In early June, a video of a Chinese woman who stripped naked in front of a court house to protest the judge’s decision became viral in social media. Some people who witness her naked protest tried to cover her body, but she refused.
How she reacted is the opposite of what another woman in Jihan did on Tuesday in response to the chivalry shown by two male strangers who saw her walking nude on the streets of Shandong Province. Daily Mail reported that the two took off their clothes and covered the woman to spare her from shame.
One of the men is seen stopping his motorcycle on seeing the clothes-less woman and taking his shirt off. He then crossed the street and covered her, returned to his motorcycle, put on his white coat and drove away.
The other man helped her wear the shirt the first man gave her. After the charitable act, while other Jihan residents just passed by and gave the woman a quick glance, the woman is seen wearing a white top and a pink lower garment which is either a shorts or skirt.
Although in many cities around the world, walking on streets nude is unacceptable behavior – except in nudist colonies and beaches – China is particular against public display of the naked body. Historyandheadlines noted that since the days of Confucius, even in art, nudity was considered immoral in China and strictly banned.
As a result, even doctors could not look on the unclothed bodies of their female patients for treatment. When examining a woman, the doctor used an ivory sculpture of a naked woman as diagnostic tool which the patient pointed to the body part in pain.
But in 1918, Liu Haisu, a famous Chinese painter, conducted a nude-model drawing course at an art school in Shanghai which angered Chinese.