Chapter 69 Culture
The sun was shining in early summer, and Zhou Nan helped Audrey carry her schoolbag and put her arms around her shoulders. And he kept hugging Zhou Nan's waist tightly and almost leaned into Zhou Nan's arms.
Zhou Nan sent her to the gate of the school all the way before handing her the schoolbag. "You don't need to be stressed, but you have to think hard and answer the questions carefully. When the test is over, if you do well, I will reward you. ”
Audrey took the bag and asked curiously, "What reward?" ”
A girl saw Audrey and exclaimed in surprise, "Audrey, is your movie finished?" When will it be released? ”
"It may be winter, Claude, good morning."
"Good morning...... Hello Jonas, nice to meet you. ”
"Hello, Claude."
Seeing that Zhou Nan was very kind, she laughed a little excitedly. "Jonas, you are the idol of all of us!"
Zhou Nan was always a little unnatural in the face of the girl's adoring gaze, nodded and said, "Study hard, and you will have a day to prove your worth...... Audrey, I won't be here at noon, I'll have Etinny or Glewin pick you up. ”
Although her classmates were beside her, she was a little embarrassed, but she couldn't help but ask in a low voice, "You haven't said any rewards yet......
Zhou Nan smiled and waved his hand to her, and said as he walked, "Don't you like Rome very much?" If you do well, I'll take you on vacation to Rome. ”
She snorted, chased after her, hugged Zhou Nan, stretched out the little finger of her right hand, and said, "A word is a certainty." ”
Zhou Nan hooked her little finger, and the thumbs of the two people were imprinted together. He smiled and said, "How can I be willing to lie to you? ”
Audrey likes the history of Rome, she likes the cultural landscape, and she especially likes the buildings with a sense of history.
Zhou Nan has not yet decided whether to shoot the movie "Roman Holiday", because at this time, Marita has not yet fallen in love with a married man, has no experience of fighting against her sister for love, and Hollywood certainly does not have this script.
Zhou Nan didn't want to write this script, he couldn't accept Audrey falling in love with other men on the screen.
Putting aside the atmosphere of the times, although "Roman Holiday" has been rated as a classic romance movie, it is actually a romantic encounter between a talented man and a woman, and there is not much commendable in the content.
He just wants to write a script, and he will also write a script like "The Sound of Music", and in addition, the "Princess Diaries" in Hollywood is also good. Comedy movies have been the genre with the largest audience since the birth of movies.
Seeing her enter the school with that Claude, Zhou Nan turned around and walked down the quiet hillside path. As she walked, she was still thinking about what movie Audrey would help her choose if she was still interested in making movies.
A group of American GIs came out of the casino, and these vacation GIs had apparently spent the night in the casino, their faces pale and drunk.
There are several quaint castle-style hotels and casinos built on the lake's edge, catering to foreign tourists. The largest number of guests here are these GIs.
Thinking of the many sins they had committed in Germany, Zhou Nan frowned. Audrey needs to pass through here to go to school, and she will have to discuss with Etinny and them in the future, and every time she is sent to school, it is better to send her directly to the school gate.
These American GIs were accustomed to lawlessness, and although their arrival brought a lot of income to Switzerland, it also brought a lot of law and order cases.
In Switzerland, they have to be much more restrained, and there are no major sins. I didn't dare to commit the forcible and violent incidents in Germany in Switzerland, but the big mistakes and small mistakes continued to affect the peace here.
But for the sake of development, it is also impossible for Switzerland not to welcome these people.
Arriving at the pier, Zhou Nan started the boat and drove the boat to the south bank, which is about a kilometer apart, that is, the pier behind the railway station.
The River Reuss divides Lucerne into two parts, the old town to the north and the new town to the south. But on the south bank of the Reuss River, not far from the train station, is the 350-year-old University of Lucerne.
Despite its long history, the university is very small, with less than a thousand students today.
Originally, the university had only two disciplines, one in the Faculty of Humanities and History, the Faculty of Social Sciences, and the other in the Seminary of the Church. Although it is small, it is well-known in Europe, and many Christians have studied here.
It has also evolved with the times, with the addition of many smaller disciplines, but mainly in the humanities.
Zhou Nan parked the boat and was just about to tie the cable to the wooden railing of the pier when he saw a group of black-haired young men walking over talking and laughing.
Zhou Nan stopped his movements and stood on the dock waiting for their arrival.
There are a total of 30 students in this batch, and with the addition of three team leaders, there are only 33 people. Most of them are well-off, systematically educated, and interested in the liberal arts.
