Vincent Fang Peking University speech: there is no texture of the Chinese nation is a
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very pleased to be in this University and the graduates cultural exchange and experience sharing. I am going to talk about today is: means, including the Mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and Southeast Asia's traditional overseas Chinese, and North American region and other Chinese immigrants.
I think many students may have noticed, I wrote a lot of so-called ; the lyrics work, such as charm of ancient poetry is not created by chance, the work is to reflect the values of a person with character. has always been heavy and I'm a national consciousness of people, long-term concern with the nation, tradition and culture, issues associated . When I sense this culture combined with the music when compared to naturally conceived so-called into our theme. I have long observed a phenomenon, that is, I think we Chinese are not a very the aesthetic appearance of the design, and the delicacy of the whole. We will like to buy brand-name price high package, such as LV, Gucci, etc., because intuitive to like those represented by the value of brand-name and taste. Most people always will to pursue the natural texture of brand-name clothing, but it ignores the people who buy such goods, which itself is often no sense of reality. I Bijiao Shu Taiwan, so Taiwan is now mainly in my example of the observed phenomena. as some shopping in downtown Taipei, young girls, often wearing not very coordinated: She may set an elegant dress upper body, lower body was dressed in hip-hop style jeans, and a pair of feet abruptly toe clip cheap slippers. Of course, this kind of shape, sometimes euphemistically as the mix, the problem is, most people are not with the style. often wearing a taste of their own sex do not have the consistency of tone, there is no basic aesthetic qualities, but they blindly pursue brand, which is absurd-style insanity. Most of the consumers in the selection of goods, would be to pursue all know clothes, bags, cars and other items of the texture. because of what the United States there is a commonality of values, no people do not like beautiful things. but everyone in their pursuit of external goods of the same texture, but often overlook the very basic dress itself on the aesthetic qualities to become requires the use of and reliance on these plates material to frame their own market.
, for example, people in Taiwan such as wedding and funeral of such life events in the attitude of the Taiwanese basic respect for the United States, already a serious failing. It was supposed to a very solemn occasion, but guests usually come to have some people will clip directly to wear sandals or T-shirts to toe. whether it is respect for the dead has been reborn, or the joy of the wedding shower is for both men and women, wearing neat gift set is in line with a minimum requirement, but most were not so seriously. We can watch the popular music of the MTV, or are in the top slots in the films, if you just observe, then you will find , obviously is the Chinese film, Chinese singer, but as long as a wedding or funeral scene appears to be a Western-style, because we all feel relatively solemn funeral Western style, and indeed also more Western-style romantic wedding. wanted to make a beautiful wedding some go to church, even though male and female are not Christians. Could it be because we all feel that the form of Western-style weddings have more beauty, more suitable for theatrical performance? MV in Taiwan a lot of film and the scene, like to use Western-style weddings and Funeral will be presented. Could it because the Chinese form of relatively noisy wedding, funeral ceremony, vulgar comparison? therefore less emphasis on aesthetics in the composition for performance, drama and tension on the story!?
now and then to the city as an example to illustrate can not help asking why most Chinese live in the area is not very textured. urban architecture is the most concrete symbol of national image. But in Taipei, as far as I know, the building the appearance of the building form and color tonality has never been specification before. urban street, the decor of each store are unique, and read out a certain aesthetic pursuit, can be detached appreciation of independent stores. But as long as you pull the shot a one expanded round with a larger vision to see the whole street, the city's profile, you will find simply disorganized, chaotic tone of the city, the house covered clueless. a city's architecture reflects the texture of a nation. There depth texture of the bone marrow thing is, that is the stiffness of a culture show. When you like a groupie when to pursue an expensive imported goods, in fact, it is somehow inferior to pursue your mind that the value things, a psychological contrast between the psychological and compensation. and Taipei under the makeup like a model, eager to please the international perspective, but simply had blurred their original appearance, not its own style.
