Taoist fortune-telling tidbits video

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Recently, according to a video uploaded by netizens, at the opening ceremony of ——Xpeng Motors, an offline store in Kunming, Yunnan, several suspected Taoist priests were invited to do something.

Since then, Xpeng Automobile has issued an announcement apologizing for this matter, saying that it apologizes for the bad influence of the misconduct of individual stores on the public. After investigation, on the morning of February 27th, a store in Kunming, Yunnan moved to a new store and held activities with feudal superstition without authorization. Its behavior runs counter to the corporate philosophy of Xpeng Motors, which is "born smart and explore endlessly", and affects public order and good customs. At present, Xpeng Motors has ordered the store to immediately suspend business for rectification and remove it from official website. In the future, Xpeng will further strengthen the supervision and management of dealers' behavior and show the positive and enterprising brand image to the society with practical actions.

After the incident was exposed, it triggered a heated discussion among netizens.

Some netizens think that a modern technology company is not serious in doing such activities and does not conform to the company image;

But more netizens believe that Xpeng Motors does not need to apologize. It is only a sense of ritual to ask Taoist priests to "practice". Taoism is also a local religious belief in China and a part of China culture. There's nothing wrong with that.

Then, is it a "feudal superstition" activity that modern science and technology companies invite Taoist priests or other religious figures to "practice" and "open the light"? Or is it just a blessing ceremony and should be treated with tolerance?

In fact, Xpeng Motors is not the first company to do this, and similar situations have happened many times.

The practice of inviting Taoist priests to move.

On September 20 17 15, Li Li moved into an independent office building. It is natural to hold a celebration at such a time to celebrate the joy of housewarming. But "unexpectedly", the Taoist priest was invited to practice.

According to the pictures that netizens broke the news at that time, somewhere in the lobby of the office building, there were tables, flower baskets and other things for Taoist practice; There are still some incomprehensible calligraphy and paintings on the wall, which may be the "spells" needed by Taoist practice.

Another photo shows that three Taoist priests dressed in suspected religious costumes performed a ceremony in front of the altar, with a row of believers or employees kneeling on the side very "piously" behind them;

This picture may be that after the ceremony, one of the three Taoist priests bowed with both hands and left a photo. The ground is also covered with unknown sundries, which may be the materials needed for sacrifice.

Netease asked Taoist priests to pray with code symbols.

According to media reports, from June 2065438 to June 2008, before the online game "Sailing Against the Current" was launched, Taoist priests were invited to practice for the smooth opening of the service. However, unlike the Taoist priest invited by Li Li, the Taoist priest directly drew symbols in code on the spot to pray for the company.

According to the person in charge, the ceremony invited Maoshan Dharma, and the symbols were drawn in C language. In addition to writing some words of blessing for peace, it also contains the words "Players are bursting and never stop". This symbol was also posted on each server by the Taoist himself.

The company asked the monk to light up the server.

Some companies not only invite Taoist priests, but also invite monks to "light".

It is reported that in June of 20 10, a programmer of a game company brought the server into the temple to "light up" and brought it back to the computer room accompanied by two wizards in order to avoid the downtime after the game went online.

The programmer respectfully invited a server covered with red cloth to enter the temple, and first worshipped the Buddha statue with a mage;

Then the programmer got the yellow rune paper from the temple and returned to the company with the equipment.

Dressed in red cassocks and hats with the word "Buddha" written on them, the two wizards came to the company together and personally posted runes on the server unit.

After pasting the rune, the programmer, accompanied by the mage, folded his hands and saluted the server. After the ceremony, the three also took a group photo together.

In addition, the media reported that the company had also conducted a "Thousand People Blessing Action" in an art park in Beijing; The staff made a huge life and death book 2 meters high and 3 meters wide, and asked the master to open the light. Passers-by can write down their wishes in the book of life and death.

