In Chinatown, there are special lion dance teams, acrobatic teams and martial arts teams. Many performances with Chinese characteristics are performed by special groups here. Although the Chinese have been abroad, they are still keen to carry forward the Chinese culture. Here in North America, it is a melting pot of all nations in the world, and also a melting pot of world culture.
Every race here in North America will retain its own national characteristics, and the Chinese are no exception.
Every year during the Chinese new year, many white people come to Chinatown to watch Chinese performances and feel the warm atmosphere of the Spring Festival.
The entrance of Chinatown is a huge doorplate, which is built according to the Chinese specifications, with antique flavor. The Chinese characters "Chinatown" are written on it to let outsiders know that this is Huaxia city.
One of the most famous landmarks in Chinatown is the statue of Confucius not far from the entrance. China has been influenced by Confucius and Confucianism for thousands of years. In order to maintain their own characteristics, overseas Chinese especially respect Confucius.
Confucius is known as the teacher of all ages. It is always said that "heaven does not give birth to Zhongni, and forever is like a long night". This figure is not just the Confucius in history. To some extent, Confucius is the counterpart of Jesus in Western civilization. He is the symbol of Chinese humanistic spirit.
The early Chinese immigrants erected the statue of Confucius in the hope that future generations would not forget their homeland and the source of their own spiritual civilization. However, the effect of this is not great. After three generations, the Chinese will inevitably become ABC, completely Americanized. They can't speak a word of Chinese, can't write a Chinese character, and won't be proud of their race.
At this moment, a group of high-level people in Hongmen are standing under the huge statue of Confucius to welcome the arrival of Yang Xiaotian.
Yang Wanli is the leader of Hongmen in North America. Yang Wanli looks 40 years old. His eyes are full of fine awns. He has a hawk hook nose, sharp triangular eyes and a generous face with sharp edges. As soon as anyone sees Yang Wanli, he will know that he is not easy to provoke. His face is the face of a typical capable person.
Yang Wanli is a burly man, especially among the Chinese. With a height of 1.92 meters, Yang Wanli stands out among a group of foreigners. Another characteristic of Yang Wanli is that he is "huge and round in waist, with a bear on the back of a tiger". This is a typical figure of an ancient military general and a manifestation of endurance and anti Strike ability. If you look at it carefully, Yang Wanli's playing with walnuts has a thick cocoon on his hand, and his forearm muscles are extremely developed, which is the expression of his excellent martial arts.
There are many high-level people in Hongmen who know martial arts. This is because Hongmen was the first anti Qing fuming Taoist organization, and its core members must practice martial arts to protect themselves from being killed by the imperial eagle dog. Hongquan, which is widely spread in the south, was born in Hongmen. It was created by an expert in Hongmen who was not named hongxiguan.
Later, the Hongquan was carried forward by Huang Feihong and his disciple Lin Shirong, and gradually spread to the scope of Hongmen. However, the Hongquan spread inside Hongmen is still the most authentic one.
Although modern times have been the era of guns, the use of martial arts is no longer as irreplaceable as in the past, but some high-level Hongmen still habitually practice martial arts. Chinese are too weak in North America. If they want to protect themselves and stand among the nations in the world, they have to be stronger than foreigners in all aspects.
Martial arts is an easy way to make the body strong. Hongmen has always respected martial arts. In the past, when the situ family was in charge, the famous martial arts artist Bruce Lee was able to open a martial arts school in North America, which was also greatly favored by the situ family and the support of Hongmen.
Yang Wanli is good at Hongquan and tiesha Zhang. His martial arts are so high that he has never fallen out of the top three in the Chinese world in North America. When he liked to use violence in his early years, he beat the Italian Mafia and the black gangs with amazing skills, which made him a nickname of "iron fist ten thousand li".
However, since he took the leading position, Yang Wanli has not done anything with others for a long time. He has become gentle and elegant, just like a traditional Chinese scholar bureaucrat. He has cultivated his mind and cultivated his magnanimity.
Just like Yang Wanli at the moment, wearing a long robe of coarse cloth and cloth shoes with thousand layer soles on his feet, he looks very Chinese and simple. But as long as he stood there, the mountain like momentum could not be ignored.
It's not unreasonable that he can become the leader of Hongmen in North America. Compared with Yang Wanli, other high-level Hongmen leaders lose half of their weight first, but they have to lose half of their momentum. How can they fight?
Beside Yang Wanli, on the left and on the right, stood two young men whose heads and faces were somewhat similar to Yang Wanli. The one on the left is also a tiger backed one with a black Tang suit, sharp eyes and powerful momentum. His name is Yang Jimin. He is the eldest son of Yang Wanli. He is also the most powerful red flower nunchakus in Hongmen at present. He is a top official of Tuotuo.
Yang Wanli can't take the leading position in Hongmen without Yang Jimin's support. Yang Wanli doesn't do dirty work now, but Yang Jimin fights and kills for him. He is three points more fierce than Yang Wanli when he was young. Although his martial arts are not as good as Yang Wanli, he is good at shooting. With the combination of modern weapons and his superb skills, he was listed as the number one dangerous person by the New York police, and other organizations around him also gave him a nickname "leopard head".
The young man standing on Yang Wanli's left, dressed in a suit and leather shoes, with a leather briefcase and black framed glasses, appears to be polite. His name is Yang Jiguo,
He is the youngest son of Yang Wanli. Unlike his brother Yang Jimin, Yang Jiguo is not good at fighting, but a bully.
Yang Jiguo graduated from Stanford University and studied law. After graduation, he became a respectable profession lawyer in America. Lawyers can be said to be the core of all professions in North America. Many congressmen and presidents are lawyers, because the judicial system here is very developed and there is room for lawyers to operate.
The first sentence of a dignified person in North America when he is in trouble is: "go and call my lawyer." From this interesting reaction, we can see how popular the profession of lawyer is in North America. It is not impossible to become a lawyer, the first time to enter the middle class, and then to become a member of the ruling class.
Even those who are in mixed communities need special lawyers to help them fight lawsuits. For example, in North America, it can be called the epic film godfather, in which the Italian mafia deals with affairs, that is, three axes. The first is force, the second is popularity, and the third is lawyer. You can't leave any of these three axes.