Taiwan, some of the old buildings, such as the traditional courtyard, leaving the official residences during the Japanese occupation and so on. The building is damaged roof tiles, and generally very cheap with a very simple to put up the iron. few people will click in the form of the original building, with the original building materials, style to restore, this is in fact a kind of disregard for traditional culture, because no one think that the appearance of old house restoration is a very important matter, and few people actually do . four years ago when I first came to Beijing, I found a lot of Beijing hutongs, courtyard houses are demolished, because the Olympics. then I went to those people and publishing houses to be demolished in the alley to pick up numbers, such as engraved with an alley, ; is the symbol of Beijing's urban construction, but also a tangible asset. When tourists come to Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei, Beijing and other Chinese cities gathered in the downtown area, as long as those who do not have a camera on a symbolic landmark You simply could not tell which city you are located, because it is Western-style door for all building structures, all buildings are glass walls or steel structure, the landscape is very much like every city. These are cities Only buildings of architectural and urban culture is not. hutong is a symbol of Beijing, foreigners came to Beijing to see the alley will feel a concrete manifestation of a culture. Of course, do not split the alley can not be improved significantly to construction or traffic This is also a dilemma. In fact, first I always feel pity that the old buildings torn down, but later found that if not removed, it is also the break the overall look shabby old, off a come down in the run-down feeling of a weak dynasty symbol of the old mottled appearance, but also not so attractive. that in the end what went wrong? is our traditional architectural forms simply do not fit the needs of modern life do?
I was a child seen in some European town picture postcard was printed thought it was just nice to take pictures, and specifically to a rare scene to find the purpose is only to make the picture even more enjoyable. until later in the picture postcard village that is true there are people living, it is not Film version of the cultural city of Europe, they are an entire village, an entire city, and even the country's landscape is so beautiful. I thought the postcard scenery of the beautiful only when shooting to avoid out certain point of view, this is only a single shot King (such as a castle, a wall), as the United States Code had the same poster. After reading some film shooting in Europe, by 360-degree rotating lens, they were found entire villages, the entire city is a uniform color and architectural style. The old building is usually only get just a lonely monument, next to it is likely to be a glass-reinforced concrete building. monument next to the landscape vision is usually not taken seriously and the limit of construction. So the protection of monuments, it is difficult to form a line, a plane . of course, a more important reason is that Taiwan does not age-old and a huge number of people to be able to become a street with ancient buildings, let alone the same town as to form an area of old town, this is a dream will not happen.
medieval Europe, there are many ancient buildings, it can be a huge number to be easily connected into a street, as well as a constitute a village. Europe outside the building for the city of colors, attaches great importance to its consistency In building a new building, will take into account the building itself and the surrounding environment with, for example, building the appearance of the color, style, not too obtrusive. the city's planning and shape are the same. like the Czech capital Prague, the city of basic tonal is the red tiles, white walls, neat skyline, like the fairy tale world in general. The same is the old building, Beijing Hutong storey height but had only one, if not removed, the appearance is also very low, will not be new. Beijing Hutong tone is gray roof tiles and wall tiles are the same color, a conservative but not angry reflected in all aspects. In Taiwan, some people directly eat something at the roadside stalls voracious things. You say it is worth mentioning customs, living habits is also OK, but something to eat at roadside stalls ���������, and next to someone washing dishes. In fact, neither health nor beauty. but most people think does not matter, do not feel wrong with. The problem is, this way, the street is like a hut, the whole city landscape to be destroyed. There are many people at home are very particular about personal sense of design and decoration of space, layout is very nice, but only one out the door, to the public lands, to no longer to care about the surrounding landscape. the kind of mentality as long as it is in the public interest, we do not care to silent, naked selfish attitude shown. This phenomenon seems to occur not only in Taipei, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Beijing and other places, the mentality of the residents did not improve with the situation where go. Most people do not care about the city's maintenance and coordination of the overall landscape, and even spend some time doing volunteer environmental protection are not willing to, but for private homes, not to spend more money and decorated in soft-hearted.
fact, appreciation of aesthetics is needed from small to large a little bit of education, deeper roots, and slowly develop. This form of civic awareness is the need to take a long time brewing, to develop the quality of even an entire nation take centuries or even millennia . To me, traveling abroad is the highest return on investment behavior, especially to a long history, cultural blend of European countries. because they have spent hundreds of years the entire nation, or even thousands of years of civilization built up, you may need First, the twenty thousand yuan will be able to visit their city under the careful maintenance of the landscape, that is actually taken very heart of the earthquake.
