Traditional Chinese Painting in New Days

              Painting in the traditional style is known in Chinese as guó huà (国画), meaning 'national' or 'native painting', as opposed to Western styles of art which became popular in China in the 20th century. It was during the Warring State Period(475-221 BC) that artists began to represent the world around them. Traditional painting involves essentially the same techniques as calligraphy and is done with a brush dipped in black or colored ink; oils are not used. In traditional painting, most of the subjects are flowers, animals, landscapes, and figures. Nowadays, lots of creative Chinese artists developed new style of painting using those traditional techniques. 

Mexico "mockumentary"

I watched this on news. Children played as kidnappers, corrupt cops and drug traffickers to show the existing problems in Mexico.
At the end,a little girl faces the camera and says: "If this is the future that awaits me, I don't want it. Enough of working for your political parties instead of for us. Enough of cosmetic changes."I got this on News, so the rest part of the saying I don't understand, but language is not the only communication tool.

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Religion

          I began to study bible recently. The start was kind of like a coincidence. I have really great teachers. One thing that I like is they never try to persuade me to believe in the existence of god, but show me the proof and present me their emotions on their religion. I respect them. It's like opening a new world for me.
          I never considered religion seriously, and even has bias among it. My mom's family believes in Buddhism. My father's family believes in Christianity. When it comes to my parents, they are almost Atheism. My parents are really tough people, they built their business together from nothing. I always remember they told me never trying to depend on anyone. Even when I was a little girl I had to solve the problem myself. From the old people in my family I only saw the religion as a function of escaping from the reality, which is totally away from what my parents taught me. So when I was little I considered religion as a thing for people who find out no way in real life.   
         However I gradually realize there's spiritual need for a person. My parents grew up in the time when surviving was every thing. Policy changing in 1990s in China provided them the chance to develop. The built-in characters by their childhood life experience equipped them well on the way of fighting. Their struggling experience is hard to learn, but I respect their determined mind once setting up a goal. If someone asks me whether I have idol in my heart, I will answer my mom is the only one.
         When they were young they only considered to have a wealthy life. After having me and my sister, they only considered how to provide the best for their children. Just in recent years, persuaded by me, they began to think about their own life.
          There's no religious atmosphere in China. We are still immersed ourselves in the business of development. This is dangerous for current young generations, especially for those whose parents already built up a economic foundation for them. Compared to our parents, we grow up in a wealthy environment. Surviving is no longer a thing to be considered. Nowadays people need spiritual guide to help them on the way of developing, because out there are just too many allures. It's not the thing about superstitions. If we say law is the basic morality people have to obey, then religion is the higher level of morality. A society is necessary to possess one. For a country like China it's even more necessary.

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Desire

             Recently I find myself often stuck in the situation that repeatedly doing the things I hope I didn't do: little things, but always let desire takes over my brain, such as I would have been studying at that moment but I  didn't; I would have eaten healthier food but I didn't; I would have been sleeping, or awake, but always did the opposite. Then I'm thinking about why people can not perfectly control themselves. Obviously we know what is right; what is wrong, and more importantly what is good for ourselves, but we just can not do it.
             When I talked this to a really tough person, I mean really persistent and outstanding, he answered me:" this is the mankind, but before you take the action, ask yourself if it helps you to achieve your goal. If you have a strong and determined mind towards that, you will find yourself regretful after this. Since you will take the double suffering, time and emotion, after letting the desire to make your choice, you'd better calm down and make a wiser choice."
             However, to a personal degree, I believe there's no right or wrong answer to this. It all depends on one's life choice, and mankind's choice is open and flexible. Different phases we are in we have to change ourselves to adapt to it. 
             This also reminds me of my researching experience on 2008 Financial Crisis. One of the high frequent thing I read was mankind's imperfection, according to Keynes, the animal spirits. In a mathematical sense, market is a game: there's winners and there's losers. But if the game of the free market could be played by perfect rational people with perfect information, then it would be possible for there only to be winners. However markets are made of self-interested human beings. As long as there's the desire driving force, there's the mistakes. "If the trouble with socialism is socialism, the trouble with capitalism is capitalism."-The Great Game

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