Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts, how many people did this slap wake up? What do you think?

Tsinghua University, China’s top prestigious university, has been on the hot search list three times due to three incidents in the past half year.

The first case: the sexual assault "conquest" incident

In November last year, a girl from the Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts slandered a boy for sexual assault and published the boy's information on The public, and then the surveillance video confirmed the boy's innocence, but the girl showed no remorse.

"Tsinghua University senior sister" quickly reached the hot search list, and everyone lamented that high diploma does not mean high quality.

Second incident: A beautiful student who was downgraded was reprimanded

Not long ago, it was revealed that Jiang Fangzhou accepted support from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to study in Japan during the summer vacation. During the trip, he released This view aroused great dissent. When Tsinghua University dropped 60 points and hired Jiang Fangzhou, he was placed on the hot search list. A strong Internet response to public knowledge and higher education has grown.

The third incident: a "weird" spring and summer fashion show

Recently, at a clothing conference, a group of female models dressed in weird costumes appeared.

The squinting eyes, low nose bridge, dark yellow skin, and lackluster face all make people feel very uncomfortable.

You must understand that "squinting" is a European prejudice against Asians. Many Westerners like to make this kind of shouting gesture when insulting Asians.

What is surprising is that such a clothing launch did not take place in Europe and the United States, but took place at the 2021 graduation design new product launch conference of Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts. This information immediately became popular as soon as it came out. Search list.

Compared with many other incidents, the overall performance of this show by the Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts also aroused the collective disappointment and anger of a large number of people.

Some people may want to say that it is too unreasonable to accuse Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts. Aesthetics is arbitrary, why can't "squinting" become a kind of beauty? Why do such poor female models need to be subjected to verbal violence online for no reason? Is it necessary?

Objectively speaking, put aside the phenomenon and look at the essence. In fact, this incident is not that simple. People often reflect that it is so obvious that there are three reasons behind it——

1. The cultural symbol of squinting has broken away from the scope of casual aesthetics

First of all, in traditional Chinese culture, beauties are almost not just big eyes, such as the women in ancient lady paintings. Those long and slender eyes are a kind of visual processing, which makes people feel a unique charm.

But the female models at this new product launch conference are like that. What you can feel with this "underworld makeup" is not beauty, but terror.

The public is disappointed. There is nothing offensive about the appearance of the female models. In fact, if you look carefully, many of the female models themselves have pretty features, but the designers deliberately gave them slender eyes, creating a "squinting" look. actual effect.

This kind of design is equivalent to putting the poor Western aesthetics on the public channel.

Secondly, "squinting" is no longer a simple makeup, it has already become a social phenomenon.

Many Europeans argue that they are face blind to Asians and think that squinting is beautiful.

This is a typical misconception led by professional knowledge. Take a look at the beauties recognized by Europe and my country.

Those Belluccis, Sophie Marceau, Black Widow Scarlett, etc., all have pretty features, none of them squint. They are the real beauties. Very clear.

They want to differentiate Asians from themselves. Asians have smaller eyes, so they deliberately exaggerate this difference, which is why they create the so-called "squinted eyes" aesthetic.

This is a psychologically distorted aesthetic just like the women with small feet and crooked potted plants in ancient China.

The first one to be created was Fu Manchu, the villain in Marvel Heroes: squinting eyes, mustache, scary face, and goldfish eyes.

From name to appearance, Fu Manchu basically captures all European prejudices against the Chinese.

Afterwards, model Lu Yan was hailed as an oriental beauty by Western media: small eyes, chloasma, and thick lips were also the image of enslaved Chinese women in the eyes of Europeans.

Think about it, if Lu Yan had white skin, would they still feel good-looking?

And recently, some "superhero movies" have exploded in China, and Western countries have released a new movie. There are so many Chinese artists with outstanding looks and performances waiting there, and what they are looking for in the end is The two Chinese artists, who are not well-known, both have the kind of squinting appearance.

Look at Stainless Steel, Widow Sister, and Batman, which one is the so-called squinting eye?

White people choose to have delicate eyebrows, while Asians must narrow their eyes. This is their double standard of aesthetics.

