Zhang Zhehan caused controversy because he had visited Jingguo Shendu and taken photos to commemorate the occasion, and in the face of the storm of public opinion and the crisis of termination, Zhang Zhehan had to apologize for his "ignorance".
At present, most of his fans still choose to support, but most ordinary netizens are not willing to recognize Zhang Zhehan's "ignorance", calling for him to withdraw from the circle is quite loud, and the People's Daily has also begun to comment that it is too undeserved.
For this event, there are actually three stages of development.
The first stage stems from a photograph.
Zhang Zhehan appeared in a photo posted in Japan in 2017, which is regarded as a symbol of Japanese militarism, and netizens pointed out that although he deleted it, he did not apologize for his mistake.
After his popularity, the Rising Sun Flag incident has become one of the black spots, often discussed, in this regard, Zhang Zhehan Studio once issued a statement, expressing patriotism and love for the party, will sue "rumor-mongering" netizens.
The second stage stems from a wedding video.
Netizens followed up with the video of Zhang Zhehan attending the wedding of Japanese friends in 2019, and the content involved two sensitive points, one is that the wedding venue is Nogi Shrine, and the other is that the main guest has Dai Wei.
Nogi Shindu is dedicated to Nogi Heisei, one of the executors of the Lushun incident, and Dai Wei has made a lot of anti-China remarks, and her husband is President Sukarno, who is deeply entangled with Indonesia's "9.30" incident.
Regardless of whether it is intentional or not, the intersection of Zhang Zhehan as a public figure with these two sensitive points will hurt the feelings of the Chinese people, but at this time he did not speak out, and the studio instead put the prosecution announcement to the top.
The third stage completely broke out, and the fuse was Yasukuni Shendu.
In the face of the obscure warning of Zhang Zhehan's team, netizens who are good at analyzing clues have more desire to dig, and found that Zhang Zhehan had visited Jingguo Shendu in 2018 and left a happy group photo, and the incident directly escalated.
Although the sensitivity of The Rising Sun Banner, Nogi Shendu, and Lady Dai wei is equal to that of Yasukuni Shendu, there are many People who are not familiar with this information, and there will indeed be a phenomenon of stepping on thunder because of "not knowing".
However, there are very few Chinese who do not know the nature of Jingguo Shendu, and in the past two decades, the news and international public opinion have been involved many times, and there have been many cases in the entertainment industry in which foreign celebrities visiting Jingguo Shendu and being boycotted.
Zhang Zhehan recommended works such as "Kafka by the Sea" in the list of books, and the content has a relevant description of Jingguo Shendu, because Jingguo Shendu is too notorious, and it is difficult for him to get the recognition of netizens by using "ignorance" to explain.
At present, no matter whether Zhang Zhehan is pro-Japanese in his heart, his behavior has seriously hurt the feelings of the Chinese people, and as a Chinese star, he must pay for his "ignorance" and is not wronged at all.
In the process of fermentation of the event, the reaction of the artist side is also worthy of reflection in the industry.
Perhaps it is that there are too many deliberate smears and competition for the family in the entertainment industry at present, and many artists often habitually avoid or even resist in the face of netizen errors or mistakes, which causes greater adverse effects.
Zhang Zhehan in the incident aside whether he deliberately did not mention it, as an artist, if he really just inadvertently stepped on a "thunder" that will hurt the feelings of the Chinese people and involves a sad history, what should he normally do?
Explain, apologize, self-guarantee and supervise.
This was originally the normal process and the best way for ordinary people to solve their mistakes, but looking back at the three phases of Zhang Zhehan's incident, you will find that he and his team have avoided at least two necessary and critical apologies.
Once is to upload a picture of the rising sun flag, whether intentionally or not, this element is released by Chinese artists, which is a very bad thing, and it is inevitable that artists apologize for their mistakes.
But Zhang Zhehan did not make an explanation and apology, this became a hidden danger to his reputation, and when he was revived many years later because of his popularity, the measure given by the team was to prosecute netizens who doubted his attributes because of this matter.
