Christmas in Siheyuan —— Changes of foreign festivals in China in the past 30 years

  Beijing, China Broadcasting Network, December 25 th When the traditional Christmas atmosphere in the West is getting stronger and stronger, the courtyard of No.35 Xitangzi Hutong, a famous quadrangle in Dongcheng District of Beijing, has been particularly busy these days. In this traditional courtyard in China, which was built in Yongzheng period of Qing Dynasty and once lived by Zuo Zongtang, an important official in the late Qing Dynasty, someone is organizing a lively Christmas party.


  Through the long corridor, rockery and garden full of China traditional culture in this courtyard, people feel a different kind of feelings when they look at Santa Claus in red and red hat and Christmas tree with lights on.


  Pride and prejudice: celebrating the foreign festival is to worship foreign things and flatter foreign countries.


  "After hard work and study for a year, Christmas at the end of 2008 is the time for us to relax and celebrate this festival together! Exchange each other’s gifts in beautiful songs, bring joy to everyone in self-made programs and get beautiful gifts, get together in various interesting games and dance in exciting music … "This is the advertisement for the Christmas party to be held in No.35 Courtyard of Xitangzi Hutong.


  In China 30 years ago, this Christmas call, which was imbued with many elements such as joy, reunion and commercial speculation, was unimaginable. Until the early 1980s, overseas festivals in China were almost equated with the word "worshipping foreign things and obsessing foreign things".


  "At that time, most people were very sensitive to overseas festivals, because there was always public opinion accusing China of having so many traditional festivals, why did it have to be overseas? Are foreign festivals better than those in China, and the moon in foreign countries is rounder than that in China? Damn it! Too worshipful of foreigners! " Yin Yungong, director of the Institute of Journalism of China Academy of Social Sciences, said, "This kind of emotion was normal at that time, because we were relatively closed and exclusive at that time, which was a kind of arrogance and prejudice in another sense.".


  This "arrogance and prejudice" made foreign festivals have no market in China before the 1990s. Occasionally, there were some commercial or spontaneous activities to celebrate western festivals in some coastal cities, and they were often criticized. Some foreigners who entered China in the early days of reform and opening up will generally choose to go back to China for holidays or go to neighboring countries such as Japan and the Philippines for holidays when festivals such as Thanksgiving and Christmas come.


  Tolerance and appreciation: crossing the foreign festival generously.


  Even though there were many refusals and rejections, in the early days of reform and opening-up, China, which opened its doors, gradually began to re-examine and treat foreign festivals differently, even from the bud of timidity.


  Allan Zeman, the boss of Hong Kong Lan Kwai Fong, felt the changes in China at that time. At the end of 1980, Allan Zeman went to Hangzhou for business, and the foreign-related hotel where he stayed held a small-scale "Christmas party" for the guests. Allan Zeman said with emotion: "This is my first Christmas in China, which shows that China is really open."


  Just as the reform and opening up started in the special zones and coastal areas, China people’s attitude towards foreign festivals is also "the south wind gradually spread to the north". At first, Guangdong, Shanghai and other regions broke through the imprisonment in understanding, and then began to gradually affect the whole country.


  Around the 1990s, businesses in Guangdong and other places began to actively play up pure western festivals such as Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Valentine’s Day for commercial purposes, and gradually formed a trend. More and more people in China began to celebrate foreign festivals generously.


  "On the surface, the start of foreign festivals in China seems to be a purely commercial promotion, but its origin is the openness and tolerance of China people’s mentality formed with the reform and opening up, and foreign cultures are no longer blindly excluded." Zhang Yu, general manager of caeg Company, said: "Learning to appreciate with tolerance is a major change for China people to treat foreign festivals."


  In fact, China people, who were just curious at first, gradually discovered the positive factors of foreign festivals from the perspective of cultural level and psychological needs, such as mother’s day, father’s day, Thanksgiving and other grateful feelings, such as the candor and expression of love on Valentine’s Day.


  In 1998, Ms. Chen Zinan, who returned from overseas, returned to Beijing. She liked quadrangle culture and opened a western private restaurant called "Chief of Autumn". Since its opening, Valentine’s Day and Christmas are the best prime time for business here. "Apart from foreigners, more and more people from China have come here for Christmas and Christmas dinner in recent years."


  Reason and Emotion: Traditional festivals in China are the main theme.


  In the 21st century, foreign festivals have blossomed everywhere in China. Nowadays, whenever Valentine’s Day, Christmas and other foreign festivals come, waiters wearing little red riding hood can be seen in many cities in China, and news that roses are seriously out of stock can be heard. The foreign festival economy spawned by foreign festivals has become a gimmick for merchants to attract customers, and foreign festivals have also become a fashion.


  However, in the hot atmosphere of the festival, the decline of traditional festivals in China has gradually caused China people to worry about the protection and inheritance of their traditional culture.


  On the eve of Christmas in 2006, 10 doctors from Peking University, Tsinghua, Nankai University and other universities issued a joint signature proposal, calling on netizens to be cautious about Christmas. They believe that the reason why Christmas is popular in China is that Chinese people are in a state of collective unconsciousness in culture-indifference and indifference to their own traditions is the reason why foreign festivals are popular.


  Therefore, after foreign festivals prevailed in China for more than 10 years, China people began to think about them from the perspective of reason and emotion.


  "When China people flock to celebrate Christmas, people will have some worries." Zhang Yiwu, a professor of Chinese literature in Peking University, said: "The root cause of anxiety lies in China people’s fear that the younger generation will lose enthusiasm for their traditional festivals and forget the foundation of their own culture. Of course, we don’t exclude foreign cultures, but our foundation should be our own traditional culture, so we must make it clear that China Festival is the main theme of our festival. "


  Some scholars wrote that we should not persuade people to stay away from or even resist the proliferation of foreign festivals, but should objectively examine the exchange and mutual accommodation between Chinese and Western cultures with the broad mind of the Chinese nation and a heart without cultural prejudice. While paying attention to and accepting western culture, we should pay more attention to how to revitalize our own traditions and culture, reform and enrich the connotation of these traditional festivals, and make them more attractive.


