According to a recent survey of overseas students in China, they are more concerned about "China keywords": Belt and Road, Giant Panda, Square Dance, China Cuisine, Great Wall, bike-sharing, Peking Opera, air pollution, beautiful countryside, food safety, high-speed rail and mobile payment.
Please choose two or three key words to introduce what you know about China, and write an article to help foreign youth understand China. Require keyword selection to form mail association; Choose a good angle, define the style and draw up a good title; Do not copy, not less than 800 words.
Article sample
-Peking Opera and Square Dance, talking about China people's cultural character from entertainment activities.
Author: Xiamen New Oriental High School Chinese Lv Mei
Yuri, a tourism anthropologist, discussed the motivation of tourism and the behavior of tourists in his book "The Tourists Gaze". Just like Yuri's gaze on tourists, we should always pay attention to the behavior of individuals and groups in our own cultural background, so as to get a glimpse of the leopard and feel the cultural characteristics and national character behind the behavior.
"Blue-faced Dou Erdun stole the royal horse; The red-faced Guan Yu fought in Changsha ... "This is a song that China people are familiar with. It is the quintessence of China-Peking Opera. Pingju, which originated from Anhui local operas, was favored by the royal family and respected by the upper class because of the performance of four Huizhou classes in Beijing in the Qing Dynasty. During the Republic of China, the Pingju Opera Troupe went south, so this kind of drama was also sung all over the country from north to south. It is mature in Beijing, with beautiful scenery and a Beijing accent, so it is called "Beijing Opera".
Compared with Kunqu Opera, another intangible cultural heritage popular in Suzhou, Peking Opera has a short history, but it is also profound. Because of its youth, it is more full of vitality and vigor. Compared with the beautiful voice and implicit rhetoric of Kunqu Opera, Peking Opera is more popular with the general public in China because of its simple lyrics, vivid performances and powerful accompaniment.
In the final analysis, the people in China are happy and like to be lively, which is the fundamental reason why Peking Opera has a wider audience in Kunqu Opera. At the same time, the drum music of Beijing opera is loud and clear, showing a completely different aesthetic taste from western drama art. As two forms of Quyi, there are many tragedies in the west, such as asking about the weight of fate and the difficulty of choice. If we say "King Oedipus" and "Prometheus Bound", the tragedies in ancient Greece always make the viewers feel miserable. "People who are alive should carry a heavy load", which is Oedipus' rationality of pursuing truth, Prometheus' great love of stealing skyfire, Sisyphus's hardship of pushing up boulders and Hamlet's dilemma of life and death. ...
The essence of China Quyi is entertainment. If it is a Beijing opera or a square dance, the faces of the audience or participants are mostly relaxed and happy, but they are not as dignified as those of western drama audiences. China's traditional drama, even if it is as profound and touching as Dong Shilang's Visiting Mother, is only about human beings and mother-child feelings, rather than the story of transcending the secular world, exploring the profound meaning of life or pursuing the sacred glory of God, which is common in western drama.
Lotte knows life, not death; Enjoy this life, don't say the afterlife; Focus on the world and don't talk about God. This is the idea of China people. Therefore, in China's plays, a good ending is good, while in western plays, Romeo and Juliet are often discussed. China's Peking Opera is the joys and sorrows in the world of mortals, while western drama is the ultimate inquiry of the conceptual world and the free imagination of the divine world.
Just like an example mentioned by Mr. Yu Dan when talking about the traditional culture of China, the buildings in China, such as quadrangles and private gardens, are flat and group, bowing to the earth; Gothic churches and other western buildings are towering and unique, looking up to God. This attachment to the group, rather than to the individual, is the spiritual core of the phenomenon of "square dance".
The battle of Chinese aunts dancing in the square dance is like sweeping the first emperor who is determined to win Liuhe, and attacking the city pool slightly. Anyone who is free can dance; Everyone is willing to dance in their spare time. Just like the phenomenon of "crossing the street in Chinese style" derived from the psychology of "the law does not blame the public", the reason why "square dance" is widely criticized is that China people ignore public rules and ignore the rights of others. China society, which emphasizes educating people with rites and music, has failed to cultivate a complete legal system and awareness of the rule of law in the long history; The norm of people's behavior depends on ethical supervision, human consciousness and moral persuasion, rather than awe of public rules and the rights of others. In this case, how to continue the standardization of human behavior has become a thorny issue in the era of ritual collapse and moral decline.
From Peking Opera to Square Dance, China people have different forms of Quyi entertainment, but the core is the same. China people under the Peking Opera stage are the audience; China people on the square dance platform are the main body. On and off the stage, China people have never alienated the group-compatible behavior and Lotte know life's attitude towards life. China people's cultural character determines that they are "kind".