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In our studio We have a special guest today from India
He knows many different styles of Kung fu 0:00:40.000,0:00:42.000 His Chinese name is Chen Ai Long
who loves kung fu since his childhood.
8 years ago he came to China
with one book TAO OF JEET KUNE DO by Bruce Lee in his hand
He teaches English in university
and in his spare time he study Chinese kung fu.
During his learning process he has mastered JKD,
Tai Qi
long shadow boxing
drunken boxing
drunken sword
roap dart
and nunchaku
During his 8 years stay
he deeply felt in love with Chinese culture
Now Chen Ai Long's dream is to exhibit
Indian culture in China
and Chinese culture in India
and be a messanger of friendship between India and China.
Two countries should learn from each other
and communicate more often.
This year is the 60 anniversary of the establishment of 0:01:26.005,0:01:28.000 diplomatic ties between China and India
China and India are the neigbouring countries
with lots of things in common
So how much do we know about India?
In which aspect two countries
can learn from each others rich experience.
Please continue watching Cui's Talk show
Mr. Cui, have heard a lot about you
Dear audience let me introduce you Chen Ai Long,
our Indian friend
Now he is an English professor
at Taiyuan Institute of Technology.
How many years you have been in China?
Almost 8 years.
Do you have nunchaku in India?
have
oh.you have it there
yeah
is it the same?
the way we play it is different
This wepon is mainly introduced by Bruce Lee
We usually watch and immitate Bruce Lee's actions.
Immitate Bruce Lee's action, right?
In India also have some one like Bruce Lee?
haha, haven't
Oh, so there is only one from China?
yeah, from China
There is only one Bruce Lee.
You adore him since your childhood?
Yes
I'm bit cold, please allow me to dress more
ok ok.. I wait for you here....ok!
Your Chinese name Chen Ai Long is it chosen by yourself?
yeah.
What's your Indian name?
My Indian name is Dilip
so why your Chinese name is Chen Ai Long?
Because I like Chinese culture
Dragon represents Chinese culture
My idols Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan
I'm crazy about Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan actions
and I do really love this great country China.
So I named myself Ai Long ( Love Dragon)
I want to know When you was a yong kid
what was your life in India?
You used to be a strong macho man?
like to fight with others?
No.. No..
Actually I was very timid when I was young
as timid as hare, I used to scare of many things
My friends used to bully me
not only my friends
but also my younger sister
That time my sister used to be taller than me.
she often used to beat me.
your younger sister used to bully you? 0:05:03.005,0:05:04.000 yeah
This is your sister?
right
haha. obviously She looks much stronger and agressive
o when you started to acknoledge that
dramatic change in your life?
When I started my college education,
I still used to be very timid.
I was skinny and very short
One day my close friend said : Ai Long
Look at your body, pathetic
you always get beaten by others
just imagine if you get married
you gonna have a wife
How you gonna protect your wife?
You even can not protect yourself !
He said it wrong,
he suppose to say
see, your body is so weak,
after marriage your wife will acompany your sister
to beat you,to bully you.
What's gonna be your life !!!!
Mr. Cui... hahah.. really heard a lot about you.. 0:05:59.005,0:06:01.000honestly..you are so humorous
so after such incidents in my life
I really wanted to learn real Chinese kung fu
Very often I used to watch Bruce Lee's action films
immitate him and I bought a book written by Bruce Lee
For 2 years every day I used to study from his book
that book was in English
Before my English was terrible.
But after working *** this book for two years
I did accumulate many English words
I imporved my English skill
as well as Bruce Lee's martial art.
Through this book I got to know real JKD style
and most importantly his philosophy
Bruce Lee's philosophy is so amazing
It changed my attitude towards life
Likewise other foreigners
Chen Ai Long also got attracted towards Chinese martial arts
through watching Bruce Lee's films.
When timid hearted Chen Ai Long watched
Bruce Lee's films for the very first time.
