It's a relaxed sunday afternoon,standing on the balcony and having look at the blue sky,I wanted to go out to do something instead of killing beautiful time by watching TV.And i recalled that i was always looking forward to visit the library of guangzhou city, woo-hoo,it's the right time!After 30 minites metro journey,i got the library.
what a big library here! It seemed like the time flied back to my university age,when i was roaming in the huge number book shelves.I found one book named Thomas edison's biography hooked my searching eyes!
I was deeply shocked and moved by Edison's waved live experience which was finally making of the greatest inventor in our humanbeing's history.The followed three sentences gave me the deepest impression by which i could have a better understanding of Edison's legendary life.
The first one is "The most certain way to succeed is always to try just ine more time".One artical in our primary school book told us Edison tried out more one thousand materials which he could find in order to find out the best burning silk in the lightbule.And this invention lighted up all the world!
The second one,anything that won't sell,i don't want to invent.Its sale is proof if utility,and utility is success,from which we could acknowledge of Edison's commercial talent including of geniue inventor.This sentence came out after sale failure of his first registered patent which was the electroc vote recorder.Thanks to this lesson,Edison turned to do inventional research based on market demand and people's urgent need.We can find easily now what edison invent all can be very useful to our daily.
The last one is about his charactoristic and attitude of life, "sometimes my stubborness led to great success,othertimes it cost me dearly,but i never regret" Yeah,there are pros and cons in every kind of charactoristic.This sentence taught us to be confident of ourselves,even the greatest man and most excellent brain had its disadvantage.What we should do is that being ourself and making good use of our talent and gift given by God,to live and to win!
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
"Bird's Nest Generation" vs. " Birdcage Generation "
As the Olympic Flame went out after the Beijing Olympic Games, a new generation came out------- Bird's Nest Generation.
First appeared on the Korea Daily in the following day of the Olympics Opening, the Bird's Nest Generation refers to those teenage Olympic volunteers, born in 1980's and 1990's, with higher education and patriotic minds. Although they were called the "lost generation" and the "Internet mob" not a long time ago, they conquered the whole world with their smiles and abilities and proved that they are the hope of China, instead of being too materialistic or having a catch-as-catch-can life.
However, the Taiwan's United Daily News dubbed their teenagers of the same age the "Birdcage Generation" in contrast. How does it come?The answer comes from a junior of Taiwan University, who visited Beijing during the Olympics with 90 other students from different universities of Taiwan. He found out some obvious distinctions between the Taiwan 80~90's and the mainland 80~90's,which reflects the problems of them-----being confined to the Taiwan politics and economics.
After he went back to Taiwan, he reflected upon themselves and wrote an article recording the experiences and also insufficiencies of them,besides, disadvantages of our mainland teens included. It became popular immediately on the Internet and was reprinted on various web sites and newspapers. It aroused a discussion storming on this.
We summed up some points of the distinctions between the Bird's nest Generation and the Birdcage Generation,which really deserve our deep thought.
First,the Taiwan students are not gracious enough and kind of narrow-minded.They are too involved in some trivial matter to get rid of the gossips of the celebrities,not like in Beijing,where we can be well informed of international issues.Meanwhile,it appears that they are very elegant,while in fact,they lack some in-depth spiritual support.And we are better at expressing ourselves more logical and confident.
Second, the Birdcages don't want to be the bellwether or to bear the brunt.They hold the "Someone-will-do-it" and "It-is-not-my-business" thought.What the students of Beijing High School 4 represent to us is that we are able to and ready to take the responsibilities.
Third,the atmosphere.The free atmosphere in Taiwan contrasts well with the academic and serious study backgrounds.It's quiet common that students handle their romance journals to their teachers for advice.Impossible in Beijing High School 4,or you shall not be recommended for admission to key universities.
Apart from the above aspects, the Bird's Nest Generation and the Birdcage Generation have their own defects.
"Students here are always busy,busy discussing how to have fun together,how to seize the fashion and the relationship stuff.I can come first by just reciting some key points night before the examination for one night."A girl of Taiwan National Tsing Hua University.She went there as an exchange student when she was a junior of Beijing University.As for the boys,they are becoming more and more girlish and cosmetology becomes the top priority.
Sometimes we are sort of so officially speaking that our concepts fossilized.Without a more multiplied circumstances, we should keep our horizons more wide to get used to the global development.
