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.

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[mkdark1]

Long live the grass mud horse!

[kondreano maximo]

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

[wininspn]

@yang weiyu, The PRC is one of only a couple of countries in the world that have permanently blocked its citizens from accessing this website. Youtube currently ranks #3 among all websites in the world and in the U.S. in terms of visitor traffic. In Hong Kong, Youtube ranks #6 among all sites (but still #1 among video sites), and in Taiwan it's #5 (again the #1 video site). In the PRC, Youtube is not even among the top 500 websites, but Youku is #13. Check Alexa data.

[wininspn]

1. Fair enough. I accept that this video would be on Youku & Tudou.

2. "1.3 billion people don't have access to Youtube (and have never heard of it)" of course means they live in the People's Republic of China, though surely there are A FEW internet-savvy or privileged people in the PRC accessing Youtube DESPITE the Communist government's blocking of this site.

3. That is good to hear, but the PRC government is still officially Communist; more to the point, it is still very *authoritarian.*

[yang weiyu]

1:This video can be found EVERYWHERE in YouKu and Tudou

2:"1.3 billion people don't have access to Youtube and never heard of it" basicly means "they live on the Mars"

3: PRC now is full of capitalists and I will be glad (and curious) if you find a single Communist in China

[Hill Mitch]

i have big ji ba

[Hill Mitch]

wo cao ni ma sha bi

[wininspn]

6 PRC Communists disliked this video. Meanwhile, about 1.3 billion people in the PRC don't have access to Youtube (and have never heard of it) and have never seen this video.

[Dean Uribe]

He are living well thanks to the Cao Ni Ma.

[MrSodapoop]

[ Content has been removed by the Chinese Government ]

[criminal john]

都是 谐音词 翻译成英语估计大部分都要打上马赛克了