Can China Automobile Design Change the World? Geely automobile seizes the commanding heights of the industry

In the new era of electrified and intelligent automobiles, the international competitiveness and influence of China automobile enterprises are constantly improving. In order to promote the transformation from China manufacturing to China creation, China needs to create a brand-new design discourse system with its own characteristics.

On December 6th, the 10th Anniversary Forum of 2023 International Automobile Design and Geely Design was held in Shanghai. Dozens of influential figures covering production, learning, research and media were invited to attend and discuss with Geely how "good design has the power to change the world".

"Design is crucial. Design is not only an important reference standard for consumers to choose products, but also a key factor to determine product quality and the core competitiveness of Geely Automobile. " Yan Jiayue, CEO of Geely Automobile Group, said so.

According to reports, since its establishment in 2013, Geely Design has taken it as its responsibility to promote China’s independent automobile design in the new era. From "Damei China Car" to the rise of China’s independent design, to "Geely Yinhe" taking the lead in creating a new paradigm of China design in the era of smart electric. Geely constantly drives China automobile to climb the value peak again and again with its design, which affects the trend of automobile design in China and even the world.

Among them, Geely Yinhe E8 is the way out for Geely’s design-not compromising the existing conditions, constantly fighting against the entropy increase of design, and finding a beautiful order in the disorderly pattern.

Liu Ning, president of China Industrial Design Association, said: "We are very happy to see that it is an outstanding representative of an independent brand like Geely who is developing into a smart electric travel and energy service technology-based enterprise with global design competitiveness and influence, and constantly winning the recognition of the international community and global consumers."

Facing the opportunities and challenges of the times, China’s automobile design must change from single-point breakthrough to system capacity improvement. As Liu Ning said, "The design of new energy vehicles in China is not only the design of a single model, but also the design of the whole system, the whole value chain and the whole industrial chain".

If China’s automobile design wants to establish its own voice in the world, it needs to cooperate with all parties inside and outside the industry to participate in the promotion. The independent brand represented by Geely will promote the deep integration of Industry-University-Research, cultivate the future new force of China automobile design, and run out of the "acceleration" of independent training of talents.

In this forum, Geely Design, together with China Academy of Fine Arts, released the White Paper on China Automobile Design Discourse System (First Edition) in the field of automobile design in China, aiming at exploring the forward-looking thinking of China automobile design theory and system construction under the great changes. The release of this white paper has supplemented and improved the research system of automobile design in China, or it will become a landmark stop in the design history of automobile industry in China.

This year is the tenth year for Geely to explore the road of design. In the future, Geely Automobile will continue to contribute to the "good design" proposal of the world automobile development process and lead the industry to a new height in the development of the global automobile industry.

Fashion is superficial, but maybe it shouldn’t be so superficial.

Many people believe that the way they dress expresses their unique personality, but in fact, they are only highly in line with the sales needs and brand positioning of the capitalist fashion system. "

This passage comes from Enlightenment of Fashion. The authors of the book, Agnes Rocamora and Annike Mo Like, hit the nail on the head-her views are not new, but they are indeed in line with reality.

Like many things that look beautiful, the fashion industry seems to have made great strides in recent years and penetrated into the lives of most ordinary people, but this may not be the case. (Photo/vision china)

People are not only easy to get lost at crossroads, but also easy to lose their eyes in the process of pursuing fashion. Looking around, the elements of the trend are so crowded and similar. If the whole fashion industry had trampled presbyopia on the soles of their feet yesterday and thought it was a pedantic aristocratic class or a blind choice of the nouveau riche, presbyopia would have regained its crown overnight and become a symbol of elegance and eternity.

So, what are people chasing after?

Marx believes that fashion will become a symbol of a person’s social status whether it is artificial or not, and this symbolic meaning can be a means to create social identity and impression, and it can also "make people find their place in society".

Marx believes that fashion will become a symbol of a person’s social status whether it is artificial or not. /Figure ·unsplash

This thinker from Germany once lamented the importance of a coat to his academic research, and even played a decisive role. Otherwise, Das Kapital would be out of our reach. After all, "the reading room of the British Library is not accessible to anyone in a bad street, but a man without a coat is here".

Elegance is out of date.

Christian dior wrote in his notes: "Without elegance, women are left to blindly pursue fashion."

Now, elegance is not so important, it is just the core of the old world fashion circle. Nowadays, people put a lot of out-of-date fashion goods on their bodies and declare their taste with a bunch of repeated letters. When the navel dress is popular, it is hard not to see the belly button on the street; When the over-the-knee boots were hot, the knees disappeared without a trace.

Christian dior wrote in his notes: "Without elegance, women are left to blindly pursue fashion." /Figure ·unsplash

Like many things that look beautiful, the fashion industry seems to have made great strides in recent years and penetrated into the lives of most ordinary people, but this may not be the case.

Nada van den Berg, author of The Power of Fashion, believes that the last decade or more is a period when the fashion circle has become mediocre. On the one hand, some talented designers have died, some have lived in seclusion, some are at a low ebb, and some are hard to achieve much; On the other hand, due to the role of social media, a group of street designers with basically no connotation went out overnight.

This part of the designers intercepted individual factors in the master’s works and amplified them, which gave birth to a batch of explosions and directly affected the high-end fashion brands that were known for their classics and elegance in the past.

October 5, 2021, Paris, France, Paris Fashion Week 2022, Louis Vuitton brand show. (Photo/vision china)

Nada said that this phenomenon reached its climax with Virgil Abloh, the designer of Off-White, as the design director of men’s wear at Louis Vuitton, which caused great controversy. Although Virgil has passed away now, his influence on fashion is extremely profound, and it is hard to say whether this influence is good or bad.

For a long time, Virgil’s design ability has been questioned in the industry, and many designers who are trained in the class disdain him. Some people prefer to call him a "genius marketer" because he knows the aesthetics and needs of the public so well that he gives up an important principle as an artist, that is, leading.

In recent years, the fashion industry seems to have made great strides and penetrated into the lives of most ordinary people. /Figure ·unsplash

Obviously, Virgil chose to cater to the public, which also made Off-White one of the most famous street brands in the world. Along with it, there are also trend brands Vetements and Yeezy, three street brand giants, which have triggered many "earthquakes" in the fashion circle.

