Xu Haina
Singapore is a modern country with a common life and multicultural symbiosis, but under modernization, people often worry about the living space of traditional culture.The most grand and grand festival of the Chinese are the Lunar New Year. The festival atmosphere in the community is strong. The shopping malls and supermarkets are also open.However, there are few young generations in these places.Either the old and elderly people who like to visit the city, or the couple with young children.I rarely see young people in their dozen or twenties go shopping.The most solemn festival of the Chinese is the opportunity for traditional cultural education.Why do some activities and some places not attract young people?
Not long ago, when I took my child to a bull cart with a strong atmosphere in the New Year, the child would leave after walking two small streets.I asked him why he didn't want to visit?He said that every year is the same and boring.This year is the sixth lunar calendar that our family spent after coming to Singapore. Except for the depression during the epidemic, there are almost no changes in the types of products of ox cart water pedestrian streets every year.
In the first and second year, he took him to the city, and he also had interest to choose some of the decibums of jewelry.This year, although the Chinese teachers from the school suggested that they go to the ox cart water, he was still attentive.
I said, if you don't like shopping, you can shoot the lights on the street.However, the chaotic and excessive dense lights cannot arouse his interest.In fact, those new year lighting, even I don't even think much beauty, how can I resonate with young people's aesthetic resonance?
This reminds me of the experience of taking him to some Chinese community activities last year.
Remember once, seeing the content of the party written on the promotional leaflet of a Chinese community, including folk music performance, poetry recitation, chorus, national dance, etc.The charm of leisure and entertainment activities.Unexpectedly, after the audience entered the attendance, the group began a large number of "leaders' speeches" and the mutual enthusiasm and awards ceremony between members of small group members, which made the audience unrelated to the group's embarrassing and boring.
Half an hour later, the child proposed to leave, and I didn't give up, so he asked him to be a little irritable.Finally, after an hour, the party entered the topic.But at this time, the child's patience has been exhausted. After reading a poem recitation, he couldn't wait to leave.After leaving the field, he asked me, why can't those people speak short?Why can't those award -winning activities be placed at the end or interspersed in the middle of the performance?Why can the party formally start after an hour after endlessly?I believe that the later shows are worth watching, but helpless can only leave regrets.
If the Chinese community does not abolish the consciousness of some bad habits and disadvantages, it is a bit difficult to spread Chinese culture to young people. At the same time, if the Chinese group does not have enough innovative ideas, it will be difficult for Chinese culture to be young people in young people.China Da Rings.
The lack of innovative ideas is difficult to shine
I remembered the "Faceless Jade Rabbit" incident at the entrance of Tangchengfang, a bull car in August fifteen last year.At that time, some people could not accept a rabbit without eyes, mouth and nose. They once accused the organizers of not knowing the traditional Chinese culture and the large -scale sculpture of the faceless rabbit.Who knows that the organizer is holding an art activity that attracts the public's participation, and eventually selects the best design by the public to turn the faceless rabbit into a cute jade rabbit.This activity is actually very innovative and can attract young people to participate.Moreover, "Faceless Jade Rabbit" itself is not as terrible as described on the Internet. Instead, it is stubborn and full of modernity and artistic.I think that inheriting the Chinese culture, I cannot let my thinking be limited to the word "tradition", but to think about what forming it is used to modernize.Only by abandoning stereotypes can you win the love of young people.
Recently, China has released a version of the new year's zodiac stamps. Huang Yongyu, the former famous "monkey ticket" designer, once again showed amazing handwriting, but caused controversy.Huang Yongyu designed a blue rabbit with red eyes, which subverted people's imagination of the Year of the Rabbit and the stereotypes of rabbits.Many adults say that they cannot accept such a "anti -traditional" rabbit, calling it a "blue demon rabbit".Interestingly, this only naughty rabbit has won the love of many children.I guess it is because the children's thinking has not yet been shaped, and the cultural shaping of "what should be rabbit should be like", so they do not need to accept cultural deconstruction and struggle.Good and evil.
should be given to young artists more tolerance and goodwill
I think, sometimes we might as well let our brain thinking "clear", and use children's unspecified eyes to look at the world again, maybe there will be different discoveries.If you can look at the world with this childlike heart, "faceless jade rabbit" may be tolerant of more people.
Last year, there were cultural events that received attention in the local area. A painting at the Midsummer Night Sky Art Festival of Bookstore "Yum!" Caused controversy.Some local visual artists drawn a painting that expresses the "full book" on the ground of Youshenglou, but the bookstore industry is dissatisfied and believes that it is like "books fall into the black hole".EssenceUnder such bad reviews, the artist had to make amendment.But some people think that this work is very creative.These books seem to jump out of another space, echoing the concept of Yum!
I think, regardless of the quality of the art itself, a tolerance and kind attitude will bring people a good impression, and it will attract more young artists to participate in the revival of this literary building.In fact, looking at the current Yum! It really feels like a sense of oldness.If you can't tolerate your concept, you cannot give some space for new things, and you will not inject some freshness and modernity, you will be more and more than the world of young people.This mall mainly based on Chinese books, Wenwan and art products may eventually fall into a historical and cultural symbol, a place that is far from the younger generation of life and is forgotten by the younger generation.However, if "activation" is good, it will continue to become a field of traditional Chinese culture inheritance. Those calligraphy, ink and ink, everything related to Chinese culture, still has attractive existence in itself.
It was also August 15th last year. The dance troupe of the Chinese Cultural Center present several performances in the Banhai Bay Garden. The scene was crowded, and people were convinced by the beautiful Chinese dance.The dance on the stage is not limited to traditional Chinese national dances, but also combines Indonesian dances and Thai characteristic dance.The people at the scene felt the national characteristics and modernity very intuitively.After the curtain, many young people rushed to take a photo with the dancer.
Also, there are many innovative works in the Singapore Chinese Orchestra, which gives traditional things with modernity, attracting many young people.I remember at a concert that expressed the friendship between Singapore and Hong Kong last year, the young performer Zheng Haozhang used the traditional Chinese musical instrument "Sheng" to perform many works that can both express traditional cultural characteristics and modern innovation.Even those who do not understand music, the whole performance will be heard, and I can't help but feel heart.My unsatisfactory child also enjoyed the whole concert quietly and attentive.Young people can realize the beauty and charm of this kind of folk music, so that they will consciously spread and inherit.
Therefore, whether a culture can be charm in modern diversified society, everything is related to the concept, and it has nothing to do with race.We need to get rid of some conceptual constraints and jump out of stereotypes to truly find a better way to inherit Chinese culture.
The author is the creator of the children's book, the former media person