Wether the Bird's Nest Generation or the Birdcage Generation,as the news remarked, the world is ours.We have to shoulder the future.
First appeared on the Korea Daily in the following day of the Olympics Opening, the Bird's Nest Generation refers to those teenage Olympic volunteers, born in 1980's and 1990's, with higher education and patriotic minds. Although they were called the "lost generation" and the "Internet mob" not a long time ago, they conquered the whole world with their smiles and abilities and proved that they are the hope of China, instead of being too materialistic or having a catch-as-catch-can life.
However, the Taiwan's United Daily News dubbed their teenagers of the same age the "Birdcage Generation" in contrast. How does it come?The answer comes from a junior of Taiwan University, who visited Beijing during the Olympics with 90 other students from different universities of Taiwan. He found out some obvious distinctions between the Taiwan 80~90's and the mainland 80~90's,which reflects the problems of them-----being confined to the Taiwan politics and economics.
After he went back to Taiwan, he reflected upon themselves and wrote an article recording the experiences and also insufficiencies of them,besides, disadvantages of our mainland teens included. It became popular immediately on the Internet and was reprinted on various web sites and newspapers. It aroused a discussion storming on this.
We summed up some points of the distinctions between the Bird's nest Generation and the Birdcage Generation,which really deserve our deep thought.
First,the Taiwan students are not gracious enough and kind of narrow-minded.They are too involved in some trivial matter to get rid of the gossips of the celebrities,not like in Beijing,where we can be well informed of international issues.Meanwhile,it appears that they are very elegant,while in fact,they lack some in-depth spiritual support.And we are better at expressing ourselves more logical and confident.
Second, the Birdcages don't want to be the bellwether or to bear the brunt.They hold the "Someone-will-do-it" and "It-is-not-my-business" thought.What the students of Beijing High School 4 represent to us is that we are able to and ready to take the responsibilities.
Third,the atmosphere.The free atmosphere in Taiwan contrasts well with the academic and serious study backgrounds.It's quiet common that students handle their romance journals to their teachers for advice.Impossible in Beijing High School 4,or you shall not be recommended for admission to key universities.
Apart from the above aspects, the Bird's Nest Generation and the Birdcage Generation have their own defects.
"Students here are always busy,busy discussing how to have fun together,how to seize the fashion and the relationship stuff.I can come first by just reciting some key points night before the examination for one night."A girl of Taiwan National Tsing Hua University.She went there as an exchange student when she was a junior of Beijing University.As for the boys,they are becoming more and more girlish and cosmetology becomes the top priority.
Sometimes we are sort of so officially speaking that our concepts fossilized.Without a more multiplied circumstances, we should keep our horizons more wide to get used to the global development.
Wether the Bird's Nest Generation or the Birdcage Generation,as the news remarked, the world is ours.We have to shoulder the future.
My forever idol----Premier Zhou Enlai
I knew him as early as I could remember. And the first time I became interested in him is when I was told that he spoke 8 different foreign languages, and he was the Minister of the Foreign Affairs. Then I saw his photos. His ditermined look, his elegant performance when having meetings with the leaders all over the world. He is such a tall graceful man that I can never put him down in my heart.
As time goes by, I gradually grew up, and the legends of him, our country's first premier---Zhou Enlai are little by little stretching all over in front of me. When I was in my first year of my senior school, I read a book recording ZhouEnlai's legends written by his niece.This book focuses more on the aspect of life in Zhongnanhai about him. Through this book, I know a lot about him. His persistence of principle, his loyalty to the Communist Party, his kindess of helping others and his strictions of himself, especially his sparing no effort in the performance of his duty. And I know again that I'm definitely fall in love with this man, well, I mean, I adore him sooooo much.
He was hospitalized in 1974 for bladder cancer, but continued to conduct work from the hospital, with Deng Xiaoping as the First Deputy Premier handling most of the important State Council matters. He died on the morning of 8 January 1976, aged 77. He died eight months before Mao Zedong. Zhou's death brought messages of condolences from many non-aligned states that he affected during his tenure as an effective diplomat and negotiator on the world stage, and many states saw his death as a terrible loss. Zhou's body was cremated and the ashes scattered by air over hills and valleys, according to his wishes.
