Purpose to Ritual, Value of Harmony — How the Hanfu Movement changes and challenges modern morality
30 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
in Hanfu Tags: Burqa, cultural tolerance, global peace, Islam, multiculturalism, Muslims, sensitivity, world citizens
Hanfu - a symbol of a reflective and conscious people?
Source: http://tieba.baidu.com/p/743843382 (【随想】礼之用，和为贵（昨日羊肉串事件随想） by 月曜使·檀越之) English title: [Random thoughts] Purpose of Ritual, Value of Harmony – Thoughts after yesterday’s lamb skewer event; by Yueyaoshi*Tanyuezhi
http://tieba.baidu.com/p/1337580509?pn=3 (深衣出门九小时【带图片预告】 by 容漱雪凌紫冥) (post 61-64)
English title: Nine hours wearing a Shenyi outside [with picture preview] by Rongshu Xueling Zhiming
Translated by Satsuki Shizuka for Torguqin.wordpress.com
Translator’s foreward: As the year 2011 comes to a close, comes a time for us to think back and make some conclusions on our doings and faults over the past year. Since Wang Letian’s expedition in September 2003, the cultural scape of a rapidly modernizing (or Westernizing, as some claim) China has gradually shifted towards thinking of a culturally, environmentally, and humanely sensitive future, rather one solely dependent on economy and efficiency.
Here I bring two stories of how a common Chinese person, through understanding and putting into practice a respect for his or her own tradition, can become proactive members in developing mutual respect and dignity for other people and cultures, and truly become world citizens and upholding global peace. Their actions may be personal, but the power of one is great when it is modelled by all by sheer virtue.
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