What is wrong with Shenyang's "Big Shuai Coin" traffic card? | Lychee Reviews

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(The author Zhang Feng, special commentator of Litchi News, senior media person, columnist; this article is an exclusive manuscript of Litchi News Client and Litchi Network, please indicate the source when reprinting.) ）

On the evening of January 19, the Shenyang Municipal Bureau of Culture, Tourism and Radio and Television issued a statement saying that the Zhang Shuaifu Museum had improperly planned in the design of cultural and creative products for transportation cards, and sincerely apologized to the public. The heads of the Shenyang Municipal Cultural and Expo Center and the Zhang Shuai Mansion Museum were suspended from their posts and awaited further processing.

The "transportation card cultural and creative products" mentioned here is the "Big Shuai Coin Cultural and Creative Transportation Card", which is a key local cultural and creative project, and a very grand press conference was just held yesterday morning. The "Dashing Coin Cultural and Creative Transportation Card" has both appreciation value and transportation card function, and can be used in more than 300 cities across the country that support transportation interconnection.

Combining collection and use of functions perfectly would have been a good idea. But this time, the "creativity" has been heavily criticized on the Internet, because the marshal in the so-called "big handsome coin" is the controversial Beiyang warlord Zhang Zuolin.

At an auction in Beijing last year, a sample silver coin commemorative of The 15th Year of the Republic of China,000-year-old Army and Navy Grand Marshal Zhang Zuolin was sold for a high price of 25.99 million yuan, setting a new auction record for China's coin collection. The reason for the record high price is that this commemorative silver coin is extremely rare in number, so it has a super collectible price. Shenyang Cultural And Expo Center saw the value behind this news, so it had the idea of "Dashuai Coin Cultural and Creative Transportation Card". This traffic card is a big handsome coin on one side, and on the other hand is the architectural image of the big marshal's mansion, and the relevant departments are full of confidence, completely forgetting what kind of person the "big marshal" is.

Netizens' disgust is concentrated on two points. First, Zhang Zuolin, as a warlord, is not a "positive image", especially he also has the historical stain of "killing Li Dazhao". Now that his image is printed on the traffic card, what is the purpose of commemorating? Second, Zhang Zuolin is a prominent figure in the Republic of China and has a great influence in the northeast. His death is a historical suspense, and the current accepted theory is that the Japanese army blew him up at Huanggutun Station - he died in traffic, and his image printed on the traffic card is not auspicious.

Of course, the first question is the most fatal, and it is about how to evaluate a historical figure. In Shenyang, as well as in some popular literature about "wind and clouds" and "competition", Zhang Zuolin can probably be regarded as a charismatic figure. The title "Grand Marshal" has a kind and complicated meaning. However, if the official production of commemorative cultural and creative cards, the criterion for judging cannot be based on popular historical stories, but must consider real historical evaluation. Obviously, it is inappropriate to use Zhang Zuolin's image for officially issued transportation cards.

This is not to say that Zhang Zuolin is completely devoid of historical significance. In fact, Zhang Zuolin's former residence is now called "Zhang Shuai Mansion", and adding a "Zhang Family" is a very objective and accurate expression. From "Zhang Shi" to "Grand Marshal", behind the change of title, there is a displacement of emotion and historical judgment. People go to the "Zhang Shuai Mansion" to see the museum, not to worship the "Grand Marshal".

In recent years, the cultural and cultural industry has flourished, and people recognize the value of history, which is a good thing. But some places sometimes make ridiculous mistakes in order to "develop the ancients". There is nothing wrong with an objective attitude to study historical figures, and once "commemorated", it is necessary to take into account people's subjective feelings. Shenyang Cultural Center saw the "economic value" and "celebrity effect" of historical figures, but ignored the most important "historical dimension", and eventually went astray on the road of "developing the ancients", making the "big handsome coin" a farce.