Free Lectures" Shen Boyang quoted "The Great Harmony of Liyun" in his debate and was ridiculed by Ye Yuanzhi

Shen Boyang ended the Taipei Mayor's Debate by quoting "The Great Harmony of Liyun", but Ye Yuanzhi actually ridiculed it on a political commentary program. Did the Kuomintang forget that "The Great Harmony" was a classic held high by Dr. Sun Yat-sen?

At the Taipei mayoral debate, Shen Boyang (left) ended by quoting "The Great Harmony of Rites and Luck", and Kuomintang legislator Ye Yuanzhi (right) actually ridiculed it on a political commentary program. (File photo, synthesized by this newspaper)

Perhaps there is no need to be too surprised: from the time when the Kuomintang first took over Taiwan and cursed the Taiwanese as "Japanese slaves" to now accusing the Taiwanese of resisting Hong Kong reunification because of the "imperial poison"... they have all been destroying Mr. Sun's other ideological legacy: Friendship with Japan.

Sun Yat-sen had many Japanese friends who supported him: Takeshi Inukai, Mitsuru Toyama, Nagatomo Kawano, Toten Miyazaki... Even among the martyrs who died in the Huizhou Uprising, Yoshimasa Yamada was included. Sun Wen also negotiated with Gentaro Kodama and Shinpei Goto to use Japanese-controlled Taiwan as a base for the anti-Qing revolution, on the condition that after the Manchu Qing was overthrown, Xiamen would also return to Japanese rule. However, the cautious Ito Hirobumi blocked the proposal. Sun Yat-sen and Miyazaki Toten also joined forces to support the Philippine War of Independence (Buhiki Maru Incident).

I bring up these histories not to get Sun Wen to endorse labels such as "Great Japanese Empire", "Imperial People", "Independence Sect", etc., but to say: The reason why Mr. Sun is close to Japan, which has been successful in the reform, is because the ultimate goal of the revolutionary cause is obviously "not wanting China to be ruled by a decadent regime" and "Asians no longer be looked down upon", rather than "everywhere must be a sacred and indivisible part of China."

But now, the CCP is far more corrupt and brutal than the Qing Dynasty, and its international image is extremely poor. It has repeatedly caused Asians to be cast into the image of the "sick man of the new coronavirus". The Kuomintang hates the friendship between Taiwan and Japan, but it bows its knees to the CCP, conciliates its hatred of Japan and engages in united front against Taiwan. No wonder, they only put "Zhongshan" and "Datong" with many road names, school names, place names... If a real user of "Liyun Datong Chapter" appears in front of them, he is ignored or even despised by them.

It turns out that "Sun Yat-sen" to the Kuomintang is not a set of spiritual heritage, but a living voodoo corpse: a body with no body, no soul left, and at the mercy of its spells!

It turns out that to the Kuomintang, "Sun Yat-sen" is not a set of spiritual heritage, but a living voodoo corpse. (File photo)

(The author is a master of history from Tsinghua University and a middle school history teacher)