Bruce Lee's furious actions
cool and honest attitude
attracted Chen Ai long
and he had a strong desire to study real Chinese kung fu
In order to fulfill his dream Chen Ai Long came to China.
Beside his work at the university
he started taking kung fu lessons in his free time.
First he went to Shanxi Linfen city to learn broad sword.
then he went to Shaolin temple to study drunken boxing
Then to Jiangxi Nanchang to study Chen style of tai ji
In this way he went to many different places in China
to study various styles of Chinese kung fu
wow, so this is how you achieved it
and got to know the real spirit of Chinese kung fu
Not to offend someone.
nor to bully someone as your sister did it to you..
Before my main purpose was to protect myself
but gradually I noticed
hands are not to punch someone
but to embrace others with love and comfort
Martial art is not for distructing someone
We shall defete the enemy inside us to improve ourself
When did you come to China?
Year 2002
I wanna ask you a question
Before you come to China,what was your view about China?
oh.. In India I often used to watch movies
acted by Bruce Lee , Jackie Chan.
so from my point of view
every one in China is good at kung fu
yeah right
male, females everyone do kung fu
they can fly
but after you came here you found a different story
I watched lots of documentary films about Chinese culture
traditional Chinese culture, people wearing traditional 0:08:59.005,0:09:00.000 chinese costumes, architecture
right
But when I came to Beijing first time,
I noticed Chinese people all wearing
modern western style dress.
very modern
I felt strange,
I thought I'm not in China, this is not real China
may be some other country so strange
Ok.. Let me ask in audience if they have any questions.
In their point of view what is India?
You may judge whether it's true
ok
Any friends who are willing to ask ?
From Heaven, spiritual. It seems many people in India are Buddhist
and especially we see the pictures on internet
especially one picture
such as many people on train.
Inside, outside everywhere.
is it real?
I really wish you can explain it. Thank you.
what else?
In my opinion India is very hot
because the skin color of Indians is very healthy and dark
Never been to India so I don't know
In north India and South India
weather conditions are bit different
In the south which is close to the equator
people skin get tanned
so southern people are darker
and northern people are lighter
so you are from south?
I'm in the middle
Any one else?
From my point of view
all Indians females adored with some ornaments on head
and face is covered and do Indian dance,
I think it's so beautiful
So in your opinion every Indian is good at dancing?
Right
They don't go to work, everyday just dancing???
hahhaa. what I mean to say is
Every Indian knows how to sing and dance very well
and all of them are very beautiful.
How come you have such vision about India?
I watched it on TV
oh, from TV programs and movies?
yeah, absolutely
AAWARA, CARAVAN
right
NOORIE, right?
Yeah
Ok.Let's listen to other friends
In my impression
India is very similar to China,
very traditional country
and especially traditional costumes
made of very good quality,rich material
scarf and some decoration on head
and some red dot on forehead
In my opinion very beautiful
I guess, it can distinguish
whether married of not, right?
yeah, you are right.
I don't know much about it.
I also watched it on TV
Just now what they said
Can you explain whether it's wrong?
India is still traditional,
even more traditional than China.
In India people still wear the traditional costumes.
so in their daily life they wear traditional costumes?
yeah.right
in our normal every day life we still have it.
even we still follow those traditional concepts, rituals.
Although our official language is English
and we are open to the western culture
But we don't wanna loose our precious Indian culture.
So Indian government encourage people
to protect our precious culture.
So India is still filled with lots of traditions
and in India before marriage
we are not encouraged to have a boy friend or girl friend.
Marriage is mainly arranged by parents
first they will find
a suitable girl or boy for marriage.
then they will introduce her
and ask for the opinion whether I like her or not
If you like her
then We can talk to her parents
so can you see her photo in advance?
yes, we can ask for her photo.
Can you see her face to face?
Yes
Can take her to the park and have a date?
Can not.
So you know, when first time when I came to China
Many people asked me
some times my students also asked me
I remember in my class one of my student said
Ai Long I wanna ask you a question
I said go ahead
He asked me. Sir,do you have a girl friend?
