What are the special cultures of Germany?

The American culture has penetrated into the hearts of people all over the world along with its economic strength; France is at the forefront of the global fashion industry with perfume, fashion and romance; Japan and Korea have evolved the tastes and preferences of the younger generation with their anime games and movie dramas; and even the old UK is taking advantage of the "Creative Britain" concept. Even the old United Kingdom is taking advantage of the "Creative Britain" campaign to rewash its conservative image. Even the old United Kingdom is reshuffling its conservative image with the "Creative Britain" campaign. Now, German culture, known for its tradition, calmness and seriousness, is also not willing to be left behind, and in addition to promoting its traditional trump cards such as music and philosophy as it has always done, it is also planning a new consumer culture with cutting-edge industrial and technological products as the main force. China is Germany's most important trading partner in Asia, and Germany's economic cooperation with China in recent years has been well intentioned. With this is not the most tourist appeal of the European countries to take the lead as Chinese citizens self-financed travel European destination countries, the people of the country close contact with the real Germany has also become possible. In? Hafa? has become the heart of the new middle class after the next wave will it be the turn of ? Hade? Read about its powerful new consumerism offensive, perhaps, we will find that ? Perhaps, we will find that HAD?

Scholarship

Goethe famously said: ? The Chinese are almost like us in thought, behavior, and feeling, so that we soon feel that they are of the same kind as we are, only that everything is clearer, purer, and more moral in them than in us. This poet's interest and feeling for China has always been very strong. Interestingly, the sage's intuition has been scientifically validated two centuries later: in 1995 a researcher at the German Institute for Sample Research commented on the proximity of values choices between German and Chinese residents in the results of a global civic-cultural study, and that Chinese and German popular cultures have followed the closest trajectories in the last 20 years or so of cultural change.

Indeed, China and Germany have deep roots. Cai Yuanpei, China's educational pioneer, came back from Germany to spread the idea of modern education modeled on the University of Berlin throughout China, while the scholars and revolutionaries of the early 20th century, though they mostly studied in Japan, learned from the technological and scientific culture that Japan had borrowed from Germany since the Meiji Restoration. Brecht wrote "The Good Person of Szechuan" more than a decade ago, and even the popular Chinese movie "Aesthetics"? Aesthetics?

The basics of how computers work? Binary? The German mathematician Leibniz, the inventor of binary, is also said to have been inspired by the I Ching.

In terms of learning, especially philosophy, we have never been students of Germany. From those masters of German classical philosophy and the rebel Nietzsche, China's fashionable youth found their way to talk about philosophy. And today, if you want to mix in the academic circle, or wearing academic clothes in the fashion circle, Weber, Heidegger, Habermas is the key words that must be borne in mind, whether you understand it or not is one thing.

Arts and Letters

Much the same is true of literature and art. With names like Goethe, Schiller, and Heine having aged, half-German Kafka being talked down to by shallow, petty youth, and Curtis? Today, the noble German literature is always on the back burner, and is only used as a sample for study by the Chinese high intellectuals. Fortunately, the name of Rilke, the poet, has begun to be on the lips of a small group of stylish but more thoughtful people, and you have to be able to recite it off the top of your head? What victory is there to be won, holding on means everything? and such Richterian aphorisms. Of course, it doesn't matter if you don't know any poetry, for example, who would put H?lderlin? Who, for example, would take H?lderlin's poem "Man, poetic dweller and laborer on the earth" as poetry? as a poem? Isn't that a real estate advertisement?

Cultural exchanges organized by the German embassy are much more formal, but often have themes that are highly prestigious, but of which the average Chinese has no idea, such as an exhibition of images by the master dramatist Bertolt Brecht, or an exhibition of neo-expressionist Imhmendorff's work. There are several popular books on the market about Bauhaus, the forerunner of modern design, but not many people really understand it. Instead, it is the German post-modernist art master Boyce's direct influence on China is greater, he seems to be responsible for the proliferation of various names of performance art in China, because this crazy Mr. once said, ? Everyone is an artist?

Elegant Music

Germany is full of musicians in addition to serious philosophers - Beethoven, Bach, Mendelssohn, Wagner - and if you can count them all in one breath it only proves that you've got too few of them. It is characteristic of our country to treat Western classical music as synonymous with elegance.

Listening to ECM has nothing to do with elegance, it's only related to alternative, and in recent years it has become a large part of the domestic petit bourgeoisie, bobo, as well as a lot of artistic young people's new favorite. In addition to jazz, ECM is also a blend of classical, experimental rock and folk music, for all the ECM produced records, ECM is its biggest style, refused to commercial, giving musicians full creative space. Enigma is also a German label that is popular among domestic pop fans, and the label is called Enigma. Enigma The Newage team hosted by German musician Michael Cretu, in Enigma full of mysterious mood of the music, both can vaguely feel the shadow of the classical serious music, but also directly feel the popular electronic orchestration; both can hear the minority tribes free and long chanting, but also be able to appreciate the church choir solemn and grand harmonies. In comparison, Enigma is much more popular than ECM.

Film

Berlin Film Festival? Golden Bear?

