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Preface
I have a rich second-generation friend who travels a lot and has made a lot of friends, both domestic and foreign, and sometimes invites friends from other countries to come to China to play.
Some time ago, he hit it off on the Internet with a Japanese beauty who wanted to travel to China, and the two carefully selected a city with a voice in their minds when they saw the name - Tianjin.
Of course, the guide for the two of them to go to Tianjin was still written by me, a travel blogger.
After the Japanese beauty returned to China, I asked him how he was doing in the past few days, and he showed a mysterious smile, saying that this trip had given the Japanese beauty a new understanding, and he was afraid that the Chinese were too untrustworthy to speak.
I was immediately a little indignant, how could this Japanese judge the Chinese so much? What happened to her?
Incomprehensible Chinese words
The Japanese beauty my friend knows is named Aiko Suzuki, who has always been looking forward to China, and has traveled to some coastal cities in China before, but they are all alone, and they have simply gone to some iconic attractions.
Those attractions are certainly worth visiting, but Aiko Suzuki always feels that just going there is not enough to understand Chinese culture and Chinese.
So she posted on the online social platform and successfully connected with the rich second-generation friend.
After hearing about her appeal, her friend strongly invited her to go to Tianjin, after all, Tianjin is a city full of language arts.
Aiko Suzuki had also heard of Tianjin before, and was also interested in cross talk, and felt that it was very similar to Japanese rakugo.
She also searched for some crosstalk excerpts and thought that the pronunciation of those sentences and intonation was very magical, but as a Japanese, it was difficult for her to imitate the correct Chinese pronunciation.
She also finds it a little difficult to understand some words and sentences in the cross talk, and often listens to it and pauses, and then starts to search for the meaning, and then continues to listen after checking.
After listening to Aiko Suzuki's narration, her friend laughed and asked her what she thought of idioms in Chinese.
Aiko Suzuki frowned, saying that she felt that these idioms were too difficult to understand, and it was difficult to judge the true meaning from the literal meaning.
In the past, she also communicated with some Chinese, who were highly educated and often quoted scriptures, and she often misunderstood, so she made a lot of jokes.
Despite the communication difficulties, Aiko Suzuki was a very curious person, so she still chose Tianjin as her destination.
My friend was very caring, and she had already booked a ticket for the local Deyun Club, patting her chest to ensure that she could be an on-site translator.
My friend obviously overestimated his Japanese ability and the complexity of cross talk translation, after all, cross talk does not rely on rigid sentences to make people laugh, but also on the actors' own performances.
Where does the stress of a sentence fall, should the end note be lengthened, and how long should the pauses between words belong...... It's all a science, and it's a charm that a layman like a friend can't translate.
But fortunately, the sense of humor of the rhythm is universal, although I can't understand what the cross talk is playing, but Aiko Suzuki can still perceive the funny from the tone and tone of the cross talk actors, and then laugh back and forth with the rest of the audience.
Japanese twisted thinking
After listening to the cross talk, a friend answered a phone call, it was a friend of his who asked him to play together, but he had to accompany Aiko Suzuki recently, and he was really not available, so he said: "In two days, it's inconvenient for me now." ”
After he hung up the phone, he found that Aiko Suzuki on the side was much quieter, and she was obviously not as excited as before.
The friend thought she was hungry and asked her what she wanted to eat.
Aiko Suzuki seemed to have something to say, but she still didn't ask anything, just said that she wanted to try Tianjin's hot pot, and she felt warm to eat it in winter.
While eating hot pot, my friend noticed that Aiko Suzuki seemed to be in a low mood, so I asked her directly if she was uncomfortable and if she needed to pour a cup of hot water.
Aiko Suzuki said that she was not uncomfortable and thanked her friend for her kindness, but the expression on her face still did not return to her previous brightness.
Aiko Suzuki seemed to be struggling for a long time, and finally asked, "Are you going to bring your friends to join us on our journey in two days?" ”
The friend was stunned for a moment and said that he had no such plans.
Aiko Suzuki was also stunned: "Then why do you say something like 'let's go two days' when you call a friend?