Zhou Enlai is regarded as a skilled negotiator, a master of policy implementation, a devoted revolutionary, and a pragmatic statesman with an unusual attentiveness to detail and nuance. He was also known for his tireless and dedicated work ethic, and his unusual charm and poise in public. He is reputedly the last Mandarin bureaucrat in the Confucian tradition. Zhou's political behaviour should be viewed in light of his political philosophy as well as his personality. To a large extent, Zhou epitomized the paradox inherent in a communist politician with traditional Chinese upbringing: at once conservative and radical, pragmatic and ideological, possessed by a belief in order and harmony as well as a faith, which he developed very gradually over time, in the progressive power of rebellion and revolution. Henry Kissinger has called Zhou "one of the two or three most impressive men" he had ever met.
I remember when in primary school, we've learned the text "十里长街送总理", and what to surprise, I cried the first time I saw it. Everytime I read something about his final times, I couldn't help but wailing. It seems I doomed to adore him.
I swear to God, whenever it is, I will always not let him down, not let myself down!
As time goes by, I gradually grew up, and the legends of him, our country's first premier---Zhou Enlai are little by little stretching all over in front of me. When I was in my first year of my senior school, I read a book recording ZhouEnlai's legends written by his niece.This book focuses more on the aspect of life in Zhongnanhai about him. Through this book, I know a lot about him. His persistence of principle, his loyalty to the Communist Party, his kindess of helping others and his strictions of himself, especially his sparing no effort in the performance of his duty. And I know again that I'm definitely fall in love with this man, well, I mean, I adore him sooooo much.
He was hospitalized in 1974 for bladder cancer, but continued to conduct work from the hospital, with Deng Xiaoping as the First Deputy Premier handling most of the important State Council matters. He died on the morning of 8 January 1976, aged 77. He died eight months before Mao Zedong. Zhou's death brought messages of condolences from many non-aligned states that he affected during his tenure as an effective diplomat and negotiator on the world stage, and many states saw his death as a terrible loss. Zhou's body was cremated and the ashes scattered by air over hills and valleys, according to his wishes.
Zhou Enlai is regarded as a skilled negotiator, a master of policy implementation, a devoted revolutionary, and a pragmatic statesman with an unusual attentiveness to detail and nuance. He was also known for his tireless and dedicated work ethic, and his unusual charm and poise in public. He is reputedly the last Mandarin bureaucrat in the Confucian tradition. Zhou's political behaviour should be viewed in light of his political philosophy as well as his personality. To a large extent, Zhou epitomized the paradox inherent in a communist politician with traditional Chinese upbringing: at once conservative and radical, pragmatic and ideological, possessed by a belief in order and harmony as well as a faith, which he developed very gradually over time, in the progressive power of rebellion and revolution. Henry Kissinger has called Zhou "one of the two or three most impressive men" he had ever met.
I remember when in primary school, we've learned the text "十里长街送总理", and what to surprise, I cried the first time I saw it. Everytime I read something about his final times, I couldn't help but wailing. It seems I doomed to adore him.
I swear to God, whenever it is, I will always not let him down, not let myself down!
We are an impregnable nuclear family
If you ask me what kind of geometric figure my family is, I have to say it's triangle. My father, my mother and me. And it's impregnable. Living in a very peaceful county of Hebei province, having a big harmonious family, we lived together for the past 20 years happily until I come to Chongqing to go to university.
There is a beautifully romantic story about my parents. Raised in the same small village, they have known each other from their childhood. Destiny has brought them together. However, the people around them didn't agree with them being together. They fighted for themselves and finally they got married. I didn't know about it until one time I occasionally found three love letters from my dad to my mom. I still remember that when I asked them to tell me the whole story, they both moved into tears. Over so many years, they still treat each other very well.
My father is a traditional Chinese doctor. He devoted himself all to his work and the family. When he was at my age, he was supposed to have a chance of majoring in mathematics in Sichuan, however, he gave up the opportunity for the sake of my grandma's objection. He loves reading and he is very serious when doing something, which all prepared him to be a very kind and professional doctor. Meanwhile, he is very strict with me,not only in my study,but also in how to behave myself , and if I did something wrong, he would critisize me withour hesitation. It is him who always tells me to be strong and not cry when faced with difficulties. It is him who teaches me to bear my own responsibility in stead of running away. It is him who shows me what industriousness is, and what is "where there is a will , there is a way".
