Chapter 371 Cultural Plunder
The number of people in this chat room will soon exceed 20,000.
The speed of scrolling on the public screen became faster. In addition to emojis and messages agreeing with Su Xing's views, there were also many different voices.
"Tea ceremony, flower arrangement, incense ceremony, these are not related to my life. I'm busy with mortgage and car loan every day, so I don't have time for these things."
"Hahaha, to put it bluntly, Japan is just picking up our leftovers and treating them as treasures?"
"It is true that many aspects of Japanese culture focus more on superficial forms."
"My lady, the traditional cultures you mentioned seem to be more powerful in our country? I don't know if what you said is true or not, but it seems that when it comes to cherry blossoms, wooden clogs, sumo, sushi, incense ceremony, tea ceremony, etc., the first thing that comes to mind is Japan."
"I studied flower arrangement, and I learned the Japanese Ohara style. This style of flower arrangement is very popular in our country now, and my clients like it very much."
"Girl on the mic, you can like traditional Chinese culture, but there's no need to criticize Japanese culture, right? In fact, Japan has inherited many traditional Eastern cultures very well."
Su Xing glanced at the public screen and said, "Indeed, due to some problems in our country in modern times, our culture has been broken. Now many of our things are labeled as Japanese and Korean. Korean is shameless. They took our things to apply for World Heritage. Everyone thinks they are ridiculous. Everyone scolds them online. Then what? They took away things that we don't value. After a few generations, who will remember those things that were originally ours?
Japan once openly robbed many of our treasures and culture. Now, they have learned to be shameless in secret. They are plundering our culture imperceptibly and exporting their so-called culture to us.
For example, Jingguo Shenlou, I would like to ask the netizens in the live broadcast room, how many people think of Japan when they mention "Jingguo"? How many people know that the two words "Jingguo" actually come from our "Zuo Zhuan"? "Wu Yi Jingguo Ye", "Jing" means stability, "Jingguo" means to make the country stable! Does anyone know that Song Huizong also had a reign title called Jianzhong Jingguo? How many people know that there was once a Jingguo Army in Shaanxi Province in our country?
And the nickname of Mai Shang, "Xiao Tengjun", is it an imitation of the Japanese name style? Then did you know that in our ancient culture, the word "jun" not only refers to kings, monarchs, and titles, but also refers to people with noble character and can be used as a respectful title for others? Since when did "XXjun" become exclusive to Japan? Our own characters and culture have become foreign, isn't this a kind of sadness?
Many netizens on the public screen said that Japan has a better inheritance of Eastern culture, and accused me of dragging down Japanese culture. Xiao Tengjun also said on the microphone before that the Japanese have a stronger national spirit and sense of mission, and said that they pirated our culture and turned it into Japanese native culture. From the small to the big, there are so many people with such thoughts in this chat room alone, so what is the situation nationwide? It can be seen that Japan has been very successful in plundering our culture.
Nowadays in Japan, their primary school students are learning our "Analects of Confucius", our ancient poetry, our abacus, and our calligraphy. They have been practicing holding and moving the pen since they were young. They study these traditional cultures of our country more seriously and devoutly than we do. We do not pay attention to them and are disdainful to learn them, but they have been learning them since they were young and they are compulsory subjects.
What about us? Apart from a small number of parents who enroll their children in some interest classes on traditional culture, how many people take the initiative to learn these cultures? Some people think that our culture is too rustic and boring and should be discarded. What's funny is that some of our own traditional culture is introduced to other countries, packaged by other countries, and labeled with their own labels, and some people immediately think that these cultures are noble!
In a few years, our next generation and the next generation will grow up, but they will not understand the culture we have inherited for thousands of years, while people from other countries are familiar with our former culture and can use it freely. By that time, will these cultures and civilizations still belong to us?
At that time, our cultural treasures were all robbed, and those countries shamelessly claimed that they were their own culture. Shouldn’t we Chinese people all nod our heads and say: Yes, yes, yes! They are all right?
How much of our culture has been regarded as Japanese culture? How many ancient books stolen from my country are placed in Japanese libraries and imperial chambers? They have become their national treasures. Isn't all this worth our deep thought and concern?
Let's talk about Japanese anime. This is their local culture. Their anime industry is really great. Anime culture is exported to the world and has brought huge economic benefits to Japan. There should be many netizens in this room who like Japanese anime. But have you noticed that many Japanese anime contain a lot of Chinese cultural elements?
But after Japanese anime went global, anime fans from all over the world regarded the Chinese cultural elements in those anime as Japanese culture! Even many anime fans in our country have never realized that there are a lot of things that belong to us in those Japanese anime!"
The public screen was still for a few seconds again, and soon some netizens posted some messages, but the scrolling speed was not as fast.
"Japanese elementary schools...are they still learning our calligraphy?"
"What's the point of them learning abacus?"
“Can they understand the Analects? Can they feel the charm of our poetry?”
"Indeed, when I mention 'Yasukuni', I think of Japan. I never knew that these two words originated from our country. Suddenly, I don't know what to say. I feel a little uncomfortable..."
"Yes, we have long stopped learning a lot of traditional culture, and it's not even in the books."
"My uncle and aunt went to Japan and bought a lot of Japanese Kampo medicines. They boasted about how magical the Japanese medicines were and how effective they were, but in fact, they were all our Chinese medicine prescriptions!"
"Japan has refused to acknowledge the Nanjing incident, and they will be even less willing to acknowledge it once all the survivors and witnesses are gone. If we do not face up to history and blindly support Japan, who will remember this period of history in a few years? The same is true for our traditional culture. There is a cultural gap. We ourselves have lost our culture, and it has been snatched away or picked up by those countries that have been spying on our culture. Do we still expect them to acknowledge it in the future? Do we still expect them to return it?"
“How terrible…”
Su Xing saw that Xiao Teng-jun was still on the microphone, so he asked him, "Mr. Xiao Teng-jun, who is studying in Japan, would you like to turn on the microphone? Do you have anything else to say to defend Japan?"