The first video is about the communication history between Iran and China in 2000. This passage begins with the Imam Square in Isfahan. Isfahan is the original capital of Persia and the capital of Safavid dynasty. This place was also the center where merchants from ancient China, Europe and the Middle East gathered. This place in Isfahan. Businessmen from China stopped moving forward and sold their goods to European businessmen and Middle Eastern businessmen. This place is very beautiful. So, this media person said that China businessmen came to this place after crossing the hot desert for several months. Seeing such a beautiful place, that feeling should be said to be the feeling that I have arrived in heaven.
He has an Imam Square here, which is a very big square in the world. How big is this square? It's almost like Red Square in Moscow. Of course, it is much smaller than Tianmen Square in China. The formal talks on Iranian-China relations started from this square. He invited a tour guide, a woman, who is a lecturer at azad University.
That is to say, 400 years ago, craftsmen from China participated in the construction of this Imam Square. Of course, the history of China's contact with Iran goes far beyond this. The speaker said that the earliest contact between China and Iran can be traced back to 200 BC, that is, more than 2,000 years ago.
Then the lecturer took him to see a place where there were paintings from China. She said it was a painting from China, but let me have a look at it. As far as painting style is concerned, it's not like Chinese painting, but it has China people on it.
In addition to this passage, the media person also talked about Iranian girls learning China Wushu.
The other is to learn Chinese. Many Iranians learn Chinese. Moreover, due to the increasingly close economic and trade relations between China and Iran. Iran has a great demand for talents who can speak Chinese. Demand exceeds supply, so many young Iranians express their willingness to learn Chinese because they can earn a lot of money. You will find that these Iranians speak Chinese with clear pronunciation and mellow voice, which is no different from us, but their faces are different.
In a word, Iran is still a country with strong economic vitality. This may not be what everyone thinks. We all feel that Iran is so tightly blocked by the United States. People's livelihood should be very depressed. What you see from this film is really not.
Therefore, the Iranian economy is full of vitality, which has a lot to do with China. People in China do a lot of business there. It's actually quite big. For example, many Iranians like to buy Huawei mobile phones. According to local sales staff, Huawei mobile phone is the best seller, followed by Apple mobile phone.
In fact, Iran is better than many of us in China think. Including Iranian history and culture, is more grand than we in China imagined. In fact, we in China are very self-centered. Of course, there is also reverse racism in China. China's reverse racism is mainly kneeling in Europe, kneeling in front of European civilization. Our people tend to belittle Iran and Middle Eastern countries. This is really not the case now.
Including Isfahan, as far as this media person is concerned, Isfahan is superior to London and Paris, and can be comparable to Constantinople in Istanbul. It also includes Iranian-China relations. The relationship between China and China, including those circulated on the Internet, is probably not as good as it actually is. Actually, it's better than this one circulating in China. What is the main reason here? As far as we are concerned, some people in China put some contradictions in China. Projected to the Middle East countries, not only Iran, but also other countries in the Middle East.
Middle East countries, whether Iran or Saudi Arabia, are not of the same faction. As we all know, one is Shia-Sunni. They all expressed their support for China's handling of China's domestic problems. Facing this important international relationship and international pattern. I think some people in China are narrow-minded. I repeat, their words and practices are not in the national interest of China.
Text/Wang Xiaodong