我在中國的難忘之旅

主持人(Hosts)：吳星鐸（Wu Xingduo）、 蘇莉（Anastasia Sukhoretskaya）嘉賓(Guests)：米沙（Mikhail Chursin）、于嬿華（Filiz Unal）、哈穆薩（Hamza Ucar）、東方祺（Palouki Manguiliwe Rosemond）

我在中國的難忘之旅

My Unforgettable Trip around China

主持人(Hosts)：吳星鐸（Wu Xingduo）、 蘇莉（Anastasia Sukhoretskaya）
嘉賓(Guests)：米沙（Mikhail Chursin）、于嬿華（Filiz Unal）、哈穆薩（Hamza Ucar）、東方祺（Palouki Manguiliwe Rosemond）

第二期的國際朋友圈于2015年12月7日晚在《國際人才交流》編輯部舉行，討論主題為：“我在中國的難忘之旅”。

The second meeting of“World Speaking”was staged on December, 7th, at“International Talent” magazine editor’s department. The topic was “My unforgettable trip around China”.

于嬿華：四川之行，久久難忘

2012年夏天，當(dāng)時我大三，跟同學(xué)和老師去了四川一個禮拜，這趟旅行，讓我久久難忘。其中最難忘的，是九寨溝。我在北京待的時間比較長，之前也去過海南、安徽、廣西等，那次九寨溝之旅，我特別震撼。在城市生活久了，很少看到大自然的東西，我認為九寨溝是我迄今為止看到過的最美的地方。

我們還去了汶川地震時倒塌的學(xué)校，廢墟被原樣保留下來。那里有一個時鐘，上面刻著汶川大地震的時間點。我的家鄉(xiāng)土耳其地震也很頻繁。那個時候我開始考慮什么在我生命中是最重要的。我認為家人是最重要的，我反思自己，感到一定要珍惜每一天，越親密的人越容易忽略，尤其是家人，因為以前放假時，回家總是覺得時間還有很多，會出去見朋友、買東西，在家里也常常放不下手機。但每到假期快結(jié)束時就會后悔。我覺得那次在四川的思考讓我變得更成熟。

四川的人們很熱愛和尊重自己的文化，很有當(dāng)?shù)靥厣?，我在四川擴大了自己的視野，我覺得四川人更會生活，生活節(jié)奏很慢。在四川還看了熊貓，我覺得中國對珍稀動物保護得很好。

Filiz: A trip to Sichuan, that I will never forget

In summer 2012, when I was studying at the university for the third year, I with my classmates and professors, went to Sichuan for a week. I will never forget this trip. Among all the places we visited there, I liked Jiuzhaigou the most. I have been living in Beijing for quite a while, so I also went to Hainan, Anhui and Guangxi provinces and many other places, but I was so much impressed by Jiuzhaigou. I live in a big city, so I don’t have many chances to go out to see the nature, I think that for now Jiuzhaigou is the most beautiful place I ever saw.

I also went to the school toppled by the earthquake that had happened in Sichuan, the ruins remained untouched from the time when the earthquake had happened. There was a clock tower, with the minute and hour when the earthquake had happened carved into the tower. In Turkey where I live, earthquakes are not rare too. Because of what I had seen, I started to think what is the most important thing in my life. I think that the family is most important, we should cherish every day spent, the closer people are to you, the easier you take them for granted. Back home, on vacations, I always thought I had so much time on my hands. I used to go out and meet friends, buy things, and at home always be busy with my phone. But I felt regretful as the time was drawing near the end of holidays. I think that my deep thinking in Sichuan made me more mature.

I think that Sichuan citizens love and respect their culture, Sichuan has this typical Chinese features, I broadened my mind after visiting Sichuan. In my opinion, the Sichuaners know how to live a life, the rhythm of their life is very slow. I also saw pandas in Sichuan; to my mind, China takes a good care of animals.

