[Fòram Elite]The Halloween war will continue after the move of the White Paper |

[The Epoch Times, 01 Samhain, 2024]In the last decade or so, the Chinese Communist Party has launched a campaign against Western festivals, including Christmas, Easter and several other Western festivals. However, in the last two years, young people in some large cities in China have started celebrating Western Halloween, making the authorities very vigilant and even sending them in custody Why is the CCP afraid to celebrate Halloween? Why do young Chinese people want to celebrate Halloween?

People used Halloween to express their dissatisfaction with the authorities and arrest people

Independent TV producer Li Jun said in NTDTV’s “Elite Forum” program that the Shanghai authorities on Halloween are facing a terrible enemy. Witnesses at the scene said that on the evening of October 25, at least six “dressed people” appeared in Shanghai’s Zhongshan Park and were taken away by the police. On the evening of the 26th, “dressed people” were still playing in the park. By the 27th, the police had no choice but to directly close Zhongshan Park. At this time, it is not clear how many people have been arrested. The Shanghai police will strictly control the areas of the city as long as people wearing masks or make-up appear in these areas, they will leave or ask you to remove your make-up on the spot. One netizen said that when he went out for a walk on the evening of the 27th, there were police officers everywhere on the street. My 6 year old was wearing a hat with a pirate logo on it and he was asked to take it off and was not allowed to wear it.

Li Jun said that the Shanghai police were so worried because of the activities organized by the people on Halloween in 2023. At that time, many people dressed up in different styles to show their displeasure. Some of them had surveillance camera models on them, indicating that they were being monitored; some of them wore full protective suits to show their dissatisfaction with the authorities’ emergency control policies; some of them dress up like the Statue of Liberty and shout “I want freedom”; up like Winnie the Pooh and dance; There are also people who dress up like emperors and go on tours, and they suspected of mocking the leader of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping. There are also people whose bodies are covered in white paper, recalling the “White Paper Movement.”

The White Paper movement was held on November 26, 2022. Students from Nanjing University of Communication held a white paper in their hands in memory of the victims of the Urumqi fire. Large-scale opposition to the CCP’s zero tolerance policy broke out into demonstrations and chanted slogans such as “Step Down from the Communist Party.”

Li Jun said that Shanghai stopped the Halloween activities this time and arrested all the young people, which attracted attention from the outside world. Some analysts say that today’s young people are very confident, they are not afraid of the CCP, and they are very smart. China’s “White Paper Movement” may have awakened a group of young Chinese people.

Li Jun said that the overall atmosphere elsewhere in the mainland is much better than in Shanghai, but the police are also very concerned about cross-dressing gatherings of people in some downtown areas. On the evening of the 27th, Halloween was held on North Zhongshan Road in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Netizens said that tens of thousands of people attended and the atmosphere was very lively. Another local in Guangzhou, in Guangzhou Dongshankou Pedestrian Street, said some cross-dressers were asked to take off their clothes on the spot and were asked to hand over toy guns. According to online news, Nanjing originally planned to hold a Halloween event, but it was canceled. Officials said that things that had a negative impact on Halloween in Shanghai attracted Nanjing’s attention, so the activities were canceled.

Hu Liren, a Shanghai entrepreneur who lives in the United States, said in the “Elite Forum” that the Shanghai government is so worried about Halloween I think there are two reasons. Once I experienced something very scary. On New Year’s Eve 2014, a very bad stamp happened on the Bund in Shanghai. Officials said 36 people were trampled to death and 49 injured. I think this is a very important factor. The second reason is that among foreign festivals, Halloween is the easiest way to satirize this society and this government. Everyone can wear makeup and cross-dress, inspiring people’s endless imagination.

Guo Jun, editor-in-chief of the Chinese Epoch Times, said in the Elite Forum that there are many theories about the origin of Halloween, but basically it is said that this festival came from the traditions of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland. The Celts were the indigenous people in Northern Ireland who were not conquered by the Romans. Of course, historians believe that today was the end of summer, the last day of summer. After harvesting food in agricultural societies, there are various festivals, such as the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival and the Double Ninth Festival. Later, to fight Halloween, the Catholic Church created its own All Souls Day, which celebrates those who died and contributed to the church. So in South America, many countries also have All Souls Day. Today’s Halloween was created by Americans Because there are many British and Irish immigrants in the United States, this holiday has become a secular holiday that competes with Catholicism. . In the United States, this day eventually became a holiday for children and teenagers, where they would trick or treat without giving them candy, and the adults would pretend they were scared, and the children would be happy.

The aftermath of the Halloween war will follow the “White Paper Movement”.

Hu Liren said in the “Elite Forum” that young people in China are also very dissatisfied with reality. Many people of our generation, or of the generation above us, have given up the sense of so-called political participation. But young people are different. The COVID-19 outbreak in China has inspired young people. Therefore, young people want to participate in politics but they cannot, and they are helpless in the face of reality. Many people have deep views, especially those who read books and understand history, and that is why the pioneers of the “White Paper Movement” appeared With these leaders, everyone responded in immediately and they began to participate.

Shi Shan, senior editor and chief writer of The Epoch Times, said in the “Elite Forum” that a large number of young people in China may be encouraged to lose progress and the most important thing is that they cannot I hope to see. But there is another group of young people in Shanghai who, after the “White Paper Movement”, used Halloween to express their wishes. In the past two years, the conflict that started on Halloween in mainland China is no longer a conflict between Chinese and Western cultures. We grew up at the end of the Cultural Revolution, and there was no hope at that time. However, when the environment changed after the 1980s, this group of young people was the most aggressive and creative in China. From the conflict between the government and the people on Halloween, we can see that the internal movement of the entire Chinese nation is still there.

Li Jun said in the “Elite Forum” that the conflict between the government and the people has become more and more intense, and now the nerves of the CCP are very tense. Looking back on 2024 to today, there has been a big change from the previous years. This year, various extreme events almost exploded. For example: a special police officer in Hunan shot the public security chief to death; a Hunan female finance director was thrown from the 13th floor to her death, etc. Several incidents of killing and wounding of foreigners occurred one after the other, including the killing of Japanese children. There are more and more extreme things like this, and conflicts are growing more and more.

Shi Shan said in the “Elite Forum” that Beijing also fell at Zhongguancun No. 3 Primary School in Haidian District, one of the main primary schools in the city, someone stabbed five people with a knife. That is a place where the children of high officials gather. There will probably be more and more things like this in the future.

Guo Jun said in the “Elite Forum” that the conflict between the government and the people is getting worse, especially among young people, who are increasingly violent. There are two main reasons. One is that people are dissatisfied because of the economic downturn; the other is that the Chinese Communist Party has strengthened social control in recent years and people’s freedoms have disappeared. Many people say that the economy was not in good shape before the Cultural Revolution and that they did not see many people resisting. This is not true. There were many struggles in the past, but the CCP never reported it and suppressed the news, so no one knew about it.

For example, during the three-year famine, many armed riots occurred in mainland China, and these things were prevented. The other thing we call going from luxury to simplicity is the real situation in China and the world, so the authorities are less likely to bluff. Today, people’s dissatisfaction is expressed and expressed in different ways. Without Halloween as an opportunity, there are other opportunities. For example, when the Romanian Communist Party collapsed, even rallies organized by the authorities would become a source of inspiration for demonstrations and protests.

Guo Jun said that many young people in Shanghai were very creative on Halloween last year. Because the activities of young people spread very quickly, reporting everywhere will be a trend. So I believe that young Chinese people will be spending Halloween on Halloween for many years to come, fighting witchcraft and courage with the Chinese Communist authorities.

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