Before this, luxury brands and street trend brands were incompatible, but now, luxury goods have become "unrecognizable", and they no longer act as the leaders of ideological trends, but began to pursue these street brands. When Louis Vuitton chose a street brand founder to guide men’s clothing around the world, the trend of grassroots counterattack was revealed.

Virgil’s design concept was also questioned. In the speech of Harvard University School of Design in October 2017, Virgil talked about his secret of success: "Change the classic design by 3% and it will become my work." In fact, the "3 Percent Approach" is Virgil’s most important design guiding principle.

In the past, luxury brands and street fashion brands were incompatible, but now, luxury goods have become "unrecognizable". /Figure ·unsplash

On his design list, plagiarism has become a major factor, and he has been deeply involved in plagiarism for many times. The cooperative chair with IKEA looks like twins with the classic chair designed by American designer Paul McCobb; Virgil’s shoes designed for Louis Vuitton look like Air Jordan’s own son. In its Louis Vuitton Spring/Summer 2020 collection, it is difficult for people with good eyesight to tell the difference between the metal logo-linked blouse and the spring/summer women’s dress released by YSL” 2008 except that one letter is LV and the other letter is YSL.

In a broader sense, the current fashion is dominated by designers like Virgil. In them, fashion is short and perishable, and the transmission of symbols is vividly displayed.

Nada is obviously disappointed with this. She believes that by constantly creating explosions-although this partly reflects some characteristics of this era, the design without connotation will continue to repeat the story of popularity and disappearance, which will only kill their barren design concept and eventually lead to nothingness in the whole fashion industry.

Nada believes that by constantly creating explosions, it will eventually lead to the nothingness of the entire fashion industry. /Figure ·unsplash

Numéro’s reporter once asked karl lagerfeld which of Virgil, Jacquemus (founder of the eponymous fashion brand) and Jonathan Anderson (fashion director of Luo Yiwei) would choose to spend the time with him in the desert island. Lagerfeld’s answer is-I’d rather commit suicide.

Lagerfeld’s answer undoubtedly added a trace of sadness to the fashion circle of this era. Nada believes that we need talented designers like Rei Kawakubo, McQueen and Yves Saint-Laurent to create a new paradigm.

In the 1970s and 1990s, there were many masters in fashion. Under the background of social thoughts, philosophical thoughts and drastic political and economic changes, the fashion circle as a part of the cultural framework is full of stars. Those clothes that create a paradigm will never play with letters like today’s fashion clothes, or play some boring erotic edge balls, and there will be no terrible sight of thousands of clothes. At that time, it was the time to create masters of art, and now, it is the time to create marketing guru.

The 1970s and 1990s were the times to create masters of art, but now, it is the times to create marketing guru. /Figure ·unsplash

Supreme created money empire with seven letters and a red background, and artists rushed into the gold mine of street brands one after another. Together with online celebrity, stars, designers and crazy consumers, they created a consumption myth with endless co-branded money-this is Virgil’s favorite, and his nickname is "co-branded madman". When black and white stripes (Off-White signs) appear on Rimowa suitcase, this suitcase is not just Rimowa, and the extra money spent by consumers is used for the factory to buy black and white paint.

From bottom to top

Fashion is superficial, but maybe it shouldn’t be so superficial.

For more than a century, top-down has been corrected to bottom-up, that is, the more civilian, grassroots and street things are, the better. Of course, things in the upper class are good, but it’s best not to say them, which goes against the so-called political correctness law all over the world.

May 17th, 2021, Beijing, 2021 China International University Fashion Week, works exhibition of Beijing Union University Art College. (Photo/vision china)

But are street and civilian things really the best? What we need to distinguish is whether its goodness comes from itself or from our paranoia. On the other hand, nowadays, all the fashion brands have become identical multiple brothers, from the outline, color matching, letter arrangement to the selling price figures. What is the problem? This situation has also affected luxury brands. Compared with the past, the differences between Louis Vuitton, YSL and Gucci have narrowed dramatically.

All these phenomena point out that the cultural attribute of fashion is collapsing.

Today, the public is undoubtedly the aesthetic leader, designers cater to them, and capital is more open to the public’s preferences. But we have to understand that the aesthetic standard of the public is always based on another public. This kind of nature of being keen on convergence doesn’t even need a brain. People will brainwash themselves. If he wears it, she wears it, and they are all wearing it, then this thing must be good. But when the industry caters to this trend, the result is that the fashion circle may really need to be saved.

"Culture" with One Word and One Interpretation (Interpretation of Chinese Studies)

A picture represents a culture.

What is culture? Writing is "recording, expressing and commenting", while culture is "analysis, understanding and tolerance". The characteristics of culture are: history, content and story. Many philosophers, sociologists, anthropologists, historians and linguists have been trying to define the concept of culture from the perspective of their respective disciplines. The above is a slightly official interpretation. I only interpret the word "culture" from a personal point of view or a biased point of view. Culture is root-seeking and positioning!

The second generation of grandparents and grandchildren read Disciples Rules.

Searching for roots means knowing where you come from.

As individuals, seeking roots means knowing who our ancestors are, and then we have some traditional clan genealogy. Who are our parents, grandparents and great-parents? I have been looking for it all the time. In the past, some people said that this person is well-rooted, well-born, and there are no unscrupulous people in the clan for three generations. He is a reliable person. What I am talking about here is his origin. Some big families have also formed their own clan culture. For example, Zeng Guofan once left a 16-character proverb: "If you are frugal, you will prosper, and if you are diligent, you will be healthy; Be diligent and frugal, and never be poor. " Manage the family by frugality.

Zeng GuofanI have always asked my family to live frugally and stay away from luxury. When he met aristocratic men in Beijing who were blindly extravagant, corrupt and profligate, he refused to let his children live in Beijing. His original wife has been leading her children to live in their hometown in the countryside, and the plaques of "Xiangfu" and "Houfu" are not allowed to hang outside the door. Zeng Guofan demanded that "we should be honest and frugal, and swear not to send any money to our families." My wife has no spare money at home, and cooks and textiles herself.

Diligent in learning. In addition to "frugality", Zeng Guofan’s other requirement for his children is "diligence". Zeng Guofan insisted on writing letters to his children, correcting poems for them and discussing various problems in his studies and life. He wrote to his son, Ceng Jize, asking him to dress neatly after getting up every day, to greet his uncle and uncle first, and then to clean all the houses before sitting down to study, practicing 1,000 words every day.