  In fact, the China government has begun to consciously guide people to pay attention to their traditional festivals. It is a positive and clear signal that Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival have become legal holidays.

Editor: Liu Li

Save the famine! Star movie bloggers recommend good movies for you online.


Huang Xuan


As a famous "Buddhist male god of literature and art", Huang Xuan is not active on various social networking sites, but leaves more time for self-charging, including a lot of reading and watching movies.


      Huang Xuan, who starred in many literary films, also loved art films. He once revealed in an interview that michael haneke, Clint Eastwood, jim jarmusch and sean penn are all his favorite filmmakers.

      He also recommended Into the Wild, Children, A Parting, Requiem for a Dream, East of Eden and many other films that will still be revisited.

When filming The Legend of the Demon Cat, in order to make himself more poetic, Huang Xuan read The West Chamber and Wang Guowei’s Poems on Earth under the recommendation of Chen Kaige, and constantly tried to figure out the psychological state of the characters. Watching movies on weekdays is another form of precipitation and accumulation for Huang Xuan.


In Huang Xuan’s view, sharing his reading and watching movies with fans is also part of the communication between artists and fans. "It is biased towards the exchange of ideas and is also an active advocacy of a lifestyle."



Chun Li


In addition to Li Xian, Chun Li, who once played the role of Si Li in Joy of Life, and played Wei Yaowan in Ruyi’s Royal Love in the Palace, is also a star movie blogger who often "operates" in Weibo.


Not only that, but she also created a topic for sharing movies in Weibo: # Pure Movie Watching #, which has been launched for nearly two years and recommended more than 50 movies, with nearly 100 million readings and more than 100,000 comments.


Last year, Chun Li also won the title of "Top Ten V Judges of 2019" with a group of film critics for this topic.


In contrast, Chun Li’s film list is more grounded and popular, with both foreign literary masterpieces and a large number of cinema films and Chinese films. The recommendation is more like a "private" sharing between girlfriends than a film review.


For example, when recommending the award-winning film Girl, the director of Cannes Film Festival, Chun Li shared his experience of practicing ballet. "The familiar images evoke many memories. Becoming a ballet dancer is a transformation full of real pain … The girls who dance ballet are given a stubborn persistence. The film is like this, and so are we. "


The suspense film Searching reminds her of her subtle mentality when communicating with her parents: "I am particularly touched by the fact that my father repeatedly knocked on the keyboard and then deleted this picture. Many times when communicating with my parents, many words came to my mouth and finally swallowed back."


chen jian bin


      Chen Jianbin, a graduate of the Central Academy of Drama, is a famous "professional fan" in the circle.

      For this identity, he himself is also very recognized. He bluntly said that his interest in watching movies is "natural" and he likes all kinds of movies, not for work. "Because watching movies can make me feel particularly happy and happy."

Among them, Zhang Yimou’s Red Sorghum and Truffaut’s The Last Subway are enlightening works that lead him to the road of performance.


The rural theme of "Red Sorghum" made him see the hope that he was born in the countryside to engage in acting career. In "The Last Subway", the images of the protagonists still insisting on rehearsing in the basement of the theater during the war gave him the desire to apply for Chinese opera.


Chen Jianbin is very confident about his movie viewing volume, and once proudly said that he has never met his opponent. When studying in Chinese opera, he often locked himself in the viewing room and watched videos all night. This brushing habit has also been maintained until now.


In a life variety show, Chen Jianbin started the "viewing room" mode as soon as he arrived at the residence, and took out the long-prepared Blu-ray discs, all of which were classic old films, including butch cassidy and the sundance kid, Sunset Yellow Sand and the "Apu Trilogy" by Indian director satyajit ray.


After watching the movie, I had a whim. I told my wife, Angel, that I wanted to name the unborn child Sundance (the name of the protagonist in butch cassidy and the sundance kid), and the shadow is full of true colors.



WatchingThe Phantom SewerAt that time, Chen Jianbin even brought his own commentary track. "This is notPaul Thomas AndersonThe best movie. "And then reel comments.



In an interview, Chen Jianbin once asked a reporter, "What is the first shot of American Beauty?" At that time, the other party was speechless. This has also become one of the anecdotes circulating in the circle.



Chen Jianbin said that when people often ask themselves why they can watch so many movies, he often replies, "I spend other people’s time watching movies. Even though I’m not in this industry now, I’m still an avid movie fan. “


In addition to the above four, there are many stars in the film and television circle who are hidden senior fans and movie bloggers.


Zhang YiIt has been revealed that my biggest hobby is to organize my own film library and prefix all films according to the ranking of directors, main actors, awards and douban, so as to facilitate my retrieval and study at any time.



78-year-old famous directorXie FeiUp to now, I still actively share all kinds of film reviews and drama reviews on Douban, including not only a large number of literary films and cinema films, but also online dramas such as Joy of Life, which can be described as "never too old to see old".



It is true that some people may question that the behavior of movie recommendation by stars is "setting aside people" and "showing superiority", but it is undeniable that listening, watching and feeling excellent works is one of the necessary accomplishments for actors and directors, and it will certainly help them go further and further on the road of performing arts.


Xiao Dianjun also sincerely expects that there will be more movie bloggers in the entertainment circle.

Andy Lau, Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige lead 11 blockbusters! Which one do you want to watch on Mid-Autumn National Day? What listed companies are behind the movie?

