Can you imagine what it was like for Japan to export the culture of the three countries to China?
The beautiful Diao Chan became a funny and ugly big fat man in their "Three Kingdoms New Interpretation", and Zhuge Wuhou became a singing and dancing rap in their cartoon "Party Drifter Zhuge Kongming", and my little nephew watched it with relish.
Even out of his love for dramas, he specially ** the "Three Kingdoms" game of Japan Koei Company to play, but it was out of control and suddenly became a fan of the Three Kingdoms.
He told me that many friends around him watched Japanese comics first, and then **pit "Three Kingdoms", "Dynasty Warriors", and finally went to watch our 94 version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
Think about it carefully, when I was in high school, it was also because I played a pirated version of "Dynasty Warriors", and then I became interested in the Three Kingdoms, why more than ten years have passed, and our generations have relied on the Three Kingdoms culture exported from Japan to ignite their love for their own culture?
If you think about it carefully, this is still a terrible thing, because you will find that in addition to the 94 version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in our country, there is almost no one that can be called an art cultural product of the Three Kingdoms.
What kind of thing is that in the New Three Kingdoms", portraying Uncle Liu Huang as a villain who is hypocritical, and spoofing Zhang Fei into a simple-minded Tie Hanhan, this is simply a cultural regression, and people look at the past, and there is a sense of "come to cut me if you are a brother"!
On the Japanese side, just a glorious company has published 14 generations of "Three Kingdoms" and 8 generations of "Three Kingdoms", and people have set up a Three Kingdoms History Research Institute in Tianjin, focusing on content for 30 years.
The game has been made into a dictionary of the history of the Three Kingdoms, and the heroes of the Three Kingdoms and the heroes of Japan's Warring States have been linked, creating a super label for the export of Japanese culture to the world.
In the Three Kingdoms game "Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty" released by Japan in 2023, they linked the elements of the Three Kingdoms with the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" to present a masterpiece of oriental history gods and demons to the world.
As soon as it was launched, it sold out, exceeding 1 million copies in the first week, half of which were our Chinese players. Earn your money with your culture and export my values with your culture, that's how clever the Japanese are.
It can be said that the Japanese have played very successfully with the Chinese civilization as a charging treasure for Japanese culture to go to the world.
But this power bank does not belong to Japan after all, and they are easy to be counterattacked when they use it.
Kong Yiji once said: How can the business of a scholar be called stealing?
Koreans plagiarized Chinese culture, thinking that changing their names and applying for a heritage site would be successful, but as a result, the tiger could not become an anti-dog, and it became a world joke.
But the Japanese misappropriated Chinese culture, but no one dared to use the word "stealing", people proved that "what is true love", in Yokohama, there is a temple dedicated to the martial god Guan Yu, every year to hold the "Guan Di Festival", in Kobe, there are a variety of two-dimensional Three Kingdoms culture street, many foreigners' first trip to the Three Kingdoms took place here.
In order to expand the culture of the Three Kingdoms, the Tokyo National Museum and the Kyushu National Museum will spend special money to transport cultural relics excavated from the tomb of Cao Cao in China for exhibition.
When Guan Yu's actor Lu Shuming unfortunately passed away, Japanese netizens will collectively mourn, and when Zhang Fei's actor Li Jingfei was seriously ill, Japanese netizens also launched crowdfunding.
Even a Japanese otaku who doesn't know Chinese, in order to visit the hometown of the Three Kingdoms, can come to China alone to visit 100 scenic spots, take notes, shoot **, and also published a travelogue of "Three Kingdoms Chronicles", by the way, urged China to increase the protection of cultural relics, and the book once sold to the first place in the Amazon travelogue sales list that year.
From the private to the official, we Chinese can truly feel Japan's sincere love and deep understanding of the culture of the three countries.
The United States also wanted to rub our culture back then, and film and television works filmed "The Great Wall", "Shangqi", "Mulan" and so on, but Chinese audiences just didn't buy it.
The reason is very simple, the United States has made Chinese stories into four different on the premise of not understanding Chinese civilization, how to look at it, but the Japanese-made "Three Kingdoms" and "Dynasty Warriors" can conquer and move countless Chinese players, if you want to say that there is no craftsmanship in this, I don't agree.
I remember when I was in high school, when I played "Dynasty Warriors" for the first time, my good friend told me "you make a lot of money", this game foreigners need to pay to play, and we Chinese are very smart and play the "cracked version" directly.
At that time, I really felt that I had "made a lot of money", and it was not until I grew up that I realized that the most expensive things in this world are often free, and the cultural export profits made by Japanese companies using the big IP of Chinese culture can no longer be measured purely by money.
