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eaknesses and can they merge? One Western philosopher once expressed his pessimistic view: "West is West, East is East, West and East will never come together". Certain modern scholars, such as Samuel Huntington, have even asserted that the relationship between cultures is one of struggle against each other. However, according to this writer's observation and impression, as German President Johanners Rau's congratulations on China's cultural festival, "The things we share are much more than what we are aware of in our daily life." Take the modern art exhibition and the Guangdong modern dances brought by the cultural festival this time as an example, their methods of presentation were transplanted from the West, but they have become China's own things. Gao Chengming, leader of the Guangdong Modern Dance Troupe, told the reporter that modern dance has a history of only a dozen years or so, most of the audiences quickly developed a liking for it. Chinese dancers used the Western method to present the Chinese people's impression on life, although they used different language, Western audiences could understand it fully and share the same feeling. The performances given in Berlin drew enthusiastic responses from the audiences. There is no lack of examples showing that pure Chinese cultural things have genuinely entered the daily lives of the Westerners. A case in point is the "Asia-Pacific Cup" dragon boat race held at the opening ceremony of the Asien-Pazifik-Wochen Berlin 2001. Maybe we people from the land of dragon boat race do not know that dragon boat race has become a popular sport activity in the West. In Berlin alone, the dragon boat club already has a history of 10 years and its sponsor was exactly the leader of the then German tourist group to China. Today, dragon boat club exists not only in Berlin, but also in Dresdner, Schwerin, Magdeburg. World dragon boat competitions have been held several times, Germany's Hamburg, Italy's Florence, Canada's Vancouver, Britain's Nottingham all had once been the venues of dragon boat contests. Today, it is said that dragon boat race is the most welcomed sports games second only to football game. Facts have proved that cultural exchange can go out of the scholar's study into the world arena. As a matter of fact, some Chinese once held that Chinese culture is so broad and deep that it is beyond the Westerners to understand it. As a result, for a long time in the past, Peking operas introduced to the West were no more than acrobatic fighting in Chinese operas, such as "Creating Uproar in the Heavenly Palace" and "A Fork in the Road", with the result that Westerners misunderstood the Chinese culture as "only so so". Later, Chinese cultural departments changed their method, sending their complete operas with singing and acting to the West. To help Western audience to have an appreciation base, they had the lines translated into foreign languages and displayed them in captions. Before the opera began, a brief introduction to its plot was given to the audience, as a result, while watching the opera "Pipa Xing", some audiences were moved to tears. During the performance in Berlin, the sponsor observed carefully and found that only two to three parents, who had to bring their children home, left before the performance was over. What does this show? It shows that people's hearts are linked. Zhao Qizheng, minister of the Information Office under the State Council, said that culture is