A month ago ,When I had no any idea about my project 5,The change I want to see ,my tutor Adam ask me : Is there anything makes you angry ? Then I started to thinking about my surroundings and my life experience ,and there was a terrible memory comes to my mind that i never found a seat at the Starbucks of shopping mall when i was living in Shenzhen.
Shenzhen is the fastest developing city since the reform and opening-up in china, it’s population and economy are among the top there in china in recent years .however,this city has only 5 university and 32 art galleries,and most of them are not popular ,people call it “The capital of making money “and “ Cultural desert ”. Shenzhen is a representative of china’s urbanization,with the development of economy , the younger generation flock in big cities for a better career which leads to the disappear of village(Luo ,2017). The orientation of Chinese cultural is agriculture civilization,and the agriculture civilization is based on the village.Therefore Chinese traditional culture is disappearing .
On one hand ,The young city – Shenzhen are in great need of culture .Because it has only 41 years of history ,and most of the population are immigrants ,including myself ,we are far away from our hometown ,living a busy life without much leisure and entertainment,even a common park will be very crowded at weekends, so I ‘d rather stay at home to play my mobile phone ,because we don’t really have much choice .On the other hand ,it’s really ironically ,as we all know china has more than 5000 years of history ,we possess rich cultural resources, but we are losing it . So i wonder if we can make a cultural grafting .Grafting some disappearing traditional culture into this young city。
“Shenzhen has no dominated culture ,it’s a hybrid culture ” Yeqiu Hu ,a Chinese writer said .So there are many possibility to explore it. And we can see the government noticed that and they have made the most effort to build new shopping malls and new libraries,imitating other cities,but i think it’s not always useful to innovation, to create some new things ,especially when their immigrants are lack of cultural identity.sometimes maybe we can look back,something we have lost unconsciously, ,just like our traditional culture ,Chinese medicine ,Chinese kungfu, Chinese calligraphic , Chinese fairy tale, 24 solar terms and so on.considering Shenzhen’s high developed technology,we can make a combination between the traditional culture and high-tech.for example ,we can create a “Chinese Disney”.people could share the same national identity,enjoy the exciting experience brought by high technology.
At the next stage , i want to explore a more specific area ,find a more proper way to graft Chinese traditional culture into Shenzhen ,providing local people more choice and bring cultural vitality to this city.
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