w88 casino News Network (Reporter Cui Yan Photography Zhang Andong)Twenty-fourHe was on CCTV years ago1989At the New Year's Day party in 2009, he played the male lead "Xu Dashan" in the sketch "Returning at Night" and became famous overnight. In the past twenty-four years, he has done cross talk, acted in sketches, hosted, and been a TV actor. However, no matter how his identity changed, he always defined himself as a "cultural messenger." Among the people, his name is well known to women and children; officially, he has received Canada's highest lifetime achievement award, the Order of Canada, and is also the first foreigner to be awarded the title of "Beijing's Ten Outstanding Youths". He is Dashan, and tonight he is a guest and trader, talking about Chinese and Western culture with a smile.
Dashan as a guest trader
The experience of working in cross talk sketches makes Dashan full of humor in every gesture. As a warm-up, he first talked about himself, which everyone is familiar with, and reviewed the various cultural activities he had participated in: the Spring Festival Gala, the Beijing Olympics, the Shanghai World Expo, dramas, TV series... "I adjusted the microphone for Jiang Zemin, and lit cigarettes for 'Chairman Mao.'" The audience looked closely at the photos on the screen. It turned out that it was Dashan who lit cigarettes for the actor "Chairman Mao" in the stage play, and they couldn't help laughing.
Da Shan: "Look! Yao Ming wants to take a photo with me!"
When talking about language learning, Dashan still mentioned the old saying: "Interest is the best teacher." He believed that the nine years of compulsory French education in Quebec did not allow him to master the language well. Instead, he became interested after learning a few Chinese words from an overseas Chinese in Canada by chance while working during the summer vacation when he was 19 years old, and then studied Chinese at university. He felt that his initial cross talk performance experience was very beneficial to his learning of Chinese, because cross talk performances that require audience interaction require extremely high language skills from actors, and the details of pronunciation, intonation, and wording must be carefully considered. He admitted that there is really no method for learning a language. If he is interested, he will try his best to learn it and learn it well.
Lecture hall scene
Gutter oil, diaosi, don't toss... How to translate these fresh Chinese words into English? As an enthusiast of cultural exchanges, Dashan often discusses such translation issues on his Weibo and WeChat platforms. He believes that the principles of "faithfulness, expressiveness and elegance" in the field of translation are good, but sometimes we pay too much attention to "elegance" when translating and translate some words that sound good but lose their original meaning. He admires it moreJia Gongyan of the Tang Dynasty once said, "Change words to make each other understand." He believed that making the other party understand is the primary purpose of translation.
When it comes to translation, we have to talk about cultural exchanges between China and the West. Dashan, who is often asked questions such as "What do you think of the bias against China in Western media reports?" Objectively said: "Each of us has our own bias. The West has Western bias, and China also has Chinese bias. Many times we ourselves are not aware of this bias." To deal with this kind of bias, only more communication between the two sides is the best way to solve the problem. In Dashan’s view, China is now emphasizing the construction of “soft power”, and in terms of soft power construction, private power is stronger than official power. As China's external exchanges deepen, every Chinese must have the awareness and responsibility to pass on culture.
Questions from the audience
At the end of the lecture, Dashan bowed and left, and the audience rushed to the stage to stay. Although today, more and more foreigners are following in the footsteps of Dashan and stepping onto China's big and small stages, "Dashan" is still remembered as a cultural phenomenon that first made foreigners step onto the Chinese stage.
This event is hosted by the w88 casino Youth League Committee and organized by the Organization Department of the Student Union of the w88 casino of Foreign Languages.
The atmosphere is lively