Zeng Guofan also urged his family to keep studying every day, and drew up a strict study plan for the whole family many times: "My family’s men are indispensable in reading, writing and writing. Women are indispensable for clothing, food, coarse (work) and fine (work). "

Attach importance to family education. Zeng Guofan had three sons and five daughters, and his youngest daughter, Ceng Jifen, lived to be 91 years old. In 1875, Ceng Jifen married Nie Jia in Hunan. Zeng Guofan stipulated that each daughter’s dowry should not exceed 200 taels of silver when she gets married, and there is also a homework list written by her father. Zeng Guofan wanted to train his daughter to be a diligent housewife. In fact, her daughter did better than her father expected.

A good clan culture can make a family flourish, as well as a nation. The nation is talking about history. China has a long history of 5,000 years. China people are honest, hardworking, brave, simple and intelligent, and there are many cultural classics handed down, such as the Book of Changes, the Tao Te Ching, the Analects of Confucius and Mencius. All dynasties pay attention to cultural inheritance, and all dynasties pay attention to the compilation of historical books, such as Zi Zhi Tong Jian, which we are familiar with. For this inheritance that we should criticize, we should take what we have and give up, publicize it well, and abandon what does not meet the needs of contemporary society. China is also known as the country of etiquette, especially Confucius has always emphasized the rites of Zhou, and people pay attention to etiquette when they communicate with each other. The younger generation should salute when they see their elders, and the lower level should salute when they see their superiors. Confucius has always emphasized benevolence, righteousness, propriety and wisdom, including the wisdom of the sages. If we don’t pay attention to inheritance and study, we won’t know our own culture. Then you don’t know your position.

As a country, it also needs cultural orientation, such as the 24-character socialist core values: prosperity, democracy, civilization, harmony, freedom, equality, justice, the rule of law, patriotism, professionalism, honesty and friendliness.

Culture is positioning.The Tang Priest has a classic sentence in Journey to the West: The poor monk Tang Xuanzang came from the Tang Dynasty in the east and went to the Western Heaven to worship the Buddha for Buddhist scriptures! This sentence illustrates the problem, always know.Who are you? Where are you from? What are you doing? Where are you going? This is positioning.I’m Tang Xuanzang: I’m invited by the king of Tang to learn from the scriptures. My mission is to learn from the scriptures and constantly beat myself. I can’t complain about the superior king of Tang, the imperial court or bow to difficulties. At present, some Chinese people, as Chinese people, complain about the country all day, especially abroad, and forget who they are. Eating China’s water and food, instead of cursing the motherland and cursing mothers, such people are called unfilial descendants and forget their roots, but if they are also like this abroad, their nature will change, that is, the scum of the nation will become fake foreign devils. Especially in today’s epidemic, some clowns are jumping up and down and gossiping.

The word "filial piety" is from the old to the child, and the younger generation should honor the elders.

where i was from?The word "filial piety" is interpreted in Shuo Wen Jie Zi as being obedient to the old. Performance is inheritance, inheritance, and the premise of inheritance and inheritance is recognition, and recognition contains the meaning of respect and affirmation. Personally, we should recognize our parents, that is, respect and affirm their advantages, and our lives are subject to their parents, so we should know how to be grateful; The traditional genes of parents should be recognized, such as hard work, kindness and other good things, of course, they should be critically inherited and objectively evaluated, and they should be divided into two and not go to extremes. A family is like this, and so is a country and a nation. Don’t always scold your mother, you are not filial, and the luck of unfilial people is not much better! Because some genes in your parents come to an abrupt end on you, denying your ancestors, and your soul track has changed. . . . .

When it comes to filial piety, it means recognition first, and recognition at its peak means worship, and worship means reverence. China’s gods are all human beings, such as Fuxi, Guan Gong, Zhao Gongming, Yue Fei, etc. If we worship Guan Gong because of his loyalty, our fate will only change if we become such a person. Of course, more people pray for Guan Gong to protect and take care of themselves, because he has skill and he is a god, but the prerequisite for this kind of god to bless you is that you need it. We worship Guan Yu, and more importantly, we should straighten our mentality, learn to let go and become loyal people. When we worship a bodhisattva, we learn to be like a bodhisattva, learn to help others, and there is a saying that helping others is actually helping ourselves. The ancients paid attention to helping others and helping themselves. What kind of person you worship must be, so it will work, otherwise you can only be given a sentence: don’t burn incense at ordinary times, cram for the Buddha’s feet temporarily. Buddha can’t help you if you don’t do a good job in the early stage and worship Buddha temporarily.

Guan Gong pays attention to loyalty and righteousness.

Culture includes a lot of contents, too. Culture is condensed in the material and dissociated from the material. The history, geography, customs, traditional customs, lifestyle, literature and art, code of conduct, way of thinking and values of a country or nation that can be passed down are endless. Let’s stop here today! If you are not finished, please leave a message in the comments section!

Focus on nature-based cultural programs

The Forbidden City in Beijing is a world cultural heritage site. In 2022, on the east side of the Forbidden City, a small ecological green space began to be built against the wall. Covering an area of 150 square meters, the "Jianting Green Space" recorded a total of 37 species of designed planting plants, 42 species of autogenous plants and 29 species of animals.

The creation of biological living space is the field of urban ecology. In the high-density residential environment, the micro-green ecosystem of native plant communities is constructed to provide living space for birds, insects and other creatures. However, the most noteworthy phenomenon in the "Jianting Greenland" project is that the designers actively and massively integrated into cultural resources, corresponding to the principle of authenticity of world heritage, and logically and responsibly combined the "authenticity" of restored landscape with the "artistic conception" of garden construction. Ecological workers identify "plants" in the paintings in the Forbidden City, investigate the "patches" of native plants preserved in imperial gardens such as Yuanmingyuan within the scope of "three mountains and five gardens", and then combine the list of zonal plants in the literature of phytogeography and vegetation ecology-next, focus on corresponding reproduction. The content combination of "Jianting Green Space" goes further than the conventional and traditional idea of "garden flower border", adding native plant elements, and also meets the requirements of heritage sites for the inheritance of historical context and the new expectations for the protection of urban biodiversity.

So, is this a matter of "nature" or should it be attributed to the overall space of "culture"?

