What’s in your opinion, your view on non Han accessories such as Miao silver, Japanese silk flowers, and other accessories used while wearing and posting Hanfu online. I’ve seen it a lot personally when looking at Hanfu things on little red book, is it complexed than we think?
Personal opinion below:
Oh are they still popular on little red book? I thought they had gone out of fashion. The latest offense is Tibetan style.
The popularity of miao silver, Japanse silk flowers, Japanese hand fan etc, however, is often because those things are CHEAP. Cheap, easily found on taobao and looked good on screen. That is it. Most people wanted to stand out of the crowd but doesn't want to spent too much time, money and energy on it. And taobao sellers, to increase exposure, will include additional keywords regardless whether it is true or not. Again, many people will not spent the time to do good research, so people will be misled and think that they are authentic Han products.
Traditional Han accessories are expensive because they are often not factory made. For example Japanese lantern and Japanese mask are often used in China because Japan had ordered a lot of those products from China and the production lines have existed so it can be made cheaply and easily. But Chinese masks and lanterns? Often there are no factory lines available and they have to be hand made so they are rather expensive. (People will complain if they found the local organizers used them but often it is too late. Japanese building and vectors are also a common offense. Because those designers are often freely available online while Chinese stuff are often not digitized.)
The price does come down slightly nowadays as more people promote Han culture and there are factory products, such as chanhua, now they are available in packs of premake pieces and sellers can just put them together instead of rolling each leaves and petals themself.
In short, I think professionals (including designers, make up artist, influencers etc.) should avoid using those accessories (unless there is a good reason to use them) because it perpetuals the wrong image, but random people~ eh whatever. People can buy imported stuff as international trade has always been a thing. People can also include anything that is meaningful to them, either to speak of their heritage or as a memento.
Maybe I am just a dirty fuckin pacifist but I just don’t buy the ‘we HAVE to protect our people by killing lots of other people (and that’s ok)’ that is literally the message of the 100.
Possibly because I believe that that kind of thinking is the cause of at LEAST half of ALL the suffering in the entire world.
Was there REALLY NO OTHER OPTION??? REALLY??? You couldn’t have explained and cajoled and promised and bribed and threatened and reasoned and talked and speeched and begged?? (AND NOT TORTURED/SHOT PEOPLE)
ALL the conflict and death in the 100 is caused by the characters following this ideology. ALL OF IT. Mountain Men, Grounders and Sky People are all ‘just trying to survive’ by dehumanising the Other and/or grabbing the nearest weapon and bashing other people’s heads in at any provocation because fuck it. Violence is the answer guys,we have to protect ourselves.
And it’s justified. For survival. Or something. If you take this type of morality as truth, I can see why people start saying there is no ‘good’ or ‘evil’ but it’s fucking bullshit.
If you cause suffering to other human beings deliberately, that’s evil. Period. If you start to qualify that statement, you slip so so quickly. Self-defense? Self-defense turns into self-defense in response to self-defense in response to a bitter and deepseated hatred and distrust due to both sides’ losses. This is what we call a feud. It is ENDLESS.
I wish that somebody would bring up this point but the only one who could have espoused such a Katniss-like counter-ideology to balance this shit out is WELLS WHO WAS KILLED IN EPISODE THREE TOO BAD.
