What will the English test be like in the future?

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  On the first day of the postgraduate entrance examination on December 21st, English for postgraduate entrance examination was on the hot search because it was "difficult". Coincidentally, on December 14th, CET-4 and CET-6 came to an end. A question about how to express "four generations under one roof" in Chinese-English translation stumped a group of college students and became the hot news of the day.

  "Can translate ‘ Four generations under one roof ’ Does that mean my English is good? Fluent dialogue is a good proof of English. " After the exam, a netizen left a message like this.

  How to measure English level scientifically? Since the examination was started in 1987, CET-4 and CET-6 have been accompanied by Chinese candidates for 32 years and become an important reference for the evaluation of social English talents. Although the results are objective, "unable to measure at the same level as foreign exams" is the main aspect of public opinion calling for its reform.

  On December 13th, the China English Proficiency Scale (hereinafter referred to as the Scale) completed the docking with the TOEFL test. Prior to this, IELTS, Preston and the scale completed direct docking. At the same time, the national English proficiency test in many places was suspended. What does this mean? When will the new test form "China English Proficiency Test" be published? The reporter interviewed Wu Sha, director of the Foreign Language Assessment Division of the Examination Center of the Ministry of Education, and Liu Jianda, the chief expert of the national foreign language proficiency assessment and a professor at Guangzhou University of Foreign Studies.

  1. Has the English proficiency test gone out?

  Reporter: The China English Proficiency Scale has recently released the docking results with the TOEFL test. What does this mean? Does it mean that China has taken an important step in the scientific nature of English testing?

  Wu Sha:The successful completion of the research on foreign English test docking scale is of great significance to promoting the international recognition of China English proficiency rating scale and promoting the openness and internationalization of foreign language education in China.

  To meet the needs of China’s development strategy in the new period and future social development, foreign language teaching and examination need to be more scientific and international. China, as the country with the largest number of English learners and test participants, will link the scores of international tests such as TOEFL with China’s ability standards, which will not only help China students and users better understand international tests and choose tests rationally, but also help other countries and regions in the world better understand China’s standards and students’ ability.

  Liu Jianda:If China English Proficiency Rating Scale wants to go out of China, go to the world and be accepted internationally, it must be connected with internationally renowned standards and examinations. China English Proficiency Scale can provide reference for English learning, teaching and evaluation in China, and it is a good way to let the world understand English education in China. Through the docking of English rating scale with other scales and exams in the world, foreign scholars can better understand English education in China.

  Since the publication of China English Proficiency Rating Scale, the R&D team has used different international and domestic academic conference publicity scales, and the Scale has also been widely recognized by scholars and experts at home and abroad. The development and hosting organizations of some mainstream scales and exams in the world have taken the initiative to connect their scales and exams with the China English Proficiency Scale, which also shows that the China English Proficiency Scale has a certain influence in the world.

  2. When will the new English Test be issued?

  Reporter: We have noticed that many local national English proficiency tests have been suspended. Then, when will the National English Proficiency Test based on China English Proficiency Scale come out? What is the current research progress?

  Wu Sha:The State Council’s "Implementation Opinions on Deepening the Reform of Examination Enrollment System" puts forward that to strengthen the construction of foreign language proficiency assessment system, the development of the China English Proficiency Scale and the development of English Proficiency Test are the specific tasks in the construction of the assessment system.

  Liu Jianda:The construction of the national foreign language proficiency assessment system includes five aspects, the first is to establish standards, and the other is to develop a grade examination based on standards. Now, the China English Proficiency Scale has been issued, and the design of English Proficiency Test based on the Scale has been completed.

  It should be pointed out that the National English Proficiency Test was conducted according to the international common norms and principles from the beginning, and the test developers have done a lot of research on the reliability and validity of the test, with the aim of making the National English Proficiency Test internationally recognized. After the development and maturity of the National English Proficiency Test, it is entirely possible for English candidates in China to use the scores of the National English Proficiency Test to replace some popular test scores in the world and make relevant academic applications.

  At present, the English proficiency test under development has only five levels, which is not one-to-one corresponding to the nine levels in China English Proficiency Scale. Moreover, the five levels are not aimed at students at any particular stage. English learners and users can voluntarily choose the exam suitable for their current ability level according to their own ability level. The overall design of the national English proficiency test, the development of all levels of the test is under way. At present, the development of the 5 th and 6 th levels of the test has been completed, and the development of sample papers and benchmark papers, the writing and demonstration of test instructions have been basically completed. Experts and scholars are building a test bank for related exams and have done a lot of test work. The relevant units are going through the relevant declaration and approval procedures, and the specific date of promulgation will be announced by the relevant units.

  3. Will CET-4 and CET-6 be replaced?

  Reporter: The reform of CET-4 and CET-6 has been called for. Will the National English Proficiency Test be connected with CET-4 and CET-6 in the future? Or will the new national English proficiency test replace the CET-4 and CET-6?

  Wu Sha:CET-4 and CET-6 have played an important role in promoting college English teaching in China for 30 years, and have also become a reference for social evaluation of talents’ English ability. In the new era of foreign language education development, CET-4 and CET-6 should also be integrated into the new evaluation system with reference to the new standards, so as to play a better role and better promote the reform and development of teaching and evaluation. Because there are many links involved in the implementation of the examination, it is necessary to make the existing examination smoothly integrate into the new system and reduce the inconvenience to candidates and society.

  Liu Jianda:Whether the English proficiency test will replace the CET-4 and CET-6 remains to be investigated and demonstrated by the relevant units. Because the reform of CET-4 and CET-6 will be carried out according to the concept of the Scale, and the English proficiency test is also developed based on the Scale, the two tests may have a lot in common, and it is not impossible to merge the two tests at an appropriate time in the future. However, it should be pointed out that the purpose of the English Proficiency Test is to test the English proficiency level of candidates, not especially for students at any stage. Any English learners and users at home and abroad can voluntarily sign up for this test.

  4. Can we use more tests in the future and reduce repeated tests?

  Reporter: Will the introduction of "Scale" play the role of multi-purpose in one exam and reduce repeated exams? How will it affect college English teaching and evaluation?

  Wu Sha:The Scale can help to construct a diversified and multi-level college English curriculum system. Colleges and universities can design courses that meet the needs of students and majors, meet the diverse needs of students, and implement personalized teaching according to the characteristics of running schools and referring to the ability description of relevant scales. According to the actual needs of our school, we can refer to the ability dimension and specific ability description of the Scale in terms of test design, grading standard design and student achievement feedback, so as to make the test objectives in teaching more specific and clear, the standards more consistent and the feedback more abundant.

  With the help of the Scale, students can make self-evaluation and mutual evaluation of their English level, diagnose their English ability, adjust their learning objectives and methods according to their actual situation, choose suitable learning materials, and participate in appropriate training or proficiency test.

  Liu Jianda:The establishment of "Scale" provides a basis for exam design, the compilation of exam content outline, and the optimization of question types, provides a unified standard for the formulation of grading standards, the report and interpretation of scores, and the judgment of whether the exam objectives are achieved, and provides a reference for comparing the ability levels of existing exams and making the results of different exams comparable (Council of Europe, 2001, 2018). Therefore, the establishment of the national English proficiency test based on the Scale is not aimed at the reform of a certain English test item, nor is it simply to adjust the existing test items. Instead, on the basis of the national unified English proficiency standard, we should sort out and integrate some existing English test items, improve the systematicness, scientificity and functionality of English test items, scientifically design new English proficiency test items, promote the communication and mutual recognition of learning achievements at all levels, and promote the coherence and order of English tests at all levels and realize ".

