Chapter 20 The Fusion of Eastern and Western Cultures
Chu Yun's father, Chu Tianyu, is a relatively new person, and his mother is also from a scholarly family in Beiping, and she is deeply influenced by her husband, so she is always polite to the servants in the family. Since she came to the south with her husband, her daughter has always been taken care of by Aunt Zeng, so her mother has special respect for Aunt Zeng and has never spoken loudly to her.
I remember that before the family left Nanjing for the UK, her mother gave her a sum of money to go home and start a small business, so that she would not have to come out to help people in the future. She hugged Chu Yun, crying so much that her eyes were red and swollen, and she told Chu Yun to remember to see her when she came back.
Chu Yun recalled that after she and her mother returned from Europe, her mother took her back to the southern countryside to visit her grandparents and visit her aunt Zeng. At that time, Chu Yun brought her some foreign gadgets brought back from Europe, she was very happy when she saw it, and later saw Chu Yun with filial piety, and hugged her and cried. She just cried for a while, laughed for a while, and didn't know how to express her feelings.
Thinking of this, a smile appeared on Chu Yun's face again.
In the four years in Europe, although they often moved, everywhere they went, their mother always decorated Chu Yun's room first to make it warm and beautiful. In fact, Chu Yun doesn't care where her home is, following her father, who is often transferred, Chu Yun and her mother have become accustomed to living in various environments, for her, where there are parents and parents, there is her home.
During these four years, she changed schools, was exposed to English, French and Spanish, and made many new friends. She was troubled by the fact that the Western culture and living environment were too far away from the living environment she had adapted to since she was a child, and the language barrier made her very distressed. Dad always patiently encouraged her to meet new people and encourage her to adapt to a new environment. Soon, she got used to this life and found her own pleasure. She fell in love with Western music and dance, and she found that music and dance have no borders. In addition to learning about Western culture at school, she was fascinated by piano and ballet. Chu Tianyu unconditionally supported his daughter's hobby, he specially invited a piano teacher for her, and also registered her in the ballet school.
After all, Chu Yun's mother received a traditional Chinese education, thinking that girls would marry sooner or later when they grew up, and they couldn't dance ballet with their legs open, especially Chu Yun later became obsessed with Spanish flamenco, which made the mother panic and desperately opposed. Mom has always been afraid that Chu Yun will forget Chinese culture, so she insists on teaching Chu Yun Chinese at home, Tang poetry, Song Ci, Dream of Red Mansions, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, ...... the essence of Chinese culture, while Chu Yun continues to absorb Western culture, it has always accompanied her.
Between the ages of twelve and sixteen, at this stage of life when it is easiest to accept new things, Chu Yun is like a hungry seedling, greedily absorbing all kinds of nutrients. As a result, the two cultures of the East and the West, which are very different, miraculously merged in Chu Yun's teenage body.
Four years of happiness, in an instant, Chu Yun is already 16 years old, at this time she not only looks like a young and beautiful girl on the outside, but also because of her special experience and education in different cultures, she is also much more mature than other girls in thought. Her beauty, generosity and cheerful personality make her the center of attention no matter what the occasion.
Anyone who has been in contact with Chu Yun is attracted by her eyes and temperament, her body is mixed with the nobility of the British, the elegance of the French, and the wildness of the Spaniards, but more of it is the softness, kindness and tenacity of the Chinese woman inherited from her mother.
Under the love and care of her parents, she spent the happiest four years of her life. Chu Yun looked up at the clouds in the blue sky that were drifting farther and farther away, as if looking at the happiness that once belonged to him, and that happiness had become an unattainable white cloud, and gradually moved away from him.
When she was just 16 years old, her father Chu Tianyu suddenly left them due to a cerebral hemorrhage, which made her and her mother fall from the top of happiness to the abyss of grief in an instant.
Chu Yun raised his wrist and looked at the delicate Swiss women's watch on his wrist, which was a 16th birthday gift given to her by her father before he died. She gently pressed her face against the surface, as if she felt her father's warm and loving hands caressing her cheeks, and she closed her eyes and felt it carefully, and a wave of sadness hit her heart.
She raised her head, took a deep breath, and tried to adjust her emotions, she didn't want to fall into excessive grief, she couldn't be too weak, she had to be strong.
The word strong, like a hurricane, suddenly blew her memory to the dying hospital bed of her stepfather Xiao Mufan, and she once again saw the scene that appeared in her dreams countless times.