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The long holiday begins today, which relaxes the mood, except for the stock market.in lifeThere are more important things. You might as well make an appointment with your family and friends and go to the cinema to enjoy your time.
After experiencing the hot summer file with a new box office record of 20.619 billion yuan, what surprises will the audience get from the Mid-Autumn Festival National Day file?
Eleven films, such as Rock-Solid, Moscow Action, It’s not as if I’m so excited, Ex-4: Early Marriage, Volunteers: Attack by Soldiers, were assembled! It’s the rhythm of "living" in the cinema again. So many movies, which one do you want to see?
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Rock-solid
Release date: September 28th.
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Among the Mid-Autumn National Day movies, Zhang Yimou, 73, is undoubtedly the brand-new masterpiece "Rock Solid".
"Rock-solid", which lasted for four years and finally met with you, was his first challenge to the theme of urban crime. Before that, he revealed in an interview: "This is an urban, modern and cold style that I have never tried."
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Source: The movie "Rock Solid" official Weibo
According to Zhongxin. com, director Zhang Yimou said at the film conference that he didn’t have many realistic works, but Rock Solid was sharp and powerful, and the shooting process was very special. "From visual style to completion to final filming, it was a rare experience and attempt."
In addition, Zhang Yimou joked in the interview, "If Rock-Solid is released before The Knockout, Yu Hewei will be the first and Zhang Songwen will be the second". When this statement comes out, it will make everyone’s expectations full.
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Volunteer Army: Attack by Soldiers
Release time: September 28th.
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As the first part of the trilogy "Volunteers", Volunteer Army: Attack with Brave Soldiers tells the story from how to decide to send troops to the first and second battles of Chinese people’s Volunteer Army’s entry into the DPRK. The film will be released nationwide on September 28th, 2023.
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The biggest difference between the trilogy of Volunteers and the previous films on the theme of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea is that it shows this "war of founding the country" in a panoramic and multi-dimensional way.
The story spans three years and completely presents the historical context of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. There are more than 200 key figures, including leaders, generals and unknown soldiers. The individual destiny and the times complement each other, showing the audience a magnificent war group image.
03
International Train Robbery’ 93: Operation Moscow
Release date: September 29th.
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Source: The film "Moscow Action" official Weibo
The film "93 International Train Robbery: Moscow Action", co-produced by Han Sanping and Andy Lau and directed by Qiu Litao, reproduces the extremely brutal transnational case and the high-energy hard-core pursuit!
The film gathers Andy Lau, Zhang Hanyu, Huang Xuan, Janice Man and other luxury lineups, presenting the audience with the only violent crime action blockbuster in the National Day file, which will be released on September 29th!
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As the only criminal action blockbuster in the National Day of 2023, the movie "Moscow Action" is strictly made with top-level industrialization standards, with fast and accurate fighting and gun battles, hard-burning and explosive car racing, intense and thrilling firepower, and the audience subverts their imagination, giving them an extremely enjoyable audio-visual feast!
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Ex-4: Early Marriage
Release date: September 28th.
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In 2017, a "Ex-3: Goodbye to Ex-3" detonated the "ex-emotion" about breaking up and gained 1.9 billion box office. After a lapse of six years, Ex-4: Early Marriage is back again, and the question of "what is love" is carried through to the end. This time, Meng Yun and Yu Fei, the "former" old friends, will face new marriage problems.
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The film tells the story of Meng Yun, who is caught in the "sequela of breakup", while looking for his destiny, thinking about "why do people get married"; On the other hand, Yu Fei started the "marriage cooling-off period", from the involution of couples to frequent problems, and ushered in a new round of love challenges.
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It doesn’t seem so hot.
Release date: September 28th.
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The only comedy on Mid-Autumn National Day, It’s not as if I have a boiling passion, was written and supervised by Xing Wenxiong, directed by Gao Hu and starring Wei Xiang, Wang Zhi and Yue Liang.
The film tells the story of Wei Guozheng, a conceited coach who pursues "playing to win". He meets a group of players who love basketball but have a negative ability value, and forms a nameless "Benevolence House" basketball team.
pictureIn the daily training that chickens talk to ducks every day, how can coach Wei, who is on the verge of collapse, turn decay into magic and save the basketball team that is on the verge of bankruptcy? Whether they can be together "negative and positive" and achieve a real counterattack will be seen on the field.
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I am the Return of the Hero of Nezha 2.
Release date: September 29th.
Every holiday is indispensable for children to watch animated films. Among the four animated films to be released this year, I am the Return of the Hero of Nezha 2, Beckon Bear: mission to mars, The Legend of the Little Mermaid’s Sea Monster and Kung Fu King’s Tiger Climbing the Mountain, I am the Return of the Hero of Nezha 2 has received the highest attention.
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The film tells the story of Nezha and the Three Dragons mutually assured destruction after the Chentangguan War. Taiyi real person brought Nezha’s immortal body back to Qianyuan Mountain, waiting for the opportunity to regenerate Nezha to help Jiang Ziya to worship the gods.
At the critical moment of rebirth, Nezha fell into a huge conspiracy carefully arranged by Shen Gongbao and the Dragon King of the East China Sea. Can Nezha break the spell of Shen Gongbao? Can you be a real hero? Nezha’s difficult road to rebirth is about to open, and the battle for the hero’s return is imminent.
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Which listed companies are behind the National Day file?
Movies are introduced here. As a financial blogger who spends every day in the stock market, I still want to analyze the listed companies behind these movies.
This year’s National Day, Light, Huayi and Bona will not be absent. Bona produced Chen Kaige’s Volunteer Army: Attack by Soldiers, while Light prepared Zhang Yimou’s Rock-solid. The release dates of the two films are only two days, which is the first time that the two directors have confronted each other in the commercial market. In Huayi’s hand, it is Tian Yusheng’s "Former" series "Former 4: Early Marriage" at the end of the decade.
At present, a total of 7 films have been scheduled for the National Day Mid-Autumn Festival. According to the data of Cat’s Eye Professional Edition, the upper limit of box office predicted by "Rock Solid" and "Previous 4" is 1.78 billion yuan and 2.5 billion yuan respectively, and the box office predicted by "Volunteers" is 1.28 billion yuan to 1.5 billion yuan. At present, the predicted box office of no films exceeds 3 billion yuan, and the total predicted box office of announced films is about 4.4 billion to 6.4 billion yuan.
Looking at the performance in the first half of the year, the light media can be described as steady development.
In the first half of the year, Light Media achieved revenue of 605 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.78%; The net profit of returning to the mother was 203 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 1.12%.The films mainly invested by Light Media include Deep Sea in the Spring Festival and So Many Years in May 1st. In addition to Deep Sea, Light Media also participated in Manjianghong and Exchange of Life in the Spring Festival of 2023.
However, although "Man Jiang Hong" has a high box office. However, the investment proportion of light is not high, and the income is not as good as the main slide with lower box office. The revenue range of the mainland box office of Light Media, which originated from "Man Jiang Hong", is expected to reach about 100 million, which is lower than the revenue brought by "Deep Sea".
By contrast,Bona Film, which just landed on the A-share market last year, had a hard time.
According to the financial report, the company’s operating income was about 850 million yuan, down 42.31% year-on-year; The net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies was about-265 million yuan, down 212.22% year-on-year. Bona explained in the financial report that the main reason was that during the reporting period, compared with last year, the company invested in films with different orders of magnitude, and its performance was not as good as that of the same period last year.

thisNational day file,Bona bet on "Volunteers: Attack by Soldiers". By the end of June, the accounts receivable of Bona Film reached 830 million yuan, accounting for 97.65% of the revenue, and the net cash flow generated by operating activities in the same period was only-120 million yuan.

