The visit to the stand of the China Embassy in Rabat was a revelation; Because I met Olivier Grandjean, whose name certainly does not say much to many of our fellow citizens, but who has in the meantime become a major figure in the entertainment industry in China. But as the Internet never sleeps, never forget anything and where each click of Internet users night and day shows that the latter reach out, we can admire its different contributions in the media in question.
What we can say about Grandjean is that he is one of the greatest lovers in China, to whom he owes a lot, both on a personal and professional level, so much so that he settled there with his small family. Through the various short filming stays having certainly been exhausting over time, it is not surprising that he decided to take this step. It is also pleasant to see that he has been able to combine the useful with the pleasant, knew how to make his hobby his job: because traveling remains his passion, meeting people his elixir.
Travel is certainly one of the oldest motifs and changes in the place of humanity, because it constitutes the basis of the first legends, myths and stories, and the experiences and challenges of various works and their authors testify to this: Gilgamesh, Ulysses, Oedipus, Theseus, Orpheus, Marco Polo, Ibn Battouta, Robinson Crusoe, etc. We can claim in good conscience that mobility alone represents fuel of the human condition, and the history of civilization, which is basically the history of place changes, has always been punctuated by great migrations and new locations. Again and again!
The external and internal movements are considered to be constants relating to travel accounts, because of travel literature includes two preponderant thematic areas: the description of the outside world, in which the sensations, the experience, the traveler’s emotions come to the fore, as for the story of the factual journey it is relegated to the background. So we have an interaction between external and internal movements.
And if everyday life is always the same, liveliness and intensity that arise from stimuli are lacking. It is not the absolute force of the stimulus which is important for perception, but the change of intensity. The constant stimuli do not trigger practically no more nerve impulses, positively “feverish”; We “adapt”, and therefore we perceive less. The journey awakens perception and sharpens the senses. On the one hand, because the novelty of the stimuli stimulates the senses, and on the other hand, because the need for orientation during the trip requires increased use of this commodity. Due to the distance from the requirements of daily life, we are more attentive, which means that we are less distracted and that the “perception channels” are more receptive. Traveling therefore creates an increased feeling of vigilance and vitality, because different meanings – often less used in daily life – are stimulated.
Traveling is also spending tests that shape the personality and make a particular contribution to self -knowledge. It is always one meeting with the other: interactions with the other thus form a complex network of self-confidence, but also of uncertainty of oneself, your own identity and its acquired cultural knowledge. The fascination for the other often mixes with attempts to demarcation, so that we find in Grandjean alongside the need to get excited, to express his love for China, an identity reflex which leads to the defense of its own identity, of its own language, which is indeed completely legitimate, while thus proposing on Chinese state television with French -speaking ambassadors: Morocco, Portugal (although not French -speaking), Lebanon, Gabon, Tunisia etc.
However, we are extremely grateful to Grandjean, who, although he only gives us a little glimpse of China, knew how to put the blood of the boiling reader, punctuated by sobs and dramas, like that of the loss of his best child of childhood, or when he broke the collarbone, a sign of pain, a passion beyond suffering and incidents of course. We are also extremely grateful to him for the warm paintings, full of touches of cheerfulness and joy, which he painted: when he praised the beauty of the island of Hainan, to which I devoted a collection of German-Chinese poetry, when he describes the aurora boreales of Mohe, the beautiful Harbin of Harbin du Harbin de Bruce In Foshan, which I unfortunately associate in the forties during the period of the covid, Hangzhou and its famous lake of the West, Lake Xihu, Kunming and its marathon, which takes place every year and from where one can visit Dali, Lijiang or Shangri-La, or Fuding du Fujian, where we pick the whores of tea to make white tea The Red Army in Yan’an in the company of the convinced idealist Edgar Snow, Qingdao, where Tsingtao, beer flows into waves, Shenzhen, where modernity and innovation celebrate its triumphs, Lake Chagan, where you can fish tons of fish, even in eternal ice cream, where windows are calculated at the fairest.
But he also highlighted some people who have devoted everything to their passion. There is the photographer who has traveled more than 180,000 kilometers through the vast country to take family photos; Or Iman Mehmet, one of the greatest environmentalists in China, who, in consultation with the local government, decided to green 80,000 hectares in the distant Xinjiang in order to fertilize the desert.
From a Moroccan point of view, the most memorable moments are certainly friendship with the ambassador Mr. Aziz Mekouar, one of the best diplomats that Morocco has never had. Mr. Aziz Mekouar. It was also he who organized the transport of protective masks and medical equipment in consultation with the competent Moroccan authorities and the Chinese Embassy in Rabat, under the high instructions of His Majesty Mohammed VI. This memory of solidarity, this fraternal momentum will remain forever engraved in the collective conscience of all Moroccans, and will forever remind two peoples that cooperation, respect and mutual support are the keys to success for a peaceful and harmonious world.
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