Before I went abroad, I heard a lot of people say that in a foreign country, people's relationship with each other is cold, and it is not possible to have any deeper interaction with each other. There is only money relationship. So, you can't expect anyone to help each other in a foreign country like we Chinese do.
I came to Canada with this idea.
But in just a few dozen days, a few little things happened one after another that shook me to my core.
One day, the first time I took the subway in Toronto, the direction of the train can not be confused, is confused to check the map, next to a foreigner over to ask: need help? I told him the location, he not only pointed out on the map where I want to go, but also has been brought me to the platform. I thought to myself, if I'm going to be in China, I'll have to find someone who looks honest when asking for directions, or else I'll be pointed to Java. Before I sang the Internationale, a friend came to help me. If I sing the Internationale, I am afraid I will have even more friends.
In the subway, a child rushed into the car just before the door was about to close, and the door suddenly closed, catching the child's arm. In an instant, several foreigners in the carriage rushed to the door at the same time, seven hands and eight feet to pull open the door. At this time there are many yellow-skinned Chinese in the carriage, from the beginning to the end of no reflection, insensitively seem to be watching a movie, with their own irrelevant. What's even more annoying is to hear a Cantonese phrase: "The door won't close, what are you panicking about."
In fact, the doors of the subway, like the elevator doors, will open automatically if there is an obstacle, so there is no need to rush. This is not only the Chinese know, who will know, but out of a kind of instinct, foreigners will be grabbed at the same time up. And claim to help each other's countrymen, not only do not show care, but also cold words a few words, a have seen the world, broke through the big dock posture. It seems that the ancestral motto of the gentleman's mouth and not his hands can be said to be deep in the hearts of the people. Of course, this kind of thing is also commonplace in China, not worth the fuss.
Canada is a country of immigrants, its history and reality are related to the exchange and migration of immigrants. It should be said that as a result of such migratory flows, Canada is full of vitality and vigor and has become one of the developed countries.
It is due to this characteristic of Canada, the great convergence of various nationalities, which also creates a convergence of personality traits of various national characteristics.
The openness of America, the reserve of Europe, the ruggedness of Africa and the lewdness of Asia are manifested in Canada.
In human nature, the bluntness of the Americas, the euphemisms of Europe, the wildness of Africa and the hypocrisy of Asia are just as competitive in Canada.
In the laugh with the local foreigners, actually heard a very unheard of list: the most unwelcome people in Canada have four kinds: blacks, Indians and Pakistanis, Vietnamese and Chinese. Among them, Asians accounted for three. A couple of new foreigners told me at length that they didn't want to deal more with the Chinese because "they don't have any credibility," and "they cheat people".
The toughness and brutality of the blacks is needless to say; the mystery and deceitfulness of the Indians and Pakistanis is also needless to say; the banditry and piracy of the Vietnamese have long been despised by the world; but where have the Chinese been offended by these foreigners?
Perhaps, this is white discrimination.
<<[prose]Changbaishan Tianchi>>
"China National Geographic" for the beauty of the landscape. Mountains and waters are not a sentence or two can be said, in the past 148 pages of the magazine, in 2005, the 10th issue here increased to 550 pages. Thanks to National Geographic, the price of the additional pages did not increase, but remained at 16 dollars. The magazine went off sale shortly after it came out, with Beijing being one of the first cities in the country to do so, and is said to have shot up to more than 80 bucks online. Many readers were so angry about not being able to buy the magazine that National Geographic sent out a general solid-top posting on its Web site's forums, titled, "I Hope Everyone Will Calm Down a Bit.
"National Geographic" lists fifteen groups of "China's most beautiful", in order of ranking: China's ten most beautiful mountains, China's five most beautiful lakes, China's five most beautiful deserts, China's three most beautiful Yadan, China's five most beautiful urban areas, China's ten most beautiful canyons, China's most beautiful six major tourist caves, eight of China's most beautiful coasts, six of China's most beautiful waterfalls, six of China's most beautiful glaciers, ten of China's most beautiful forests, ten of China's most beautiful islands, six of China's most beautiful swampy wetlands, six of China's most beautiful ancient countryside towns and six of China's most beautiful grasslands.
The reason why I want to copy this list in order is to realize that, for some reason, on the list, there are no rivers. Maybe with the canyons, there is no need to talk about rivers. For some years, only the Yarlung Tsangpo River may be quite clean, perhaps the river can only be viewed in segments like the canyon, and not so good overall.