Huayi BrothersAbsentthis yearSummer file.
In the first half of 2023, five films were released by Huayi Brothers: Wandering Earth 2, Rock Tibetan Mastiff: Riding the Wind and Waves, Cosmic Exploration Editorial Department, Love is Beautiful, and Slam Dunk Master. The main films: Rock Tibetan Mastiff: Riding the Wind and Waves and Love is Beautiful were 39.624 million and 14.551 million respectively. At present, the upcoming "Former 4" in the National Day file may become the "life-saving straw" of Huayi Brothers.
According to the financial report, Huayi achieved an operating income of 339 million yuan in the first half of 2023, a year-on-year increase of 59.93%; The net profit loss of returning to the mother was 143 million yuan, which was 192 million yuan in the same period of last year, and the loss was narrowed compared with the same period of last year.

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A quick tutorial on football, which teaches you to become an elegant girl who knows the ball.

Recently, football fans have celebrated the Spring Festival again.

The Spanish national derby has begun again!

It is always difficult for girls to understand such things as football.

Why is it so attractive to boys!

So today, Brother Hunzi will tell you something about football (especially my sister paper who doesn’t know the ball).

# Football # # World Cup # # Football rules # # Football play # # Spanish national derby #

People’s body talk: the charm of football and grassroots feelings

Source: People’s Daily Online-Viewpoint Channel Original Draft

On November 17th, in the second round of the 2022 Chinese Football Association Cup, the Chinese champion team Jingchuan Wenhui eliminated the Chinese Super League team Beijing Guoan 7:5 in a penalty shootout and advanced to the top 16. This game surprised many people. Losing to a semi-professional team as a traditional strong team in the Super League may be caused by various reasons, but it also made many people know more about the current situation of football in China and look forward to the development of grass-roots football.

The FA Cup is an independent knockout cup outside the football league in China, and it is also the only opportunity for low-level teams and high-level teams to compete together. Jingchuan Wenhui eliminated Beijing Guoan from penalty. Although there were accidental factors, from the process of 2:2 draw in regular time, the strength of the two teams was close, and Jingchuan Wenhui team even got the upper hand slightly. Two goals were remarkable. The players on the field were thunderous, calm and confident, and had a degree of attack and defense. In a game in which the strength is very different and there is no suspense, the audience felt the long-lost charm of competitive football.

Aside from the mobilization, cohesion and team fighting capacity before the game, we can find details that are easily covered up by victory from the voice of the head of Jingchuan Wenhui after the game. Jingchuan Wenhui said that the main reason for winning the game was that the opponent was negligent and could not use foreign aid. He attributed the opponent’s defeat to accidental factors and external uncontrollable rules. Compared with the simple ceremony of "accepting and accepting", he was polite, modest and humble, which was quite the bearing and pattern of Chinese traditional culture. Brutalizing its physique, civilizing its spirit, an unexpected game, let us see the momentum and indomitable feelings of grassroots football.

Football is round. The competitive characteristics and rules of the game make football not only have the integrity, antagonism and appreciation shared by collective ball games, but also have the variability of technical and tactical coordination and the contingency of game results.

"The prime minister must start from the state department, and the fierce generals must be sent to the pawn." According to the results of post-match interviews and data disclosure, there are 152 players in Jingchuan Wenhui Football Club, more than 70 of whom are local doctors, policemen, teachers and other amateurs from all walks of life, and 40% of the players participating in the FA Cup are semi-professional players. Jingchuan Wenhui Club is integrated with Beihai Jichi Club, co-built and shared with Jingchuan County key amateur sports schools, and has a champion team, an U19 echelon, an U17 echelon and an amateur team, which reflects the effectiveness of Jingchuan County Football Association reform. The development of grass-roots football in Jingchuan presents a good trend, which is not only the component of football professionalization reform, but also supported by the three-level training network of competitive sports national system, and the association, sports school and club cooperate and form a joint force. The deepening reform and practice of county-level individual associations, the development of county-level football clubs and the modernization process of amateur sports schools are all key and difficult points in the construction of a strong sports country and the development of grass-roots sports organizations. For the government and an effective market, it may be the internal logic of the wonderful performance of this grassroots counterattack.

If the road is long, the line will come, but it is difficult and more brave. We expect the society to pay more attention and support to grass-roots football, and we expect that the sports lifestyle with football as the carrier can meet the needs of more people for a better life!

Fashion is not superstition, but a compulsory course in life!

In the stream of time, we always walk through the intersection of the past and the future. Clothing, like a symbol of time, carries our choices and decisions at every step. Sister pomelo tells history takes you into a wonderful journey through time and space.

Hey, history fans, let’s cross the long river of history, but also remember the preciousness of every moment. Clothes are not only a coat, but also a code of life and a story about us. Uncover the wonderful world outside this fashion together.

"Respect clothes before people, skin before soul." This ancient proverb is buried in our hearts like a seed of revelation. Clothes may not determine a person’s life, but it is a window into the heart. Does this mean that every choice we make affects our future destiny?

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"Image must be ahead of ability, otherwise your ability will be easily overlooked and underestimated." The external image, like a bright flag, leads our internal state. Dressing appropriately is not only a respect for yourself, but also an attitude towards life and career. Let our image become a background color of life and light up the road ahead.

Network material

"Appreciating a person begins with face value, respects talent, fits in with character, lasts longer than kindness and is loyal to character." Life is like a painting, and its face value, talent and personality are like various shades on the canvas. Dressing is not only an external decoration, but also a way to show our colorful life. Let the aesthetic power dance on us, and let people feel the charm of both internal and external cultivation while seeing us.

