Foundation for Mutual Understanding Between China and Western
论文作者:佚名论文属性:短文 essay登出时间:2009-04-15编辑:刘宝玲点击率:5464
论文字数:3000论文编号:org200904152014167786语种:中文 Chinese地区:中国价格:免费论文
关键词:FoundationMutual UnderstandingChinaWesternimage
The Asien-Pazifik-Wochen (Asia-Pacific Week) Berlin 2001, having lasted for two weeks, will be closed on September 30. China, with the rich and colorful programs, has successfully held this largest cultural exchange activity.
If the stone-carved Buddhist image unearthed in the ruins of the Qingzhou Longxing Temple of Shandong Province and the 600-odd-year-old Kunju (opera of Kunshan in Jiangsu Province) represent the long-standing tradition of Chinese culture, then modern art exhibition and the opera staged by Guangdong Modern Dance Troupe give expression to the development of Chinese culture in modern time; if the play The General Bids Farewell to His Concubine and the performance given by the Inner Mongolian Chorus are the result of the meticulous work of artists, then the fire performance and shadow play staged by Shaanxi art troupe as well as Shandong Province's Zibo festive lanterns that decorated the streets under the most magnificent pipal bo-trees in Berlin are the personification of folk aesthetic temperament and interest.
Over the time of the two weeks, China comprehensively introduced its past and present cultural features to Berlin, to Germany and to Europe as a whole.
Chinese culture was once the object admired by Europe. Leaving aside how the great masters of European culture including Voltaire and C.W. Leibniz highly praised Chinese culture, even in today's Berlin, people still feel the flavor of those years.
In the Charlottenburg palace, a hall was built specially for the collection of Chinese porcelain. In the Prussian Kings Summer Palace-the Potsdam carefree garden, there is a "Chinese pavilion". Those resplendent and magnificent pillars and sculpture of characters reflect Europe's imagination of China in the early 18th century, the bronze incense burner of a man's height made in the first year during the reign of Emperor Shizong of the Qing Dynasty has stood on the lawn of the garden for over 200 years. On the outer wall of the Pilnitz Palace of Dresdner is drawn with a picture of China's daily life. When this writer visited the marble stone palace in the Potsdam carefree garden, I came to learn that the bright yellow silk wall cloth was formally called "Beijing" by Westerners, apparently this is because yellow color was exclusively used by the royal family.
If one takes a careful observation of the influence exerted by outside culture on Prussian culture, then the country which comes first should be France, and that which comes second will possibly be China. Later, if China's door were not forced open by European powers, if there were not the "self-importance" psyche of the "imperial court" in China at that time, cultural and material exchanges would have been established on the basis of equality, and it would have been quite possible that there was no need for us to wait till now to introduce the facial make-up of Peking opera and the drinking way of green tea, and Europe wouldn't need to wait until a decade ago before it could generally bring in China's tin pans for frying tea.
Due to geographical barriers, the cultures of Europe and China developed respectively under a relatively closed environment over the long years against different backgrounds and of different characteristics, their concept of value and mode of thinking are different and their artistic appreciation is also different, can these two ancient cultural systems engage in exchange, learn from each other's strong points to offset one's w
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