Source: Global Network
Taiwan's "China Times" reported on the 27th that the weather is warming up, and on the occasion of the spring tour, many people on the island feel that more and more attractions "Japanese style" is too much. In addition to many attractions that build torii gates, wear yukata, and hold Japanese festivals, last year there was even a shrine called "Japanese occupation period" that was preserved as a historic site to welcome and worship Amaterasu. Some scholars say that this cannot be used as an excuse to "promote tourism", and the mentality of the dominant people is that they regard themselves as Japanese subjects. Another scholar scolded, "It's not enough to flatter the living, even the ghosts of other people's families have to come to flatter them, it's really not good for the descendants!" ”
According to Taiwan's "China Times", many shrines were built in Taiwan during the "Japanese occupation period", with 68 officially recognized and more than 200 unrecognized; After the defeat of Japan, many shrines were demolished and converted into martyrs' shrines, while the Taoyuan Shrine in Hutou Mountain in Taoyuan was not demolished in the name of "protected monuments" and was converted to worship Zheng Chenggong, Liu Yongfu, Qiu Fengjia and others. Unexpectedly, last year, Taoyuan Shrine cooperated with Kushiro Tottori Shrine in Hokkaido, Japan, and ushered in the worship of "the soul of a great power", "Amaterasu", and "Fengshō Daijin" from Japan, becoming the only shrine in Taiwan dedicated to Japanese Shinto gods Chinese New Year's Eve Chinese New Year's Eve.
Professor Shi Zhengfeng of the Department of Ethnic Affairs and Development Studies of Taiwan's Donghua University said that Taiwanese worship Japanese gods are inexplicable and inexplicable, unless they think they have been ruled by Japan and regard themselves as Japanese subjects.
According to the report, Wu Kuncai, a professor at the Department of Applied History of Chiayi University in Taiwan, also said that after Japan withdrew from Taiwan, it has always only transformed Japanese shrines into martyrs' shrines, and no martyrs' shrines have been changed into Japanese shrines and Japanese ghosts and gods have been worshipped. "Japanese shrines are other people's ghosts, worship indiscriminately, that is called flattery! It's not enough to flatter the living, even the ghosts of other people's families have to come to flatter them, it's really not good for the descendants! ”
According to a report by the China Times News Network, Li Zhongbang, an expert on Japanese studies on the island, believes that the shrine in Taiwan can be regarded as part of the whole link of "de-Sinicization", Japanization of Taiwan, political struggle, cognitive warfare and so on.
Li Zhongbang said that before Taiwan was colonized by Japan, there were neither shrines nor Shintoism. The reason why the shrine appeared in Taiwan was entirely because the colonial government built it to facilitate the sacrifices of the Japanese who colonized Taiwan. "The shrine was originally forgotten by Taiwanese!" Li Zhongbang said: It is only since Lee Teng-hui and Chen Shui-bian came to power, starting with the change in middle school history textbooks, that Japanese culture and architecture in Taiwan have been rapidly restored and restored.
Li Zhongbang revealed that Taoyuan Shrine is not the only example of rebuilding a shrine in Taiwan, as is the Gaoshi Shrine in Peony Township, Pingtung. Coats Shrine was rebuilt in 2015 by Kenichi Sato, a member of Japan's "Lee Teng-hui Friends Association" and a Japanese clergyman, and is a symbolic activity of Taiwan's pro-Japanese forces to introduce Japanese Shinto.
According to the report, Li Zhongbang said that in Taiwan's shrines, some only have buildings, some have ceremonies, but there are ceremonies are very strange, that is equivalent to showing loyalty to the Japanese royal family, the country, and the spirit, he believes: "Behind the 'de-Sinicization' of the DPP authorities, they want to use Taiwan's Japanization and restore Japanese culture in Taiwan to fill part of the historical gap." ”