Chinese President Xi Jinping has just visited the famous Chinese university Tsinghua University, which is celebrating its 110th anniversary, and a video of Tsinghua girls dancing without much expression has gone viral on the Internet, sparking heated comments. Some people criticize the vulgarity and insult to the school’s style, while others think it is also the mark of the “free spirit”.
China’s Tsinghua University has always sparked a lot of imagination. It is said that Tsinghua University was proud of its motto “Self-improvement, Virtue, Independent Spirit, Free Thought”, but later, the latter eight words disappeared and things became complicated. With the firing of the outspoken independent intellectual Xu Zhangrun a year ago, and the presence of another Tsinghua “alumnus” – Chinese President Xi Jinping – the school’s every move has become extremely heavy.
For example, Guo Yuhua, a professor at Tsinghua University, received “special treatment” for simply commenting that the dance was “unbearable to see. She said: “You dance your silly dance, I just think it’s ugly, can’t you? Why block my group function and friends circle? “
There was no shortage of criticism of the students dancing this school dance. Some comments are very caustic: “do not look at the name of the school and the background of the auditorium, but also thought it was the graveyard bouncing disco, rushing to sell art, bathing center opening. “
Someone on Weibo quoted a dance artist’s comment, “This is jazz dance, it’s okay to say Broadway. The reason it looks low is not the clothes, it’s because the band makes it very disconcerting.” “And the dancers movement did not let go, no expression on the face, it feels forced to do this, if you really enjoy the dance, the joy should be able to infect others”.
Some people see another meaning from this dance, doctor mother Ou Xi microblogging comments: “Tsinghua school dance, reminds me of a certain CCTV internal spring festival: outside of the formal sit-down, there is still witty and funny. That is a symbol of the courage to self-deprecation and mutual blackness, but also independent thinking, the mark of the free spirit.”
There is a comparison to know the high and low? Lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan believes that, in terms of “viewing”, the performance of Peking University is not as good as the performance of Tsinghua University. Especially the soundtrack, Peking University’s is more difficult to listen to, especially the opening line “ah, the world of prosperity”!
Another view is that it is better to dance jazz than to dance “the sea sails by the helm”, and it is better to dance vulgarity than to dance loyalty, as long as there is no Cultural Revolution style, this idea seems to worry about regression to the past.
Alumni Zhou blockade tweeted, as alumni, Tsinghua dance team did not dance in the style of the Cultural Revolution, the other does not matter. I don’t know dance, but the online comments are too harsh. With Tsinghua’s usual style, it is now innovative to dance American jazz. Bing Yu tweeted: I’ll say a few words for the Tsinghua dance team. The Tsinghua school dance team has been criticized almost overwhelmingly by the internet, “lap dance” “suburban nightclub”… Tsinghua dance is the American style of jazz dance, Peking University dance is a national wind square dance with Dai elements, the public is more receptive to the national wind. Tsinghua dance form no problem, clothing is not appropriate. In addition, jumping jazz dance is better than the “sea sailing by the helmsman”.
The scholar Zhao Shilin thinks: these days some people on the Tsinghua women jumping the so-called “vulgar dance” to lash out. It’s better to do vulgar dance than to do loyalty dance, isn’t it? When singing karaoke pop songs, many people were saddened, I was in the Ministry of Culture at the time, when I was interviewed, I took the position: singing karaoke is definitely an improvement over singing quotations songs.
Some people are more worried about the current political environment, lest in the future young people will lose even the space for vulgarity. Wang Aizhong, a dissident currently living in Guangzhou, commented that the 110th anniversary of Tsinghua University is considered by some to be full of vulgar content, which is inconsistent with the identity of such a first-class institution as Tsinghua University. In fact, it’s okay for young people to be vulgar, as long as they like it and do it of their own free will. Moreover, the young people of the same generation do not necessarily think it is vulgar. In the current political climate, I am more worried about the public opinion storm, after the young students may not even have the space for vulgarity.
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