Because of this, on the one hand, "squinting eyes" has long been elevated to a cultural symbol that discriminates against Chinese people in European and American countries. It has long escaped the scope of casual aesthetics, and it is not surprising that it is reviled by many people. .

2. Lack of dominance in the plastic arts

Some people must be wondering. Tsinghua University is the largest prestigious university in China. Why are some "proud students" still criticized abroad for their aesthetics? Biased?

That’s because plastic arts is different from other courses.

Disciplines such as humanities have their own separate and detailed management systems in China. We have sufficient confidence in the curriculum and there is no need to please foreigners.

For example, Liu Dingning, the number one scholar in Liaoning Province two years ago, dropped out of the University of Hong Kong, repeated his senior year of high school and was admitted to the Chinese Department of Peking University, just to learn the simplest Chinese classics, which is the May 4th Movement. Since the movement, Peking University has nurtured a cultural power in the past century.

For subjects like science and engineering, there are relatively standardized answers and standards, which have nothing to do with country. Everyone deals fairly, let alone who wants to please whom.

For example, Wei Dongyi, the famous student from Peking University who became famous a few days ago, studies the analytical solution of NS equations in fluid dynamics. This is a global problem and is relevant to where you are on social media. It doesn't matter if they are gangsters, so the self-proclaimed style of Wei's classmates will not have any impact on his work.

The category of plastic arts is different. There is no right answer.

Western countries are ahead of everyone in terms of artistic development, so they have sufficient control, especially in fashion design.

Under the constraints of this concept, some people will sometimes unconsciously abandon our aesthetics and pursue the so-called advanced aesthetics respected in the West, that is, "squinting aesthetics" .

As for Western countries, they naturally understand that it is ugly, but they regard this as an aesthetic standard, and the logic behind it is: even if it is a piece of shit , as long as I say it is beautiful, everyone must follow suit and say it is beautiful.

On the surface they are talking about art, but in fact they are talking about obedience.

This incident at the Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts is objectionable. In fact, it is mostly the Chinese people’s resistance to the authority of Western countries that “disdain aesthetics”...

However, This kind of thing needs to be solved from the source, and we also need all of us to continue to enhance the global visibility of our culture based on our aesthetics...

Three, cut off the feet to fit the shoes, this slap, wake up How many people were there?

In fact, at the same time that the Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts incident happened and was pushed to the hot search list, Henan TV, which has always been ridiculed and tacky, gave everyone a vivid "cultural lesson to strengthen the country."

The "Luo Shen in the Water" variety show, the appearance of the Luo Shen fairy dancing gracefully in the water perfectly restored the "Luo Shen Fu" in Cao Zhi Jinyong's novel;

The "Dragon Boat Festival" variety show , the mighty and majestic man showed everyone what the tenacity of a Chinese man is with his vigorous folk dance;

In the variety show "The Song of King Lanling Entering the Battle", the pipa girl played crazily with her face half-covered, which made us It reminds me of the charming poem "Noisy and mixed bullets, big and small beads falling on the jade plate".

This kind of variety show not only gained a lot of popularity, but even Lu Kang from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China came to pay attention and like it.

Zhengzhou Industrial and Commercial School, which is not as famous as Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts, also held a clothing conference not long ago, and the style was like that.

Compared with the style of Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts, which is a high-level judgment,

This time Tsinghua University’s show, from a common sense point of view, is mostly inadvertent and lacks comprehensive consideration. , but there is no doubt that it also gave them a slap in the face, a wake-up call for themselves, and a wake-up call for more people.

As for all netizens, we do not need to find out one thing and blindly impose it on our students. The most important thing is, after discovering the problem, how should we change it...

For so many years, everyone has been paying attention to "cultural power".

Being a “cultural power” does not mean cutting off one’s feet and adapting to Western countries, playing with the so-called advanced definition. It just means devoting oneself to the local area and planting dazzling petals in the most ordinary soil.

The slogan written on the playground of Tsinghua University is: "Fifty years of working for the health of the motherland." The "health" here is not only a healthy body, but also a healthy heart.

I believe that Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts, this slap, has awakened myself and more people.

I hope that China’s most outstanding students will straighten their backs in the future and become a “cultural power” that truly belongs to us.

Of course, all of this is inseparable. We, all Chinese, work together...