There is a TV soap shown in a few months ago, called "My head and my mission". Many people as well as me were attracted profoundly by the plot and characters in this TV soap. I admit that the soap really has the charm which can let people involved into it inescapably, and the strongest evidence is the dialogs between different main characters. Those dialogs sometimes are full of humor, like the regional farmers' dialects; sometimes contain the philosophy, like the words of the header, " How can you say 'there's no clothes '? I will have the gown with you." ; sometimes being grand and vehement, with the accompaniment of symphony. Moreover, we have recognize the real nature of Chinese soldiers, their complicated characters reflect that they are a group of ruffian heroes.
Talking about "My mission" first. In the soap the writer emphatically described 7 soldiers, everyone has different character, and every character express the personality of people came from different region in China. The writer intentionally depicts characters of different region in his impression. However, all of them has the common character as well. As most of them escape from defect wars in all parts of China, they have many shortcomings: drifting along, bullies the weak and fears the strong, selfish, as well as dirty. They are lucking of life purpose and ignorant, unclothly and confused.
However, in their dirty face full of dusty, their bright eyes were always eager for driving away Japanese attackers and protect their fellow villegers. They treated their allies as their relatives, and they were very faithful to their head, Mr. Long, a very wonderful head. While they were in battlefield, they were flexible as loaches, brave as the real heros, and sacrifice as apologists. On the battle field, you will see the same expression of them, still dirty and dreadful; but the totally different impression, their souls will rises into air and forms the image of war-gods. No matter how many times you want to deny that, and no matter how you despise them at the normal time of their lives, that is still another real aspect of them, the rarely aspect of them. After the battle when they came back to their paltry coutyard, they would turn back to their original appreance, satired each other for their didn't sacrifice in the battle, so superficial as nothing had ever happened on themselves.
These kinds of characters are the characters of Chinese national characteristics. No matter how many weaknesses they have, they still will not miss their way for going forward. They are easy to walk into the small path far from the main way, however they can always walk back to the place they should aleady have gone. They are often laughed at by other neibours as well as rich people, but they will still do something serious and great in order to prove their real capacities as well as pursue the developing speed of world. I was quite moved by this TV soap, for showing me the muti-surface nature of Chinese.
