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Before the liberal arts students have come out of the psychological shadow of "liberal arts students mistakenly in the country", tsinghua university, the "spiritual holy land" of science and engineering students, has an accident.
A dance video went viral in the circle of friends, and at first glance it was not unusual, the military band played not beautiful music, and the female dancers danced awkwardly in short flesh-colored skirts with tassels like grass ropes. Isn't this the "fashion style" of the opening ceremony of the eighteen-line town at the end of the last century?
I feel wondering, is this nostalgic? Seeing the on-site banner appearing on the landmark buildings of Tsinghua University and the campus, it was a sudden realization. The awkward dance performance is not the opening ceremony of "Paris Summer Mall" and "Global Bathing Center", but the celebration of the 110th anniversary of Tsinghua University!
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Some critics feel that it is "three customs", which is to find the wrong topic. In the era when three-day tours to Bangkok and Hainan injuries are not a problem, custom is not a problem. Pole dancing is not vulgar? Enjoy the video of the Performance of the World Pole Dancing Competition. Belly dancing is not bad? Learn about the noble bloodline of the ancient Persian court secret dance. Striptease is good? ...... Well, this is really a bit cheesy, omitted.
The custom can be elegant, and the price lies in taste. The problem is "low". Tsinghua, the highest university in China, the highlight of the 110th anniversary, such a tasteless, creative, and aesthetically pleasing "three noes" awkward dance is indeed difficult to accept.
▲ Netizen comments
Some say it's hula, it's an insult to polynesian beauties. The creators may have had the idea of imitating hula, but the result is a failure to draw a tiger not an anti-cat. The costume has elements of a grass skirt, but it is the effect of a broken sack; the action design pays homage to Broadway, but what jumps out is the sonorous sound of the cottage dance drama knife club.
Although the skirt is short, it does not see a generous figure; although the range of movement is large, there is no charm of the wind and snow; although the live band plays hard, it only has the mechanical stiff noise. Such a performance, it is not as good as asking the square dance big mom group to perform. It is estimated that with the prestige of Tsinghua, Haidian aunts must be enthusiastic, and bringing their own box lunches is not a problem. As soon as the loudspeaker was put down, the whole audience was boiling, and it was uploaded to the Internet for a piece of praise.
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Some people also lament that Tsinghua is known for its science and engineering, and the lack of humanistic aesthetics has delayed the young and beautiful beautiful doctors. This is a bit disrespectful to history, and the coffin board of the old Tsinghua Guoguo College cannot be suppressed.
Tsinghua not only has a long humanistic tradition, but also has achieved a generation of legends. Tsinghua University's National College was established in 1925, and in order to distinguish it from the National College of Tsinghua University, which was rebuilt in 2009, a "old" word can be added. Although the Old College was discontinued in 1929, it existed for only four years and had only about seventy graduates. However, more than fifty of them have become humanities scholars, and they have achieved great success.
The "Four Great Mentors" Liang Qichao, Wang Guowei, Chen Yinke, Zhao Yuanren, Wu Mi, director of the office, and Lecturer Li Ji are all masters of Chinese academic circles.
▲The four tutors of Tsinghua University's National College during the Republic of China period
After the end of the Old Country College, Tsinghua did not give up the field of humanities, and Tsinghua's liberal arts still had a high gold content. What really made Tsinghua "science and engineering" was the adjustment of the national colleges and universities in 1952, when Tsinghua's liberal arts departments were merged into Peking University and other colleges and universities, and its humanistic tradition was only based on the entire library of Tsinghua liberal arts preserved by Jiang Nanxiang, who was the president at the time.
Although tsinghua university has also made long-term efforts to continue the "frontier" after the reform and opening up, among which the reconstruction of the Tsinghua Institute of Chinese Studies in 2009 has attracted the most attention, but the impression of being longer than the shortcomings of science and engineering and humanities has been deeply rooted.
The doubts about Tsinghua's humanistic standards are difficult to eliminate. The 2019 freshman welcome banner typo incident has made Tsinghua people sad.
In the 2019 freshman entry season, "net red students" such as Go national player Ke Jie and poetry beauty Wu Yishu entered the school, making Tsinghua University unique. However, the typos on the welcome banner were exposed by the Internet, which was very uninteresting to make a big fuss about the scenery - "warm" writing "hot column" is really not a mistake that institutions of higher learning should make, let alone the status of Tsinghua?
What is even more embarrassing is that some Tsinghua alumni, teachers and students are eager to protect the school, declaring that "Lie lie is on leave", not only did not find the field, but also were hanged by liberal arts students. To tell the truth, that is indeed an active jumping pit to cover up the michigan - you are not Lu Xun, where is the privilege of typos to be false?
▲Figure/Figureworm creative
In short, a storm has boiled over, and the "stereotype" of "science and engineering students have no culture" has been solidified, and it can also be regarded as a large piece of tiredness. Nowadays, the "school celebration awkward dance" has been widely disseminated, and perhaps the science and engineering students have to add a conclusion of "low aesthetic taste" in addition to "no culture". In particular, the "theory of liberal arts students misleading the country" is not over, and the revenge from liberal arts students ... Exciting.
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As far as the facts are concerned, the harm of this "awkward dance" is far lower than the original typo incident - after all, Tsinghua is not a Chinese opera, and there is nothing wrong with dancing. It was only at the time of the 110th anniversary of the school that this incident occurred, and the insult was even worse. I hope that this time Tsinghua's response will be more tactful.
▲ Zhihu netizen comments
To tell the truth, in the face of ridicule, Tsinghua University does not have to care too much. Whether it is a typo or an awkward dance, most of the commenters do not have much malice, it is nothing more than emotion. If, as some people say, this "awkward dance" is a spontaneous performance of the student community at a garden tour, not an officially organized activity, it is even more needless to be harsh.
The shortcomings of humanistic literacy and aesthetic style are common, and if science and engineering are like this, is the liberal arts better? Please take a look at our large and small screens, how many pleasing and high-style film and television works? This is not the iniquity of science and engineering. In the same way, "liberal arts students mistaken the country" is also nonsense, and the collapse of the building and the bridge are not the hands and feet of liberal arts students.
Chinese society has experienced rapid economic development, and shortcomings have gradually been exposed, which is a normal phenomenon of social development. The lack of humanistic cultivation and the lack of humanistic spirit are a conspicuous short board, which can mislead the country and judge the ugly, and there is no distinction between literature and reason, let alone the "crow laughing at the pig black" tongue dispute.
Laughing and laughing, a serious paper can be avoided, and everyone faces the shortcomings together and solves the problem is the urgent and important task.