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In the 20th century, many people started to see their work gradually taken over by machines.
Today, you can see old shoemakers just as the tourist attractions of different small towns, however, the shoes you are wearing come normally from mechanized plants, and many of them were never touched by human hand. This trend can be seen in all human jobs, and the translation market is not foreign to it. Now, you can count on various software engines to translate more or less exactly any given text, and the need for an expert translator appears to be conditioned by the development of this type of programs - when machine translations will be ideal, this profession will have no reason to be. Or is that so? Machine translations have just one disadvantage; they are done by things that never lived to see the objects of the words they're using. While machines could be programmed to learn, understand, and utilize new concepts, they cannot relate to those concepts and words on a "human" level, so they will never be sensible to the nuances of human affection or witticism. This is the reason why the translators are from now on to stay with us: we need their knowledge of the language they are translating into, not only of the grammatical uses, but also of the way people speaking those languages feel their words, and use them in ever-changing constructions. And this is also why the day is far when you'll see translators dependent on their various translation software engines, as the Star Trek Borg were to their machines: in order to translate words and thoughts and knowledge you need to experience them personally, to explore your language and its meaning. The future of the translation market will lie, more likely, in the development of more effective networks of translators, translation agencies and other language experts, made easy by the new information technology. New businesses are already developing and growing, using the Internet to build extremely efficient work processes, selection methods and project management. When dealing with these kinds of companies, you can realize that the future of the translation market will be most probably bright. The Chinese social relationship is a typical reciprocal one. This kind of social relationship is usually expressed by the appellation of "family", such as "Confucianism", "Taoism", "legalism", "military strategist", "imperial family", "martial family" and so on. In addition to this, there are such as "academy", "school", "religion" and so on.
The relationship between the individual and the society is called "relationship", and the emotion in this connection is called "emotion". The social relationship between Chinese people is based on the "etiquette" in Chinese traditional culture. The earliest written records of this tradition can be traced back to the rites of zhou. During the spring and autumn period and the warring states period, the spring and autumn annals compiled by Confucius' disciples helped promote the development of "etiquette" in China's local culture. A very important concept in Chinese social relations is the concept of face. This has a lot to do with the Chinese emphasis on rights, fame and fortune. In addition, there are some concepts related to religion or self-cultivation. For example, concepts related to Taoism, such as "sexual separation" and "time encounter", and concepts related to Taoism or Taoism, such as nature. These concepts also influence Chinese people's perception of things and people, and they often judge things by their interests. Different from other ethnic groups and societies, which tend to compare the relationship between individuals and society to the relationship between large and small boxes, the Chinese tend to compare social relations to the "web". Therefore, Chinese people judge the quality of their social relations with others by how close they are rather than how close they are. As we all know, Chinese martial arts films began to spread in overseas markets in the era of Bruce Lee, and many modern westerners began to understand Chinese culture from this warrior on screen. Today, Bruce Lee has become a Kung Fu icon, a cultural icon and a spiritual icon. His legendary life has become a classic example of cross-cultural communication. Bruce Lee is a generation of Kung Fu superstar and martial arts master, he made and realized three big wishes in his life: to let Chinese Kung Fu to the world, to bring Chinese movies into the world market, to create a martial arts. The modern western understanding of Chinese martial arts and Chinese movies almost all started with Bruce Lee. As a martial artist, Bruce Lee devoted all his life to the study and promotion of martial arts. Diligent study Chinese boxing, study foreign boxing, Bruce Lee with the broad-minded, integration of various schools of various countries many boxing essence, martial arts rapid progress, and founded the Jeet Kune Do. He opened a national martial arts center in the United States to spread Wing Chun and Jeet Kune Do, spoke about his understanding of Chinese martial arts in various speeches, and communicated with martial arts elites around the world. Chinese Kung Fu is a collective name that consists of the Chinese martial arts and Qi-Gong. Seven different boxing styles, martial realm of concealed weapon, unique Jiang-Hu, Kong Fu is the crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese nation, a reflection of the Chinese traditional culture, and is unique in the world "martial culture". It stresses the combination of firmness and softness, and internal and external cultivation. It not only has the appearance of firmness and masculinity, but also has the connotation of elegance and depth. It contains the ancient philosophers' understanding of life and the universe.
