The literal structure of "angry youth" is the same as that of "educated youth", so it should be roughly understood as "angry youth". But further distinction is needed. For example, people don't want to regard young people with limited education as "angry youths", even though they are playing down a peg or two in the street by drinking; People don't want to regard a rural youth who is angry with the long hair in the village (let's assume Qiu Ju in Zhang Yimou's movie) as an "angry youth", which at least shows that "angry youth" is not a simple sum of "anger" and "youth" and has different identities. I guess "angry youth" should refer to young people living in big cities. They must have certain knowledge and education. Unlike the "educated youth" who refers to the urban youth who went to the countryside in China in 1960s, the time and space span of "angry youth" is much wider, and even "educated youth" might as well be included in the category of "angry youth".

Let's look at "anger" again. A young man, even if he has a high degree and lives in a big city, if his "anger" is only reflected in the level of throwing cups at waiters, then he must not be qualified to pretend to be an "angry youth". The angry object of "angry youth" usually keeps a distance from daily secular life, which has the characteristics of transcending practical utility. For example, marching in the streets in support of the Palestinians and fighting with the police in the streets against the government's abuse of power are all routine actions of contemporary "angry youths". Although China's contemporary "angry youth" behavior lacks this international color, due to the appearance of the Internet, they can also conveniently pull the parade online. Like the "angry youths" in the world, they are also keen to vent their dissatisfaction, express their hatred and call for justice in major social or international affairs. The anger of "angry youth" is full of indignation, which reflects the natural sense of justice of young people.

I don't know if this induction is appropriate, but I'm bound in advance: the "angry youth" referred to in this article is limited to the contents listed above. To sum up: contemporary urban intellectual youth full of social (or moral, cultural) indignation.

As a title, "angry youth" is praised and belittled, and is high and low. However, I want to emphasize that, whether it is praise or disapproval, "Fenqing" must first be recognized as a normal or even ordinary human group phenomenon, which is not essentially different from the agitation of adolescence or the madness of menopause and is at the same level. I think it is irresponsible to praise the loveliness, preciousness or respectability of "angry youth" without paying attention to physiological phenomena, just as social moralists should not regard "angry youth" as something that can be eradicated.

A civilized and mature society should be as kind and tolerant as possible to "angry youths" and even encourage "angry youths" when social preventive measures are in place. Young people are full of courage, sense of justice and enterprise, so they become "angry youths", which is an ordinary stage in their growth. It is the strong sense of justice of generations of young people that has truly maintained the moral civilization of mankind for thousands of years. The higher a society allows young people to be angry, the more reliable the cornerstone of this social civilization. Personally, as far as middle-aged and elderly people are concerned, we should appreciate the "angry youth" as much as possible, evaluate it from the positive side, and show tolerance at the worst side. But as far as "angry youth" is concerned, it is obviously not promising to be conceited by virtue of his identity as an angry youth. On the contrary, it is necessary for him to look at his passionate feelings from the negative side, be more alert and introspective, and not forget to input rational blood when he is full of youth. "Fenqing" emotion shows that a person still has room for upward development, indicating that his natural sense of justice is far from being consumed by the dangerous social environment, but if he stays or even revels in the "Fenqing" temperament, the upward ladder will be broken. "Fenqing" has the obligation to remind themselves that their innate sense of justice is priceless, but they are still in the rough form of "He" and need to be carefully carved. Unveiled "angry youths" are often volcanoes, avalanches and cluster bombs. However, our civilized society needs and relies more on critical methods. We may learn from missile manufacturing technology and surgical methods, pursue precise guidance, take courage at a fixed point, and never accidentally injure the liver.

I think, unless it is accidental, it is difficult for us to see "angry youths" casually in the street, because the daily flirting of daily necessities is not a suitable theme for "angry youths". Perhaps what we see the most (and the easiest to get away with) are all kinds of "angry youth" clothes and hairstyles. It is worth mentioning that if you want to observe today's "angry youth", you'd better not expect to get the research results from appearance. For example, when young painters in a city have long hair that flutters or spreads, the cynicism in the long hair will be as invisible as possible. If the aesthetic function is put aside, these original intentions are to show different hairstyles, but they are suppressed into some kind of industry symbol, which is equivalent to the chef's top hat. In addition, according to Kebiao Zhang, a literary hermit, in "Dragon in the Literary World", as early as the 1920s, the phenomenon of collective long hair of Shanghai-style young painters was already an industry symbol, not something new.

Because of the existence of the Internet, it seems that we can see a large number of "angry youths" without leaving home. In the world's major Chinese forums, "angry youths" are like rape blossoms in spring, which are everywhere and all over the network, one after another. This shows that "angry youth" is like a penguin. Although no one can see it in daily life, once it reaches the South Pole, it becomes the most common species in the area. Internet forum is the Antarctic of "angry youth". In that strange place with strong magnetic field, it is often difficult for you to meet a young man who speaks fairly. I think it's a good thing to put them all on online forums. Otherwise, if we meet these "angry youths" who are characterized by "just and rude words" from time to time, everyone will feel that people can't live any longer.

