Author: Shuangshuang Luo

Feedback from Zuleika and Georges

• What is Feminine spirits? i need to do more research about this definition.
• Editing Video more carefully to make sure the audience could understand it easily.
• Since My project have two elements -Chinese folklore &feminism ,each area has different stakeholders, i can try to contact related experts and ask their opinions .
• Transsexuals are sensitive ,dealing with it carefully .
• Redefine my audience .
• Testing my idea iterate with different intervention.
• Feminism have more specific area, like queer feminism ,reading more articles about LGBT.

Feedback from alumina:

• Pay more attention about our learning process, taking notes ,recording and taking photos to collect evidence .
• Starting to speak to the first person ,and ask different people’s opinions ,including artist perspective and viewers perspective.
• Finding different age of Chinese girl to do intervention and redefine feminism might also get different outcome.
• Starting our intervention early ,don’t leave all the work at the last minutes.

“The ancient four major beauties have different experiences, but actually has a common characteristic-is compelled to be involved in political the eddy current to cause the unfortunate tragedy destiny, discusses them when they as sacrificial victims in the political war .secondly ,when individual emotion conflict the social role ,the only thing they can do is to obedience the masculine ruler’s arrangement ,obedience their deterrent, then sacrifices individual emotion and even the life.It spread the masculine sound completely in the work, but the feminine individual is silence .Thirdly, in man dominated context, the character image of the four ancient major beauties are distorted and variated ,Finally ,although they are beautiful woman, but as the “second gender, they can not escape  the pitiful destiny of being used as political tools by masculine.the ancient four beauties each kind of results in drama work ,or ends sad, or end happy ,but still satisfy the masculine’s creation desire.“

In order to test my idea ,i design a small experiment -drawing eyes for Yuhuan Yang(one of the four ancient beauties)

Participants: Yu Kong,Amanda,Gege Yang

Background music:<All Man Are Pigs》

Photographer:KK

What?

Traditional Chinese culture ,especially folklore and ancient painting ,and creative industry always be my interest ,so i intend to combine or  them ,exploring a unique way to grafting these Chinese culture ,i hope myself and more and more Chinese younger generation will care about their own culture .

Why?

Many Chinese traditional culture is disappearing ,some of them are so important to china in the past, it’s a symbol of our national identity,and with the highly development of economy,we need to inherit and innovate our culture .

besides,those culture are belong to the whole world , they can invigorate the world culture .

How?

So how can we save our traditional culture and give it a new life .I think grafting Chinese traditional culture into high-tech or creative industry could be a useful way.

“Fu of LuoShen water” is a underwater dance to celebrating The Dragon Boat Festival in 2021,and being spread by HeNan TV and many social media , it achieved great success and aroused much attention to Chinese traditional culture,because the inspiration of this work is from a classical ancient poetry and painting.

It’s the perfect combination of Chinese profound traditional culture and modern technology(People’s daily ,2021).and it created a whole new form of dance-dancing under the water.

“White Snake” is the very first 4K panorama opera movie. It’s inspiration from a popular Chinese folklore and Cantonese opera.In recently years ,Cantonese Opera are forgetting by the younger generation ,they do not like it and think it is something out of date and only the elder watch it , but when the Cantonese opera appears in this new way , not only the elder but also many younger generation went into the theater and started to appreciate it .

So i want to dig more Chinese folktale and painting , grafting them into the modern society and relying on high technology and social media.

Firstly ,i will create a new blog in YouTube and other social media .secondly i can use multimedia technology to visualize these paintings and stories in a  modern way,then i can post my work on social platforms to get feedback from people all over the world ,thirdly ,i will keep adjusting my work according to the useful feedback .finally ,i can find a best way to show Chinese traditional culture .

What if ?

If i finally achieved my goals , i believe more and more younger generation will start to pay more attention to our ancient folklore and paintings,they might be more care about these disappearing traditional culture,and even more, some of them might follow my way to innovative their own culture in a different way .

