Chapter 359: It's Not a Giant Panda
Chapter 359: It's Not a Giant Panda
France's National Day activities include but are not limited to the military parade on the Champs Elysees and the fireworks show at the Eiffel Tower. However, it is too crowded now, so Parisians will choose the Sacre Coeur and the Place de la Concorde.
Even though it is not the national holiday for France's National Day, many activities have already started in advance, and Paris has become a sea of celebration. The Overthrow of the Bastille Day heralded the end of the feudal era and is quite important in world history.
For example, the history textbooks of Chinese junior high schools have a lesson about the Bastille Revolution, but it is extremely beautified in history classes, and sometimes I really don’t know whether it is the people who compiled the textbooks or the country’s “politeness”.
To glorify the history and historical figures of other countries... Many students will worship foreign things when they grow up, and it is not entirely a personal problem.
"Jessica, why do you visit the fire station every year?" girlfriend Alba couldn't understand.
Are you kidding? Visiting a fire station is something a man could refuse?
"Because the fire station is only fully open to us during the National Day," Jessica said confidently, "We can watch the fireworks at any time, but the fire station..."
Before he finished speaking, Jessica felt a hint of murderous intent and quickly changed her words, "My dear, you will be the one making the decision today."
"Let's go to the Town Hall Square," Alba suggested.
That's fine. Even though Jessica was reluctant to part with the fire truck and the fire-fighting equipment, she had no choice but to do so and pretended to agree happily.
"There will be a lot of events at the Town Hall Square." Alba could see his displeasure.
"Will there be a music festival?" Jessefa asked. He was only interested in the music festival, as far as cultural activities were concerned.
"It won't happen today, it will happen on the 14th." Alba also made some plans, "But today's event should be to accept the celebrations from Belgium, Britain, Italy, Spain and China."
Britain, haha! Jessica hated the British. He got the point right away.
The two walked towards the north bank of the Seine, in the direction of Notre Dame. If you take the subway, you can get there on Line 11. However, Jessica and Alba are not far away and can walk there.
The town square is quite large, with several sheds erected. The colors of the sheds match the colors of the national flags of each country. The red awnings are particularly eye-catching.
What was even more eye-catching was that Jessica and Alba saw many French people queuing in front of the red tent.
广场五个国家，人群分布是这样的：5:2:1:1:1。
There were actually quite a few people at the Pyramid Pavilion. Jessica really wanted to say that apart from Shakespeare, no other country was worthy of so much attention.
France can produce Hugo to offset Shakespeare. Voltaire, Dumas, Musset, Maupassant, etc., the British can't even flatter them. Jessif's psychological activities should be able to represent many French people.
"Could it be that what China sent is a giant panda?" Jessica became excited upon seeing this.
Among several countries, China is more attractive to the French, but the difference is not so exaggerated. There is only one truth: China used national treasures.
The French love pandas very much.
It is also difficult for us to collect the preferences of ordinary French people on the Internet, but one thing can be proved that the French leader will ask China to send more pandas when he comes to power. You can not believe in the morality and bottom line of politicians, but you must believe that politicians will not do anything without profit. If the public does not like it and it cannot be converted into support, they will not waste their energy.
Jessica and Alba happily joined the queue.
From the sky, it looked like a long snake crawling on the square, with four small snakes scattered around. It was so pitiful...
The only strange thing was that there were quite a few French and Chinese people standing there like wooden stakes, and no one knew what they were doing.
The long snake slowly crawled forward.
After walking four or five meters, a familiar melody came from the red shed. Every French person is familiar with it. It is the "Marseillaise".
Then, there was unfamiliar music again.
"The melody is very exciting, it must be a battle mobilization song." said Jessica.
That makes sense, Alba said, "But I'm more curious why there is the Marseillaise here?"
Yes, that's not scientific. Look at Italy, the Baroque statues they gave us. Makes sense, right? In the Ganges.
When Alba and Jessica got closer, they were disappointed. It didn't make sense that there were two articles.
It is said to be written by the Chinese writer GuLu, whom I have never heard of. The only Chinese writer Jessica is familiar with is "Shut Up", who won the Nobel Prize in Literature after all.
That's so insincere.
Why not come to the Giant Pandas?
Since they are here, it is a universal theory for people all over the world, so Alba and Jessica took the tablet to have a look. There are 20 tablets in the shed, all of which are equipped with a special system. They cannot return to the main page and can only view two articles.
The staff of the Red Shed include French and Chinese, the former are from the French diplomatic department and the latter are from the Chinese Embassy in France.
