[Text/Observer.com columnist Wang Rui] After significantly deleting the number of classical Chinese texts in Taiwanese high school Chinese textbooks, the Lai Ching-te government has made new moves in "cultural Taiwan independence." On July 21, at the first party congress of the 2

[Text/Observer.com columnist Wang Rui]

After significantly deleting the number of classical Chinese texts in Taiwanese high school Chinese textbooks, the Lai Ching-te government has made new moves in "cultural Taiwan independence."

On July 21, at the first party congress of the 21st Democratic Progressive Party, Lai Qingde delivered a speech in Hokkien, revealing "the establishment of Taiwan's subjective national identity." However, on the same day, Taiwanese media broke the news that the Democratic Progressive Party wanted to change the name of Hokkien to "Taiwanese".

But no matter what words he uses, Lai Qingde can neither respond to Trump's claim for protection money nor explain the dependence of "Taiwanese subjectivity" on the United States. He can't even explain Taiwan's cowardice in being unable to refuse pork, or can only play a role. Porcupine passivity.

To renounce "Taiwan's subjectivity" is precisely the "secret language" used by the blue, green and white political parties on the island to face the United States. Before any "election", Taiwan's candidates from all walks of life did not go to the United States to pledge their allegiance? Who uses "Taiwan Taiwanese"? The US's "national identity" is only written in the communiqué on the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the US. Where is the communique on "Taiwanese language in Taiwan"?

The so-called "establishing a national identity of Taiwan's subjectivity" seems not to be external, but internal. Otherwise, now that the Chinese Taipei team is participating in the Paris Olympics, how come no one is taking the opportunity to relay the "referendum on correcting the name" that failed to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics? Why doesn’t anyone use “Taiwanese Taiwanese”?

Perhaps they know better than anyone else that the only result of eradicating "Taiwanese subjectivity" is to correct the name "Taiwanese". Exports cannot deny themselves, so they turn to domestic sales to deny themselves. Because the Hokkien language is a component of China's integrated civilization development over thousands of years, it is a direct proof that China lies within Taiwan.

"Taiwanese" children's books

The long predecessor of Hokkien

Taking Tainan as an example, the dictionary compiled by William Campbell, a British missionary in the last century, based on the pronunciation of Tainan people, is called the "Xiamen Pronunciation Dictionary", which is actually a Dictionary of Xiamen and Hokkien dialects. In other words, this is the foreign monk’s proof and righteousness that China lies within Taiwan, and the subjectivity of Taiwanese people is China.

Taiwanese speak Minnan dialect, which means Chinese people speak Central Plains dialect.

Take people with the surname Lai as an example. Populations with the surname Lai are common in Guangdong, Jiangxi and Taiwan. During the pre-Qin period, the main activity areas of the Lai people were in southern Henan and northern Hubei. According to "Zuo Zhuan", "Differentiation of Ancient and Modern Surname Books", "Tongzhi·Clan Brief", "Tongkao of Documents", and "Xixian Chronicle", the descendants of the Lai family named the country as their surname. Lai was the fiefdom of Ji Ying, the 19th son of King Wen of Zhou Dynasty, located in Baoxin Town, Xi County, Xinyang City, Henan Province today. In this Zhongyuan town, which was known as "Baoxin" in ancient times, the "World Lai Family Commemorates and Worships Their Ancestors" event is held every year.

Since the late Western Jin Dynasty, Han people from the Central Plains and Luohan have entered Fujian on a large scale, such as the famous "eight surnames" of Lin, Chen, Huang, Zheng, Zhan, Qiu, He and Hu. This brought progress in production technology to the Minyue people originally living in the southeast, and promoted social change and cultural integration, including language.

The second time that Han people from the Central Plains and Luohan entered Fujian on a large scale was in the early Tang Dynasty when generals Chen Zheng and Chen Yuanguang, their father and son, led the fifty-eighth surnames to immigrate to Fujian and became the "world town of Zhangzhou". Later, Chen Yuanguang was revered as the "King of Zhangzhou" by the local people. According to "Taiwan Provincial General Chronicles and Clan", "Research on the Development History of Zhangzhou" and "Yunxiao County Chronicle", more than 80 surnames entered Fujian during this immigration. Fujian was further developed, and a large number of Heluo dialects came to Fujian. Chen and his son were natives of Gushi, Guangzhou, Henan, which is now Gushi County, Xinyang City, Henan Province.

