On March 4, according to insiders in the CCTV Editorial Office, former CCTV host Aqiu has been banned. A certain social program that previously featured Aqiu as the host has also been adjusted at the end of 2019. It is understood that since this year, the audio and video materials related to the program hosted by Aqiu have been removed from platforms such as CCTV.com and CCTV Video. Aqiu himself has not appeared on CCTV programs again.
When this news broke, people all thought that a few days ago, when the whole country was fighting against the epidemic, Aqiu sent a puzzling message on his personal homepage. The core content of the article mentioned the "sick man of East Asia" and "put on a mask and bow to the world and say: I'm sorry for causing trouble to you."
Although our nation has gone through ups and downs in the past 100 years, it is precisely in these hardships and hardships that our nation and country have gradually awakened like a sleeping lion. In recent years, we have achieved good results in sports events, science and technology, culture and other fields. These achievements have also been recognized by colleagues around the world, which are inseparable from the endless self-esteem and fighting spirit of the Chinese nation. However, when the nation was struggling to overcome the difficulties, Aqiu used the word "sick man of East Asia" again in a way that was intentional or unintentional. This is really a manifestation of a lack of national self-confidence.
More than 100 years ago, the reason why Chinese people were given this title by foreigners was not an objective performance. Each nation has its own laws of social development. Because each nation's culture is different, in the process of modern civilization, there will also be problems of different speeds and major social changes sooner or later. At that time, Western countries prematurely resolved their internal contradictions in production relations and promoted the rapid development of productivity. So when they looked at our country and people from their own perspective at that time, they naturally looked at us from a superior perspective.
This kind of gaze is unfriendly and unhealthy. If we were backward in productivity, physically weak, and not open-minded in our thinking at that time, then what about the insulting evaluation of us by Western society? Does this kind of evaluation also prove their narrow-mindedness and lack of basic courtesy? And Aqiu started his speech with this word, isn't it a bit too derogatory to his own nation? We have never admitted that we are the sick man of East Asia, and the sick man of East Asia in the outside world and the self-deprecating sick man of East Asia by literati in our history are completely different perspectives and two language environments, with completely different references.
Aqiu’s remarks started with “the sick man of East Asia” and ended with bowing to the world and saying sorry. This statement places the results achieved by our thousands of years of civilization and decades of enduring humiliation. As far as the current situation is concerned, after the problem emerged, our people have made huge sacrifices, whether it is economically, professionally, or in professional handling of the "epidemic". We must strive to be worthy of the present, worthy of history, and worthy of the world.
Back then, Bruce Lee and Xu Haifeng were able to reshape the image of the Chinese. They carried a kind of national pride and self-confidence from the bottom of their hearts. It is this kind of pride and confidence in our bones that has allowed us to stand up again after a hundred years of suffering. And Aqiu, when the whole country was fighting against the "epidemic", said those four dazzling words that had long been forgotten by the Chinese people in a vague manner. There is no great person in the world who is not confident, and there is no great nation in the world who is not confident. In the hearts of unconfident people, the "sick man of East Asia" is never far away; in the hearts of confident people, the "sick man of East Asia" is never far away.