“Raising the curtain” and “micro-bureaucracy”

If \”pushing up curtains\” is an epitome of the prevalence of bureaucracy in the Qing Dynasty, then if we completely eradicate bureaucracy today, it is necessary to start from trivial matters such as \”pushing up curtains\” and correct them as much as possible. \”Bureaucracy\” was eradicated.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were six ministers in the Military Aircraft Department, all of whom were important figures in charge of the real power of the central government. The one ranked first is called the foreman military aircraft minister, and the one ranked last has a special nickname-\”the military aircraft that plays the curtain.\”

Why is this? Because every day when he went to work, he had to follow other military ministers. When he was about to check in at the military aircraft office, he took a few steps and rushed to the front. He respectfully opened the door curtain and invited other ministers to come in. After that, he was the last one. Go in. As time went on, he got this \”alias\”: the military plane that beats the curtain.

This is evident from the prevalence of bureaucracy in the Qing Dynasty.

Looking back now, \”raising the curtain\” is far from extinct. Whenever there is a meeting or inspection, some units will always arrange for a comrade to \”seize the opportunity\” but \”naturally\” reach out to lift the door curtain for the leader. A well-educated leader may smile and nod or say \”thank you\”, but most leaders have long been content with it. , I’m afraid I won’t even squint.

Some people may say that raising a door curtain is normal etiquette and there is nothing wrong with it. As everyone knows, the biggest misunderstanding of bureaucracy is that it feels that all \”special\” things are \”normal\” and \”reasonable.\”

Those who pull the curtain may not be flattering, and those who use it should be vigilant. The essence of the problem is that we must clearly see the \”micro-bureaucracy\” behind the \”door curtain\”. It’s hard to imagine that if you “raise a door curtain” today and “open a car door” tomorrow, will the door “open” the day after tomorrow be a bigger “door”—a door of morality or a door of law? Who knows! In the past few years, a popular jingle is enough to illustrate how terrible it is once \”only the best\” becomes \”inertia\” in work and life: Accompanying is training, carrying bags is improving, and opening the door is enlightenment.

Looking back at the historical documentary of the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in 1949, Chairman Mao and other central leaders opened the door and curtain themselves to enter the venue. Even though it was just a simple action, looking back at that scene now, it is still very heart-warming and very kind. How worthy of being carried forward by us today!

Over the years, I am afraid that some leading cadres have lost more than just their ability to \”pull up the door curtain\” themselves. Some units have also lost their ability to carry out inspections or organize meetings, and even carry tea cups, carry bags, press elevators, and drive for leaders. Every department meticulously writes down the flow chart and order book, assigns special personnel to take charge, and assigns special personnel to take charge. They also euphemistically call it \”standards for welcoming inspections\” and \”standards for running meetings.\” If we refer to the term \”micro-corruption\”, these so-called \”normal etiquette\” have actually become \”changed standards\”. Can we call it \”micro-bureaucracy\”?

Lenin once pointedly pointed out, \”Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything can destroy us, it is this.\” Comrade Mao Zedong also said, “We must throw this extremely bad thing, the bureaucratic method, into the cesspitBecause no comrade likes it.\” Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the central government has made great efforts to correct bureaucracy from top to bottom. Explicit bureaucracy does not dare to prevail, but implicit bureaucracy, \”micro-bureaucracy\” What about \”bureaucracy\”?

To completely eradicate bureaucracy, it is necessary to grasp and correct small matters such as \”raising the curtain\”, and try our best to eliminate \”micro-bureaucracy\” Eradicate all \”righteousness\”, because this is the soil where formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism, and extravagance breed and spread – a very bad soil in which \”small holes are not repaired, but big holes suffer hardship\”.

If leading cadres have degraded even the most basic practical skills, how can they be expected to work day and night and personally do practical things and solve problems for the officers and soldiers?