From the soul between the two can, thinking about the re-"going to the sea" of the culture of the underworld coin

"Culture is a mixture of conceptual and imaginary, and in the context of classification, there are always common emotions and life experiences that transcend local differences."

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"The financial system below turned out to be under our control."

"Hades and Yama began to negotiate."

On the eve of the Qingming Festival, many netizens used a video of "dark coin culture going to sea" on station B to make a joke of the "hell" version.

(Some "Hell" version reviews)

In order to keep up with the festival, under the interpretation of domestic bloggers and some news media, the culture of the underworld and the culture of hades have "gone to sea" and once appeared on the hot search of station B. The news of "China's dark coin selling well overseas" was processed and compiled, depicted as a traffic code for cultural output.

And in this voyage, how does the public understand the phenomenon of the export of the underworld culture? Is this kind of culture's "going to sea" just imagined in the mind?' Why can the ancestor worship culture represented by the dark coin transcend the limitations of the context and be recognized by the West?

Who raised the mast of culture when the "sea" was created?

Many cultures are popular in the "Schrödinger style", as are the paper money of the underworld. This mysterious force from the East is now prevalent overseas, dating back to the preservation of customs by overseas Chinese.

Foreign netizens put this special way of sacrifice on the Internet to spread, many YouTube bloggers shared how to teach how to burn coins in a fancy way, and even formed different genres.

From the spread of small circles to the supply and marketing of overseas markets, in addition to the dark coins, paper ties also have a demand. In 2019, the French also held an art exhibition "Paradise in Paradise" at the museum near the Eiffel Tower, dedicated to paper-tied models.

(Exhibits from Paradise)

"The death of Chinese is romantic", the domestic media will be the popularity of the paper into a "burst of fire" cultural output, such news can cause a wave of attention every year, this year's Qingming Festival eve "had a culture to go to sea" news entry once again on the B station hot search list.

(B station hot search list no. 1 "Chinese dark coin culture to the sea")

However, is it true that the underworld is on fire every year overseas?

Tracing back to the earliest release of news and videos on related topics, as early as 2019, Pluto has been "out of the sea" in news and short videos, and has been traveling in this sea for three years.

This year, in order to meet the topic of the Qingming holiday, some media took out the topic of "fried cold rice" without going through a more detailed back-tuning and traceability, and the "sea" of the coin exploded every year.

(Paper money culture that is used as news every year)

Some netizens searched for keywords such as Ancestral money on Google Trends, checked YouTube-related videos and Amazon sales, and found that the topic of Pluto was basically flat in the past three years, and did not break out every year.

The "going to sea" trip is made by the media, and the media reuses the gimmick of "going to the sea", which will portray the broken taboo as the traffic code for the output of Chinese culture. Netizens saw the "fire" of a phenomenon through the magnifying glass of the media, immersed in the cultural smokescreen created by the media.

Domestic customs and customs, foreign "driving backwards"?

From the perspective of cultural export, compared with the Chinese tradition, the overseas spread of the coin was carried out in a Western environment that focused on liberation and religious belief in the afterlife. Therefore, some netizens discussed: "Domestic is advocating the lifting of feudal superstitions, and foreign countries have begun to pick up the mess."

While hoping for the export of Chinese culture to the outside world, and on the other hand criticizing the spread of "bad" culture, "discussing whether burning paper is Chinese bad habit" and "praising the external export of ancestor worship culture" seem to have become an irreconcilable contradiction.

(Some related comments)

These controversies are, first of all, another questioning of the culture of paper money.

Confucius said: Death and death are not merciful and cannot be done; death leads to life, and it is not known and cannot be done. The Book of Rites makes it clear that non-physical beings are in a different perceptual order than the living, and therefore their needs are different.

In the name of "filial piety" to meet the needs of the deceased, to give the soul of the sacrificial culture, the separation of yin and yang is burned by a piece of paper money, and the consciousness of yin and yang is reversed, which is used to support the continuous and dynamic operation of a larger life as a whole.

The practice of burning money is based on myths about family relationships, but it can easily be extended to include deities of all kinds, from the noblest Buddhas, native and Taoist immortals, to demons who have been beaten into the netherworld and deprived of their privileges. At the extreme level, it is feudal superstition that disrupts social order and consumes wealth for no reason.

Although society cannot fully endorse the correctness of customs, it cannot deny the existence of history and the inheritance of traditions. The defined "ugliness" has gradually disappeared in the development of the times, and under the continuous development of productive forces, there have been new exhibitions, from the traditional paper money coins, to the paper-tied villas, luxury cars, to cyberpunk network festival sweeps and "heaven and earth to money treasure" collection codes.

