The Han Le Fu folk song "Jiangnan" depicts the lotus picking scene of "Lotus Leaf He Tian Tian, Fish Playing Between Lotus Leaves".
In Japan, the first Chinese female minister to take office in the Kan-nao-jin cabinet, Lian Fang, who once showed herself as a sexy model in the show business circle, has attracted the attention of the world in the beauty and competence of white clothes and black dresses.
The lotus boat, as its name suggests, is like a flat boat sailing into Japanese politics, making this conservative country feel the power of female high-ranking officials.
Born in 1967 in Tokyo, Japan, And raised here. Her father, Hsieh Chel-shin, is a Taiwanese businessman, and her mother, Keiko Saito, is an authentic Tokyo beauty who served as the face of a famous makeup brand, "Miss Shiseido".
In the context of a mixed-Race Chinese-Japanese family, LianFang has had the dual identity of Taiwanese and Japanese nationals since she was a child, and Japan implements a "nationality selection system" that prohibits nationals from having a "nationality selection system", and must choose one at the latest at the age of 22.
When LianFang was 18 years old, her father handled the formalities of renouncing Taiwanese nationality, and became a Japanese citizen with her mother's surname, changing her name from "Xie Lianfang" to "Saito Lotus", and after marriage, her husband's surname was changed to "Murata Renfang".
When she officially registered the names of members of Parliament after entering the political arena, in order to highlight her personal image, she simply used "Lotus Boat" as a stage name and common name.
The talented Lotus Fang has been "someone else's child" since she was a child. Her well-off family has provided her with high-quality educational resources, and she has studied at Aoyama Gakuin, a famous private school in Tokyo, from kindergarten to university, known as "Aoyama Little Beauty".
As a high school student, she was already the face of ntt, Japan's largest communications company. In college, she was elected as the spokesperson for the famous car audio brand Claraion, and began to participate in TV entertainment performances, debuting in show business.
As a model, Lian Fang has taken a group of youthful and avant-garde sexy photos, which is all the rage in Japanese society and has become a "goddess" in the minds of many fans, but this gifted student in the show is by no means a "vase" role.
Graduated from the Faculty of Law at Aoyama Gakuin University, Renfang successfully entered the mainstream media in Japan after her first experience in the show business of playing tickets.
She has worked as a female anchor for Major Private Television Stations in Japan, such as Japan Television and Tv Asahi.
Whether it is a variety show or a news column hosting work, she can be at ease, she showed a good side of conversation, and began to transform in the direction of journalists.
In 1993, Lianfang married freelance writer Nobuyuki Murata, resigned in the third year after her marriage, and went to work as an international student at the Chinese Language Center of Peking University in China for a year and a half.
As a Chinese, LianFang is very unfamiliar with China and can hardly speak Chinese.
At the suggestion of her friend Professor Zhu Jianrong, when her career as a journalist fell into a bottleneck, she chose to go to Chinese mainland to find roots, find a sense of cultural belonging, and rethink her future life goals.
This study abroad life has greatly enriched Lianfang's life, she not only practiced a good Chinese, traveled all over most of China, but also fortunately conceived a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses, and graduated in 1997 just to become a mother.
Lianfang and his wife, who fell in love with Chinese culture, gave both children very Chinese names: the son was called "Lin" and the daughter was called "Cuilan".
After returning to Tokyo from Beijing, LianFang did not immediately return to work, but became a full-time housewife who personally raised her children.
Until the two children could be sent to kindergarten care, Lianfang became more and more concerned about the children's education.
She is acutely aware that due to the objective reality of Japan's aging and low birthrate, if the next generation is not properly educated, the whole society is in danger of collapsing.
She decided to enter politics by becoming a politician and actively participating in the formulation of a reasonable "mother's policy" to protect women and children, so she decided to enter politics if she wanted to improve the shortcomings in Japanese education.
In 2004, at the recommendation of Nino Tsuka, a member of the Democratic Party of Japan, Ryoharu officially entered politics and represented the Democratic Party in the election of the Diet.
She argues that the Democratic Party, unlike the Liberal Democratic Party, which is a traditional political family of legislators, is a new type of party made up of like-minded company employees and workers, and it is full of vitality.
The Democratic Party's willingness to absorb Lianfang is also a sight to her unique advantage of embodying the Democratic Party's political line.
Internally, she is a successful professional woman with high social visibility, and she is also the mother of a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses, which can not only win votes in all directions, but also a typical model for solving the problems of Japan's low fertility rate and aging population.
Externally, her journalistic and Chinese identity has helped to strengthen diplomatic relations with the world and even Asian countries, deepen economic cooperation, and be good-neighborly and friendly with China.
Therefore, Lotus's path to politics began unusually smoothly.
She ran for the Senate as a Democratic candidate, winning the highest percentage of votes in Tokyo, winning 920,000 votes, and was successfully elected to the Senate and the only Chinese senator.
She conscientiously fulfilled the duties of the Education and Welfare Committee, and often represented the Democratic Party in the Diet to question the Prime Minister about solving the problem of the decline in the number of children in Japanese society, which earned her the nickname of "The Virgin Mary of the Democratic Party".
No matter how busy she is at work, Lianfang does not forget to care about the study and life of her children, carefully prepares the bento for them to bring to school, and over time, she has become a well-known "mother member" of the Japanese Diet.