Network material

"A person’s life will not be decided by the clothes you wear, but you can see your life state and inner world through the clothes you wear." Clothing is not only an external expression, but also a reflection of inner feelings. The netizen in this story changed his life through ten days of careful dressing. The choice of clothes has become the starting point of her fashion mood turning point. Isn’t this the wonderful power of fashion?

"Teacher Angela Chung once said:’ You dress beautifully and appropriately, and it is your people who are remembered; You wear sloppy clothes, and people will only remember your sloppy clothes.’ "Dressing appropriately is not only a kind of respect for yourself, but also a kind of respect for others. A good display of external image will lead us to the peak of life. Let proper dress become a plus item in our life, lead good luck and prevent opportunities from slipping away easily.

Network material

Dressing turned out to be a fate choice. Clothes are not only a part of our life, but also our window to the outside world. While choosing clothes, we may also be betting on every step of life. The mystery of life is hidden outside fashion, and clothing is one of our most intuitive choices every day. In the long river of time, let us lead our own destiny through clothing. Not only fashion, but also the choice of life. Dress, change your destiny, make your own decisions.

Let the culture and history be vivid.

Source: People’s Daily Online-People’s Daily Overseas Edition

Wang Chonglv Guo Hongsong painted.

Compared with Zeng Guofan, I admire Zhang Jian more. As an extremely complicated individual, Zeng Guofan can be said to be a "big book" with rich contents. After living in Beijing for ten years, he was a scholar, awarded Hanlin, and served as assistant minister of various ministries. After being released to the outside world, he set up the Xiang Army, created Westernization, and served as the governor of several provinces, ranking among the three. He became the person with the greatest meritorious service, the heaviest power and the highest status since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, and achieved the "three immortals" of virtue, meritorious service and self-examination. Moreover, through introspection, he became a sage, a saint inside and a king outside, and "worthy of the perfection of heaven and earth".

However, I vaguely feel that he has lost his id and the starting point of life. He not only wants to build extraordinary achievements, but also wants to be a perfect man between heaven and earth, so as to achieve all-round transcendence inside and outside. His pain also comes from both inside and outside: on the one hand, the court is afraid and suspicious of him, and at the same time, in order to establish a perfect image, he is cautious in his words and deeds, treading on thin ice and pursuing perfection in everything, which inevitably leads to melodramatic and pretentious. As he wrote in his diary: "I have been too anxious recently, and every day I swim in an open day, it is always because I am too eager for fame and popular opinion."

In contrast, Zhang Jian is like a pioneer in the long night.

Zhang Jian’s imperial examination road was very uneven. Seeing the defeat in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, and thinking about 26 years of wasted time, 120 days and nights curled up and rested in a narrow test shed during the day, and the destruction of talents by stereotyped writing, the champion and he resolutely decided to abandon his official career and take the road of rejuvenating the country through industry and education.

After establishing the development idea of "father’s education and mother’s industry", he has founded more than 20 enterprises, involving textiles, printing and dyeing, printing, paper making, matches, soap, electricity, salt industry, animal husbandry, silkworm, oil, flour, telephone, shipping, docks, banks, real estate, hotels and other industries. Among the more than 370 schools he founded, apart from primary and secondary schools, the focus was on normal education and vocational education in agriculture, medical care, textiles, railways, merchant ships and river and sea engineering. He founded the University of Engineering and Nanyang University, supported his colleagues to establish Fudan College, merged the three colleges of medicine, textile and agriculture into the future Nantong University, and also contacted celebrities in the education field to brew the transformation of normal universities into universities, thus establishing Southeast University and creating a complete modern education system.

The "Big Student Model" he explored promoted the joint-stock system of modern enterprises in China. In terms of education and culture, his museums, normal schools, new theaters and meteorological stations are the first in the country. In addition to establishing a library, a society of performers, a more vulgar theater, parks and stadiums, he also set up charitable undertakings such as nursing homes, nursery schools, disabled homes, poor factories, shelters and welfare homes, with a view to transforming society and improving the quality of the people.

In terms of ideological and theoretical achievements, there has always been a difference in the evaluation between "following" and "going on" in academic circles. The former embodies inheritance, just like adding bricks and tiles to the inherent balcony; The latter pays more attention to innovation and is committed to re-building. As a pioneering practitioner, Zhang Jian belongs to the latter category. From a historical point of view, future generations admire a person, not only by examining what he has done to benefit the society and the people, but also by valuing what new things he has provided to the predecessors. In this sense, I said, "Fool is more approachable, and I am quite convinced by Zhang Jian."

No matter Zeng Guofan or Zhang Jian, or even thinkers, writers and politicians in China, what they said and did in their time reflected the influence of Chinese traditional culture and enriched this culture with their own practice. This is also the angle I chose to write "Context-History of Our Mind".

Culture is the root, blood and lifeline of a nation, and Chinese studies are an important carrier of Chinese spiritual culture. Throughout the history of human civilization, Chinese culture has unique ideas, wisdom, tolerance and charm, which has added a high degree of self-confidence and incomparable pride to the Chinese nation.

Many people equate Sinology with China’s traditional culture, which is unscientific and imprecise. They are two different concepts. The connotation of traditional culture is much broader, including material culture (such as utensils, clothing, food, architecture, etc.), institutional ritual culture and spiritual culture (knowledge, belief, art, religion, philosophy, law, morality, etc.); Traditional Chinese studies, however, is only a part of China’s traditional culture, and its scope is relatively narrow.

The so-called "national studies" are relative to western learning and new learning. At the end of Qing Dynasty, when European and American academics entered China, people called China’s inherent knowledge "Sinology", which generally refers to Chinese traditional culture and academics with Confucianism as the main body. Liang Qichao said that sinology is a knowledge about moral character, that is, a knowledge to sharpen one’s own character and virtue. In terms of disciplines, Chinese studies include today’s philosophy, history, religion, literature, manners and customs, textual research, ethics, edition, etc. In terms of ideology, there are three schools of thought, namely, pre-Qin hundred schools of thought, Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. For a long time, Confucianism has run through and dominated the history of China’s thoughts, while others are subordinate.

