The Chinese culture

The Chinese culture

            The homecoming and other stories book written by Han Shaogong, many different themes are covered in the book to reflect today’s people living styles. For instance in the Rong Cai’s analysis of the book basing arguments on the “Pa, Pa, Pa” where language is the main idea. Han Shaogongs bases his writing on such themes as; the potential of Chinese culture, the lagging behind and the underdevelopment in china, evil of socialism and cultural revolution in china, Chinese myths, magical realism and others. The above themes are mainly based on the Chinese culture and how the culture works. It also covers the impact of the culture on the life of the people.

Potential of Chinese culture

Han is basing the argument on the present and past culture of china. The culture is facing a lot of challenges and many threats but struggles to fit. He is concerned with the continuation of the culture and also the importance the culture has to its people and even the surrounding. The other issue is the challenges and how these challenges are affecting the culture in the phenomenon if Chinese culture. He warns against the adapting of western culture by people from Hong Kong. These people are trying to adopt this western culture in terms of wearing clothes, transport modes and different life styles. He terms the Chinese culture as the best and wants to know whether the culture is affecting and disrupting the modernity. The Chinese culture has several importance to its people which may include the following according to the Han’s arguments; strengthens their believes, has a greater impact on the behavior performance of the people, preserves the history of the Chinese people and also enhances the relationship and togetherness among the people. This ensures that the people are really united to one goal and thus reduces the chances of conflicts.

The Chinese aims were to match with these fully developed countries. In order to achieve these certain goals the Chinese community has to adopt some practices from the specific countries. This is in support by Mao Zedong. This is what Han Shaogong is trying to fight in order to make sure that the Chinese culture is appreciated and highly respected. Alternative methods and procedures have to be improvised for the main purpose and aim of achieving these goals. At this point is when Han terms it as the occurrence point of Chinese Cultural Revolution. This is greatly seen in the urban areas as opposed to the rural areas. He emphasizes on the preservation of this culture as starting from the rural areas. This preservation of the culture is manifested in the adopting and making involvement in the local songs, dances and many other practices to strengthen their culture. He also talks on the importance of the local languages and how they should be put in action to emphasize togetherness. He says that the main way to improve and enhance the local cultural practices is only by being loyal to the community, practicing universal activities when it comes to cultural practices related cases.

There is still a very great relationship between languages, literally styles with the culture. This is seen in the phonetic script which is replaced with the Chinese characters of writing. This in turn leads to a very great impact on the Cultural Revolution. Many people are opposing this thinking that it can have a negative impact on the Chinese highly appreciated culture. This shows how the people are very concerned in preserving their local culture.

The lagging behind and underdevelopment

Some of the Chinese communities and some parts are lagging behind as far as development and economic activities and fairing is considered. Some of these places experiencing these lagging and underdevelopment include Shangzhou. To come to reality of the issues leading to this lagging in terms of economics and related activities certain areas have to be considered. These areas include the following; historical development, village life styles, evolution of the society, psychological thinking of mankind in the society, customs and many others including moral behaviors of the people. Some of these historical developments which will make advancements in economic development of the society include such activities and places which will attract tourists. It may also constituent instruments which mainly include those traditional or cultural based instruments. Any area lacking or with few of these instruments , activities and others will in turn lack this advantage hence has a low income from them. Any region will tend to its best ensure that these activities, instruments and practices are there to earn this related income.

In addition to this some life styles may have a great impact on the community development. Some styles of living will enhance this positively while others will totally have negative impacts on the economic development of the community. This may be in such cases as where the community is determined to produce products will be enough to make their living. This lack of motion to produce substance products which will be assumed as surplus earning will actually lead to poor economic development. This is largely influenced by the characteristics of the local people in the community. The evolution degree and manner of the society will also have some impacts on the development of the community. This is in terms of how the certain people of the community are responding to changes and adapting to new ideas of life. Han states that people should actually adopt those good ideas and life styles which will lead to community development and at the same time ignore those negative ones.

The thinking terms of the people also are a main factor in the societal development and enhancements. People should be a place to think appropriately and make those good decisions which will favor economic development has Han terms it. It is through this proper thinking that the people will also make and develop new ideas which will lead to more outputs. The moral behaviors of the people are another main factor which will lead to positive or negative impacts on the development situation of the community. In a community where people are well behaved many persons will tend and try as much as they can to invest in them. It is through these criteria the community will actually enhance economically.

Evil of socialism

In such socialism era in china as quoted by Han it is the activities such as those concerning productions were communally owned. The community consisting of its members owned these activities. Communally owned activities have their advantages and at the same time have disadvantages. Those evils resulting from this practice of socialism is what Han is talking about to make a clear image to the community hence showing them the best acquired from avoiding it. At the first place this practice is not effective due to the fact that when everyone is involved in the activities, some are weak while others are strong hence making the activity not to fair well if it was only allowed for those who are capable of carrying out the practice. This is well indicated by Han in the fact that when performing some duties men are capable of than women while in others the women are more capable than men. The other issue to consider is that of every individual has to be given duties according to the area of specialization of which in socialism is not followed. It will also tend to be difficult to control these activities which involve a large number of people.

