Name: ネバネバ米と国家権力の転覆｜中国無修正版 (Sticky Rice and Subversion of State Power | China Uncensored)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T06:08:59.000Z
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sticky rice and subverting state power in China.

Hi, welcome to China Uncensored, I’m your host Chris Chappell.

Another long-winded talk about Chinese culture from me

before you get the link to delicious food.

Unless you just go ahead and click the link below,

You won’t, because I’m about to tell you how the origins of this

could undermine the rule of the Chinese Communist Party.

You know, I don’t feel China Uncensored is really that unique.

If anything, I just view myself as one in a long line

of Confucian gentleman scholars who criticize the ruling regime.

Isn’t Confucianism that lame old philosophy

that says you should do whatever the ruler says?

Confucianism actually has a long tradition

of the lonely scholar standing up to the ruler for what’s right.

Qu Yuan lived in one of the bloodiest, craziest periods of Chinese history,

warring as they tried to conquer each other.

Qu Yuan was an advisor in the state of Chu.

That’s Qin as in the one that about a hundred years later

will conquer its neighbors and set up the first dynasty to rule all of China.

Anyway, the ruler of Qin contacts the king of Chu.

that will totally not result in conquest and assassination.

Qu Yuan, who’s an adviser to the king, is all like,

“Your majesty, this alliance is a really bad idea.”

But the king is like, “You're banished.”

Qu Yuan learns of Qin’s sudden but predictable betrayal

He writes one of China’s most influential and epic poetic works

called the Lí Sāo, or Encountering Sorrow.

And though Qu Yuan was not a Confucian himself,

Confucian scholar officials looked to him as an exemplar

his individualism and absolute commitment to his values.

Interestingly, the Chinese Communist Party in its early days

promoted Qu Yuan as a model of patriotism.

They even used his whole “criticizing those in power” philosophy

to criticize the ruling Nationalist Party.

But once the CCP took over and became the ruling power themselves,

Actually, Mao Zedong often talked about modeling himself

after his favorite historical emperor, Qin Shihuang.

Yes, that’s the guy who united China under the Qin Dynasty.

And Qin Shihuang famously burned books with competing ideologies,

But fairly recently, ancient bamboo scrolls from the state of Chu were discovered.

that believes officials should be chosen by merit.

They even suggest the ruler should be chosen based on merit

instead of the hereditary system that came to dominate China’s dynasties later on.

In other words, unlike what the Communist Party says today,

the Chinese might have been ready for an early form of democracy

or at least genuine meritocracy 2,500 years ago.

If you’d like to learn more about Qu Yuan and his impact,

I highly recommend the book “Madman of Ch'u” by Laurence A. Schneider.

Anyway, Qu Yuan has been honored for generations.

One way is the annual Dragon Boat Festival.

It’s celebrated with dragon boat racing and a steamed sticky rice dish called zongzi.

after Qu Yuan threw himself into the river to commit suicide,

local villagers raced out in boats to recover his body.

they began throwing zongzi into the river

so the fish would eat that instead of Qu Yuan’s body.

celebrates a man who believed that people should stand up to authority

And in the eyes of the current Communist Party,

So today, I’ll be joining Cici from Food Paradise

Yes Chris? Oh, I didn’t want to listen to your long conversation,

Hey guys! Well if you want to learn to say the name zongzi in Chinese

and also the names of other Chinese snacks

and as well as general useful Chinese words and phrases,

And if you want to see me whoop Ben and Chris’s butts making zongzi,

check out our video on Off the Great Wall.

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