  Grade examination comprehensively examines the comprehensive language application ability, which can meet the diversified needs of evaluation, further education and employment, and can be used for multiple purposes and reduce repeated examinations.

  However, the Scale itself is not mandatory, and there are corresponding teaching outlines or guidelines for English education and assessment at all stages in China, which should be subject to. However, the Scale provides a coherent reference for all kinds of outlines or guidelines at all levels and provides the basis for the implementation of "one-stop" English education. At present, both Chinese and English versions of the Scale have been published, and the docking with the European Language Common Reference Framework and other international famous exams such as IELTS and TOEFL has been basically completed. However, the Scale needs to be continuously improved in practice, and the verification and revision of the Scale can be said to be a continuous work, and the corresponding scientific research work needs to be followed up from all aspects to make the Scale play its due role.

   (Reporter Yao Xiaodan)

Encouraged by her father, Li Yong’s daughter published the novel Miss Liu.

  Beijing Youth Daily News (Reporter cui wei) Fatimah Li, a 16-year-old Hui girl born in 2002, recently published her first novel, Miss Liu, through Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House. The novel was written in Chinese and then translated into English by Fatimah.

  Fatimah Lee is the daughter of Li Yong, a former CCTV host, and Ha Wen, a director and producer. The creative opportunity of "Miss Liu" is to listen to the love story of her mother, Grandma Fatimah, accidentally told by her mother Ha Wen. In the 1940s, Miss Liu was pursued by a Kuomintang officer, but eventually she married a Communist party member, that is, Fatimah’s grandfather, and then her family moved from the northeast to Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. It is a pity that Havin can’t know more details because his mother has passed away, but this simple sentence has aroused Fatimah’s infinite imagination. Fatimah, who went abroad to study as a teenager, said that she was completely unfamiliar with the history of China in the 20th century and had not experienced love and marriage personally. However, the 16-year-old post-00 generation felt very cordial when she wrote the story of her grandmother’s 16 years old. Of course, many details were invented in the book.

  The novel uses two clues to describe the love story of Miss Liu and my illness, both of whom are fifteen or sixteen years old. Miss Liu and Mr. two of a kind, who wears military uniforms, send letters to express their feelings, and my illness is tied to the words of a matchmaker in Montenegro, and they will stay together for the rest of their lives. When asked by my daughter why her surname was not Liu, I replied, "I don’t want to be the majority." Fatimah said that although he didn’t know China’s representative youth literature works, he also looked through them in bookstores. He didn’t like reading and writing campus literature, and he didn’t like flowery rhetoric and inexplicable sadness. In the process of translating the story of Miss Liu into English, when she feels bored, she will look at the English translation of Haruki Murakami’s works.

  This is Fatimah’s first novel, which was written with the encouragement of his father Li Yong. In July this year, she handed over the final version to Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House, which published Yong Yuan Yi in Li Yong. Before the editor of the publishing house sent this book to press, he also discussed with Fatimah to ask the three of them to do a live video broadcast of the new book launch remotely. Unfortunately, Fatimah’s father Li Yong will be absent forever.

  conversation

  Fatimah Lee: My father has no regrets when he saw my book published.

  Inspired by stories told by my mother.

  Beiqing Daily: The source of the story is the story of the elders told by my mother. How much is true?

  Fatimah: The inspiration for writing this book was my accidental discussion with my mother. My name is quite special, and when I talked about my grandmother’s name, I was very curious. When I asked how my grandmother’s name came from, my mother told me this story and suddenly wanted to write it down. The point is that the inspiration comes from the story my mother told me, but it is still a fictional novel in essence, because many plots need me to make up and think for myself.

  Beiqing Daily: As a teenager who went abroad to study very early, what did you use to supplement so many grounded scenes in the story? I heard that you have consulted a lot of materials. Can you tell me about two or three things that impressed you in the creative process?

  Fatimah: I didn’t go abroad until I was 13 years old. I grew up in Beijing, so I haven’t derailed from these things, but I know a little bit about them. As for the difficulties encountered in writing due to the age, the focus is still on, for example, the varieties and names of some cigarettes, what kind of furniture made of wood was popular at that time, and there is no channel to know now, so I just look up some historical materials on the Internet, which were imported in large quantities at that time.

  "Dad will modify my opinion in some details."

  Beiqing Daily: Did you show the manuscript to your father and mother? How do they feel?

  Fatimah: It doesn’t mean that they will take the initiative to read and review it. I will write a paragraph and if I think I like it very much, I will take the initiative to share it with them, and they will give some constructive suggestions. In particular, my father pays great attention to details and will give me some suggestions for revision in some details.

  "If you want to write, you have to write."

  Beiqing Daily: How to control a historical love story at the age of 15?

  Fatimah: I wrote it at that time, including now, which is similar to Miss Liu’s age at the beginning of the book. Except that the times are different, the feelings of mind and mood should be similar to some extent, so it is not very difficult to write it like this.

  Beiqing Daily: What specific words from your parents prompted you to write this book?

  Fatimah: My parents said, "You don’t always tell us your ideas, you have to write them if you want", so I thought it was time to write something.

  Beiqing Daily: A novel published at the age of 16 may be evaluated as immature in writing and connotation. What do you think?

  Fatimah: I accept everyone’s comments. After all, I’m really 16 years old, and I don’t have the mature and refined style of writing. I can change, after all, I’m only 16 years old.

  "Dad saw my book published."

  Beiqing Daily: What kind of girl are you in life? Are you more like your father or your mother?

  Fatimah: As for my personality, I may be a little more casual, sometimes more straightforward, which is quite similar to my parents. After going abroad, my independence has become stronger, but overall it is almost the same as before.

  Beiqing Daily: Did father see this book published?

  Fatimah: My father didn’t regret seeing my book published.

  Beiqing Daily: What books do you like to read? Or who do you think is more influenced by your style of writing?

  Fatimah: I just finished reading Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Forest, which is not limited to a certain writer or a certain style of writing. Personally, I prefer a more casual and free style of writing, which does not require flowery words. It is a spiritual communication between the author and the reader, either flowery words or good ones.

  Beiqing Daily: If you encounter problems, are you a girl willing to communicate with your parents? Is there anything that your father taught you that benefited you the most?

  Fatimah: My relationship with my parents is like friends. My family is more equal. I will tell them any questions. There is nothing I can’t say. They are very experienced, so I can learn a lot from them. What my father taught me is basically to do what comes to mind, and actions speak louder than words. Always act when it’s time to act, don’t always talk about it.

  Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter cui wei

[Continue to write more stories about spring and enter the national new district of special economic zones] Changchun New District: attracting investment is the "lifeline" of high-quality development.

