What is the difference between Chinese and foreign novels?

The West started relatively late compared to the Eastern culture, but between them, such as: Southern Europe and Northern Europe, Western Europe and Eastern Europe, that is, the United Kingdom, Germany, there are also internal differences, but the essence of the difference is undoubtedly the difference between Eastern and Western culture. First, it is the question of the relationship between righteousness and profit. Generally speaking, Westerners emphasize profit over righteousness, while Easterners emphasize righteousness over profit or both. Oriental consciousness is the word of righteousness first, the ancient Guan Yu is not exactly an uncompromising righteousness hero. It was also greatly appreciated by the people at that time, I think this is also due to the ancient multi-party thinking and caused by a cultural awareness. 5000 years of culture is also caused by this kind of heavy gift can not be ignored reasons. Relatively speaking, the short Western culture is more concerned about the interests, which is also the performance of realism, from the war of aggression against China and all the life of the West can be seen in their self-consciousness, can also be called not hypocritical, realistic style. Of course, this is only true for the vast majority of people in the East. In the East, for example in the life of the Chinese, modesty is a virtue, whereas in the West people don't know what to do with it. Most of the time, Westerners are willing to sacrifice their own righteousness for the sake of profit. Secondly, there is the question of wholeness and individuality. Orientalists emphasize wholeness and comprehensiveness, while Westerners value individuality. For example, Chinese medicine and Western medicine, Chinese medicine emphasizes the whole, Western medicine is different, from the point of view of anatomy, it attaches importance to the local in the whole. The difference between holistic thinking and individual thinking is also manifested in interactions. For example, in many reports, a Chinese man went to a Westerner's house for dinner, and when the host asked if he would like to eat Chinese or Western food today, the guest politely said, "Whatever." "Whatever the host wants." Westerners have trouble understanding such a response, and they say that when they hear the word 撍 beautiful 銛 they get a headache and don't know how to get it right, it doesn't work well. Deep down in our way of thinking, we think that guests following the host is a sign of politeness and respect for the host, but Westerners don't see it that way, and that's the difference. On the other hand, if a European comes to China and you ask him what he wants to do today, he will not say "whatever", but will clearly indicate his wish. Today, we will eat Western food, or eat Chinese food, while Chinese people tend to express less personal wishes, when our delegation visits, the foreign side to receive our delegation, the other side asked, what do you want to drink? If the head of the delegation said tea, the next few may also say tea. People wonder how one said tea, on tea, tea all go down. Thirdly, it is a question of seeking common ground and seeking differences. We Chinese always emphasize "harmony is precious", "the unity of mankind", etc., while the West is concerned about a variety of standard new say. When we thank each other for their hospitality, we often say things like: your country is beautiful, your people are very friendly, your hospitality is very considerate, etc. They think that they have traveled a long way from the East to the West. They think that if you have traveled a long way from the East to the West, don't you have any different feelings, so why do you always say the same three sentences? Later, when a delegation was leaving, apart from the three sentences, he said, "I would like to make some suggestions now. These people immediately listened very attentively, wanting to hear the suggestions made by the delegation before it left. The first suggestion was that I hope your presentation materials could be translated into Chinese. The second suggestion was that you could cook this beef a little bit more badly, as the blood was too bloody to bear. The third suggestion was that you should have a better understanding of Chinese history and culture. They felt particularly good to hear different opinions. They said, "We will definitely do what we can do, and if we can't do what we can't do, we know what you guys like. Fourthly, it is the difference in the way of expressing feelings between the East and the West. On many issues, there are differences between China and the West. I bet Westerners will not be able to understand "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai", and the biggest problem here is the difference between Chinese and Western cultures, which results in two different ways of expression: the delicate and subtle expression of love by Chinese people and the direct expression by Westerners. In ancient China, the lady of the house must have been unimaginable to Westerners, not to mention the "male supremacy" and the ancient family law and other fettering ideas. Fifthly, there is often an intentionality in the way we think. They are a kind of intuition. For example, we like to use innuendo in some of our writings or in our lives, or to speak metaphorically about the past and the present. This kind of implication requires you to realize, so to speak, which is not quite the same as the intuitive nature of Westerners. For example, in Mr. Qian Zhongshu's