【正文】 didn’t bee class president. I didn’t get into Stanford. I droped out of college.(Tan 124）4. The cultural understanding and blendingAlthough Amy Tan mainly describes the cultural clashes in her novel, her real aim is to explore a balance of cultural conflicts. An important theme of the novel is the reconciliation of the multicultural clashes. From the beginning of the novel, Jingmei views the gap between her and her mother from two aspects, and this double point of view doesn’t emphasize the generation gap, but instead, it works as the bridge of the munication between the two generations. In the third part of the novel, the four daughters narrate their dilemmas after they grew up, problems in their marriage and in their careers. Although they think their mothers’ ideas are out of date, when they search for the solutions, they inevitably e back to the relationship with the older generation. At last, mothers offer solutions and support to their daughters, for example, Rose Hsu Jordan finds herself unable to persist in her ideas, to protect herself or to make any decisions. Although she expresses her ideas by disobeying her mother to marry Ted, she still makes herself the victim to Ted. At home, Ted decides everything. At last, she needs her mother’s intervention to realize that to refuse to make decision is itself a decision. The last two groups of stories demonstrate that the cultural understanding and blending are formed. Although Jingmei fears that she cannot tell the whole story of her mother, Suyuan runs through the novel with Jingmei’s voice, and Jingmei speaks for her mother in the first and fourth sections. Suyuan’s story represents the struggle to maintain the motherdaughter bonds through cultural and general gaps. Jingmei’s trip to China not only makes reconciliation between Suyuan’s two different life styles, but also the reconciliation between cultures and motherdaughter relationship. In addition, the journey brings hope to other motherdaughter pairs. So they can reconcile the oppositions in the lives between past and present, between cultures, and between generations.The understanding and reconciliation between mothers and daughters are shaped gradually. As in the last part of the novel, Jingmei and her father go to China to look for Jingmei’s half sisters. When they arrive in GuangDong and see her father’s aunty, she still can’t understand her mother’s words of how to rebuild Jingmei’s genome to let her be a Chinese again. After Jingmei’s father tells her Suyuan’s story after she runs away from GuiLin, she knows why her mother leaves the twins on the road. At that time, she feels she just knows a little about her mother who has gone away forever. When she sees her sisters she realizes the Chinese quality which is hidden in her body and totally understands her mother. In this multicultural novel, the author makes us understand the generational and cultural disparity. The daughters once think that their mothers’ Chinese cultural background is the barrier of munication. They cannot understand their mothers’ belief and their ways of love. But when they meet some difficulties in their life, they turn to their mother to find help, and from their mothers’ stories, they finally understand their mothers. Yingying begins to change herself only when she realizes that she has passed her passivity and fatalism to her daughter Lena. She sees the sadness of her daughter’s marriage, and urges her daughter to take an active position. In the story “Waiting between the Trees”, Yingying says: Her wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into the darkness and dissolve. Her eyes looking back do not reflect anything. I think this to myself even though I love my daughter. She and I share the same body there is a part of her mind that is part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like a fish, and has been swimming away ever since. All her life, I have watched her as though from another shore. And now I must tell her everything about my past. It is the only way to penetrate her skin and pull her to where she can be saved.(Tan 216)Amy Tan shows us that a person can remain selective of her culture without giving up the heritage of her tradition. At the beginning of the novel, June Woo says, “My mother and I spoke two different languages… I talked to her English, she answered back in Chinese.”(Tan 20) but after her trip to China, she says: “My mother was right, I am being a Chinese.”(Tan 239) The last part of the novel Queen Mother of the Western Skies represents the theme. The mothers are queen mother, whose wisdom the daughters should listen to. The mothers who suffered a lot never lose hope for the daughters and their relationship with their mothers。 finally, June visits her halfsisters to fulfill her mother’s wish.5. A correct attitude towards cultureAn unprecedented development happened in America during the 20th century. This rapid development on economy has accelerated the worldwide immigration. There are more and more people who put themselves into the totally new American context while leaving their homeland, being separated from the historical and cultural background they used to live in for political, economic, scientific and cultural rea