In recent years, the concept of "natural-based solutions" has played an important role in coping with global challenges such as climate change, disaster prevention and mitigation, food security, water security and ecosystem degradation. In 2021, the Ministry of Natural Resources of China and the World Conservation Union jointly published the Typical Case of China’s Practice of Nature-based Solutions, which involved the types of ecosystems such as nature, agriculture and cities and the main functions of national land space. Under the background of ecological civilization construction, the restoration means based on nature will gradually and profoundly affect the interpretation of the value of great sites, the continuation of the style of famous cities and even the reproduction of the authenticity of heritage parks.

If the "Jianting Greenland" project is simply summed up as a whimsical biodiversity practice and only focuses on "creating an interesting ecological landscape", it obviously underestimates the efforts and wisdom of all parties. "Jianting Greenland" is the crystallization of cultural heritage protection, natural restoration and public ecological concept, and it is a shining cultural spark in the "natural-based solution", which effectively extends the system path to the establishment of "natural-based cultural solution".

What objectives should be included in the "Nature-based Cultural Program"? One is to reflect the interaction between "nature" and "culture", especially to expand the position and function of natural science in cultural projects; The second is to understand and describe the wisdom and social progress of human beings in sustainable development from the perspective of "culture" of world heritage. This means a brand-new theoretical cross-system, and it is impossible to simply combine or pile up various fields. The knowledge structure and implementation steps of "cultural scheme based on nature" must come from practice test. Thus, the emergence of one "Arrow Pavilion Green Space" after another has a positive significance worthy of attention and encouragement.

What is culture? On the word culture

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The word "culture": its appearance in China can be traced back to the Western Han Dynasty. "Culture" is not only a system of civilizing and educating, but also a system of rites and music. This understanding has been maintained in our country until modern times. The meaning of the word "culture" that we use today is obviously different from that of ancient times. It was introduced from the west through Japanese translation at the end of the 19th century. At that time, there was no definition of the word, and people only used the word "culture" according to their own understanding and needs. According to analysis, there were about three meanings at that time; First, it is synonymous with "civilization"; Second, in a broad sense, it includes spiritual and "civilization" contents; Three, narrow sense, refers to the spiritual content. To this day. The meaning of culture is broader; There are also many people who agree that culture refers to "ideology", and everything outside politics and economy is among them; Others make a broader understanding that everything created by human beings (that is, the integration of material civilization and spiritual civilization) is culture; Besides, some people have other explanations.

In view of the fact that scholars at home and abroad have different opinions on the concept of "culture", it has been suggested that the word "culture" may be a vague concept naturally, and it is difficult to make a clear and complete definition. Instead of pursuing a simple and precise definition, people should determine a flexible range from the perspective of set.

Although there are many definitions of culture, I personally think that it should be the same in many aspects, and we can roughly summarize it into the following three aspects;

First, ideology (also known as ideology) means people’s world outlook, way of thinking, religious beliefs, psychological characteristics, values, moral standards, cognitive ability and so on.

Second, the way of life, that is, people’s attitude towards their food, clothing, housing and transportation, marriage, birth, illness, family life and social production activities, and some forms taken in these aspects.

Third, spiritual materialized products, that is, from the formal point of view, are some material things, but through the material form, they can reflect people’s differences and changes in ideas.

From the above three parts, the scope of culture is basically outlined. But we should pay attention to: the word culture; It should be an organic whole, which is not only the simple addition of the contents of these three parts, but also the mutual influence and premise of the contents of these three parts, and should be organically combined according to a specific sequence.

How to treat the "usefulness" and "uselessness" of culture

Original title: How to treat the "usefulness" and "uselessness" of culture?

Zhongqingbao Zhongqingwang reporter Xia Wei

For drinking tea, it is obvious that ordinary white porcelain bowls can meet the demand, but why do we prefer porcelain tea set with fine workmanship? When writing, the arm rest is used to prevent the arm from being stained with ink. Obviously, as long as it has the function of putting the arm, why do we pay attention to its material and the carving on it? When we are moved by the beautiful artistic conception of an ancient poem, when we are fascinated by the exquisiteness and elegance of a handicraft, what do we get from it? What can those humanistic details and artistic values bring to our lives? Or, is culture "useful" or "useless" to our life?

The "uselessness" of culture is also "great use"

In the dialogue session hosted by Bai Yansong at the 15th Cultural China Forum, Pan Lusheng, chairman of China Folk Writers Association, pointed out that "useful" means "practical" and "useless" means aesthetic "useless". Material and spiritual use and life use are both useful and practical, while useless is also useful and even useful.

Pan Lusheng introduced that in Lin ‘an City in the Southern Song Dynasty, the palace culture, the literati culture and the street culture were integrated, which formed the idea of "craft for practical use", and also created a life style of unity of practicality and aesthetics in the Southern Song Dynasty. During this period, the weaving technology was superb, and the fabrics made were dense and light as cicada’s wings. Not only were there various types of yarn, Luo, Qi and Ling, but the silk reeling and embroidery techniques were also superb. The gardens in the Southern Song Dynasty are like three-dimensional landscape paintings with pavilions and winding paths, which contain the spiritual complex and aesthetic artistic conception of literati. From the clay figurines of children in the Song Dynasty in Zhenjiang Museum, to the Children’s Plays in the City in Taipei Palace Museum, from the white porcelain children’s pillows in Dingyao in the Palace Museum, to Song Jin’s Paintings of the Hundred Immortals in Cleveland Art Museum in the United States, all of them reflect the aesthetics and interest of life in which humanities and art are combined with street life.

In contrast, in today’s fast-paced diet and fragmented culture, modern people no longer seem to have an attitude of attaching importance to life aesthetics, and traditional crafts no longer pursue use value. In this context, should we learn from the ancients and return to the "elegant life" way of the Southern Song Dynasty?

"The handicraft tradition of the Southern Song Dynasty is historical and contemporary, which runs through the traditional Chinese aesthetic spirit, lifestyle and cultural taste." Pan Lusheng said. Therefore, he proposed to develop a new economy of Song rhyme culture, take people’s life needs as the guide, enhance cultural life experience, and study how elegant lifestyle can be integrated into today’s life, so that people can gain a sense of cultural identity.

