I am Chinese, yesterday was Wednesday, May 22, 2024 Beijing time. Let me review everything I went through yesterday. Then please find a way to rescue me from oppression in China:

At 06:00, I woke up and went from my bedroom on the second floor to the first floor. To avoid waking up my wife and children, I washed up in the first floor restroom. At the same time, I turned off the power of the induction cooker. Because I set it up to cook at night 8 hours ago. I use it to make rice and pea Congee. This is a part of breakfast. Then, I turned on another induction cooker (our house uses electricity instead of natural gas) and started steaming steamed buns. Baozi is pre made, so it only takes 15 minutes to steam. When the timer rang, I peeled off a few pickled duck eggs. Each person has a bowl of Congee, 4 beef buns, and 1 Salted duck egg. This is breakfast at our house.

At 06:30, the alarm clock in the second floor bedroom rang. My wife and children wake up from their respective bedrooms. I woke up Baidu’s smart speaker and asked her to play some news. My wife started washing up, and my child listened to the news while getting dressed. He asked me: Did the Iranian President pass away in the accident? I replied, “Yes.”. He asked me again, “Why is every day news about the Middle East? And there is less and less news about Russia and Ukraine?” I told him my opinions, some of which come from Chinese media commentators, and the other from the inspiration I gained from reading Quora.

At 06:45, both the wife and children walked downstairs to have breakfast. My wife asked about the weather of the smart speaker today and the answer she received was 35 ℃. In mid May in the eastern region of China, this is an unusual high temperature. She spent several hours outdoors participating in public welfare activities today. Every year, the district government will provide financial assistance twice to children from families whose income is below a certain threshold. Give them a small sum of money (approximately $200) to help them purchase some learning tools or other goods. She needs to bring some children to collect this money. She complained that the high temperature had darkened her skin, so she hoped that the charity event could be held indoors instead. She doesn’t work for the government, just a teacher who teaches children art.

At 07:00, I drove the hybrid car out of the garage and took my wife and children to school. It takes about 15 minutes on the road, and the child takes out their textbook to review. This is one of his learning methods, which involves reviewing the previous day’s homework in the morning when he has the best energy. He told me that some of the questions in yesterday’s Chinese exam were from Jules Verne’s novel “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”. However, he doesn’t really like this novel. He believes that as a 7th grade student, one should read some more valuable books.

At 7: 30,I drove home and listened to the programs of political commentators from Taiwan on the Chinese Mainland media. I like this critic. He began to observe and understand the mainland, and referred to himself as Chinese. His program’s approach is data analysis and geopolitical analysis. This is a wise person. I don’t think he can support CCP, but he admits that he is Chinese, which is enough.

At 7:40, I bought dinner ingredients at a supermarket. And I bought a 2.5kg large watermelon for approximately 13 yuan (2 US dollars). This is the fruit after dinner for the whole family in the evening. I will put it in the refrigerator for a few hours. This way it tastes better. Today’s dinner plan is to stir fry beef, celery, black fungus, mushrooms, green peppers, and scallions together. According to the label, beef comes from Australia, celery is grown by local farmers, fungus comes from the northern province of China 3000 kilometers away, mushrooms come from Yunnan province 2000 kilometers away, and green peppers and scallions come from neighboring Shandong province. The cost of dinner is approximately 40 RMB (6.5 USD). When I left the supermarket, I paid the parking fee. As it is a new energy vehicle, I only need to pay 50% of the cost of a fuel powered vehicle. So, I spent 1.5 yuan (0.25 US dollars).

At 08:00, I returned home and started working in the morning. I am engaged in Internet development. Free to search for employers. We are currently completing a WeChat based mini program. It will take about 2 days, and I can get around $100 in compensation. If there are multiple employers at the same time, I will receive more compensation. This is my main source of income. I wrote some articles on children’s psychology in the Chinese version of Quora（知乎） and received some compensation. I see writing as a break from work. Last year, I wrote 270000 words on Quora in China and had 11000 subscribers.

At 12: 00 finished 4 hours of work. Throughout the morning, I received several notices from the power department reminding me to settle last month’s car charging station fee of 59 yuan ($10). The reason for the low cost is that recently I have been riding more motorcycles. So, the fuel cost of motorcycles has increased to 120 yuan ($20) per month. The agency called and told me that the house they were interested in had a price drop of 100000 yuan (16000 US dollars) compared to last year. Given the sluggish real estate situation in China, everyone is adopting a wait-and-see attitude, which has led to more price reductions and fewer buyers. Near noon, my phone prompted me that the smart fan with voice control that I had purchased for my child had arrived downstairs at my house. This electric fan, priced at 170 yuan ($30), is a well-known Chinese electrical brand KONKA. I participated in a promotion yesterday and surprisingly purchased it for 47 yuan (8 US dollars), and it was mailed for free from Suzhou, 400 kilometers away. I waited for 24 hours to receive the goods.

At 13:00, I handle some household chores. Hang the clothes in the washing machine, sort the garbage and put it in the sorting bin. According to the government’s regulations on garbage classification, it is not allowed to dispose of garbage from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm. But my trash can is already full. So, I still put a bag of kitchen waste and a bag of dry waste in the sorting bin. I know that the camera in the garbage bin will record my illegal dumping of garbage. Any violation of the regulations will result in a fine of 50 yuan (8 US dollars). But it seems that no one has ever been truly fined. However, the garbage has not been disposed of yet. I will take the recyclable garbage I have accumulated in the next few days to a large box next to the garbage bin, and use my phone to scan the QR code to dispose of the garbage. Scan the code because I have already logged into an app. At the same time, the camera inside the box began scanning whether my garbage was truly recyclable. The built-in electronic scale starts weighing the garbage, and then my phone will receive a text message telling me the weight and compensation of the garbage. Yes, in order to encourage you to sort your garbage correctly, the government has invited a company called Lovere to purchase garbage and pay compensation. I have disposed of 800 kilograms of recyclable waste in the past 3 years.