The strong global influence of the Chinese Kung Fu is not only because there was a large number of Chinese Kung Fu movies and television works, but also because of shining of the super star Bruce Lee. It shows the Chinese Kung Fu to the world stage. More brought to the attention of the international level, make the unique Chinese martial arts to the world, the success of the Chinese Kung Fu is a shining brand name. And Shaolin, Tai Chi, Wing Chun and other Chinese Kung Fu have been widely spread around the world. Chinese culture is a culture formed on the basis of Hua-Xia civilization by fully integrating the cultural elements of various regions and ethnic groups in China. Putting aside its international nature in politic point of view, the Chinese culture can be called "Chinese culture" (culture of the People's Republic of China). The oriental civilization system, which had been deeply influenced by the Chinese civilization, is called the "Han Cultural Circle", which refers to the social ideology and reflects the development level of social politics, economy, science and technology. From the invention and creation of the Paleolithic age, to the grand reform of Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao, to the democratic revolution of Sun Yat-Sen, all these are the driving forces to promote the development of the society. Chinese culture has not only had an important impact on Japan and the Korean peninsula, but also on Vietnam, Singapore and other countries in southeast Asia, South Asia and even the Americas. The advanced shipbuilding technology and navigation technology as well as the compass technology in China were first applied in navigation, which led to the formation of the so-called blue civilization and the Pacific rim cultural circle (li er and China's water transport history). Zheng he's seven voyages to the western seas deepened the spread and radiation of this culture and thus formed the east Asian cultural circle with Chinese culture as the hub recognized by the world. With the development of China's national strength and international status, many countries in the world, including Asia and Europe, have attached great importance to Chinese culture.
Chinese traditional culture is the overall synthesis of the cultures evolving for over thousands of years on the traditional land of China. It's the source of China's cultural self-confidence, and the power that drives the glorious rise and great rejuvenation of Chinese nation. It's in the core of the "Chinese Dream" that is gradually coming true. Each nation has its own unique culture, and a nation that does not know how to cherish, inherit and carry forward its own national culture will have no future. Therefore, in this era, we must establish a high degree of cultural confidence, set up a greater cultural responsibility, to explore, inherit and carry forward the essence of our traditional culture. Since we want to inherit and carry forward the essence of traditional Chinese culture, we should understand what the essences of traditional Chinese culture are all about, and our attitude should be to take the positive essence and discard the negative dregs. Below, a brief introduction to the essence of traditional Chinese culture is made. 1. Chinese traditional culture is a culture with a perfect integration of various philosophical thoughts and a high degree of inclusiveness. Inclusiveness means that it is a culture with vitality and creativity. This is a powerful feature of the reinvention and absorption of Chinese culture. In traditional Chinese culture, there are Taoist nature, Confucian benevolence, mohist selfless love, legalist rigor, Buddhist love and dedication, all of which are excellent factors in traditional Chinese culture.
There is a warm and loving culture in Chinese culture. This is a Confucian centered culture of benevolence and love. Confucian culture pays more attention to the relationship between the collective and the individual, and the relationship between human relations. What he advocates is not to do to others what you do not want others to do to you. For now, it's still useful! 3. Chinese traditional culture is realistic and down-to-earth. Chinese traditional culture pays more attention to the improvement of people's spiritual realm. Compared with the theologization of Indian philosophy and the natural philosophy of the west, Chinese culture emphasizes the spiritual realm and pursues the harmony of human body and mind. China has a fine tradition of people-oriented traditional culture. In the western zhou dynasty, the people-oriented thought has begun to sprout, to the second Confucian doctrine, mencius, the people-oriented thought reached the peak. Mencius' ideal of benevolent government and kingship was based on the idea of people-oriented. There is something in Chinese traditional culture that advocates honesty. The Chinese value honesty highly. In Confucian classics such as the analects of Confucius, the doctrine of the mean, the university and mencius, honesty is a natural law, and the pursuit of honesty is the law of being a human being. Therefore, integrity is the law of human relations in Chinese culture. Traditional Chinese culture advocates justice. Chinese philosophy has always advocated that justice should be done in accordance with social morality and justice. In the face of interests, we should choose justice instead of interests. Therefore, the debate between justice and interests has always been the focus of Chinese traditional culture. 7. In Chinese culture, individuals are integrated into a collective sense of home and country. Traditional culture believes that individual values can only be reflected in the country and society, so Chinese people have a strong sense of patriotism and sense of family and country. They are concerned about everything in the so-called family affairs, state affairs and the world, and care about everything. Chinese traditional culture advocates the spirit of harmony. The Chinese people pursue the doctrine of the mean in terms of human relations, world outlook and methodology. So the Chinese nation is a peace-loving nation, is a nation with a heart of the world, is the pursuit of harmony and the United States and the United States! "A troubled international marriage unable to get a divorce, with the wife being extorted for one million dolloar" has been a hot topic on Chinese Internet searches in the past week. Because of the difference of languages, locales and lifestyles, a paragraph of originally melting transnational love eventually went to pair of legal proceedings, not only be asked for the huge break-up fee of 1 million Yuan by the other side, the court of tortuous and complicated cognizance also makes the Chinese girl exhausted - both mentally and physically. In the wake of the incident, international marriage is once again in the spotlight.