哈穆薩:多元的文化，厚重的西安

于嬿華，父親是土耳其人，母親是中國人，從小在日本長大。目前就讀于北京大學(xué)對外漢語教育專業(yè)Filiz Unal, father is Turkish, mother is Chinese, grew up in Japan, now at Beijing University learning Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages major

哈穆薩，土耳其留學(xué)生，目前就讀于北京大學(xué)燕京學(xué)堂國際關(guān)系和政治學(xué)專業(yè)Hamza Ucar, foreign student from Turkey, now at Yenching Academy of Peking University learning International Relations and Politics major

米沙，哈薩克斯坦留學(xué)生，目前就讀于北京語言大學(xué)國際政治專業(yè)Mikhail Chursin, foreign student from Kazakhstan, now at Beijing Language and Culture University learning International Politics major

我剛剛?cè)チ颂宋靼?，我對西安的歷史非常感興趣，在那里我可以體驗到不同的歷史，不同的文化特征。我在那里遇到了一些會說阿拉伯語和土耳其語的中國人。在我的國家，有句著名的話是“旅行的人比讀書的人知道的要多?！保ㄓ悬c像中國的“讀萬卷書，行萬里路”——編者按）如果你哪兒都不去，那么你只能從書本上了解各種文化，如果你真的去往那個地方的話，你就能親身歷練，體驗這些文化。

亞洲文化很多元，很豐富。西安在唐朝的時候，作為當(dāng)時的首都，也是多元文化的交匯之地。我在這里既能接觸到中國文化，也發(fā)現(xiàn)有生命力的穆斯林文化。很久很久之前穆斯林來到這里謀求自己的生存空間，不同的文明多元交織，造就了交融的文化，中國值得將這些文化與世界分享。

我去西安之前，看到過一些兵馬俑的圖片，去了那里之后才真實體驗到那種來自古代的力量。我可以從兵馬俑身上感受到古文明。他們幾千年前被建造出來，那時中國已經(jīng)形成了自己的文化。

Hamza: Diverse culture, dignified Xi’an

I have visited Xi’an just recently; I was so interested in Xi’an culture. There you can experience different stages of history and peculiar features of the culture. I met some Chinese people who could speak Turkish and Arab languages. In my country, there is a famous saying: “A person who travels to places knows more than the one who reads books”. (editor’s note: the Turkish saying is similar to one of Chinese: ‘Reading a book is like travelling a thousand mile’). If you don’t travel at all, then all that is left for you is to read books to absorb different cultures, but if you really went to a place, then you could experience this culture and history yourself.

Asian culture is very diverse, very rich. During the Tang dynasty, Xi’an, serving as a capital of that time, was also an important intersection point. I was exposed to the real Chinese culture where the Muslim culture was also thriving. Long ago the Muslims came to this place to sick the shelter. Two different cultures collided and mingled. To my mind, China should display this culture to the world.

Before I came to Xi’an, I had seen Terracotta army pictures, and after I visited the place myself, I really perceived all the power of theancient epoch. I can sense the ancient civilization through the Terracotta army. The Terracotta warriors were erected thousands of years ago, at that time China had already built its own culture.

東方祺，多哥留學(xué)生，目前就讀于對外經(jīng)濟貿(mào)易大學(xué)工商管理專業(yè)Palouki Manguiliwe Rosemond,foreign student from Togo , now at University of International Business and Economics learning Business Administration major

米沙：徜徉在四季的圓明園

我知道所有來北京的人都想去故宮，但是我在來北京之前，就非常想去圓明園。我喜歡安靜一些的景點，我一進圓明園就感受到了特別的感覺，濃重的歷史氣息撲面而來，我看到廢墟中的圓明園，地上有散落的石頭，左看右看都是圓明園歷史的滄?！，F(xiàn)在沒有人會重建像原本的圓明園那樣的建筑了?，F(xiàn)在每次來到北京我都會先去圓明園。每次我去這里，都有新的體會。比如有一次，我來到這里看到了一位畫家，畫著荷花，旁邊有位拉二胡的人，美麗的畫面伴著荷花的香味，我現(xiàn)在還記得那位畫家的作品和特別的香味。圓明園的四季我都喜歡，但我最喜歡的還是荷花都開放的圓明園。

Mikhail: Strolling in Yuanmingyuan Park in four seasons

I know that everyone who comes to Beijing wants to visit the Forbidden City first, but even before I had come to Beijing, I wanted to go to Yuanmingyuan Park. I like the places that are quiet, as I stepped into Yuanmingyuan, I experienced a very special feeling, the ancient wind of history blew into my face, I looked around at the ruins of Yuanmingyuan, at the scattered stones. Left and right, everywhere you could feel a dynamic spirit of Yuanmingyuan. Nowadays people cannot repeat the unique architecture of Yuanmingyuan. Now every time I come to Beijing, I always go to Yuanmingyuan first. Every time I visit this place, its’s a different experience. For example, once I saw a Chinese painter, who was drawing a lotus, near was a man playing erhu, the picture of lotus was perfectly accompanied by the flower fragrance, I still remember the artwork of this painter and the special fragrance. I like all four seasons in the Yuanmingyuan Park, but I prefer more when the flowers bloom.

