an interesting article:
Olympic mascots to blame for
disasters?
HONG KONG — Superstitious bloggers
have linked China's earthquake disaster and other recent
misfortunes to the Beijing Olympics' five mascots, a Hong Kong
newspaper reported on Friday.
.
Gossip sites are full of
speculation that four of the five mascots have fulfilled prophesies
of doom with one more, connected to the mighty Yangtze River,
ominously still to come, the South China Morning Post
said.
.
The five Olympic mascots are
Huanhuan, Yingying, Nini, Beibei and Jingjing — a panda, the animal
most closely associated with Sichuan province where the earthquake
struck.
.
Huanhuan, a character with flame
hair, is being linked to the Olympic torch which has been dogged by
fierce anti-China protests on its round-the-world tour. Yingying,
an antelope, is an animal confined to the borders of Tibet which
has been the scene of riots and the cause of international protests
against China. Nini, represented by a kite, is being viewed as a
reference to the "kite city" of Weifang in Shandong province where
China saw a deadly train crash last month.
.
That leaves only Beibei,
represented by a sturgeon fish, which online doomsayers suggest
could indicate a looming disaster in the Yangtze River, the only
place where Chinese sturgeon are found. — dpa HONG KONG —
Superstitious bloggers have linked China's earthquake disaster and
other recent misfortunes to the Beijing Olympics' five mascots, a
Hong Kong newspaper reported on Friday.
.
Gossip sites are full of
speculation that four of the five mascots have fulfilled prophesies
of doom with one more, connected to the mighty Yangtze River,
ominously still to come, the South China Morning Post
said.
.
The five Olympic mascots are
Huanhuan, Yingying, Nini, Beibei and Jingjing — a panda, the animal
most closely associated with Sichuan province where the earthquake
struck.
.
Huanhuan, a character with flame
hair, is being linked to the Olympic torch which has been dogged by
fierce anti-China protests on its round-the-world tour. Yingying,
an antelope, is an animal confined to the borders of Tibet which
has been the scene of riots and the cause of international protests
against China. Nini, represented by a kite, is being viewed as a
reference to the "kite city" of Weifang in Shandong province where
China saw a deadly train crash last month.
.
That leaves only Beibei,
represented by a sturgeon fish, which online doomsayers suggest
could indicate a looming disaster in the Yangtze River, the only
place where Chinese sturgeon are found. — dpa HONG KONG —
Superstitious bloggers have linked China's earthquake disaster and
other recent misfortunes to the Beijing Olympics' five mascots, a
Hong Kong newspaper reported on Friday.
.
Gossip sites are full of
speculation that four of the five mascots have fulfilled prophesies
of doom with one more, connected to the mighty Yangtze River,
ominously still to come, the South China Morning Post
said.
.
The five Olympic mascots are
Huanhuan, Yingying, Nini, Beibei and Jingjing — a panda, the animal
most closely associated with Sichuan province where the earthquake
struck.
.
Huanhuan, a character with flame
hair, is being linked to the Olympic torch which has been dogged by
fierce anti-China protests on its round-the-world tour. Yingying,
an antelope, is an animal confined to the borders of Tibet which
has been the scene of riots and the cause of international protests
against China. Nini, represented by a kite, is being viewed as a
reference to the "kite city" of Weifang in Shandong province where
China saw a deadly train crash last month.
.
That leaves only Beibei,
represented by a sturgeon fish, which online doomsayers suggest
could indicate a looming disaster in the Yangtze River, the only
place where Chinese sturgeon are found. — dpa
