On May 8, 2023, tourists watch the interactive program "Tang Dynasty Secret Box" at Xi'an Datang Sleepless City. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zou Jingyi
BEIJING, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- Tradition and modernity are intertwined: Chinese culture will brighten up the world in 2023
Xinhua News Agency reporters Ma Xinran, Mao Zhenhua, Song Rui
In 2024, 42-year-old U.S. criminal law lawyer Christ Caldwell will celebrate his 30th year of practicing Xi martial arts. "I am fortunate to be able to Xi martial arts since I was a child, it has taught me a lot of traditional Chinese cultural knowledge, full of beauty and energy. ”
At the beginning of Xi Wu, Caldwell did not expect to become deeply connected with Chinese culture.
"Chinese martial arts have a deep history and cultural heritage, and Xi martial arts practice will be influenced by the ears and eyes. For example, he said that there are moves in martial arts, such as the Monkey King dancing the golden hoop stick and Guan Yu playing the big knife, and when he Xi, he wanted to know who these people were, "After turning through the history books, I found that the Monkey King made a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace, Guan Yu was a famous general of the Three Kingdoms, and finally the more I read, the more addicted I became."
Because of his martial arts, Caldwell competed in the World Championships in China, visiting places such as Shanghai, Beijing and Chengdu. He loves Sichuan cuisine the most and is excited to see giant pandas, "Next time I come, I will lead more American friends to experience Chinese culture."
Chinese culture is both historical and contemporary, both national and global. The excellent traditional Chinese culture is transcending time and space, transcending countries, attracting more and more foreigners to devote themselves to the research and dissemination of Chinese culture in a multi-field, multi-channel and multi-circle manner.
On November 26, 2023, Chinese martial arts athletes perform in Union City, San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wu Xiaoling
According to the latest "Global Opinion Survey on China's National Image" conducted by the Institute of Contemporary China and World Studies, overseas people rated China's cultural image with a score of 7.3, and culture has become one of the areas where overseas people most want to learn about China through Chinese media.
Looking back at 2023, traditional cultural films such as "Thirty Thousand Miles of Chang'an" and "Fengshen Part 1: Chao Song Fengyun" will be screened in New Zealand and Australia...... The "visibility" and "acceptance" of Chinese culture on a global scale continue to improve, opening a window for people from all over the world to understand and experience China.
Some young people who love traditional Chinese culture held flash mobs on the streets of Paris and New York, showing off their skills such as opera, pipa and guzheng, and Chinese students wearing traditional costumes such as horse-faced skirts and Miao costumes frequently appeared at the graduation ceremony...... Young people have become a force to be reckoned with in the overseas dissemination of excellent traditional Chinese culture, and they show the charm of ancient culture in innovative ways.
Recently, an online celebrity dance "Subject 3" created by Chinese young people has become popular on global social platforms. Pop culture from China is also gaining popularity overseas.
"Chinese culture's 'going to sea' presents a new integration, a new concept, and a new mentality, conveying a deeper level of cultural self-confidence. Li Jiashan, executive vice president of the China National Institute of International Strategic Studies for Cultural Development, said.
On December 28, 2023, at Rong'an County Experimental Primary School in Liuzhou City, students dance with bamboo poles. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Huang Xiaobang
A recent British media article titled "The Latest Chinese Exports to the Conquest of the United States" pointed out that "the popularity of skit apps adapted from Chinese literature in the United States shows that Chinese cultural products can be translated well to Western audiences".
On the American Q&A platform "Quora", many people posted to discuss "what is the most beautiful Chinese poem you have ever read". From "Analects", "Book of Songs", "Three Hundred Tang Poems", to Li Bai, Du Fu, Pu Songling, nearly 1,000 foreign netizens left messages in the comment area to share. The oriental poetry and philosophy of "raising a glass to invite the bright moon and making a shadow into three people" are also enriching the spiritual world of many foreign readers.
With the rapid development of the Internet, a series of online novels with distinctive Chinese characteristics have become an important way of cross-cultural communication, with rich imagination, wonderful stories and a strong sense of substitution.