My mom is an accountant. She is very clever and virtuous. As my dad is always busy with his patients, so the burden of houseworking,and taking care of me all fall on her shoulders. She is very good at handling the affairs with others, and she knows how to save every penny, how to utilize the waste materials. She would prepare a whole table of dishes for me and dad. For me, she is the most brilliant cook in the world. She also likes to grow some flowers and greenery, making our house more lively. It is her who teachs me how to get along with my friends, how to behave myself when entertaining the guests. It is her who show me what gender is, what filial duty i
Having been in Chongqing for almost 3 years, I still can't help thinking about them very day. But I know I have to try very hard to realize my dreams, and that's the best way to pay back.
We are a family, and nothing can seperate us!
There is a beautifully romantic story about my parents. Raised in the same small village, they have known each other from their childhood. Destiny has brought them together. However, the people around them didn't agree with them being together. They fighted for themselves and finally they got married. I didn't know about it until one time I occasionally found three love letters from my dad to my mom. I still remember that when I asked them to tell me the whole story, they both moved into tears. Over so many years, they still treat each other very well.
My father is a traditional Chinese doctor. He devoted himself all to his work and the family. When he was at my age, he was supposed to have a chance of majoring in mathematics in Sichuan, however, he gave up the opportunity for the sake of my grandma's objection. He loves reading and he is very serious when doing something, which all prepared him to be a very kind and professional doctor. Meanwhile, he is very strict with me,not only in my study,but also in how to behave myself , and if I did something wrong, he would critisize me withour hesitation. It is him who always tells me to be strong and not cry when faced with difficulties. It is him who teaches me to bear my own responsibility in stead of running away. It is him who shows me what industriousness is, and what is "where there is a will , there is a way".
My mom is an accountant. She is very clever and virtuous. As my dad is always busy with his patients, so the burden of houseworking,and taking care of me all fall on her shoulders. She is very good at handling the affairs with others, and she knows how to save every penny, how to utilize the waste materials. She would prepare a whole table of dishes for me and dad. For me, she is the most brilliant cook in the world. She also likes to grow some flowers and greenery, making our house more lively. It is her who teachs me how to get along with my friends, how to behave myself when entertaining the guests. It is her who show me what gender is, what filial duty i
Having been in Chongqing for almost 3 years, I still can't help thinking about them very day. But I know I have to try very hard to realize my dreams, and that's the best way to pay back.
We are a family, and nothing can seperate us!
Dream Catcher
Every time I listen to this song, Dream Catcher,written by Band Secret Garden, I feel like hearing the murmuring of streams, while I myself would find my little piece of mind. I'm also a dream catcher!
Whenever asked what I want to be in the future, or what kind of job I want to do, it seems the answer nearly never change---any kind on the condition that it relates to English. I don't know if I can call it destiny, but indeed it's a predestination.
All of this dats back to the year when I was only 3 years old. One day in our annual clan gatherings, I first met my cousin, a distant relative, who,however, influenced me my whole life. She is highly educated and has a very decent job. Being kind,sweet and elegant, I admire her so much. She tought me one English word, and one phrase, which I will never forget. One is "face", and the other is "not at all". Her pronunciation is so beautiful that I immediately had a crush on English. From then on, whether on TV or on the magzine, whenever I heard or saw English, I would concentrated myself on it. I thought I was crazy at that time.
I began to study the ABCs at the grade of three in primary school. Although it's not officially, just a supplementary class, I still very appreciated my abecedarian. She gave me a very firm foundation of learning English, the alphabet, the phonetic symbols, the pronunciation and the basic dialogues, the most important, interest. I believe without the interest, I wouldn't have holden on to it for so many years.
Gradually I can read, listen and speak little by little, and I began to watch the TV programmes of English, which also help me a lot. When in my junior and senior school, I watched,,such as ,, and also the programmes , which teach English through movies, and the most influential one,. These programmes accompanied me for more than 6 years and riched my English-learning life so much.
I've always believed that I am doomed to make English as my major and my career. Even sometimes I've thought of thinking about being a journalist or a lawyer, but finally I come back, still choosing English. And also I like everything about languages, for I love saying different languages and getting to know the exotic cultures. In the future I also want to further my French, learn some Korean,maybe Spanish. I want to keep going with my forever passion. I want to be a translater, an interpreter. As my motto is "Never give up", I believe I will stick to it and never stop my love with it.
I'm a Dream Catcher, and I will try my best to make my dreams come true!!!
Whenever asked what I want to be in the future, or what kind of job I want to do, it seems the answer nearly never change---any kind on the condition that it relates to English. I don't know if I can call it destiny, but indeed it's a predestination.