東方祺：哈爾濱之旅，洋女婿初見丈母娘

我和我的未婚妻認識，是因為她在學(xué)校里迷路了，我給她指路。還挺奇妙的。和未婚妻一起回哈爾濱是我在中國的難忘之旅。去哈爾濱之前，我首先想的是——我要帶些什么禮物？我和她商量，按照我們的習(xí)慣，一般是要給對方家庭帶瓶葡萄酒就好。她同意帶瓶葡萄酒。我的中國朋友說最好還要帶點水果過去。我就到哈爾濱去買葡萄酒和水果。后來我得知，她的媽媽覺得我不應(yīng)該買水果的。我們在她老家待了兩天，當(dāng)時她的媽媽想看看我會不會做飯，我就做了西紅柿炒雞蛋。

我們還談到結(jié)婚的問題。她的媽媽聽說非洲男性可以娶多位老婆，很擔(dān)心我也會娶多房。的確，我們的法律沒有限制娶幾名老婆，但前提是必須要經(jīng)過已經(jīng)娶的全部老婆的一致同意，才能娶下一個。在非洲，擁有多名妻子是權(quán)力的象征。但其實在我們那里，多數(shù)男人只有一個妻子，我也會這樣。她媽媽滿意我的回答。另外，她媽媽還問我，以后在家里，男女兩人誰說了算。她希望的是不論女兒做什么工作，都能夠?qū)依锏呢敭a(chǎn)有控制。我說，雖然在我的文化里，男人管錢，但是這一點我還是會尊重她的意思，這個我們會處理好的，請她放心

Palouki: A trip to Harbin, a foreign spouse meets his motherin-law

I met my fiancé at the university when she lost her way in the campus, and I showed her the way. What a coincidence! My visit to Harbin with my fiancé is my most unforgettable trip in China. Before my trip to Harbin, the first thing to consider was the present for her parents. I talked to my fiancé about it, according to our habit, it was ok to bring a bottle of red wine as a present. However, my Chinese friends advised me to buy fruits instead. So I bought both red wine and fruits. Later I learnt her mom thought I shouldn’t have bought fruits. I spent two days at their home, and her mom wanted to know if I could cook, so I made fried eggs with tomatoes.

We also talked about marriage. Her mom knew by hearsay that in Africa men could have several wives, she was worried that I would have other wives. That was true, according to our law, the Africans could have as many wives as they please. But the trick is if you won’t get the approval of the whole “harem” of wives, you。can’t have the next wife. In Africa, if you have many wives that means that you are a very powerful man. But frankly speaking, the majority of African men have only one wife, I also want to follow their example. Her mom was eventually satisfied with my answer. Besides, her mom asked me, who would be the chief in the family? She hoped no matter what kind of job her daughter would be doing, she had to be the one in control of the family budget. I said,even though in my culture it is the man who takes care of the family budget, but I respect her mother’s opinion, so we are able to find the solution.

沙龍漫談，趣話旅途

主持人：各位在旅途之中，有沒有一些中國美食令你難忘呢？

于嬿華：我不是吃貨，但是對愛吃的東西也很敏感，我喜歡天津的驢打滾兒、天津麻花、麻團兒等等。

東方祺：巫山烤魚我很喜歡?？爵~里面有花椒，麻得很舒服。美食能讓你忘記煩惱。

哈穆薩: 去西安，要試試biangbiang面和羊肉泡饃。吃羊肉泡饃的時候，我從朋友那里得知一個傳說故事。說有一個人窮困不堪，流浪到長安，向一家燒餅鋪討了塊燒餅，但燒餅太硬，咬不動。他又向肉鋪討了一碗羊肉湯，把干硬的燒餅掰成小塊泡進湯里，沒想到特別好吃，吃了之后精神抖擻。后來這個窮人成為一個統(tǒng)治者，他吃的“羊肉泡饃”也因此在長安廣受歡迎。（哈穆薩說的這個傳說的主人公是宋朝開國皇帝趙匡胤——編者注）

