With the improvement of our country's living standards, more and more Chinese people choose to travel abroad to feel the scenery and life atmosphere of foreign countries; similarly, there are many foreigners who are full of curiosity about our country with a history of 5,000 years, choose to come to China to study and live, and feel the changes of The times in China and the profundity of Chinese culture.
Nowadays, in the streets of many cities, we can see foreigners, and when they come to China, due to the differences in culture between countries, many unique social phenomena in China will make them feel very magical.
Unlike the Chinese living overseas, we pay attention to a "local custom", and our ability to adapt to the new environment is very strong, in addition to the diet may be a little difficult to accept, in other aspects are very easy to integrate into the local culture.
In the face of an endless stream of foreign tourists, China naturally has a lot of attractions to them, especially in recent decades, China's development speed has shocked the world, China's economy, military, etc. are among the best in the world, to know that the founding of New China has only been 72 years, and in these 72 years, China has jumped from a backward country to a world power, naturally experienced a lot of ups and downs. The reason why China has risen so quickly has also made many foreigners curious and want to come to China to find out.
Many foreigners who come to China are shocked by the scene in front of them as soon as they get off the plane, and they are greeted by the international airport and the high-rise buildings in the distance, which is very different from the China they see in books and videos, and even some foreigners still have the impression of China in the 1980s and 1990s.
All this stems from the foreign media's false reports on China, fabricating false lies to smear China, so that many foreigners have been temporarily blinded and have an unrealistic understanding of China. Only by truly coming to China and truly feeling the changes in China can we break the prejudice of foreigners against China for a long time.
After all, China has always been constantly developing and progressing, and foreigners' vision of China should also be continuously developed and progressive.
What shocked foreign friends the most was not the rise of modern cities, but the fact that at midnight, these modern cities were still brightly lit, especially for Americans, which was unimaginable.
Because most of the cities in the United States are not so good, especially at night, all kinds of street gangsters, homeless people are wandering around the street, and even gang fights, so Americans generally sleep at home at night and rarely go out.
Moreover, Americans and other foreigners hate work very much, they yearn for "freedom", and many foreign young people will not choose to work if they do not live anymore. Moreover, the slightly relaxed "nine-to-five" eight-hour work system in China's work is a bit much for foreigners.
After all, foreign vacations are much longer than working hours, and a job can only work for a few hours. Therefore, many foreigners who are not in a hurry to use money usually work a job to maintain their lives, while foreigners who are very short of money will work several jobs a day.
Therefore, for foreigners, the time for leisure and entertainment during the day has been very sufficient, in the evening, it is time to rest, and our Chinese generally leave work in the evening, if we encounter the situation of overtime, we will work until late at night, plus we Chinese have been fond of eating supper, our country's night market culture has become very rich.
For Americans in China, the brightly lit night market is a very novel experience for them. Many Americans will post pictures of China's night markets on foreign social platforms, with the text:
China is not terrible, what is terrible is the Chinese streets in the early hours of the morning.
Indeed, the Chinese streets in the early morning illustrate a lot of problems from the side and reflect a variety of social phenomena.
First of all, in the more economically developed cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, the brightly lit streets seem to be the norm, and there are also a large number of pedestrians in a hurry on the streets in the early morning, who may have just finished working overtime in the company and are ready to go home to rest, or they have just gone out to prepare to start a day's hard work.
They did not enjoy the convenience brought by the metropolis, but every day forced to make a living, hurriedly walking on the busy streets, measuring the prosperity of the city with their own footsteps, so that they and their families can live a better life, like this busy with their own work, sticking to their posts, are people who are adding bricks and tiles to China's development.
There are also some people walking on the street are young and energetic young people, when night falls, for the middle-aged and elderly, it should be time to go to bed, but for young people, happy hour has officially begun.
Especially in recent years, most of the young people have become "night owls", very fond of night activities, and even many young people, including college students, sleep during the day and night hi pi, this phenomenon is not uncommon.
Compared with the daytime, the night is indeed a little more quiet and bright, less sunny, but the prosperity of the big city never stops because of the upside-down of day and night. At night, young people flock to various entertainment venues such as bars, and even at three or four o'clock in the morning, these places are still bustling.
As more people come out at night to work or play, this has also stimulated the development of the night economy model in all walks of life.
