A healing writer? No, it's a depressing writer!

Chapter 281 Shakespeare of the East! The first shot of cultural exchange! A love myth that will last forever!
I don’t know when it started, but Chenghai Drama Academy has quietly attracted many international students from all over the world.

These international students have black and white skin colors, and most of them come from East Asian countries, such as Japan and South Korea. Although some students from small countries in Southeast Asia also go to Chenghai Drama Academy to study, their proportion is relatively small.
Is it basically on par with international students from Europe and the United States?
Walking on the school's boulevard, you can see many black guys, white guys, and of course yellow guys from Japan and South Korea. They look around curiously at everything and feel so curious about everything around them.

For international students from Japan and South Korea:

Chenghai Drama Academy is the birthplace of "No Longer Human", "The Crucible" and "Hope". They need to see under what circumstances the writer Jiang Hai wrote such tragic and decadent literary works that can be regarded as deified?
For international students in Europe and America:

While they were curious about why the author of The Sun Also Rises, which describes European history and won the Goncourt Prize, was actually Chinese, they could not help but start to reflect deeply.
Why is China so different from what I imagined?
Logically speaking, shouldn't these students and even ordinary citizens who grew up in China be in dire straits?

Shouldn't they be hungry?

Shouldn't they be short of supplies?

According to the Western media, the Chinese people are now in a state of turmoil. However, seeing is believing. When they came to this country and witnessed everything in front of them, they found that
Where the hell is this unrest?

Such a clean campus street, and you tell me it is vulnerable to wind and rain?

This street is cleaner than my backyard.
"That's crazy" A group of exchange students from France were walking on the campus's tree-lined avenue. One of them was a black student with a slightly stiff Chinese accent. He was excitedly video chatting with his mother on the other end of the phone, "Mom, here——"

“There are a lot of foreigners.”

Just at this moment, a school bus whizzed past the group of exchange students.

"Whoosh-"

I saw a tall and strong boy with a backpack on his back, chasing the school bus madly:

"That, that, that, that, that"

"Wait a moment!"

“I haven’t gotten in the car yet.”

that?

Nigger?
When the black student in the red sweatshirt heard this almost insulting English word, he immediately took off his sweatshirt and threw it on the ground:

“What the fuck man?”

As soon as I walked into the theater, someone pointed at my nose and called me a nigger?
Isn't this a bit too aggressive?

The international student who was on the phone with her mother just now saw that something was not right and rushed out to stop it:

"That's not Nigger, it just has the same pronunciation, don't get me wrong."

Jiang Hai took two steps at a time and jumped into the car.

As soon as he got on the school bus, he saw the foreign students arguing behind him through the rearview mirror.

He wiped the sweat from his forehead and suddenly wondered:

"What's going on?"

In other words, Jiang Hai didn't know what these international students were arguing about.

But he knew that the black guys behind him were angry because the pronunciation of "that" and "Nigger" were too similar, thinking it was some kind of racial discrimination.

At this time, he would probably start with a song called "Sunshine, Rainbow, Little White Horse".
"First of all, I don't mean to discriminate against anyone."

"Secondly, nowadays people always follow the local customs. You can't stop me from speaking just because some words don't sound right to you, right?"

“This is fucking China.”

Coming out of the school library, Jiang Hai took the school bus and headed to the multimedia classroom.

In the lush and green campus, a school bus is speeding along the tree-lined avenue, the bus is full of male and female students. On both sides of the campus, some students are standing under the shade of trees reciting their lessons, some are sitting on the benches in the park playing guitar and singing, and some are walking along the tree-lined avenue with headphones on.

All this scenery is simply picturesque.

About ten minutes passed.

Jiang Hai went all the way from the west area where the library was located to the east area where the teaching building was located. He scanned the QR code on the school bus and gave the driver one dollar as fare.

“That’s pretty fast.”

As soon as I got off the bus, I saw Chen Hanying holding a small flag in her hand, greeting the international students from various countries and colleges behind her:

"Classmates, please go to the direction of Lide Building. There is a drama performance specially prepared for you in the ballroom on the basement floor of Lide Building."

Today Chen Hanying was wearing a light white turtleneck sweater and jeans that highlighted her figure perfectly. Her innocent appearance and extremely seductive curves made her look so pleasing to the eye in the crowd.

Although the clothes she wore were not particularly expensive, they gave her an inexplicably luxurious feeling. It was really difficult to conceal her luxury.