Here, the artist team shows their arrogance and arrogance, even if the artist is really unintentional, they should pay attention to the seriousness of the rising sun flag pointed out by netizens, and strengthen the learning of relevant knowledge.
Some fans may question whether it is too much to inadvertently send a picture of the rising sun flag and ask the artist to apologize.
Let me give you two examples of Korean entertainers.
Huang Meiying, a female member of the female era whose pattern is the element of the Rising Sun Flag, did not have a worse number of fans than Zhang Zhehan at the moment, and was quickly apologized after being discovered by netizens.
Korean-American actor Steven Won liked a photo with the elements of the Rising Sun Flag because he did not understand history, and immediately apologized afterwards, and the apology letter was rewritten once because it was accused of lack of sincerity.
By the way, Huang Meiying, whose market was mainly in South Korea, had to go to the U.S. market after the contract with SM was withdrawn and the variety show was dropped off because of the picture endorsement.
Sometimes, it is not necessarily that the netizens are too strict, but the stars ignore the seriousness of the problem too much.
In other words, artists who accidentally send pirated pictures must apologize for insufficient copyright awareness, is it a "mistake" related to national righteousness, and it is more serious than the mistake of sending pirated pictures?
Relatively speaking, our country's tolerance for such mistakes is already very high, unless it steps on a well-known sensitive minefield, and other minefields that have not fully spread can be understood after most sincere apologies.
Because the Flag Day Flag incident was perfunctory, Zhang Zhehan's second apology that should have been given in time when he was attacked for the wedding video was also delayed, and their handling was even more arrogant.
Not only did not reflect because of the "mistake" to step on the minefield, but also suspected of using a small tail to shout netizens to "clean up one by one", fans looked at it and felt that the brother was really "just", and the netizens would only be more dissatisfied when they watched it.
Under the premise of "ignorance", if the artists and the team are not so arrogant, apologize and reflect at the time of the Rising Sun Flag incident, and accumulate relevant knowledge, then Zhang Zhehan, who loves to travel to Japan, can completely avoid stepping on the thunder.
Acknowledging mistakes in a timely manner and correcting them is not to make yourself bad, but to make yourself better.
Unfortunately, most of the artist teams are too arrogant in the face of accusations, often accustomed to classifying doubts as "black", and the normal suggestions of netizens are also regarded as dirty water, sealing themselves in the information cocoon of "there is always black powder to harm me".
This way of thinking has also affected the fan base, and there are still many fans who are anti-black rather than introspective.
When the flag problem appeared, netizens always wanted Zhang Zhehan to apologize, and the fans supported Aidou not intentionally, but never rationally asked the idol to apologize and solve the problem, but instead called the netizens who continued to ask questions as "black".
Since you believe that the idol is not intentional, why don't you want to apologize to him and clarify it?
It is undeniable that there are indeed a large number of netizens who deliberately smear and provoke things in the traffic era, but when artists do make mistakes, the first problem to be solved is not anti-black, but to urge artists to reflect.
When the problem breaks out completely, fans should be more vigilant not to fall into the misunderstanding of forcibly "whitewashing" in order to support idols, just like those Zhang Zhehan fans who try to rationalize the visit to the Yasukuni God Du.
Which Chinese not curious? The scenery is very beautiful, and the history of Japan has made mistakes, why do you still target the current Japan? Such remarks are another injury to the feelings of the Chinese people, and outsiders have once again seen the joke.
In order to rationalize the behavior of idols to "whitewash" the executioners who hurt their own country and nation, not only will it not benefit your idol, but it will also cause fear in society that the idol will spoil the three views of fans.
Objectively speaking, Zhang Zhehan's explanation today is not necessarily a lie, after all, the "ignorance" of entertainment stars is unimaginable to ordinary people, and his patriotic remarks are also very many, but the extremely bad impact caused by his behavior is also real.
At present, whether it is an artist or a fan, what should be done is to make up for the bad impact of improper behavior, seriously reflect on the problem, rather than immerse yourself in the sentiment of "there are always people who want to harm the people", and quickly come out of the pink and black war thinking. #人民日报评张哲瀚道歉 #