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 devour...
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. 童声合唱:草泥马之歌
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Hey so I am fluent in Chinese but I still didn't get part of this - what's the "river crabs" referring to? The caption says it means "internet censorship" - is that correct? What would be the corresponding Chinese characters?
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lol yea, cause he's a fag. He loves me cause I love killing Tibetans and Uighurs. I'll be glad killing those tibetans this year. Wish me luck. I'll kill at least 1000 this year.
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So which 1 you prefer, you chose ? :)