during World War II, Prague, Czech defenders in order to maintain the integrity of the ancient city, preferring to surrender, efforts are also bear ancestors established the cost of urban civilization into rubble. and almost at the same time, far away in eastern China, during the war are doing totally different options. at Changsha, Hunan, gathered a lot of war material, the Kuomintang in order to avoid Japanese exploitation of materials, but do not want to waste a single soldier to the defenders, impairment own troops fighting force. wait for the Japanese attack, set fire to actually own the whole city of Changsha, the famous home and abroad caused by stand for hundreds of years so quaint city of Changsha instant into dust. in power just to save their own military, there are the so-called face, actually may not take into account the ancient ancestors of the hard work hard construction. the other hand, defenders of the Czech Republic, preferring contemporary surrender himself insulted, do not want ancient ancestors of effort come to naught. the relative ratio of the two, under almost can not help but feel extremely. completely under the influence of different cultural backgrounds of the people, the attitude of their own cultural heritage, and its under decision is very different, of course, not the same fate.
our town planning is mainly to build, to carry out commercial purposes. Taiwan's old buildings replace older very quickly, we present Taiwan's unique Military Community village has retained its value because it is actually also four or five years of history, because over a century old building to qualify to be identified only as a monument. But if this is even four to five years of building do not try to reservation to be demolished, then in the end how Taiwan should accumulate more than a century building it? memory, which is a measure for the government that can be used in the end there is no grow up to ten to twenty years ago back home, almost have no childhood memory space, because very quickly converted. may be seen in the tree, a child, through the bridge, and the neighborhood kids play all the trees disappear because of alterations, almost never find common memories, shared memories are torn down because the light was. the building itself represents the historical memory is not considered meaningful. you can imagine you want to enough childhood lived where the game over the park, stayed in the alley, eating a small restaurant, a dozen of these memories are thoroughly after twenty years is the disappearance of what conditions? and Taiwan every day repeating the same drama, tearing down and cover, built and dismantled. I think at this stage to welcome the Beijing Olympic Games, quickly demolished the old building.
in Taiwan, a traditional festival that many people will come to the temple's activities, such as temple Games, dragon and lion dances, but their dress is very strange: the above may be traditional clothing style shirt or robe, the following is jeans or even slippers. he did not realize the maintenance of a small detail is respect for tradition. But This is not a phenomenon unique to Taiwan, I am through newspapers and magazines, and network information, understanding, and also rarely seen in the Mainland which city residents will have the collective in the traditional festival to celebrate with them dressed in traditional clothing. abroad such as Spain, France , Italy and other countries, traditional festivals, the town's residents will invariably contained spontaneously from traditional clothing to wear, that picture is very impressive.
now we desperately talking about globalization, but we have not thought about going abroad What attracts you the most travel? difference is that different cultures. go to India, see Hindu monks in meditation; go to Spain, to see them in the Bull; to South America, feel the samba; to Japan to see their traditional Cherry Blossom Festival is the sense of exotic mystery to the mood and to attract us. If buildings are built exactly the same all over the world, all of them are also a kind of dress, food, celebrations, customs no longer have their own characteristics, that is actually has no need for tourists, because where are all the same to go. So to my knowledge, globalization should refer to the economic and trade exchanges, and absolutely should not be a cultural unity.
many singers in Taiwan like to go abroad to shoot MV, such as Rome, Italy, Japan, Hokkaido, making it very grand, elegant and beautiful with age. but I have not found a foreign singer ever to come to Taiwan MV shooting. because our city irregular, the whole lens One opened, here may be reinforced concrete buildings, there may be the courtyard, the tone of the landscape is very inconsistent. I went and made several trips to Japan, Japanese traditional settlement has been very carefully preserved to maintain the good, and go shooting The film is also very engaging and out of the MV. The most ironic is that the concession areas such as Qingdao, Shanghai, ten foreign market. these settlers occupy the places once all but left a large number and very texture of the Western building. Qingdao skyline of the city, lined with buildings on the Bund in Shanghai is very beautiful. This inevitably somewhat ironic, how those left behind during the occupation of the buildings have been preserved so well? even has become the most beautiful of these elements in urban architecture . that we should be grateful to have been occupied before? Otherwise, whence such a good architecture.