Pan Lusheng believes that, on the one hand, by reviving traditional crafts, we can explore how to better inherit and utilize traditional craft and cultural resources at present, inject the culture of Xixiang into education and cultural communication, and serve people’s spiritual and cultural life. On the other hand, through the development of cultural industry with cross-industry barriers, traditional craft culture can be transformed into the resources of contemporary Song Yun cultural industry, creating higher economic value, thus better serving people’s material and cultural needs.

"Cultural pension" is worth looking forward to.

On the aesthetic level of life, the "usefulness" and "uselessness" of culture may be a philosophical proposition, but in the medical field, the "usefulness" of culture is indispensable. According to Zheng Xiaoying, academician of the Academy of Sciences of developing countries and director of the Peking University Population Research Institute, culture is even more "useful" than science and technology.

Zheng Xiaoying said, "Everyone’s ultimate wish is to grow old healthily and say goodbye to the world happily. This is by no means a problem that can be solved by relying solely on science and technology or medical means, but a realm that must be achieved through the combination of culture, art and technology. In this sense, the infiltration of culture is more important than the development of science and technology. "Zheng Xiaoying believes that" medical art education should be integrated into medical education so that every doctor can accumulate deeper artistic accomplishment and cultural heritage. "

Zheng Xiaoying pointed out that cultural blessing is also needed to deal with the problem of population aging. She introduced that with the intensification of the aging process, the life expectancy of China’s population is also increasing rapidly. However, most of the increased life expectancy is unhealthy, that is, life expectancy with disabilities. Among the disabled people in China, 53% are elderly people. To solve the problems of these elderly disabled people, we need the support of science and technology, but more importantly, we need the support of culture. "Let them be happy and enjoy the benefits brought about by the reform and opening up to the maximum. This is not a problem that can be solved by a simple assistive device."

At the same time, Zheng Xiaoying emphasized the concept of "cultural support for the aged", which is a way to support the aged on the premise that the material needs of the elderly are basically guaranteed, on the basis of meeting spiritual needs, on the basis of communicating emotions, exchanging ideas and having a healthy body and mind, and on the purpose of publicizing individuality, advocating independence and enjoying the spirit of happiness and pleasure. "Cultural pension meets the spiritual needs of the elderly. For the elderly without children, this pension model is particularly important." Zheng Xiaoying said.

How to realize the mutual integration of science and technology and humanities

Undoubtedly, the integration of culture, art and technology can make people’s lives better. So, as an individual, how should we start from ourselves and realize the integration of technology and humanities? This is also a question that Wang Yuming, an academician of China Academy of Engineering and an expert in fluid sealing engineering technology, is often asked.

Wang Yuming laughed and called himself a "science man". "However, although my main business is mechanical engineering, I am not" mechanical "culturally. He is a student of Mr. Ye Jiaying, a consultant of the Chinese Poetry Society, the director of the Poetry Working Committee of colleges and universities, and the president of the Tsinghua University Lotus Pond Poetry Society. It can be said that he is a person who perfectly balances "poetry and distance".

When answering the question "how to realize the mutual integration of science and technology and humanities", Wang Yuming believes that in terms of values, science and technology and humanities and arts are both pursuing truth, goodness and beauty, and they are essentially interlinked; In the mode of thinking, both of them need logical thinking and inspiration epiphany thinking, which can promote each other. The same is true of many masters of science and technology (such as Einstein, Yang Zhenning, Qiu Chengtong, Gu Yuxiu, Qian Xuesen, etc.). However, the most important thing is to have a "pure heart" in both scientific research and literary creation.

On the "Use" of China Culture from the Outside

The Chinese culture has a long history, and the "useful" culture not only created the fashion life of the ancients, but also injected spiritual strength into solving modern social problems, and also brought about an impact on the civilized development of neighboring countries.

In the dialogue session, Cheng Yonghua, former Japanese ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to People’s Republic of China (PRC) and executive vice president of China-Japan Friendship Association, introduced the "use" of Japanese culture to neighboring countries. He said that China’s culture had a profound influence on the Korean Peninsula, Viet Nam and Japan. Take Japan as an example. The Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties were the historical peaks of Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges. During this period, ancient Japan sent 19 groups of envoys to China to study, with a maximum of 600 people at a time. In addition to sending envoys, a large number of international students also came to China from ancient Japan. Many of them stayed for many years, and some even stayed in China to work as officials in Chang ‘an until they died and were buried in Chang ‘an. In 645 AD, the ancient Japanese carried out the "Dahua Innovation" movement, abolished the monopoly regime system in big noble, and established an ancient centralized state with reference to the rules and regulations of the Tang Dynasty in China. During the Song Dynasty, more and more Japanese people came to China to study. Jian Zhen, a monk in the Tang Dynasty, traveled eastward to preach the precepts to Japan and was honored as the ancestor of Japanese Buddhist legalists. The Tang Zhaoti Temple complex built by him and his disciples in Nara, Japan, embodies the architectural characteristics of the Tang Dynasty and is the largest and most beautiful building in Japan’s existing Tianping era. Japanese characters are also born out of Chinese characters. At first, there were only languages but no characters in Japan. In asuka period, Buddhist classics introduced into Japan along with Buddhism made Chinese characters penetrate into Japanese life. The first Chinese characters were used by ancient Japanese as phonography, but they were troublesome in the process of use, so heian period invented katakana and hiragana with reference to the radicals and cursive scripts of Chinese characters. In addition, the present Japanese court music-gagaku,It is also music from the Tang Dynasty in China.

Cheng Yonghua said that Sino-Japanese exchanges have a history of 2,000 years. Today, Japanese young people are still attracted by China’s rapid economic development and technological innovation, and feel that "they should go to China to see more and communicate more".

Whether it is "practical" or "useless", the China culture of the same strain needs and deserves to be passed down and carried forward by contemporary people. As Pan Lusheng said, culture is a nation’s overall lifestyle and value system. If the ancients’ fashion is integrated into contemporary life, we may be able to create a pioneer culture with temperature, connotation and taste in the new era.

Source: China Youth Daily

What is emotion?

Emotion is one of the most authentic manifestations of human beings. It not only connects us with the world, but also allows us to experience the beauty and meaning of life. Emotions can be joy, sadness, anger, fear and so on, and each emotion has its own unique characteristics and values.

First of all, emotion is our most precious wealth. Only with emotion can we establish contact with others and feel the warmth of love and being loved. Emotion enables us to persevere and face everything bravely when facing difficulties and challenges. Emotion can also let us find happiness and satisfaction in ordinary life, and let us feel the beauty and meaning of life.