All of this dats back to the year when I was only 3 years old. One day in our annual clan gatherings, I first met my cousin, a distant relative, who,however, influenced me my whole life. She is highly educated and has a very decent job. Being kind,sweet and elegant, I admire her so much. She tought me one English word, and one phrase, which I will never forget. One is "face", and the other is "not at all". Her pronunciation is so beautiful that I immediately had a crush on English. From then on, whether on TV or on the magzine, whenever I heard or saw English, I would concentrated myself on it. I thought I was crazy at that time.
I began to study the ABCs at the grade of three in primary school. Although it's not officially, just a supplementary class, I still very appreciated my abecedarian. She gave me a very firm foundation of learning English, the alphabet, the phonetic symbols, the pronunciation and the basic dialogues, the most important, interest. I believe without the interest, I wouldn't have holden on to it for so many years.
Gradually I can read, listen and speak little by little, and I began to watch the TV programmes of English, which also help me a lot. When in my junior and senior school, I watched
I've always believed that I am doomed to make English as my major and my career. Even sometimes I've thought of thinking about being a journalist or a lawyer, but finally I come back, still choosing English. And also I like everything about languages, for I love saying different languages and getting to know the exotic cultures. In the future I also want to further my French, learn some Korean,maybe Spanish. I want to keep going with my forever passion. I want to be a translater, an interpreter. As my motto is "Never give up", I believe I will stick to it and never stop my love with it.
I'm a Dream Catcher, and I will try my best to make my dreams come true!!!
Grieve for my Old Campus's death
On April 13th, the terrible news came that our Old Campus had finally been sold for the base of trainning so-called "Hongyan" spirit successors. Ironic,huh?
Although living in the New Campus,as a junior student of legal English major of the S University , I feel angry, grieved and also having no access to struggle for this. It seems I still don't have a chance to get to know her deeper,such as the history, the storied in the Old Campus, and I even don't have a chance to stroll all over it, it's dead. A lot of schoofellows and alumni showed their anger. Some of them say that we should go there for the last time and present a bouquet of flowers to grieve for it.
When in 1999, there was a danger of S that she might be conflated by another university, and then almost all the schoolfellows protested to defend our school from this. In the end, they succeeded. However, from then on, this university seems began to decline day by day. Many elite teachers chose to leave here, which caused a very heavy brain drain for a long time. And since the new leading group made several inappropriate decisions, the university hadn't developed as expected. Especially nowadays we students focus more on ourselves, how we can get high grades, how we can get the scholarships, how we get the enrollment to graduate school or how to hunt a decent job. We are likely have no strong and deep love to the school. So it seems we can do nothing but complain on the Internet, just as I do now.
Just imagine what if we don't have our motherland anymore or we can't leave anything about our rich and glorious histories to our offsprings, is it pathetic and terrifying?
Maybe the next thing and the only thing I can do is to improve myself and try to be successful so that our university can be proud of me in the future.
Be at peace, Old Campus
Although living in the New Campus,as a junior student of legal English major of the S University , I feel angry, grieved and also having no access to struggle for this. It seems I still don't have a chance to get to know her deeper,such as the history, the storied in the Old Campus, and I even don't have a chance to stroll all over it, it's dead. A lot of schoofellows and alumni showed their anger. Some of them say that we should go there for the last time and present a bouquet of flowers to grieve for it.
When in 1999, there was a danger of S that she might be conflated by another university, and then almost all the schoolfellows protested to defend our school from this. In the end, they succeeded. However, from then on, this university seems began to decline day by day. Many elite teachers chose to leave here, which caused a very heavy brain drain for a long time. And since the new leading group made several inappropriate decisions, the university hadn't developed as expected. Especially nowadays we students focus more on ourselves, how we can get high grades, how we can get the scholarships, how we get the enrollment to graduate school or how to hunt a decent job. We are likely have no strong and deep love to the school. So it seems we can do nothing but complain on the Internet, just as I do now.
Just imagine what if we don't have our motherland anymore or we can't leave anything about our rich and glorious histories to our offsprings, is it pathetic and terrifying?
Maybe the next thing and the only thing I can do is to improve myself and try to be successful so that our university can be proud of me in the future.