CCTV News:"Insist on attracting investment as the" lifeline "for the high-quality development of the new district, and always implement ‘ The project is established, and the project is Wang ’ The development concept, shouldering heavy burdens and innovative measures, and paying close attention to the implementation of investment promotion have made outstanding contributions to the development of the province and the city. " Recently, Shi Yixuan, deputy director of the Bureau of Commerce and Foreign Affairs of Changchun New Area, introduced in detail the reform of the investment attraction system and mechanism explored by Changchun New Area in the cloud discussion of "Continue to write more stories about spring and enter the national new area of special economic zones".

Try first and deepen the reform of the system and mechanism of attracting investment. Starting from the reality, Changchun New District has continuously deepened the reform of investment promotion system and mechanism, and set up 14 investment promotion departments including the New District Bureau of Commerce. Focusing on the implementation of the goal of "specialization and precision", it has continuously innovated the investment promotion mode, strengthened the functions of investment promotion departments, increased the strength of investment promotion personnel, and established a investment promotion team of more than 130 people. Changchun New District has also formulated the Work Plan for Collaborative Investment Promotion between Investment Promotion System and State-owned Platform in Changchun New District, giving full play to the advantages of investment promotion system and state-owned platform companies in professional investment promotion, business investment promotion and investment promotion in parks, and further optimizing the stock of state-owned assets and incremental resource allocation.

Focus on leading industries and create an industrial ecology that promotes innovation with leading enterprises. Since the establishment of the new district, around the spatial layout of Jilin Province’s "one master and six pairs" industry, the strategic task of Changchun’s "four major sectors" has been implemented, and the leading industries have been enlarged and strengthened in an all-round way. More than 500 industrial projects have been introduced successively, and in-depth cooperation has been carried out with Bosch, Sinopharm Group, China Great Wall, China Resources Group, Huawei, Zhongxing Microelectronics, Fusheng Lear and other domestic and foreign top 500 enterprises and industry leaders, with the cooperation signing amount exceeding 3. While comprehensively promoting the building of the industrial chain of leading industries, the new district focuses on building the industrial ecology and improving the supporting functions of industries, and strives to promote the construction of industrial parks such as Changchun Beihu Science and Technology Park, Changchun High-tech Zone Automotive Electronics Industrial Park and Zhongbai Science and Technology Park, and build a brand of investment promotion in the park with professional operation, all-factor allocation and full service, and has settled in more than 1,000 small and medium-sized enterprises.

Focus on opening to the outside world and build an open cooperation platform. Organize relevant departments to simultaneously promote the infrastructure construction, port function improvement and park investment promotion of Changchun International Airport (dry port) and Changchun International Airport in accordance with the idea of "planning, construction, declaration and investment promotion" to realize the China-Europe train (Changchun — Hamburg) normal operation, promote the approval of the airport economic demonstration zone; At the same time, expand the domestic cooperation platform. Signed strategic cooperation agreements with 10 regions, including Hangzhou High-tech Zone, Tianjin Binhai New Area and Xixian New Area, established a normalized exchange and cooperation mechanism, learned advanced concepts, copied innovative practices, undertook industrial transfer and promoted enterprise cooperation through high-level exchange visits, attachment of cadres and activities. We will steadily push forward counterpart cooperation projects such as the new economic industrial park in Jizhe and Zhejiang and the "Jizhehui" joint incubation base.

Organize and participate in all kinds of major investment promotion activities to expand the popularity of the new district. In the Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, Bohai Rim and other places, special promotion conferences for Changchun New District were held, with the theme of attracting investment from biomedicine, advanced manufacturing and other industries, and invited industry leaders and well-known enterprises to participate in the conference to publicize and promote the development of the new district and enhance project reserves.

Gather enterprises in the region and establish Changchun New Area Federation of Industry and Commerce (General Chamber of Commerce). In order to give full play to the resource advantages of non-public enterprises and the intellectual advantages of entrepreneurs in the region, strengthen business investment, effectively introduce and promote major projects for local economic development, Changchun New District Federation of Industry and Commerce (General Chamber of Commerce) was established in April 2019. In the same year, in order to further accelerate industrial agglomeration and promote exchanges and cooperation between upstream and downstream industries, the Federation of Industry and Commerce led the establishment of four grass-roots industry chambers of commerce in Changchun New Area, including automobiles and parts, optoelectronics and intelligent manufacturing, biomedicine and health, incubators and industrial parks. At present, the total number of members of the New District Federation of Industry and Commerce and industry chambers of commerce has increased from 131 at the beginning of its establishment to 255.

Today’s New Year’s Eve, why not "30"? It changed to "29 years old" after a difference of one or two seconds, and it came back three years later.

The Spring Festival is approaching Shencheng with a strong flavor.
Today’s New Year’s Eve, I believe everyone is looking forward to a big dinner tonight. We have habitually called New Year’s Eve "New Year’s Eve". However, have you noticed that there is no "New Year’s Eve" this year, only "Year 29"?
In fact, this is all because our lunar calendar is "too reasonable".
Where is the New Year’s Eve?
Shi Kun, director of the Network Science Department of the Exhibition and Education Center of the Shanghai Planetarium, said that the solar calendar is the most commonly used in our life. In fact, it is more precisely the Gregorian calendar, or Gregory calendar. For example, January 1st of New Year’s Day, May 1st of Labor Day, October 1st of National Day, etc., all these festivals use the Gregorian calendar. The Gregorian calendar refers to the period of revolution-Tropic Year of the Earth, with an average of 365.2422 days a year.
The lunar calendar, on the other hand, is a combined calendar of yin and yang, and its month length is determined with reference to the apparent movement of the moon-the cycle of phase change. The moon’s cycle of "rain or shine" is called the new moon, the new moon is the new moon and the full moon is the hope, hence the name. The average length of a first lunar month is 29.5306 days (29 days, 12 hours and 44 minutes). Therefore, the number of days in the lunar month is either 30 days or 29 days, so there is a folk saying that "the big month is 30 days and the small month is 29 days". However, the arrangement of the big moon and the small moon is not arranged at regular intervals, but is completely decided by the moon phase.
We often say that "the lunar calendar is a traditional calendar in China with a history of thousands of years", but this statement is not accurate. Chinese culture has a long history, and there have been more than 100 calendars in thousands of years. The lunar calendar is only the calendar currently used, but it inherits the ancient calendars such as the summer calendar in terms of big principles and algorithms. The compilation of the lunar calendar stipulates that the first day of each month, that is, the "first day", is determined by the time when the "new moon" appears. This principle is called "the method of determining the new moon".
Accord to that compilation and promulgation of the lunar calendar drafted by Purple Mountain observatory of Chinese academy of science, "Shuori is the first lunar day of the lunar month", that is to say, the first day of each lunar month is Shuori. From "New Moon" to "Hope" and then to the next "New Moon", the period is about 29.53 days, so the calculated number of lunar months is either 29 days for a small moon or 30 days for a big moon.
Round counting, the lunar month is divided into 30 days and 29 days according to the size. If the twelfth lunar month happens to meet the lunar abortion, there will be no "New Year’s Eve".
Specifically, because it coincides with the 29-day abortion, the "New Year’s Eve" on the day before the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger in the upcoming lunar calendar has been "omitted".
There will be no "New Year’s Eve" in the next five years.
In fact, there are many times when the twelfth lunar month meets the abortion, and it is not uncommon for the twelfth lunar month to meet the abortion. There is no "New Year’s Eve" in the past 2013, 2016, and the next five years from 2025 to 2029.
Are there any rules?
"It is generally regular, but it seems that the regularity is not very strong locally." Shi Kun explained that it was because the moon, a satellite, was not small compared with the earth around which it revolved, so the orbit of the moon was not simple. It kept swinging, as if it were dancing a very complicated "waltz" between the earth and the moon. A lunar cycle averages 29.5306 days, but it is only average, which does not mean that every month is 29.5306 days. Similarly, the length of a lunar year may be 354 days or 355 days, which is not fixed (the probability of 354 days is higher).
If you don’t understand, imagine the extreme situation: if the new moon occurs at 23: 59, the number of days in the lunar month will be one day less; If the new moon happens at 0: 01, there will be an extra day. It is no exaggeration to say that a difference of one or two minutes can determine whether New Year’s Eve is "30" or "29".
The lunar calendar is so "reasonable", let nature decide everything!
Author: Shen Qiusha
Editor in charge: Ren Quan
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Jianning Experimental Middle School: Dragon Leaping and Tiger Leaping across New Year’s Day Fun Garden