Theoretically speaking, Chinese traditional culture has three pillars: Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. Confucianism and Taoism are indigenous and first produced in China. After the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Chinese classics, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties, the introduction and spread of Buddhism, and Confucianism and Taoism formed a three-legged situation. As the traditional wisdom of Chinese life, they interacted and complemented each other. Confucianism stresses the enterprising spirit of joining the WTO, emphasizes vigorous and promising, and aims to cultivate self-cultivation, rule the country, and take the world as its own responsibility; Taoism pays attention to spiritual detachment, natural Taoism, calm and smooth, inaction, soft and rigid, and static braking. Buddhism pays attention to being born, emphasizing that everything is empty, eliminating interference, turning troubles into bodhi, indifferent to fame and fortune, and "putting down is the best." Once upon a time, there was a saying: "Treat the mind with Buddhism, the body with Taoism, and the world with Confucianism." (filial piety in Southern Song Dynasty)

History is a process of inheritance and accumulation, and the present and future of a nation are extensions of history. Some historical and cultural essays, with the help of the accumulation of historical materials, treat the exhaustion of the soul and make up for the absence of the spirit, obliterate the characteristics of prose expressing individuality and revealing oneself, regard the historical materials that should be the background as the main body of the article, and fail to see the dimension of spiritual display. In my writing, I pay special attention to strengthening the subjective consciousness, focusing on the pertinence of reality, and strive to infuse new insights, new discoveries, true temperament and sense of reality into historical materials.

Historical and cultural prose should be a mixture of literature and history, and it is an organic integration of philosophy, poetry and historical writing. They should rely on historical events, seek the source of passion from poetic nature, and obtain the ladder of sublimation on the philosophical level. Through the marriage of literature and history, the youthful smile of literature brings vitality and beauty, vitality and passion to the cold and solemn historical old man; After reading the vicissitudes of history, the literary beauty gets the enlightenment like the morning bell and the evening drum, adding a huge spiritual impact on the aesthetic value.

When writing the book "Context", on the premise of accurately understanding ancient books, I used prose forms and literary techniques to explain the facts and show the spiritual outlook of the characters; Try to set up some tension fields, information sources and shock waves, so that vivid images, vivid interesting things and thought-provoking inquiries can be danced from time to time, and strive to avoid the stagnation and rigidity of pure political theory, and reasoning will become a proper wake-up call or a necessary adjustment to lyric and narrative. This kind of "reason" comes from the perception of life and has a strong personality color. In this way, history has also become smart and full of fresh vitality.

The Chinese context is vast. We have entered the profound China culture, the complicated and changeable real world and the surging spiritual world.

Dress in fashion, not in price.

The beauty of human beings consists of three parts, namely, innate beauty, beautiful clothes, and beautiful manners and temperament. This article focuses on the beauty of dress.

It is generally believed that people look beautiful when they wear fashion.

However, now many people have realized that wearing fashionable clothes does not necessarily mean that clothes are expensive. Wearing expensive clothes does not necessarily mean that people are naturally beautiful.

People dress in fashion.

Mainly refers to the color of clothes and fabrics, and the clothes are fashionable. The most important factor is that the clothes people wear are appropriate and suitable. Pay attention to people’s hobbies, and wear clothes suitable for their body shape, skin color, professional characteristics, communication habits, psychological personality and so on. Not a fashionable dress looks beautiful on anyone.

Dressing in fashion does not mean that clothes are expensive.

Many people think that they have little money, and wearing expensive clothes will not reflect fashion, nor will it be beautiful. This statement is biased. Some stars go out, go to the entertainment stage, and go to interpersonal public places, showing great fashion. Everyone thinks that the clothes and accessories they wear are very expensive and piled up with money.

Actually, not completely. There are many celebrities wearing clothes that are cheaper, not as expensive as people think. Dong Qing, a famous program host, once said that some clothes she wears are only 50 yuan or a hundred pieces.

We often see the host of the program, wearing ordinary clothes. In contrast, some people are bent on buying high-end clothes, spending thousands of dollars on a dress and hundreds or thousands of dollars on a scarf. Do outsiders think fashion is beautiful in others’ eyes? Not really.

How to make yourself look fashionable and beautiful.

01 Follow the trend appropriately. Dressing in fashion can pay attention to the current recognition of members of society. Look at what people tend to wear, and wear it with them.

For example, young people love to wear jeans and feel energetic. The elderly people also wear jeans, and they still have a sense of fashion. It is also fashionable that some jeans manufacturers deliberately make knees or trouser legs into "rotten whiskers".

Be creative and fashionable. It is fashionable to dress up as a style and style by your own vision and appreciation, and be imitated by others.

For example, a lady will buy a silk scarf for seven or eight yuan, and it is typical fashion to boldly appear in the street to attract admiration with a kind of tying method she imagines, which matches her self-demeanor and self-confidence.

How to make the combination of wearing and human body beautiful and attractive.

The charm of people, after all, is graceful, beautiful, attractive and penetrating in interpersonal relationships, but also has personality shock and warmth.

To have this comprehensive charm, people must pay attention to their appearance. Dress neatly, pay special attention to appropriateness and collocation. We should also pay attention to the beauty of language posture.

Some people only wear expensive clothes, which are famous brands. They don’t pay attention to people’s self-cultivation. They talk too much, are rude, talk too much, dance too much, etc. Not only are they not beautiful, but they are also "ugly".

Create a good atmosphere of national fitness, and this badminton match is hot!

Recently, Changhai Road Sub-district Federation of Trade Unions held the third "Changhai Cup" staff badminton competition in 2023. All units in the jurisdiction actively signed up, and nearly 110 players from 23 teams gathered together to compete.

The competition adopts men’s singles, women’s singles and team competition system, and is carried out in the form of elimination. The scene of the competition was brilliant and climaxed. Players and groups competed at different levels. Players compared tactics, patience, jumping, backhand, smash and flowing, which fully demonstrated the indomitable, courageous and passionate spirit of Changhai employees and greeted the audience with cheers.