The selection, in terms of the most beautiful mountains, the Northeast Changbai Mountain shortlisted, but did not enter the top ten most beautiful mountains. Changbaishan Mountain did not enter the most beautiful ten mountains, but Changbaishan Tianchi entered the most beautiful five lakes. Changbaishan Mountain was not selected, but Changbaishan Tianchi is in the highest part of Changbaishan Mountain, no one can move it to the flat land, to see the Tianchi, you have to come up to Changbaishan Mountain.
Looking at this issue of "National Geographic China", on the list of landscapes or introduction, or tasting, or appreciation, there are many texts, the magazine also asked the famous poets and writers Shu Ting, Yu Jian, and Mr. Liu Liang Cheng respectively, for the Xiamen Gulangyu Island, Suzhou, and the old town of Suzhou, and the hinterland of the Gulbantunggut Desert wrote an article. However, when it comes to Changbaishan Tianchi, there is nothing more than two pictures, a 59-word expert commentary and a 220-word description around the title "Changbaishan Tianchi: Calm after the Rage". To use a word that is now in vogue, this is a bit depressing. Is there nothing to say about Changbaishan Tianchi? But on second thought, and happy, often in the middle of the year is often cloud cover, ice and snow cover, climbing Changbai Mountain is not easy, more than two thousand years, both fewer literati to this poetry, and there is no emperor and generals to come here to sacrifice the sky to seal the Zen, the Manchu emperor, although the Changbai Mountain was enthroned as a sacred mountain, can only be in the Jilin City, Wendel Heng Hill, built to look forward to the sacrificial temple to pay homage to the temple from afar, where there is no preparation for the people under the ready-made language from the nature of humanities, and pollution is also less, want to say that Changbai Mountain is a very good place. Pollution is still less, want to say Changbaishan Tianchi, not too easy.
Two pictures of Changbaishan Tianchi in the magazine, one is a summer scene, one is a winter scene, which also shows that the editors are thinking. In the winter to climb to the top of Changbaishan Mountain to see Tianchi, few people can do, the general public also have no opportunity, a friend went up in the winter, many years later, said still very happy, specially for this wrote a travelogue.
And many pictures of Changbaishan Tianchi, "China National Geographic" two pictures of Tianchi, a wildflower point, a snow-covered, but all wind and sunshine, Tianchi's water is really calm as glass, motionless. More pictures like this will make people misunderstand, as if the White Mountain Tianchi is always so good-tempered. In fact, the winter to see Tianchi is not easy, the summer may not be able to see Tianchi, in July 2001, to the Changbai Mountain on a trip, the car into the door, the day has been twilight hazy, the mountains appear to be short of the sky has been rain, the driver is very good, in the mountains for a long time, some experience, he reminded that we should seize the time to hurry up to the Tianchi up to see if it rained, a day or two days is not easy to sunny up, the pool of heaven! will be hidden in the clouds, to see, almost impossible. The driver said, not long ago, some countries want people to come, live in the mountains for a few days, the weather has been bad, finally did not see anything. Listen to the driver's words, straight to Tianchi, sure enough, to the side of the Tianchi, not long, people are cold shivering, the mountain wind is more and more ferocious, black pressure from the opposite side of the cloud Tianchi pressure over, look at the Tianchi on the swallowed. In this twilight evening, I saw and the impression of a completely different Tianchi, in the peak around the Tianchi sixteen peaks of a peak above, probe to look down, do not see the past people said and pictures show the beauty of the calm and soft, the eye of the Tianchi, gloomy and motionless, as if brewing a conspiracy, as if to reach out to drag people down, let a person feel eerie, hideous, horrible, very terrifying.
Have a book Jilin People's Publishing House in August 1990 version of the "Changbaishan Ancient and Modern Scenic Spot", the book introduces, the Manchu emperor on the one hand, the Changbai Mountain sealed up, do not allow people to go into, on the one hand, also sent people to look for the main peak of the Changbai Mountain, 1644 AD, the Qing Shizu Fulin into the capital, honored the "Longxing place" Changbaishan as "Changbaishan God". Kangxi 16 years (AD 1677) on April 15, Aixinjueluo Xuan Ye ordered Minister Jueluo WuMuNe a line of four people to visit Changbaishan, "detailed view to understand in order to perform rituals", summer of the same year, WuMuNe and others ascended to Changbaishan, arrived at the Dragon Pool that is the pool of heaven, return to the capital in the fall to report. However, according to the evidence, Wu Muna visit did not really see the main peak of Changbai Mountain, Qing Li Tingyu in the "Changbai Mountain" said: "back to the Kangxi thirteen years, Wu Muna view of the Changbai, only to the Neyin place in the northeast of Mount Bai." Li Tingyu here "Kangxi thirteen years" is debatable, but he said Wu Mune did not get to the main peak of the White Mountains, should be right, although Wu Mune also saw a pool of water, Changbai Mountain in the pool but not only one. Changbaishan Ancient and Modern Rangsheng" collection of WuMuNe visited Changbaishan wrote to the emperor's submission, the text about Changbaishan Tianchi paragraph is written: "the top of the pool, five peaks around, near the water, the blue water clarification, ripples ripples, the pool without grass and trees." Understand Changbai Mountain people know, the highest place in the white mountain that Tianchi, around is not only five peaks, WuMuNe see if really Changbai Mountain Tianchi, he is the other eleven peaks to hide. In any case, although WuMuNe is not intentional, is to the emperor to cheat.
