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A brief discussion on Chinese people’s work and entertainment

Some people say that work and entertainment are enemies, or it should be said that more than half of the Chinese people always think so. But how to put it, in fact the two are not contradictory. Work is rigorous and entertainment is relaxed, but if it is always rigorous or relaxed, everything will become boring. The life frequency of foreigners is more active because they fully integrate and intersperse work and entertainment. This may be related to the country's national conditions and traditional thinking.

Chinese people are known abroad as "hard-working" people who work hard and make money. Usually you will achieve considerable economic results at work. But they actually live a more tiring life.

Chinese people are all workaholics. Because in the past, it was common practice in various units to use "hard work or not" as a criterion for evaluating a person's work ability or the quality of his or her work results. As for entertainment, for a long time it was limited to gatherings with friends during non-working hours or occasional outings. Monotonous entertainment coupled with boring work makes people feel even less passionate and motivated when working.

With the rapid pace of economic development, people's work pressure has become greater. The eight-hour work a day has become a heavy burden, and some people even work far more than every day. Eight hours a day. The fast-paced work frequency and heavy work pressure have seriously damaged people's health and happiness. The irregular expansion and contraction of the global economy has made these people who are shackles of work vulnerable. A large number of mental and physical diseases have begun to invade these young and middle-aged workers, such as depression, insomnia, anxiety... These seemingly insignificant diseases are rapidly and violently damaging everyone at work. If the human spirit is compared to a string, and the pressure of work is a big hand that tightens the string, when the string in everyone's heart is stretched to the limit, not to mention working, even living will be It's a very difficult thing.

As time goes by, while we are now following the pace of reform and opening up and integrating with the world economy, some of the more common entertainment work methods in the world are slowly being adopted by the new generation of Chinese workers. They accept and promote it.

For example, in some large enterprises, the "Happy Work Method" is more popular. For example, in mobile communication companies, before the daily morning meeting, a person in charge will lead employees to play some interactive games, sing songs, and tell small jokes, so that employees can happily start their day's work in an entertaining and relaxed atmosphere. . For example, the Haier Group took the lead in introducing the internationally popular "smiley face" working system, in which the performance of work is displayed as smiling faces, middle faces, and crying faces in different colors. Use this colorful little brand to replace the boring performance summary table to show the employees' work achievements in the past week. Let the originally boring work evaluation become a lively entertainment color.

For example, the country has now begun to implement the update of the long vacation mechanism into multiple short vacations and the implementation of "paid vacations" in order to change the conservative and dull life and work frequency of Chinese people in the past and allow everyone to go out. , let everyone get familiar with and get used to relaxing and having enough leisure and entertainment after work.

For another example, the currently popular "enterprise expansion" activities harmoniously combine the entertainment atmosphere with the work spirit in a great sense. Some specially designed mini-games allow employees to laugh while strengthening their teamwork skills, enhancing their self-confidence and stimulating the team's fighting spirit. Isn't this all preparation for the usual passion for work?

In addition to the collective entertainment activities organized by the company itself. Some special entertainment activities that people spontaneously carry out are gradually tending to cultivate and strengthen their own work spirit. For example, more people now give up the usual route of going home to eat and sleep directly after get off work, and choose to go out with friends to exercise, play ball, learn some boxing exercises, etc., so that they can completely relax their body and mind after a day's work, and can also Keep fit and recharge your batteries for the day's work.

And some various training classes are springing up, more and more appearing around us, foreign languages, musical instruments, these "second classrooms" are no longer the world of children, they are just the end of the day's work. People, according to their own interests and hobbies, enter a brand new classroom to recharge their knowledge, satisfy their own interests and hobbies, and make friends. Isn't that also laying a solid foundation for future work?

After decades, China's economy has been developing rapidly, and with the progress of reform and opening up, people's consciousness has become more perfectly and accurately aligned with international standards. In today's rapidly developed economic society, work and entertainment are no longer two extremes that do not interfere with each other. Go to work with the ease of entertainment, and learn to work while having fun.

Work and Pleasure

Is pleasure the constitutional enemy of work? If you ask Europeans or Americans, they will say no surely. But the answer in China may go to the opposition. To old Chinese people, industrious work is the way to heighten the life standard and to build new China. To most bosses in China, industriousness or not is the only mode to estimate their employees, and pleasure is the symbolization of idleness. So that, many foreigners believe that Chinese people are “workaholics”, and Chinese people have no pleasure.

It is true that pleasure are diversiform in Europe and America, and are bald and simple in China, such as, to have a little party with some good friends in non-work time, to have an annual journey, to go shopping. It is amazed that the most popular amusement is mah-jongg there!

Why pleasure is so different between occidentals and old Chinese people? The situation of a country and economic level could be the essential reasons. In the movement of reformation opening, China become more and more rich .And then, some Chinese people have more and more new ideas about pleasure, especially born after 1980 (80s). The few-pleasure situation is changing gradually. The 80s's viewpoints about relation between work and pleasure are uncommon and unorthodox. It may be said that rational, industrious, useful human beings are divided into two classes: first, those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and secondly, those whose work and p

leasure are one. The 80s belong to the second ones indubitably. For example, in the famous Chinese company-Haier, workers use “smile” cards to instead of old poor work report cards. The new “smile” cards have various colors and vivid expressions which from laugh to cry, and make work like a new kind of pleasure.

Nowadays, the government of China is paying more attention to the pleasure about the public. Since this year, more short bank holidays replace a long one. And in bank holidays some people also have salary. Consequently, the public have more choices and times in pleasure.

Generally speaking, like occidentals, Chinese people also know what they need and could integrate work with pleasure harmoniously in the high-speed developmental powerful China.