Author: North Wind Snow Forest
Yesterday, "a tourist in Nanjing was asked to undress because he wore Japanese animation costumes" appeared on the hot search of the whole network.
Involving "Nanjing", "Japanese clothing", "request to undress" these sensitive information, similar incidents have occurred from time to time in the past, and have become the focus of "national controversy" every time.
This incident also quickly aroused heated discussion among netizens across the country, which involved the fierce collision of "freedom" and "patriotism".
Whether in the end, "respect for history" and "respect for public sentiment" wins, or "patriotic thieves are populists" and "where are the boundaries of freedom" winning, and finally causing social rifts, in the end, we lose!
When did patriots and anime fans become sharply antagonistic, "you die and I live" state? Similar controversies tear apart society again and again, who is doing things?
One, "Tokyo Swastika Club" is asked to undress!
On January 3, in the Xuanwu Lake Scenic Area of Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, a man dressed in Japanese anime costumes with the words "Tokyo Swastika" printed on his clothes was asked by tourists to take it off.
On January 4, the staff of Xuanwu Lake Scenic Area told reporters that they had also paid attention to the relevant situation and called on young people to consider the universal values of the public while showing their personalities.
This incident did not cause online controversy after the occurrence of The 3rd, but caused public controversy after the public response of the No. 4 scenic spot.
Some people believe that in Nanjing, a city that suffered in World War II, "wearing a special offensive suit" is to challenge national feelings.
Another part believes that the "swastika" of the "Tokyo Swastika" is not a Nazi symbol, and in Japanese anime, this "swastika" is a Buddhist symbol.
In the name of "patriotic feelings," ordinary people do not even have the freedom for ordinary tourists to wear "Non-insulting Japanese clothes," and have shifted from patriotism to "populism."
I watched the buzz on various platforms, where patriots were completely crushed by liberals and anime fans with overt swearing and yin and yang weirdness.
In Baidu and Zhihu, the patriotic camp also has some rational voices, but the whole is still "suppressed".
That is to say, this "people ask tourists to undress at the Tokyo Swastika" incident, the patriotic camp has lost!
If it is only from the Buddhist meaning of the "swastika", there is really no need for the public to go online, but this incident must be combined with the "design of the special attack suit itself".
If we look up the history of Japan's "special attack suits", we can find that Japan originally had a "kamikaze special attack team" during World War II. After World War II, the underworld was particularly obsessed with this militaristic feeling, so special attack suits became the standard of Japan's "rioters".
That is to say, "special attack uniform" even if there is no word for the Japanese army invading China, the design itself is the inheritance from the "World War II uniform" to the underworld uniform.
After the popularity of Japanese anime in China, the cosplay (people's play) culture has also spread in, and in many scenic spots, wearing anime costumes cosplay is still a very fashionable and emotional way of travel.
However, the scenic spot is a public occasion for national tourism, some anime fans wear the special attack suit of "non-insulting China and non-Japanese army" known by the small circle, in the festival of national tourism, in the cognition of the vast majority of ordinary tourists, the overall design of "this set of clothes" does continue the style of the Nazi and kamikaze special attack teams in World War II.
Violating the perceptions and emotions of the masses and being asked to undress is an individual event.
2, Japanese anime has "benign soil"
This time, the "wearing anime costumes" was asked to strip the incident amplified on the Internet, and was misinterpreted as "wearing anime costumes will be besieged", this kind of public opinion manipulation exceeds the incident itself.
We must clearly realize that in the past three decades, there are indeed shortcomings in the field of cultural education and children's popular culture in China.
Japan's animation industry is indeed the "core cultural industry" that Japan has passed through Asia and even affected the world, and we must admit the gap between China and Japan in this industry.
Most of the anime works imported from Japan to our country are still positive energy.
For example, I am in my thirties and re-watch the Japanese Toei version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" every once in a while.
I must admit that for decades, as the creator of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, we have not yet matched the domestic Three Kingdoms anime of Toei's Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Toei's Romance of the Three Kingdoms took four years to produce from 1987 to 1991 at a cost of 1.4 billion yen, and this series of animations shows the true respect and reverence of the Japanese people for the culture of the Three Kingdoms.