This competition has built a platform for Changhai employees to keep fit, and also provided opportunities for exchanges and discussions. Based on the principle of "civilization, friendship, hard work and progress", after two days of fierce competition, the top three players in the competition were finally decided, and the Street Federation of Trade Unions presented awards to the winners and groups respectively.

Text/picture: Chang Hai

Editor: Zhou Mengzhen

What are the possibilities for the game industry in 2023?

Recently, the game industry has been warm and windy.

As the weather vane of the industry, the 2022 China Game Industry Annual Conference was held in Huangpu. The protection of minors in games has entered a new chapter, the long-term trend of going to sea has not changed, the value of games has been re-evaluated, and the game technology has brought resonance effect ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

What are the possibilities of the game industry in 2023?

For the game industry, 2022 is difficult: whether the overall economic downturn, players’ willingness to pay, lack of capital confidence, and cold investment and financing, it has brought a lot of impact to the industry: many game projects have been dissolved or stopped, and the wave of layoffs has swept again.

The data shows that the domestic market sales revenue and user scale, self-developed game sales revenue and mobile game sales revenue all decreased year-on-year. After the obvious slowdown in 2021, the game user scale declined for the first time in the past 10 years, and the industrial development entered the era of stock market. "China’s game industry is in the stage of pressure storage", aiming at the game industry in 2022, "China Game Industry Report 2022" concluded.

* Actual sales revenue of China game market. Source: China Game Industry Report in 2022.

* The scale and growth rate of game users in China. Source: China Game Industry Report 2022.

However, despite the bleak data of the game industry in 2022, industry practitioners are still full of hope for the future. As Hong Xiao, CEO of Perfect World, said at the 2022 China Game Industry Annual Conference, "Many people feel quite pessimistic after reading the industry data in 2022, but no one said this word."

Recently, the 2022 China Game Industry Annual Conference was held in Huangpu, Guangzhou. According to Zhang Yijun, the first vice chairman of China Audio-visual and Digital Publishing Association, the number of participants exceeded 2,700, almost double that of previous years, and the scene was packed. He pointed out, "Through the current situation, we can feel what kind of development trend is in 2023. If everyone in this industry does not see hope and opportunities, this situation will not be formed." At the meeting, Gao Dawei, deputy general manager of Tencent’s digital public opinion department, also said with emotion, "Walking through various forums, I felt a surging enthusiasm, as if I heard the sound of the game super engine starting and roaring again."

After the "cold" 2022, major game companies have more expectations for 2023. "The bad news is exhausted, bottoming out", Tan Yanfeng, vice president of Shengqu Games, summed up his outlook for the future of the industry in eight words; Hong Xiao, CEO of Perfect World, pointed out that the game industry has entered the next stage, and there are still many values worthy of being dug deep by practitioners; Wu Shenghe, CEO of Zulong Entertainment, said that with the release of the version number, many game masterpieces are ready to go, and this year will be a year of fierce competition.

According to statistics, since the resumption of version number distribution last year, more than 180 domestic game version numbers have been distributed in two batches this year. In addition to large enterprises such as Tencent and Netease, many small and medium-sized manufacturers have also gained something. Among them, many game companies that have got the version number are eager to try, and are ready to make great efforts this year. For example, Tencent, which got the version number in January this year, has announced that it will set a file in February, and the number of reserved users in the whole network has exceeded 70 million; Netease survival shooting mobile game "Extraordinary Pioneer" started the "prism test" in January; Mihayou’s new work "Collapse: Xingyuan Railway" has also been opened for paid testing recently and is expected to go online in April; Zulong Entertainment’s new version of the love women game "In the Name of Shining" is also planned to be launched in China in the first half of the year …

In addition, the 2022 China Game Industry Report also revealed a more positive signal, "The game industry is expected to rebound after bottoming out from industry resources to users’ willingness and ability to consume.",and pointed out that insisting on high-quality and high-quality development, deepening the subdivision and differentiation of the track, and paying more attention to the user experience will become the focus of China’s game industry to break through the predicament and develop healthily.

In recent years, with the shrinking of the "blue ocean" of the domestic game market, going out has become a "compulsory question" for game companies. More and more companies take going out to sea as their key development strategy, and the number of game products going out to sea is increasing and the area of going out to sea is expanding.

At the same time, the achievements of domestic game companies in overseas markets are obvious to all. According to the data, in 2022, the actual sales revenue of China’s self-developed games in overseas markets was 17.346 billion US dollars, which was more than 4 times higher than that of 3.076 billion in 2014. According to Zhang Yijun, the first vice chairman of China Audio-visual and Digital Publishing Association and chairman of the Game Working Committee, the overseas income of self-developed games has exceeded 10 billion US dollars for four consecutive years, and it can also account for about one-third of the domestic market income. Such achievements show that domestic enterprises are doing well overseas, which is recognized by real money.

* Actual sales revenue and growth rate of China’s self-developed games in overseas markets. Source: China Game Industry Report 2022.

However, since 2022, the external unstable factors faced by games going out to sea have increased, such as changes in the international environment, changes in overseas laws and policies, overseas channels, and overseas tax issues. In the context of the decline in the scale of the global game market, the actual sales revenue of China’s self-developed games in overseas markets also declined for the first time in 2018, down 3.7% year-on-year. At the same time, as more and more domestic manufacturers flock to the sea track, the competition for going to sea becomes more and more fierce, the cost of buying continues to rise, the profit rate decreases, and the overseas game market has also "rolled" from the blue ocean to the red sea.

However, "the choice of game going out is irreversible". In the increasingly crowded overseas market, how should domestic game manufacturers tap the new amount and find the second growth curve?

Ao Ran, executive vice president and secretary general of China Audio-visual and Digital Publishing Association, pointed out that although China’s game enterprises will face more or less challenges in the process of going out to sea in 2022, the long-term positive trend has not changed. China’s games still have room for development in overseas markets, and there are development opportunities in some new fields. On the one hand, the emerging game markets in the Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin China and other regions have great development potential, which is expected to become the growth point of’s game going out to sea. On the other hand, there are development opportunities for games going out to sea on the sub-track of IP-adapted games, casual games and other game products.