As quoted by Bernard Shaw, in this practice individuals will be encouraged to develop personal attributes of their own. This greatly discourages and prevents growth of self-identity. This is well illustrated by a man who mistaken by another man because of taking place in the same activity in the story of Han Shaogong. This will hence in turn hinder self dependence and capability in expansion. This practice also hinders and subjects human rights in some cases. Such of these rights are the rights do your activities without anyone’s pressure. Under this system the concerned people are still having laziness in the conducting of activities. This laziness may actually result from the fact that they see that nothing belongs to them at all. These will in turn lead to poor performance in the carried out activities. This could not be so if the persons were independently doing their activities. This system is also expensive to some extent. This is so because it cost a lot of money to provide everyone with things that they need, and this money has to be available for prosperity and enhancement. This will lead to high taxation among the people. The citizens are having a poor relationship and dreams because they feel that nothing belong s to them.

Cultural Revolution

The writer writes simplistic narratives of the Cultural Revolution. Many members of the new generation are adaptive ton this Cultural Revolution. This is so due to various reasons of which some include the following; social cultural experiences, events and groups that lie outside their current culture, and chaos dominating the discourse of the Cultural Revolution. Due to this many people are   totally going opposite this Cultural Revolution taking place in the Chinese community. Some have personal while others have common reasons for this disagreement with the Cultural Revolution. The Cultural Revolution is to some extent focusing on Chinese history but not to its deep. This is what is making many people not to agree with it in order to preserve their culture together with their history. These people are trying to adopt this western culture in terms of wearing clothes, transport modes and different life styles. He terms the Chinese culture as the best and wants to know whether the culture is affecting and disrupting the modernity. The Chinese culture has several importances to its people which may include the following according to the Han’s arguments; strengthens their styles of living, has a greater impact on the behavior characteristics of the people, preserves the history of the Chinese community and also enhances the relationship and togetherness among the people of china. This ensures that the people are really united to one goal and thus reduces the chances of conflicts among them.

Some of these characters have close and a good relationship towards each other while others have got a poor relationship. Some are very respectful to their fellow characters while others are not. Some of those with the very best relationships are resulting from them having some common ties which may include similar religion, similar culture and other factors. Difference in the religion is causing poor relationship among the characters for this to be solved in an efficient manner the differences between groups should be first settled down and every religion recognized and respected. Several procedures are influenced by the recognition of every characters religion, culture and life styles and respecting them in common. This builds the sense of being to the characters hence enhancing their relationship and interactions.

The author stills conducts some research from forty different individuals. The aim of this research is to gather information on the understanding of the people as far as Cultural Revolution is concerned. Many of these people tend to lack good understanding of exactly what this event entails. This simply indicates lack of interest of the revolution among the individuals at all. The writer focuses his arguments on all that requires cultural revolution, its results, and even its impacts on the life of the individuals. At first this event is just taken as an art propaganda that is emerging among the people. This is so because many people don’t even tend to recognize the whole issue. This process will involve change from those activities that are not pleasing to the community as concerning certain cultures to those that will be acceptable in the community. The negative things that are concerned with the Chinese culture will eventually be left out and in turn the good activities and practices will actually be adopted. This is the main aim of this Cultural Revolution process. The other reasons as to why some of the activities in the Cultural Revolution may not be adopted are because some will tend to lower the productivity of the community. . Some of these historical developments which will make advancements in economic development of the society include such activities and places which will attract tourists. It may also constituent instruments which mainly include those traditional or cultural based instruments. Any area lacking or with few of these instruments , activities and others will in turn lack this advantage hence has a low income from them. Any region will tend to its best ensure that these activities, instruments and practices are there to earn this related income.

To some extend this Cultural Revolution is somehow based on the socialism aspect which is not totally the very best in community development. . At the first place this practice is not effective due to the fact that when everyone is involved in the activities, some are weak while others are strong hence making the activity not to fair well if it was only allowed for those who are capable of carrying out the practice. This is well indicated by Han in the fact that when performing some duties men are capable of than women while in others the women are more capable than men. The other issue to consider is that of every individual has to be given duties according to the area of specialization of which in socialism is not followed. It will also tend to be difficult to control these activities which involve a large number of people.

Chinese myths

The Chinese community has various myths which are associated to their culture and believes. Han in his book has covered many of these myths which the people of Chinese community have believes in them. The people are very strong in their believes and believe that changing them to adopt new believes is just wasting and disrupting their culture. Some of these believes are attached to their religion believes and other certain believes. They are very rigid in what they believe making it inflexible for them to change to new believes. They believe in the Buddhism as the source of inspiration. In any time they require any advice and assistance to conquer their challenges they go for worships to acquire it. They only believe that in the worship of Buddhism is only source of help and inspiration.

It is the Chinese community believes that peoples who are against the culture and believes of the community are cursed and are still not taken as the part of community. They are not supposed to involve themselves in the activities of the community. It is believed that everyone is supposed to support the community culture, believes and practices. The Chinese people have believes that for anyone to succeed he or she must be loyal to the community believes, culture and any other issues concerning the community. It is also their believe that anyone that has gone astray with the community culture and believes for them to be accepted in the community again certain rituals have to be conducted by the elders. This is done by making him or her to accept that he or she did wrong and has decided to apologize to be accepted back to the community.

The writer terms that the culture of the Chinese people to be of very much importance to the people and the community as a whole. The main aim of the Chinese people preserving and protecting their culture is to make their believes strong, preserve their history and at the same time protect their dignity. The culture is also used as a tool of identity among the people. This is so because people of different origin have varying cultural practices and believes. This is one of the communities that have actually protected and safeguarded their culture. The Cultural Revolution which is taking itself to the upper most level in the community is scarring to the people and hence threatening the cultural practices of their communities. This is what makes it not to be adopted in the community.