Greeting the international students together with Chen Hanying was Zhou Zhemao, who was also from the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Jiang Hai had heard of this man before. He seemed to be the president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts Student Union and was also a leader with very strong personal abilities.

At this moment, Zhou Zhemao stood beside Chen Hanying and called out to the students behind him:
"Here, everyone come here."

Thanks to the thorough launch of the [Cultural Exchange between China and the West] activity, in the next six months, foreign students can obtain a visa-free stay of up to 168 hours, or 7 days, as long as they show materials proving that they are students at the school.

It is precisely because of the implementation of this policy and the promotion of senior foreign government officials that more and more foreign students have begun to go to China for exchanges and studies.

Thanks to Jiang Hai's title as the winner of the Goncourt Prize and the recipient of the French Order of Arts and Letters, Jiang Hai's school, Chenghai Theatre Academy, has become the first stop for international students to come to China to communicate and study with the large student population.

What are the characteristics of Chenghai Drama Academy?
A movie of course!
That must be drama!
In order to welcome these international students from all over the world and show our country's good spiritual outlook, the Youth League Committee of Chenghai Drama Academy specially invited the Provincial Art Troupe to perform English versions of dramas for teachers and students in the school, two shows a day, five days a week.

The main repertoires of the drama include: "The Injustice of Dou E" which moved heaven and earth, "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" and "Thunderstorm".
This afternoon, the play that will be performed for foreigners is "The Butterfly Lovers", which is known as the Eastern version of "Romeo and Juliet" and is also an outstanding drama for which Jiang Hai won the Cao Yu Drama Literature Award.

Before the show started, there was a lot of publicity:
"Love that lasts till death! The oriental version of Romeo and Juliet!"

"Outstanding work by Jiang Hai, winner of the Goncourt Prize and Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of France"

"This is an unforgettable love story, an epic love story from the East. If you pass by it, you must not miss it."

Don't worry about whether they are Chinese or foreigners.

Don’t worry about whether they are Chinese or foreign college students.

Love has always been a constant theme of human praise.
The classic play "Romeo and Juliet" written by the great writer Shakespeare is well-known in the Western literary world and even in society. "An Eastern love story comparable to Romeo and Juliet?"

How exaggerated is this?
"This is a tragic love epic from 1,600 years ago"

The United Kingdom has only been established for more than 200 years, so how come we have been singing about the theme of love more than a thousand years ago?

It's not just about the gimmicks.

More importantly, for quite a number of foreign students, this oriental version of "Romeo and Juliet" is actually...
Was it written by Jiang Hai, winner of the Goncourt Prize?
To what extent does a person have to be able to balance literature and also have the energy to create drama?
How talented does this person have to be to be called a genius by Chinese audiences?
Shakespeare of the East???
With the idea of ​​wanting to see how much success the writer Jiang Hai would have in the field of drama, a small theater ballroom that could accommodate 500 people was almost filled with foreigners.

The main point is a full house!
Logically speaking, this level of reception banquet has nothing to do with Jiang Hai. Jiang Hai's main task now is to prepare the speech for the cultural exchange trip to France, and to familiarize himself with the history of European and North American literature, so as to avoid any mistakes when he travels to the West with the Chinese writers delegation next month.

As luck would have it, as soon as Jiang Hai got off the school bus, Chen Hanying, who was standing at the entrance of Lide Building, waved at him:

"Hey, Jiang Hai, here"

The idea of ​​receiving foreign students through Peking Opera and drama so that they can learn about traditional Chinese culture while watching drama was first proposed by Chen Hanying to the school's Youth League Committee.

She had originally planned to translate folk dramas such as "Butterfly Lovers" and "The Injustice of Dou E" created by Jiang Hai into English and spread them to Western society.

Now, it’s just that the time has been brought forward.

"What are you doing?" Jiang Hai was stunned. He just stood there after getting off the school bus, obviously not understanding what was going on.

Chen Hanying took a step forward and jogged all the way.

She ran to Jiang Hai, pulled up his right arm, and then dragged him towards the theater.

"Come and experience the English version of the play "Butterfly Lovers" that I and the drama troupe have been rehearsing for a week."

"I'm not going." Jiang Hai shook his head and tried to break free. "I have something else to do. I have to go to the classroom to read."

