Bad Luck Fuwa?
Olympic Torch, Mascots, Live From Beijing, News May 25th, 2008
Ok, I’ve been calling JingJing a little jerk for a while now, but I don’t actually attribute any real events to his actions. But a friend mentioned the “Fuwa curse” so I had to look it up. The Fuwa curse attributes one bad event to each Fuwa.
Gossip sites are full of speculation that four of the five cartoon mascots have fulfilled prophesies of doom with one more, connected to the Yangtze River, still to come, the South China Morning Post said.
Jingjing, a panda, is the animal most closely associated with Sichuan province where the earthquake struck.
Huanhuan, a cartoon character with flame-red hair, is being linked by bloggers to the Olympic torch that has been dogged by 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, the bloggers say.
Nini, represented by a kite, is being viewed as a reference to the 鈥渒ite city鈥� of Weifang, in Shandong, where there was 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 sturgeon is found.
I don’t believe in this at all, but some of my coworkers do. What do you think?
Via Truth From Facts blog and the Sydney Morning Herald.
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according to many sources, the Yangtze is ripe for a big flood this summer, could the curse be true?
People will come up with omens and conspiracy theories for just about anything. I’ll bet if there were other disasters and negative occurrences in China other than the four mentioned, people would try to attribute those happenings with curses as well.
There’s also a numerology curse theory… if you add the dates of bad events, they all come back to 8. I don’t really believe in that sort of thing though.
I definitely do not believe in such curses.. but i do believe that these are all made up by people who have other intention..political intention perhaps?
how about the post-earthquake floods, under whose threat some 2 million people were evacuated? seems like the work of “beibi beibei”! i am not superstitious, but not many curses have such predictive power. is it over, or will there be a climax?
has heaven repealed its mandate of china’s government?
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/china/crazy-eights-2167.html
a news article that explains all of this “coincidenceS”
The mascots represent elements, Olympic colors, sports, and cuteness. Conspiracy theory is out of whack. They’re cute. Get over it.