Secondly, emotion is a catalyst for our growth. Through emotion, we can better understand ourselves and others, and learn to empathize and respect others. Emotion allows us to learn from setbacks and failures and become stronger and more mature. Emotion can also make us strengthen our faith in the pursuit of our dreams, not afraid of hardships and go forward bravely.

Finally, emotion is the bond of our interpersonal relationship. Emotion enables us to communicate and understand each other better and establish a closer relationship when interacting with others. Emotion can also make us play a greater role in the team and enhance teamwork and cohesion. Through emotional communication, we can better solve contradictions and problems and make our relationship more harmonious.

In a word, emotion is one of the most important components of human beings. It not only connects us with the world, but also allows us to experience the beauty and meaning of life. Emotion is the catalyst of our growth and the bond of our interpersonal relationship. Only with emotion can we truly appreciate the value and significance of live high.

Why is the game fun | A book a day

Why is the game fun? Author: Wang Yahui, Version: Turing New Knowledge | People’s Posts and Telecommunications Publishing House, March 2023. (Poster design: Liu Xiaofei)

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On May 12th this year, Nintendo released "the legend of zelda: Tears of the Kingdom", which sold 10 million copies worldwide in just three days, and triggered a wave of sharing among players on social media at home and abroad. With the development of media technology, the "ninth art" of games is increasingly attractive to people. Why is the game so fun? As a veteran gamer and the author of "The Game of China", Wang Yahui answers this fundamental question in a simple way through a large number of classic game cases such as Super Mario, Tetris, Diablo and the legend of zelda.

This book holds that games have clear and macroscopic "Rules" written in the instructions, and also have hidden and precise "Game Mechanics" that require players to explore themselves, while classic games can often derive the most complex and changeable mechanisms with the simplest rules. Judging from the two dimensions of time and space, which are the most basic for human beings to know the world, whether it is an extremely simple but popular elimination game such as Tetris and Bubble Dragon, or the most popular Jedi Survival, it is a superb use of the "space restriction" mechanism. Max payne, a classic adventure action game, tapped the potential of time mechanism through the use of bullet time.

In addition to space and time, this book also discusses the game mechanism in many aspects, such as money, props, skills, tasks, collection, etc., sorts out the classic design patterns in the study of game mechanism, and expands the horizons of ordinary readers to understand the game.

Editor/Shang Zhongming Wang Mingbo

Proofreading/Xue Jingning Fu Chunyu

It is not so simple to learn all kinds of badminton skills.

1. Forehand ball rubbing:Stand sideways in front of the right net and hold the racket forehand. The racket is tilted to the right, front and upper with the forearm extended. When the racket is lifted to the highest point, the forearm rotates outward, the wrist flashes from backward to slightly inward, the index finger and thumb holding the clap grip the racket, and the middle finger, ring finger and little finger lightly hold the racket handle, so that the racket rubs the right bottom of the ball under the swing force of the wrist and fingers, and the ball rotates and rolls over the net.

It is not so simple to learn all kinds of badminton skills.

2, backhand rub ball:Before hitting the ball, the forearm is slightly raised, the wrist is bent forward, the back of the hand is about the same height as the net, and the racket face is lower than the top of the net, and the backhand face is used to meet the ball. When rubbing the ball, the right back bottom of the ball is rubbed mainly by the combined force of the forearm’s forward extension and outward rotation and the wrist’s adduction and abduction, so that the ball rotates sideways and rolls over the net.

It is not so simple to learn all kinds of badminton skills.

Pulling the ball is to sweep the incoming ball on the left and right sides of the body, below the shoulder and above the waist. haveThere are two kinds of forehand and backhand strokes.

1. Forehand stroke:Standing in the middle of the right field, the feet are parallel and slightly wider than the shoulders, the center of gravity is between the feet, the knees are slightly bent, and the forehand is held in front of the right shoulder. Before hitting the ball, the elbow is swung forward, the forearm is slightly rotated back, the wrist is slightly abduction to the back, and the racquet is brought back. When hitting the ball, the forearm rotates inward, the wrist is straight and flashing, the fingers grasp the handle, and the racket sweeps the cover at high speed from right back to right front to hit the ball. After hitting the ball, swing your arm to the left, take a step forward to the left with your left foot, and return to the center with your right heel.

2, backhand draw:The right foot crosses in front of the left side, the center of gravity is on the left foot, and the backhand grip of the right hand is in front of the left side. Before hitting the ball, the elbow is slightly raised, the forearm is pronated, the wrist is abduction, and the racquet is taken to the left. When hitting the ball, driven by the right turn of the pith, the forearm rotates outward, the wrist flashes from abduction to straightness, and the bottom of the bat tray is swung. After hitting the ball, the racket is retracted to the right side with the back movement of the body.

It is not so simple to learn all kinds of badminton skills.

Killing the ball is to obliquely press the ball hit by the opponent at the highest hitting point as possible. This kind of ball has great strength, straight arc and fast landing, which poses a great threat to the opponent. It is the main technique of attack. Killing the ball is divided into forehand killing straight line and diagonal ball. Overhead kill straight and diagonal balls, forehand flying assault kill straight balls and backhand kill straight balls.

It is not so simple to learn all kinds of badminton skills.

1, forehand straight ball (sideways take-off):The preparation posture and action essentials are basically the same as forehand golf. After the steps are in place, bend your knees and lower your center of gravity, ready to take off. When taking off sideways, lift your shoulders to the upper right to drive your upper arm, forearm and racket to lift up, so as to stretch your body upwards. After the take-off, the body leans back and shoulders back into an anti-bow. Then the right upper arm swings up to the right, the forearm swings back naturally, the wrist stretches back, and the forearm drives the racket to swing from top to bottom, so the grip should be loose. Then, the right upper arm is swung up to the right with the elbow leading, and the forearm is swung forward at full speed, which drives the racket to swing forward at high speed. When the hitting point is in front of the shoulder, the forearm is pronated, the wrist is slightly retracted, and the wrist is flashed to kill the ball. At this time, the fingers should suddenly grasp the handle and concentrate the explosive force of the wrist on the hitting point. The angle between the racket and the horizontal plane in the hitting direction is less than 90 degrees, and the racket hits the back of the bracket in the front, so that the ball goes straight down. After killing the ball, the forearm moves forward with inertia. Recover the racket to the chest during the return process.

