In the process of cloud travel, we learned about the spirit of Bushido and the people's nature of the Japanese people from the mobile game "Shogunate Dispute".
Next, we will continue to expand our horizons and learn about the humanities of Japan. In this issue, let's explore - what kind of butterfly is the Butterfly?
In Orientalism, Sayyid summarizes "Orientalism" into three points: as an academic meaning of academic study; as a way of thinking; and as a form of control, reconstruction, and King's Landing in the East.
Orientalism is for Westernism, and the East from the Western perspective is always full of passivity, grotesqueness, mystery, and meekness.
Through generalized stereotypes, Eastern men and women are also fused into this "Madame Butterfly" positioning: the racist love of the East (women) falling in love with the West (men) and martyring for it.
"Madame Butterfly" tells the story of the Japanese heroine Jojosan who marries the U.S. Navy officer Pinkerton and guards the boudoir, and finally ends with Jojosan committing suicide.
From Japanese dramas to Puccini's operas, Japan's inherent culture of male superiority and female inferiority often highlights the theme of female sacrifice and forbearance, and in addition to the supremacy of male hormones under the Western discourse, the shogunate male power in Japanese culture also occupies a position that cannot be ignored in Eastern culture.
This patriarchal cultural origin is the same as that of the Three Kingdoms period in ancient China, and the strategy is supreme.
If you are familiar with card board games such as "Three Kingdoms Kill", then strategic confrontation games such as "Shogunate Battle" and "The Caster" are also full of atmospheres that break through the passive discourse power of eastern culture, and highlight power and strategy.
"For the first time, I felt that impulse to right — it was a man's absolute right." This is the most naked sigh of the male protagonist Rene in the movie "Butterfly Jun" after meeting Song Liling, a Chinese girl dressed as a man, and falling in love with her (him).
He has repeatedly encountered walls in front of his white colleagues and women, but since hearing the singer Song Liling sing "Madame Butterfly", he has felt an unprecedented sense of superiority as a male, followed by his "oriental fantasies" about Song Liling.
From being attracted by Song Liling's portrayal of a humble woman in the play and refuting Western men when she first admired "Madame Butterfly", to Song Liling's "unique" expression of Oriental love, Rene's curiosity about gender has long been forgotten.
Compared with the direct expression of Western women and the attitude of denigrating Orientals, the mysterious and freshness of Oriental women is equated with the sense of sacredness and honor that soars into the sky.
"Butterfly Jun" ends with Rene playing "Madame Butterfly" in prison and committing suicide, and Song Liling being sent back to China, both placing the story's landing point on the advantages of orientalist forms, and using Song Liling's final acceptance of her identity and feelings with Rene to reflect on the "commitment" gene that actually exists in the Oriental core.
Whether it is the Zhuang Zhou Meng butterfly in China or the embodiment of the dead spirit of Mount Zao in Japan, the image of "butterfly" has important symbolic value.
Just like the concubines and female officials in The Great O (the harem of the shoguns) who fought for power and profit, they scrupulously adhered to the gentle and frugal concessions of the "Oriental Butterfly" under the centralized rule of the shogunate for more than 600 years. (Text/Dr. Lee of the Lunatic Asylum)