Xu Zhengdao saw Wu Jing's expression and remembered the classic emoticon package in later generations, "Is it cheap or not" and couldn't help but laugh: "After the publication of "The End of History", it caused a sensation around the world, and many people think that Fukuyama was particularly right. Many people in China also believe this. Many university professors spoke of democracy and freedom, which was affected by this. In fact, many people abroad oppose Fukuyama's views, including Fukuyama's teacher Samuel Huntington. He wrote a book called "The Conflict of Civilizations and the World".

The book "Reconstruction of the World Order" refutes Fukuyama's view. In his book, he divided the world into seven civilizations, believing that the end of the Cold War means that the era of dividing enemies and friends based on national interests and ideology has passed. After the Cold War, countries will establish camps and fight against each other according to the belonging of civilizations. What dominates the world will be the conflict of civilizations. In the book, Huntington predicts that the Begonia Kingdom will surely rise, and the rise of the Begonia Kingdom will bring unprecedented impact on Western civilization led by Citi.

In fact, Western visionary politicians have seen this, and the Begonia will inevitably rise. Citigroup also realized this and began to suppress us. A few years ago, they stuck our necks and bomb our embassy in the WTO. After Bush came to power, he even positioned us as the target of attack. To a certain extent, we should thank Ben**. As soon as he bombed the Gemini Building, Citigroup began to engage in a war on terrorism, and he had no energy to deal with us, winning time for our development."

Li Chengfeng asked: "Then when will we get rid of admiring foreign countries and fawning on foreign countries?"

Xu Zhengdao Xu Zhengdao slowly said: "In 1994, Mr. Lin Yifu, director of the Begonia Economic Research Center of Peking University, wrote a book titled "The Miracle of the Begonia Kingdom: Development Strategy and Economic Reform". In this book, Mr. Lin Yifu predicted the future growth rate and possible scale of the Begonia economy. He proposed that according to purchasing power parity, the economic scale of the Begonia Kingdom will catch up with Citigroup in 2015. According to GDP, the Begonia Kingdom will surpass Citigroup in 2030. I think this statement is accurate. According to the current growth rate of the Begonia economy, our GDP will definitely surpass Citigroup in 2030.

While the economy of Haitang Kingdom is rising, politics and military will inevitably rise. As I said just now, culture is lagging, and cultural rise can often be truly realized after the economic, political and military rise is achieved. Therefore, it takes a long time for our cultural inferiority complex and the phenomenon of admiring foreign countries to be fascinated by foreign countries.

After Citigroup became the world's number one in GDP, it took 5 or 60 years to get rid of cultural inferiority and truly become a cultural power. We are different from Citigroup. Citigroup originally did not have its own independent culture, and their culture originated from the United Kingdom and Europe. Therefore, it took a long time for Citigroup to achieve cultural independence and establish its own culture. We have our own culture, and our culture was once extremely brilliant. It is definitely not as long for Citigroup to get rid of cultural inferiority.

I believe that with the rise of the economy, politics and military of Haitang, there will definitely be a wave of national cultural rejuvenation, and this wave will gradually rise in about ten years. So when can we truly realize national cultural rejuvenation? Without scholars to predict this, it is difficult to have an answer to this question. I think in 2049, on the 100th anniversary of the founding of the New Begonia Kingdom, we should achieve national cultural rejuvenation. By that time the phenomenon of worshiping foreign countries and fascinating foreign countries should have gradually disappeared.”

Wu Jing and the others think that Xu Zhengdao's words are a bit too exaggerated. Now China's GDP ranks sixth, with a poor GDP of US$1,500, which is not as good as the monthly salary of many countries. How can it surpass Citigroup in 2030? However, they are still a little excited and feel that there is a certain emotion surging in their hearts. Because they believe that our country will surely rise and national culture will surely be revived.

Li Chengfeng sighed a little, "I wish I could achieve national rejuvenation in 2049. We were only in our 70s at that time and could still do it! Then I will also talk about the young man and go to sleep all over Europe!"

The men laughed when they heard this.

Zhang Ruyu spat: "You guy will die on a woman's belly one day."

Li Chengfeng said shamelessly: "You are right, this is my ultimate dream."

Wu Jing asked, "Then what can we do? We must do something, right?"

Xu Zhengdao took a deep breath: "Before discussing what to do, we must understand how the Western cultural output system works, and understand the concepts of cultural sovereignty and aesthetic sovereignty. Take our film industry as an example, movies are divided into two parts, one is commercial film and the other is artistic film. The right to speak for commercial films is in the hands of Hollywood. In the 1970s and 1980s, Hollywood completed industrial upgrading and applied high technology to film shooting to create amazing visual effects. From then on, Hollywood movies began to sweep the world.

If you go to Hollywood movies, you will find that the Chinese people in them often have small eyes, a flat nose bridge and a high cheekbones. Many Chinese actors are not like this, but Hollywood will turn them into this. When they choose actors, they will try to choose actors with small eyes, a flat nose bridge and a high cheekbones to play. If you have bigger eyes, they will not choose you. They will say that you are not a typical Asian person and say that you don’t look like Asians.

