China's modernization: self-respect, and self-confidence

Deshaun 2022-04-21 09:01:56

In recent years, it has become a habit for everyone to spray Jackie Chan. In fact, in addition to "British Showdown" and "Baby Project" these years, I think "Kung Fu Dream" and "King of Kung Fu" are also good. The spray points for the latter two are mainly "foreigners come to China to flirt with girls", "how do foreigners understand China" and so on. Obviously, cultural conflict is a highlight of the film, and it is also the key to the film's "going out". Some Chinese people have begun to help everyone's self-esteem. The method is: the first step is to sit on the buttocks; the second step is to spray. Behind this self-esteem, is actually inferiority. It seems that Ding Minjun was stabbed by Monk Peng, so why would he be so angry if he didn't "feel unhappy all the time". If the protagonist changed his skin to a countryman or a fool in China who couldn't speak Mandarin, these people probably wouldn't care at all.

The century-old history of humiliation in modern China has erased the arrogance of the Chinese nation and damaged its self-confidence. Chinese food, martial arts lifestyle, traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese painting, traditional musical instruments, poetry, calligraphy, painting, ghosts and legends, China used to have too many things to be confident in. It's not good to be arrogant (there are still people who are arrogant, and they haven't come out of the first floor), but there is no need to feel inferior. What is modernization? Definitions in Western countries such as the United States. If we jump out of them, I think the nation that has gone out after integrating the spirit of technology and science has completed modernization. The Chinese food that has broadened the method, the Chinese medicine that understands the pharmacology, and the lifestyle that people pursue are all being modernized. Among them, the most successful is Chinese Kung Fu, and the second generation who brought Chinese Kung Fu out is Jackie Chan.

We would have thought that the United States had fully merged technology and scientific spirit and was far ahead in modernization. This year, I suddenly discovered that China seems to be approaching unknowingly: the United States is slow, and China is fast. China's sports, infrastructure, and digitalization have become new features. It is hoped that on this basis, the tradition and the modern will be integrated again: China will go out like Japanese comics, and Chinese food will go out like American fast food. Finally, let the world see the superiority of the Chinese system - not a demon, but another solution. Of course, you can be confident, don't be arrogant, this pit has been stepped on two hundred years ago. Self-esteem and self-confidence.

"Kung Fu Dream" is not deep, but broad. Chinese martial arts, pay attention to fighting, not violence (Lao Han compares Master Li); attach importance to attitude, everything is martial arts (hanging clothes); cultivate state of mind (better than "qi"), use stillness to restrain (snake learns people); win Respect, no more fear (unyielding against powerful enemies). He also mentioned friendship, not just himself.

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The Karate Kid quotes

  • Dre Parker: Mr Han's teaching me kung fu.

    Sherry Parker: The maintenance man?

    Dre Parker: It's China, mom. Everybody knows kung fu.

  • Mr. Han: Where is your jacket?

    Dre Parker: I was warm enough without it.

    Mr. Han: Go get it.

    Dre Parker: You want me to go all the way back just to get it?

    Mr. Han: Yes, all the way back where you hide it.