主持人：大家知道，漢語博大精深，各地方言又有所不同，那你們在旅途中，有沒有遇到一些語言方面的問題？

哈穆薩：我想起一個有趣的事發(fā)生在4年前，那是我第一次去南京，我需要買一點糖，我提前問了中國朋友“糖”的發(fā)音。沒帶手機，我一邊走一邊重復(fù)默念著“tang-tong-tun……”，念著念著就念錯了，在超市，我發(fā)了音之后，竟然沒人知道我說的是“糖”。后來好不容易找到一個會英語的人告訴我糖的擺放位置，結(jié)果我還是買錯了，我分不清糖和堿在形狀上的區(qū)別。帶回去加到茶里，我兄弟說：“這不是糖！”

米沙：有一次在烏魯木齊旅游的時候，我去買蘋果，拿一些之后，我用中文問老板：“這些蘋果多少錢？”老板說：“14塊（40塊？）”我就在想究竟是14塊還是40塊，我覺得好像是40塊，就說：“20塊怎么樣？”他說：“20塊？用不了，我說的是14塊?！蔽矣终f：“那，10塊怎么樣？”“4塊太低了，8塊吧?！焙冒?，最后我8塊買到了這些蘋果。

主持人：大家有沒有在旅行的時候參與當(dāng)?shù)氐墓?jié)日風(fēng)俗的經(jīng)歷？

Random talk from guests about travel

Host: Dear guests, are there any delicious food you tried during your travel made the trip unforgettable?

Filiz: I am not a foodie, but I am very sensitive to dishes that I love. I like the Tianjin fried chop rice cake, Chinese doughnuts, rice balls with sesame and so on.

Palouki: Wushan grilled fish. There is a pepper inside the dish, and sesame, that makes you feel so content. Delicacies can take all your troubles away.

Hamza: When I was visiting Xi’an, I intended to try the famous noodles“biangbiang” and the soup with mutton and bread pieces. During my soup savoring, a friend of mine told me a legend about the dish. There lived a man who was in the grip of poverty. He went to Chang’an. On his way he asked one peddler for a sesame seed cake, but the cake was too hard, he could not even take a bite of it. Then he asked a peddler for a bowl of mutton soup and teared the bread into pieces and drowned them into the soup. He did not expect it to be so delicious, and put him into high spirits. Later this poor man turned into a governor. The mutton soup with bread that he had eaten turned into a favorite delicacy among the citizens of Chang’an. (editor’s note: the man Humusa was talking about was the emperor of Song dynasty Zhao Kuangyin).

Host: Everyone knows, Chinese language is broad and profound, different places in China have different dialects. Have you ever met with problems of language difference?

Hamza: There was a story that happened to me four years ago. It was my first time in Nanjing and I needed to buy some sugar. I asked my friend how to pronounce “tang”. I didn’t have my phone with me, on my way to the supermarket I was repeating “tang-tong-tun”. While I was doing so, I think, at some point I started to pronounce it in the wrong way. When in the supermarket, I uttered a sound, and suddenly no one understood that I was asking for sugar. Later I finally found someone who could speak English and he showed me where the sugar was on the shelf, the result was I still did not buy it right: I bought soda instead of sugar. When I got back home, I put it into my tea, my brother said: “It’s not sugar!”

Mikhail: Once when I was travelling in Urumqi, I went to buy some fruits, when I got some, I asked the peddler in Chinese: “How much are the fruits?” The shop assistant said: “14 RMB (40 RMB?)”. I was puzzled: 14 RMB or 40 RMB after all? I thought to myself it had to be 40 RMB, then I said: “How about 20 RMB?” He said: “20 RMB? It’s too much, 14 RMB”.Then I said again: “Ok, how about 10 RMB?” “4 RMB is too low, how about 8?” Ok, in the end we made it a deal at 8 RMB, and I got my fruits.

