【Historical Live Broadcast】Watching videos and being seen by our ancestors

[American-style terrifying mother: alcoholism, drug abuse, and rent arrears]

[A Japanese-style horror mother: To fulfill her husband's last wish...]

[A Chinese-style terrifying mother: XX, Mom loves you, everything Mom does is for you, XX]

"The tone of a Chinese-style terrifying mother isn't that bad!"

Shouldn't it be: How much I've sacrificed for this family! I've scrimped and saved to give you the best of everything, and I've even quit my job to stay home and take care of you.

What about you! How can you get such a low score? You're bad at English, you can't even do math, what else can you do?!

I must have been blind to marry such a good-for-nothing as your father! If only you were like one of our relatives' kids! You'd bring me so much honor! Now I don't even dare to look up when I go out, afraid people will ask about your grades, how can I face them? (Starts crying) It's too shameful to even talk about it. (Continues to cry loudly) I'd rather be dead. (Hits and curses)

Then after a while, they acted like nothing had happened and called you to eat.

"The Chinese approach is one of moral blackmail. Even if you do something, you won't be praised, as if praising your own child is incredibly difficult."

"Chinese-style horror is like a combination of sugar and whip, sugar and whip. From a young age, you are praised as the hope of the whole family, then you are belittled and beaten. After you vent your anger and feel good, you are called over to apologize, saying, 'Baby, Mommy was wrong, Mommy will never hit you again.' Then the next time it's 'I've been giving you too much kindness every day,' followed by some benefit. This raises children who want to escape but also fantasize that real love still exists. They want to rebel but are afraid of being hurt."

"The sentence I least want to hear is, 'What will you do when you go to your in-laws' house like this? Or will you be the same when you go to your mother-in-law's house?' [laughing and crying emoji]"

"Chinese horror is something you only truly understand by experiencing it firsthand. My mom was superstitious and had her fortune told for me [goodbye]. Superstition itself isn't the problem, but the feeling of forcibly imposing one's own superstition on others—"

The helplessness I felt, the feeling of being unable to wake her up, is something only those who have experienced it firsthand can truly understand. [Goodbye][Goodbye]

"Korean-style mother: Do you want me to die? I'll die right here in front of you!"

My mom: After you learn to cook, you can cook for others.

Me: I won't learn it, and I won't do it for others. I don't know how.

She: Then you should eat some too.

Me: I won't force myself to do things I don't know how to do. Even if I want to eat something, I'll learn how later.

She: "I can't reason with you."

"Watching a horror movie first thing in the morning [facepalm] is worse than working for free for a year without pay."

Children Under the Sky:

Not only my mother, but my father was the same way; he always liked to lecture me.

When I was little, he always hugged me and said he loved me. When I grew up, he gave me everything, even the family business.

But as I grew up, they intensified their suppression and insults, even comparing me to other children, and treating me with increasing indifference day by day.

My mother usually cares for me very much. My nanny said that before my mother got married, she was the little tyrant in the family. However, the first clothes I wore when I was a child were knitted by her. When I was sick, she was the one who fed me medicine and kept watch over me when I hurt my hand while learning to make medicine for the first time.

Yet this same person who treated me so gently would unconsciously start to insult and belittle me once I fell short of my father's other children.

They say I'm so stupid and clumsy, always inferior to other people's children, and sometimes even say what's the use of having me, since I can't win my father's favor.

Of course, I can take all of this as you doing it because you love me.

You said: Yan Yan, your mother's greatest hope in this life is you.

Yan Yan, you are the eldest son in the family. You must never let your father and me down.

Yan Yan, Mom loves you. You're the only one I have in this life.

Yan Yan, your mother is willing to do anything for your future.

However, you didn't treat Qingdi the same way in the following years. You loved him much more than you loved me, and you never asked him to do anything. Even if he was a complete mess in his studies, you would just laugh and scold him a few times to speak up for him.

Why? We were all born of the same father and mother, so why am I different?

Mother, are you sure you only have me in this life?