Especially in this animation, the portrayal of the emotions of "Cao Cao and Guan Yu" even goes beyond the version of CCTV in the 1980s.
We all know that CCTV's old version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" still respects "honoring Liu and degrading Cao", and it was only in the new century that Cao Cao's "generation of heroes" was reversed.
On the contrary, throughout the last century, Japan's Toei "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is the most objective and respectful film and television work of the original three kingdoms.
In addition to historical themes, Japan's "Super Sailor Moon" and "Ultraman" represent light and faith, love and peace, and transmit a lot of positive energy to the world, of course, to our children.
In addition, Japanese animation has a greater influence in China, and sports inspiration, whether it is "Volleyball Girl" or "The Prince of Tennis", which has driven a period of domestic sports.
In particular, "Slam Dunk Master", this animation is not well-made, but with its hot-blooded character design and inspirational story, it has almost become the youth memory of a generation in china.
In addition, Japan's "Saint Seiya", "Dragon Ball", "Detective Conan" these three longevity anime, it is likely to accompany our family for three generations.
As for the new century, "Naruto", "One Piece" passed on the "will of fire, endless life" and "One Piece's great dream" passed on to the post-00s is also a warm blood inspiration and friendship bond.
In the past three decades, when Japan's high-quality animation has occupied the vision of our generations of teenagers, our domestic animation industry has not fought back.
We also gave birth to such a divine work as "The Legend of the Seven Heroes of the Rainbow Cat and Blue Rabbit", but the cultural ecology of our country did not allow the divine work to be widely disseminated.
Therefore, Japanese animation has been rooted in our country for thirty or forty years and has become a part of our contemporary culture, an important symbol, which is an indisputable fact, which is the result of our past neglect and our own shortcomings.
Recognizing the gap and being brave after knowing the shame is what we will do in the future, rather than beating people who like Japanese anime to death.
Of course, there are two sides of the same coin, and as can be seen from the animations I listed earlier, there are many "virtual background" animations in Japan, and there is a very positive folk foundation in our country.
If tourists only play "Autumn Clothes of Xiangbei" in the scenic area, or the Golden Saint Seiya suit, Detective Conan, of course, will not encounter "being asked to undress".
Even the villain "Xiao Organization", which plays "Naruto", will be a dazzling landscape in major scenic spots and will not be boycotted by ordinary people.
Society is pluralistic, there are a small number of anime fans, of course, there are the vast majority of ordinary people, the vast majority of ordinary people do not understand the rice circle culture, of course, have their own simple cognition.
In the occasion of public gathering, it is not surprising to choose an anime costume with a "realistic setting" and provoke "simple emotions".
Three, there is always wind and rain in the critical period between China and Japan!
This "Japanese anime costume" demand for stripping incident, from a special case, has been torn apart and controversial by the whole network, of course, it is also related to the recent new changes in Sino-Japanese relations.
On January 1 this year, the RCEP, which has been signed by many countries, officially entered into force, which is an important propeller for the international layout of China's future foreign trade.
Many friends have asked me to talk about the impact of RCEP on our country, which requires a long article. Let me start with an important point today: an unprecedented breakthrough in Sino-Japanese trade.
RCEP is plainly a free trade agreement between China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand and ten ASEAN countries, among which China and ASEAN have long had free trade agreements, between China and South Korea, between China and New Zealand, China and Australia relations are in the current "political frozen" state, and the potential of RCEP in China-Australia trade cannot be quickly exerted.
The biggest impact of this RCEP is between China and Japan, because of the interference and historical problems of the United States, it is difficult for the two countries to reach a direct trade agreement.
Therefore, the signing of RCEP is between China and Japan, with the help of a new platform, a free trade agreement has been reached, and zero tariffs have been achieved in many fields, including the automobile industry, which has formed support for China's future foreign trade and economic growth!
