Grass-Mud Horse Cartoon and Rap (Cao Ni Ma)

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.

动画版草泥马之歌

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[mkdark1]

Long live the grass mud horse!

[h0652570]

cao ni ma!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!

[MrSodapoop]

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[Criminal110s]

都是 谐音词 翻译成英语估计大部分都要打上马赛克了

[jojsdfsdfsd]

so fucking funny

[zaphraud]

yeah OK 3:16 is bypassing the firewall, right? Or.. what? There's definitely more meaning in that part.

[zaphraud]

What is the red X on the YinGi bank of MiZi river?

Mizi River= BSDi (Wind River) acquired Mizi Research OS?

research/study translates as 研究, the google speech synthesis

Not sure, but that may explain where that came from???

[zaphraud]

I can't help but notice "they all gather around the fire to welcome me" seems to include what may be "spitroast" in a drawing i- was there a spitroasting ?

[zaphraud]

I'd like to know what each of the cartoon characters corresponds to. I have a feeling that there is a lot going on in the cartoon as well - I get that the "H" in the crab is symbolic of Hu, but what is the holstein cow with big lips? The various types of riding people. Also, some of the other letters - JQ is what? The spirit leaving image with the V on each - what are those? What does it say on the hats?

This video is amazing in so many ways.

[caitianlong]

Though I do not approve of the profanity this amounts to, I realize and applaud the spirit of resistance and freedom in it. Plus, the rap's pretty great! hahaha :)