While Chinese are still arguing over whether Chinese medicine is "behind the times", Japanese Kampo medicine has occupied 90% of the global market.
When some Chinese actors are still criticizing the Monkey King in "Journey to the West", the image of the Monkey King in Japan's "Dragon Ball" has spread all over the world, and foreigners don't care which country the Monkey King is from.
They only know that Akira Toriyama is a Japanese manga artist, "Three Kingdoms" was developed by a Japanese company, and even Japan's Koei Company directly abandoned Japanese when producing "Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty", using a big logo in Chinese and English, and in the promotional video, it is also trying to popularize Chinese history, but the American game **ign still treats it as a game with a Japanese background when reporting on it.
Even Japan has made a game with an American background "Death Stranding", and the United States has also made a game with a Japanese background "Ghost of Tsushima", which is the result of people's cultural export.
Again, foreigners don't care which country the three countries belong to, they only respect those who have the right to interpret culture.
Japan and South Korea is an obvious contrast, Koreans want to take the world to paste white Spring Festival, dance white lion dance, and celebrate the White Spring Festival, but the right to interpret culture is not there, the world has a red Chinese Spring Festival, even if the name is changed to lunar new year, the Chinese also have this cultural confidence.
But the Japanese are different, they recognize Kampo medicine, derived from traditional Chinese medicine, Japanese kimono, derived from Chinese Wufu, Japanese architecture, derived from Tang Dynasty architecture, Japanese calligraphy, derived from Chinese calligraphy, Japanese games, derived from Chinese history.
People don't fight with you, don't fight with you for a while, that is, generously admit that these things are yours, I expand what belongs to me on the basis of your culture, and after a hundred years, these cultures really belong to Japan, so the world can not fight with it, the Japanese are seeking the foundation of the world, which is the real terrible opponent.
We often say that Chinese civilization has a miraculous attribute, that is, it can assimilate all foreign civilizations, take its essence and remove its dross, and use it for our own use.
But what if one day, the Japanese take the "Japanese style" of Chinese culture and export Chinese in reverse? One of the hardest aspects of the culture wars is that the only way you can win is to make your content better than anyone else. Any other means is to injure the enemy by 1,000 and inflict 2,000 on himself.
Many people see what cultural products in the United States and Japan are doing better than ours, and their first reaction is to "boycott", but this method can be used in the short term as a means of adjustment and balance of interests, but if you want to defeat the erosion of foreign culture, then you must be eliminated in the end.
Take the cracked version of the game that I used to think was "taking a big advantage", in the early days of China, there were also excellent works such as "The Legend of the Three Kingdoms" and "The Three Kingdoms", but everyone's general mentality is "play the cracked version if you want to play, whoever pays for it is a big fool", and finally the local Three Kingdoms game is back to the era of page games, I sometimes laugh in my heart, which big fool will play this kind of broken game, but when my little nephew who is a fan of the Three Kingdoms asked me to introduce him to a local Chinese Three Kingdoms game, I instantly felt that this "big fool". "The boomerang finally hit the center of our generation more than a decade later.
So, when I saw that "Black Myth Wukong", which belongs to our Chinese company, was announced, I was really excited.
Not to mention other fields, this is the first time in the game field that I deeply feel that the interpretation of Chinese mythology is firmly held by the Chinese, our ancient buildings, our statues, our totems, our journey to the west stories, we have personally told the world, just like the "Wandering Earth" series, let the earthlings feel the unique cultural charm of "taking their homeland to survive"!
The strength of a country must be accompanied by the rise of a strong culture.
Over the years, we have witnessed the rise of Guoman, witnessed the popularity of "The True Legend of Mortal Cultivation" abroad, so that foreigners would rather quit drugs than chase more, we have also witnessed the unique charm of Chinese Hanfu in the world, and the magical scene of China's crooked mouth God of War dominating the screen of foreigners' short drama platform.
All this makes us realize that China has a vast land, a long history, and a rich heritage, which is enough to create a cultural story that makes people's hearts sway, and we Chinese must have this cultural self-confidence, Chinese civilization has never been afraid of thieves, on the contrary, we need such a strong opponent as Japan.
Mencius said: If you enter, you will not be able to fight at home, and if you go out, you will be invincible to foreign patients, and the country will perish. Then he who is born in sorrow and dies in peace is also.
On the way for Chinese culture to go global, Japan is the best whetstone and the most worthy label for reference, we must fully learn from their experience in going overseas, and take advantage of China's comprehensive rejuvenation to build Chinese culture into a world IP.
Although it takes a long process, more people, and longer efforts, everything that happens around me makes me believe that we Chinese can do it, and our Chinese culture has this confidence.
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