I did reply. Yes..Many..
In my opinion girl friend just means
common female friend
like class mates
yeah. just like class mates
haha. not even hand in hand ,right?
Actually your student asked
whether or not you have some special one?
right
this kind of relationship, girl friend.
But before I really didn't know
what exactly girl friend means.
After I came to China I knew the exact meaning of it.
is someone that you might marry her in future.
In China before wedding
first you should have a girl friend and
then you can talk about marriage.
and these days boys for marriage
will select one girl friend out of five girl friends
In India it's not like this?...No You can't 0:13:31.005,0:13:33.000so, in India after marriage you have a girl friend?
In India after marriage we show our love to ourlife partner
before marriage we don't know much about each other
What does she is interested in?
What's her life style?
So after they literally became husband and wife
they have love affection and close relationship?
yeah. absolutley
So at the first interaction they ask what's your name?
This is where we have different culture
right
Although these two nations have a very long history
but we have many different customs
for example in India,
if my sister wants to get married
we look for a suitable boy for her
and we will definitely consider
if the boy has some bad habits
such as, if he is a smoker or alcoholic
then we refuse the boy
We mainly consider the inner character
Inner character is very important to us
Then we consider his ability
If he can take good care of my sister and protect her
If they can love each other for the whole life?
if they are suitable of not
and in this way we fix the marriage
But in China this is not so important
In China they mainly consider
the financial condition of the boy
If he has his own house or not
If he has a car?
and how many cars?
we have different consideration
In China there is a wine culture
Drinking wine is regarded as respecting friendship
right, ...everything is wine
But in India it's different
If people know, they will react it's a bad habit
and you might loose your face
oh. so you can drink but it's a bad habit
yeah, it's a bad manner
some people would drink secretely
I remember my father, who loved drinking
but he used to drink secretely
so this is how
we have different habits
right, in China about marriage
It's hard to find a wife
the boy must be ready with lot of money
house bed and quilt
everything should be very well prepapred
buy new clothes
with a very big closet
bride groom really need to spend a lot
Is it same in India?
In India it's totally different
In India the brides family have to prepare a lot of money
Oh so for this kind of things is done by brides parents?
right and they are responsible for buying lots of things
brides party has to spend a lot.
I really love India
So what about the bride grooms standard?
The boy should have a suitable stable job
and enough ability to take good care
and to protect his wife
Thats more important.
Is there any exception?
for example a groom is responsible for such things?
No. I didn't hear it yet
Now I really deeply love India.
May I know if you are married?
I can introduce you an Indian girl
Why we still recording? let's go to India.
Just now one girl said
All Indians can sing and dance
boys, girls everyone can dance
How to say,
one single tree doesn't represent the whole forest.
When we watch movies
we all think that
All Indians are good at singing and dancing
When we watch Chinese Kung Fu films
Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, stunning actions
Not only male but also females do great stunts
so we foreigners think that
all Chinese are good at Kung fu.
We watch movies
not everything in the movies is real fact
most of the movies are full of fiction
yeah, full of fiction and artistic
right, it looks very beautiful
so not for sure that everthing you watch in movies is true
Most of the people can sing and dance
But very few of them are professional
Just like in China, most of the Chinese can do basic taiji moves
Sir, do you play taiji?
oh.. we do some during PE class.
Most of them know
but very few of them are professional
In India it's the same, many people sing
but very few of them are professional
and do some basic dance moves
Not every one is expert
right
So this is misinterpretation caused by movies
yeah..
I remember when I was young, I watched an Indian film
AAWARA.
I loved it so much
The song Aawara hoon is so good
so I thought India is so interesting
even a pocket picker can sing so well
The character of Raj played in Aawara
left a very deep impression to chinese audience.
In year 1952 a black white film
the main character played by Raj Kapoor
After Aawara there was another popular Indian film released in China
Caravan
In 1980 this was shown in China
The music and dance was the greatest attraction
Now India is known for largest number of movie production in the world.
which produces around 1000 movies per year
since year 1955 many Indian movies has been imported in China.
