Bingfeng Teahouse

these are stories from a book on characters of people of different regions in china.

shanghai man (好男人):

sweat dripping from his face, the shanghai man passed in and out of the kitchen and was serving the 8th dish, he asked his wife proudly, "darling, what else you want?"

beijing man(侃爷):

he spent 3 hours in his first date with a pretty girl, in the first hour, the beijing man discussed world politics, in the second hour, the beijing man discussed chinese politics, in the first 59 minutes of the third hour, hte beijing man discussed beijing politics, in the last minute of the date, the beijing man told the girl, "it's late, let's go back"

guangzhou man(型男):

stepped out of a luxury car with his second wife, shoes are shinning, the air is buring with a smell of cologne ...

dongbei man(男子汉):

the girlfriend cried in front of the seriously wounded dongbei man, who fought a bandit to protect his girlfriend, and the dongbei man smiled to her, "don't cry, i am a MAN and a MAN must fight bandit to protect his girl, right?"

... survive in China

a HDVD contains a documentary film and three movies about vietnam war just drives you crazy

the documentary, which is edited by chinese propaganda department, chants about how evil american invasion was and how brave and peace-loving vietnamese troops fought all the invading foreign troops - french, japanese, americans (certainly chinese are ommited here)

then you have three hollywood movies demonizing vietcong as ferocious and ruthless monsters who enjoy killing vietnamese civilians ... and certainly americans are "forced" to get involved into the war and american soldiers saved a lot of vietnamese boys and girls from VC ...

and the dubs - mandarin, french, english, cantonnese(!)

and the subtitles - chinese (simplified), chinese (traditional), english, japanese(!)

you can image how confused an innocent guy becomes after watching all these stuff

...

what a vivid reflection of the daily inconsistency and chaos here

bcblog,

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