At the end of March and the beginning of April 2019, actor Zhao Lixin was widely questioned for posting "inappropriate remarks" on Weibo, and netizens believed that he lacked empathy for the pain of his own nation, and even suspected of whitewashing the Japanese invaders and the Eight-Power Alliance.
A wave of vigorous boycotts was set off on the Internet, and Zhao Lixin was forced to apologize under pressure, but still insisted that he was right.
Some of Zhao Lixin's remarks are as follows:
I believe that most netizens will be furious when they see these remarks, and feel that Zhao Lixin, who is deeply loved by the audience, is called an artist by netizens or an art school teacher, how can he say such irresponsible remarks?
After that, this matter continued to ferment, and the three major official media personally angrily criticized this unhealthy trend.
Netizens even pulled out Zhao Lixin's past information and found that he was actually a publicly sent student!
Zhao Lixin, born in 1968, was admitted to the Central Academy of Drama in 1986, because of his excellent grades in school, he was escorted to the All-Soviet State Film University in Russia in his sophomore year, and received a master's degree in directing at the school.
After graduation, Zhao Lixin did not return to China, but was admitted to the Swedish National Theatre, becoming the first Chinese student to be admitted to the school.
What a glorious resume!
However, the more brilliant the achievement, the worse the image at that time!
Not to mention that Zhao Lixin also joined the Swedish nationality!
Media criticism, netizens spontaneously boycotted, Zhao Lixin's acting career was destroyed, and the starring "Glorious Era" was tragically changed, resulting in the reputation of the drama not very good.
In March 2020, the restriction order was issued, foreign national artists suddenly stood on the cusp of the storm, Zhang Tielin, Jet Li, Liu Yifei were all questioned to a certain extent, Zhao Lixin was naturally no exception, and many media once again criticized Zhao Lixin, which had a great attitude of frustration and ashes.
"April storm" just broke out when the editor was puzzled, before Zhao Lixin, there have been countless people doing similar stupid things, how miserable the end is, he does not know it, Chen Yifa is a former fighting fish sister, how cool is it?
How could you, Zhao Lixin, an entertainer, a teacher, and an anchor who had talked about the n-issue "Nanjing Massacre" feature in the "Archives" program make such a low-level mistake?
Zhao Lixin read countless materials on those programs, and the crimes against the Japanese aggressors were probably clearer than most netizens.
In April 2020, Zhao Lixin finally appeared in person to be interviewed by the media and gave a very detailed explanation of the "April Storm".
After a period of greeting, the host cut to the topic and asked two key questions:
1. Why do publicly assigned international students become Swedish nationals?
2. Why do you want to make those remarks?
For the first question, Zhao Lixin's answer was categorical: I am a Swedish citizen, but I will always be Chinese!
Zhao Lixin:
At that time, the state sent me to study at the Soviet Film Academy, and I was determined to return to China in the future to develop teaching and educating people, but considering that college students returned to school to teach just after graduation, it was purely theoretical to theoretical, and in fact, the effect was not the best. When I graduated from film school, I happened to have the opportunity to work in a private theater in Sweden, so I reported to Mr. Bao Qianming, the head of the directing department of my alma mater, the Drama Academy, and he fully supported me, and I accepted. In 2000, when China Opera invited me to return to school to serve, I returned to China with my family and began to teach at the Undergraduate, Chengjiao, Higher Vocational School of Chinese Opera, and later the Media University of Yushizhi Art, for nearly 10 years. I think that as a public student at that time, it was my responsibility and obligation to give back to my alma mater and the motherland.
As for Swedish citizenship, it was because Sweden had not yet joined the European Union at that time, and she had to go to various countries with the repertory theatre to perform, so I became a Swedish citizen in order to facilitate it.
I never said I was Swedish, I just said I was Swedish, I was Chinese.
This situation is very normal to tell the truth, Liu Yifei and Chen Chong should have been in this situation at that time.
On the second question, Zhao Lixin replied that because he was preparing his works, he read some articles by Shan Jixiang and Geng Baochang and realized that aggression has a very great complexity, so he asked fragmented questions on Weibo in order to guide everyone to realize the complexity of aggression, but it was counterproductively misunderstood.
The question about the fact that Japan did not burn the Forbidden City was when I saw an article written by Mr. Geng Baochang, an expert in cultural relics appraisal, saying that after the cultural relics of the Forbidden City were moved south, more than one million cultural relics were still left in the Forbidden City. In addition, the reason for the creation of the script, he has also studied some articles by Mr. Shan Jixiang, the former director of the Forbidden City, and he also has a similar statement. I really shouldn't have, on a platform like Weibo, to discuss such a serious and complex topic with netizens in a fragmented way of asking questions, and now that I think about it, this practice is very naïve and not feasible.
In the interview, Zhao Lixin re-mentioned the "Archives", saying that he explained the "Nanjing Massacre" and consulted too many relevant materials, it can be said that he has more pain than anyone else, and he has also exposed the crimes of the Japanese invaders on Weibo several times.
Finally, Zhao Lixin admitted that the "April Storm" had a great impact on his career, but he also let himself stop and return to his family, read books, and participated in many public welfare activities, such as the donation of children with congenital heart disease, the donation of six schools under the Yang Lan "Enlightenment of Love" Art Fund, and the donation during the protest.
I don't know what everyone thinks of Zhao Lixin's explanation, but Xiaobian still believes him. Re-reading last April's speech according to his explanation, there is no problem with complete self-consistency.
I don't quite believe that an 18-year-old who is admitted to a university and is guaranteed to study abroad will have a low IQ to openly ask for self-destruction, which should be a matter of expression.