The division of labor is clear, the former is responsible for explaining, and the latter is in charge of the small speaker. A new batch of people started watching, and the Marseillaise was playing!
"As if listening to a stranger's dictation, Rouget wrote down the lyrics and the music faster and faster. The storm had never swept through his narrow-minded heart like it did at this moment."
"However, a generation later, during the First World War, the Marseillaise had long since become the French national anthem, and the battle song of the Marseillaise was once again heard on all the French fronts. The body of the little captain was buried in the Invalides, next to the body of another little lieutenant, Napoleon..."
After watching the film, Jessica and Alba were not as excited as Ambassador Dibo. It had nothing to do with patriotism, but mainly because Mr. Dibo had the emotional blessing of being away from his motherland for a long time.
There is a saying on the Chinese Internet that the First World War wiped out all the blood of France. This saying is more of a joke. As an old GM region, France has always had a strong spirit of resistance.
There is no doubt that words and music together depict the history of resistance in France.
While reading the article, I heard the Marseillaise. Damn, it was cheating. How can you play background music while reading? The key is that the background music is the national anthem. Jessica's chest seemed to be gushing out, and Alba's eyes were red.
The Marseillaise was nice, but the other piece was a bit noisy.
"One Night Genius" has about 10,000 words, and La Marseillaise is only a few minutes long. It takes two rounds of La Marseillaise and March of the Volunteers to finish reading it.
Jessica and his girlfriend started reading the second chapter of "The New Great Wall".
They did not learn much about Chinese history when they were young, except for the world history in high school, which contained more content about China. However, high school history is problem-oriented, and more content is about China's position in the international community after 1949.
For the first time, I learned about the suffering of another nation through an article. Using the description in "The New Great Wall", China was on the verge of extinction...
"My God, it's hard to imagine. China, one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, has experienced such a heavy and tragic past." Alba covered her heart.
Is the other song he thought was noisy just now the March of the Volunteers? Jessefa agreed with his girlfriend. China's current international status can be said to be comparable to that of France. It is hard to imagine how it has developed.
Well... when you look at your own country, you definitely have a filter.
After listening and watching, Jessica found that some people were crying. One was a young Chinese, with tears in his eyes. It was understandable, thinking about what his motherland had experienced. The other was a French man in his fifties, perhaps thinking about something.
"Sir, were these two articles written by this GuLu?" Alba asked.
The French staff member did just that. He said the introduction he had said many times before, "Gu Lu is a very famous Chinese writer. His works when he was fifteen or sixteen sold one to two million copies. Our country also introduced The Little Prince. Although it is not very famous, it is a very good fairy tale. One Night Genius and The New Great Wall were created specifically for our National Day."
It can be seen that the opening of One Night Genius is the overthrow of the Bastille.
"You're already a great writer at the age of fifteen or sixteen?" Jessica said, "No wonder your writings are so brilliant."
"Okay, ladies and gentlemen, please leave in an orderly manner." The next second, I heard the staff maintaining order. Yes, there are still so many people waiting behind.
"Sir, do you have the lyrics of the March of the Volunteers?" the crying French old man asked. The old man was very gentlemanly, and Jessica felt that his family must be well-off.
Originally, there was no copy, but the old French man was not the first to ask for the lyrics of the March of the Volunteers. The staff of the Chinese Embassy in France went to make many copies of the French version of the March of the Volunteers translated by Professor Da. Not only did it have the lyrics, but it also came with the simple score.
[Lyrics: Tian Han
Composer: Nie Er
French translation: Darcy Shan]
It's written neatly.
If it were a fairy tale, this would be "Professor Da, I'll give you a chance", "What chance?" "Avoid the five signs of decay and become an immortal on the spot!"...
At least seven or eight of the twenty people asked for a copy, including Alba and her boyfriend. After listening to the national anthems of the two countries and reading the stories about the national anthems of the two countries, they felt a sense of connection. It's an exaggeration to say that they were of the same blood. But they did feel a little connected.
"No wonder there are so many French people queuing up. The Chinese are so thoughtful," Alba said. "They specially found a writer who knows France very well."
The staff member did not say that the Chinese writer knew about French history, it was purely her imagination after watching "One Night Genius".
"Although there are no giant pandas, the article is as important as the giant pandas." Jessica believes that China's perfunctory attitude has completely disappeared.
I originally wanted to see the Chinese side first, and then go to see the statue on the Italian side - it is more than two meters high (the base is one meter) and can be seen from a distance.
But my current mood is hard to describe. Let me use an analogy, like eating hot pot and then going to eat barbecue. It's not that barbecue is not good, but no matter whether you are hungry or not, you have no appetite.
(End of this chapter)