"Chinese husband + Russian wife = perfect combination". In May 2015, a sino-russian marriage "advertisement" published in Russian daily caused heated discussion in Chinese and Russian society. The Chinese men mentioned in the article "hardworking housekeeping" and Russian women "cheerful and generous" have become a group label with great spreading force. Many russians also believe that the marriage between Russia and China is indeed a perfect match. In the eyes of many Russian girls married to Chinese people, Chinese husbands take care of their families, have a healthy lifestyle, do housework and take marriage seriously, which is rare among Russian men. And many Chinese husbands who have married Russian wives say Russian women do better than Chinese women in many ways. The advantages of a Russian wife are independence, freedom for her husband, high level of education, beauty and hard work. In recent years, the exchanges between China and Russia at the national and social levels have deepened, and the two ethnic groups have met each other on the road of mutual understanding. In suifenhe, heihe and other port cities with hot border trade between China and Russia, cross-border marriage between China and Russia has been very common. The heilongjiang daily previously reported that russia-china cross-border marriages accounted for a quarter of all foreign marriages in the region between 2002 and 2012, according to the region's civil registry. However, a large number of good impression does not mean that the success rate of international marriage is also high. As China becomes more international, international marriages are on the rise. In neighboring South Korea and Japan, for example, the percentage of grooms and brides from China has been high. Japan's ministry of health, labor and welfare statistics show that marriages between the two countries have topped the list of Japanese marriages involving foreigners since the 1990s, with tens of thousands of couples tying the knot each year in recent years, qianjiang evening news reported. In South Korea, the situation is similar, with figures released by the Korea statistics department in April 2013 showing that Chinese men accounted for the largest percentage of marriages between Korean women and foreign men (26 percent). However, the reality is often not as beautiful as the imagination. For example, the divorce rate in the marriage between China and Japan has been very high. International intermarriage is not only about the new romantic happiness of marriage but also about understanding each other. The success of russia-china transnational marriage does not depend on the low material requirements of Russian women, nor is it far from the lack of Russian men, but the deep mutual understanding between Russian women and Chinese men. Hong Kong's ifeng.com reported in April that a 22-year-old Russian beauty had married a Chinese miner. "In the world of love, I think love is the most important, as long as we are willing to work hard, I believe we will be able to buy a house and a car as soon as possible." Her Chinese husband resigned from his previous job. After the formal wedding in her hometown, the couple planned to start a business in Russia. In February 2016, the northeast news network also reported the story of naga, a Russian girl who had been married to China for five years. After she married her husband in shenyang and became a "foreign daughter-in-law", najia not only learned the authentic northeast Chinese mandarin, but also loved to eat and could cook northeast dishes. The most important thing is to adapt to the filial piety and affection of Chinese culture. In addition to getting along with Chinese parents, playing mahjong will deliberately lose to coax in-laws happy. "My parents in China love their children by buying imported food from my hometown. They love us and I should learn to respect them," she said. Na jia said that learning Chinese food well for Chinese parents to eat, more like a Chinese daughter-in-law. But that doesn't mean every international marriage is perfect. In fact "happy families are alike, but unhappy family is unhappy in its own way", the key to marriage is to find the people, no matter what kind of marriage, the premise should be congenial temper, two people appreciate each other, love each other, so that two people can have a problem to solve problems, share the joys and sorrows,, grow old together. Understanding the features of the target cultures has a very considerable influence on the best way to generate business. Chinese civilization is the prominment "representative" of the Eastern Asian cultures, which are extremely peculiar and totally distinct from Western civilizations. To understand its language, you can easily find and hire a professional translation agency (like the ACE CHINESE TRANSLATION), but to understand the cultural takes a lot more efforts and real contacts.