But AAWARA AND CARAVAN left the deepest impression.
So people always ask you questions about Aawara, Caravan ?
right, sometimes when I travel around
many people ask me
Are you from India?
I say, Yes
Can you sing a song from Aawara?
and they start singing
although they don't know how to sing but
then I sing for them
really a nice song
So in India you are amongst those who are good at singing?
I studied arts as a major subject in college
Art teaching was my special
As an art teacher
But as an art teacher in India
one should be versed in different art forms
My special subject was drawing
but besides drawing we also need to have some skills in music
acting, performance and some other art forms
So let's listen one more song from Caravan
ok
really nice
I think you also have a good temper
because I guess you came to China and
you were asked to sing this song for at least 200 times
am I right?
Every Chinese friend you met want to listen
you sing these songs from Aawara and Caravan
yeah. that's true. Many people love to hear Indian songs
Now we got to know that
Well, how about the trains? 0:23:02.000,0:23:08.000 In my opinion the best thing about China is people's safety
In China more efforts has been taken
regarding safety and security of peoples life
India should learn well from China regarding safety and security
because in India
some times you needn't buy a ticket to get on train
what you see in the picture is a real photo
every train is like this? 0:23:31.000,0:23:34.000 not every but mostly possible during special seasons
for example during summer holidays
it will be over crowded
no seats and they are eager to go back home as soon as possible
so they use all possible ways to get on train
for that they are not scared try something,any ways would be ok
and in India too much freedom
I think they should take efficient efforts to manage the safety
We also know that in India there are different caste and classes
such as brahmin, Kshatriya and so on
Is it possible to have an intercast marriage?
before it was very hard
it was so difficult to have such marraige
because of different ethnical group
for example a Brahmin should marry a Brahmin
Brahamn used to consider themself superior than others
When Indian government noticed this issue
they made changes in some special policies
Now people belong to backward class
have more privileges
for example they can get job easily
also government listen to their problems
and try to solve the poverty issue
because of humantity. we are all humans
we should respect everyone
so the government grant them lots of subsidy
and some special privileges
If two people from different ethnical group or religon get married
Indian government grant them some money for doing so
Is it easy for a foreigner to get married with Indian?
Would they encourage to give a hand of their daughter to a Chinese boy?
It's really difficult ...even for me
Then why do you ask me to go to India to find a girl?
In China after spending 8 years you learnt how to trick people.
It would be nice if you marry a Chinese girl
and follow Indian customs to marry her.
Let's ask one more friend who already been to India
besides what we just talked now ,what is more special about India?
I would like to talk about the food ettiquette
eating with one's hand
In America we don't practice so
some times when we have BBQ then we take it by hand
except this we don't, because it's too dirty
In America you use spoon and fork
righ, right
In America do you eat peanuts?
yes
then how do you eat peanuts by spoon and fork?
that time we use hand, this is also an exception
I wanna ask you a question
You know Hollywood in America is very popular right?
yes, I know
People around the world watch Hollywood films
right
Do you know Indian Bollywood?
I know, because I had been to India and I saw Slumdog Millionaire
so I have a deep impression about Bollywood
also in my impression India is very poor country
but also very beautifuland a huge gap between poor and rich
It's a great country
If you have a chance I support you go there
Thank you !!!
Why Bollywood in India so much welcomed?
In india it's more popular than Hollywood
Bollywood movies are very special
so let's talk What's special about it
creativity and bringing something new to the world of cinema
number two singing and dancing part of Indian films
number three, Indian movies give us moral education
In our life how to be a good person
How to deal with some critical problems in life
Have you done any research about
Indians appreciate Indian films more or foreign films?
off course Indian films
And also Bollywood is a great Indian culture industry.
The movie production speed is very efficient.
In one month they can finish making 3 hours film
I heard that they can produce about 300 movies a year
300 movies a year?
yes around 300
How do you think about American movies?