During the third large-scale migration of Heluohan people from the Central Plains to Fujian at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the leader of the immigrants was also from Gushi, Guangzhou, Henan, named Wang Shenzhi. After the fall of Tang Dynasty, Wang Shenzhi was named "King of Fujian" in Houliang. "Fujian Provincial Chronicles and Dialect Chronicles" edited by Huang Diancheng pointed out that the two large-scale influxes of Han people from the Central Plains into Fujian during the Tang Dynasty formed the most important foundation of the Fujian dialect: both the ancient elegant dialects retained by people from the Central Plains during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty dialect Medieval Chinese brought by people from the Central Plains. Min dialect, also known as Zhongyuan dialect.

When the Song Dynasty moved south, a large number of people from the Central Plains immigrated to Fujian again, and the population in Fujian increased rapidly.

The common characteristics of these four Central Plains immigrants' southward migrations are: large numbers, concentrated time and space, high social status, great differences in language and dialects of the places where they moved, coupled with the relative isolation of geographical conditions in Fujian, resulting in a situation where outsiders and locals Intense interactive influence and cultural integration. The Fujian dialect therefore retains more of the Central Plains Mandarin, especially the Heluo dialect from before the Middle Ages.

"Turn off the land" and "rectify the name" are good means to "cleanse people's hearts"

In short, the Lai family, who spoke the Heluo dialect of the Central Plains, were originally feudal nobles of the Zhou Dynasty, either in the Jin, Tang or Song Dynasty , or moved to Fujian or even Guangdong later. At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the Lai clan began to migrate to Taiwan. Among them, immigrants from southern Fujian mostly live in southern areas such as Changhua, Yunlin, Tainan, and Kaohsiung, while immigrants from Guangdong mostly settle in areas such as Taichung, Hsinchu, Miaoli, Taoyuan, and Taipei.

People with the surname Lai in Tainan must be immigrants from southern Fujian or from the Central Plains. Tainan dialect must be Xiamen dialect and Heluo dialect. China is inherent in Taiwan, and the subjectivity of Taiwanese people is China. Then why did the Hokkien language, which has a history of three thousand years, suddenly become "Taiwanese" this year? As if Hokkien is a new language?

The "severance" of language, culture and national identity is indeed a good way to "cleanse people's hearts" and is also a good way for Taiwan to eliminate its subjectivity. Famous anthropologist Zhang Guangzhi once pointed out the absurdity of the memory gap among Taiwanese politicians: taro grown locally for more than 10,000 years is used to symbolize the mainlanders who have entered Taiwan for only 50 years, but sweet potatoes with less than 400 years of history are used to symbolize their entry into Taiwan. A native of this province for four hundred years.

This kind of confusion and short-sighted absurdity can only be a joke for future generations or outsiders, just like the ridiculous and pathetic "Taiwanese".

In fact, the entire "de-Sinicization" movement attached to the "Taiwan independence" politics is a scary joke of "it takes thirty years to harm itself for three thousand years." Just look at the "Taiwan independence" politicians who pit Hokkien against Mandarin, force the implementation of "native languages" in primary and secondary schools, and engage in "inbred hatred", thinking that this can isolate the Chinese identity of the audience. The result turned out to be a farce in which Chinese and Fujian languages ​​were delayed!

If you can't afford to "rectify your name" politically, you just play with language, and don't care that language is the joint result of political strength and historical development.

Cowards, cowards, lackeys and bastards q

This is of course disgusting or scornful, but there is no way. What the "Taiwan independence" politics really cares about is not Taiwan in material terms, but China in spirit, especially the internal affairs of Taiwan. of China. China has become a source of mental pain for them: the more powerful China is, the greater their pain will be, because China is a legacy that has been embedded in Taiwan for thousands of years and is still growing.

So in the past 30 years, "Taiwan independence" politicians have told Taiwanese people that there are no shark fins in China, only smoke and concubines: the external mainland China is not shark fin; the inner Chinese culture is smoke and concubines. Taiwanese young and old who have not experienced the baptism of the anti-colonial revolution are prone to believe in the progressive mask and civilizational sugar-coating of "Taiwan independence." Therefore, on international occasions, we often see Taiwanese people showing off to the world that they reject Sinicization.