a while ago, I went to Beijing Wangfujing stroll to see a foreign church, the church building on the church is usually very particular about the appearance of , that the whole church to maintain very good. because the whole street of Wangfujing is from Western-style modern office building was built, do not see a traditional Chinese architectural style. Although Beijing Wangfujing is the most known a commercial street in the old, but I see the oldest building, but it is really tall foreign church. unless someone told me it was the Qing Dynasty is the most popular commercial street, or I simply does not look like there was a The so-called Street a hundred years. Taiwan situation, too, during the Japanese occupation left a lot of beautiful baroque buildings in Taiwan are a number of important government agencies also has been in use of these buildings. This issue is very ironic as with the Shanghai Bund, Taipei The most exquisite architectural elements are also the original occupiers of the stay. we have not thought about in the end the problem is that it? Is it not the atmosphere of Chinese ancient architecture, construction and form of the pattern can not adapt to the requirements of modern society! < br> to my knowledge, Singapore may be a special addition, it is a Chinese immigrant, established by the State, the state's own history is not long but they are very great importance to their own traditional culture, and some very old architecture has been preserved Well, they think it is a national symbol, and even tourism resources. and all Chinese Singaporeans is probably the most law-abiding, and its citizens a strong rule of law, on the whole and high-quality.
often We travel to European countries, you will find that they are very focused and maintain their traditional appearance of the building, local residents are also attached great importance to its unique festivals. often dressed in traditional festival of national costumes from their country, the whole street, the whole village people dressed up. This is self-proclaimed the reach of our ancient civilization. I rarely even seen in what can be said that the Dragon Boat Festival Mid-Autumn Festival or Chinese traditional festivals to see our entire villages of people will be specially dressed in traditional costumes to celebrate. I am talking about today are some of my observations and experience, not rigorous academic investigation, because I want a serious investigation it may be more serious problem. this has happened to me all the time you put on a cultural phenomenon , you may wish to occasionally stop and observe the students, definitely makes you a completely different sort of understanding. I have always been very concerned about these cultural phenomena, have their own values upheld. then my chance encounter in the text combined with Jay's music So it created so many people are very surprised that he has always been a kind of worship of the ancient Chinese people's mentality this contempt. They worship in ancient China extreme, like are familiar with, and even some ethnic minorities than the Chinese mainland are still familiar. They not only worship but also inherits some under the Chinese culture. such as Japan's primary school students there are still calligraphy competition, the state has attached great importance to the tradition of calligraphy, also do not think this is a foreign thing. If to Tokyo, to find a passerby asked them casually Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Confucius, the Monkey King, etc., they all know who has even absorbed into their own culture, and digested video games, comics, etc..
I have been to Japan, found that their design is very particular about the aesthetics, the city's residents dress has a very own style, which is a type. The streets are clean, even a drain cover has a unique markers of the city. The whole street signs, store, very elegant. They attach great importance to product packaging; also attached great importance to the maintenance of ancient buildings. aesthetic concepts are developed. If the Chinese culture with the West to take compared to impose civilization, might argue that not the same as the source of culture, thinking is inherently different, because the beginning of their architecture, painting, music and other cultural direction just like we do here. If you think so then. So the object of comparison is the best in Japan, and the same effect by Confucianism and Asians in the use of Chinese characters and culture of the same configuration of the source is very high. but they are very hard to maintain traditional culture covered the tea ceremony, kendo, calligraphy , Noh, and the rite of passage, etc., as well as Sumo. Sumo is an international sport, and continued for thousands of years, have not interrupted. I think it is worthy to observe, compare.
general, Movies, MV appeared in weddings, funerals, if necessary, the scene, there is a need beautiful screen, the crew will usually take the entire team got me to church, or to cross the cemetery is full of shooting. even if not received formal education and training of aesthetics, general our eyes are still good with the intuition to distinguish bad, beauty and not the United States. Whenever I see the documentary when the Jews fled, I am surprised, fifty or sixty years ago, when the Jews fled to wear even in the urban mass deportation by the Germans when garments are very neat, there are certain qualities: male wearing a suit coat and hat; women would take a small wallet, or carry a purse and the like; have not see any child is a Jewish barefoot. At this point the identity of their refugees, but the overall performance out of their national level of education, it is very admirable and emotion. the Jews is a very good people, this nation out of the promise Many more nearly equal to its population of scientists and artists, is a great contribution to human civilization. I personally think they are a highly ethnic texture. I used to wonder why the Second World War with the Jews on the relevant finish the film shoot it? original because many of them are scientists, artists, everyone on the aesthetics of the pursuit of a basic literacy, the level of national culture have a certain level, so that there are many stories about the psychological excavation to take film. But we were on the persecution of Japanese invasion movie, so far I have not seen a good look, shoot textured. I often reflect, in the end because our film industry is not strong, or because of race psychology superficial level, nothing can explore? If you as a person who does not require the texture and accumulation, the last most likely will affect the cumulative amount of overall culture.
