I and Christmas (say: professional manager Lin Cui XI and painter from MO) _ Zhang Xiaoping _ Sina Blog

(Lin Bai-Hee) <wbr> <wbr> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> Christmas brings me great harvest oral .�� Finnair the greater China region <wbr> General Manager Lin Bai Hui-although I was born in Finland, but grew up in China. </ b> </ b> 1956 parents came to China, then I was 3 years old. Father .in Beijing when foreign teacher, mother people art newspaper do translations. In 1970, when almost all of the students went to cuts in the Northeast, I am no one dared to "foreign children" in Beijing, became the idle unemployed youths, until four .years later received the request to return home to Finland Army military service notifications. I sat up from Beijing to Moscow International trains, bypass, Siberia, whole after seven days and seven nights, only to return to after a 19-year old - Finland. .The train speed to Helsinki, I saw the Church, the Parliament building, which was brought up in the well-known buildings on the photo, there is a very cordial feeling. FC April 1987, I went back to a life of 19 years in .Beijing, for Finnair established Beijing Office. And then has been working in China. Because of this special kind of experience, I can be in Western culture is effortless. Start early, Christmas left good memories. A this time, we will have a dinner .the Embassy. Not many people, some of the 20, but child less, so every Christmas I will receive a lot of great people. This is a particularly good harvest, so I am especially looking forward to the next Christmas. Remember my Special naughty .. One year for Christmas, I was around in the Ambassador's residence, in a room that was excited to find the "Santa Claus" - our Embassy employee Dan Bo, is wearing Santa Claus clothes. So I ran to the Hall shouting: "Dan .Bo is Santa Claus! "now every year at Christmas, the company will drop three days off, I essentially back to Finland home. 24 day and new year's Eve almost ceremoniously in China. Breakfast could hardly eat anything, nor to eat relatively simple, .the afternoon will be washed and a steam bath. And then five or six start will have a special dinner. Mashed potatoes, beet, salad, ham, salmon, small snacks and so on. After dinner, if with the baby, there is a .Santa Claus to give gifts. Of course, this is to be paid for in advance, and then tell the service company specific addresses and numbers, costs about 50 euros. Because the kids to bed earlier, so Santa Claus in six to nine and a .half this period presents proffered. 25, 26, going for a walk. 25 January at noon also will ask the parent to the home for dinner. However no Western Christmas Eve night's China Spring Festival Gala, for us, this is a family party. .In addition, we will have some religious ceremony, such as the night of the party have a 24 week 25, there are places of worship in the morning. For children, usually in the 10-year-old was really believe in Santa Claus, .then slowly awakening, often with a shattered feel, after all, the fairy tale world is particularly beautiful. But for children, the most important is the Christmas gift. They often begin in the month of November to the Santa letter, letter inside content mostly .say what you want. The letter to Santa Claus will allow parents to send is in fact parents come to see. Boys tend to want to car toys, games, girls tend to want things like dolls. They are bigger, you will get some clothing ., socks, lingerie, underwear, Walkman, records and things like that. Of course, children require great people often have a choice, not all met, but also gives them plenty of surprises. <wbr> <wbr> <wbr> (CUI .since MO) <wbr> <wbr> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> Christmas and youth romantic feelings for oral �� painter and critic <wbr> Merton Cui since I was born in Hebei shenze County, .1985 to Shaanxi University. </ b> These places are the Chinese traditional culture particularly deep place, I have a natural immerse. I am a master of science in engineering degree, and then to art history PhD, the last apprentice master fan Zeng, .Chinese painting, calligraphy, seal cutting, painting and other art, is a spiritual and cultural regression. But I grew up on the Western religious something had hazy feel. After the founding of the town of Hebei province, in the countryside, beginning to flourish .Catholic. My grandmother and mother are Catholic. For their part, religion is a simple, free up feelings and to look at. And so-called religious service is simpler, more help for folks to meet, chat between "social activity". In .1994, I went to Beijing to graduate school. Have time to play, in Wangfujing nearby church door saw a couplet: Appian civil and foreign monks, is the parent package macro-fun through ancient and modern. I originally named Cui macro-Hoon, .couplet, even with my name, this could be the idea of coincidence. But for Chinese youth, Christmas, festivals, more and those youth romantic feelings. One winter, CCTV to my school to organize an activity. In this event, I met a .beautiful girl, she was being CCTV internship. Activities finished, she said: today is Christmas day, we go to church! so we night run to the Xuanwu District churches to Christmas Eve. Remember the days: Church well-lit is full of beautiful .hymns ... We also contacted several times, but slowly lose contact. But those and feelings about the beautiful Christmas, but remain in the memory. Coincidence, I now father-in-law, is also a Christmas day birthday. So every year .for Christmas, our family gets together, get a big dinner, and then open a bottle of red wine to drink. This is a rare kind of warmth. My brother is a doctor, in 1997 and went to the United StatesCountries, and later settle .over there. His oldest son was born in China, the second son was born in the United States completely Westernization. Christmas is a great holiday, new year with us. Traditional culture is actually a national collective memory, but for young nephew, his memories .of the traditional Chinese are lost. He saw the moon bright at night, never before thought of Li Bai's poems, but Emerson's poetry. Christmas for them, is derived from the depths of the childhood memories of great happiness in. But my greatest joy in .childhood, is spent in his native country that one Spring Festival. A to the new year, we will have new clothes, firecrackers, so think special festive. New year, we'll follow the adults, sat squeaky babble cart, go to the .next one away relatives. Village next to the River Junction on the thick ice, the road is slippery when people have to get off to push; from the fifth to the fifteenth, the village also sing a few days. My uncle is Opera, also .played a role such as Qin Lotus seeds. Our children are run in trouble ... But in recent years, hometown Festival festive atmosphere is distinctly weak, sometimes even mess are too lazy to put up. Why Western Christmas will slowly be popular, but .the Chinese traditional Spring Festival has become increasingly tedious? this may and two levels of popular culture. Western culture, aesthetics, history and religion are the same, there are convenient forms and symbols to express. For example their religious crosses, but our Confucianism, .Buddhism and Taoism impression is false, no specific symbols. Any content must make use of certain forms and symbols to better communication, more loved. Beijing a few years ago has been prohibited shooting, I think it is a wrong approach. Now allows shooting, .this is a wise decision. Because like firecrackers, scrolls, and other forms, is one of the nation's collective memory. Now even the form are disabled, you let the traditional things how to continue? if you let the Christmas instead of the Spring Festival ., as our nation's collective memory, it will be very sad. <! - Body end ->.