In the past few days, you have probably seen such a "big news" in your circle of friends: On February 27, 2018, the first shovel of the renovation project of Shihushan in Suzhou Zoo accidentally opened an ancient tomb. Among more than 300 cultural relics unearthed, the most legendary complete version of A Dream of Red Mansions was named "A Trial Evaluation of the Addition and Deletion of Wu’s Stone Story" by the academic circles, and many mysteries of the Red Mansion for hundreds of years were solved! Hu Shi, Zhou Ruchang and other Redology masters worked so hard to build the Redology Building, and suddenly collapsed!
It’s the old copy of The Red Mansion unearthed, and it’s the collapse of the redology building. Even the time and place are so obvious that netizens don’t believe it. This article has already won 100,000+.
However, in fact, the so-called "Wu’s Stone Story" is an old rumor for 10 years. In 2008, "He Lili" (pseudonym, male, junior high school education) handed over the so-called "Wu’s Stone Story" to Liu Junjun to upload it to the Internet, and the rumor began. "He Lili" said: Grandparents accidentally got a copy of A Dream of Red Mansions that year; Only He Lili has ever read this set of books and copied the contents with his cousins. then what Such a precious codex disappeared, leaving only the electronic version of "Wu’s Stone’s Addition and Deletion Trial Review" uploaded by "He Lili".
"He Lili" claimed that this manuscript was written in the year of Guiyou in the lunar calendar, that is, in 1753 AD, one year earlier than the female parent of Jiaxuben, the earliest banknote copy of A Dream of Red Mansions discovered so far in the red circle! Is it subversive enough? Even more subversive, they claimed that the author of the book was Wu Meicun in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, not Cao Xueqin! So A Dream of Red Mansions has to be called "Wu’s Stone"!
This low-level rumor can’t be logically consistent. It has been said to be an ancient manuscript, but several netizens kept revising it. By the time Guiyouben released the so-called "third anniversary edition" online edition in 2011, the content had been changed to "Fan Sixth Edition" (original text). Several authors who faked together finally even set up their own businesses and compiled several versions of Gui You Ben. Some authors wrote anonymous, while others wrote Cao Xueqin.
The writing of "Wu’s Stone Story" is vulgar, and even the modern "humane" saying of "fellow villager" and "help us for the sake of understanding" appears in the article; The plot is even more absurd and vulgar, and netizens call it "spicy eyes": Mrs. Wang, who believes in Buddhism, wants Baoyu to marry a nun, Baoyu becomes an adulterer, Sister Lin becomes an armed leader and leads slaves to defend the Grand View Garden, and Baochai seduces Baoyu …
When popular science professionals disdain to refute it, such information garbage is occupying people’s brains and occupying valuable information channels. On February 27th this year, Guangming Daily published a report on "The Collapse of Wu’s Stone".
However, Guangming Daily has just started a rumor, and now the rumor has put on a new vest: "On February 27th, the renovation project of Shihushan in Suzhou Zoo was dug up …", The rumor maker deliberately chose such a day, which can be regarded as naked provocation and fooling. The media sentenced it to death on that day, and it chose to be resurrected with blood on that day.
A netizen with junior high school education pretended to be a female netizen, and wrote such a "Stone Story" directly with the keyboard and posted it on the Internet. The plot was spicy and the text was vulgar, but just say: This is the "Dream of Red Mansions" handed down from my family! Some people believe it. In the past ten years, such low-level rumors have not disappeared, but they have captured a bunch of hardcore fans, and they have created new tricks from the development of the media and won 100,000+. This communication phenomenon itself deserves attention.
Who is continuing this rude rumor? The answer may be ourselves.
The key to self-media communication based on social attributes lies in the fission of users, and the more shocking the content, the easier it is to achieve viral communication through user sharing, and the form of communication itself has nothing to do with the authenticity of the content. The "nipple music" of network information makes us happy to spread more bizarre information "free".
The information field is increasingly filled with headline parties and low-level rumors, which is punishing our laziness and impulsiveness. We don’t read the full text, but we want to forward bizarre news and get praise from friends. We clearly know that this expression is extreme and ridiculous, but we are happy to join in this excitement. This is a typical "silent spiral". When you see a sensational content, you are eager to forward it, or even don’t look at the forwarded content at all. Is it irrelevant?
For example, a few days ago, the article "14 bureau-level leaders of China Welfare Lottery Distribution Center embezzled 136 billion yuan" was screened. However, the article was accompanied by confession videos of relevant officials released by CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, which did not mention the figure of 136 billion yuan at all, and other channels did not talk about this figure. For another example, the "one kilometer of expressway will charge one yuan in the future" which was screened two days ago is also a typical title party, and there is no such content in the text.
If we spend 1% of the forwarding impulse on reading the full text of the article to be forwarded, our circle of friends will probably be much cleaner. Rumors such as "Wu’s Stone Story" can be "refined" in 10 years, which is actually the vanity and greed of the devil when he uses us to spread from the media.
You will find that communication is becoming more and more convenient and efficient, but the cost of information fraud is getting lower and lower, even as Suzhou Zoo dug up an old version of A Dream of Red Mansions, without a live photo of PS; Netizens with junior high school education "edited" a "Stone Story" without providing a photo to prove that it is an old manuscript at home.
When we watch mobile phone videos, we have to double or even five times fast forward, and the greed for information curiosity has just become the demon of widespread rumors. Once upon a time, I was slow, and I could only write a Dream of Red Mansions in my life. Now, you can turn 10 rumors and 100,000+in one morning.
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