After delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the "Belt and Road Initiative" Forum, Putin went to Zhongnanhai for a bilateral meeting. While waiting for the meeting at the state guesthouse, he sat in front of a piano and played "window of Moscow" and "Twilight Song".
His performance was casual, and this video of improvisation spread quickly in the major media around the world. The piano solo shows the tender side of Putin's chivalrous bones. Since he came to power for more than a decade, Putin has always shown the image of a strong man and heroic temperament.
This is not the first time Putin has played music in public. On December 10, 2010, while attending a charity concert in St. Petersburg, Putin was invited by the host to play the Soviet-era song "where does the Motherland begin?" After playing the piano, Putin also sang the song "Blueberry Mountain" by American jazz artist Louis Armstrong in English.
Putin is really the "almighty king", able to write and fight. Horse riding, shooting, judo wrestling, fighter flying and other 18 martial arts, all proficient skills have long been a lot of fans, this time with artistic strength circle fans, people worship and admire.
Putin's elegant artistic accomplishment is closely related to the Russian nation's advocating art and paying attention to art education. In Russia, the development of its art occupies an important position in the world art history. Russia has a strong artistic atmosphere, and every parent attaches great importance to the cultivation of children's artistic interests and hobbies, and seize the opportunity to cultivate their artistic sensitivity and appreciation, so that they can be nurtured by art from an early age.
On the other hand, in our country, art education is only the hobby and specialty of a few people, and it is not regarded as an indispensable basic element in everyone's life. Therefore, it has an impact on the overall improvement of people's cultural quality. Not long ago, I saw a recommended article in the WeChat group of my college classmates, "shocking speech: what is the use of art?" "it is a speech by Zhou Haihong, vice president of the Central Conservatory of Music. After reading it, I feel enlightened and thought-provoking. Maybe it's because of my professional sensitivity. When I saw a video of Putin playing the piano, I would associate it with this speech. Now you might as well make the main points and contents known to the public and share them with you:
What's the use of art? Why is it so special to talk about this issue in China? Because for so many years, art in China is a non-essential thing after dinner.
Nowadays, many parents ask their children to do nothing but study every day. Everything that has nothing to do with learning is regarded as a "waste of time". They packed every minute of the child. Among them, there is no art, no games, no friends, no freedom.
If you are such a parent, you should know that the most important thing that affects a person's happiness in life, you do not let your child learn, but let him learn a lot of useless things.
Parents may think that this will give their child the life he wants. I want to tell you: you are ruining your child's life.
A large number of our parents put rational and knowledgeable things in their children's childhood. Let children count, recite small ninety-nine, or even memorize the periodic table. When you carry out the so-called early education and are afraid that your child will lose at the starting line, you will win at the starting line and lose at the terminal.
You deprive your child of the opportunity to develop his emotional quality. Then Dean Zhou used a large number of scientific and vivid cases to illustrate these views from three aspects.
First, it takes quality to experience happiness. The material level has been improved, but you do not necessarily know how to feel happiness.
People have two mental abilities, one is rational, the other is perceptual. The representative of reason is science, and the representative of sensibility is art. Science conquers the world and art beautifies the world. Science and art are like the wings of a bird. If you do not attach importance to the development of your child's perceptual consciousness from an early age, you will make your child's happiness in life come to naught, and you will personally stifle the happiness of your child's life.
Why? Because if one wants to achieve a lifetime of happiness, one should not only have the quality of obtaining happy living conditions, but also have the quality of experiencing happiness. It takes quality to experience happiness. Why do many people not feel happy as scheduled after the improvement of their material level? It is because there are conditions, but no experience. The fundamental reason lies in the low perceptual quality.
Two. the future will be an era in which "the elegant is the king". If you don't attach importance to artistic quality, it will be as difficult as being less knowledgeable but want to succeed.
Some parents will say that they don't even have the material conditions for a happy life, so how to talk about the feeling of a happy life. There must be conditions before experience, right? So from the most utilitarian point of view, what is the use of perceptual quality art education? What we call success now basically means being an official, being a leader and making money. Let's talk about it from the perspective of making money.
In the past quite long historical period, there is a particularly obvious gap between the domestic products of our country and the imported products of developed countries: ugly appearance, rough craftsmanship, and impersonal use. We use the height of philosophy to guide and summarize this phenomenon: the perceptual quality is low.
