Face "Face"By Shirley ZhangJust imagine , if you are very hungry , and a person throw a piece of bread to you scornfully , you will eat it or not ? I guess that most of you will choose not to eat it , as you have your self-esteem and reputation , which is much more important than your stomach . But , could i summarize it as you are keeping your face?Let's move to the theme—face . First , what is face? Face , a concept originating from Chinese culture , has plenty of connotations.In one aspect, face is an accumulation of praise and success. In other word, face means reputation. More reputation a person requires, more desire he wants to keep his face. Those who care about their reputation care about other's view very much, so when they are praised , they will feel grow face . Otherwise, they will suffer from loosing face. Everyone wants praise rather than criticism, so , face hides in every people's mind , and it sometimes shows the psychology of Chinese society.In other aspect , face work shows the subtle social relationship . It implies the personal mutual affection. For example , if one of your relative wants to have a position in your company, it is likely that you will accept his requirement. This means that you give him face. However , if you refused, your relative may feel embarrassed and heart-broken, and this could influence the relationship between your relative and you. This phenomenon is very common during our social daily life, though we can hardly accept it.All in all, "face" has seeped into our daily life and social culture.Today ,let's focus on the first aspect, and we can call it "the face-saving phenomenon". Some people view "face-saving" as a positive noun,while other people classify it as a negative noun. But for me , i view "face-saving" as a neutral noun. That is to say , suitable face-saving is acceptable.Most of people may wonder about the advantages of face-saving. In fact , those who care about their face have a strong sense of shame , so they will notice their behavior and abide by the law. In order to maintain their reputation .What's more ,you will be disgraced if you lose ,the most savage combative instincts are aroused. Everyone cares about face, so face-saving exits in everyone's mind. Therefore ,consider face-saving as a bad thing arbitrarily is unreasonable.when it comes its disadvantages, an old saying appears in my mind, which is "Gentility without ability is worse than plain beggary", that is to say , if you pay too much attention to face-saving, you will suffer a lot from it. For example, you may nurse a grievance or suffer from injustice , in that you don't want to loose face at any time. Secondly , "face" can bean excuse for not admitting mistakes. Some people think it would be no face to admit mistakes.thirdly, with the development of material living conditions. In many people's eyes, no money is considered as a loss of face, no famous-brand production is a loss of face. All of those view give rise to the inordinate vanity, and people tend to compare with the higher unrealistically.From all we have discussed above, we can conclude that the disadvantages of face-saving is mainly come from the over face-saving. Unfortunately, most of us is likely to over face-saving. So ,what kind of people tend to over face-saving?The first kind — people without confidence.An unsure—emotion person care about others' eyesight. They are afraid of being noticed and be embarrassed, so they try their best to not have any opportunities of losing face. Once they lose face, they think other people may not confirm their ability anymore .As for those people,in my opinion, they should improve their confidence and should be more brave. Don't be constrainted by others' eyesight. Only if you show yourself bravely, can you achieve a greater success . In a word, just try to forget your face.The second kind — people with high position or great power.Those people give us a image of leader. In their mind, face-saving may lead to the decline of prestige. Just for this reason, most of them are over face-saving.To those people, in my view,a leader can hardly achieve high prestige only from face-saving. The genuine heart for the service of the masses and the strict and serious work style can really give a leader high prestige.. For example, American president Reagan often make laughters before the public ,and he is the most humous president in American history. We even can't count how many times he had lost his face. But , he also ranked highly in public opinion polls of U.S. Presidents. And he has a well-known saying : After making fool of yourself , you must be serious like an owl.The last kind — peacockThose people want to have a good reputation, while they are going in the wrong direction. They mistakenly believed that being rich means face-growing. So , they are happy to flaunt their wreath . They wear Armani , carry LV , use iphone , drive Ferrari ... Some people even tighten their belts to buy luxurious goods, in that they don't want to lose face in front of others . Just like in this situation : all people around you are using iphone , while you are still struggling against an old Nokia , which is really somewhat embarrassed . On the contrary , there is another group of people , whose job is not so good . Some of them take the service to others as a shame or "self-missing" . I must give them an advise : Not sinking down , anchor will never work.Of course , there are other kinds of people , who is likely over face-saving. For my part , face-saving has nothing wrong with itself. So , let's try our best to remove its negative factors. Anyway , "face" has a deep influence on our society and culture in deed .As I mentioned before "face" has seeped into our daily life and social culture.。