Red Net News December 31 ST(Correspondent Peng Yixiao, Shen Yao) As New Year’s Day approaches, winter warms up and the atmosphere of the New Year becomes more intense. Following the rhythm of the year-end bell, on December 29th, Jianning Experimental Middle School held a Spring Festival Garden Party in the Year of the Dragon.
In order to attract "customers" better, the students made full preparations, worked in groups to design posters, carefully selected items and determined commodity prices. In a cheerful atmosphere, students can’t wait to set up booths, put up posters, and place goods. After some busyness, small colored squares appear on the playground, and everything is ready.
"Opportunities don’t come every day. You should shoot when it’s time to shoot!" Accompanied by shouting, the garden party officially began! A wide variety of goods are neatly placed on the booth, including all kinds of books, exquisite and lovely dolls, all kinds of stationery, and delicious handmade food …
The "small stall owners" are lined up in class, and there are a wide range of goods in front of the booth. In order to attract the attention of "customers", they show their abilities, some use "buy one get one free" to promote sales, some carry goods to promote sales, and some attract customers through fancy hawking.
In the lively trading scene, "customers" wandered between the booths and carefully selected their favorite items. They had a good bargain, with laughter, hawking and bargaining one after another, and they merged into a cheerful bazaar symphony.
The Youth League Committee of the school also took advantage of this activity to set up a happiness tree on campus. Students can choose their favorite postcards, write down their memorable memories in 2023, or write down their beautiful wishes to realize in 2024 and hang them on the happiness tree.
Small flea market, full of growth experience. Through this activity, students can experience the process of buying and selling, gain the happiness of labor, and also receive an education of love, so that love can be passed on in the New Year.
Jianning Experimental Middle School has always attached great importance to students’ all-round development, helping students to establish the consciousness of caring for others and cultivate the good quality of being helpful. Jianning Experimental Middle School issued an initiative of caring donation, and all classes responded positively, taking out part of the profits from the garden fair and donating them to those in need.
Be polite in the new year, and good things happen. Students feel the joy of the New Year in the garden party, but also thank themselves for their hard work in the past year, and wish everyone a happy New Year in advance in the happy atmosphere of the garden party.
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"The Ferry Man" moved Jia Ling Chris Lee Netizen: Christmas must see.

  The New Year’s romantic comedy The Ferry Man, which is produced by Wong Kar-wai and directed by Zhang Jiajia, will be released nationwide on December 23rd, 2016. Recently, the film released a preview of "Spend it with You", which not only included the close contact of Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Takeshi Kaneshiro, the gold medal ferryman, but also the tears of stars such as Jia Ling and Chris Lee, which made the netizens "enjoy themselves" and said "Let’s ferry together at Christmas".

  Tony Leung Chiu Wai Takeshi Kaneshiro’s golden sentences are frequently praised by netizens as "the ferryman knows me best"

  In the notice released before, the ferryman was full of skills and could go to heaven and earth to help the drowning man escape from the predicament. In the latest trailer, the ferryman is a master of golden sentences. The line "The safe distance between people is 122 cm. With the person you like, you will try your best to shorten this distance" is interesting and subtle. And "life is a game of constantly dying and constantly being reborn" has resonated with many netizens and even been regarded as the golden sentence of the year. Someone commented that "every time I fall into a trough and escape from it, I have a feeling of coming back from the dead. The Ferryman knows me too well." "I have had such a period, sometimes someone will spend it with me, and sometimes I have to go out on my own." Fans expressed their expectation to see the film as soon as possible, and "I miss those who have helped me, thank you and my ferryman" became a national topic.

  AB Sandrine Pinna has shed tears. Netizen "Let me stay with you."

  In the trailer, not only Sandrine Pinna, Jia Ling and Chris Lee, the drowning men, wept bitterly, but even Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Takeshi Kaneshiro, the "gold medal ferrymen", all wept alone, which caused fans to speculate on the plot. In the original novel The Ferryman, Chen Mo is the narrator and witness of the story, while in the movie, Tony Leung Chiu Wai plays the story between Chen Mo and He Muzi played by Du Fu. As a "good friend" at the end of Chen, the entanglement between Guan Chun played by Takeshi Kaneshiro and Mao Mao played by Sandrine Pinna has become an extremely curious part of netizens. When I saw the picture of the "ferryman" crying, many people wrote that "the ferryman is also a mortal, and no matter how strong he is, he will not be able to hold on." Especially when I saw Xiaoyu, played by Angelababy, fighting for the horsepower played by Eason Chan, they all tried their best and shouted "Let me stay with you".

  "The Ferry Man" National University Tour Students were moved to tears by talking about the past.

  Recently, Zhang Jiajia, the director of "The Ferry Man", toured the national universities and shared his story of "The Ferry Man" with thousands of students. Director Zhang Jiajia said, "The ferryman is to send people who are immersed in pain to the other side. Everyone may have experienced pain, so everyone may have been ferryman by others, or have been ferryman by others. This is why I want to shoot The Ferry Man." When I saw the trailer of The Ferry Man at the scene, the students in colleges and universities were very moved, remembering the story that they had been helped by the ferry man, and even shed tears on the spot. "Thank you, my Ferry Man" became a warm current, which spread rapidly in major universities. Students even counted down and waited for the official release of "Ferry Man" to be watched by a group.

  The New Year’s romantic comedy The Ferry Man was produced by Wong Kar-wai and directed by Zhang Jiajia. Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Eason Chan, Angelababy (Angelababy), Sandrine Pinna, Du Fu, Xiong Dailin, Dapeng, Masu, Cui Zhijia, Jia Ling, Li Canchen and Liu Yan co-starred, Li Yuchun made a guest appearance and Lu Han specially starred. The film will go all out on December 23, 2016, leaving all the frustrations in 2016 and entering 2017 with a smile.

The universe we live in is just a holographic projection?