I still like Angry Youth in my bones, but I dare not speak highly of Online Angry Youth. There is a simple reason. If we refer to the standards of ancient heroes, they have violated the Jianghu rules that "a gentleman can't change his name, but sit down and change his surname". When nearly 99% of "online cynics" are anonymous, how can I define their "cynic" quality? Can't anonymity be compared with the "black-box operation" in political and economic life? As a result, another rule of ancient heroes, "one person does things and one person does it", has been rudely forgotten by these "network cynics" who rely on technological advantages to hide. This is a group of masked men "hiding in the net", a group of unpredictable cyber assassins. Although I found that some anonymous "angry youths" also have the ancient style of daring to take responsibility, it may be an exception to fairness. Besides, he still has such convenience and can give up his responsibility at any time. In the network world, changing the name is a brand-new life, and changing the forum is a brand-new way of life. If you register anonymously in the same forum twice, you can have the great magical power of "Yin and Yang teachers fighting each other" by Master Jin Yong Zhou. Cheap accounts for too much, and I can't sing praises to them. I found that some evil writers who are often scolded on the Internet suffer from the lack of this convenience. They signed up early, only to find that they were caught in the monkey king's hair, and they were often blindsided, and they didn't know who to talk to. Such traitors still want to pretend to be "angry youth", even if "angry youth" is not a good word in my vocabulary, I am not willing to lend it to them.

Nowadays, "youth writing" is very popular, and some young people have even achieved great success in the media sense with boiling youthful blood. They rely on truth and hate breasts, so they have been singing generously, singing our gentle Chinese characters like crickets. Among them, there is an old "angry youth" who, in the name of "youth without regrets", keeps tossing and turning on the paper, eulogizes the prosperous years of that year with the tone of religious hymns, poetically purifies the blood, and hovers over other people's nightmares like an idyll.

In fact, I am very much in favor of the sentence "youth has no regrets", if "interpretation" is allowed. In my humble opinion, that only refers to a helpless fact: since I was young at that time, it was inevitable to do stupid things and say stupid things. The so-called "no regret", that is, "no regret" and "no regret at all", is better than "no regret" and turn around and do something more worthwhile today. It can be seen that "Youth Without Regret" that I admire is not so heroic at all, but more just to admit that it was planted and compensated. As I said before, I have "sympathy and understanding" for my "angry youth" words and deeds in those days, which is roughly what I mean, but I dare not be complacent.

So, going on, I think "youth writing" is also a suspicious excuse, especially when this kind of writing is not limited to the field of artistic creation, but publicized in the field of humanistic criticism, my doubts immediately increase by a hundredfold. "Fenqing" has its own aesthetic value. Imperfect beauty has always been an important member of the aesthetic family, but humanistic criticism can't consciously rely on "imperfect beauty". When a young man is determined to pick up a pen to criticize humanism, I intend to understand that he is obviously ready, because this place is no joke, and since he jumped on the stage with Fang Tianhuaji, it naturally shows that he has enough confidence in his own strength and he is ready to challenge the so-called "mainstream culture". Because I have no official position, I am as unfamiliar with mainstream culture as the ant community. My favorite lifestyle is "singing when digging the soil", and my favorite classical famous sentence is "I have nothing in geography", so you can imagine how happy I will be with such a young man. However, I suddenly heard someone say: I am a young writer, not to mention how depressed I am. In addition to being enterprising, humanistic criticism should not be an act full of responsibility at first. Behind the voice of "youth writing", what I see is a deliberate avoidance of responsibility, as if once someone catches the shortcomings, they can get rid of the golden cicada in the name of "youth writing". In my opinion, "youth writing" is simply a fictional state. When it may imply that other people's writing is "decadent writing", it is not only fictional, but also hostile. Youth is neither an excuse nor an accomplice. "Young" can neither guarantee that your writing is better than others, nor does it mean that your writing must be rougher than others.

It's really hard for me to explain the "angry youth" in contemporary society, but we should be especially wary of those guys who hang out in the humanities team in the name of "angry youth". They try to take advantage of both sides, but in fact they can't improve the thinking level of "angry youths" and pollute the human environment. "Fenqing" is just a natural group phenomenon. As far as the formation mechanism is concerned-to reiterate-it is no more noble than the agitation of adolescence or the madness of menopause. Although we can also try to strengthen the positive factors in the phenomenon of "angry youth" (the aforementioned "function of continuing human justice" is such a positive attempt), we should also pay attention to its danger. When the "angry youth" group is given a sensational high-brightness color out of thin air, my experience is that this usually indicates that the general trend is not good.