, artificially separating and destroying the industrial chain supply chain formed by the market for many years, and harming the common interests of the world. Recently, the price of polysilicon has been rising continuously, hitting a new high since 2011. The suppression of Xinjiang industry by the United States has caused the global photovoltaic industry chain supply chain to be fragile and seriously interfered with the cooperation and development of the global photovoltaic industry.
The hegemonic unilateral behavior of the United States harms others and does not benefit others. According to the US, 85% of the solar panel production in the United States depends on China, and the related supply chain runs through the whole Xinjiang region. The United States frequently plays the "Xinjiang brand", so it is impossible for its solar energy industry not to be affected. Relevant business people in the United States said that the sanctions "significantly inhibited the import of photovoltaic modules, causing related enterprises to restrict or even stop production and suspend delivery, which has limited the recent development of the US photovoltaic industry". The American media clearly pointed out that sanctions are tantamount to shooting themselves in the foot and "will affect the realization of the US government’s renewable energy goals". Craig Allen, Chairman of the u.s.-china business council, pointed out that the so-called "Uygur Forced Labor Prevention Law" left many enterprises at a loss, brought significant uncertainty, further disrupted the already severely strained supply chain, and made inflation continue to worsen.
In the face of obvious facts and enterprise development prospects, more and more enterprises say "no" to the big stick policy of the US government. From the heads of American trade associations praising that "China has done a good job in all aspects, especially in supplying the American retail fashion market, the United States can’t stop China", to Japanese clothing brands explicitly stating that they will not participate in "boycotting Xinjiang, China cotton", and German auto companies have repeatedly stressed that there is no so-called "forced labor" phenomenon in their factories in Xinjiang, which fully shows that fairness is at ease with people’s hearts.
The cotton in Xinjiang is white and the solar energy is clean, but the intention of the United States to concoct evil laws is dark and dirty. At a time when the global industrial chain supply chain has been continuously tense, the malicious creation of "forced decoupling" by the United States and the disruption of normal product supply will only drag down the recovery of the world economy. What the United States has done can’t stop the people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang from pursuing a better life, let alone the historical trend of China’s continuous development and growth, and will only make itself a stumbling block to global development and progress.
