Maybe it's really a cultural difference, or maybe it's an ulterior motive. At the closing ceremony of the Hangzhou Asian Games, Japan, the host country of the next Asian Games, played an eight-minute promotional video to cooperate with the live theatrical performance.
However, some of the pictures are really unacceptable and seeping very much. After reading the author, it was closed after a few minutes, and netizens also said that they really couldn't understand.
Judging from the scene scene, when Aichi Nagoya took over the Asian Games flag in Hangzhou, the live promotional video and theatrical performance began. Among them, in the "traditional culture" performance, the appearance of a white-haired and red-haired figure caught people off guard.
In fact, coupled with some traditional cultural performances at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics in Japan, it is also chilling, and it is impossible to understand. So why does Japan have to let other countries visit "traditional culture" that they can't understand?
At that time, it caused heated discussions among netizens, thinking that "what kind of netherworld opening ceremony is this". Netizens said: Art can be grounded, but it can't be grounded.
It is understood that this "yin dance" is called dance butt, or dark dance butoh, English for Butoh. Originated in Japan in the late World War II, it is the result of early Japanese dance artists abandoning Western values and exploring traditional Japanese dance.
The performers are covered in powder, shouting, twisting, creeping, crab feet during the performance... It's hard to accept.
Perhaps in traditional Chinese culture, dance is the vehicle for transmitting aesthetics, and such images are indeed unsightly, but this is a bold attempt by Japan to export a wave of traditional Japanese culture to an international audience.
Anyway, the author feels uncomfortable, a little mad. Maybe it's not elegant enough to appreciate. Unexpectedly, after two years, there was another "traditional culture" that was difficult to appreciate at the Aichi Nagoya theatrical performances in Japan. Seriously, you can really be scared when you listen to the melodious violin.
It is understood that such a performance of the white-haired lion and the red-haired lion is actually a more classic Japanese "even lion" kabuki. "Even the Lion" itself tells the story of a frustrated education:
"On the towering rocks, the mighty father liones, in order to choose the little lions, will push the little lions down the valley and raise only the young sons who can climb up on their own."
In the encouragement of frustration education and envy, the little lion finally flew up the high cliff, and since then both father and son have become lion spirits, playing in the mountains to attract butterflies and guard the stone bridge.
The author's search found that many people's evaluation of "Lion Lion" is: "This is a famous kabuki drama based on dance, and the climax part of the white-haired old lion and the red-haired lion dance is hearty, gorgeous and moving." ”
A good "gorgeous and moving", it is better to engage in a little two-dimensional to make people more acceptable. It is understandable to show traditional culture, but it is obviously inappropriate to switch the picture unprepared and give the audience a strong sensory impact.
Previously, the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games Organizing Committee had previously announced the slogan of the 20th Asian Games - "ImagineOneAsia". It's hard to imagine what the opening ceremony of the 2026 Asian Games will look like under such "imagination"?
For Japan's way of forcibly binding traditional culture, the author is still quite disgusted, especially if it is not introduced clearly, it is often uncomfortable to look and feel, I don't know what friends who watched this show think? Welcome to discuss.