Traditional and Modern Marriage in China

         In the past, according to traditional Chinese culture, marriage between men and women should be determined by their parents. Most young people had no choice to select a spouse. The purpose of marriage was to produce a healthy son who kept the family name alive. In modern marriage in China, however, young people should be free to choose their own marriage partners. The parents didn’t consider the sons or daughters who the couple produced. Even though there are a lot of changes from tradition to modern marriage, Chinese people have remained some advantage and perfect customs such as Chinese red.  Red is the Color of Weddings in China. In the past, a bride have to wear a red dress. Nowadays, most of brides still choose the red dress on a wedding ceremony. If the bride and groom choose the western wedding, the bride should wear white wedding dress. After finishing the wedding ceremony, the bride will wear the red mandarin dress or other red dress to toast with the groom. Maybe different areas, especial some villages, will have the different requests in China, but most of brides in wedding ceremony will have a happy, perfect and beautiful performance in a whole day.

My Favorite Movie Titanic

This movie is well-known for everyone, and it moved many people; I am no exception. The Titanic was called unsinkable ship, but finally it sank into the ocean. I saw Titanic in 1997 in my high school. The scenes of the sinking of the magnificent Titanic were truly frightening. I like it because two reasons. First, if you met some emergency events, you should keep calm. Then you would find a useful way to solve the problem. When ship started sinking, many people only knew crying, but Jack and Rose were trying to survival. Even though they fell into the ocean, Jack still encouraged Rose to find ways to have a life. Second, the best love is not only living together but also living alone. When Jack dead, Rose still alive. Love is not staying with each other anytime, and it is even he did not exist. Sometimes when I heard the song, my heart will go on, with my heart, I cried hopelessly. If I was Rose, what did I do? I respected Rose very much.” A sad ending, a romantic love story”, I think this is the best description about Titanic.

Hangzhou Lake

       In China, there are many interesting places such as the Great Wall, Hangzhou Lake, sea shore and Baiyang Lake. Today, I want to introduce Hangzhou Lake which is very beautiful, miserable, famous interesting place, and I have been to Hangzhou Lake three times. The most recent time when my family visited Hangzhou Lake was on April 12, 2015. The story of Hangzhou Lake came from an old myth, about a love story of a snake and a person, which happened in Hangzhou city about 659 B.C. I heard about Hangzhou Lake from a very moving, well-known TV play, the Legend of White Snake, which was very popular for everyone including children, teenage, senior. I liked the soft and beautiful White Snake very much. When I was a child and saw the TV Play about White Snake, I made a decision that I would visit Hangzhou Lake in future. The best time to Hangzhou Lake is February, April, October and December. 

Broken Bridge in TV

Broken Bridge in real life

The Third Language

At present, I am studying English in the University of Calgary. When I was in middle school, I begun to study English. I have learned English for 12 years so far, but my English isn’t so good. If you ask me which other language you’d like to learn besides English, maybe actually, I have no idea. In contrast to Chinese, English belong to western language system which is very different from eastern language system. Maybe the basic reason of causing the differences is the different culture. Therefore, if I have a chance, I probably will learn Korean. Why? Because my wife and I have decided we are going to travel to Korea in next year if we have spare time in common. Nowadays, I understand the Korea a little, so if I want to learn Korean, l will know the Korea culture firstly. Maybe, I will learn Korean more easily than English. I think language is a part of culture and the culture makes the language meaningful. I suggest if you want to learn Chinese, you must understand the Chinese culture.