The last place to go is the People Hall or the Hall of People, for the welcome dinner. Ionic enough, common people cannot enter The Hall of People as their will. this is the place for national events, like welcoming foreign politicians. So, in the organizer point of view, we were treated with honor and high standard. There are 2 things make me sick. 1st is why they treat us as politician?? we are just students, we are not here to talk politic, by the way, i doubt we can talk any thing about politic. 2nd is the sick name of this place, "Hall of people", the function of this building is not fit for its name!
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| the front door of the Hall of People |
when i first look at the building, somehow, i feel like i am in North Korea rather than China. May be it is due to the communistic architectural style. a little side track, in Chinese translation, communism is "work together ideology". The point why it is bad is, it never "share"! you work for the country but country give you shit. that is the fact. i still remember a former leader had said, the "right of living" is the most right the people can ask for. Well, that is truth in china, coz anything other than people can be kill or destroy, even their culture, their history. OK, may be the things are changing and improving. anyway, i just lack of faith on Chinese government. i forgot the detail of the dinner. just has an image that that place is big.
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Good bye Beijing
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On the next day, we took a flight to Nan Jing. In chinese, it means south (Nan) capital (Jing). as i mentioned before, Nan Jing was a capital of the Republic of China. It is a city in the coastal area of China. now a day is a wealth and busy commercial portal. The first place to visit is the old city wall and a little museum of it. i was very pleased that the old city wall is still here. Although part of it was destroyed by different reason, some of them reserved. Very different to Hong Kong, (oh, yes, this is the place i grow up) an old city wall always bring me a lot of imaginations and make a place feel friendly for me. the feeling of history, that is lack in hong kong. a feeling that there are many aspects in a city, that is lack in hong kong. well, hong kong has a lot of history and played an important role during the recently century regarding of the political movement and the formation of modern china. But the first thing come up in your mind about Hong Kong is always her economic achievement and nothing else. imagine that when you go to school, go to work on morning, you will pass some sector of wall, which used to protect your grand-mum, or your grand-grand-mum.
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| a view of Nan Jing from the wall |
the 2nd place is the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum. Sun Yat-Sen is the founder of modern china. more precisely, the founder of the first republic who governed by the reign which now stay in Taiwan. In Taiwan, they are still using the Minguo calendar, the first year is the establishment of the 1st chinese republic 1912. There is a hill, on the hill there is a building, inside the building, there is a giant scripture of Sun Yat-Sen, sitting just like Lincoln memorial in US.
The important or famous of Sun Yat-Sen is the idea and the campaign he raised across china. the idea is simple, a western value of human right, and the ideology of a country based on 3 principles: democracy, nationalism and welfare. democracy and welfare are easy to understand based on the emperor dictatorship. The nationalism is suitable to that time. "Han" is the biggest race in china, and it was being controlled by 2 foreign reigns. the people of Han is, in Chinese idiom, "like a pool of sand", act Independence, never understand cooperation and unity.
the Culture exchange is very fruitful, as i understand the idea of Sun Yat-Sen, the new china in the original proposal of him is not yet realized, not even 1 of them in mainland china. there is no democracy, the nation is still spitted by 2, and welfare is just better then nothing. However, Taiwan, which is actually independent from mainland is going to archive all 3 ideas. now there are elections for their president, welfare is good and Taiwan people regard themselves as Taiwanese, same people.
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| The Icon building of Nan Jing University |
The rest of the trip is visit Nan Jing Univeristy, a 2ndary school and chat with students, but my Mandarin is terrible, totally skipped that part. and also, memories fail. or not much impression on me. so, let me stop in here.