As we all know, Chinese films have been going global since the Berlinale, and after Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum won the Golden Bear in 1988, Ang Lee, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Chen Kaige, Li Shaohong, Xie Fei, Wu Zi-niu, Wong Kar-wai, Johnnie To, Jia Zhangke, Wang Xiaoshuai, and Yang Dechang have all appeared in Berlin, and they have covered a wide range of styles and genres of Chinese films. These Chinese filmmakers cover almost all styles and genres of Chinese movies. However, even Jia Zhangke admits that the Berlinale has too much of a preference for Oriental cinema, and I'm afraid that, apart from the personal interest of former Berlinale president de Harden, it has something to do with the fact that Goethe's intuition has a certain universality in Germany, even though, let's admit it, the Germans know very little about China.

In fact, the country's knowledge of German cinema is pitiful, and apart from the youthful, dynamic and stylish Run Lola Run, the average moviegoer has little idea of what German cinema is all about, let alone those heavy Germans: Herzog, Wenders and Riefenstahl. They are national treasures in Germany, but will always be a niche in China.

Study tours

There are two other ways the Chinese willingly give the Germans their silver, and those are traveling and studying abroad. In February, Germany became a destination country for Chinese citizens, the first European country in the Schengen Agreement to open its doors to China.? Going to Heidelberg to see the old city, tasting beer in Munich and shopping in Frankfurt? , what a fascinating dream, really soon to be realized. The German president said during his recent visit to China that more than 100,000 Chinese tourists have already visited Germany. This is an encouraging figure for Germany, but let's not forget that there are also international students in the home of Grimm's Fairy Tales who are looking for gold and spending money. To be honest, despite the fact that German schools don't charge tuition fees, which is a huge attraction for Chinese students, I can't imagine that a total of more than ***14,000 Chinese are currently studying in Germany, considering the difficult German language.

Luxury Cars

In addition to the high end of the arts and culture, Germany also makes high end cars. For example, Mercedes-Benz sedan settled in Beijing means that the level of national car consumption can ascend to a new level, for a long time Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, BMW and other German cars consistent mid-range and high-end strategy has been to the Chinese people's appetites. There is no doubt that even after the? Smash big Ben? Such pseudo-nationalism and irrationalism events, German cars are still the first choice of the Chinese people to buy a car. 20 years ago when the first Santana assembled in Shanghai when the line, may be every Chinese people did not think that today, the Germans calm style of its products in the bloodless car in the dark war, take away half of China's car sales.

The Germans trusted high-tech and heavy industry, another representative of the railroad, when the country is still for Japan to China to import the Shinkansen technology to ignite nationalist sentiments, Siemens subway has quietly occupied the urban hinterland of Shanghai and Guangzhou. And now the German president has successfully sold their maglev technology.

Beer

Beer is another of Germany's national treasures. German beer has been associated with China since 1903, when Germans living in Qingdao started brewing their own German beer. What's puzzling is that German beer now enters the Chinese people's daily vision, but only through occasional small German beer festivals held in some cities. Of course, nowadays in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, you can go to a small bar that specializes in German beer, have a couple of sips of German stout, have a chat, and maybe even have some ECM alternative jazz in your ears? A bar that sells German beer probably doesn't play Beethoven symphonies.

Soccer

Beckenbauer

Because of Schlapner, Yang Chen, and Xie Hui, the Chinese are starting to get close to German soccer, which used to be so popular, but if it still has its charms, it's only in the nostalgia of the over-30s. But if German soccer still has its charm, it only exists in the nostalgic mood of people over 30 years old, like Beckenbauer and Rummenigge, a group of soccer heroes are basically the old people's memory collection. German soccer has always been characterized by a tough and steady focus on defense, and the image of German players as iron men is another kind of simple German quality. In order to confirm this point, the German people who are good at logic use the counter-evidence method. Germany's "picture newspaper" once said: ? Beckham has to spend a long time in the bathroom every morning fixing his hair, a habit that only women usually have. Not to mention that Beckham wears earrings under the tutelage of his wife, Spice Girl Victoria, and even paints his nails pink!!!? But the nation apparently only recognizes Beckham from lifting the country? The country's only recognized Beckham from the days of the national? The Bundesliga has been the most important game in the history of the Bundesliga since the days of the Bundesliga, and it is always the Chinese that are the most important to the people, first Yang Chen, Xie Hui, and now Shao Jiayi.

? God bless them to play good soccer in Germany. In addition to growing our national prestige, it might also make us fall in love with German soccer again.

Cool

Despite the conscious vigilance of the Germans on fashion, the ever-stereotypical Siemens phone has started to go for the stylish, trendy, and alternative route in order to salvage its sales slump in China. Germans are either moderate, but alternative must also be alternative to the extreme. Sure enough, Siemens latest series Xelibri with the most fashionable and alternative advertising way to spread the unprecedented in all kinds of media above. Its target audience in China is said to be: people who appreciate fashion and technological advancement, no matter how old they are, they like to party, they like to dress up, they like bars and entertainment venues, and they want to live a fashionable life and work hard for it. Isn't that the definition of?So tomorrow?