Be at peace, Old Campus
twilight and new moon-----vampire in western culture
Bella Swan, a 17 year-old girl, comes back to the town Forks and falls in love with her schoolmate Edward Cullen, who turns out to be a vampire. Later she surprisingly discovers that her best friend Jacob is a werewolf, the enemy of the vampires. What is her choice and who is her true love?
Recently vampire becomes one of the most popular fiction around the world with the film twilight and new moon played on the screen. They are mysterious fearful creatures: young, beautiful, powerful and immortal. Over thousands of years, vampire occupied a very important position in western culture. what is its origin?
We all know that blood is the symbol of life, and it features a large part in Christianism and European culture. The God punished Eve for her tempting Adam by letting her suffering monthly period, in Homer’s Odyssey Chapter 11 Ulysses sacrificed blood of freshly rams to his soldiers, or Harpy as a bird with the head of a woman, would suck the babies’ blood. All of the stories show that blood was a symbol of evil and mystery at the very beginning, which made preparations for the arising of vampire.
There are several versions of its origin.
First, Cain, the child of Adam and Eve, who is said to have killed his brother Abel and lied to the Lord. Thus he was cursed by God and thereby transformed into a vampire. It is said that Cain wandered until he found Lilith by the Red Sea, while Lilith was not only the first wife of Adam but also the lover of Satan according to Jewish texts. She took him in and showed him the power of blood. As the mother of vampire, Lilith transformed Cain into the cold one.
The second folklore is about Judas. He betrayed Jesus for thirty pieces of silver. He and his family were cursed. The Bible holds that Judas committed suicide because of his guilt; while suicides in vampire folklore were very likely to come back as vampires. And it’s also the reason why vampires are afraid of silver things.
The third one is from Transylvania, the center of Romania. In the medieval Europe, Count Vlad IV, was notorious for his cruelty. His two nicknames are Tepes and Dracula. Tepes means impaler. During his main reign, “Vlad the Impaler” is said to have killed from 40,000 to 100,000 European civilians by impaling them on a sharp pole. And he liked to enjoy his meals in the body’s wood. That’s why people call him “dracula”, meaning evil or dragon. He is also the prototype of Bram Stoker’s famous novel about vampire, Dracula.
The fourth is the legend of bloody Bathory from Hungary. Countess Bathory learned black magic from her maid and prisoned a lot of young girls in the castle. Because of more and more girl’s missing the King sent someone to investigate Bathory’s deeds. The soldiers came upon a pile of dead or dying women in the Castle, who had been tortured and drained of blood for Bathory to drink or bathe so as to keep herself young forever. Then rumors had it that Countess Bathory became a true vampire after her death.
The fifth one is the most convincing and scientific-based. In the medieval Europe, a large Bubonic Plague swept the whole Europe. At that time fears spread, people would bury the patients without ensuring whether they were really dead or not. The buried people struggled in the agonies in the coffins and tried hard to climb out. When people re-open the coffin after a few days, they saw the body with blood, and it seemed the body had moved. Few people escaped the tomb yet died soon. The living ones are afraid, they couldn’t explain why the corpse would change or wandering around the tomb outside. Then the vampire superstition became popular and the term vampire was popularized from the early 18th century.
In the 18th century of Europe,a lot of scholars and priests researched into the vampirism and a lot of argues and controversy arouse in many fields.
With years of development, there are some common characteristics about vampires. They need blood to survive, they have strong energy and superpower. They only come out at night because they fear sunlight. They look pale. They are immortal except few ways of terminating them,etc. There are rulus,commandment,different parties in the world of vampires.
Also, the western literary field loves vampire so much. Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula is remembered as the quintessential vampire novel and which provided the basis of modern vampire fiction. We can find all the features and weaknesses of vampire in this novel. As the time develops, the image of the vampire changes. In the early literature and films, vampires are ugly, old, cruel and blood-thirsty. For example, in 1922, a landmark silent film Nosferatu. Also, in the movie Dracula, the vampire is very old and terrifying. Gradually, the vampires are becoming elegant, charming, beautiful ones. In the movie Count Dracula, Bela Lugosi shows us a gentelman vampire. His accent, appearance, the sick of sunlight seems perfect. Also, in the movie Interview with the Vampire adapted from the novel of the same name by Ann Rice, Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt have breath-taking beauty and charm.
From the ancient to the modern society, from the Europe to the United States, the fiction of vampire is still mysterious, waiting for us to get into their world.
