Italy people who opened a Wing Chun martial arts gym in Shanghai, Germany people who played "Huo Yuanjia" with piano and guzheng ensemble, and United States people who created the English version of "quatrains...... Starting from tomorrow, the fifth season of "Foreigner Storytelling" financial media product - "Chinese Cultural Circle Fans" was officially launched on the whole network, presenting the adventures and interesting stories between these foreigner friends and Chinese culture.
On the occasion of the first anniversary of Xi Jinping's cultural thought, in order to help create a Shanghai model of cultural self-confidence and self-improvement, and build a best practice place for Xi Jinping's cultural thought, the Propaganda Department of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Foreign Propaganda Office of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and Xinmin Evening News jointly produced and launched a series of 20 series of products.
Martial arts, calligraphy, poetry, folk music, traditional Chinese medicine...... In recent years, the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture have attracted the attention of many foreigners, and then "turned into fans". The "Chinese Cultural Circle Fans" series of reports invited 20 foreign friends from 15 countries, including United States, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Netherlands, Greece and Argentina, to tell the stories, cultural phenomena and cultural forces of Chinese culture in the eyes of foreigners with vivid images.
They are supporters of the excellent traditional Chinese culture. Italy Bai Qibai is a descendant of Yip's Wing Chun and opened a martial arts gym in Shanghai to teach Wing Chun; Netherlands international student Dai Guanglei took a calligraphy course and was deeply attracted by the beauty of Chinese characters; Tu Weiming, an United States, has collected tens of thousands of Chinese folk art from all over China and opened a museum in the ancient town of Lili in Jiangsu Province.
They are "China Experts" and "Shanghai Experts", and they have a profound cultural experience and feeling for the city. Japan girl Takase Bai painted more than 100 watercolor paintings of various characteristic shops in Shanghai, recording the daily scenery and fireworks of Shanghai in her eyes; Singapore photographer Goh Ke Yao's cycling club has grown from a mini group of 20 people to a huge community of more than 5,600 enthusiasts in eight years, half of whom are foreigners working and living in Shanghai. Lu Haiyan, an international student from Albania, is interested in history and coincidentally became a docent at the Shanghai History Museum; Wu Feide, a post-90s guy, is the first Argentina to pass the sixth level of the Chinese Proficiency Test, and is determined to promote the dialect of the suburbs of Shanghai.
They integrate China and the West, participate in the innovation and development of cultural undertakings and cultural industries, and let Chinese culture burst out with new vitality and show new style on the world stage. United States girl Song Lile wore Chinese national costumes to interpret the beauty of costumes, showing the richness and diversity of Chinese culture; Germany pianist Oscar and guzheng players played together, "Cao Cao" and "Huo Yuanjia" became popular on the Internet; United States poet Shi Jiangshan has written and taught "English Quaint" for more than 20 years, and founded the "Newman English Quaint Competition"; Italy Liliane Li is the President of Coach China, dedicated to promoting the integration of traditional Chinese aesthetics and fashion culture......
"Fans of the Chinese Cultural Circle" is the fifth season of "Foreigner Storytelling" launched after "The Centennial Party - Foreigners Tell Stories", "Overseas Employees Look at China", "Another Eye on the Event" and "The Belt and Road" to Promote Win-Win", which is presented in the form of graphics, posters, and videos in the form of all media, with 1 episode updated daily. The city's mainstream media's new media platforms, Dragon TV and other TV channels, and various commercial websites and platforms will be broadcast simultaneously.
Why Chinese culture is "fanning" the world
Ten years ago, Germany pianist Oscar had already made his mark in the European classical music scene, but he made a decision: to go to Shanghai and start his own oriental music journey.
Oscar has performed a passionate collision of Chinese and Western instruments with Chinese guzheng players on the banks of the Lujiazui River, and has also brought the classic Chinese piano piece "Liang Zhu" back to Germany, so that local listeners are not only moved by the music, but also deeply immersed in the poignant Chinese love story behind the music. The most talked-about thing is that he is keen to adapt Chinese songs into piano music, and more than 300 short videos in 4 years have made him an UP master with millions of fans on station B, and is affectionately called "Uncle O" by Chinese netizens......