Demand is always the biggest driving force for economic development, so restaurants, shopping malls, convenience stores and entertainment venues are competing at night. In this way, the night life in big cities has developed and grown under this virtuous circle of "constantly generating demand and constantly solving demand".
Of course, the situation mentioned above only exists in some cities where China's economic development is at the forefront, and for most other cities in China, although the nightlife is also very rich, it is far from the all-night happiness of first-tier cities.
Take some small counties in China, generally open until two or three o'clock in the middle of the night are supper shops, barbecue shops, KTV and other places, unless there are guests uninterrupted consumption, otherwise rarely open all night, if there are no guests, the shop will close early.
So, when we wander the streets of a small county town at three or four in the morning, we may see one or two barbecue shops that are preparing to close, and three or five men wandering the streets full of alcohol. But what we see more is a few elderly people rummaging through trash cans and picking up empty mineral water bottles; a shimmering breakfast shop where the owner is busy dealing with today's ingredients; and early sanitation workers sweeping the leaves off the street and the garbage people have left behind.
This is the true portrayal of the streets in the early morning of the small county, but also the true portrayal of the author's hometown county, the author is also a night owl, and for some reasons have seen the streets of many places in the early morning, some of them are bustling and lively, some are quiet and desolate, the only constant scenery is the sanitation workers on the street, they always appear on the street on time, clean the street, so as to welcome the next day to the city guests.
In addition, foreigners will be so unforgettable to the streets of China's early morning, in addition to illustrating the good public security environment in Chinese society, it also shows the characteristics of Chinese in some places, such as the pursuit and enjoyment of life engraved in the bones of Chinese, and the tenacious and hard-working faith of Chinese.
This kind of diligent belief has been passed down from more than 5,000 years of Chinese history to the present day, and this belief has a more familiar name, called "self-improvement". Therefore, foreigners do not only see the streets of China at three o'clock in the morning, but also see our spirit of Chinese self-improvement.
It is precisely with the support of this spirit that our Chinese nation can always stand on the top of the world. In the long history of China's five thousand years, our opponents have changed batch after batch, but China is still that China. Even during the Qing Dynasty, when the land of Shenzhou was sucked and parasitized by invaders for decades, our Chinese nation overcame all difficulties with its tenacious vitality and came to this day.
All this is because the spirit of self-improvement has long been engraved in the soul of each of our Chinese, which foreigners who yearn for so-called "equality" and "freedom" do not have. Since ancient times, the spirit of self-improvement is the most precious spiritual wealth that our ancestors have crossed thousands of years and passed down to this day.
Later, the enemy of the Chinese nation was the Hu people from the western region, and the Chinese nation won; now, the enemy of the Chinese nation is the Western countries headed by the United States, which are eyeing China with a tiger's eye, and the Chinese nation has not changed, nor has the Chinese nation's spirit of unremitting self-improvement, and I believe that victory will once again belong to our Chinese nation.
The streets in the early hours of the morning are a true portrayal of the indomitable Chinese, which also makes many foreigners have a deeper understanding of China. In addition to the spirit of self-improvement, foreigners also have other different feelings about the streets of China in the early hours of the morning. Among them, the most intuitive feeling is the rapid development of Chinese cities and the fast-paced lifestyle of Chinese people.
Speaking of the construction of Chinese cities, we are the most vocal in the middle of it, the city has changed from bungalows to today's high-rise buildings, it can be said that compared with China twenty years ago and China now, it is completely two looks, and even exaggerated, the former China and the current China are completely two different countries, and no one will feel strange.
The changes in China's cities are shocking to our own people, let alone foreign friends. Moreover, in the eyes of foreigners, Chinese civilization has always been a symbol of mystery, and the rapid development of the city can make foreigners feel the mystery and strength of our ancient oriental country.
Thanks to China's outstanding achievements in urban construction, China has also won the reputation of "infrastructure demon" in the world.
In many modern metropolises in China, in addition to the bustling crowds on the streets, the lights on the streets are also very dazzling. This is the romance that belongs to our Chinese, and we Chinese like the festive and lively atmosphere, which is fully reflected in the city lights after nightfall.
The builders and planners of each city have put a lot of thought into the city lights, and at night, the various lights in the city will render the city magnificent and golden, and these lights are open all night, and the lights are far from describing the prosperity and hustle and bustle of the city streets now.