give the most extreme example. Suppose a hundred years ago meteorite fell to Earth from outer space satellites, just falls to the center of China, the Chinese people disappeared, but not next to the country were affected. then look back hundred years later, at this stage in the world the scientific and technological civilization, and modern living standards are still maintained, without the slightest impact. and not because we lost the whole of human civilization back a hundred years. interruption of modern civilization will not continue, or will be invented, like mobile phones, DV, telephone, internet, planes and cars, as not all the missing material. because a hundred years ago, our state and nation in a very declining situation, the progress of world civilization, and not much contribution. Jane speaking, assuming complete extinction of a hundred years ago the Chinese nation, and we look at the technology of civilization, it will not lack anything. there college-educated people know that when you learn to a certain stage of promotion will directly read the original book in English, especially in medicine, mathematics, physics, chemistry and other fields. that is made clear that the modern Chinese civilization has its serious faults, read some of the higher education, the character is completely useless and could not provide the nutrients required to study.
education is to enhance the texture of a national critical factor. If a nation does not attach importance to modern education, traditional culture and their own lack of identity, long-term past, education The uneven distribution of resources, resulting in the quality of participation of its people defect is incomplete, you may force a lot, but not equal good. Of course all of you no doubt are excellent students, a pyramid top infuse the North students, but if the population with the mainland compared to the huge number of people still pitiful. In contrast the Jews, the Jews is probably the highest in the world, ethnic texture of one of the nation. Jews, although the displaced, to have been discriminated against in many countries by many restrictions, such as what kind of work and so may not, but in this environment, they are the harder to maintain and strengthen their traditional culture, the culture of their own ethnic identity is strong. a nation must have a strong culture of their own sense of identity, will create their own style, form their own aesthetic, which also led the country virtually the development of creative industries. I emphasize today is that if individuals do not attach importance to and enhance their sense of reality, whether in education training, dressed, and all aspects of aesthetic design, then you and I do not texture the individual, will be as slow as the impact of cancer, people and things around it. Finally, the impact on an organization, a company, or even a city, a society, and a whole nation.
I hope that we start with attention to their own so-called survive in the global market shake the reason, it is because they never let up pursuit of aesthetic taste. You can not just prove to upstart brand you can afford to wear, but it stays on their clothes completely with taste will be, or not inconsistent. brand in your body instead of showing a flashy texture. holidays often when I stroll in the Taipei suburb of driving, the eyes will always stay in time just a passing glimpse Japanese official residences, Taiwanese style courtyard, and the scenery around the old house is the same tonal landscape on. If you can start in a hundred years ago, around the global travel, you must be very happy, because then no globalization, all countries The buildings have a strong native features. For example, you go to Hanoi, Vietnam, to see that style style; to Tokyo, to see that and architecture; whether to go to any country and nation, and the clothes they wear city's buildings all have very distinct characteristics of the nation. Then you see is a complete, self-culture, national heritage, without foreign impurities in the culture, the whole city, whether it is traditional architecture, the people who dress their are consistent with the tone of the culture, it is conceivable that an overwhelming part of this nation is really the ultimate aesthetics of the screen.
sake but because of globalization, the traditional costumes of all peoples, all countries of the building, all the values, Almost all of the aesthetic have been modernized, that is, the so-called westernization, we have adopted the same standards of looking at things. like a factory output of products with a mold as inter-city buildings, people and the peoples of wear, pattern more and more like, dress up more and more the same. I think this is really a pity that many different cultures of the United States and gone, many unique way of thinking also will fade. We will attach importance to the extinction of species, if the frogs, butterflies gone one or two species, to feel pity. But for their own culture, language, writing is fast disappearing, we do feel there would be no investigation wrong? without any alert you?
I've always liked characters , especially the traditional complex characters, because Chinese characters are ideographic now the world's only other all the words are phonetic. whether it is derived from the Latin in French, English, German, or the Middle East and world-wide Arabic, or our Asian neighbors in the Korean, Thai, and Japanese kana, etc., these are all based on the letters to the phonetic pronunciation of the base of Chu, is also common on Earth and the spread of live words, only Chinese characters is the only one still in use ideographs, which is what a proud thing ah! In the current emphasis on species diversity, cultural diversity and the international community, different Christian civilization and Islam in the traditional oriental culture, its position appears to be special. maintenance of the unique Chinese culture has been replaced with no features, the more it makes sense. Finally we urge attention to the topics discussed today, when a texture of the Chinese to change between you and me from the start hh Thank you!
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