The children in China in the illustration have strange eyes, sticking out tongues, exposed genitals, open-backed pants and chest attacks. It's hard to imagine that this is an illustration in the elementary school mathematics textbook published by People's Education Press.
After the illustration incident of primary school textbooks caused a heated discussion on the Internet, the party Wu Yong just disappeared. Not only disappeared on the internet, but also there was no news of him in real life.
Fermentation process of events
On May 22, 2022, some netizens complained that the illustrations in the primary school textbooks were too strange, which did not conform to the aesthetics of Chinese people at all, giving people a creepy feeling.
From May 22 to May 26, 2022, this incident caused most parents to scream on the Internet and pointed out that it was a potential cultural infiltration.
On May 27th, 2022, the Beijing Internet Court said that there was no such unit as Wu Yong Studio.
On May 27th, 2022, People's Education Publishing House responded by rewriting the illustrations, which caused dissatisfaction among netizens. I hope to investigate this matter in depth.
On May 28th, 2022, Hong Huang, a senior fashionista, responded that parents' aesthetic and ideological problems had nothing to do with Wu Yong's illustrations and others.
On May 29th, 2022, the daily newspaper commented on People's Education Publishing House in Weibo, saying that we should not act too hastily and start a thorough investigation.
Artists can express their artistic style and feelings, but textbooks and paintings can't provide such a platform. They are not simple works of art, but artistic materials, which need to conform to the public aesthetic cognition and public order and good customs. And judging from the comments of some experts, they try to push the responsibility to the technical and artistic level. Some even offered to excuse Wu Yong. For example, as a painter, it is unreasonable to look at this matter. Even if he saves his heart, how can he be ugly and black? After all, what style and level of illustrations are used in the textbook is not his decision.
He only needs to meet Party A's requirements, meet Party A's expectations, get Party A's approval, and then pay off the money and goods before he can leave the hospital.
But there is also a problem here.
The design of children's image can be said to be a design style, but the vulgar and implicit pictures in illustrations are intentional?
The funniest thing is that Wu Yong doesn't think there is anything wrong with what he has done. Even in an interview, he thought there was something wrong with our genes, and we were still far from civilization.
China has been civilized for thousands of years. When our ancestors were advanced in civilization, Europe was still in a period of barbarism, chaos and darkness, and the United States had not yet been born. The industrial revolution in Europe began to enter modern civilization in the18th century, and the United States was born at that time. In just a few hundred years, they became civilized? We are primitive, and our genes are poor.
I can't stand up on my knees for a long time, and I don't have any national confidence. How did such a person get to this point? His studio doesn't exist. How many benefits are there behind this?
People like Wu Yong have ideological problems. I agree that some feedback to China people is reasonable, but we can't generalize. Besides, how can we be uncivilized? Civilization will vary from person to person. After all, individuals have their own particularities. Haven't foreign countries been negatively feedback? Is there no problem abroad? Why do you demean yourself from China?
Most importantly, how can you choose someone like Wu Yong to draw illustrations for your children? What good works can a spineless person make?
At present, the authoritative answer to how to deal with the illustration incident of primary school textbooks is the Ministry of Education, which responds to the illustration problem of primary school textbooks published by People's Education Publishing House: instructing rectification and comprehensive investigation.
First of all, of course, it is necessary to rectify the teaching materials as soon as possible. At the same time, the Propaganda Department and the Ministry of Culture of the Communist Party of China should strictly review and rectify all reading and game contents involving primary and secondary school students. The news that broke out on the Internet has already surpassed the teaching talents of the school. We see that the picture of "licking sweat" on the Internet is a children's book somewhere, and there is an explanation of "playing with women" in Xinhua dictionary.
Second, conduct a comprehensive investigation and evidence collection for the personnel related to the incident as soon as possible. Now everyone knows that this is not something that one person can accomplish, and it is unreasonable to use work mistakes as a cover. No matter who they are, they should be arrested and the law should be enforced.
Torsion system. Education can no longer be commercialized. There have been huge problems in the commercialization of medical care, and the commercialization of our education must also come to a halt. From the operational level, this bad illustration textbook incident is actually the result of introducing business principles into China education, and it is also the result that basic education involves the great cause of the future. If this problem is not solved, similar problems will appear in the future.
What problems are reflected behind the illustration event of "People's Education Edition"? Finally, the matter of illustration of primary school mathematics textbooks by People's Education Press, which has attracted much attention, was settled after a report by the Ministry of Education.
Book-related persons in charge, including several persons in charge of People's Education Publishing House, were punished to varying degrees, and Wu Yong, the initiator of the incident, was also disqualified from designing illustrations for teaching materials. It can be said that the result of such treatment is simply gratifying. As a Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts, Wu Yong did not use his heart and kindness to describe the true face of China teenagers. But with some ugly and evil painting styles, let some minors read the evil books they designed. Some netizens said that this punishment is simply not enough for revenge. Some netizens even want to put this designer in prison. Through this incident, we can also feel how much netizens hate this designer.
Every teenager is a flower of the motherland, but this designer let the flowers of the motherland receive those abnormal education from an early age. I believe some children get bored in class and start to study the illustrations in the book. I didn't expect the illustrations in the book to be so ugly and the painting style was not correct. Even the pictures in some students' art books are uncomfortable. If some teenagers in those pictures are learning and even imitate their actions and behaviors after learning, it is likely to make the social atmosphere in our country very terrible.
Many questions that make us think deeply will come out at once. For example, when this illustration was first published, no one objected that it was uncomfortable? Moreover, the new textbook has been published for many years, and now some people think that this painting style is not good. Shouldn't someone have mentioned it earlier? So many things have been planned by people for a long time. Justice will be late, but it will not be absent. I believe that typesetters and illustrators who violate professional ethics will eventually be punished by law.