The cartoon reflects an interesting and usual respect of daily life. However, from a deeper perspectives, it also reveals the gradual loss of traditional culture in modern society. What exactly contribute to this phenomenon ? Possible reasons could be listed as follows: for one thing, quite a few people, especially youngsters, hold that Chinese traditional culture is out-dated and of little use in modern society. Perhaps, from their perspective, traditional culture form the distant past can hardly adapt to or keep pace with the ever-changing new world. Moreover, exotic cultures, to some extent, have also posed a great challenge to the traditional culture of China. As we can see, a large body of people have been attracted by foreign cultures which feature diversity, novelty and richness —Crazy fans of foreign TV programs, electronic products or even ways of life abound in our daily life.
However, no one can deny the significance of Chinese traditional culture. It is the crystallization of Chinese wisdom and civilization. An individual or nation showing no respect to the essence of traditional culture cannot be expected to develop and be stronger. Hence, something could and should be done to reverse the inexorable decline in the emphasis of Chinese traditional culture. (263)
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如上圖所示，我們可以看到有兩個(gè)人正在看京劇。當(dāng)女演員生動(dòng)地在舞臺(tái)上表演，老者專心致志地看著。然而，坐在邊上的小男孩甚至都沒(méi)有瞥一眼女演員并且睡著了。很明顯，他對(duì)京劇沒(méi)有什么興趣。
這幅圖畫反應(yīng)了日常生活中有趣而又平常的一面。然而，從更為深層的角度來(lái)看，它也揭示了現(xiàn)代社會(huì)中的傳統(tǒng)文化的流失。是什么導(dǎo)致了這個(gè)現(xiàn)象?是什么導(dǎo)致了這個(gè)現(xiàn)象?可能的理由可以羅列如下：首先，相當(dāng)多的人，尤其是年輕人，認(rèn)為中國(guó)傳統(tǒng)文化在現(xiàn)代社會(huì)中過(guò)時(shí)而且沒(méi)有什么用了。也許，在他們看來(lái)，來(lái)自遙遠(yuǎn)的過(guò)去的傳統(tǒng)文化幾乎是不能適應(yīng)和跟得上持續(xù)變化的新世界的。再者，外來(lái)文化也在某種程度上對(duì)傳統(tǒng)文化造成了巨大的威脅。正如我們所能看見(jiàn)的，相當(dāng)多的人已經(jīng)被以多樣性、新穎性和豐富性為特征的國(guó)外文化吸引了 — 對(duì)國(guó)外電視節(jié)目，電子產(chǎn)品甚至是生活方式狂熱的粉絲在我們生活中比比皆是。
然而，沒(méi)有人可以否認(rèn)傳統(tǒng)文化的重要性。它是中國(guó)智慧和文明的結(jié)晶。一個(gè)不尊重傳統(tǒng)文化的精髓的民族和個(gè)人是無(wú)法發(fā)展和強(qiáng)大的。因此，我們可以也應(yīng)該做一些事情，來(lái)扭轉(zhuǎn)現(xiàn)在人們對(duì)中國(guó)傳統(tǒng)文化的重視的不可遏制的下降。
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