Product quality, in fact, there are two aspects of quality composition: 1. The quality of the function should be practical. A broken plastic cup can drink water into your mouth, and its function is enough. 2. Perceptual quality, that is, aesthetics. The combination of practical and aesthetic is the quality of a product.
However, it is a pity that because of their low perceptual quality, many entrepreneurs in our country always make efforts on function when it comes to the upgrading of their products. They have made a lot of new functions, but they ignore the improvement of perceptual quality and are unwilling to increase the cost of perceptual quality. In the end, your product has been replaced, but it has not been upgraded.
The difference between high-end products and low-end products is not the function. Which counterfeit goods don't have powerful functions? Do luxury goods and daily necessities have the same function? Actually, the experience is different.
How did Apple conquer the world? Apple's core competitiveness is to turn technology into art and products into works. Its core competitiveness is perceptual wisdom.
I don't know if you agree with this view: Apple's features have not been particularly prominent since the death of Steve Jobs. If Jobs were alive, the antenna of Apple 6 would not be so ugly; if Jobs were alive, the camera of Apple 7 would not be so high.
We divide the country's entrepreneurs into three generations, each with its own core competitiveness. The first generation, the first generation who took the lead in going to sea during the reform and opening up, their core competitiveness is courage. In that era, as long as you dare to do it, you can make money. The second generation of entrepreneurs are well-educated people, and their core competitiveness is intellectual rationality. The third generation, represented by Steve Jobs, has a high artistic accomplishment and aesthetic quality, and they lead the future of this era.
Let me remind you: perhaps, you have caught up with this era. If you lack artistic accomplishment and emotional wisdom in the future, and you still want to succeed, the difficulties you will encounter are the same as those of this generation who have not received a decent higher education. Remember, it is difficult for people with low emotional quality to succeed.
Third, people who lack art education are less happy, and those who lack art education find it difficult to succeed.
People who lack art education do a lot of damage.
Remember, people with low emotional quality do a lot of damage. Where's the way out? There is no doubt that we should improve the perceptual quality of the whole nation. How to improve? Please note that the cultivation of perceptual quality should be realized through art education.
The Chinese nation has never been a nation with low perceptual quality. I have always thought that such a terrible environmental problem in China is a kind of retribution for suppressing people's desire for beauty and negating the aesthetic function of art for more than half a century.
If, after the reform and opening up, we can continue to strengthen art education for 30 years and cultivate a generation of citizens who love beauty and art, many of the problems we are now suffering from will no longer exist. But it is a pity that over the past 30 years, we have still not done so. In today's China, primary and secondary schools are still apt to stop the courses such as sound, physique and beauty.
Art can cultivate our perceptual quality, enhance our perceptual wisdom and beautify our lives. It is an irreplaceable function to promote the development of human perceptual civilization and human life. This function has been greatly ignored and even suppressed to a large extent in China.
In the early days of reform and opening up, the slogan "Don't be afraid to learn math, chemistry, chemistry and travel all over the world" spread rapidly and was easy to understand. Let our citizens attach importance to science and rationality. I also want to invent similar communication words to make people pay attention to art: if you want to be successful and happy, you love art from an early age.
This is why I appeal everywhere to let our whole society attach importance to art, art education and all kinds of artistic literacy. Especially the elites here, you are the leaders of the development of this country; especially the young people here, you determine the future of the motherland. Love life, love art, is a good way to cultivate EQ and interest.
The above speech, impassioned speech, every sentence resounding. It is clearly the call and ardent hope of an artist with a responsibility.
It is gratifying to see that the atmosphere of advocating art is gradually recovering in our ancient civilization. in the face of the grim situation that the value of art education in primary and secondary schools is undervalued, the state is paying attention to it and taking measures to improve it. The new policy launched in the two sessions this year: music and art are officially included in the high school entrance examination, and the evaluation mechanism of art education in primary and secondary schools is being developed. It can be predicted that with the enhancement of China's comprehensive national strength, the quality of perceptual experience has been improved. There will be an all-round improvement and development of national well-being. Chinese Dream, the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, will certainly be realized at an early date.
Another piece of news may interest everyone. According to research, the best way for people to live a long and healthy life is not diet, not health care, not exercise, but singing.
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