Many netizens also shared some similar experiences on social platforms:

Some netizens said that when they worked in the previous company, they had seen the God Card invited by Japan in the server room. The netizen said that he felt that this god was really "poor" and had to leave his hometown in order to protect a server;

Another netizen introduced the ceremony of the medical device industry. Before turning on the large medical imaging equipment after entering the market, manufacturers and hospitals will "worship" pigs and high incense, and then "worship" the machine.

The reason is that this medical equipment needs to be imported from abroad when it is used, and the cost is very high; If there is a problem in the operation process, the loss may range from hundreds of thousands of dollars to millions of dollars.

There are many similar situations. ...

Some netizens broke the news that no matter where a business group of their company moves, it must be on the 8 th floor, homophonic "making a fortune"; Some netizens revealed that the company specially invited the so-called "Feng Shui Master" to analyze the layout of the company and arrange the location distribution of various departments of the company. It is necessary to tell the fortune of the executives. If the boss is "too old", the company's performance in that year may be bad; Some netizens said that the company they used to work for also hired a "Feng Shui Master". As a result, the master said that the company and the year zodiac "conflict", so the whole company banned all kinds of items consistent with the year zodiac.

Not only China companies believe this, but also foreign companies believe this. 20 17, according to netizens, foreign game company Ubisoft asked the priest to "baptize" the server. In the photo, a priest is waving a broom-like object for a ceremony, and a small photographer is recording behind him.

Did the technology company hire monks, Taoists, etc? Is this promoting "feudal superstition"?

The so-called "superstition" refers to blind belief and worship of something.

If we interpret this behavior of technology companies from this perspective, they are pinning all their hopes on the so-called "superstitious" activities, rather than working hard on their own.

According to this logic, the sales performance of Xpeng Motors must depend on the integrity of Taoist practice and ceremony. The success of Li Li also depends on the legal effect of Taoist priests; If the game company doesn't find a monk, the server will be paralyzed. ...

In this case, wouldn't it be better for each company to set up a new "opening the light and praying" department and let the masters of Taoist temples and temples stay in the company?

That's obviously not the case. All technology companies, including those listed in this paper, have not pinned everything on this kind of activity. Therefore, this kind of behavior cannot be simply regarded as a "superstitious activity" across the board.

Sanyan Finance believes that it is necessary to treat this behavior of the company dialectically and scientifically distinguish whether it is "superstition". The behaviors of Xpeng Motors, Billie Billie and several game companies are more of a "blessing" behavior for a better future.

Indeed, as many netizens said, this is also a part of China culture. For example, during festivals, people always have some very ceremonial activities, such as setting off firecrackers during the Spring Festival, eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month and eating moon cakes on the fifteenth day of August. ...

From a scientific point of view, this kind of activity is meaningless: shooting is just a chemical reaction, and there is no such monster as "nian"; Eating Yuanxiao and moon cakes are just foods with different tastes and ingredients.

But the core of these ceremonies is to entrust people's spiritual feelings, which is a unique cultural and emotional expression of human beings.

So strictly speaking, there is nothing wrong with this kind of activity of technology companies. As long as we keep in mind that the performance of the company depends on the efforts of everyone in the company, then the "blessing" activity is also an expression of spiritual culture. On the contrary, such activities can enliven the atmosphere of the company and help to improve the enthusiasm of employees.

Of course, everything has two sides. For example, some netizens mentioned earlier that the company asked the master to tell fortune, and if the boss "committed too old", the company's performance would be bad; Or influenced by "feng shui", the whole company is forbidden to place specific items.

This is really superstitious. If the company's performance can be predicted, what's the point of everyone's efforts at present? It is even more nonsense to tie the company's direction to a specific project.

So we should look at the problem scientifically and dialectically. For the company, moderate blessing activities help to enliven the company atmosphere and improve the work efficiency of employees. For the people who eat melons, we can treat them with an inclusive attitude. However, those superstitious activities must be resisted to the end.

In any case, success only comes from everyone's own efforts.