"Oh." Chen Hanying held Jiang Hai with both hands, then winked at him playfully, "Once, just once, okay."

"Just guide us this time, and I won't bother you again in the future."

It's hard to imagine that Chen Hanying looks like Chen Duling and is known as the "cold senior sister" and "beautiful school beauty" at the Central Academy of Fine Arts.

She actually, in front of a man, or more precisely, a man with an ordinary appearance.
Would you be so proactive?

Chen Hanying is not tall, but she is of average height among girls. She is 168cm tall naked. If she wears high heels, she will be 170cm tall. But Chen Hanying, who looks sweet and has a slightly royal figure, is next to Jiang Hai.
Why do I suddenly feel that it is small and exquisite?

Seeing the two of them being affectionate, even the usually aloof goddess senior Chen Hanying took the initiative to act coquettishly towards Jiang Hai:
"Hey, please help me just this once, please."

At this moment, Zhou Zhemao, the president of the CAFA Student Union, who witnessed all this, said that he couldn't believe it:

"Is this really the Chen Hanying I know?"

Although something like school beauty is indeed illusory.

But the fact is that Chen Hanying is indeed the famous campus beauty of CAFA and a well-known talent.

Not only is she good-looking and versatile, she is also proficient in Chinese and foreign classical literature, traditional Chinese music, chess, calligraphy and painting.
Chen Hanying has always been very sensible in her communication with the opposite sex. In her four years at university, I have never heard of her doing anything that crossed the line with any member of the opposite sex. Not to mention hugging, she has never even had a meal alone with a member of the opposite sex.

But today, this is Zhou Zhemao’s first day in supporting Chengxi Opera, and he saw the cold school beauty hugging Jiang Hai’s arm and acting coquettishly?
This undoubtedly gave him a blow:
"You can never imagine how proactive your dream goddess will be in front of other men."

In fact, Zhou Zhemao is quite handsome and comes from a well-off family. At least from the outside, the toughness of his facial features makes him much more handsome than Jiang Hai.

But unfortunately, the most important thing for a man is not his appearance, but his talent
Without noticing Zhou Zhemao's grim expression, Chen Hanying took Jiang Hai's hand and began to walk into the theater:

"Senior Zhemao, please watch the door. I'll let Jiang Hai go in first."

For most foreigners, they have never been exposed to any drama, let alone any stage plays. Their first impression of traditional Chinese culture is -

“Peking Opera.”

Chinatown.

Sichuan Opera face changing.

And the Peking Opera actors with painted faces, holding swords and singing to the music: "The red-faced Guan Gong fights in Changsha, the yellow-faced Dian Wei, the white-faced Cao Cao, and the black-faced Zhang Fei shouts and cries"

This should be the overall impression that most foreigners have of Chinese traditional culture?
When it comes to translating Chinese-English dramas, this is probably the first time for most foreigners to come into contact with it.

Based on this, many foreigners enter the theater with an eager mentality:
"Oriental Shakespeare? I'd like to see what this is all about."

When Chen Hanying dragged Jiang Hai into the drama scene.

The drama had been going on for about thirty minutes. It was a small drama scene with about four to five hundred people.

Jiang Hai took a quick look and saw that there were basically no empty seats; the place was packed.

Looking up at the stage, the plot of the play is going on:

[Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, who was dressed as a man, met on their way to school. They felt that they had a lot in common and recognized each other, so they became sworn brothers at the "Caoqiao". Liang and Zhu were classmates for three years and their friendship was as deep as the sea. Yingtai loved Shanbo deeply, but Shanbo never knew that she was a woman and only cared about their brotherly love.]

"I treat you as a brother, but you want to sleep with me?"

This structural arrangement, full of dramatic tension, immediately piqued the interest of many foreigners.

Chen Hanying dragged Jiang Hai's right arm with both hands and walked towards the back corner of the venue.

Maybe, I walked too fast?
Or maybe, I was dragging too hard and not paying attention.
Jiang Hai vaguely felt that his right arm seemed to have touched something it shouldn't have touched, and then rubbed it back and forth. (Edit)

"Don't mention it, it's quite comfortable."

Jiang Hai was feeling the soft touch coming from his right arm.

It was as if all the strength had been exhausted.

Chen Hanying walked to the corner, pressed Jiang Hai firmly into his seat, then put her hands on her hips and let out a long sigh:
"Sit down and continue watching here."

(End of this chapter)