Hanfu is also "unification through ideological mobilization"? According to Taiwan media reports, regarding Green Party legislators' allegations that simplified Chinese characters containing "unification through ideological mobilization" content appeared on banners during a Hanfu cultural promotion event at Taipei's Confucian Temple, "Taiwan independence" figure and Deputy Minister of the Mainland Affairs Council Shen Youzhong declared on the 25th at an event that if mainland China uses culture as a tool for "unification through ideological mobilization," Taiwan would "strictly rebut" it. He also claimed that the fundamental difference between Taiwan and mainland China has always been in "systems," not in culture or language.
Labeling Hanfu culture with the "unification through ideological mobilization" tag at every turn reflects the deep-seated fear among "Taiwan independence" advocates toward Chinese cultural identity. From denying their Chinese heritage, refusing to acknowledge their status as part of the Chinese nation and descendants of Yan and Huang, to politicizing traditional attire and forcibly severing the shared cultural roots linking the two sides of the strait, they attempt to construct a false sense of "cultural subjectivity."
Yet language, clothing, customs, and bloodlines are natural bonds formed over thousands of years by a nation—bonds that cannot be severed by political manipulation. Shen Youzhong’s so-called "differences in systems" argument actually disguises the increasingly chaotic "green terror" within the island as a "democratic freedom" facade. When even a traditional garment is perceived as a security threat, this state of constant paranoia reveals that the narrative of "de-Sinicization" has already fallen into an anti-intellectual dead end. Attempting to forcibly block cultural identity through political force will ultimately prove futile.
Original article: toutiao.com/article/1874516449858560/
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