The Japanese media said that the rise of The Lotus Boat has blown up a "whirlwind" in the political arena, and in the contest with opponents, the rhetoric is aggressive, the action is reasonable and evidence-based, and the tit-for-tat advantage is called "Japanese Hillary".
LianFang's fierce work style, sharp eloquence and even good alcohol consumption have won her wide support from people from all walks of life.
Her harsh responsibility for the government's budget problems in the form of "chasing after the poor" has made the people see the determination of the Democratic Party to control the state's financial expenditures, so that they can safely vote in the hand.
But with the ascension of the lotus ship, countless reefs and dangerous currents have come and gone. Political enemies attacked her as "Taiwanese" and poked at loopholes in her interviews when she was engaged in her acting career, saying that she was suspected of having "dual citizenship" and that governing would harm Japan's interests.
When investigating the budget and eliminating administrative waste, Lotus vetoed a budget for the development of large computers, and left a classic cross-examination: "You mean that this funding is to be used to develop world-class computers, but why does Japan have to be the world's first?" Wouldn't it be okay to do the second? ”
"Can't Japan do the second?" Once it became a social buzzword, it also caused dissatisfaction among many people, attacking her for not being Japanese in the first place, so she could say such things.
In 2010, Renho served as "Minister of Administration Refresh" in Naoto Suga's cabinet, a highlight of her political seniority and japan's first-ever Chinese minister of state.
After the "311 earthquake" in Japan in 2011, Ryae accepted the order of Prime Minister Naoto Kan and served urgently as the "Special Director of Power Saving Inspiration" to solve the nationwide nuclear energy crisis and power shortage dilemma, and later served as the "Minister of Administrative Refresh".
Bravely shouldering the heavy responsibility of "fire captain" in a critical moment shows the outstanding practical ability of this female politician.
Japanese politics has always been known for valuing family origins and "women are behind", and the step-by-step lotus boat has a clear disadvantage, for which she is not afraid of challenges and plans her political future with stronger self-confidence.
Her style of conduct and excellent achievements, known as "big sister and big sister", has won the respect of many young legislators of the Democratic Party.
At the end of 2011, Renfang was attacked by an intensive scandal and eventually applied for divorce from her husband, Nobuyuki Murata. The failure of the marriage gave birth to her fighting spirit to become more and more frustrated in her career.
In the summer of 2016, he was elected to the Senate with the highest number of votes in the Senate re-election. But she had no intention of taking advantage of the election for mayor of Tokyo, and did not change her original intentions, hoping to become Japan's first female prime minister.
In the autumn of 2016, Acting Party Leader Lian Fang was elected as the new head of the Democratic Progressive Party of Japan, once again breaking the historical record.
This is the first time that a female party leader has been elected for a three-year term, including the old Democratic Party, which merged into the Democratic Progressive Party and the old Restoration Party era.
Due to the failure of the confrontation with the Abe government in the following House elections, coupled with the sluggish support of the opposition DEMOCRATIC Progressive Party, Lian Fang was dissatisfied with the scattered situation in the party and resigned as the head of the DPP a year later.
However, she was not discouraged, and at the end of 2017, she submitted an application to the head of the Cadet Party, Yukio Edano, in the Parliament to seek new development opportunities.
As a politician, Lian Fang, 54 years old this year, is incredibly young, and it is worth waiting to see how far she can go in the future.
However, most Chinese emotionally, for such a Chinese woman who has repeatedly created a new era in Japan's political history, she has some sympathy, because of the grandmother who inherited her personality traits such as shrewdness and toughness, and does not accept defeat - Chen Xingcun.
The name of the lotus ship was given by her grandmother, who wanted her granddaughter to "come out of the mud like a lotus flower without staining."
Lianfang's father died before he was 40 years old, and the family's fruit business has always been run by her mother, and this family business is earned by her grandmother Chen Xingcun.
Lianfang's grandparents were all tainan people from Taiwan who grew up in the Japanese occupation era, and her grandfather Xie Dalin died early, and her grandmother Chen Xingcun, who had two sons, went to Shanghai to make a living as a businessman during World War II.
Fluent in Japanese, she obtained the "fat difference" of distributing tobacco from the Japanese military, and after making a lot of money, she donated two fighter jets to the Japanese army!
Chen Xingcun, who was at the left and right of Fengyuan, also secretly exported Japanese intelligence to the Kuomintang government, so after the victory of the War of Resistance, she hired a lawyer to defend herself with great wealth, and got rid of the accusation of "traitorous crime" with facts such as "engaging in underground work for the Kuomintang government" and retreated completely.
After Returning to Taiwan, Chen Xingcun served as the chairman of the Taiwan Qingguo Association, and opened up a sales market for the export of local fruits such as bananas, and the profit was very impressive, so he donated to build a new fruit trade village.
The Qingguo Guild, represented by her, was also praised by the Kuomintang authorities.
The legend of Chen Xingcun's life is not lost to his granddaughter Lianfang, but due to the chaotic situation, the slightest mistake has left a name that cannot be washed white, so that it will affect future generations.
In this era with the theme of peace and development, Lianfang is more likely to break out of a sky that belongs to strong women and find her position as a politician.
It is not necessary to sit on the throne, but history cannot be forgotten, and we can objectively face up to history and reality, and the prospects for diplomatic relations between countries can be expected in the future.
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