Simply put, it is counterfeiting and plagiarism.
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[Edit this paragraph] Shanzhai original meaning
"shanzhai" pinyin: shān zhài
"Shanzhai" is also called "Shanzhai".
The English translation of "shanzhai" is a cheap copy.
1, a mountain villa with fences and other fortifications. Biography of "Miscellaneous Notes of the Ruling and Opposition since the Foundation of Yan State": "Wang Yue asked to build a water thatched cottage in front of it, thinking that the court would follow it." The Biography of Yue Fei in the History of Song Dynasty: "The flying finger painting is very large. If it has arrived in Ilo, there will be people around the foothills of Taihang." "The Seventh Anniversary of the Ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty": "Zhang Hongfan, Marshal of the Mongolian Han Army, attacked Zhangzhou and got 150 shanzhai houses, with 1 million households and 1 million households."
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1 refers to poor places, poor stockades and places where poor people live. For example, Stephen Chow's "Kung Fu" in the pig cage city shanzhai. In contrast, it is a mansion, which refers to the place where rich people live.
2. Camps in the mountains occupied by gangsters in the old society. Back to the 51st chapter of The Water Margin: "The scholar Wu said,' The leader of the cottage pays more compliments. This time, I specially invited Wu Yong and Lei Dutou to come and invite them to take the first step up the mountain and get together for justice. "biography of zhong Xiang in Ming dynasty": "there are millions of thieves and refugees ... thieves lurk in the foothills, waiting for opportunities to rob. "
[Edit this paragraph] shanzhai new meaning
"shanzhai": the word "shanzhai" represents those sites where mountains are king, which means they are not under official jurisdiction. "Shanzhai" is a popular subculture phenomenon, which is developed by means of plagiarism, imitation and spoof, anti-authority, anti-mainstream, carnival, deconstruction, anti-intelligence, post-modern representation and so on.
We might as well understand the "shanzhai" as three levels:
It's hard to tell the difference between fake and fake cottage food. 1 "shanzhai product": The first level is its material level. Literally, "shanzhai" means: in shanzhai, escaping from government management, or, in layman's terms, piracy, cloning and imitation. , an industry developed by private IT forces. Its main characteristics are imitation, rapidity and popularity. The main form of expression is to start from a small workshop and quickly imitate well-known brands, involving different fields such as mobile phones and game consoles. Shanzhai products include Shanzhai mobile phones, Shanzhai digital cameras and Shanzhai MP3 players. Most of these products, such as shanzhai mobile phones, imitate the functions and appearances of first-line brands such as Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson, and some even change their brand names to Nokir, Samsing and Suny -Ericcsun to obtain the similarity with the original. Because these mobile phones copy the regular products of mobile phone manufacturers, the research and development costs are saved, and their prices are only one-fifth or even lower than those of regular products. In addition, although its materials and trade unions are inferior, its functions are diverse and its appearance is trendy, which has won the favor of low-end consumers and the scale of the industry has been expanding. On the other hand, there is a "shanzhai net" under the slogan of "promoting domestic strong machines and exchanging shanzhai culture".
2 "shanzhai culture": the second level is the spiritual level, which is a narrow spiritual and cultural phenomenon we understand. Including the social psychology, aesthetic orientation, the emergence of social thoughts and the new value system of the main actors and even the public. This part is the core of the study of "shanzhai culture". At present, the criticism of "shanzhai phenomenon" is based on this. What will Shanzhai bring us? What impact does it have on the current cultural development in China? However, if we look at this "cultural show" deeply and rationally, we must cut in from here. At the end of 2008, the phenomenon of shanzhai caused by shanzhai machine spread to the whole network. Shanzhai stars, Shanzhai Dream of Red Mansions, Shanzhai Lecture Hall, etc. all made no secret of their challenges to elite culture, and then Shanzhai phenomenon unexpectedly boarded CCTV news broadcast. This is the first time that the government has expressed its views on folk phenomena and officially entered the era of the whole people.
3 "Shanzhai Behavior": The third level is the behavior level, which includes various specific ways to deal with the mainstream culture of "Shanzhai Behavior", as well as management institutions and relevant laws and regulations to avoid the intellectual property issues involved in Shanzhai products. The economic structure, political structure and cultural structure of the social system are closely linked, which will affect the whole body. The impact of "shanzhai products" on the current consumer market and the reshuffle of the pluralistic coexistence structure of contemporary culture in China are undoubtedly affecting the development process of China. How to deal with it and how to make it play an active role is an urgent task for stakeholders at all levels.
[Edit this paragraph] The origin of "shanzhai"
The word "shanzhai" does not originate from Guangdong, but from Hong Kong. Like Guangzhou, the capital city of Guangdong, Hong Kong speaks Cantonese.
In Hong Kong, small-scale factories or small family workshops are called "cottage factories", and their products are also ridiculed by Hong Kong people as "cottage goods". In Cantonese, the word "shanzhai" also means "irregular" or "unorthodox".
1950, Li Ka-shing opened a "Changjiang Plastic Factory" in the west of Queen's Road on Hong Kong Island to produce plastic toys and household items. At that time, the scale was also among the "cottage factories".
At the end of 1970s, with the opening of China's foreign exchange, a large number of Cantonese words from Hong Kong, such as "food stall", "trendy" and "tide Geng", flowed into Guangdong and gradually became the daily language in the mainland. The words "shanzhai factory" and "shanzhai goods" were also introduced at that time.
Cantonese people always like ellipsis and skill. Usually a word can be used as both a noun and a verb, so "shanzhai factory" and "shanzhai goods" can also be referred to as "shanzhai" for short.
Because most of the "fake" products produced by "fake factory" are imitation and counterfeit products, "fake" also means "imitation", "imitation" and "fake".
After "shanzhai" became a Chaozhou dialect, it was interpreted by many knowledgeable people. Unfortunately, it didn't mention slang that originated from Cantonese in Hong Kong or came from the log cabin area. The log cabin area is where the poor in Hong Kong live. In the 1970s, Hong Kong's economy took off, and many family-style workshops for manufacturing light industrial products emerged here. Because of the simple wooden houses built on the mountain, Hong Kong people call these workshops "cottage factories". It should be added here that the slang "house" is a derogatory term for business premises in Guangdong, which has nothing to do with the dictionary "fortifications around wooden fences", but has a lot to do with brothels in our old city.
In the Qing Dynasty, the entrance guard of Guangzhou brothels was strict, and there were iron bars at the front and rear exits of the neighborhood. Prostitutes are monitored by the "chicken man" (the "security guard" in the brothel) and are not allowed to go out without the approval of the "proprietress" (the brothel owner). Therefore, Cantonese people call brothels "old residence (prostitute village)", and "village" later became a derogatory business place in Cantonese context.