It is not so simple to learn all kinds of badminton skills.

2, forehand diagonal ball (sideways take-off):The preparation posture and action essentials are the same as forehand straight ball. The difference is that after taking off, the body turns to the left and pushes hard to help the arm hit the ball diagonally. Overhead killing straight and diagonal balls: the action essentials and preparation posture are the same as overhead hitting high balls. The difference is that when you swing and hit the ball, you should concentrate on pressing down in a straight line or diagonal direction, and the angle between the racket face and the horizontal plane in the hitting direction is less than 90.

It is not so simple to learn all kinds of badminton skills.

3, backhand kill straight ball:The preparation posture and action essentials are the same as those of the backhand golf. The difference is that the swing force before hitting the ball is larger, and the angle between the racket and the horizontal plane in the killing direction at the moment of hitting the ball is less than 90 degrees.

Nearly ten reviews will accompany you for the summer vacation! Take stock of the Steam online games you can play during the summer vacation.

Summer vacation is coming, and it’s time to have fun again. Of course, this refers to a specific group of people who have summer vacation, hehe. So what games do you want to play during the almost two months of summer vacation? This article will take a look at the online game of Steam that you can play during the summer vacation. Those classic games that are already familiar are not recommended, and the games that were released in the first half of this year and have a good reputation are mainly recommended.

Farlight 84

Steam favorable rate: 85%, especially favorable.

Sunset Afterglow is a great escape game developed by Lilith. In the game, players, as the survivors of the electronic zombie crisis in the world, settle on the water mobile platform named "Isle City" around the Kanguang coastline. Players will be launched into every corner of the unknown world to fight, survive and explore through water platform cannons, and collect different objects to build their own homes.

The afterglow of doomsday provides players with a variety of game experiences, among which survival mode, as the first mode, will meet the players first. In survival mode, players can move quickly through fast maneuvering jet flight and energy elastic board in the battlefield. Prism Military Industry, 9A Military Industry, Murphy Security Industry, and Wasteland Self-made Military Industry, as the four major military brands in the new world, will give players weapons with different styles.

Players can drive chariots, multi-legged, flying and other vehicles to participate in the battle in the battlefield, and get a refreshing and exciting combat experience. In addition, the original power system can provide energy for weapons, vehicles, jetpacks and energy shields, and provide players with more combat options besides traditional weapons!

Pixel storm

Steam favorable rate: 90%, especially favorable.

"BattleBit Remastered" is a large-scale multiplayer online military shooting game produced and distributed by the Turkish team SgtOkiDoki. It focuses on a large battlefield with 254 people and two armies, and diversified ground and air war vehicles. The game started its first experience on June 15th, and its popularity kept rising in a week, and it was highly praised and recommended by players. Recently, the number of top players has exceeded 60,000, and it has far surpassed Battlefield 2042 in Steam, and will soon be tied with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

As its name suggests, BattleBit Remastered is often translated into Pixel Storm and Pixel BattleField in Chinese, which is not only deliberately close to Battlefield in name, but also quite similar in content, which is completely a low-grade battlefield. Players shoot and fight in the first person, adopt professional settings, buildings can be destroyed, and they can drive tanks, planes and ships … All kinds of settings can be seen to be similar to the battlefield.

Players can use more than 45 kinds of guns, and can customize their accessories. There are more than 19 maps and there are differences between day and night, and the number of people in a game can be as high as 254. Not only is the design huge, but the content is also very serious, and the feedback of shooting and the explosion effect are not lazy.

Escape: trial

Steam favorable rate: 94%, especially favorable.

Players who like horror games will certainly be familiar with the Escape series. "Escape Trial" is the third mainline game in the "Escape" series. Players can play alone or work in teams of four.

The Escape Trial took place during the Cold War, and Murkov Company recruited "volunteers" for its experiment. These experiments will test the morality and reason of the players, and can be conducted by one person or by up to four people. If you have played the previous games, the game mechanism will be very familiar: running, hiding, sneaking, and trying your best to survive.

Players will get tools, upgrades and additional skills to form an advantage, such as slowing down the enemy or becoming more concealed. Your role is customizable. Their goal is to collect enough documents about Murkov’s torture, but the final result remains to be seen.

Street fighter 6

Steam favorable rate: 91%, especially favorable.

Players who like fighting games are certainly familiar with the Street Fighter series. The latest series, Street Fighter 6, was officially released on June 2nd. Those who like fighting games can play in the summer vacation.

Street Fighter 6 adopts the RE engine developed by Capcom, which is very different from previous works such as Street Fighter 4 and Street Fighter 5 in style and theme. It is more urban and grounded, emphasizing the "street" part of Street Fighter.

The painting will be a combination of realism and graffiti art, changing from ink painting style to street painting style. generate’s paint special effects on heavy blows and moves make the whole painting very impactful. Long, Chun-Li and other old characters also adopted different character designs and costumes, and added unique new characters.

Street Fighter 6 will have three modes of play, namely, the traditional fighting mode "fighting battlefield", the fighting center for players to learn and learn, and the immersive plot mode "traveling around the world" for single play.

In the immersive story mode "Traveling Around the World" of single-player play, players can create a protagonist who will be a member of the player’s avatar, interact with the residents of the street fighter world, learn moves from Long and Chun-Li, and fight against various enemies.

Meet the Creator

Steam favorable rate: 74%, mostly favorable.

"Meet the Creator" is a post-apocalyptic game with its own level. Each level is designed by the player himself, and the construction and sneak attack are completed in the first person. Design a position full of traps and guards alone or in cooperation with many people, or carry out fast-paced battles in an orderly manner and sneak up on other players’ positions.

You are the caretaker of Chimera, and Chimera is a living experiment created as a last resort to save life on earth. Take part in a strategic battle for the most precious resource on earth, which is also the key to the evolution of your Chimera: pure genetic material.

Build and reinforce labyrinthine outposts to extract and protect your genetic material. Sneak into other players’ outposts and use your brains to get more genetic material. Fight for life adaptation, upgrade and evolution.

Build a sinister death trap like a maze to lure other players in and kill them with wisdom. Clever use of massive customizable bricks, traps and guards. Pre-record patrol routes for your guards with innovative AI recording system.

