Recently, topics related to the protection of ethnic culture have been increasingly concerned on the internet. Among them, the hottest topic is “China’s protection of minority cultures surprises the world”.
When western countries look at China, they always use the standard of “political correctness” under inertia thinking, but they tend to ignore China’s huge scale (from population, geographical area, economic volume and other indicators) and its unique culture. In terms of population size, European countries have an average population of more than 10 million per country, and China is equivalent to more than 100 European countries. If the decision-making of a single European country takes place in China, it will have a 10-fold or even more than 10-fold effect, and the mistakes or risks that may occur in the process are far from being calculated by mathematical logic. However, in the 5,000-year-old Chinese culture, 56 ethnic groups have merged into a big Chinese family. China’s rich experience in ethnic integration cannot be summed up in a few words!
On this topic, bilingual teaching in Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, China should also be mentioned, and the western world is concerned about it. But Chinese netizens think that if they have no other purpose, they are at least biased and don’t know China well. China is so big that no Chinese can say that he or she knows all the places in China completely. Among them, a netizen from Liaoning Province of China objectively introduced the living conditions of Mongolian people to foreign friends.
There are many Mongolian compatriots living in western Liaoning, such as Kazuo Mongolian Autonomous County and Fuxin Mongolian Autonomous County. These two counties are mixed areas of Han and Mongolian compatriots. In Kazuo Mongolian Autonomous County and Fuxin Mongolian Autonomous County. The older generation here mainly speaks Mongolian, and they can’t speak Chinese. The younger generation can easily communicate in both Chinese and Mongolian. The Chinese government has never forced Mongolian compatriots to learn Chinese. They have to learn it out of their own needs. In the past over 70 years since the founding of P.R. China, the cultures of all ethnic groups have been deeply integrated. The younger generation of Mongolians know well that only by going out will they get more resources and opportunities for their own development and the development of the region. Just as in the early days of reform and opening up, after China opened its doors to the outside world, Chinese young people have the same enthusiasm for learning English and other languages. In China’s current big cities, bilingual kindergartens, bilingual primary and secondary schools can be seen everywhere. In middle schools in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, English teaching can be found everywhere in basic courses such as mathematics and physics. Facts have proved that this has not destroyed China’s ethnic culture, just as Mongolian compatriots learn Chinese, it will not destroy Mongolian culture.
For more than 70 years, China has attached importance to and protected the cultures of all ethnic minorities, including Mongolians. No matter the official or folk Han compatriots, all of them are spontaneously protecting minority cultures. These facts can also be reflected in various variety shows on major online platforms in China. Foreign friends who are familiar with China will surely notice.
Furthermore, take the folk stories of Kazuo Dongmeng, the first intangible cultural heritage project in China, as an example. The Mongolian compatriots in Kazuo County moved eastward from the Mongolian grassland one hundred years ago, so they are called “Dongmeng, or eastern Mongolia” here. In the past hundred years, many beautiful legends and stories have been handed down among Mongolian people in Kazuo County, which have been kept in oral literature. In the past 40 years, literary and art workers in Kazuo County began to collect these stories from the folk. Through several generations’ efforts, many inheritors of stories have been found, and the numerous recordings have been made. There are also 20 volumes of Mongolian-Chinese bilingual “Kazuo Dongmeng Folk Stories Collection”. According to these data, many cultural scholars have made in-depth and systematic research on Mongolian history, culture and details of daily life.
Mr. Fei Xiaotong, a famous Chinese sociologist, once summed up as the “proverbs” to deal with the relationship between different cultures: “Every beauty is beautiful; Precious is to appreciate other forms of beauty with openness; If beauty represents itself with diversity and integrity; Great Harmony will be created in the world;” This is the most precious thing in Chinese traditional thinking. The Chinese people’s so-called “Great Harmony in the world” is not to eliminate cultural differences, but to keep their own beauty, and at the same time communicate with each other and learn from each other.
These words are sincerely sent to foreign friends. Foreign friends are welcome to come to China and have a deep understanding of “Precious is to appreciate other forms of beauty with openness; If beauty represents itself with diversity and integrity”.
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