《洛神赋》
黄初三年，余朝京师，还济洛川。古人有言：斯水之神，名曰宓妃。感宋玉对楚王说神女之事，遂作斯赋。其词曰：
余从京域，言归东藩，背伊阙，越轘辕，经通谷，陵景山。日既西倾，车殆马烦。尔乃税驾乎蘅皋，秣驷乎芝田，容与乎阳林，流眄乎洛川。于是精移神骇，忽焉思散。俯则未察，仰以殊观。睹一丽人，于岩之畔。乃援御者而告之曰：“尔有觌于彼者乎？彼何人斯，若此之艳也！”御者对曰：“臣闻河洛之神，名曰宓妃。然则君王之所见，无乃是乎！其状若何？臣愿闻之。”
余告之曰：其形也，翩若惊鸿，婉若游龙。荣曜秋菊，华茂春松。髣髴兮若轻云之蔽月，飘飖兮若流风之回雪。远而望之，皎若太阳升朝霞；迫而察之，灼若芙蕖出渌波。秾纤得中，修短合度。肩若削成，腰如约素。延颈秀项，皓质呈露。芳泽无加，铅华弗御。云髻峨峨，修眉联娟。丹唇外朗，皓齿内鲜。明眸善睐，靥辅承权。瓌姿艳逸，仪静体闲。柔情绰态，媚于语言。奇服旷世，骨像应图。披罗衣之璀粲兮，珥瑶碧之华琚。戴金翠之首饰，缀明珠以耀躯。践远游之文履，曳雾绡之轻裾。微幽兰之芳蔼兮，步踟蹰于山隅。于是忽焉纵体，以遨以嬉。左倚采旄，右荫桂旗。攘皓腕于神浒兮，采湍濑之玄芝。
余情悦其淑美兮，心振荡而不怡。无良媒以接欢兮，托微波而通辞。愿诚素之先达，解玉佩而要之。嗟佳人之信修，羌习礼而明诗。抗琼珶以和予兮，指潜川而为期。执眷眷之款实兮，惧斯灵之我欺。感交甫之弃言兮，怅犹豫而狐疑。收和颜而静志兮，申礼防以自持。
于是洛灵感焉，徙倚彷徨。神光离合，乍阴乍阳。竦轻躯以鹤立，若将飞而未翔。践椒途之郁烈，步蘅薄而流芳。超长吟以永慕兮，声哀厉而弥长。尔乃众灵杂沓，命俦啸侣。或戏清流，或翔神渚，或采明珠，或拾翠羽。从南湘之二妃，携汉滨之游女。叹匏瓜之无匹兮，咏牵牛之独处。扬轻袿之猗靡兮，翳修袖以延伫。体迅飞凫，飘忽若神。凌波微步，罗袜生尘。动无常则，若危若安；进止难期，若往若还。转眄流精，光润玉颜。含辞未吐，气若幽兰。华容婀娜，令我忘餐。
于是屏翳收风，川后静波。冯夷鸣鼓，女娲清歌。腾文鱼以警乘，鸣玉銮以偕逝。六龙俨其齐首，载云车之容裔。鲸鲵踊而夹毂，水禽翔而为卫。于是越北沚，过南冈，纡素领，回清扬。动朱唇以徐言，陈交接之大纲。恨人神之道殊兮，怨盛年之莫当。抗罗袂以掩涕兮，泪流襟之浪浪。悼良会之永绝兮，哀一逝而异乡。无微情以效爱兮，献江南之明珰。虽潜处于太阴，长寄心于君王。忽不悟其所舍，怅神宵而蔽光。

于是背下陵高，足往神留。遗情想像，顾望怀愁。冀灵体之复形，御轻舟而上溯。浮长川而忘反，思绵绵而增慕。夜耿耿而不寐，沾繁霜而至曙。命仆夫而就驾，吾将归乎东路。揽騑辔以抗策，怅盘桓而不能去。

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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