There was a "gas station fable" that goes like this: In a Nowhere city in China, Mr. Zhang San opened a gas station and made a lot of money. Seeing this, Ms. Li Si and Wang Wu also opened gas stations one after another, wishing to grab a share of this profit market. In the West, however, if Tom runs a gas station and makes a lot of money, Jerry would sell water next to it, Polly runs a restaurant, and then, more and more people come - a township finally comes into being... In the domestic business circle and product circle, everyone is playing the "Hard" mode, from the hundred regimens war, to a pile of "top conference", it seems that every business form once appears to play, there will be numerous groups of "followers" to join the competition...... Silicon valley's peers are saying it's just Chinese. Some time ago, the orange dream class invited professor xie xiaoyun, deputy dean of school of management of zhejiang university, to give a lecture on "human nature and system in organizations". There were many highlights, which happened to have something to do with this topic, namely, the influence of traditional Chinese culture on today's business behaviors. In summary, there are three significant differences: First, the trust system is different. The east is a circle structure (relatives, acquaintances, strangers), and the more familiar people they trust, while the west is rule-based. Secondly, the order of common sense and law is that the east pretends to reason, then to reason, and finally to speak, while the west is just the opposite. (extension: there is also a more interesting saying that the east is "thinking" in the sense of law, "do things" in the sense of law) Third, the petrol station fable, the opening story, plays out in the same way in the business world. It's interesting, but why? In my opinion, these three points share the same logic core -- the difference between farming civilization and hunting civilization. In the case of farming, people stick to the land and change very slowly from generation to generation. The people they meet every day are the circle structure, and the chances of meeting the clan members (relatives) are far more than the villagers (acquaintances) and far more than the strangers. In this context, people who are close to each other can only be trusted more. The closer they are to the core circle, the more interests they bind, and the easier it is to find the common goal. Naturally, doing things by "feeling", that is, the efficiency of values is obviously higher than rules (principles and laws), but this only applies to small and beautiful teams. This point, I believe that entrepreneurs with the expansion of the team, things from talk to talk, also can feel the obvious decline in efficiency. Every day in hunting civilization, civilization will run into a new environment, new stranger, may be the enemy may also be a partner in the future, the whole society has experienced a long-term training, everyone is aware of its exact person, to believe that the opposite is inferior to believe that a rule, we have a consensus may be a little bit low, low efficiency is the basis of the value returned, but the consensus is the way of cooperation. Similarly, in the early stage of starting a business together, the team relies on common sense, while large companies cooperate with each other with more common sense. China is in a relatively stable farming civilization, see the same people every day, to do the same things, listen to the old man, one thousand, people more and more tend to avoid uncertainty, tend to mimic first, and then "innovation", so, fables in a gas station and an industry constantly repeat: homogeneity competition, price wars, burn, merge... The merger of didi kuaidi, Meituan and dianping, ctrip and qunar, and... Western culture, on the other hand, values the initiative to meet challenges and seek changes, and thus develops such characteristics as rebellion, tolerance of failure, unwillingness to copy and encouragement of innovation. Imitation or innovation are both survival strategies evolved in a specific internal environment. There is no right or wrong, but the long-term impact is a bit like the comparison between the continental civilization and the Marine civilization. The continental civilization is a relatively closed system, which will gradually increase the entropy and generally get old. In the early years of human beings, when transportation and communication were inconvenient, every internal environment could be protected from external influences. The high efficiency of farming enabled China to take the lead in the stage. However, in the era when internal environment and external environment were integrated, the advantages of an open system that was better at innovation, rule establishment and consensus building gradually emerged. Technologies are evolving fast, even in language / voice recognition. This is the next article we are going to write about. Stay tuned...
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