In addition, keywords such as localization, content innovation and long-term operation were constantly mentioned at the game going to sea and marketing forum on the 13th. "Although going out to sea is already the Red Sea, there are many difficulties, but it is still a super market with billions of users, and opportunities are always there." Dong Bin, deputy general manager of Glacier Network, said that if you always make good products, make good experiences and improve quality, you still have many opportunities to go out to sea.

Yin Tianming, vice president of Sanqi Mutual Entertainment Products, pointed out that domestic games have entered an era of striving for quality, innovation and quality in overseas markets. Enterprises going to sea must change from "picking fruits" to "planting good trees" and make efforts in three aspects: in-depth localization, product innovation and continuous change, and refined distribution and operation. Zhong Kunjie, deputy general manager of Xinghui Games, said that with the intensification of market competition, the importance of long-term operation of game products has increased sharply. To make the game run longer and the audience more stable, we should do a good job in content iteration, localization, deep layout and cross-promotion.

At the same time, as a cultural carrier, games also shoulder the important mission of spreading Chinese culture abroad in the process of going to sea. Zhang Yijun, the first vice president of China Audio-visual and Digital Publishing Association, said that the excellent games that have been successfully launched at present have absorbed a lot of Chinese traditional cultural elements, which have formed a very good communication role in foreign markets, and also provided help for how to expand overseas more accurately and effectively in the next step. Some enterprises point out that game products with unique cultural attributes can prolong the game viscosity of players in the game, attract users better and reduce the cost of user drainage. Combining with traditional culture and traditional festivals will be the future trend of game development.

"The era of earning money by going out to sea has passed." How will enterprises going out to sea grasp new growth points and face challenges in 2023? It is worth looking forward to.

The scientific and technological attributes are prominent, and the potential value still needs to be tapped.

Paying attention to the science and technology circle, it is not difficult to find that the recent scenery is not only ChatGPT, but also game technology.

At the annual meeting of the game industry in 2022, the scientific and technological attributes of games have received unprecedented attention. Whether it is a forum for game re-cognition, a forum for game+and technology resonance, the topic of technical value of games cannot be avoided.

Ao Ran, executive vice president and secretary general of China Audio-visual and Digital Publishing Association, pointed out that in recent years, the industry has gradually reached a consensus: as a compound cultural content product, games have both natural cultural attributes and profound scientific and technological attributes, and based on these two attributes, they are constantly enriching their economic attributes and becoming a driver to support the integration and development of digital technology and the real economy.

From the discussion in the industry, it can also be clearly seen that the scientific and technological attributes of games are promising in many other industrial fields, and have brought gratifying resonance effects, such as feeding back cutting-edge technologies as a perfect testing ground, "breaking the circle" to promote the integration of numbers and reality, and resonating with the construction of basic fields of science and technology, especially the construction of scientific and technological talents. Andy, vice president of Tencent Interactive Entertainment, said that with the accelerated development of digital and information technology, today’s video games are becoming a super digital scene, and the "culture" and "technology" attributes of the game industry have been demonstrated unprecedentedly.

According to the Research Report on Game Technology Capability and Technology Value, 62% of the respondents recognized the role of game technology in national technology innovation capability, 81% of the respondents agreed that games promoted the development of AI technology, 91.4% of the public researchers believed that game technology promoted the physical field, and 81% of the industry respondents recognized the talent supply and employment capacity of the game industry. At the same time, the report also puts forward two exciting prospects: first, in the future, games will guide more scientific and technological innovations to cross the "valley of death" and improve the survival rate of high and new technologies; Second, the game will become the basic environment to inspire more scientific and technological innovation and give birth to more "unexpected joy".

Undoubtedly,The scientific and technological attributes of the game have been further recognized and affirmed. As Aoran said, "As an important help to realize a strong country in science and technology, the value of the game has become increasingly prominent.".

Referring to how the game industry should better release the scientific and technological efficiency of games and bring more resonance effects in the future, Aoran put forward three key points: promoting innovative breakthroughs in cutting-edge technologies, helping the development of other social fields and strengthening the talent pool in the science and technology industry. Yang Fang, deputy director of Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Publishing Bureau, also said that in the future, games should make new achievements in serving scientific and technological innovation, give full play to the role of game industry development in promoting scientific and technological progress, increase investment in cutting-edge technology research and development, speed up the breakthrough of key core technology innovation, make great efforts to promote scientific and technological innovation and help science and technology overcome difficulties. According to its disclosure, this year, Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China will implement the "Network Publishing Technology Innovation and Development Plan", focusing on promoting the breakthrough of the underlying technology of online games such as virtual reality, perceptual interaction, game engine and motion capture, and promoting the expansion and application of new formats such as metauniverse, digital twins and cloud games.

However, the potential value behind the game goes far beyond this.

The People’s Daily once wrote that games have become an industry of great significance to a country’s industrial layout and scientific and technological innovation, and its potential value deserves further attention and deep excavation. Many game companies also admitted at the annual meeting that the game industry has not really released its value in the digital economy, and it is the general trend to "reassess" the value of games.

"Through this annual meeting, you may have felt that games will become a starting point for many economic phenomena in the future. It has gone beyond the original inherent form of the game and started cross-domain and cross-border, which has a wide range of economic and social values. " Zhang Yijun, the first vice chairman of China Audio-visual and Digital Publishing Association and chairman of the Game Working Committee, said that game companies should focus on the overall development of the industry, explore the positive social value of games at multiple levels and dimensions, and help the game industry to use more diverse social benefits, making a unique contribution to the construction of a strong socialist cultural country and the implementation of the digital economy development strategy.

In view of the future development trend of the game industry, Aoran, executive vice president and secretary general of China Audio-visual and Digital Publishing Association, once concluded at the annual meeting that China’s game industry is an emerging force in the cultural field, and its future development will usher in greater opportunities.The game industry will take the road of independent innovation more firmly, tell the story of China more vividly, and integrate with technological innovation at a higher level.

The trough in 2022 has passed. Can the game industry see the "rainbow" in 2023? Let’s wait and see.

Produced by Nandu Big Data Research Institute

Network content ecological governance research center

Writing: Luo Yun

Source: 2022 China Game Industry Annual Conference and 2022 China Game Industry Report.