Changbaishan Tianchi, north-south length of about 4.5 kilometers, east-west width of 3.5 kilometers, the lake area of 9.8 square kilometers, the water's edge circumference of 13.6 kilometers, the lake elevation of 2,185 meters, an average depth of 204 meters, the maximum depth of 373 meters, the total storage capacity of about 2 billion cubic meters of water, is the highest in China's fire mouth of the lake and the deepest lakes, which is the Jilin Literature and History Publishing House, the October 1985 edition of the Jilin Fengshi" gives the data. It has been said that throwing a building into the Baishan Tianchi is like throwing in a matchbox. In fact, it is even bigger than that. Baishan Tianchi feeds a river, which is the source of Tumen River, Yalu River and Songhua River. Perhaps it can be said that the small swimming fish in the Tumen River, the Yalu River side of the ordinary grass house, the Songhua River side of the soybean and sorghum, are all white mountain Tianchi raised. 2005 winter, at first thought that it was a warm winter, but also really hope that it is a warm winter, may Changbaishan Tianchi running water more, with its clean water, wash away the muddy river in the river.
<<Wuhan summer night on the streets of the "bamboo bed array">>
Summer solstice after July, the heat of the summer night to Wuhan people from home "drive" out, had to set up on both sides of the street bamboo beds sleeping. Dense bamboo beds one by one, the old man, children, young people, young women and even girls are lying on bamboo beds, through one night after another. Northern people or outsiders see young women, girls in shorts, skirts sleeping on the street, greatly puzzled, but also very fresh. However, the locals are used to it.
Wuhan is one of China's three famous "furnace cities", with summer temperatures as high as about 40 degrees Celsius. The intense heat, which lasts for about two months, has led to the formation of Wuhan's unique folk custom, the "bamboo bed formation".
2, eating rice dumplings and dragon boat racing?
Eating zongzi and dragon boat racing is a custom in many parts of China. However, this custom is due to come from the commemoration of Qu Yuan, making the hometown of Qu Yuan's hometown of Hubei, this custom is even greater.
Whenever the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, Hubei races dragon boats and eats rice dumplings throughout the province's urban and rural areas. As long as there is a lake, river, river place, people early on the dragon boat repair or clean up, one to the fifth, the dragon boat have been in the water, a "yellow dragon", "white dragon", "red dragon", "green dragon" chopping waves, arrows generally before sailing, gongs, drums, yells, applause into a piece of the river on both sides of the river to watch the dragon boat race people black pressure a large area of the scene is really spectacular.
Legend has it that Qu Yuan cast the Buro River after his death, his hometown folks zigui people made a dream, dreamed that the body of Qu Yuan thinned out, they use Ruo leaf package rice made into a corner of the corner of the corn (zongzi), with the dragon boat loaded into the river, because the water belongs to the water aquatic dragon tube, thought it was the king of the corner of the corner of the corn, they do not dare to eat. This allows Qu Yuan to eat. This is the origin of dragon boat racing and eating zongzi.
3, Jingzhou flower drums?
Jingzhou flower drums were originally the "flower drums along the door" and the grass-gathering rice-planting songs of the poor folk who begged for a living. This kind of "flower drum" is a person beating the drum to sing the words, and several people to help the voice and tune.
In recent decades, Jingzhou flower drums have evolved into a unique local flower-drum opera. 1955 an old artist collected and recorded all the singing of the flower-drum opera, organized the first complete set of flower-drum music scores that have never existed before, and boldly put the erhu, banhu, pipa, yangqin, bamboo flute, suona and other ethnic instruments used to accompany the flower-drum opera to make the flower-drum opera end the "one singing and many" and simply use gongs to accompany the history. The history of accompaniment by gongs and drums has ended. Nowadays, Jingzhou Flower Drum Opera is full of rich local flavor, with a melodious, sweet and pleasant singing voice, and there are dozens of plays such as "Family Matters" and "Water Township Love", which are not only based on the life in the lake township, but also show the style of the lake township. In the folk, men, women and children walking, working, humming from time to time flower-drum tune, there is also a great "magic". Some people say: "listen to the flower drums of the yo yo yo, sick can not take medicine!"" Doing work without singing flower-drum opera, no strength in the body". When you come to the Jingzhou area, you can see it in the radios that elementary school students carry after school. In cars and store counters, all that is played is the Jingzhou Flower Drum Opera.