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In the past few decades, with many of us spending a lot of time online, the real world seems to have become wider. However, in one field of theoretical physics, the situation seems to be developing in the opposite direction. In the past twenty years (although this article was written in 2009, it is still worth reading), string theorists have been discussing the view that the time and space we live in, including ourselves, may be just an illusion.Holograms produced by "some reality". And this reality lacks a key feature of the world we perceive: the third dimension. Professor Juan Maldacena of Princeton Institute of Advanced Studies has played a decisive role in the development of the idea of holographic principle. In the 1990s, Marda Sina proposed the first implementation.Cosmological model of holographic principle. Recently, he was interviewed by the author during his visit to Cambridge.
The holographic principle originated from one of the biggest scientific problems in the 20th century:There is incompatibility between general relativity and quantum mechanics..
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Einstein discovered thatTime and space are inseparable.He called the structure formed by the two space-time. His general theory of relativity points out that space-time itself willDistorted by a massive objectAnd gravity is the result of this distortion. It’s like putting a billiard ball on a trampoline, which will create a depression and make the nearby marbles roll into it; Similarly, massive objects (such as planets) will bend space-time and attract nearby objects by their gravity. According to Einstein, gravity is not something that propagates through space, but is caused by the geometric structure of space-time itself.
general theory of relativityThe main description isPlanets and galaxiesThe world, and quantum mechanics mainly focuses on the subatomic scale, that is, the basic particles that make up matter. At this scale, the mass is so small that gravity can be ignored. Quantum field theory is a quantum mechanical description of particle physics, which holds that elementary particles transmit force through messenger particles called gauge bosons:One elementary particle transmits force to another particle by sending some gauge bosons..
Figure 1. Huge objects distort space-time.
In the development of the 20th century, electromagnetic force, weak nuclear force and strong nuclear force are the four basic forces.Messenger particleAre all in the experimentBe observedYes. In order to maintain theoretical consistency, Einstein’s theory should also be able to be rewritten with similar messenger particles. Physicists willGravitational messengerParticles are calledgion(graviton), but we haven’t found its trace yet. Even more frustrating, tryingUsing quantum field theory to describe graviton meetinglead toinsignificance/meaninglessThe answer. Marda Sinar said: "Simply quantizing gravity is not feasible, which will lead to mathematical inconsistency. We need something new. "
So far, a much-anticipated new quantum gravity theory has not been discovered. A strong competitor isString theory, or "string theory family"-because string theory is actually a set of logically self-consistent.A collection of theories. The core point of string theory is to put the basicParticles are regarded as tiny vibrating strings.This provides a way for us to bypass the mathematical problems in simple quantum gravity. As a mathematical theory that has attracted many theorists with its beauty, the disadvantage of string theory is that it has not been given.A complete description of the worldMany physical quantities cannot be described yet. In addition, string theory has not been verified by experiments, and it can’t be verified in fact. However, it is string theory that provides Marda Sinar with a clue to solve the mystery of quantum gravity: regard gravity as an illusion produced by quantum holograms.
Figure 2. Quantum mechanics describes the subatomic world well.
The contradiction between general relativity and quantum mechanics will not bother most practical applications. What physicists usually study isLarge-scale worldHere it is.The quantum effect is not obviousOr a small-scale world, where particles are lighter and gravity has less influence. However, in a special case, the conflict between the two theories becomes particularly obvious: when a large amount of mass is concentrated in a small area of space, a black hole will be formed.. The gravity produced by a black hole is so strong that even light cannot escape.Therefore, when studying black holes, we can’t ignore the influence of gravity. At the same time,The small scale of black holes also means the existence of quantum effects.. Therefore, in order to explain the phenomena in black holes, we really need a unified theory of quantum gravity.
Black holes are the original holographic principle.Theoretical sources. They have a boundary that cannot be returned, which is called the event horizon. Once you cross this boundary, you will be sucked into the black hole and never escape. When you fall into a black hole, a lot of information will disappear with you. This information includes not only your DNA and one or two best ideas, but also countless combinations of blood cells in your veins and all the confused thoughts in your mind. However, in the world of black holes, things look much simpler. Classical physics assumes that nothing can escape from a black hole, and thinks that a black hole can be used only.Three messagesTo fully describe:Its qualityelectric chargeandspin velocity. Therefore, when you fall into a black hole, all the information needed to describe you will be sucked into these three parameters of the black hole-your fall makes the universe a little simpler.
Figure 3. A simulated black hole with the background of the Milky Way.
This reduction in complexity usually worries physicists because it violates one of the most basic laws of physics:second law of thermodynamics. The second law of thermodynamics shows that things will never get simpler. The total amount of information needed to describe a system is measured by a physical quantity called entropy. In classical physics, entropy is defined for thermodynamic systems, such as melting ice under the sun. Classical entropy measures the degree of heat (or energy) dissipation in a system.
However, energy is related to excited atoms (in ice, water molecules are arranged in a fixed lattice in order, while in liquid water, they move around), so entropy is also a standard to measure the disorder of the system. The disorder degree of the system is related to information: the periodic arrangement of water molecules in ice crystals can be described in one sentence, but for liquid water, you need to provide the exact position of each molecule, which involves a lot of information. Therefore, entropy is related to both thermodynamics and information.
The second law of thermodynamics shows that,Entropy will never decrease.. Under thermodynamic conditions, this means that the system will strive to reach the equilibrium state of complete energy dissipation. In the context of information, this means that things will not automatically become simpler. From the classical point of view, a black hole is not a hot object, and it is very simple to describe, so there should be no entropy. When you fall into a black hole, your positive entropy will become the zero entropy of the black hole, whichViolation of the second law of thermodynamics.
When this potential problem is noticed, some physicists can only accept the fact that the second law of thermodynamics may not be as basic as we thought. However, one physicist, Jacob Bekenstein, was unwilling to give up easily. In 1972, Beckenstein discovered the relationship between entropy and the properties of black holes discovered by Stephen Hawking. Hawking has been thinking about the horizon of a black hole. The event horizon wraps a certain space volume like an egg shell-it is a surface, and you can measure its area. Hawking has proved that,The horizon will never shrink.No matter what you do or put into a black hole, the area of the horizon will only increase, just like entropy.
Figure 4. The second law of thermodynamics paves the way for the holographic principle.
This analogy with thermodynamics was initially thought to be purely coincidental, but Beckenstein put forward a controversial explanation: "Beckenstein thinks you can putThe area of event horizon is regarded as a kind of entropy., "Marda Sina explained. "The idea was not clear at first, but when Hawking discovered that black holes couldquantity of radiant energy(now known as Hawking radiation), this idea became more clear. In other words, black holes are hot objects, so they must have entropy. "By combining Beckenstein’s original idea with Hawking radiation, we can calculate that the entropy of a black hole is indeed equal to the area of a black hole measured in a certain length scale-Planck unit. Because Planck unit is very small, soEntropy of black holeIs a considerable value. Although the black hole occupies the three-dimensional volume of space, its information content seems to be a feature of its two-dimensional event horizon.
