Author | Ziyue
Introduction | Observing the world through the "Book of Changes" and writing the world
through wisdom ! Many Chinese feel that "Shangqi" has insulted China for three reasons:
Marvel selected two Chinese with "high cheekbones and squinted eyes" from a large number of handsome men and women to act as the hero and heroine. Many Chinese people I think this is disrespect of Chinese aesthetics; in the film, the Manchus appeared, born out of Fu Manchu, who was obviously "humiliating China", and Fu Manchu was the image of Westerners demonizing Chinese in the 20th century. The character of Shangqi was inspired by the Kung Fu superstar Bruce Lee, but Shangqi was set in the comics as the son of the Mandarin Chinese. However, he accepted the mission of "justice" in the West and used the "father-killing" method to eliminate The evil power of the East. All of the above
are the reasons why people think that "Shangqi" insults China. After I told Master Yi Xue about this, the master took a sip of tea and slowly said: "Zheng Banqiao said that it is a blessing to suffer a loss, but it is not always true. In this case, we can't suffer a loss."
Master Yi Xue uses the "Book of Changes", Summarized two losses that I cannot eat. Not only will you not be blessed if you eat these two kinds of losses, but you will be bullied. Below I will relay to you the ideas he conveyed to me, hoping to help you.
1. Although it is a blessing to suffer a loss, you cannot suffer a loss that is "damaging to your reputation"! The master of
Yixue made a divination for this and said:
The ninety-fourth line of the hexagram in the Book of Changes says that death is not terrible, but if the reputation is ruined, it will be cast aside by others, then Even worse.
Master Yixue believes that we can't suffer a loss that damages our reputation! The so-called "all the gold, accumulate and destroy the bones" means that everyone thinks you are good, even if you are a stone, you can turn into sparkling gold; if everyone slanders you, you can be scolded as scumbags. Nothing left.
So the destructive power of rumors is evident! If someone wants to slander our personality and insult our reputation, then we can’t take a step back. Once the reputation is damaged, you will not be able to clean it in ten, twenty, or even a lifetime. In the impression of others, you are as unbearable as rumored.
is like the Manchu in "Shangqi", he is a typical symbol of "defamation" by Westerners towards Chinese. The image of Manchuria was born in Fu Manchu. Who is Fu Manchu?
Fu Manzhou was born in 1898 in his novel "The Yellow Peril". At that time, the "Yellow Peril Theory" was very popular in the West. This series of novels was written by British Matthew Hill. In the book, he strongly expressed his strong dislike of the Chinese, even if he had never been to China.
The image of Fu Manzhou reflects the typical "Western aesthetic to the East". He was dressed in Qing court clothes, with a long face, high cheekbones, narrowed eyes, and a beard that looked like a rat's whiskers. This image is gloomy and morbid, a vivid image of the "sick man of East Asia". Pulling the eyes with
has also become a typical gesture for Westerners to insult China. For example, the son of basketball star James uses his hands to pull his eyelids to the sides to laugh at the squinting of the Chinese.
The male and female casting roles of the movie are exactly in line with the Western stereotypes of Chinese people. They are all small eyes and high cheekbones. Compared with other Chinese actors, their image quality is much worse.
When our country’s economy has not yet taken off, facing the image of Fu Manchu contemplated by Westerners, or the "Eastern face" with high cheekbones and squinted eyes, many people comfort themselves and say:
is a Western aesthetic , They think it is a beautiful oriental face. Although we don't think so, as a major eastern country, we still have to tolerate their ideas.
This is a typical "self-deception", because we Chinese have our own aesthetic standards, who is beautiful and who is ugly, does not need Westerners to tell us: the appearance of high cheekbones and squinted eyes is what you Chinese should have Looks!
Now that our economy has developed and our country has become prosperous and strong, we should stand up and say no to the "stereotype" that the West has prejudiced against us! Because "Shangqi" is Marvel's latest superhero movie, it will undoubtedly be screened globally like "Black Panther", which will undoubtedly damage the image of the Chinese on a large scale!
2. Although it is a blessing to suffer a loss, you can't suffer from the loss of being "used by others"!
At the same time, Master Yi believes that we can't take advantage of being exploited.Because we have been used by others, not only will others not appreciate us, they will also treat us as "takers" and will continue to use us next time. If we are used by others and regard it as "a loss is a blessing", it would be too stupid!
China is now the sweet pastry of the entire film capital market. Everyone wants to come here to make a pot of gold. Marvel has already made a lot of money in China with its "superhero series". Now that "Shangqi" is a superhero movie with oriental faces, it is undoubtedly the main audience it faces is still Chinese, making Chinese money.
But what is unbelievable is that Marvel not only wants to make money from the Chinese, but also chooses some actors that the Chinese cannot admire to star in movies. If we are still like "pigs who are not picky," it is "being sold I’ll help others count the money.”
Then next time, they may make some movies that touch our bottom line to make our money, and they will never get tired of it. They don’t care whether we want it or not. Anyway, someone spends it. Money look.
So if you want to make money for the Chinese people, you should make some movies that we Chinese love to see. We should use the box office to tell them: We have our own perfect aesthetic system. We don't like this kind of things, so we don't buy it. Master Yixue said:
The Meng Gua of "Book of Changes" is telling us that people who are unreasonable to themselves must know how to refuse, otherwise they will only offend you again and again.
Therefore, it is a blessing to suffer a loss, but we still shouldn't suffer from the two kinds of losses: "dangerous reputation" and "used by others"! Because of these losses, it did not help us in any way, but was oppressed even worse!
At the same time, what do you think about the Marvel movie "Shangqi"? Anyway, Marvel does not remove any "humiliating China" elements, I will not watch it! Welcome to leave a comment below to discuss.
