The New Era of Entertainment

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Now the time has passed into the 21t century and the Chinese people have turned to a totally new way of relaxation and entertainment.More and more Chinese people have subscribed to the idea of”Life First”and have plunged with great enthusiasm into their pursuit of happiness.

With the sudden rise of the media industry，the media-based entertainment life has taken up most of Chinese people’s leisure time.Since the 1980s，the popularization of television has completely changed the night life of Chinese families.Today，television is as common and necessary as pots and pans to a Chinese family.

Multitudes of TV channels，varied programs，timely information，and large quantities of TV series programs have provided numerous topics for leisure talk，presented before our eyes the dazzling idols and ushered in a new era of nationwide entertainment drive.

Before long，the television culture flooded in，sparking the sluggish business of the movie industry. With the Chinese movie industry coming around to its 100h anniversary, the cinema age to which a whole generationwas attached has made a quiet comeback. Cinema today is more like a kingdom of fairy tales or a magic school: the high definition pictures, the high quality sound effect, the immersing and heart-pounding images, the soul-touching artistic experience-none of these can be provided by a TV set. At the same time, the Chinese movie as the supreme form of sound and visual art in China has successfully reached the culmination of the world movie via the monitors of the fifth-and sixth-generation Chinese directors.

Although having been popularizing in China for just a decade, the Internet has exerted an earthshaking influence on the ways of relaxation and entertainment of the Chinese people. Nowadays, the so-called “post 1980s”generation that leads the fashion trend cannot do without the Internet for even a single day. This is a generation that grows up along with the Internet. Thesepeople browse information, send and receive mails, chat, do shopping, read and play games via the Internet. It is also through the Internet that they have come to know the world and other people. They have their virtual IDs besides their real IDs. They have their cyber language besides their everyday language. Moreover, with the surge in the number of personal blogs in recent years, the netizens have more right of speech, creating a generation of”New Cyber Beings”who have the courage to think independently and express themselves freely.

Along with the rapid growth of the media industry, the tourist industry has also flourished. Traveling has beenthe main means of entertainment for the Chinese people.

Yet the present-day travel lovers are no longer interested in the well-known scenic spots, the fixed and immutable traveling routes, or a transient glance at the landscape.

The self-service travel of the backpackers, the self-driving travel of car owners, the”returning to nature”rural travel and the horizon-broadening outbound travel-all these kinds of travel have become the new favorites of tourists.

Instead of merely “paying a short visit”to a place, people attach more importance to and cherish more of the mood of “discovering the scenery with their own eyes”and the spiritual experience of being “on the road.”

While the Chinese people prefer traveling as a means of spending their vacations, their ways of spendingtheir weekends vary greatly from person to person.

Museums offer historic and cultural shows to satisfy modern people’s hunger for knowledge. The amusement parks help to relieve modern people’s mental pressure by providing thrilling and revelry activities. The collection craze for traditional painting and calligraphy works, ancient books, clocks and watches, furniture andcoupons, coins, playbills, toys, etc., has proved the old saying “Gold is the most valuable during war times, while curios are the most valuable in times of peace.”Products of DIY handicraft such as embroidery, pottery, knitting, art of cloth, beading, and making models, radios and robots have become the new arenas where theurban people turn to recover their original purity and simplicity and to cultivate their mind and character as well. The Chinese people’s life of entertainment is full of inexhaustible possibilities, and the splendor and vitality resting with the life of entertainment of the Chinese people will continuously overstep the bounds of our imagination.