Players can also share your outpost and watch other players come to challenge. Harvest trophies from the dead, and learn from the survivors how to strengthen your outpost and how not to lose progress and resources when robbed.

Dead island 2

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Players who like to fight zombies can also choose dead island 2 to experience it. dead island is an orthodox role-playing game, which provides a lot of exciting tasks, unprecedented characters and thrilling vulgar plots, so that players can really immerse themselves in a distorted world view. In addition, there is a wonderful and exaggerated cooperation mode, which can be carried out by up to three players, ensuring that players can spend a very long and violent journey in Los Angeles.

The game takes the "city of angels" Los Angeles, which was invaded by terrorists, as the stage, and includes classic landmarks from the green suburbs of Beverly Hills to the coastal path of Venice Beach. Players can choose six characters with different personalities and lines, customize the ability of each character, and try the most intense and bloody first-person crazy battle through a brand-new skill system. There will be plenty of weapons and tactical and brutal options for players to deal with the swarming zombies.

There are six characters to choose from in the game, each with its own unique personality and dialogue. Players can completely customize the ability of each killer, and use the brand-new skill system to let players immediately redistribute their abilities and try out the craziest combination. The game also has dozens of unique zombie types, each with its own variation, attack mode and hundreds of Los Angeles-themed modeling changes.

Small world

Steam favorable rate: 86%, especially favorable.

Small World is an open-world, survival, online multiplayer game and adventure game. It is set in a familiar environment and the players are reduced to the size of a small insect. From the bottom of the food chain, players must survive by foraging, making and exploring seemingly abandoned places that are now recycled by nature.

With the progress of players, they will be able to create powerful armor and weapons, and even tame small animals into mounts, so that they can accept greater challenges. Working with other players, the ultimate goal is to conquer the biggest and most terrible creatures in the world.

In the game, players will cross a puddle like a lake, climb a giant tree like a skyscraper, cross a crack like the thousands of feet abyss on the road, and experience the huge open world from a new perspective. Explore dense jungles, dangerous swamps, and strange ruins left by predecessors. Find the hidden NPCs all over the world, get world view information and all kinds of knowledge, and learn how to survive in the vast wild.

In the game, players can unlock various recipes and instructions and tame various insects and creatures into mounts. You can also collect or refine resources and build camps with different grades of materials such as leaves, branches or rocks. Choose your favorite corner in the vast world and start building, or climb the towering tree and build the base camp at the top of the tree.

Players can also collect powerful armor with various resistances and functions, mix and match them in their own way, and create your own unique style. Want to slide in the air? Just put on the wing armor; Like swinging from tree to tree? Equip the grappling hook! There are all kinds of choices waiting for you!

Son of the forest

Steam favorable rate: 83%, especially favorable.

Players who like the open world survival game are definitely familiar with the game "Forest". Of course, many people should be tired of playing "Forest", and now we can play the sequel "Son of the Forest".

In Son of the Forest, players are sent to an isolated island to find a missing billionaire, only to find themselves trapped in a purgatory occupied by cannibals. Players need to make tools and weapons, build houses and try their best to survive, whether alone or with friends.

In the game, players will be able to experience complete freedom, and players can explore the world in their own way. Decide for yourself what to do, where to go, and how to live best. No NPC will order you or assign you tasks that you don’t want to accomplish at all. You are the one who gives the orders, and your fate is up to you.

At the same time, on this isolated island, players need to fight against all kinds of mutant creatures. Some look just like human beings, while others are not from the mortal world. You need to bring pistols, axes, electric batons and other weapons to protect yourself and the people you care about.

Wild heart

Steam favorable rate: 47%, with mixed opinions.

Players who like fighting games but don’t want to play monster hunters can try "Wild Heart", which was created by Japanese studio Omega Force, which developed the series of games "True Three Kingdoms", and received great assistance from EA Originals. "Wild Heart" will lead players to Japan in the feudal era and start an epic adventure in this fantasy world.

The background of Heart of the Wild is based on the Japanese fantasy land "Azuma" (ぁずま) during the feudal period, which was ravaged by the original tame "beast", and the environment was greatly impacted and the people sacrificed heavily. After a fierce battle with the winter wolf "Deathstalker", the player will become the holder of a life control technology and shoulder the heavy responsibility of restoring the balance of the earth.

Wild Heart supports three people to fight online. Players can use umbrellas, chain blades, Tatsu Yamashiro, bows and arrows to fight against various monsters in Japanese folklore. Players can also use the "clever system" to assist their hunting, which is somewhat similar to the trap in Monster Hunter.

However, compared with the simple trap in Monster Hunter, the "skill system" in "Wild Heart" is more powerful, which can not only restrict the activities of wild animals, but also help players attack wild animals, provide BUFF, convenience, as mounts and so on.

《Warlander》

Steam favorable rate: 60%, with mixed opinions.

"Warlander" is an exciting third-person online multiplayer game. Its unique style incorporates medieval-like background settings, magical items and abilities, and even powerful robots. In a fierce small-scale battle and an epic castle siege that can accommodate up to 100 players, players need to make good use of the powerful fighting power of soldiers, priests and wizards, as well as siege devices and catastrophic destructive spells to control the battlefield.

快节奏的战斗和精明的决策是游戏的亮点,玩家需要不折不扣地履行自己的团队职责,或是用防攻城武器保卫己方城堡和核心,在战场上扫荡以拦截敌人、占领塔楼,并用投石器发动强大的攻击;

或是通过攻城器和史诗级的灾难级法术潜入敌军的城堡主楼。打败敌军、建造设备和完成目标能让自己获得勇者点数,这些点数可用来强化自己的角色,并帮助你在战斗中扭转战局!

玩家可以为自己的角色挑选适宜的职业,深入打造一套独具一格的角色阵容。每个角色都能拥有属于自己的一套由各种稀有度与定制装备、技能和天赋所组成的装备配置,以及特定的表情和舞蹈动作。构建平衡的卡组、寻找特定的角色,或以各种方式游玩你最喜欢的职业,再将他们送入战场。

根据己方指挥官的指示战略性地扫荡和控制战场,掌握复活用的高塔并利用现有的攻城装置扫除敌军据点的防御工事。摧毁城门、城墙和桥梁以阻断敌方的进军路线,或是创造出攻陷敌军城堡主楼的新路径,还可以通过结盟或破坏联盟的方式操纵战局的走向。