4, Tianmen "three stick drums"
In Tianmen, Shinyang area, due to the low terrain, water, flooding in the past, the people suffered. In order to find a way to survive, they left their homes and took up their "three-stick drums" and traveled in all directions. Many traveled from Hubei to southwestern China, India, Iran, Central and Western Europe. There are also some people through Guangdong to the Philippines and other Southeast Asian countries,
They carry the "three-stick drum" wherever they go and sing, people call them "China's gypsies".
5, Tongshan mountain drums?
Tongshan Mountain Drums, which originated in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, is a traditional folk art in which peasants work in the field, accompanied by mountain drums and sang songs while laboring.
The shape of the mountain drum is like a small drum used in opera, with a slightly smaller size and an iron ring on both sides of the drum body, and a cow belt or ribbon, which makes it easy for the drummer to hang it on his chest. When singing, the drummer's right hand to hold the skewer to hit the drum, the left hand holds the bottom of the drum, with fingers to adjust the different tones. A drummer with excellent skills is generally able to play dozens of drums with very different rhythms and different moods. The sound of the mountain drum is so loud and clear that it can be heard for miles.
Tongshan Mountain Drums are mainly divided into two categories, namely "Digging Mountain Drums" and "Planting Field Drums". In addition, there is a kind of "mountain gongs and drums". This kind of "mountain drums and gongs" in addition to the drum maker is carrying a mountain drum, there is also a gong hanging on the waist, the left hand holds the bell to play the gong, the right hand to take the skewer to hit the drum.
The tunes of the mountain drums and the local language are closely combined with a strong rhythm, coupled with the melody of high-pitched and impassioned, simple and warm, rich in rich local colors, is an active labor scene art form. 1988 Hubei Provincial Folk Music and Dance Television Competition, Tongshan County adapted the program "happy to cultivate the harvest," the mountain drums, won the Silver Cup Award.
6, Chongyang people's old habits?
Chongyang County in E'nan has beautiful mountains and charming scenery. Due to the distance from the big city, the villagers have maintained many old folk traditions and customs. When the young men and women married into marriage, to create the style of furniture is still according to the old form. Such as sleeping on a wooden bed for the ancient carved wood flower bed, bed around the carved poles, bed in front of the carved board above, there are three layers of carving "drip edge", under the bed in front of the three layer pedal. The entrance to the bed just leave only two people and sit "mouth", the bed at both ends and the back with a whole board nailed. This kind of Chongyang flower bed, is really a very rare custom.
In addition, the warm hospitality of Chongyang people to the guests of the tea is peppercorns salt bar home baked tea, eat the dishes is a large piece of meat, a large piece of fish, red camphor fans, fried tofu four major dishes. An inch wide, two or three inches long chunks of smoked meat, so that people in the city to eat one or two pieces is enough.
7, Exi Tujia style?
Western Hubei is adjacent to western Hunan, northern Guizhou and southeastern Sichuan, inhabited by hundreds of thousands of Tujia residents. They have characteristic living customs. Unique and brightly colored costumes. Tujia residents, especially young people, dress has a distinctive ethnic style. Such as male youth, head wrapped in a long green turban, outside the shirt is often white cloth with a wide blue edge, traditional cloth buttons, pants are wider. Female youth, their headscarves are colorful cloth scarves, tops or red or green, but the neckline, back shoulders, cuffs, hems, etc. are set with a beautiful patterned border with cloth. Bracelets made of gold or silver are worn on the hands.
Songs. Singing songs is an indispensable skill among young Turkish men and women, some older Turkish people can sing songs on the "big bucket". In the winding mountain road, in the fields, tea farms, farmhouses, soil ponds, can often hear bursts of melodious mountain songs into the ear. There are more mountain songs sung by men and women, mountain youth to express their love for each other in this form. Wooden leaves to pass on love. The young people of the Tu tribe use their mouths to contain a green wooden leaf, blowing out a wonderful, moving, euphemistic sound. This sound is a moving love song. A small piece of leaf, only for men and women to express the heart of love. Article from the green vine literature network:, reproduced please retain the copyright!
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