(Paper-tied switch image source Polar Travel News)

When the problems of extreme level and environmental protection are dissolved, the "going to sea" of the dark coin still cannot be liberated from the dualistic opposition, and what is hidden in the essence and meaning of the soot ash?

Custom has become a ritual, forming a set of rules that are gradually transformed into perfect expressions. The living transfer these imitations to the invisible underworld, from symbolic value to spiritual value, through incineration to realize the use value, from one field to another, paper money is changed in its own nature.

This perfect expression intertwines the emotions of the deceased and the desire for the self, projected into the paper money. Unlike in the West, where rituals are performed under faith, burning paper money stems from the mystification inherent in traditional Chinese society, as a way for the masses to participate in the mysterious process of ruling over their "divine right of kings."

Therefore, it is not a debate on science and the theory of ghosts and gods, but a discussion of the logical basis of some symbols represented by paper money from feudalism to modern society.

Under the judgment of paper money culture, there is a separation between feudal and modern civilization.

The "difference" of culture, the "common" of mankind

Under the discussion of the "bad habits" and "going to sea", in addition to rethinking the culture of paper money, there is also the neglect of cultural commonalities.

"Yama did not expect to receive foreign exchange in this life" "Jesus: Broken, the flow of water is gone." The free and open narrative and the popular banter recount the postmodern myth of a Yama unleashing a trade deficit, Hades negotiating, and Greece going bankrupt.

The distinction of faith has never been mentioned in the phenomenon of "going to sea" of the coin, but there is only some discussion of the material quality of the coin. Paper money culture was thus gladly accepted by the West and even "marched forward", and even Kennedy was printed on the reprint paper money.

(Hades Bank "Kenneth Land")

For a long time, there was a constant dispute over the beliefs of the East and the West, and in the contrast and dwarfing, the commonalities between the Eastern and Western cultures were also ignored.

Taking sacrifice as an example, the East worships ancestors based on filial piety; the West worships gods and gods, and this similarity is reflected in the burning of paper money, so the coin has attracted the attention of foreigners.

But the media ignored this commonality and portrayed the coin as a "subculture that grew wildly," a fresh example of a transcendent state and nation.

The history of the opposing contexts of the East and the West brings with it the logic of dividing national borders and thinking about problems with national units.

Although the Internet has opened up the limitations of time and space, under the call to tell the Chinese story well, opposition is easy to bring dislocation. But the renderings and narratives of some media still emphasize the dominance of culture. The antagonism between East and West has been transformed into the modern "seeing" and "being seen", and the coin has been ridiculed as a way of cultural hegemony.

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Between the balance of "seeing" and "being seen", perhaps one should learn to be an eagle flying over the grassland, both to see the panorama of the earth and to keep an eye on the rabbit running on the ground.

In essence, the panorama of the earth can only be seen from the human footing.

Foreign and domestic, East and West, cultural output and import... All dualistic words fade in the light of the fire and return to the essence of the spiritual flesh. In the early stages of separation and dematerialization, these multi-purpose paper money was only used to carry ordinary souls in between.

It is not because of the existence of religious beliefs that the West can accept sacrificial cultures such as burning paper money without threshold, but because of a common human feeling and simple imagination. It is not so much to commemorate the deceased, but to comfort the living, which is a kind of sustenance of the living to the deceased, a pure and pious expression of value.

(Photo by Shitai Panren)

It is precisely because human beings have a wealth of emotions that they become different, and it is actually even more unscientific and materialistic to deny the existence of these spirits with the so-called "scientific thought" and "materialism".

With thick smoke and layers of ashes, the "going to sea" of the coin tells the world that the way to experience and understand the world is not only science. Paper money is teaching the knowledge of value, transforming secular existence into true spiritual values and human values, and is the "benevolent" side of human nature.

Between denying the existence of gods and denying the validity of rituals, between affirming the power of habit and a sense of obligation, the essence of customs is transformed into postmodern mythological reconstruction through the material spirit and ideology of different cultures.

In the ridicule of netizens, the "different" of culture and the "sameness" of human beings appear at the same time, returning to the original essence of paper money technology, carrying many elements and information.

National boundaries are tangible boundaries, but culture may be a mixture of concept and imagination, and we can also feel the common emotions and the most basic human life experience in the classification environment from the phenomenon of "going to sea" of the underworld culture.

(Image from the Internet)

Resources:

[Beauty] Bai Hua,"Burning Money: The Material Spirit of Chinese Living World"

"Our taboo paper tie, but the French took to 1 museum to hold an exhibition: the death of Chinese is romantic"