You may think that black holes are very strange things, but physicists Gairal Us’ t Hofter and Leonard Susskind went one step further, and they considered those in ordinary space areas.information content. Whether it is the pages of books, neurons in the brain or photons transmitted through optical fibers on the Internet, information exists in physical form. This physical form involves energy. Since energy is equal to mass (recall Einstein’s E = MC), compressing information into a limited area of space is equivalent to compressing mass into it. If you try to put too muchQuality/information is compressed into it.You will get a black hole, so the information content in the limited space of non-black hole is limited. Hofter and Susskind calculated this limit, and found that it is measured in the same way as a black hole, which is measured by the surface area of the regional boundary.
Marda Sina said: "This may sound very simple and naive, but in all our other descriptions of the world, variables increase with the increase of volume. For example, if we want to describe the electromagnetic field in a space, we will divide the volume into many parts and describe the electromagnetic field of each part. " If you double the size of the area, you should also double the number of partitions, so the information required for your description should also be doubled. According to this intuitive idea, information should increase with the increase of volume, not with the increase of area as described by holographic principle. If the holographic principle is correct, then the three-dimensional method of our physics is wrong. We should be able to use a simpler version of physics, one that depends on area rather than volume. This leads to a puzzling question, that is, whether the third dimension really exists, or whether it is just an illusion, just like a three-dimensional image created in a hologram.
So far, no one has found an accurate formula to describe the two-dimensional version of physics in our three-dimensional world. However, in 1995, Susskind redefined string theory centering on holographic principle. Then in 1997, Juan Marda Sinar, who was only 29 years old, put forward a concrete description of the first holographic universe in history.
Marda Sina’s universe is not completely in line with the universe we actually live in: it is amodelA "toy" universe has its own complete set of physical rules. Because all the physical phenomena that occur in it can be defined by only.Physical theory on the boundaryTo describe, so this toy universe is aholograph. More importantly, in this universe, the problem between gravity and quantum mechanics has been completely solved: the theory defined on the boundary is pure quantum, which does not contain gravity, but the creatures living in it can still feel gravity. In this universe,Gravity is only part of the hologram illusion..
In order to understand the toy world of Marda Sina, we need to understand the world of map making first. In order to show the sphere on a flat piece of paper, we need to cut the sphere and flatten it, which will inevitably introduce some distortion. In the traditional Mercator projection of the earth, this distortion is the most serious near the poles. When you look at the map, Greenland looks as big as Africa, but in fact it is more than 14 times smaller. Besides, if you project the shortest path from London to Sydney on the map, you will get a curve instead of a straight line. On a map like this,A straight line does not correspond to the shortest path..
Figure 5. Mercator projection of the earth. The red disks actually have the same area, but their different sizes on the map illustrate the distortion of the map.
MC escher’s famous woodcut "Circle Limit III" shows a two-dimensional map of Marda’s Sina universe. Similar to Mercator projection, there are some distortions here. In escher’s map, the shortest route between two points is not a straight line connecting them, but an arc intersecting with the boundary circle of a disk at right angles.
Fig. 6. The Circle Limit III by MC escher. The shortest path is shown in white.
If you use this new metric to measure the size of fish, you will find that, contrary to their appearance, they don’t get smaller and smaller as they approach the boundary circle, but they are actually equal in size. Just as travelers walking on the surface of the earth will not realize the distortion shown by Mercator projection, people living in this so-called hyperboloid world will never notice any distortion in the size of fish. More importantly, in order to reach the boundary circle, the hyperbola must pass through an infinite number of copies of fish of the same size. In other words, it will have to span an infinite distance. For hyperbola, the boundary circle is infinitely far away.
Unlike a hyperboloid map, a "real" hyperboloid can hardly be drawn because it is severely distorted. Hyperbolic surfaces have what mathematicians call negative curvature. The small area of this "plane" looks like a saddle: along one direction, they look like the peak of a ridge; In the other direction, they look like the bottom of the valley.
For external observers like us, this strange two-dimensional world has an interesting feature: although according to new metrics, theirThe scope is infinite.But we can see their boundaries-this is exactly what we need to apply the holographic principle, which describes the interior of the space area according to the boundaries. In Marda Siner’s model of the universe, he used the three-dimensional simulation of hyperboloid plus the fourth dimension of time to form a model called anti-sitter space, which was named after the Dutch physicist William de Sitter.
Anti-de Sitter space is completely different from the world we actually live in.Where time and space are distorted in strange ways, but this does not prevent us from creating a set of physical rules for it. What you need is something.basic concept, such as elementary particles and forces, and the mathematical laws describing their interaction. Marda Sinar used a version of string theory to describe the physical phenomena in his model universe. As you remember, string theory includes quantum mechanics and gravity, so creatures living in Marda Sinar’s model universe will feel gravity in a way similar to ours.
Figure 7. A holographic universe
Marda Sinar’s key discovery is that the string theory describing the interior of the universe leaves a "shadow" on the boundary of the universe: you can define a quantum field theory on the boundary, so that every elementary particle in the interior has a corresponding particle on the boundary, and every interaction between elementary particles in the interior exactly corresponds to the interaction between boundary particles. Now you can completely describe it with the theory of boundary, for example, the action of throwing an apple inside. This means that you can even completely ignore the inner world without losing any information-this world is a real hologram.
From the point of view of quantum gravity, the key point is that the boundary theory is a quantum theory of particle physics that we are very familiar with, which is very similar to the theory used to describe the process of subatomic particles in nature. They only involve small scales, so they don’t include gravity. However, the quantum theory on this boundary can completely describe the mysterious quantum gravity theory in the internal world. This is the first time that we can completely describe a quantum spacetime.
So far, Marda Sina’s modelIt’s just a model. We don’t know whether the universe we live in is a hologram, and we still don’t have a consistent quantized description of gravity applicable to our world. The assumption of negative curvature in Marda’s Sinar model is very important, but our universe shows a slight positive curvature in the observation results. Marda Sina said: "We don’t know if there is a similar description in the case of positive curvature. People are exploring various ideas, but we don’t have a complete answer yet. "
But if it turns out that the holographic principle really applies to the world we live in, what will it mean? Does this mean that we and time and space are just an illusion? "Yes, you can say that we are an illusion or an emerging phenomenon," said Marda Sina. If we live in such a universe, then we are actually an approximate description in a sense. But this is not a new concept in physics. Take the lake as an example. It looks like a well-defined surface on which insects can walk. But if you look at it with a powerful enough microscope, you will find that there are molecules moving around and there is no clearly defined surface. For time and space, the situation may be similar. It is not clearly defined in absolute sense, but we are too big to realize it. Like insects on the lake, our eyes for observing the world are too rough to reveal the true nature of time and space. Ignorance is bliss. Although it is endless fun to discuss the philosophical aspects of things, from the perspective of daily practice, weWhether you live in a hologram or not may not matter.. "
However, for Marda Sina himself, does he really believe that the holographic principle is true? He responded: "Well, I regard this idea as a model, but it is a model that gives a complete mathematical description of quantum spacetime. Therefore, we should take it seriously until someone refutes it or comes up with a better idea. "
Author: Marianne Freiberger
Translation: K.Collider (
Revising: Xiao Cong
Original link: The illusory Universe
The translated content only represents the author’s point of view.
Does not represent the position of Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Lighting Store: First-rate original, second-rate movie