于嬿華：我有一次到云南的普洱市墨江哈尼、哈尼太陽節(jié)。墨江雙胞胎很多。我大二的時候和雙胞胎姐姐一起去了那里。太陽節(jié)那天，哈尼族的人們可以向其他任何人的臉上涂抹黑墨，整個臉都是黑色的，我覺得特別有趣，我查了節(jié)日的意義，是源于哈尼族對火的崇拜。另外，我想說另一個話題，就是旅游會加深友誼。在一次旅游中，我與我的韓國朋友聊了很深的話題，我們進行了心對心的交流，我們的關(guān)系比以前更好了。那個女孩向我推薦了一本書，我看過后覺得非常有意思，這本書也給我的生活帶來了一些改變。

米沙：加深友誼這一點我也有體會。有一次，我跟一位同胞同學(xué)吵架，他不理我，我不理他。那一天我們不用上課，天氣特別好，一個人坐在屋子里太無聊了，我就決定去北海公園，一個人一邊聽音樂一邊散步。沒想到在公園里碰上了他——那個朋友。我們聊了很長時間，最終消除了之前的不快，跟原來一樣。之后我們一起去附近吃火鍋，那天我感覺有個中國朋友說得很對，如果你跟一個人一起吃火鍋，你們就是永遠的朋友。

Host: Everyone, during your travel, have you ever had an experience of being a part of local festivals?

Filiz: Once I went to Yunnan province Pu’er town Mojiang county Hani minority autonomous region, when they celebrated the International Twins Day, Hani minority’s Festival of Sun. Mojiang county is a home to many twins. I went there at my second year of my university studies. On the Festival the Hani minority people dye people’s faces with black ink. I thought it was so interesting, I checked the meaning of the Festival and found out that it represented their worship of the fire. Besides, I want to add, that travelling strengthens friendship bonds. When I was travelling with my Korean friend, I discussed many deep and intimate topics with her. We went into a heart-to-heart dialogue. Therefore, it made our friendship even stronger. This girl recommended me one book, after I read it I thought it was so interesting, that this book brought some changes into my life.

Mikhail: About strengthening the friendship, I also have this sort of experience. Once I quarreled with my fellow compatriot, the result was he ignored me and I ignored him. That day we didn’t need to go to study, and the weather was so good. I was bored at home, so I decided to go to Beihai Park alone. I was listening to music and strolling. I did not expect to meet this friend also trolling in the park. We talked for quite a while, eventually there was no sign of a happened quarrel. We went back to our previous state of friendship. Later we went to the nearby restaurant to share the hot pot, I remembered one of my Chinese friends once said:“If you share hot pot with someone, you become lifetime friends”.

主持人：大家在旅游中有沒有買過一些小禮品？有什么有意思的回憶么？

東方祺：我在長沙買過一些小禮品，買過一個葫蘆狀的類似玉佩的東西。據(jù)說古時要掛在女生房間的門口，我買給了我的對象。

于嬿華：談到小禮品，我喜歡在當(dāng)?shù)刭I明信片和書簽，有一次我在頤和園買了一個旗袍狀的書簽送給了朋友，我覺得這樣的小禮品很實用，很漂亮，很有意義。

哈穆薩: 在西安，一個手藝人把我的阿拉伯名字刻在了紀念品上，我很喜歡。

米沙：一般來說，我很樂于給朋友們買一些千奇百怪的吃的東西。我買的第一個食物是火龍果，我的父母特別喜歡。我還會買糖葫蘆，我很喜歡山楂。第一次從北京回家的時候，我在王府井買了一些奇怪的蟲子。我買了很大的蟲子，凍著的，買來當(dāng)紀念品，放在家里沒人吃。（中文整理：吳星鐸，英文整理：蘇莉，實習(xí)生閆彩萍參與討論與錄音整理）

Host: All of you might have brought some small souvenirs from the places of visit. Can you please share this memory with us?

Palouki: When I was in Changsha, I bought a souvenir, something in the shape of a gourd, jade pendants. It was said, you should hang it in the women’s room, according to an ancient belief, so I bought it for my significant one.

Filiz: Speaking about small gifts, I buy postcards and bookmarks. Once in the Summer Palace I bought a bookmark in the shape of a qipao and gave it to my friend as a present, I think these kinds of small gifts are very practical, very beautiful, also have some sort of meaning.

Hamza: In Xi’an, one master carved my Arabic name into a souvenir which made it very special.

Mikhail: Generally speaking, I like to bring some weird food to my friends. The first weird thing that I bought was the dragon eye fruit; my parents liked it a lot. I also like to buy sugarcoated fruits on the stick, and hawthorn. The first time I went back home from Beijing, I bought worms from Wangfujing street. I brought large frozen worms, as a souvenir for my family, and then nobody ate it.(Chinese version by Wu Xingduo,English version by Anastasia Sukhoretskaya,Intern Yan Caiping participated in discussion and voice recording decipherment）