Recently vampire becomes one of the most popular fiction around the world with the film twilight and new moon played on the screen. They are mysterious fearful creatures: young, beautiful, powerful and immortal. Over thousands of years, vampire occupied a very important position in western culture. what is its origin?
We all know that blood is the symbol of life, and it features a large part in Christianism and European culture. The God punished Eve for her tempting Adam by letting her suffering monthly period, in Homer’s Odyssey Chapter 11 Ulysses sacrificed blood of freshly rams to his soldiers, or Harpy as a bird with the head of a woman, would suck the babies’ blood. All of the stories show that blood was a symbol of evil and mystery at the very beginning, which made preparations for the arising of vampire.
There are several versions of its origin.
First, Cain, the child of Adam and Eve, who is said to have killed his brother Abel and lied to the Lord. Thus he was cursed by God and thereby transformed into a vampire. It is said that Cain wandered until he found Lilith by the Red Sea, while Lilith was not only the first wife of Adam but also the lover of Satan according to Jewish texts. She took him in and showed him the power of blood. As the mother of vampire, Lilith transformed Cain into the cold one.
The second folklore is about Judas. He betrayed Jesus for thirty pieces of silver. He and his family were cursed. The Bible holds that Judas committed suicide because of his guilt; while suicides in vampire folklore were very likely to come back as vampires. And it’s also the reason why vampires are afraid of silver things.
The third one is from Transylvania, the center of Romania. In the medieval Europe, Count Vlad IV, was notorious for his cruelty. His two nicknames are Tepes and Dracula. Tepes means impaler. During his main reign, “Vlad the Impaler” is said to have killed from 40,000 to 100,000 European civilians by impaling them on a sharp pole. And he liked to enjoy his meals in the body’s wood. That’s why people call him “dracula”, meaning evil or dragon. He is also the prototype of Bram Stoker’s famous novel about vampire, Dracula.
The fourth is the legend of bloody Bathory from Hungary. Countess Bathory learned black magic from her maid and prisoned a lot of young girls in the castle. Because of more and more girl’s missing the King sent someone to investigate Bathory’s deeds. The soldiers came upon a pile of dead or dying women in the Castle, who had been tortured and drained of blood for Bathory to drink or bathe so as to keep herself young forever. Then rumors had it that Countess Bathory became a true vampire after her death.
The fifth one is the most convincing and scientific-based. In the medieval Europe, a large Bubonic Plague swept the whole Europe. At that time fears spread, people would bury the patients without ensuring whether they were really dead or not. The buried people struggled in the agonies in the coffins and tried hard to climb out. When people re-open the coffin after a few days, they saw the body with blood, and it seemed the body had moved. Few people escaped the tomb yet died soon. The living ones are afraid, they couldn’t explain why the corpse would change or wandering around the tomb outside. Then the vampire superstition became popular and the term vampire was popularized from the early 18th century.
In the 18th century of Europe,a lot of scholars and priests researched into the vampirism and a lot of argues and controversy arouse in many fields.
With years of development, there are some common characteristics about vampires. They need blood to survive, they have strong energy and superpower. They only come out at night because they fear sunlight. They look pale. They are immortal except few ways of terminating them,etc. There are rulus,commandment,different parties in the world of vampires.
Also, the western literary field loves vampire so much. Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula is remembered as the quintessential vampire novel and which provided the basis of modern vampire fiction. We can find all the features and weaknesses of vampire in this novel. As the time develops, the image of the vampire changes. In the early literature and films, vampires are ugly, old, cruel and blood-thirsty. For example, in 1922, a landmark silent film Nosferatu. Also, in the movie Dracula, the vampire is very old and terrifying. Gradually, the vampires are becoming elegant, charming, beautiful ones. In the movie Count Dracula, Bela Lugosi shows us a gentelman vampire. His accent, appearance, the sick of sunlight seems perfect. Also, in the movie Interview with the Vampire adapted from the novel of the same name by Ann Rice, Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt have breath-taking beauty and charm.
From the ancient to the modern society, from the Europe to the United States, the fiction of vampire is still mysterious, waiting for us to get into their world.
Bought the gift today.
After work, I went to a shopping mall this night to buy a gift for my director. Thinking twice, I bought a pen which produced in Germany. It is not very expensive, but I think it looks high-grade. The pen is called Confucian Pen including a little book which made by bamboos. Maybe you want to know the price. It only costs my 400 RMB.
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