According to a recent survey of foreign students in China, the keywords they are more concerned about are: Belt and Road, pandas, square dance, Chinese food, the Great Wall, *** enjoying bicycles, Peking Opera, air pollution, beautiful countryside, food safety, high-speed rail, and mobile payment.
Please choose two or three keywords from them to present China as you know it, and write an essay to help foreign young people read and understand China. Requirements for the selection of key words, so that the formation of postal connections; choose a good angle, a clear style, make up your own title; do not set work, not plagiarized, not less than 800 words.
Sample Essay
-- Peking Opera and Square Dancing, the Cultural Character of Chinese People from Recreational Activities
By Lv Mei, Xiamen New Oriental High School Language
Tourism anthropologist, Yuri, explores the motivation of tourism and the behavior of tourists in his book, The Tourist Gaze. Just as Yuri gazed at tourists, we also need to gaze at the behavior of individuals and groups in our own cultural contexts, so that we can see the cultural characteristics and national character behind the behavior.
"The blue-faced Dolton stole the royal horse; the red-faced Guan Gong wars in Changsha ......" is a familiar song to the Chinese public, sung by China's national treasure - Peking Opera. Started in Anhui local opera Ping Opera, in the Qing Dynasty because of the four Huiban performances in Beijing, was favored by the royal family, the upper class respected; Republic of China when the Ping Opera troupes to the south, so this kind of drama from north to south, sung all over the north and south of the Yangtze River; because it is the development of the Beijing area mature, magnificent, and pronunciation of the sound of the Beijing, so it is called the "Beijing Opera".
With another included in the intangible cultural heritage of the play - popular in the Suzhou area of the Kunqu compared to the Peking Opera can not be counted as a long history, but the same profound; and because of its young, and more rich in a vitality and vigor. Compared to the Kunqu's rounded voice and subtle rhetoric, Peking Opera is more popular among the general public in China because of its simple and clear lyrics, lively performances, and powerful accompaniments.
In the final analysis, the Chinese people are happy to be alive, and they like to be lively, which is the fundamental reason why Peking Opera has a wider audience than Kunqu. At the same time, the drums and music of Peking Opera present a very different aesthetic appeal from that of Western theater art. As a form of theater art, the West has more tragedies that inquire about the weight of fate and the difficulty of choice. If "Oedipus the King" and "Prometheus in Bondage", the ancient Greek tragedy always makes the viewer feel that life can not bear the weight. "The living, when the weight forward", this weight, is Oedipus to find the truth of reason, is Prometheus to steal the fire of love, is Sisyphus pushed the boulder up the laborious, but also Hamlet's life and death of the dilemma of choice ......
China's Chinese opera, its nature is entertaining, if the Beijing Opera, if the square dance, the face of the viewer or participant is more relaxed and happy look, and less Western theater viewers are common gravity. Chinese opera, even if there is a "Four Langs Visiting Mother" like a deep, heartfelt "sadness", but the words are only human affairs, mother and child love, rather than the common Western drama beyond the world, to explore the deep meaning of life or the search for God's divine light story.
The Chinese people are happy with their lives and do not talk about death; they are happy with their lives and do not talk about the afterlife; they are concerned about the world and do not talk about God. This is the thinking of the Chinese people. Therefore, the Chinese opera is always interpreted as a happy ending, while the Western drama often discusses the deep love of Romeo and Juliet. The Chinese Peking Opera is a world of sadness and happiness, joy and anger, while the Western drama is a world of ideas and the ultimate pursuit of the divine world of free thinking.
As Mr. Yu Dan mentioned in an example of traditional Chinese culture, Chinese architecture, such as the courtyard, such as private gardens, is flat, is the group, is to the earth's return; Western architecture, such as the Gothic church, is the sky, is the monolithic, is to the God's look up. This attachment to the group, rather than personal attachment, is the "square dance" phenomenon of the spiritual core.
The battle of the Chinese amahs dancing in the square is like the first emperor who swept the six kingdoms and was determined to win, attacking cities and territories, and fighting without any disadvantage. Wherever there is space, all can dance; where there is leisure time, all are willing to dance. Like the "law is not responsible for the public" mentality derived from the "Chinese-style crossing the road" phenomenon, "square dance" is widely criticized, is due to the people of the country for the public **** rules of neglect and disregard for the rights of others. The widely criticized "square dance" is due to the people's neglect of public **** rules and disregard for the rights of others. Emphasis on etiquette and education to educate the people of Chinese society, in the long history, did not grow up with a complete legal system and awareness of the rule of law; the norms of people's behavior, relying on ethical supervision, humane self-consciousness and moral exhortation, rather than in the heart of the rules of public **** and the fear of the rights of others. Then, in a rites of passage, moral decline of the times, the normative nature of human behavior, how to continue, it has become a thorny issue.
From Peking Opera to Square Dance, the forms of entertainment for the Chinese people are different, but the core is the same. The Peking Opera is a spectator; the Chinese people on the square stage are the main body. Whether on or off the stage, Chinese people have never distanced themselves from the group's way of behavior and the attitude of being happy with the world. People two for "benevolence", is for the Chinese cultural character.