[Text/Observer Network Columnist Yan Mo]
When the news of Hao Baicun's death reached my phone, I was editing Shimura Ken 's YouTube video with a little melancholy. If you ask me which one is more shocking about the death of these two people? To be honest, it is Shimura Ken.
This generation is a generation of singing and dancing, a generation of individualism, a generation of consumer culture, a generation of unemployment when I was young, and the ratio of housing prices to salary is still within a reasonable range. The whole society is full of upward hope. In the 15 years before the 21st century, young people at that time rarely paid attention to politics, probably less than now. Most people are comfortable in middle-class life, while more active people are all about breaking through the barriers to middle-class people and going to the next level.
Therefore, about Hao Baicun and those things, at least personally, Shimura Ken's superb funny performance brought me a lot of laughter, and that Shimura Ken's most active era is still a vivid memory. Before 2000, a large proportion of Taiwan’s entertainment program styles and funny methods were copied from the “Shimura Ruo”. For young viewers, it is not an exaggeration to say that Taiwan’s 1990s was the “Shimura era”.
In the 1990s when "consuming confidence", Japan's consumer culture covered Taiwan, and the "Hakstan-Japanese style" followed, and Ken Shimura had an indifferent influence on this island. During the same period, the "Hao Bocuns" who represented the old forces of the Kuomintang belonged to the history of "being turned pages" under the trend of political thought and social liberation.
After the Kuomintang moved to Taiwan, Hao Baicun was an important figure after all, living 101 years old. He has gone through the Anti-Japanese War, World War II, the Kuomintang-Communist Civil War, the Korean War, the US-Soviet Cold War, and the core of Taiwan's military and political circles. His life experience is naturally richer than that of ordinary people. Therefore, the media will count the auspicious stories of people in detail, and some are subject matter, but people of my age are too fake to say "sorry about Hao Lishi".
Hao Baicun took a photo with Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling . Data picture
From a historical perspective, of course, some people say that Hao Baicun's death represents the end of an era. However, in my generation, after Hao retired in 1995, "that era" has become an old calendar. What era was “that era”? There may be old Kuomintang members who think it is an era of "anti-communist restoration" thought, but I will interpret it as an era of nationalism, collectivism, and nationalism.
htmlIn the 1950s, the United States emphasized the "Formosa of nationalism" when talking about Taiwan. In the late 1980s and 1990s, nationalism, nationalism, and collectivism rapidly declined in Taiwan, and replaced it with localization and (American) democratization under the appearance of singing and dancing. From another perspective, when we were amused by Ken Shimura, the era of struggle has passed and the era of internal friction has arrived. In contrast, the mainland has risen in different ways, showing another Chinese miracle, one has risen and the other has fallen, and even now.From an ideological perspective, Hao Baicun can be regarded as a true-minded person. He is pro-American, but not very convinced by the United States, and is anti-Communist, but insists on China's unification, 100% "Republic of China faction", and is loyal to the Party until death. Although he left the Kuomintang for 10 years because of his disagreement with Lee Teng-hui, Lee Teng-hui's Kuomintang was not the Kuomintang in his eyes. Even Lien Chan's and Ma Ying-jeou's Kuomintang are not so "KMT" under Hao's standards, because in terms of attitudes towards the Communist Party and the United States, the 21st century Kuomintang line is not completely in line with Hao Bocun's line.
In other words, the last third of life is probably a bit ridiculous for Hao Baicun. Not only is it completely different from the people, but even the younger generation's unified 's proposal is different from him and he is not good at making plans. What is embarrassing is that at the last moment of his life, the Kuomintang, which roared "Defend the Republic of China" to fight for the election, also fell, replaced by the more pro-American and greener new generation of the Kuomintang, and the ending of its failure in running for chairmanship by his son Hao Longbin.
Rumors that the last struggle of a century-old Ren Rui was that he invited Guo Taiming to save the party last year with a sick body. Looking at Guo's ideological manifestations carefully, it seemed that it was the right way in Hao Baicun's heart, anti-communist, not against China, and pro-American and not charming the United States.From the perspective of the unification faction like me, Guo Taiming's failure is the most regrettable historical event, because Guo's positive attitude of unwilling to fight a confused war can lead to a new and positive cross-strait relations.
Just imagine, if the one who was elected today was Terry Gou, his claim that "Taiwan's high-tech industry has been transferred to the United States to set up factories" went bankrupt on the spot after the truth about the United States exposed by the epidemic? Can the mainland quickly get rid of the virus and strive to resuming work efficiency?
From the perspective of the people, what Taiwanese people need most is to see the truth, and Terry Gou's political propositions about the mainland, the United States and Taiwan are full of flaws, which is the posture that allows the people to see the truth the most. The so-called "anti-communist, not against China, pro-American, not flattering the United States." Only under the trial of severe wind and rain can the true face of the time be revealed, and the changes that should have come long ago are put into use, rather than the deformed status quo that the United States is happy to see, and the endgame of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
In short, Hao Baicun did the right thing at the end of his life, and even if it works, the ending will not be what he thought.
The general who has long lost the battlefield, in the last month of the world, suddenly heard that AIT Chairman Mo Jian "reminds" the "Green Committee": "Taiwan needs to prepare for war in full, and it is best to do it immediately to respond to the worst emergencies." Does the United States’ early warning to Taiwan mean that the Sino-US conflict has reached the critical point of conflict? Or is it that the Trump administration wants to play the Taiwan card to save the election? In any case, a new battlefield seemed to be vaguely formed, and the old general who had really fought the war soon passed away.
Two-thirds of life live in a collectivist atmosphere. After being turned by history for more than 20 years, the virus storm swept away Shimura Ken, who symbolizes the prosperity of singing and dancing, and people are now witnessing the whole world fighting the virus with collectivism. Human society seems to be about to open a new page of history, but it suddenly discovered that this new page is actually a collectivism that was long regarded as the old almanac by the West? In any case, General Hao couldn't see that collectivism was rehabilitated. If he was still alive, would he feel a little amused?
Looking at Ken Shimura’s classic jokes, I couldn’t help laughing, saying goodbye to Master Shimura with a laugh and couldn’t give Hao Baicun to laugh and cry.
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