The main function of culture and art itself is to create and create cultural identity, and to enhance the quality of culture and art of the whole society and citizens.
For example, the prosperity of Japanese society, culture and art is not only at the elite level, but the whole society has a pursuit of culture and art. Japanese people listen to Western classical music and traditional music with a depth.
The Japanese learn Western culture and art very thoroughly, but they will not give up their cultural identity. They have a systematic understanding of their own language, characters, and even traditional culture.
For example, learning calligraphy is an essential part of Japanese primary education.
The characteristic of Japanese manga is that the screenwriting ability is very strong, and the strong screenwriting ability is precisely because the Japanese society has high requirements for literature.
Therefore, to cultivate screenwriters, it is not a screenwriting class, but a good literature course.
In Japanese colleges, literature still exists.
There are also different publishing systems for Japanese poetry, prose, novels, etc.
Culture and art can not only improve people's intelligence, but also create a competitive soft power entity. However, the situation in Hong Kong is rather strange. Since the return of the motherland, art education has not been seriously done.
The government has made four or five art education reports, but nothing has been implemented.
The lack of art education has resulted in a very low level of art in the entire Hong Kong society.
An M+ museum was set up to promote visual culture, but Hong Kong people can't even understand the basic history of Western art, nor can they understand the history of Chinese art.
Just find someone and ask: Do you know who Qi Baishi is?
What are the representative works of Picasso?
The answer is probably a mess.
An M+ museum was set up to promote visual culture, but Hong Kong people can't even understand the basic history of Western art, nor can they understand the history of Chinese art.
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The most dangerous thing is the "activation" of Hong Kong's culture and art, which will lead to people not taking culture and art seriously. If culture and art are not serious, it will constitute cultural security.
Why constitute cultural security?
Because it's just a child's play to be culture and art, and they don't understand the deep meaning behind culture and its impact on overall soft power.
Everyone thinks that those who can sing and draw are experts, so Hong Kong is full of cultural and art experts, and everyone can talk about art by pointing fingers.
The reason why this phenomenon constitutes cultural security is that without the quality of indicators and systematic discourse, people will let their subjective will and unmanned comment on culture and art will constitute many unnecessary problems.
The vulgar media has contributed to the fuel, resulting in the lack of cultural and artistic competitiveness in the whole society.
Looking back at the past, Hong Kong's culture and arts were the most prosperous in the 1980s. Comics, TV, movies, and popular culture brought forth new ones, rather than just pursuing a single one as now.
There are idol singers in Japan, but some serious singers also have a big market and a lot of space.
Is there any cultural meaning behind the popular MIRROR band in Hong Kong?
Hong Kong often only follows trends and trends, but does not have its own cultural identity, because it lacks cultural self-confidence.
At the same time, because there is no cultural autonomy, it is often dependent on foreigners.
Hong Kong needs to build cultural identity and improve cultural capabilities in order to tell the story of Hong Kong well and the story of China well.
There are several elements in the culture and art system. The first is the culture and art professional education system.
Such as visual arts, art literature, such as performing arts, film, television.
It differs from the ordinary school system in that it aims to be top-notch, to seek out the best, and to cultivate the best and the most talented.
Art education teachers in primary and secondary schools should also have a special training.
Many art graduates from normal universities are artists themselves. They know that teaching art courses is not about holding activities or playing with sand.
However, Hong Kong always likes to "play with mud and sand" in art education, so there are many people who take the ninth piano exam, but they have no interest in music after taking the ninth exam.
When learning art cannot improve the cultural level of the whole society, but only characterizes art as having no room for development and no possibility, resulting in a lack of cultural talents and art, and failing to build a sound team, it will form a decline in soft power and rely on imported culture , which also poses a danger to cultural security.
Imported culture is just a decoration, not a real soft power.
In addition to the cultural and arts education system, museums, libraries, art spaces and spaces for displaying art are also important, but in this respect, Hong Kong cannot catch up with its neighbors.
Hong Kong's culture and arts are still in the state of holding events.
If you look at the West Kowloon Cultural District, you will see that the entire cultural district is not centered on the Hong Kong team.
However, the foreign teams lacked understanding of Hong Kong and Asia, and it was difficult to design a cultural district that met the needs of Hong Kong society to enhance the level of Hong Kong's culture and art.
Take the Xiqu Center as an example, it is not a performing arts center designed based on Chinese opera.
One of the functions of culture and art is to improve social quality, and the other is to create the confidence of social culture and art creativity.
With this confidence, we can resist different types of fake social media, and we can deal with cultural security issues wisely and deeply.
Culture and art should not be just consumption activities, but should be an important platform for enhancing the overall soft power of the people.
With this platform, cultural security can be truly guaranteed.
Hu Enwei
is a member of the National Hong Kong and Macao Research Association, a member of the Jiangsu Provincial Political Consultative Conference, and Zuni.
Icosahedron United Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer
(The article is purely the author's opinion and does not represent the position of Hong Kong 01.)