If Hollywood commercial films stereotype the images of Begonia and even Oriental people in a particularly direct form, then artistic films have a subtle influence on other countries through unspoken rules.

The Cannes Film Festival is the first of the three major film festivals and is called the palace of art films by many people. Before 1978, the Cannes Film Festival participated in the films and was selected by various countries. Since 1978, the Cannes Film Festival began to choose films by itself and no longer pushed by the government. This brings up a problem. The film festival chose films that match their ideology. In the 1980s, a considerable number of films from socialist countries won awards in Cannes, such as "Iron Man" in Poland and "Dad on a Business Day" in Yugoslavia. These films have a distinctive feature, which is against the system.

After more than 20 years of development, the Cannes Film Festival has now formed a film selection system with a strong ideological ideology. For Asian and Eastern European films, there are basically only two types of films, one is a particularly exploratory film, and the other is a film that exposes the pre-system or current system. If we want to be shortlisted and win awards, there are basically two routines, one is an anti-system, and the other is to show the poverty and backward appearance of the Haitang Kingdom.

If you follow their routines, your movies may enter the so-called international vision. International traders will invest in you and send them to major film festivals. Western media and their sound tubes around the world will cheer for you like a baton, making you a movie master overnight. If you don’t follow their routines, no matter how good your movie is or how high your artistic level is, it will be difficult to get recognized by the film festival.

Although our country has a gap with developed Western countries, it is not without high-rise buildings or prosperous cities. There are many stories that happen in cities. Why is there no internationally award-winning movie that tells contemporary stories? Why do we win awards at the International Film Festival all reflect the old, young and poor? Because you shoot high-rise buildings and others don’t recognize them at all.

Cannes told Haitang filmmakers through a subtle set of rules that you only have to shoot begons, only have to sell blood, only have to shoot poor and backward can you win awards, only have to shoot these movies reflect human nature, and it is the real art. There are basically two types of people who praise Cannes in the film industry. One is very stupid and brainwashed by other people's rules; the other is very smart, knowing that this set of rules exists, but in order to win awards, you have to make this kind of movie."

Xu Jian couldn't believe it: "Cannes isn't like this, right?"

Li Chengfeng said directly: "You are the stupider one."

When the others heard this, they burst into laughter, while Xu Jin scratched his bald head embarrassedly.

Xu Zhengdao smiled faintly: "I'll give the simplest example. In 1999, Chen Yimou took "No One Leaves" to Cannes to participate. The film festival chairman Jacob found that there were scenes of raising the national flag and singing the national anthem, so he thought that the movie was beautifying the Begonia and promoting the government. You have watched "No One Leaves", does this movie mention government propaganda? No! Jacob likes Chen Yimou's other movie "My Father and Mother", so he suggested that Zhang Yimou withdraw "No One Leaves" and let "My Father and Mother" participate in the competition in Cannes. Chen Yimou explained to Jacob that his film was not propaganda for the government and did not want to be interpreted by politics, but Jacob refused to listen and believed that "No One Leaves" was propaganda for the government. Chen Yimou was angry and withdrew from the Cannes Film Festival and issued an open letter to condemn it. Isn't this the best proof?"

Xu Zhen couldn't speak, he knew about the breakup between Chen Yimou and Cannes. At that time, Chen Yimou's open letter was published in the newspaper, and he was very angry after reading it.

Xu Zhengdao sighed slightly: "Respecting foreign countries and fascinating foreign countries means that strong culture crushes weak culture, resulting in the loss of cultural sovereignty and aesthetic sovereignty. If you observe university professors, you will find an imagination. Among liberal arts professors, there are many people who hate our country, worship the West, and there are also many professors of science and engineering, but relatively fewer. What is the reason? It lies in the right to speak.

Science and engineering are real, and as long as I make it, you can't admit it. For example, if we create a train with a speed of 1,000 kilometers per hour, I am the fastest, and it's useless for you to tell others. This thing is real and has data. There is no standard for literary works and cannot be measured by data. When the right to speak is in the hands of others, if others say you are good, you are good; if others don't admit it, no matter how good your work is, it will be difficult to be recognized in the industry.

You can see the most popular awards in the world's literary and artistic circles, the Oscars and three major film festivals, the Grammys in music, the Nobel Prize in literature, etc. These literary and artistic awards are all in the hands of Westerners. The rules are set by them and the standards are decided by them. As long as you want to be recognized by the literary and artistic circles, you can only follow their standards.

What is cultural hegemony? This is cultural hegemony!

What is aesthetic hegemony? This is aesthetic hegemony!”

Now everyone was staring at Xu Zhengdao in a daze and couldn't speak, feeling an unprecedented crisis. At this moment, they truly realized what cultural hegemony is and what aesthetic sovereignty is lost.
Chapter completed!