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Recently, Hainan Province has made great efforts to reform the news network of "irregular geographical names," such as "Roomz Vienna", "Victoria District" and other more than 80 names are in the ranks of rectification and reform. The reason for rectification is that these place names have obvious respect for foreign colors and go beyond the scope of Chinese culture.
For the modification of the place name event, some of the net users have given strong support, which is the important way to remove the western cultural mark; while others do not buy the account, it is not the cultural self-confidence that the practice of the government's compulsory modification of the place name suggests that the culture is not self-confidence.
So, is it reasonable to rectify the practice of non-standard place names in Hainan? What is the important information that can be read? Today, we invite the resident guest, Liu, to discuss the subject and the netizens, and welcome the old Liu to our program.
Old Liu: The host is good!
Host: Over the years, the Western-colored vocabulary is indeed becoming more and more popular in China, especially among all kinds of commercial advertising. These hotels, homes, and so on in the province of Hainan have first concentrated on the names of Western colors, such as the Madrid Cell, the Rome Garden, the Vienna Hotel, and so on. Old liu, what do you think is that the practice of removing these non-standard names through government mandatory behavior has some help to build china's cultural self-confidence? Can you talk about the angle of Chinese culture?
Old Liu: OK. First of all, I directly show my position that the Ministry of Civil Affairs of Hainan Province has rectified the practice of "non-standard place name", and I was firmly opposed. The reason they give is also very absurd. By rectifying the place names that contain Western colors, they can show the self-confidence of Chinese culture, and I think it is logical for both positive and negative sides.
On the positive side, Chinese culture has been inclusive since ancient times, it is the common wisdom of multi-ethnic culture, and not just refers to Han culture. Any excellent culture can be absorbed into Chinese culture.
For example, the most simple example, the stool that we sit, the first is the hu-man's hu-bed to evolve, to the Tang and Song period gradually to the whole people, since then change the way the Han people kneel and sit in the painful way, this is actually a part of the different national cultural integration.
For example, now a large number of old Beijing words, such as the rubbing, tearing, opening, etc., all come from the Manchu language, and now have become the common vocabulary of the people's daily life in Beijing. Not to mention the later-introduced sofas, chocolate, and tanks.
The Chinese culture has received the culture of different ethnic groups and regions in different times, so that the Chinese culture has a more diverse content, just as Lin Zexu's famous saying, "Hanna Baichuan, is big," I think, this is the true self-confidence of the Chinese culture.
In the opposite aspect, the Chinese culture did not show self-confidence in the special period, and in the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China. At that time, China is behind the West in all its aspects, so that all segments of China have attributed the root causes of the backwardness to the system of China, especially the cultural issue. Therefore, through a series of ideological and political liberation movements, the new cultural movement of the Chinese traditional culture has made the foundation of Chinese traditional culture to be shaken, and a great deal of western thought has passed into China, which has played a certain role in the transformation of the social atmosphere at that time. However, because of the inexperience of the people at that time and the fact that the practice is too radical, it has caused a negative effect on the Chinese culture.
However, with the development of the economy in these years, the self-confidence and national pride of the Chinese are also rising, which is a good thing. But that doesn't mean that we now have the same, blind exclusion and self-confidence in the same way as those of the same year. Instead, the western culture of the foreign countries should still absorb the part of its value, that is to follow Mr. Lu Xun's famous words in the "Nethanism", "take the essence of it, and go to the dross". And to the culture of one's own, it is also to prevent from one extreme to the other, leading to too much.
The host: I don't think it's not just the place names, but many western festivals are now part of Chinese young people, like last week's father-in-law.
For Father's Day, the Internet also comes out with a literacy article, saying that the Chinese parents should be on August 8, but the young people don't care about them. It is also the expression of the Chinese young people who have been forgotten by the western culture, so it is necessary to clear the place names of these western colors. How do old Liu look at it?
Lao Liu: after the so-called "foreign festivals", on the one hand, it shows that these festivals have indeed been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. As I said above, this is actually part of cultural integration and should have an inclusive attitude. I think it is a little picky if it has to be raised to the so-called patriotic level, resulting in the antagonism between eastern and western cultures.
Besides, International Labour Day, like May 1, was not originally a Chinese holiday, but was set up in memory of strike, an American worker. But it has long been widely accepted in China and has become a legal holiday in China. But at the same time, China will also clear Ming, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival as a legal holiday, which reflects the importance China attaches to its own traditional festivals, indicating that we have not forgotten. Therefore, I think both the foreign festival and the Chinese festival can coexist with each other and do not affect each other.
On the other hand, the so-called foreign festival, in fact, is also a way for businesses to seize business opportunities and carry out marketing, which is also good for stimulating consumption and pulling economic.
Chinese officials have said that the door to China's opening up will only open wider and wider, which is beneficial to the development of economic and cultural exchanges. Moreover, now that the world is becoming more and more integrated, it is difficult to go back against the trend of globalization. In order to create cultural antagonism, it is completely unrealistic to return to the closed state.
Therefore, no matter from the historical point of view or the realistic point of view, "overseas festival" and "foreign place name" are natural phenomena that appear at the present stage of social development. I think those who think about it can live, those who don't like it, but they can do so on a voluntary basis, rather than being forced to intervene by official administrative means, which reflects a state of mind of freedom and tolerance.