Foreigners look at the brightly lit Chinese streets in the early hours of the morning and can't help but fall into contemplation, is this really the China he knows?
Not only that, China's current fast-paced life model, but also let many foreigners have a new view of China, in the eyes of foreigners, playing mahjong, tea drinking these slow-paced lifestyle is the life we Chinese pursue, in fact, otherwise, China in the process of rapid development, the social atmosphere has also undergone great changes, playing mahjong, drinking tea such a life is still our favorite, but this is the leisure of life love and yearning, we are more often in the struggle for life.
This fast-paced lifestyle is also reflected in the streets in the early hours of the morning, and the all-night takeaway shops or the endless taxis on the street are telling this phenomenon of life. Whether it is work or life, most young people's time is now fully arranged, but they still pursue a life with feelings and temperature, which also cultivates their life state of having a strong concept of time and high efficiency, and it is this state that constantly pushes China forward.
In the eyes of foreigners, Chinese has always been a moderate, rigorous image, but this stereotype is broken when they see the streets of China in the early hours of the morning.
Especially our "post-90s" and "post-00s", under the guidance of General Secretary Xi Jinping's "new ideas, new youth", their ideological wave has indeed undergone earth-shaking changes. This generation of young people has both the constraints of traditional Chinese culture and the bold attempts in Western culture, which is a kind of thinking that keeps pace with the times.
After all, the times are different, and changes in ideology and concepts are inevitable. Today's world is also a generation that has never appeared in the development process of tens of thousands of years of human beings, and it took tens of thousands of years of accumulation for human beings to come to this step. Throughout history, the development of the modern century has changed people's way of life and written a new destiny for mankind.
For China, the current society is an unprecedented prosperity in China's history, the people are harmonious, the country is rich and strong, for the young generation born under the red flag and growing up in the new society, it will naturally pursue the pace of change of the times and conform to the trend of the times. They are significantly different from their predecessors in both their thinking and the acquisition of knowledge.
In the early morning of the Chinese streets, the most come and go are young people, who are both hedonistic and serious about their work, and they are more eclectic than the rigorous and serious personality of the older generation. When foreigners communicate with our eclectic younger generation, they will find that The original changes in China are not only in urban construction, but also in the thinking and character of Chinese.
So, we can imagine that when an American walks on a Chinese street at three o'clock in the morning, the first thing he sees is the city building reflected by the colorful lights, and then he sees every shop is brightly lit, the bustling crowd walks by him, the three or two tables of men sitting around the barbecue shop on the street are drinking and fisting, and the cleaners are sweeping the garbage in the corner, at this time, several young men come to him and say to him in English: "Welcome to China."
Such a scene is extremely shocking for every foreigner who has just come to China.
Why do Americans say that China is not terrible, what is terrible is the Chinese streets at three o'clock in the morning? It is because there is too much information behind this small scene of life, and the changes of the times in China are completely reflected in the Chinese streets at midnight. In other words, the terrible thing is not China, the terrible thing is that we Chinese, and the place where we have Chinese is China.
The streets in the early morning are a small microcosm of our Chinese society, with all kinds of people on the streets and full of various atmospheres. Here, foreigners can not only fully feel the Chinese culture, but also feel the changes brought about by historical changes to the Chinese people.
All kinds of people on the streets are also representatives of different types of figures in China at this stage, and the office workers who work overtime until late at night represent China's conscientious workers; the sanitation workers who leave early and return late represent the grass-roots forces of China to stick to their posts and maintain social order; the Hanzi who string on the barbecue stall represent the group of people who love life and are full of hope for life in China; and the young people who are active in the midnight streets give China new vitality and represent China's new hope.
It is precisely under the progress of this social civilization and the daily needs of life that Our current China is constantly overlapping and influencing, coupled with our Chinese clever minds and the spirit of self-improvement, so that China can have such rapid development and become one of the world's great powers.
Our country has put forward the slogan of "catching up with the United States and surpassing Britain" as early as a few decades ago, and we are now the second largest economy in the world, only subordinate to the United States, we have achieved "super Britain", I believe that with the joint efforts of all of us, "super-beauty" is also just around the corner.
After all, China's rise is the general trend of the world, and the speed of China's rise has also shocked the world, and all the forces that try to hinder China's progress will surely dissipate in the dust of history.