However, Zhou Nan didn't know much about what the situation was, and he didn't know if they all came to study political economy willingly.
But now it seems that they are all still vibrant.
Zhou Nan didn't expect them to be so early, they lived in different families, and this time came together, obviously the time of gathering was even earlier.
Seeing Zhou Nan come to greet them in person, they were all a little flattered and thanked them repeatedly. A few representatives who had already met with Zhou Nan yesterday were a little better, and a few young people with more emotions were a little in tears.
After greeting for a while, Zhou Nan insisted on shaking hands with each of them, and then prepared to return to the farm.
Because there were too many people, Zhou Nan's yacht could not accommodate so many people at one time, so it was divided into two batches. Zhou Nan first took a group of people back to the farm, arranged them in the large living room of his house, and then came to pick up the second group of people.
They came from Asia, and everyone prepared some small gifts for Zhou Nan, which was not anything valuable, and pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and tea were the most, so Zhou Nan was not polite and let Kelly accept it.
The large living room, which is often not used, finally came in handy today, Caroline and Kelly knew that Chinese people like to drink tea, and they also specially boiled a large pot of hot water, poured it into the thermos bucket, and made tea and coffee for them.
The large living room is the podium on the west side of the main house, and the hall area is nearly 200 square meters. On one side is a meeting room that can accommodate forty or fifty people, and on the other side is a dance floor.
There is also a movable board wall between the large living room and the small living room, and the Steinway playing piano bought by Zhou Nan is installed on a movable track, and one person can push the piano to change the position between the large and small living rooms.
This is mainly because the utilization rate of the large living room is too low, and Zhou Nan and his own people are at home, and they basically play in the small living room.
However, if there is a misunderstanding in the large living room and there is no piano, it is not a matter of face, but the incompetence of the owner, so a movable wall and track were designed at that time.
Everyone surrounded Zhou Nan in the middle like the moon and the stars, and everyone was attentive and looked at Zhou Nan with adoring eyes. Many people took out their notebooks and wanted to write down Zhou Nan's words.
Zhou Nan pondered for a moment and said, "Today is the first time I have met most of you, but when I see you, my heart is full of cordiality and warmth. I would like to ask you, what is the reason for this? ”
Zhou Nan asked questions in Mandarin, which sounded familiar to them, but there were some differences from the "Mandarin" during the Republic of China, but everyone could understand it.
In the eyes of these people, Zhounan's Mandarin is already very standard, because most of the Chinese in the East Indies are southerners, and their Mandarin is even less standard than Zhounan.
The term "Putonghua" appeared at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing court stipulated that the official dialect of Beijing was "Chinese" in 1909, and the pronunciation of the Chinese language was also formulated many times during the Republic of China period, which was somewhat different from the Mandarin of later generations, but the difference was not large.
A young man named Lin Huayuan said: "Because we are all descendants of Yan and Huang. ”
Another young man, Huang Zhixin, said: "Because we are all Chinese. ”
Everyone else replied in a rambling manner, and the answer meant the same thing.
They are all children of large families and have also received Chinese education since childhood, but their accents are very different, and Zhou Nan needs to listen carefully to understand what they are talking about.
Zhou Nan nodded and said: "In this world, only our Chinese culture has never been broken, and only we are the only ones who use square words as the carrier of our culture." Although the impact of the East culture on the West in modern times has made us doubt our own advancedness, superiority and independence, the cultural imprint of thousands of years is not so easy to erase. ”
"You may ask, you may wonder, is our culture really advanced? Is it really superior? Here, I can tell you with certainty that this is all true. There are many world language families, and according to the number of people who use them, there are currently four major language families: Sino-Tibetan, Latin, Indic, and Semitic. ”
"Except for our Sino-Tibetan language family, all other cultural traditions are known for their simplicity and clarity. What is the purpose? In my personal opinion, it's for the sake of spreading. Take the Latin language family as an example, they were born in the south of the Italian peninsula, directly affected the whole of Europe, in order to let more people learn, their words are simple, although later on this basis, countries gave birth to their own scripts, but these languages are actually closely related to each other, and are mainly based on 26 letters, even if there are 30 letters like German, the extra letter is actually derived from the original letters. ”
"Because these white people have the same culture, they have a very light view of the boundaries between the nation and the state, and because in order to facilitate the spread of culture, their words are simple. In order to be able to express what they want to express clearly, they have to invent new words and make them longer and longer. Only our words, a word has multiple meanings, multiple pronunciations, and different combinations of words have different meanings, this kind of rich culture, into thousands of commonly used words of the skill, is the envy and admiration of foreigners. ”
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