You can pretend that he is not here.
I did study arts
offcourse I appreciate many different types of movies
Chinese martial art movies are ranked number one
American special effect movies are number one.
Indian movies are full of Education, music, dance,
great in entertainment and creativity
and it's suitable for the local Indian community
right, right..
Look at this, I have a special research
Bill Gates claimed about the future software industry
the top software leading country
is not any West or Europian country but India
India has been ranked amongst
the top five greatest software suppling countries in the world
Around 20 % of the software production in the world is done by India
The IT industry in India is highly developed
I think it's something connected with the education in India
yes, It's connected with Indian education
Our official language is English
When we study our major subject in university it's taught in English
second, Education methodology
Teachers always encorage students
they mainly promote students creativity
support them and guide them to create something new
Before I saw a documentary about IT students in Indiatheir life style
their teacher will give them a specific topic
then students have to be very creative about the topic
and how to be different than others
although their topic is same but the way of producing something is different
for example the teacher would give an assignment
1+1 =?
1+1 =3
3?
4How many? 1+1
5?
5, 1+1 = 5 is it possible?
how?
in wrong situation it's 5
ok.. so this is how to be creative
teacher ask you to prove 1+1 is not equal to 2
may be you can think about a different answer,
for eg. 1+1=5
how that could be possible?
for eg. one man get married with one woman
and they had 3 kids after marriage became 5
every one is gifted with imagination power
In India teachers promote students imagination ability
really good
this kind of education is invovled amongst primary school to highschool?
yes,
we also have a special class about empowering creative ability of students.
have a special class about it?
right
so the student feel relaxed and they enjoy it
In China some students are so much quite
sitting quite like this and always very serious,
what teacher say, they just listen
no..not like that, they seat like this
But in India it's different
relax, have a chance to imagine
and produce something new
This is what special about IT
Be creative
and no language barrier for us.
so many Indian IT companies able to easily establish their business in America.
Do you also have entrance exams in India?
yes
classified according to the merit? 1,2,3..
yes. we do consider the merit and top students same as in China
so the dumb students parents aught to visit the teacher very often?
yeah, also have such cases
but the methodology , treatment is different
some students are really smart
Now we have this situation
teacher take responsibility to motivate dumb students in the class
because that dumb student is also a student of his class
He also have a life in future
He will face lots of challenges in future
so we should not ignore them
we should give them a chance
How many years you have been teaching in China?
8 years
Now tell me the truth
What's the problem with Chinese education system?
problem is.. most of the time
students just rely on the knowledge in the book
they have a limitations
too narrow
they just listen what their teacher says
in their eyes teacher is always perfect
but teacher is also a human being
we don't have a perfect human being
I'm also a teacher
I always have to learn new things and update my knowledge
As the Chiense saying goes : Never be tired of learning and teaching.
This has a great logic
Teacher must update himself with new knowledge
Chinese students don't go beyond what teacher says
Teacher is always right
If teacher made a mistake they don't point it out they dare not to do so
But in India it's different
they will say, teacher you are wrong, how that could be
they dare to
It's not a matter of disrespecting your teacher
I love my teacher but I respect the truth
we shall point out if something is wrong
right
Chinese students dare not to
dare not
In India it's ok
yeah.
In China when you teach, your students dare to say?
Professor Chen you are wrong
Now.. Yes
But my first few classes they dare not.
and gradually I keep them motivation and
if I made a mistake they can point it
You have a right to do so
So in the very begining they dare not
but laten on they become brave enough to
right, they acknoledge their teachers spirit
So you have a good communication with your students
yes, I regard them as my family members
for them , we are one family One family
It's time for you to ask questions
Hello Mr. Chen
We would really like to learn some Indian dance
Ok, get on stage,
I will teach you some Indian dance steps
This is what Mr. Chen's teaching style
encourage and motivate students to do something
Ok follow this step
It's like NOBODY NOBODY SONG
2, 3 4
rotate your arm this way. 1,2,3
ok clap your hand 1,2,3
you need to see an orthopedic sergon for the bone treament
any body ?
