Text/Editor丨Qingtian Imperial History
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"Please pay attention to reversing, please pay attention to reversing!" The magical prompt sound sounded on the streets of foreign countries, and the "three jumpers" in rural China have become the top international ones.
It may be hard for you to imagine that there were American friends drinking beer from spittoons, and then Chinese money became the new trend in foreign countries. This mysterious oriental force even attracted 70 million foreign netizens to watch, and was used in various strange places, refreshing the three views of Chinese again and again. Why is Made in China so fascinating to foreigners, and what is the role of their export abroad?
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It is hard to imagine that China's traditional funeral industry is crazy popular abroad, and foreigners say that "no need to be made in China", but in fact they can't escape the "law of true fragrance". Previously, there was an interview about Made in China, most Japanese said that the quality of Chinese products is not good, but whether it is what they wear or use at home, 80% are "made in China", so they never expected that even "death" must be made in China.
In Japan, a country with a high suicide rate and an aging population, the production capacity of coffins has reached its limit since around 2000, so it began to seek overseas imports. Cao County, which is rich in paulownia in the mainland, has conquered Japanese consumers with exquisite wood carvings and two-dimensional shapes, and in addition, another funeral product coin that has become popular all over the world has also been loved by many foreigners abroad.
According to data, China's funeral supplies have been exported to the world, and buyers are all over Russia, the United States, Spain, Italy, France, Switzerland and other dozens of European and American countries, and even in Mauritius, Egypt and Israel, a large number of foreigners have purchased. In particular, the sales of the dark coins issued by the Heaven and Earth Bank have continued to rise, and even evolved a very down-to-earth name "ancestor money".
At first, it was only used in large quantities in Chinese circles, and after foreigners saw such a novel practice, they also tried it. In 2014, a well-known occult Internet celebrity used Chinese coins for "divination", and from a practical point of view, many foreigners have gradually believed that the occult of divination has certain similarities with the Chinese ancestor worship, so more and more occult enthusiasts have joined the ranks of using the coins.
Foreigners will also use the dark coins with the statue of the Jade Emperor, and sometimes they will put fried chicken, bread and wine in front of the table, and burn the dark coins very religiously. Later, foreigners have regarded it as a popular trend, and even derived many versions of the underworld currency according to the customs of different regions, such as the dollar version of the underworld coin. In the mainland, as the origin of the dark coin, it has formed an industrial chain from production to wholesale.
There are even foreigners who said that since they burned the dark coin, they really got the "pie in the sky", for which some people have set up a "training course on the use of the dark coin" on YouTube, this mysterious oriental power has still achieved cultural output, so that some foreign friends are convinced.
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The toilet "spittoon" in the sixties and seventies, which was once eliminated by the Chinese, has recently returned to its peak, this time not in every Chinese's home, but abroad. There was once a blogger who took this thing and was held by a Japanese girl on the street and took a photo and called it "so cute", which spread to the United States, and was actually used as a container for beer by American friends, calling it "so happy".
Chinese see that the cerebellum has "cerebellar atrophy", and this kind of urinal used in the market has gradually faded out of our field of vision after the improvement of living standards, but it has refound its position in the United States - "fruit basket". Some netizens saw our spittoon on the Amazon shopping site in the United States being hung on it for sale, selling for more than 60 US dollars, and it was described as a traditional Chinese handicraft, giving the label of "Chinese antique" and "classic handicraft", and even going in and out of high-end places, representing luxury and dignity, and being used as a container for fruits and red wine.
This news spread to the country, so that the people are not calm, this is not ten years of cerebral thrombosis I am afraid that this thing will not be done. A spittoon, which can only hold excrement in China, was sold for 400 yuan across the ocean, and it has been transformed into a high-end container. But jokes aside, in all fairness, the spittoon on the mainland has a festive appearance, and the space and shape are also quite equal. In the eyes of Chinese people, it is a usage, but from their point of view, it is indeed a fashion item.
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Before the Spring Festival, a short video blogger gave her American father-in-law an electric tricycle and sent it all the way to the United States. What she never expected was that her actions could affect a whole trend, and the popularity has not dropped until now, and it once became an Internet celebrity transportation tool in the United States.
The three jumpers are common electric tricycles in rural areas of the mainland, and almost every household has one, which is not only convenient for travel, but also has a very large space. In 2023, according to statistics, there will be an electric car for every 26 people in the mainland on average, which is rare to see battery cars in the United States, where the penetration rate of electric vehicles is quite low. Until the appearance of the three jumpers in the United States, they saw the convenience of such a car.
In fact, since a few years ago, there have been foreigners who have played three jumps in their own country, but the reason for the failure to popularize is that they still can't get a license reasonably. At that time, the U.S. DMV did not know how such a car should be registered, neither a motorcycle, nor a car, or even what words to call it. In recent years, some bloggers have successfully licensed the three jumpers in the United States, and after successfully passing the vehicle inspection, they have quickly become a local Internet celebrity means of transportation.
Nowadays, the three bunges have become a hot word in the field of foreign trade, and even the Chinese ambassador to the United States and assistant foreign minister Hua Chunying have promoted the domestic three bunges on foreign social media. Until now, the popularity of the three jumpers has only increased, and the value of this cost-effective means of transportation has soared to 5,000-12,000 US dollars on the foreign shopping platform Amazon, and the value of the three jumpers has increased six or seven times when it goes out of the overseas market, and it has sold out in more than 20 countries and regions.
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A blogger once posted a video of himself making crafts out of bamboo silk on Tik Tok, which has received a total of 70 million views. Countless foreign netizens saw this, and they were calling for the magic of this handmade bamboo product made of not wasting a single nail. And this product, which can be woven into a variety of products using only bamboo, is the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage in the mainland.
It has to be said that the popularity of bamboo weaving art on the Internet has opened a window for many foreign netizens to understand Chinese culture, so a dustpan that sells for only 20 yuan in China has been robbed abroad, and has even been praised as a "high-grade bamboo weaving artwork", which was once sold at the original price of 299 US dollars, and the current price of 239 US dollars.
If it is placed in China, such a price will definitely be scolded as a fool, but in the United States, even such a high price is still frantically snapped up by many people. In the mainland, it is used as a farm tool, while in the United States, it is hung on the wall as a high-end art decoration. With the popularity of traditional handicrafts in the mainland, it has also reminded the general public that the tradition is national and should be properly kept, and should not be stolen to apply for a patent.