China people in the eyes of foreigners

A German friend told the Global Times a few days ago that he saw a website called "Sleeping China People", which contained many photos of China people dozing off. As soon as he said this, the reporter became worried and thought it was an "anti-China" website dedicated to exposing and criticizing the bad habits of China people. However, when reporters saw these photos online, they found that this was not the case.

These photos all have a common feature, that is, most of the people in the photos belong to the grassroots in the city in terms of clothes and personal belongings. In 10, a young man who looks like a peddler sleeps peacefully on a three-wheeled trailer. There are two more. I don't think I can find anywhere else. One sleeps on a stone bench and the other on two stone benches.

Let's take a look at the self-introduction of this photographer named Ben Ender. He is also sincere. Bernd comes from the town of Langer in northern Germany. He was sent to work in Beijing around 2002 and then went to Shanghai. One day, in Shanghai, he saw a man lying on the edge of the street outside the commercial street, sleeping soundly. This makes him very strange, because this phenomenon is rare in the west. From then on, he began to pay attention to China people sleeping in public places. He believes that now the whole world is talking about the "Dragon Awakening" and how fast China has developed, and the world has even begun to panic about the rising speed of China. He hopes that through the discovery that "China people are sleeping", the world can see the peace of China people, and China people are more flexible and adaptable than westerners.

The Global Times reporter saw that although the website was established less than a year ago, the click rate has exceeded 7 1.9 million times. People from dozens of countries and regions in the world left messages on it, and the media in Germany, Britain and other parts of the world also quoted his photos. These photos also caused discussion among German Chinese. A netizen named "Jade Rabbit" wrote on the forum of "German Hotline" that what you see through these photos is the hardship of life. Everyone wants to have comfortable sleeping conditions, but many people in the photos have to choose this way of sleeping in order to make a living. Some netizens in China said, "China people work too hard! These photos let the Germans see the true side of China society. "

Sleepingchinese, a website founded by German photographer BerndHagemann, can tell the main content of the website from its name: Sleeping People in China. The website collects photos of China people's sleeping postures, which are divided into four categories: new (latest), hard sleeper (hard sleeper), soft sleeper (soft sleeper) and group sleeper (group sleeper). And you can also list the top ten photos, the latest ten photos and the ten most viewed photos. Bernd regularly uploads the latest photos of China's sleeping position and communicates with tourists from all over the world.

Bernd comes from Lemgo, a quiet town in northern Germany. He always yearns for the outside world. Around 2002, he was sent to work in Beijing, and soon went to Shanghai. From then on, in the sea of people in Shanghai and Beijing, he took a small camera and recorded all the people and things that happened in this completely different society from his hometown. He is not very famous in German circles, but after he left China, he became a worldwide topic. In six years, he used his camera to record the faces of China people who fell asleep peacefully under various strange circumstances. Sleeping on newsstands, rockeries in parks, in front of computers, picking up a stone as a seat, sleeping on the Bund with Lujiazui as the background, sleeping on bricks in the construction site, sleeping on pork in the butcher shop, sleeping on pumpkins in the market as pillows ... It seems that no one has thought of "watching" China people like this before. /cysc/FDC/fc/200906/25/t 2009 06 25 _ 19334263 . shtml