The host: In fact, it is reported that the operation of the place name is not unique to Hainan, and similar activities have been carried out in Hebei and Hunan provinces. In addition, in recent two days, Wenzhou is also responding to the work. It can be seen that this should be a national job. Now that this job has not been developed in the direction of expectations, it's a matter of controversy, and do you think it's a problem in the engagement and communication between the local government and the top level government? What is the cause of this?
Lao Liu: the emergence of rectification of these so-called "strange place names" across the country, in addition to promoting cultural confidence mentioned just now, the higher government is in fact mainly to lower the temperature of the current impetuous and pompous social atmosphere, so that everyone becomes more realistic and realistic.
In addition to the so-called names, there are words such as``royal'' , ``emperor'' , ``palace'' and``central'' , which sounds full of tall taste, which is actually the merchant wants to sell these realstate goods for a better price by taking a halo name.
The idea of the superior government is to stop these so-called boastful phenomena and make it more rational and peaceful, so that it can avoid a blind consumption impulse.
However, after the above policy reached the bottom, the local government became more and more biased. Because it is difficult for subordinates government to distinguish which names are pompous and which are reasonable, they simply take a "one-size-fits-all" approach. Coupled with the tight working hours and the need to end by the end of June, the local government first waited for a while, that is, inaction, and then, towards the expiration of the term, suddenly burst into a strong drive and finally pushed too hard, so that many names that should not be rectified were added to the rectification list indiscriminately.
This time, the Ministry of Civil Affairs of Hainan Province, "the rectification of the strange place name" has the greatest influence, so it has become the focal point news, this is exactly where the Ministry of Civil Affairs of Hainan needs to reflect.
Host: This rectification activity of the Ministry of Civil Affairs of Hainan Province, involving the Vienna Hotel, has made the Vienna Hotel very unhappy.
The hotel claims that the name of Vienna has been used in 2012, with a 10-year period of validity, that is, the end of 2022. During this period, it is the legal name recognized by the State Administration of Industry and Commerce, and has the law benefit.
The response of the Hainan Provincial Civil Affairs Department is that Roomz Vienna in Hainan is "joined" and is not the name Vienna when it is registered with the local Bureau of Industry and Commerce, so it is improperly used. Later, the Civil Affairs Department also said that the rectification of the name is still public stage, if there is any objection, can be revised. What is Lao Liu's interpretation of the statements made by Roomz Vienna and the Hainan Provincial Civil Affairs Department?
Old Liu: I have just mentioned the practice of rectifying the place name, but only the negative significance of it from the cultural level. In fact, for the economic level, the rectification of place names is also a good thing.
Take the Vienna hotel as an example. First, the replacement name can bring great inconvenience to the business, and waste the economic cost of the enterprise. Second, due to the change of the name of the hotel, the guest will be confused, causing the loss of the hotel source, and the brand effect of the Vienna hotel is reduced. Third, since the Vienna hotel is legally registered, it should have been protected by law, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs of Hainan Province has used administrative means to force the intervention, which also makes the Vienna hotel suspect the credibility of law. Therefore, the operation of the Vienna Hotel is in the normal mainchain legal rights, and we should express our support.
On the other hand, Hainan Provincial Civil Affairs Department, in dealing with this matter, overconfident, even arrogant, do not feel that there is anything wrong with themselves. In the face of journalist's question, it is still exhilarating that it is not to promote cultural self-confidence now. Why do foreign names appear on Chinese land? Why didn't you find the name of China on foreign land? When journalist gave the name Chinatown to foreign land, the Civil Affairs Department replied that it was an isolated phenomenon.
In my opinion, the Civil Affairs Department is completely perfunctory in rectifying geographical names. After receiving the tasks of their superiors, they do not have a complete and mature plan, nor do they consider what negative effects will be brought about after the rectification. Anyway, when something happens, it is done in accordance with the unified requirements of the superiors, and it does not matter. As things got bigger and bigger, they said that they were only in the publicity stage, and that there were doubts that could be revised again, but in the end they did not admit that what they had done was a bit inappropriate.
And if, according to the answer from the Ministry of Civil Affairs of Hainan Province, there is a question of reformulation, it is estimated that there is no doubt as to which merchant, because of the damage to the interests of the business, the merchant must collectively oppose it.
More part of the netizens have made a sense of humor, saying that the name of the black toothpaste is not appropriate, and the name of the black toothpaste should be changed to "the yellow man's toothpaste"; the Manhattan cell should be changed to "the village of the village of the village"; the company should be renamed the "Ma Jia Wan Supply and Marketing Agency", and the lyrics of the "Journey to the West" are also changed. To say, Wang's wealth and wealth are directly changed to "Wang Fugui", so that it is made up of the travel to the West to become
All these words, while joking, represent a lot of underconsideration in the operation, and it's not even popular. After this incident, I believe that not only the Ministry of Civil Affairs of Hainan Province, but also other local governments, have been a wake-up call.
This allows them to know that the behavior of a passive, lazy, mixed day is not feasible; it is completely wrong to apply a one-size-size-size-size-fits-all approach in order to make the difference. As for the non-repentance of the post-mortem, the attitude of continuing to be strong is even worse, and even can't be forgiven. In a word, after this, the local government will not be able to waste both the economic cost and the construction of cultural self-confidence, as it can only make the result counter-productive.
Host: well, due to the relationship of time, this issue of "Lao Liu chat Hot spot" is coming to an end. Thank Lao Liu for bringing about the wonderful analysis of "the dispute over the rectification of toponymic names in Hainan Province". I also hope that the audience can continue to pay attention to our program and put forward valuable opinions. Dear viewers, I'll see you next time!
Old Liu: Thank you, good-bye!