So whether Or not Japan has continued to challenge us "politically and geographically" over the past two years, RCEP has allowed the economy, trade, and culture of the two countries to "develop in a warm and friendly direction."
If we carefully observe the "hot and cold curve" of Sino-Japanese relations in the past two decades, we will find that whenever China, Japan, or China, Japan, and South Korea are "approaching" or showing signs of a "free trade agreement", a fierce confrontation between countries will break out into a "national incident".
Sometimes the incident itself intensifies the conflict between China, Japan and South Korea, and sometimes "the event itself is not special", but the people and the Internet are guiding and hyping in the direction of "fierce confrontation between China, Japan and South Korea".
Whenever the DEMOCRATIC government of the United States is in power, whether it is political or economic, there is a slight cooperation between China, Japan and South Korea, and there will inevitably be a "confrontation incident" in the country, and this RCEP is good for Sino-Japanese trade and scenic spots to require "Japanese animation clothes" to strip two news on the hot search together, which is obviously not a coincidence.
This incident was deliberately hyped up on the domestic network as a sharp confrontation between "national feelings" and "personal love of freedom", and when the incident spread to the Japanese network, it would become "the chinese people's deep hostility to Japanese culture" and thus trigger the propaganda effect of Japanese-funded enterprises and Japanese products in China that were "targeted and excluded, and the situation was worrying".
We must be vigilant against the "anti-united front"
Patriotism should have been the most basic moral requirement and the simplest consensus of the 1.4 billion sons and daughters of China.
However, in recent years, we have increasingly found that whether it is some social hot events or online public opinion controversies, "patriots" are often becoming more and more sharply opposed to "many groups".
And we find that the opposite of the "patriots" is a strong opponent with a "firm faith".
For example, "affirmative action activists", "free speech", "religious liberals", "feminists", "environmental groups", "animal protection groups", "vegetarian associations", "LGBT rights groups", and now "Japanese anime fans".
The equality pursued by "affirmative-power elements" and the "freedom" pursued by "liberals" were originally the same as "patriotism" and belonged to the same "socialist core values".
"Women can hold up half the sky" required by "women's rights", carbon emission reduction and carbon neutrality required by "environmental protection", and "animal protection legal system construction" required by "animal protection" organizations were originally important national policies and system construction that the state has been promoting.
However, in the past two decades, after the "stealing concept" and "sinister packaging" of the well-known and hated Nationalist Party, the demands of these groups have begun to gradually deviate from and confront the "patriotic camp"!
This is because the foreign forces are actually the most insidious opponents who are good at learning, and the tricks they use are only one of the magic weapons for our party to march toward national victory: the united front!
Today's 1.4 billion people, the vast majority of whom are simple passers-by, who run for personal livelihoods and family well-being, do not have a particularly clear tendency, they only have the usual "fragmented reading time", their "patriotic sentiment is ignited" or "hatred of the dark side of the government and society to the bone" is just in the fragmented reading time, "pushed" different styles of articles.
What really has the strength and can form a confrontational force is a special group with "beliefs and demands", they have "love and appeal", they will also have "persistence", and they will have special combat effectiveness when they confront.
It's like gay groups, feminist groups, LGBT groups, and drug addicts in Western countries are more willing to vote.
There are groups in our country that "firmly love and demand", and their "combat effectiveness" is much stronger and persistent than ordinary people. For example, "anime lovers", if the "Hate National Party" is well utilized, can provoke them to fight to the death in order to "wear any favorite anime costumes in public" and "patriots"!
The patriotic camp must clearly understand the routine of hating the Kuomintang and the public, inherit and carry forward the magic weapon of our party's "united front", unite more forces, and isolate fewer but certain enemies!
Groups with "firm love and appeal" must also recognize that patriotism is not a multiple choice question, it is the background and foundation, on the basis of patriotism, the pursuit of women's rights, the pursuit of animal protection, the love of Japanese anime, the love of Tokyo fever, are all objects that can be united!
Patriots and anime lovers, not life-and-death enemies! Creating a patriotic party and public knowledge that opposes the fans of the anime is the enemy that must be killed!