At 14:00, I started working in the afternoon, modifying the UI and asking the employer for some details. I found an error while checking the logic. The business logic must be modified again. I am already 43 years old, and I feel a bit overwhelmed with this job. So, I am pursuing a degree in nutrition and cooking, hoping to work in nutrition consulting in a few years. I hope to go to communities where there are many elderly people, cook for them and receive compensation. Because many elderly people in China suffer from malnutrition. This is not due to economic reasons, but because many elderly people are too frugal. This is my current goal.

At 17: 00,I started cooking dinner. Each person has a portion of rice, fried beef with agaric mushrooms, and a portion of sweet soybean milk (ingredients include soybeans, millet, oats, and rice). This dinner used 9 ingredients. An hour later, dinner was ready.

At 18: 00,I will drive to pick up my wife and children and go home. My wife told me the follow-up to a news story a few days ago on the way. A week ago, on the road behind our house, a female driver made a mistake and hit three people in a row. This includes an elderly person and a mother daughter pair. The old man and woman passed away on the spot, and the child has been being rescued in the ICU. This traffic accident has attracted the attention of the whole city. Treatment requires huge costs, and medical insurance is not enough to cover it. The child’s family asks for help through the Internet. In just a few days, they received over 1 million yuan (200000 US dollars) in cash. The hospital also announced to minimize treatment costs and invited multiple professors for consultations. The girl finally escaped danger. I, my wife, have all donated money. After I forwarded my request for help on WeChat, my friends who were far away in Shanghai and Henan also donated money. This is the only fortunate thing in a tragedy.

At 18:00, I will continue to pick up the child and go home. He told me about what he saw in today’s class and planned to read a novel called “Death Notice” after completing his homework. The author of this novel graduated from Tsinghua University, and the theme of the novel is to discuss the upper limit of the value of criminal police – if there is an unfair social environment, criminal crimes will never disappear. So, how to prevent crime? Behind this issue lies a larger context: achieving high social and economic development is the only way to eliminate the soil of crime. Through the form of detective novels, I believe that novels express profound thoughts. This is also one of the reasons why I encourage children to read this novel.

At 19:00, The whole family had dinner together. We discussed various topics, from the historical conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia, to the announcement by the United States of increased tariffs on China’s new energy vehicles, and to the historical territorial disputes between China and Russia. We also discussed the dissidents in China in the 1990s. This is a topic that I often discuss with my children. I sometimes find their programs on YouTube and let children watch and listen to their opinions. Today, when my child asked for my opinion, I told him that I looked down on them. Because they have been away from China for more than 30 years, and still use outdated language overseas. Apart from criticism, they have achieved nothing. If they truly love the Chinese people, they must at least do something that can prove themselves. However, they cannot do it.

At 21:00, my wife took a rest in the living room. She likes to watch Tiktok live broadcast every night, and then bought all kinds of things in the broadcast room. The common feature of these things is that they are cheap, useless, flashy but not practical, and regret buying them all. However, this is her entertainment, and my responsibility is to answer whatever she wants to buy: great, worth buying. The child finished their studies and immersed themselves in the novel. However, before that, he would make video calls to his grandfather and grandmother to inquire about their blood sugar levels, remind them to pay attention to a healthy diet, and not forget to take medication.

At 22:00, the child should go to bed. But before going to bed, he asked me to go to his room and say something to me. He pointed to the map of China on the wall and speculated about the possibility of China and Russia turning against each other in the future. Then, he worried for Japan because he didn’t understand why Japan always made the wrong choices at every milestone in history. Then, he pointed to the Yellowstone National Geopark in the United States on another world map, hoping to visit there in the future. I heard him talk nonsense for a while, so I urged him to go to bed quickly.

This is a day for an ordinary Chinese family. Now let me ask: How different is this day from a family in the United States, Australia, Japan, or France? How to draw the conclusion that “CCP oppresses the Chinese people” and “Chinese people have no freedom” from this day?

In any society or religion, children are the most brainwashed group. In the world of a 13-year-old child, he knows the existence of “Chinese dissidents”, understands Russia’s history, believes that China and Russia cannot maintain eternal allies, worries about Japan’s gambling in the fate of the country, yearns for the natural scenery of the United States, understands that “propaganda” cannot make society better, and that a highly developed society can make everything better. He studied in a school under the management of the CPC, so why was he not brainwashed?

I’ll tell you. Some Chinese people view the courses of “politics” and “history” offered in schools as “屠龙之术”. The meaning is that by mastering these two courses, one will have a tremendous power to change society. Why do you say that? Aren’t these two courses brainwashing tools of the CPC?At school, teenagers in China will learn:

• that people have the right to overthrow rulers if society is unfair,
• the army and police are the state’s violence machines that deal with opponents,
• the CPC made serious mistakes in the 1960s and 1970s, listed the social problems and contradictions in China,
• told students the reasons behind these problems, and the solutions to them (never attributed these problems to the United States and the West, but to find reasons and solutions from within China),
• the origin and positive value of religion，
• On the grand topic of “worldview”, Chinese students are educated that the fate of all humanity is a community, which is unrelated to social systems. The interests of all humanity are the highest interests.

Conclusion: If you have the money to pay for air tickets, please come to China to take a look. If you don’t have money, please work hard to earn money and reduce online surfing.