comparison between Western and Chinese culture, he talks about the strengths of Chinese poetry, which is much more meaningful than Western long poems, even though it is only a few dozen words long. But for Westerners, it is something very deep and difficult to understand. That gray song is vague and connected to the exact. This is what the average Western reader thinks characterizes Chinese poetry. Keats famously said: "The music that can be heard is beautiful, but the music that cannot be heard is even more beautiful. It is also often answered with a question, a question for an answer, a question without an answer, leaving you with unlimited visions and imaginations of what follows. Educational differences caused by two different cultures have created two different educational systems. Extremely sharp contrast reflects the children in two different cultural backgrounds, first of all, the Western education, from the system to the implementation of policies are nearly complete, a batch of children are very good to receive advanced education, the only defect is that in this case, some of the students developed a lot of extravagant habits, but also to a certain extent affect them. But we have to admit the fact that their educational environment is simply better than China's, and their main body is too much to cultivate the children's self-competence and quality, which is also the place that my humble servant appreciates more. From the hour to exercise their own life ability, in the international summer camps obviously see their children than ours to be much stronger. I think this also has a certain environmental factors. In comparison, China's quality education is not always perfect, in addition to environmental factors, I think one of the most important reasons is that the background of Chinese culture is too deep, it is difficult to change this tradition. What's more, China's quality education overemphasizes the cultivation of test-taking ability and often neglects the cultivation of ability and the improvement of self-competence, which fundamentally causes Chinese students to have a high level in international competitions, while their lives are far from being as good as others. There are many students in China who are dissatisfied with education, and this also reflects the two levels in one way. I think that the two different education systems do not indicate which is better or worse, it is just a product of two cultures and social systems, they have their own good and bad, we should learn from each other's good aspects, so that education is well developed in different lands. Causes of Cultural Differences Mr. Zhou said, "China is a land-based civilization, while the West is a sea-based civilization." This is a very reasonable statement. One is that the East and the West have taken different paths of social development, and that China's long agrarian society and small peasant economy have resulted in the national psyche of our continental culture. This mentality is characterized to a large extent by an emphasis on a kind of native love, a kind of neighborly love. Don't we say that there are four great joys in life? When a long drought meets sweet rain, when one meets one's old friend in another country, when one spends the night in the bridal chamber, and when one achieves the title in the gold list. In the West, "meeting a friend from another country" must be very indifferent. They will not be very excited if they meet a fellow countryman in a foreign country, whereas our overseas Chinese have many hometown associations outside the country, whereas Westerners generally do not have hometown associations. We often talk about our local hometowns, and even about the fact that one side of the soil nurtures another side of the people, and so on. All these have a lot to do with our long-term agricultural society. There is also the idea of returning to one's roots, which carries with it a strong sense of love, an element of love that is very weak in the West. Another is that China is a multi-ethnic country with a history of 5,000 years. The historical origin of traditional Chinese culture is the culture of Confucianism, which is the main school of thought, and the schools of thought of the Hundred Schools of Thought, which are also included. One of the characteristics of this traditional culture is a qualitative way of thinking that emphasizes the whole, which is very different from the empirical way of thinking of Western culture that emphasizes individual parts. The West is primarily a Christian culture. In the Confucian philosophical system, the emphasis is on cultivating one's body, aligning one's family, ruling the country, and pacifying the world. The first is to cultivate oneself first, that is to say, moral culture; Western philosophical thought emphasizes the analysis, which forms the difference of focusing on the overall thinking or individual thinking, respectively. Chinese and Western cultures have many differences and disagreements, and many of these customs have given rise to many jokes. However, the same point in different cultures is that these are the cultural development of mankind, these differences between the East and West culture can not say who is better and who is worse, this is the objective formation of their existence will certainly cause the continued development of human culture, in today's world, any nation or country can not lose or get rid of their traditional culture. Therefore, the imposition from the outside or internal defection is not conducive to the development of the country and social progress.