Fang Wenshan gave a speech "A Nation Without Texture" at Peking University. What did he say?

Original article by Fang Wenshan: A nation without texture

I just returned from a lecture at Shih Hsin University in the suburbs of Beishi City this afternoon. The entrance to Shi Hsin University is very special, with a long tunnel. , the end of the tunnel is the campus square. The students in the Chinese Department of Shih Hsin are very cute and enthusiastic. As a creative school, they were indeed very creative and gave me some souvenirs (a key ring, a mug, a set of commemorative stamps, and a letter of appointment for a speaking engagement). , thank you very much!

I still remember my first campus lecture about four years ago. I was invited to share my creative writing experience with my classmates in the Chinese Department of Soochow, where the writer Zhang Manjuan taught. Over the past four years, I have given speeches in many schools, but almost all of them have been in lecture halls, conference rooms, or even auditoriums. Today, it feels very special to go back to a regular classroom with a blackboard on the podium to teach. In addition to today's Shih Hsin University, the schools that I remember include Soochow, Normal University, National Chengchi University, Culture and Normal University, as well as Jianzhong, Fuxing Art, Neihu High School, as well as Central University in Taoyuan, Chenggong University In industrial and commercial schools, most of these speech activities in colleges and universities involve giving speeches to clubs related to the Chinese department. In high school vocational schools, the whole grade or the whole school comes to listen to the lectures. In addition, I have also visited many high schools. I attended art camps, and was invited by other folk cultural groups to teach and give lectures. I went to Gengxin Institute of Culture and Education to teach, to the drama academy’s playwriting class to share my creations, and I also worked part-time at a cram school in a junior high school. Classes, and even lectures on lyric writing with songwriters signed by record companies, and participation in poetry lectures at the Reading Festival organized by Eslite, etc. There must be more than thirty speeches in total!

More than two months ago, I went on Teacher Zhang Manjuan’s radio program to promote a collection of poems. She told me that when the class in the Chinese Department where I taught graduated, she asked her classmates what they were doing. During their college career, what was the most impressive or particularly memorable thing in class? They all said in unison that the time I went to class was a very special memory for them. After knowing about it, I Really happy. I hope that for students who have taken my speech class, the encounter with me through speech in the world of poetry will be a vivid impression in your academic career and a beautiful memory in your youthful memory. In fact, the students in the school are very enthusiastic. After each speech, they take pictures and sign autographs. Sometimes you can see some students taking notes very seriously, but of course some people still doze off (I finally understand that the teacher is there when I am studying). On the stage, I saw the mood of the classmates when they were dozing off! Haha), here, I hope that the students who listened to my speech will gain something in your memory!

In fact, in addition to my own poetry major, the concepts and ideas I most want to share with you are cultural issues, whether it is architectural format, text form, national aesthetics, ethnic character, tradition Clothing, etc., the completely different cultural differences between ethnic groups, and the changes that must be carefully observed to know, are always very attractive to me. I am an advocate of anti-globalization and insisting on cultural diversity. Don’t tell me that we are in the age of the global village and there is no need to distinguish between us. You try to go to the UK, Norway, Italy and other countries and tell them that we are all the same. We are members of the global village, so please do not always discriminate against us to some extent in your mentality, or foreign workers from the Philippines, Japan, Thailand and other countries come to tell you that we are all people of the global village, so please let us Free immigrants come to Taiwan and work, don't rape us. Do you think the above things are possible? Doesn’t it mean that the era of global village has arrived? !

Culture, race, country, region and other things that are inherently different, there is no need to cover your eyes and pretend that everyone is the same. The reason why traveling abroad is attractive is that it is different. Regional culture, exotic customs, and completely different lifestyles attract you; for example, the dance of the Zulu people in South Africa, the voodoo religion in Haiti, the Taoist worship rituals, the Viking pirate legends in Northern Europe, the grassland scenery of Mongolia, and Henan Shaolin Temple in the United Kingdom, the British Museum in the United Kingdom, the Fighting Festival in Spain, the tea ceremony culture in Japan, Taekwondo in South Korea, Theravada Buddhism in Thailand, hip-hop music on the streets of New York, etc... (the list goes on). It is because of the existence of these colorful cultural assets in human society that the earth we live in is interesting, vigorous and dynamic.

