Thursday, 8 March 2012

Time travel

Picture this in your mind: One day, an accident happens to you and then you are in coma or you have already died. However, when you wake up, you are surprised to find that you get into another space time, what would you feel?

What happened in the first paragraph is called “Chuan Yue” in Chinese, which can be translated into time travel in English. “Chuan Yue” means that somebody travels from one space time to another one because of some reasons . For example, if a person is run into by a car or fall off a cliff, then she may get back to another space time and start her life again.

These years, books and TV series about “Chuan Yue” are very popular in China. Almost every story tell us that a girl who live in modern society has been in a serious accident, then when she wakes up, she is very surprised and find that she has been in another dynasty. Then this girl will meet several men and fall in love with one of them. At last, the story ends with a happy ending.

Everything seems pretty good until a tragedy happened. There were two girls in Fujian China suicide by jumping into a pool. In one of the girls’ dairy, she wrote: Don’t be sad about our death, we would go back to the Qing Dynasty and make a movie about the emperor.

A lot of people were shocked by this news, and they felt pity about the two girls’ lives. In addition, this news was heated discussed by a lot of people on the Internet. Some people think these “Chuan Yue” novels and TV series are lack of scientific basis and will mislead young people, we need to forbid them. Some other people also think young people’s parents have responsibility to take care of their children, and they need to lead their children.
In my opinion, here are two main reasons for this kind of tragedies. One is that nowadays’ even young students in China are suffering too much pressure, so they will look forward to the life in the “Chuan Yue” stories, which people don’t have to study math, physics and may have chances to learn a lot of Kong Fu.

Another reason is that young kids have a very strong willing to imitate but they don’t have a clear understanding about the world, they don’t know what death is, what love is and so on. Therefore, they can be affected by TV series or books very easily.

At this time, their parents should take the responsibility to take care of their children. They should choose TV programs carefully for their kids. After watching, parents need to discuss with children and tell them what is unrealistic in that TV programs. They need to teach their kids to distinguish between the stories in TV series or books and things happened in the real world. What’s more, parents and teachers need to work together when they find the kids are too stressful, trying their best to get the kids out of trouble.

In conclusion, “Chuan Yue” do is an excellent topic of stories, but we need to treat it correctly-just regard reading these stories as entertaining relax and have fun in these stories.

8 comments:

  1. Actually,when I was a child, I had such unrealistic imaginations too. I agree with you that we should regard 'Chuan Yue' as just a kind of entertainment .

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    1. It seems every child has this kind of dreams~haha~

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  2. There are two Hollywood movies about time travel. You may be interested in watching them - THE TIME MACHINE and THE TIME TRAVELLER'S WIFE.

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    1. I have THE TIME TRAVELLER'S WIFE in my laptop! Maybe I can find a time to watch it~Thank you Ms Yap~

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  3. But I think the main reason why the two girls committed suicide is that they did something wrong. Some journalists emphasize Chuan Yue in this news only for attracting readers.

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    1. The news said that one of them just lost her keys. Do you think it's a proper reason for suicide?
      They have been affected by Chuan Yue, and they may think that even though they jump into the pool they will not die, but go back to Qing Dynasty.
      Their death is really a pity.

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  4. I also had unrealistic imaginations when I was a child but I would not be as crazy as those two girls.I am really sorry for them.

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  5. I want to come back to my childhood~

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