This turmoil began with Huang Qishan's "alternative" performance when she performed "Unforgettable Tonight" on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, her exaggerated expressions and movements were incompatible with this classic song that interprets the righteousness of the motherland, which caused widespread controversy and heated discussions. I still remember seeing the scene of Huang Qishan's performance at that time, I was really stunned, it was very different from my previous perception!
However, what is even more unbelievable to me is that Huang Qishan suffered online violence far beyond common sense afterwards. Those insults and criticisms followed, without the slightest consideration for whether this talented and good singer would be sad. I feel sorry for her! Is this the current situation on the Internet in China? People keep talking about benevolence and tolerance, but when they are confronted with something different from their own perception, they will be furious, hateful and belittled, and will attack them personally.
This makes me wonder how far our social morality has progressed, and the sense of distance between people seems to be getting farther and farther apart. Everyone hid behind the Internet, and one by one they became keyboard warriors, not caring about the harm caused by words.
In fact, Huang Qishan's performance can be interpreted differently. Performance is an art that allows for all kinds of possibilities. It's like Zhou Shen later interpreted this song in a new way. I began to think, is our perception the only criterion? No. If you have to judge a person's performance, it should be based on her own strength, understanding and expressiveness, rather than a rigid set of stereotypes.
So the question is, isn't this classic old song just to convey the great feelings of the country? Isn't the meaning it contains to arouse our love for the motherland and our longing for and reminiscence of a better life? But how can this song, with such a beautiful meaning, be distorted into a weapon to attack a girl?
This makes me question that our cultural self-confidence, our education, is too vulnerable in the face of such online violence. The scene that was supposed to be full of positive energy and touching people's hearts was suddenly reversed by someone with a heart, creating a negative impact and inciting the emotions of netizens. Is this what the Motherland wants to see?
So I think that what really messed up "Unforgettable Tonight" was not the performer Huang Qishan, nor Zhou Shen, who later showed his strength, but the Internet culture of our time, our ordinary netizens who believe rumors, have no independent thinking, and participate in cyberviolence.
The business system is eager for quick success, hyping up traffic and topics; Narrow values erase individuality and pursue homogeneity. This is the reality of China's online public opinion field today. You and I have become more or less poisonous weeds that grow spontaneously in this pompous, distorted, hate-breeding soil.
Therefore, I call on everyone to look at the world with tolerance, reason, and compassion. Use universal values to measure everything that seems to be regressive. Society needs progress, it needs openness, it needs love. That's what I want to say, and that's why I call on everyone to learn to think independently and learn to be tolerant and tolerant in the Internet age.
The above point of view, if you don't like it, don't spray. Rational communication and common progress.