Hello, everyone; welcome to Ying’s channel. Today, I am going to talk about an unfortunate event. On January 27, 2022, a video about a woman chained in a cold, crappy room with thin clothes in the winter in Xuzhou, China, has spread online inside and outside of the country, leading to hot discussion and concerns. Even though the Chinese government requires all its social media to report the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, this poor woman’s suffering overrides the Olympic Games. It stays a hot topic that forces the local government to make four investigation reports. Still, netizens don’t buy them because they are not reasonable. At last, the province has to form an investigating team to examine this event.

Why is this event so important to Chinese people, especially when all social media are shut up and all movie stars, writers, artists, and professors stay quiet? Why doesn’t it die out like the other hot topics but grow hotter and hotter online? There are two reasons.

First, it destroys many mid-class people’s confidence in living in a beautiful and peaceful environment. Because this chained woman once was a pretty girl and elementary school student. At 12, she was kidnapped and sold to many men. They raped and tortured her. They hammered off all her teeth, cut off her tongue tip, and damaged her vocal cords to avoid her resistance. When a journalist found her, she had been locked as a madwoman by a poor, uneducated farmer and forced to give birth to at least eight children. This news shocked women and men who realized their daughters, sisters, and mothers could meet the same tragedy. This event is related to people’s daily life and threatens their safety. The knowledge that there are cruel things that happen in poor places wakes them up and, at the same time, worries them.

Second, like I, some people have a chance to read a direct report from YouTube or Twitter that people inside China cannot reach. We now know that a single evil man cannot chain the woman for over 20 years without the help of other villagers and local government officers. That’s why the local government keeps lying to the public. Then we must rethink what we have learned about our country in the past, and then we realize we were brainwashed by the government, which told lies about many things. We feel disappointed and angry and try to adjust our views about the world, people, and life.

The fifth, maybe the final, investigation report was published on February 22. People still don’t believe in it because many questions aren’t explained or have no solid evidence to support them; some explanations are fake and twisted. Some people trust the government because their knowledge about the world is narrowed, and they are brainwashed that the government must be right. People abroad who have access to open news and knowledge worry about those who lose the ability to distinguish right from wrong.

We go through doubting and adjusting our old knowledge system by accessing new channels and hearing different opinions. We worry about people who couldn’t reach new knowledge and thus have no discriminability.