Today, there are countless foreigners like Oscar who have been "fans" of Chinese culture. Tomorrow, the Propaganda Department of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, the International Propaganda Office of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Xinmin Evening News jointly produced the fifth season of the "Foreigner Storytelling" financial media product - "Chinese Cultural Circle Fans" officially launched on the whole network. Including Oscar, 20 foreign friends from 15 countries will face the camera and tell their understanding and love for Chinese culture through unique perspectives and stories, which is refreshing.
Why can Chinese culture continue to "circle" the world? As we all know, among the four ancient civilizations in the world with high international recognition, ancient Babylon, ancient Egypt, and ancient India have long since died out, and only the Chinese civilization has survived to this day and still exudes tenacious vitality. For 5,000 years, Chinese culture has left rich and magnificent stories and emotional sources to future generations, and has left shocking and vivid history and civilization processes to outsiders.
In addition to profound heritage and endless inheritance, continuous innovation and development are also the internal genes of Chinese culture. In August this year, the first Chinese domestic triple-A game "Black Myth: Wukong" was launched, which attracted the attention of players around the world, not only bringing "Chinese shock" to the game industry, but also opening a new window to the world to understand Chinese culture. In fact, this isn't the first time that Chinese games have sparked cultural resonance overseas. "Qu Gao may not be unknown to people, but has its own bosom friends and clear words; The red tassel hunting sword meteor pointed directly at the angry tide to wash the sea. This song is from the domestic mobile game "Genshin Impact". In 2022, the Peking Opera singing segment "The Goddess Splitting Guan" performed by the character "Yun Jin" in the game has set off a boom in learning to sing Chinese opera overseas.
Not only games, in recent years, more and more Chinese films, music and other cultural and entertainment products are accelerating the integration with traditional culture, with "The Legend of Miyue", "The Wandering Earth 2", "Three-Body Problem" and other Chinese online articles, movies, TV series and so on have become popular overseas for many times, together with various intangible cultural heritage in the mainland, for Chinese culture has played a role in the dissemination of elegance and vulgarity. It not only cultivates Chinese culture, but also absorbs diverse cultures; It not only reflects cultural self-confidence, but also shows openness and inclusiveness; There is not only the "soft power" of traditional culture, but also the "hard power" empowered by science and technology...... All this may be the fundamental reason why Chinese culture is becoming more and more popular. Behind this is an increasingly powerful and self-confident China.
The launch of "Chinese Cultural Circle Fans" coincides with the first anniversary of Xi Jinping's cultural thought. From October 7 to 8, 2023, the National Conference on Propaganda, Ideology and Culture was held in Beijing, and the most important outcome of the conference was the first to put forward Xi Jinping Cultural Thought. Xi Jinping Cultural Thought emphasizes the need to "focus on continuing the Chinese cultural context, promoting the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture", and "focusing on strengthening international communication capacity building and promoting exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations". At present, Shanghai is making every effort to build a best practice place for Xi Jinping's cultural thought and create a model of cultural self-confidence and self-improvement in Shanghai. The stories told by foreigners in "Fans of the Chinese Cultural Circle" bring us not only confidence and pride, but also thinking and enlightenment. Only by "not forgetting the original, absorbing foreigners, and facing the future", activating the vitality of China's excellent traditional culture with the spirit of the times, making it a profound cornerstone of China's wisdom, China's solutions, and China's strength, and becoming a lasting driving force for us to strengthen our cultural self-confidence in the cultural turmoil and collision of ideological trends, can we make the Chinese cultural heritage continue to sing and endure for a long time, continuously create new brilliance in creative transformation and innovative development, and inject surging cultural power and spiritual nourishment into the promotion of Chinese-style modernization.