According to the "2023 Report on the Trend of China's Online Literature Going Overseas", the total revenue of China's online literature industry in 2022 will reach 31.78 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 18.94%, and the scale of overseas revenue will reach 4.063 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 39.87%.
Dao, gluttony, sect, embroidery...... Talking about the more than 40 ancient Chinese novels he has read, Bangladeshi writer Azia said a lot of key words in one breath, "Reading has made me better understand Chinese history and the romanticism and heroic feelings in Chinese myths and stories." At the same time, it also gives me the spiritual strength to look at the world from afar."
"When I was 16 years old, my father passed away and the family lost their financial resources, and the strong and self-reliant female protagonists of Chinese literature accompanied me through the most difficult times. That's why she used "Warrior" as her pen name, Yazia said.
Now, one of Azia's popular novels has been signed by a Chinese company, and the handsome remuneration will support her to study in the United States next year.
Tea, as one of the most representative cultural symbols in China, has been showing the charm of Chinese culture together with porcelain and silk for thousands of years.
In September 2023, China's application for the "Pu'er Jingmaishan Ancient Tea Forest Cultural Landscape" was successfully inscribed on the World Heritage List, becoming the world's first tea-themed World Cultural Heritage Site.
Wan Ling, deputy director of the Sino-foreign Cultural Exchange Center of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China, believes that this marks the further recognition of Chinese tea culture by the world, "The small oriental leaves are an important carrier of Chinese culture, and it is also a vivid evidence of the interactive evolution of civilization."
"A cup of Chinese jasmine tea costs 28 euros on the menu of our three-Michelin-starred restaurant in Paris, France, and the company's products have been successfully introduced in luxury stores in Paris. Fu Tianlong, chairman of Fujian Chunlun Group Co., Ltd., who recently concluded a tour in France, said.
In 2023, the company's sales in France will reach 50 million yuan. They also plan to radiate development to the rest of Europe, with France as the center.
"The concept of 'tea and the world, inclusiveness' conveyed by tea culture has become the common wealth of human civilization. Wan Ling said that he hopes to help more tea culture enterprises to "go out" in the future and promote the inheritance and development of tea culture and the prosperity of the tea economy.
Recently, the Spring Festival (Lunar New Year), a traditional Chinese folk festival, has become a United Nations holiday. Dai Bing, Chargé d'affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of China to the United Nations, said that the Spring Festival is not only a day for family reunions, farewell to the old and welcome the new, but also carries the common values of all mankind, such as peace, harmony and harmony, such as peace, harmony and harmony.
With the "New Year's flavor" of traditional Lingnan customs such as English singing and dancing wafting overseas, the Chinese elements of Chinese New Year activities around the world in 2024 are more abundant. Dragon and lion dances continue to be the highlight of the Dutch Chinese New Year celebrations, with opera masters Hu Wenge, Wu Qiong and Ma Ma appearing at the Toronto Overseas Opera Spring Festival Gala, and major supermarkets in Indonesia have begun to play festive Chinese music to warm up.
A folding fan and two long robes, supplemented by slightly exaggerated body movements and expressions...... In the classroom of the School of Foreign Chinese of Nankai University, two "foreigners" spoke crosstalk in Spanish and relied on the school platform to spread it to the outside world. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Ran
According to incomplete statistics, at present, nearly 20 countries regard the Spring Festival as a legal holiday, and about one-fifth of the world's population celebrates the Lunar New Year in different forms. The Spring Festival folk activities have entered about 200 countries and regions, becoming a global cultural feast full of joy.
Spanish sinologist Rélinco is considering teaching the "Spring Festival" to students in Chinese language classes at the University of Granada.
She told reporters that Chinese course is very popular, "in the eyes of many Spaniards, there are more opportunities to learn XiChinese and the prospects are broad."
"China is developing very fast, and people from all walks of life in Spain need people who understand China. My friends who study Chinese are very competitive in Spain, not only as translators and teachers, but also in multinational companies. Ralinko said.
"Deep-seated cultural self-confidence is closely linked to the new achievements of Chinese-style modernization. Li Jiashan believes that imbued with the cultural nutrients accumulated by the Chinese nation for more than 5,000 years, Chinese culture will not only shine in the hearts of every Chinese, but also shine on the world stage.