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Grass-Mud Horse: the Movie (Cao Ne Ma)

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According to the New York Times, "The Grass-Mud Horse" is a mythical creature whose name in Chinese sounds like "fuck your mother". These horses face a problem: invading river crabs that are devouring their grassland. In spoken Chinese, river crab sounds very much like harmony, which in Chinas cyberspace has become a synonym for censorship. Censored bloggers often say their posts have been harmonized — a term directly derived from President Hu Jintaos regular exhortations for Chinese citizens to create a harmonious society.

While grass-mud horse sounds like a nasty curse in Chinese, its written Chinese characters are completely different, and its meaning —taken literally — is benign. Thus, the beast has dodged the Chinese governments efforts to censor information over the Internet that is seditious or inflammatory.

Xiao Qiang, an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, said that the grass-mud horse is an icon of resistance to censorship.
草泥马之歌

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  • this video is illegal in china.

  • They are Alpacas, and Vicuñas from the Andes of Peru. Vicuña is the national animal who has the most expensive skin to make close. So they shave them in a special date so they dont kill them. so the can be save. In some of the Andes the eat Alpaca meat, it is a native animal from there.

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  • .......this song is now a er ge??

    cao

  • Liu Xia, the wife of the jailed Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, has been held incommunicado since October. And this month, a United States rights group released a letter by the wife of a lawyer, Chen Guangcheng, who is blind, that described the beatings the couple suffered during months of forced confinement in their rural village.

  • The DSA8 HERO OF THE DAY AWARD (-:2nd TIM 1:7:-) GOES TO YOU>>>>>THE MUD GRASS HORSEs:-) with Lion Hearts (9/21/2010) 1:31AM

  • The grass mud horse is the source of the self-paving road.

  • 圣兽

  • IS MY NATIONAL ANIMAL :(

  • They look awfully like Llamas

  • 香港草泥馬已有6個版本: (copy & paste below)

    Hongkong 6 versions of Grass Mud Horse:

    =3W5kdHWJW-4

    影片上有連結 (Click Link on Video)

    歡迎朝尼族錄唱及上傳視頻! (All are welcome to sing and upload their videos)

  • Cao ni ma

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