Taiwan's cultural department director Zheng Lijun said in an understatement that "the authoritarian rulers have clear intentions", causing the Taiwanese cultural and creative company that designed and developed Chiang Kai-shek dolls to suffer serious losses. Practitioner Lin Shengzhang said that on the eve of this year's "February 28", the ideological "de-Chiang" storm in Taiwan's cultural department has caused his average monthly income of more than 200,000 (New Taiwan dollars, the same below) in the past heyday to drop to today's one Less than 100,000 yuan a month, he said, "I am also a victim of this '228' incident."
As "symbols of authoritarianism," more and more Chiang Kai-shek dolls have been stuffed into warehouses, but another kind of "symbol of authoritarianism" is popping up all over the island.
It is a Japanese shrine.
According to Taiwanese media reports, Lin Jialong, mayor of Taichung from the Democratic Progressive Party, plans to spend 2 million to rebuild the Japanese shrine " Torii " in Taichung Park, hoping to "regain the city's sense of glory." Lin Jialong was also at the municipal meeting. He also mentioned that "Taichung Confucius Temple is not a historic site, it just replaced the previous Japanese shrine" because it was built crudely by the "foreign regime" of the Kuomintang.
(Picture: Taichung Park "Torii" Shrine Ruins)
The most favorite saying of the Democratic Progressive Party is "Taiwan has a history of 400 years." However, in its heart, the Democratic Progressive Party only cares about the Japanese occupation. Those 50 years are the most interesting and memorable for me.
Anyone who knows a little about Taiwan's history knows that during the Japanese occupation, the Japanese government forcibly expropriated the anti-Japanese Wufeng Lin family's land, and then built a Japanese shrine on the Lin family's land. This is a historical tragedy of Taiwanese people being bullied and exploited by Japan. After the liberation of Taiwan, it was changed into Taichung Park. However, 70 years later, Lin Jialong actually announced the restoration of the shrine torii, saying that the shrine torii "has the significance of the times" and can "become an eternal landmark in the hearts of Taichung people and further restore the city's glory." What if the torii represents the significance of the times? So what does the history of blood and tears of the Lin family in Wufeng, who were exploited and bullied back then, represent in Lin Jialong's eyes?
html On March 2, Gao Jin Sumei , known as the most beautiful Taiwanese folk artist, was angry! At the Taiwan legislative inquiry meeting that day, Gao Jin Sumei gave a history lesson to Pan Wenzhong, director of Taiwan’s education department.Gao Jin Sumei said that the recent two events involving the reconstruction of Japanese shrines, the Mudan Township Gaoshi Shrine incident and the Taichung Mayor Lin Jialong's shrine reconstruction incident, made her very heartbroken. Japanese "shrines" were tools used by Japanese militarism to launch aggressive wars. One, it was a part of promoting the "imperialization" of the colonial people and a "brainwashing method" to rally support for the war.
Pan Wenzhong, who is in charge of Taiwan’s education sector, has no “in-depth understanding and thinking” about Japanese shrines. Could it be that Pan Wenzhong’s history was taught by a physical education teacher?
Since Pan Wenzhong didn’t know about Japanese shrines, Gao Jin Sumei gave Pan Wenzhong a history lesson on the spot.
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Today, I will give a lesson on "Shrine" to colleagues from the "Ministry of Education".
Gao Jin Sumei's "Facebook" full text
On July 7, 1937, the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, Japan launched a full-scale war of aggression against China.
On November 3, 1938, the Japanese government proposed the "New Order in Greater East Asia" and its intention to expand its invasion of Southeast Asia and Oceania has emerged.
On February 9, 1939, the Japanese government established the "National Spiritual Mobilization Committee". The scope of the spiritual mobilization was also "Japan, North Korea, Taiwan, and Sakhalin Island", requiring the people in these areas to "loyalty to the Emperor , worship shrines, and unite against Support for war, stand up for war mobilization”. According to the regulations at that time, when worshiping the shrine, you must also worship the emperor from a distance in the direction of the Japanese Imperial Palace. The emperor is a god and the shrine is the protector of the country. The "country" that protects the "Kuni" shrine is the militaristic Japan that launched the war of aggression.
In August 1940, the Japanese government proposed the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" and launched a comprehensive war of aggression in Asia and Oceania.
In 1945, Japan was defeated and surrendered. The Emperor of Japan publicly declared that "the Emperor is a human being, not a god."
(Picture: A shrine during the Japanese occupation in Taoyuan)
These historical facts clearly show that the "shrine" was one of the tools used by the Japanese militarism to launch the war of aggression, and it was a tool to promote the "imperialization" of the colonial people. Ring is a "brainwashing method" to rally support for the war. "Rebuilding the Shrine" has nothing to do with the friendship between Taiwan and Japan. "Rebuilding the Shrine" is a statement that promotes the consciousness of "imperialization", a phenomenon of the restoration of Japanese militarism, and an absurd drama that spans time and space.
Gao Jin Sumei shouted loudly: Although it is said that "what goes up has an effect, what is popular is a failure", but education is a century-old undertaking, how can we let the next generation be laughed at by the whole world! The "ruling" authorities often say "let the world see Taiwan", but "rebuilding the shrine" is a brainwashing tool to let the world see Taiwan's restoration of Japanese militarism. This kind of visibility is not necessary.
Gao Jin Sumei’s questioning video was posted on her Facebook page and was forwarded more than 1,500 times and viewed more than 80,000 times. Taiwanese netizens praised Gao Jin Sumei as one of the few people worthy of Taiwan taxpayers' taxes.
As early as a month ago, another conscientious Taiwanese woman, the famous mouthpiece Huang Zhixian, criticized the DPP authorities for building Japanese shrines.
Huang Zhixian said that some people in Taiwan suffer from " osteoporosis and amnesia" in historical cognition, which is characterized by paralysis of the body and bones and bowing at every turn; on the other hand, the humiliation of being "colonized" Loss of memory and nostalgia always go back to the "Japanese Occupation Era".
Although the Democratic Progressive Party is fully "in power", please also think about the dignity and backbone of the Taiwanese people! Think of Taiwanese without osteoporosis and amnesia!