The song when you got on the stage with nunchaku
from childhood till now I can understand few words what he sang
something like nunchaku hei hei ha hu
We chinese students have an idea
when foreigners learn Chinese we can
ask them to listen this song
How do you think about this idea?
This is a good idea
if foreign students listen to this song,
definitely it would help their listening skill
so just now you sang a Indian folk song
we don't understand what you sang
It's Indian song
actually you can immitate
Because what he is recommending you is this learning method
you can try AAWARA HOON
Mr. Cui you are incredible
Although you don't know what it mean
but you can sing it and then you will know the meaning
then you can learn the words
Mr. Chen want to tell you this is the process of learning any language
This method is interesting
Hello teacher Chen
According to Indians point of view,what is China?
Every one can fly.
no.. about culture and customs
How to say, these two countries
although neighbouring countris
But we don't have enough communication
Lots of Indians have misunderstanding about China
when they read some bad news about China, such as earthquake, disasters
Mainly because of bad news in media
Look at the news paper, most of the news are horrible
so we have some bad impression
In China this is the same story
We always read some bad news about India.
flud, train lost it's track
yeah, has left such impression
They also don't know much about China
So we shall have such chances to guest from two countries
communicate and learn from each other
I hope Indians can know us better
and we shall also know more about India
we are so close
because 2 days ago I saw one news about
India and China are so close
but very few Chinese go to travel in India
and the number of Chinese tourist to India is decreasing
Indian tourism came to China for promotion
to introduce real India
We shall go to India to know more about
This is really very important
Two countries should learn from each other
I'm so lucky to have this chance
to be a teacher in China
I did learn much more about China during my stay
I have a last question
When I watched Slumdog Millianaire
I noticed in India also have such quiz show
we have one female anchor *** Xiao Ya
Do you also have such a in India talk show like this one?
Yes, in India we have one very famous talk show
In India there is one very famous movie director
His name is Karan
and the name of the program is COFFEE WITH KARAN
a very famous director who produced many popular movies
He is the main anchor of the show
You both have lot in common
I heard that you love to watch movies
Yes I like to watch movies very much
You are also handome, just like him
even more handsome than him and humorous
so it's very similar to our talk show, right?
yes, just like our show
I noticed one big difference between his show and our show
In his show have a chance to drink coffee with him
Here we don't even get plain water.
So in my opinion no matter what ethnical group
we shall study their different culture, customs
It's wrong to make a conclusion about any country
by watching few pictures or movies
I tell you your conclusion is gonna be 100 percent wrong
For example, every one say that all Indians can do Yoga.
do you believe it?
impossible, right?
But professor Chen can
In China many people learn Yoga
male female all are learning
especially girls
because they wanna loose weight
see, when you were in India studying kung fu you
mainly think about fighting fist
and later you got to know the real spirit of Chinese kung fu right
so now please tell us what's the real spirit of Yoga
real spirit is to control oneself
control mind, breath
and achieve perfection, connect with God
We should avoid evil
no alcohol, no smoking
because it's bad for our body
we should be polite and respectful to everyone
Yoga is a scientific life style
I found in China many Yoga instructors drink wine
It's really should not be in such a way
Why you learn Yoga?
It's a healthy life style, method
and you are hurting yourself by drinking alcohol, smoking
In their opinion, practice a bit Yoga and then drink a bit makes feel better.
I'm very delighted to have you as a gest in our show.
It's my honor
I really hope in future we still have more chance to come here
Because in my opinion today's show would be more effective
than the propaganda done by Indian torism companies.
Dear audience, for many years we didn't have much more resourceful person
to help us to know more about India.
But professor Chens explanations helped us to know more India
I'm very grateful to you. Thank you
May I have a hug..
Thank you very much
Now you may change your dress
and give us a real Yoga performance
ok