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“Worshiping Cats” Hidden in Design of Chinese 100 RMB Bill

by on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 58 comments comments

Mao Zedong on the face of the 100 RMB cash note.

From iFeng:

“Worshiping cats” hidden in 100 RMB bill, expert says its just an anti-counterfeiting design

Netizens’ intelligence is limitless. Recently, a netizen suggested that a design on the 100 yuan RMB cash note looked like “worshiping cats” and attached an image to demonstrate it, immediately attracting the internet’s attention. With regards to this “prostrating cats” design, experts say the hundred yuan RMB note design is a very serious/solemn matter, that the designs are related to anti-counterfeiting measures, and that the appearance of certain images may be a result of overimaginative netizens.

Worshiping cats, prostrating cats, and kneeling cats found in the intricate anti-counterfeiting designs of China's 100 RMB cash note.

The alleged hidden image looks like 3 cats, with 2 cats worshiping, prostrating, or kneeling before a third cat in the middle with its arms raised.

Worshiping cats, prostrating cats, and kneeling cats found in the intricate anti-counterfeiting designs of China's 100 RMB cash note.

Comments from Sina Weibo:

虞燮嘉：

Must’ve been discovered by someone who is crazy about money. [哈哈]

Ameyhyst：

It’s true! The designer’s heart is still that of a child.

眉间尺Samul-帝麦创意：

Who was the print designer that was this niubi, risking his life to print “mao worship” on money? National hero…

伤—恋：

Wow, its real, I just looked closely, haha, the designer likes cats.

伦耀萍Yaosfavour：

Everyone hurry and look, it’s really there!! So mysterious!

汐尛奈：

The designer is crying: Finally someone discovered it. [偷笑][偷笑] However, I admit I was startled by it. [吃惊][吃惊]

ZS_ONEPIECE：

I bet the designer intentionally did this, his goal being to avoid receiving counterfeit money himself.

三六一没有度：

I want to say this may be a conspiracy. Because it is kneeling before a cat, and cat [猫 mao] sounds like Grandpa Mao’s “Mao”.

陶金RCO：

Saw it before, niu~

涟漪Alice：

The one hundred kuai bill is so cute. [花心]

  • Adam

    There’s a cat on my sofa!

  • Appalled@everything

    Too weird. Someone actually looked that deeply..?

  • jiayi

    Our money sure is gay.

  • 山炮 ShanPao

    I like it when you bend american dollar bills and see the twin towers burning on one side and the pentagon smoking on the other. Not to mention the pyramid masonic symbol too. Yawn. Look on a south African rand and you’ll find Jacob Zuma’s fat fucking face letting out a smile whilst he rapes his mother… fuck worshipping cats.

    • E Puff

      that’s right. you have the eagle clutching arrows on the american dollar, which represents conquering native american (indians), and the tiny eyeball peeking off the side, you have the eye of osiris and many other secret symbols.

      • 山炮 ShanPao

        chill out.

  • Gay Azn Boi

    I find Chinese paper money REALLY ugly…

    Canada, where I’m from, just came out with new plastic “see-through” $100 bills. So cool!

    • blake

      yeah my step bro was totally refusing to spend his cause he liked it so much XD

    • 平凡人

      See through plastic has been around in other countries for a while already.

      • White Thrash

        i don’t think it’s paper but rather cotton…
        I saw plastic money in Australia as well, very convenient when you go for a swim :p

        • mr. weiner

          On the old Australian $1 bill if you folded it right on the queens neck where she was wearing pearls it looked like someone getting head…ahh I things I used to do when was stoned.

      • Pete of Perth

        Plastic polymer notes developed in Oz, we where the 1st country to have all notes plastic.

    • Ryo

      Hong Kong had that years ago. It’s on the $10 bill though.

  • brotherrivercrab

    I am waiting for Nicolas Cage to tell me what it means.

    • 平凡人

      Try Harrison Ford, he can consult Sean Connery if he is not sure.

    • dim mak

      National Treasure is an awful movie and you should feel bad

    • Justin

      Have you ever seen the back of a 100-yuan note….on weed?

      • B

        “there’s this little guy, hiding in the bushes! does he have a gun ? i don’t know! red team – go!”

  • opinionator

    anti-counterfeiting design? over-imaginative citizens?
    it just is what it is surely; a design on the note brought to your attention by some nothing better to do, should get out more, attention seeking kinda guy that you would never have looked for in a 100 years unless bored witless.
    Although I’m sure the trolls will be able to bring anti Chinese sentiment and racism into this topic as they do with everything else here.

    • Anon

      Fucking Mao and his Cultural Revolution denying people education so that that they don’t know how to educate and raise their one-child-policy single Little Emperors so they grow up as totally useless mouthbreathers with nothing to do but see cat-gods in money.

      …Eh, no, I just can’t make it work. Perhaps Coala Banana can take a crack at it. I say all hail crazy Chinese cat-god.

      • mr. weiner

        Honjian could spit the right amounts of bile ,bit I think she likes Mao too much. Capt Wed. could do it ,but he’d have be in his PMT persona. Greg Miles would do it if we told him it was a painting by White Phospherous.
        All kowtow unto Mao.

