05.24.08

The Fuwa Doomsday Prophecy

Posted in Olympics, Rumors, The Wenchuan Earthquake at 11:28 by Nator

The silliness continues online as China’s citizens struggle to find an explanation for the horrific earthquake in Sichuan:

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 “kite city” 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.

Also see here for further discussion of the fuwa connection, along with alternate explanations involving numerology and feng shui.

MUL adds: Great theory, but isn’t Nini a sparrow rather than a kite? What does Weifeng have to do with birds?

SHTig adds: Never realized this before, but Yingying is kind of hot.

MUL adds: Do we know if Yingying is male or female?

SHTig adds:  umm, according to this, Yingying is male, and a minor.  I hereby recant my previous statement.  Not that there would have been anything wrong liking a little boy. 

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