The friend couldn't help but laugh when he heard this, and explained: "The so-called 'let's go in two days' is just a polite refusal, saying that we will discuss it later, and when we will discuss it again, and I have not made it clear." ”
Japan is also a country that likes to reject others tactfully, so Aiko Suzuki immediately understood what her friend meant.
After figuring out the misunderstanding, Aiko Suzuki kept apologizing to her friend, saying that she lost her temper without understanding the facts, and she was really sorry.
She said that she originally wanted to hold this matter in her heart, but she thought that Chinese might prefer to say her thoughts directly, so she tried to express it, but she didn't expect to really explain it clearly.
My friend realized that the Japanese character has always been a little twisted, if he hadn't asked a few more times, maybe Aiko Suzuki would have crossed him in his heart, and then found an excuse to leave the next day.
Compared with the Chinese, the Japanese are obviously a character who is more likely to keep everything in their hearts, they are always more sensitive and weak, often magnifying every detail of life, and then feel that their world has collapsed.
This is probably related to the fact that the living place in Japan is too small, and the current society is too depressing, in short, it is a very tiring thing to get along with Japanese people, and you never know which of your actions will offend the other party.
Fortunately, Aiko Suzuki had also gotten along with Chinese before, so she was still able to communicate more or less, at least knowing how to express her dissatisfaction.
When my friend said this, he also sighed to me, saying that the Japanese are really too petty, he thought about it, and added, it's a bit scary.
After all, Aiko Suzuki was already very dissatisfied with him at the time, but she was still able to continue to eat, drink and have fun with him casually, if it weren't for the fact that there were many people in contact with friends, high emotional intelligence and carefulness, there would be no abnormality at all.
Afterwards, Aiko Suzuki also apologized immediately, so naturally and skillfully that even her friends couldn't tell whether she was really guilty of blaming the wrong person, or whether she was still blaming herself for not explaining in time.
Only good food can heal everything
Except for this small episode, the journey between my friend and Aiko Suzuki went smoothly, because my friend kept an eye on it and tried to avoid choices that might cause misunderstandings in his future travel plans.
My friend knew that Aiko Suzuki was very keen on food, so he mainly took her to taste various snacks and feasts in Tianjin.
This trick was really useful, and Aiko Suzuki was completely immersed in the temptation of food, and did not dwell on those strange things anymore.
There are many special snacks in Tianjin, and probably the most famous of them is pancakes, which are a delicacy that has been exported overseas, and even Aiko Suzuki has eaten in Japan.
Of course, the pancakes and fruits that go abroad have been more or less influenced by the local food culture, and there have been certain changes, and the most authentic taste has to be eaten locally in Tianjin.
The craftsmanship of the owner of the stall was exquisite, and after a while, a perfect pancake fruit was prepared, and Aiko Suzuki was amazed again and again, praising the boss for being like an artist.
Tianjin hemp flowers, Goubuli buns and ear eye fried cakes are known as the "Tianjin Three Uniques", which are delicious foods not to be missed when coming to Tianjin.
Aiko Suzuki didn't eat much, and she tasted a little bit of everything, still in an exaggerated way, saying that she liked these things very much.
Tianjin is close to the sea and has a lot of seafood, so most of the meals are mainly seafood, such as Bazhen tofu, of which "Bazhen" is sea cucumber, squid, scallops, shrimp, chicken breast and magnolia slices.
Japan also often eats seafood, so Aiko Suzuki has a good acceptance of Tianjin cuisine, but she complains a little, thinking that many tastes are a bit heavy, and she is not very Xi.
epilogue
The Chinese language is broad and profound, and many times it is obviously the same word, but when it is said in different tones, it has different meanings, and sometimes even the meaning is completely opposite.
Don't say that Aiko Suzuki can't understand what the Chinese are saying, even the Chinese themselves sometimes can't hear the meaning of the words if they don't keep up with their emotional intelligence.
Language and culture are inseparable, and perhaps it is precisely because of the profound meaning of the Chinese language that the Chinese culture will have a lot of depth, which is incomparable to any country.