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In the old society, pingju players seldom made enough to live on, and as most were saddled with big families their life was hard. Apart from acting they had to find other work. Often they pulled handcarts, sold junk or cigarettes, hired themselves out as coolies, or collected cigarette stubs.

If a performance was cancelled because of bad weather, the rule in those days was: No show, no pay. On the twenty-third of the twelfth lunar month, when theatres closed and the patron saint of actors was invited to the front stage, leaving the backstage deserted, actors were even worse off, unable to earn any more until the reopening on New Year’s Day.

在旧社会，我们评剧演员常常挣钱不够吃饭，艺人们大都是拉家带口，生活困难。演员们唱完戏还要各自找点儿活干，有人拉排子车，有人卖破烂，卖烟卷儿，当小工，拾烟头是普遍现象

下雨或阴天回戏，不响锣就不给钱，是那时的规矩。腊月二十三封箱，把祖师爷请到前台去，后台就冷冷清清，演员们更苦了，就等着年初一开戏了才能挣到钱。

朋友关系的存续是以互相尊重为前提的，容不得半点强求干涉和控制。朋友之间情趣相投，脾气对味则合，则交，反之，则离，则绝。朋友之间再熟悉，再亲密，也不能随便过头，不恭不敬。不然，默契和平衡将被打破，有好关系将不复存在。每个人都希望拥有自己的私密空间，朋友之间过于随便，就容易侵入这片禁区，从而引起冲突，造成隔阂。待友不敬，或许只是一件小事，却可能已埋下破坏性的种子。维持朋友亲密关系的最好办法是往来有节，互不干涉。

Keeping a friendship presupposes the mutual respect, which bears neither imposing anything on each other, nor interfering each other, nor predominating each other. Two persons, if with congenial taste or temper, would like to make friends and keep in contact with each other. Otherwise, even two friends would break their friendship, and cut off contact with each other. Among friends, who are more familiar to each other and have a closer relationship than any others, they cannot have no manners but keep ceremonious to each other. Otherwise, they will break their rapport and balance, and even destroy their friendship. Everyone in the world hopes that they have their own private spaces. If keeping anything at will between each other, they tend to enter their own private space, a no-go-area, which easily results in conflict and estrangement with each other. Keeping unceremonious, probably just a trifle, may bury a destructive seed for the friendship. The best way of keeping a close friendship is to keep temperate contacts with each other, and to make non-interference in each other. In short, Everlasting respect makes an everlasting friendship.

手机刷新了惹怒人的关系。会议室门口通常贴着一条通告：请与会者关闭手机，可是会议室里的手机铃声仍然响成一片。我们都是普通人，并没有多少重要的事情。尽管如此，我们也不会轻易关掉手机。打开手机象征我们与这个世界的联系。手机反应出我们的“社交饥渴症”，最为常见的是，一个人走着走着突然停下来，眼睛盯着手机屏幕发短信。他不在乎停在马路中央还是厕所旁边。

Few things have changed human relations as much as the cell phone has. It so happens that we often see a notice on a door to a conference room, “please keep your cell phone off when a meeting is in session.”We still, however always hear the beeps resounding throughout the chamber. The prevalence of using the cell phone today reflects our “thirsty for socialization”and