Globalization should refer to the rapid exchange of information between countries, the convenience of commodity circulation between continents, and the cooperation between international organizations and regions. These strategic considerations and economic measures adopt the macroeconomics of globalization. Thinking and business marketing are absolutely feasible and necessary, but they are by no means cultural globalization, comprehensive Westernization (Westernization of course refers to European and Americanization, and the West is now a strong mainstream culture), regardless of food, clothing, language, architecture, art , and even the contents of festivals are unified into the same specifications. Such a world and earth will be a disaster!

But unfortunately, in Taiwan, whether it is the form of urban architecture, traditional costumes during festivals, or the national collective aesthetic standards, all need to be strengthened, because there is no sense that this place has any What cultural characteristics. When ordinary people consume goods, they pay attention to the material of the goods and the design of the clothes. That is to say, most people attach great importance to the texture of items. So what about the texture of people? What are the requirements for the overall aesthetic tone of the environmental appearance? How much do you know or identify with your own traditional culture? Therefore, when filming a movie, the funeral must be Western-style because it is more solemn and solemn. When filming a music video, regardless of whether the protagonist believes in Christianity or not, the wedding must be held in a church because it is more beautiful and romantic. The point is, weddings and funerals are festive. The form is really more suitable for presentation on the screen, and the picture has a certain aesthetic composition. This is an irrefutable fact. If we say that using the traditional European and American wedding and funeral forms to express local drama creations shows that we do not love Taiwan, then there are really a lot of screenwriters and directors in the theater circle who do not love the mainland or Taiwan. In Taiwan, the only ones who love local culture most are some gossipy politicians, because they talk about localization and love Taiwan all day long. The problem is that even a century-old country with landmark significance and cultural inheritance Small, they are unable to preserve or have no desire to preserve. In this way, the opposition city government team is actually no different from the ruling party authorities. For them, loving Taiwan is just a slogan of loving Taiwan and has nothing to do with the actual cultural construction. . At this point, I really want to love Taiwan with my speech and words!

Why is there no city council candidate in Taipei City who clearly puts forward specific ideas and political opinions on cultural preservation (try not to build as much as possible! How much can be preserved, in Taiwan, construction usually means destruction) ? If so, I will definitely vote for him. Walking on the streets of Taipei and turning on the TV, all you see are disgusting political slogans. Why do you love Taiwan? Love local! You can imagine that in the UK, when someone is running for a parliamentary representative, he only needs to shout that he loves Britain, and other political opinions related to municipal affairs can be ignored. Then, after being elected, if there is a problem with his ethics, he will Just shouting that the other party is suppressing English culture will be a thing of the past, and it may even be fine! You must have thought that there are no such good congressmen in the world, but wait... there is one in Taiwan! And the number of people is quite large. The point is not how there are so many people like this. The point is how there are so many people who think what he emphasizes is important and vote for him. Taiwan's democracy is very free, but it lacks basic literacy. Taiwan's fashion is diverse, but it has no aesthetic foundation. In a word, the people as a whole lack quality and are like cheap and quick products...

Just mentioned In fact, the speech content I prefer to engage in is on cultural issues. I have even thought about the topic of the speech. I am serious enough! It's called "A Nation Without Texture". This is a cultural concept that I talked about when I was interviewed by a magazine a few days ago. I think it's a very suitable topic for a speech. Well... Okay... let's just leave it at that. I'm not doing my job properly. I have written too many essays out of control, and I still owe a song debt and interview manuscript that I haven’t paid yet! Haha... let's talk about this issue some other day... (laughing)

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