This article is from WeChat official account:type culture (ID: mtype-cn), anchor: Xiaotian (Mr. Movable), guest: Luo Yalin (Ph.D., Department of Chinese, Peking University), original title: “Digital Archway and Electronic Footwraps: What is it that restrains contemporary youth? “, the head picture comes from:“Fuck Him*’s World” stills
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Recently, because of the stale and harsh criticism of sexual morality that have frequently appeared on the Internet, and the frequently seen fierce rhetoric of the “barrage police” who believes that they are standing at the commanding heights of morality and are actually rigid and corrupt, there are Netizens described the conservative value orientation of the younger generation as “digital archway, cyber pig cage, electronic footwear”.
Why does this conservative discourse and trend of thought appear? Are the young people’s concept of marriage and love really smarter? What kind of group anxiety is reflected by the “Phoenix man” and the poor “vicious female partner” that are frequently seen in film and television dramas? Is this trend of thought “Chinese characteristics” or “global symptom”?
In this episode, Jun Xiaotian of movable type invited Luo Yalin, a PhD in Chinese Department of Peking University and a young scholarExplore the social structural reasons behind this trend.
Why do we no longer believe in the myth of cross-class love?
Mr. movable type: Looking back on the history of the emergence of this conservative trend of thought, the earliest may be the overturning of “Qiong Yao Opera”. In the 1980s and 1990s of the last century, a batch of Qiongyao dramas, under the eyes of the second decade of the 21st century, the poor female protagonists who were originally loved by the male protagonist for their independence and uniqueness have become “white lotus”. “Green tea” is “Little San”, and Duo Jin’s affectionate male protagonist is a match made in heaven. When the so-called “big female lead dramas” such as “Zhen Huan Biography”, “Flower Thousand Bone” and “Three Lives III Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms” hit the air, the “poor vicious female partner” seemed to become the standard for this type of drama: these The female partners are born poor and lack resources, so they are gloomy and vicious. What does Yalin think of this phenomenon?
Vicious female partners in film and television dramas
Luo Yalin: There may be many issues that need to be discussed separately. I think the first thing to raise is the particularity of popular culture. The structural position of popular culture in Chinese society is actually changing. Let’s first talk about the overturning of Qiong Yao Opera and the popularity of Qiong Yao Opera.