"Lighting Store" is a work that I am looking forward to this winter. The film is adapted from the work of the same name by Korean cartoonist Jiang Cao, starring Zhang Ruonan and Bai Yufan. The story tells the story of several people who meet by chance and are vaguely related in a residential building around a lighting store. Strange events happen again and again around them, and in the process of suspicion and temptation, the mystery of each other is gradually uncovered.
At present, although the score of the film on some social platforms is average, it has been released for a week and the box office is 140 million. It is considered as a newcomer director and a medium-and small-cost work, and its performance is quite good. Spoiler, it is impossible to give you a spoiler. Once this movie is spoiled, there is basically no surprise. I can only comment on this movie as a reader who has read many cartoons of Jiang Cao.
Poster of Lighting Store
First of all, I want to talk about Jiang Cao, the author, who has no formal education in art and painting, and was born in the literature department. Since he founded his personal website to publish his works in 2002, he has won many fans with his first-class storytelling ability and novel story setting. At present, there are many movies in Korea, such as Apartment, Fool, Pure Comics, Pain, Neighbor, 26 Years, etc., which are all adapted from his comic works, and this year’s hit Korean drama "Super Power Family" is also adapted from his original works.
"Lighting Shop" is one of Jiang Cao’s works, which is quite difficult to adapt. It came out in 2011, and it was not adapted until this year. In addition to this one after China bought the copyright, a Korean drama with the same name is also being filmed recently. The author guesses that our Korean colleagues probably scratched their heads when they adapted "Lighting Shop".
Why "Lighting Shop" is difficult to change? First, the multi-line parallel narrative method is inherently difficult. In addition, Jiang Cao’s constant narration, flashbacks and switching perspectives, coupled with the constant jump of the world of life and death, require readers to have higher concentration. Second, there is no absolute protagonist in the original work as the main perspective to take the audience into and understand the story because of the way of characterization of group images. Third, the style is mixed. The Lighting Shop begins with horror stories and urban legends, but the final ending is warmth and sadness. But for commercial films, the most important thing is clear genre. Therefore, to adapt the work, the genre needs to be clarified first.
Zhang ruonan plays Xu nian
Bai Yufan plays Zheng Man.
At present, in the audience evaluation of the China film version of Lighting Store, there have been some doubts about the film’s type and tonality, such as "opening romance film, middle horror film, and ending sensational film", such as "over-emotional and over-emotional", but objectively speaking, as a commercial film, the technical completion of the film is not bad.
Although it’s a debut, I checked the director Cai Er’s resume, and it’s a slow and steady journey from the scene to the director’s position. I think it has control and execution over the production process and technical standards of commercial films. It just happens to be the "genre drift" that everyone questioned. I think this new director has shown a good director’s strength. She can really shoot "horror" for you, especially under the limitation of genre and censorship, in the absence of real hard-core horror elements, it is not easy to create a horror atmosphere in a limited space.
And its "type is erratic", the problem mainly comes from two aspects. First, the first half of suspense and horror content and the second half reveal sensationalism, the type conversion is too large, and the connection is not smooth enough; Second, the horror of the first half of the original "Lighting Store" is much higher than that of this version of the film adaptation. Although many horror "famous scenes" in the comics were not presented in the movies, they still brought challenges to the audience’s viewing habits. Some viewers who are rushing to watch a romantic movie may be surprised at how I sat on the scene of a horror movie. The audience who are rushing to horror movies may be dissatisfied. How can you give me a sensational ending?
Judging from the adaptation of the China film, the screenwriter is committed to subtraction. In terms of characters, the film deleted many group images and supporting characters in the original work, and merged and weakened some people who were "too scary" for the China film market; From the scene, the story is also concentrated in an apartment and a shop, without many important scenes in the original work; From the narrative point of view, a young couple played by Zhang Ruonan and Bai Yufan is taken as the protagonist, and then with several supporting roles and character relationships, the story is started by the woman’s questioning about her neighbors, and the switching of perspectives is relatively few, returning to the more conventional drama narrative. From the conception, it greatly reduces some more complicated emotional treatment and social criticism in the original work, and returns to the more basic narrative of love and affection.
The first three points, in fact, I can understand, because this big probability is based on business decisions made by the market and review. But the fourth point, let the author feel more pity. Jiang Cao’s works, to be honest, are really "flattering", and Jiang Cao’s painting skills, I think few fans can say "excellent" by touching their conscience, but our teacher Jiang doesn’t eat by painting skills, but by stories, and more by insight into human nature and society.
In "Lighting Store", the description of emotion is a highlight and a sensational killer, but it is also about affection. In the original work, the middle-aged mother who can’t speak after death repeatedly takes off the light bulb at home, hoping to hint that the child will go to the lighting store to get the light bulb (the "light bulb" is similar to the setting of the "key" of resurrection). The mother doesn’t need a word, and the mother’s love has jumped to the page. However, in the movie, this setting with strong visual impact was replaced by a beautiful mommy. Ada’s interpretation was really good, and the paragraphs such as teaching children to use sanitary napkins were also very moving, but it was "vulgar" in setting.
Poster of Lighting Store
In terms of love, the "anti-armour girl" in the original works is a clue figure running through the whole comic book. She died for her boyfriend, and she spared no expense to save her dying boyfriend. The most unique thing is the ending of this love story. When she successfully sent her boyfriend back to the world, her choice was not like many love stories of the same type: sacrificing herself to fulfill her lover, and then she disappeared, but came to her lover and followed closely, putting a sad pure love story at the last moment. What the anti-armour woman said to the owner of the lighting store is very interesting. In the process of saving her lover, she is also awakening her lover’s memory. "He doesn’t remember me" is her most bitter pain.
Also in this story, in the other groups of characters, mother and daughter remember each other and depend on each other. The female lover stayed in the world of death for her lover, and she tried her best to save her lover, but her lover didn’t remember her. "Why can’t he remember me, he doesn’t love me", prompting her to transform from a victim to a "ghost" and pester her lover. At the end of the story, a female image who gave everything for love completed some kind of reversal and irony. However, in the movie, the love of the hero and heroine who bear the love line is much less, and it can be predicted almost step by step from the beginning to the end.
The core part of the original work "Lighting Shop" is the deep excavation of human nature and emotion. No matter how the film subtracts the narrative, characters and scenes, it should not simplify its emotions and ideas, turn the original profundity into vulgarity and superficiality, and turn the original shocking and complicated sigh into a cheap tear brought by MV pictures and sensational BGM. Again, to reiterate, the overall quality of the film is commendable from the perspective of the new director and the new team.
It’s just a pity to be an old fan of Jiang Cao. If this film is an original work, I may be more sympathetic, but it is really regrettable to make a second-rate film based on the first-class original work. In addition, in recent years, domestic film original masterpieces are hard to find, and there are many adapted works that buy Japanese and Korean copyrights. It is still difficult to see the adapted masterpieces. It can only be said that it is difficult to comment.
Year after year, the industry and relevant departments talk about "cultural export" and "Chinese dramas/films going out to sea", but interestingly, most of the copyrights that we have bought and imitated overseas are commercial types that cannot be filmed at home, such as: crossing, rebirth, terror, indulging in beauty …… we can’t shoot our own things, so others buy them or copy them.
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London football: Tottenham’s priority in the winter window is central defender, and midfield and striker may also be introduced.

