Drink Black Tea Calmly at Hogwarts

A few days before Christmas, it is the time of polar night in the Arctic Circle. Throughout the day, there is no sun in the sky, only the vast starry sky and the gorgeous aurora. This kind of experience made both Zhang Xu and Fu Rong feel very novel.

In the past few days, Zhang Xu and Fu Rong experienced huskies and reindeer pulling sleighs, sent postcards to family and friends in Santa Claus Village, went skiing on sleds in the mountains and forests, and took snowmobiles to ice-fishing on frozen lakes. . As for the last one who must be at least 18 years old and have a driver's license, this is trivial for wizards.

Karelian pies, white trout pies, rye bread, cinnamon rolls, blueberry pies, char-grilled salmon, sautéed venison, cheese bread, salty licorice sweets and many other local delicacies were a feast for the two.

On the last night of the trip, Zhang Xu was lying on the bed with Fu Rong in his arms, and the two were chatting while watching the aurora outside the window. Tomorrow is Christmas Eve, and they will return to France early tomorrow morning.

"Xu, what do you think the magic world will look like in the future?" Fu Rong asked suddenly.

"What do you think?" Zhang Xu asked back.

"I don't know. Some students in the school said that the wizarding world in the future should be like China, where wizards and Muggles live together. But some students said that the wizarding world should be completely isolated from Muggle society. " Furong said with some distress.

"Then let me briefly tell you about the relationship between wizards and ordinary people."

"Um."

"Thousands of years ago, human beings were still in the Stone Age period. At that time, human productivity was still very low, and they were very vulnerable to wild animals, natural disasters and diseases. At that time, human beings had not built cities and countries, only clans and tribes. In tribes In Chinese, only those who are powerful can become leaders. The earliest wizards, they are powerful for ordinary people, they use magic to protect the people in the tribe from natural disasters, wild animals, diseases and enemies. In that At that time, the wizard in the tribe was the leader and guardian of the tribe."

"At that time, the birth and inheritance of wizards were very difficult, and the number of wizards was very small, so wizards could only depend on the social survival of ordinary people."

"With the development of the times, ordinary people have entered the Bronze Age from the Stone Age, and then entered the Iron Age. The magic of wizards has also been developed in the battle against natural disasters, wild animals, diseases and enemies."

"However, more than two thousand years ago, the relationship between wizards and ordinary people in the East and West took different paths."

"In more than three hundred years BC, the ancient Greek philosopher Xenocrates defined a wizard as a person who uses the power of the devil. Since then, Western wizards and ordinary people have embarked on a path of opposition."

"In the following hundreds of years, ordinary people in European countries were out of fear of the unknown power wielded by wizards, which caused ordinary people to be hostile to wizards. Because of this hostility, wizards also separated themselves from ordinary people. Come on. It is precisely because the mutual hostility between wizards and ordinary people has been continuously accumulated and fermented that it has become the basis of the future witch hunting movement."

"In the Middle Ages, in order to consolidate its rule, religions started witch hunting. Many wizards and more innocent ordinary people were targeted for hunting."

"Since then, the relationship between wizards and ordinary people has broken down."

"Until the rise of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, things changed, and wizards became synonymous with learned people, such as alchemists and doctors."

"At that time, as the struggle between imperial power and clerical power intensified in European countries, all countries began to abolish religious witch hunting."

"However, at that time, the relationship between wizards and ordinary people could not be healed."

"After the first industrial revolution, the power of technology mastered by ordinary people gradually increased. At this time, ordinary people began to no longer fear the power of wizards, and no longer hostile to wizards."

"From now on,

With the continuous efforts of some wizards, the relationship between wizards and ordinary people can be eased. "

"And in the East, wizards have always participated in the development of ordinary people's society."

"For example, about 5,000 years ago, the Huangdi tribe joined forces with the Yandi tribe and fought a great battle with the Chiyou tribe from the east in the Zhuolu area. The wizards from Chiyou's side used magic to create a thick fog that filled the air for three days and three nights."

"About 1044 BC, wizards led by Jiang Ziya helped King Wu of Zhou Jifa attack Emperor Xin of Shang, and Emperor Xin of Shang also had help from wizards such as Wen Zhong and Shen Gongbao."

"Wizards in the East have always been at the forefront of fighting against natural disasters, wild animals and diseases, leaving behind folk legends such as Dayu's flood control, killing Xiangyou, and Shennong's tasting of herbs."

"In addition, the wizards in the east are also attached to the imperial power. From the very beginning, many wizards appeared as officials, and they also left a lot of folklore. If you look at the history of China, you will see that there are many famous officials. There are few 'miracles' left behind. Some wizards, such as Zhang Jiao, participated in the struggle for imperial power."

"The most important thing is that ordinary people in the east are not afraid of the power of wizards, but yearn for them. Wizards can walk freely among ordinary people. If he can solve problems such as drought, disease and wild animals for ordinary people, then he It will be worshiped by the ordinary people around. This makes many wizards from ordinary people can be discovered and cultivated by the older generation of wizards when they were young, and be inherited by the older generation of wizards. If a wizard is born in a family, then this The status of the entire family can be improved."

"Under this background, from ancient times to the present, wizards and ordinary people in the East live together almost without barriers."

"So, the relationship between wizards and ordinary people is determined by ordinary people's attitudes towards the power of wizards."

The reason for the difference between the eastern and western magic circles is certainly not as simple as what Zhang Xu said, but now I am on vacation with my girlfriend, and there are some things that can be simply explained. If I analyze this issue in depth while holding my girl , I just don't understand the style, so it's better to go deeper on other issues.

Zhang Xu is now starting to guide Fu Rong's thinking from the road of traditional European wizards to the road of Chinese wizards little by little. During the summer vacation and the current Christmas vacation, Zhang Xu took Fu Rong out of the world of wizards and into the world of Muggles, in order to broaden her horizons. If Furong followed him to live in China in the future, then her thinking would not be able to follow the path of traditional European wizards and focus her eyes on that little place in the magic world. Otherwise, the disharmony of the three views is the biggest killer of destroying the harmony of husband and wife.

Furong saw that although Zhang Xu didn't directly answer the question she raised, she felt that Zhang Xu opened up a way of thinking for her on this question that she had never thought of.

Fu Rong thought about it for a while, and felt that she couldn't think of an answer to this question in a short time, so she asked another question: "Then what is the ultimate goal of the cooperation between China's magic world and ordinary society?"

Looking at the bright starry sky dancing with the aurora outside the window, Zhang Xu said, "Our journey is the sea of ​​stars."