In fact, what the "Taiwan independence" people care about is not Taiwan, but China, which they have never been able to reject in the eyes of the world.

"Taiwan Taiwanese" is one of the performances of this kind of clown. Spiritual victory, hiding one's ears and stealing bells, painting cakes to satisfy hunger,... Over the years, "Taiwan independence" has repeatedly demonstrated self-deception. The reason why they have been willing to embarrass themselves and humiliate themselves for many years is the violent coercion and interest protection of the US strategy towards China.

China and the United States are the most important industrial and supply chain countries in the world today. However, due to different modes of civilization expansion, they are in a rising and stagnant period respectively. The predatory U.S. hegemony has expanded to the limit, but it cannot harvest China's rising assets, so it has gathered a group of dogs and horses to engage in gang fights. The reason is the "China threat" and the methods are confrontation, division, blockade, containment, restriction, intimidation and smear.

Under the network of the United States' global "de-China" strategy, Taiwan is responsible for dividing, confronting, restricting, discrediting, consuming, and even provoking war against China. At the same time, Taiwan must provide strategic manpower, material and financial resources to the United States. As long as it does well, the United States will talk about "maintaining peace across the Taiwan Strait" or "defending the security of Taiwan." If it does not do well, the United States has already expressed its voice of "abandoning Taiwan."

Most Taiwanese people are indifferent to the cross-strait oppression by the United States; but for Taiwanese politicians, U.S. intervention in the Taiwan Strait is a top priority, even a matter of life and death. In order to ensure that Taiwanese people support Taiwan's political form and the US strategy towards China, in terms of mental control, it is necessary to purify people's hearts to be pro-US and anti-China, that is, to make China other, an enemy, and a mask.

Therefore, how can "Taiwan independence" let go of the Chinese culture and national heritage of Taiwan such as Hokkien? This is the reason why "Taiwanese" came out: to spiritually separate any Chinese elements within Taiwanese people in order to achieve spiritual "non-subordination between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait." Coupled with the addition of "bilingual countries", we can further achieve "pro-US and anti-China" to protect the interests of Taiwanese and US politicians. The simplest method for this kind of cognitive warfare is to "rectify the name."

Taiwan Kindergarten Hokkien Language Breakthrough Activities

Scientific Common Sense and Spiritual Victory

Since it is a low-cost spiritual victory method, it does not matter if the name and reality do not conform to common sense or science. Taiwanese politicians believe in the law of mutual change of quality between lies and truth in electoral politics. They have been so successful in manipulating the Taiwanese people, such as pigs, nuclear food, vaccines, military service, arms purchases, etc. Naturally, the United States has repeatedly boasted about "maintaining peace across the Taiwan Strait" and "defending Taiwan's security" because there is no need for common sense and science on this island. .

However, Minister Wang Yi said to Blinken that "Taiwan independence" is incompatible with peace across the Taiwan Strait. Every time the "Taiwan independence" forces provoke, mainland China will counterattack. Continue to compress the space for "Taiwan independence" until the goal of complete reunification is achieved. This time, if "Taiwan Taiwanese" acts as a demon for "Taiwan independence", there will inevitably be "Taiwan Guan Gong", "Taiwan Mazu", "Taiwan Qu Yuan", "Taiwan Mid-Autumn Festival", "Taiwan Spring Festival", "Taiwan Kinmen", etc. "Taiwan Mandarin",...

"The end of Taiwan independence is reunification" is very similar to the novel "The end of Ah Q is death penalty". Ah Q self-harmed himself during his lifetime, slapped his face to make him fat, and imagined that he was a revolutionary party. Before his death, he also imagined that he would be pardoned... But spiritual victory is ultimately a warning to readers and a negative teaching material for future generations.

On the contrary, based on common sense and scientific judgment, more and more countries are diving into the US team or showing favor to China, including Japan, the Philippines, Canada, Italy,... and Ukraine. They realize that the "pro-US and anti-China" international market is heading towards a bubble. Ah Q's self-proclaimed spiritual victory of the revolutionary party is just like Taiwan's self-deception of self-proclaimed Ukraine.

There is just a terminally ill Ah Q who said: "I would rather be an American dog than a Chinese." The audience could only mourn for his ancestors.

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