Live broadcast on November 3, according to the analysis of London football, Tottenham’s winter window should reinforce three positions: central defender, midfielder and striker.

centre halfback

The priority of Tottenham Hotspur’s Winter Window is central defender. Romero and Van der Waen have performed well together, but they still need to introduce a new central defender. The team’s Summer Window has been rumored with Adala Biow of Fulham and Kelly of Bournemouth. Now it is necessary to consider whether Winter Window will sign in the Premier League or go to other leagues to find a target.

midfield region

At present, Tottenham Hotspur have enough midfielders, but due to the influence of the African Cup of Nations, they will lose Sal and Bisuma in January, and the return of Bentancur will bring great help. However, considering the situation of Sal and Bisuma, Tottenham may reinforce the midfield in the winter window.

vanguard

Signing a new striker in January may also be one of Tottenham’s priorities. Both Perisic and Solomon are plagued by injuries. Sun Xingyu also needs to participate in the Asian Cup. They need to add another striker. A striker who can play on the wing and in the middle will help Postecoglou.

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Ping-Pong Interest: Ping-Pong Love of Overseas Chinese Ping-Pong Players

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    For many people, sports is both an interest and a career. Among the American table tennis team members who participated in the Beijing Olympic Games, two Chinese players are like this. For them, playing table tennis is not only their own interest, but also their own career, which has achieved a perfect combination. First of all, the Chinese American table tennis player is Crystal Huang. This year, she fought in Beijing on behalf of the American table tennis team. Although she lost to a strong player and had a mediocre record, for her, her trip to Beijing has become an unforgettable experience. So, how did she get on the road of table tennis? What opportunities did table tennis bring to her life? Next, we approached Crystal Huang with a reporter from KTSF26 in San Francisco, USA.







Crystal Huang


    Crystal Huang, a native of Hunan Province, began to contact table tennis at the age of seven. At that time, the school teacher asked everyone who wanted to play table tennis, and all the students were interested. For gifted children, training activities include running and skipping rope. Her highest ping-pong achievement in China was just entering the school league.


    Crystal Huang never worked as a professional player, but worked as an accountant in the government department of Chang ‘an Town, Dongguan, Guangdong. In 1999, my family immigrated to America and took root in Los Angeles. At first, she worked in a computer company, and her ping-pong life began in America.


    Crystal Huang: At that time, when I went to work, I had very little money. I had nothing without a diploma. Later, a friend introduced table tennis, and they went to play, so did I. There were also many local competitions nearby, and they won many championships. Someone asked me to teach the ball, so I have been teaching it.


    Crystal Huang found that the racket in her hand made her regain her voice and her previous playing level. He once won the American doubles champion and mixed doubles champion, and came second in singles.


    Crystal Huang also hopes to do its part in raising the standards of the United States. At the end of last year, the California table tennis club was opened in El Monte, Los Angeles.


    Crystal Huang said that it is rare to find a professional table tennis court in the United States, so he decided to open this table tennis center to fill this vacancy, so that one player who loves table tennis can get together. A place to exchange skills.


    "The table here is a high-quality professional table tennis table imported from Germany, and the plastic floor is also specially imported from China."


    The club is full of table tennis. It has been open for half a year, with about 100 members and seven pool tables. It is usually full at weekends. Crystal Huang himself teaches the ball in the club and cultivates new blood, such as Huang Zihao, who started playing table tennis at the age of seven.







Huang zihao


    Huang Zihao, a table tennis player: "I learned from my sister Crystal Huang that her ball is a little more stable and very stable, so I will try my best to exercise my ball better."


    In addition to practicing and teaching, Crystal Huang spent the rest of her time taking care of club affairs, and her generous personality made her many friends on and off the court.







Chinese American table tennis player Wang Chen.


    For Crystal Huang, the field that table tennis has opened up for her is not only in the competition field, but also in the club and in the broad daily life. Next, I’d like to introduce another Chinese American table tennis player, Wang Chen, who also attended the Olympic Games in Beijing this time. Unlike Huang Yaoxi’s experience of practicing table tennis at a high level when he came to the United States, Wang Chen was already famous in the table tennis world when he was in China. She has won the World Young Women’s Championship and the World Women’s Team Championship. However, he retired and moved to the United States eight years ago. So what wonderful things did table tennis bring to her life in a foreign country? What kind of feeling and emotion did she get from table tennis?


    Table tennis talent was discovered at the age of 7 and entered the professional team at the age of 11. Wang Chen recalled the interesting experience of being selected by a PE teacher to play table tennis when he was seven years old in Beijing.


    Wang Chen, an American Olympic table tennis player: "Every class selects a few clever children, and the box is placed three or four steps away, and then you throw three balls. If you throw all of them, you are chosen, but few of them can throw all three balls, so I threw them."


    Under the coach’s cultivation, Wang Chen won a Beijing amateur children’s championship, winning a child two years older than her, and was later elected to a sports school, and joined a professional team at the age of 11, from which Wang Chen’s ping-pong career began.


    He entered the national youth team at the age of 13 and was elected to the national team at the age of 17, which was listed as the key training for young people. At the age of 20, she won the world young women’s championship in Tokyo and was regarded as the reserve force of China team. After waiting for the main athletes to retire, they will go to represent China in the World Series.


    The peak of Wang Chen’s playing in China was to win the team championship in the World Championship in 1997. Under the condition of rushing to retire, Wang Chen chose to retire one year later, at the age of 24.


    After retiring, Wang Chen, seeing her sister in New Jersey, USA, successfully established a new life and decided to emigrate.


    At first, Wang Chen worked in her sister’s fur clothing store and played some games in New Jersey. Some people also heard that a former China national team player came in the middle and asked her to teach the ball. At that time, Wang Chen was able to queue up for ten hours of classes one day and often came home after midnight.


    "I feel that I am prepared to eat this bitterness from the heart, that is, I am ready, I will no longer think that I am a world champion, and I can’t do anything, just waiting for others to praise me, that is, to start over. This is the feeling."


    When Wang Chen first came to new york in 2001, she had a soft spot for this city. What inspired her most was the spirit that if she worked hard, she could achieve success in this city.


    A year later, Wang Chen became attached to a Polish Jew who was captured by Nazi Germany in World War II. Under the guidance of Wang Chen, he played ping-pong five days a week and helped Wang Chen to open a ping-pong club named after Wang Chen himself here in Upper West Side.


    "When I came to new york, I felt that I grew up here, learned a lot, knew how to treat people, make money, know how to manage this club, and how to be a good wife. Everything happened in new york and new york."


    Yes, Wang Chen met her husband of the same age while playing ball, exercising and swimming at nearby Columbia University. The two are speculative in character and have a good marriage. They often discuss Wang Chen’s performance on the court, and Zhou Yue even helps to download the video of Wang Chen’s opponent for her reference.


    Zhou Yue (Mr. Wang Chen): "It’s worse to watch the ball than to play it. In fact, I think I’d rather not watch it, but sometimes, sitting at home, you may not be able to help it, knowing that she is playing at this time, and climbing online to see the scores."


    "I cheered for me during the World Series, and my voice was hoarse. This is involuntary."


    At the Beijing Olympic Games, Wang Chen didn’t reach the final and won the medal, but for her, being able to appear in the Beijing Olympic Games has already fulfilled her dream. Moreover, in Wang Chen’s present life, playing table tennis is just an interest and hobby, and running your own table tennis club is the key. I also wish Crystal Huang and Wang Chen, as well as other athletes, to find fun in their favorite sports and achieve their careers at the same time. Ok, we will broadcast Chinese stories for you later. Welcome to stay tuned.

Editor: Luo Xing