Only those who have also experienced boundless darkness are qualified to say, I understand you.

Our country is a weak country with a lot of national humiliation. We don’t want to go out and look up to others and be second-class citizens.

We come from the quagmire, we are eager for power, we are full of ambition, we are strong and calm, we are elegant and self-sufficient, we never regret, we are Slytherin.

This kind of nationalism is what scholar Liu Qing calls "revenge nationalism." It comes from a series of "national humiliations" and traumatic memories. It is the countless pains over the past century that have shaped the belief that "China must be strong." "The driving force for national cohesion, its most concrete daily manifestation is the Chinese people love to talk about "China will no longer let people bully", and they keep nagging about "bully" and "being bullied". It’s because there are too many traumatic experiences in the collective memory of today’s Chinese society that cannot be dissipated, lingering for life like the shadow of injured childhood memories. How can we have a healthy and peaceful mentality when we are always tortured by such nightmares?