Lululemon hits the Great Wall with Zhu Yilong for ‘proud Chinese heritage’ yoga…
Only to get canceled over a Jiegu drum — the ancient Tang Dynasty Chinese percussion instrument that was passed to Japan and evolved into modern Taiko.
Just like Kimono is an evolved version of Hanfu, this is shared East Asian roots, not ‘insult.’
Yet hyper-sensitivity turns celebration into apology, deletions, and ‘lack of knowledge’ mea culpas.
When anti-Japanese hatred runs so deep that Chinese netizens erase their own Tang-era heritage on China’s landmark…
Are we heading for Cultural Revolution 2.0?
Or just watching nationalism devour history itself? Is it another Marxist conspiracy to erase actual Chinese culture?