  • Ben

    In the last picture If you look between the legs the cat standing in the middle, you can see his harbls…….

    LOL! That cat’s got balls man……

    • lonetrey

      wow, that’s some extreme details. Near impossible to see on the real thing probably

  • Cat Lover

    It’s a parody of the “cult of personality”. All worship Mao.. the cat of course…

  • Robert from Sweden

    Sounds like a story originating from the same kind of people who see Jesus in their breakfast cereal, and underwater bases in lakes on satellite photos. There has to be something better to report on from a country like China than this.

  • Meniskos

    It appears that Americans are not the only ones who look for secret messages and graphic images on their money. I also noticed that Mao Zedong’s magic chin bump is not always the same as it is in this picture of the 100 RMB bill. Elsewhere it is in slightly different positions, or even absent.

    • coala banana

      yeah, and in reality he had EXTREMELY rotten black teeth ! But in all the pictures and drawings they show him with perfect blanc white teeth. He was a chain smoking xxxxx and enjoyed the presence of nice young girls too. Kinda like the common chinese male now a days. They all seem trying to copy him. Thats the thing i don’t understand about the chinese, even when they have money and get rich, they don’t give a shit about their teeth and hygiene. It obviously isn’t a money problem, but a priority question.

      • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

        Who needs teeth? Besides all the many similarities between Chinese and hip-hop that has created a mutual culture of gold fillings, when you’re rich you can buy a blender to puree your food. Or pay someone to chew your food for you.

        • White Thrash

          A tiger never brushes his teeth ! :D

          • staylost

            He also gets shot just for walking around.

      • http://youhaeseriousissues.com Capt. WED

        in some circles Mao is nothing but a peasant king, a continuation of feudalism with Chinese style communist characteristics. Nothing wrong with Chinese migrant and farmers though because they are the backbone of the economy.

      • DRaY

        Enough about the fucking “teeth and hygiene”, Get over it for FUCK’s sake… China is all about piss, shit, fart, belch, bad teeth, corruption, hookers, hairy pussy, eating dog, cats and beating kids with shit… We all know this shit by now.. no need to repeat it!!!! No one is complaining when they are making money out this dirty Fucking place, so enjoy what it is and shut the fuck up!!!!! They only way China will be clean in your lifetime is if someone kicks out all the Chinese people, and that shit isn’t happening…… .. I’m done… SORRY

        • staylost

          Some kids are starting to take care of their teeth now, though. So I just have to outlive the nasty teeth generations.

          Nope…

          Still too many poor oral hygiene progeny.

          • mr. weiner

            Not to mention parents cramming too much medicine down their kids throats at the first sign of so much as a sniffle. Gives them teeth like chalk.I’ve seen 5 year olds with teeth like Berlin after the bombing.

  • http://www.proxyforchina.com/ Rod

    Any word from the officials?

    • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

      It looks like they’ll need a sample to verify.
      To be given in a red envelope.

    • whichone

      Politburo declares “猫主席/Chairman Meow” works well in both languages.

      • donscarletti

        What you said is still pronounced Chairman Mao, just with a different tone. What I think you meant was 喵主席: Chairman Miao, pronunciation is the same as meow and means the sound cats make.

  • typingfromwork

    That is pretty good. It actually look like the some pretty well designed cartoon cats.

    In other news the two ovals behind Mao are supposed to be a hidden feature that makes the eternal Sun of the East look like he’s got Chun Li hair buns.

  • http://youhaeseriousissues.com Capt. WED
  • http://www.qq.com/1325279774 Kedafu

    Song of the Article

    I have yet to see this new bill, I am on the hunt for it, I live in China, most of you do not…..

    Song of the Article

    Money
    -Pink Floyd

    http://video.sina.com.cn/v/b/17584474-1235699144.html

    Always a classic….

    wumaodang

    • staylost

      It is on every yi bai bill out there. What do you mean look for it?

      Are you insinuating you are so rich you’ve never even seen such a small denomination of cash during your time in China?

      How rude.

      • Justin

        Actually denominations of cash don’t get any bigger in China, duh. That’s why every farmer and merchant owns bill-counting machines: to count monumental stacks of pink Mao pictures

    • mankouzanghua

      chuan yue ge, what decade did you come from?

  • cc

    What’s weird about that? If your going into the counterfieting game you need to look closely

  • slimboyinhk

    Nice laugh.

  • hooots

    I gotta admit, looking at the hundos in my pocket, it really does look like what they are saying. Pretty funny.

  • Miki

    Nice pun, isn’t it?

  • bscalled

    Maybe it has something to do with what Deng said, about not mattering “whether the cat is black or white as long as it catches mouse is a good cat”, which ultimately ushered their way into a capitalist economy. Many thanks to that “cat”, and so fittingly gets a credit on the most appropriate note.

  • B

    Everytime I see that 100 bill i can’t help saying.. mooooooleee, lets cut it off and make some gaucamole!.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvxe04wGmTw&feature=related

  • Ryo

    What has been seen cannot be unseen.

    • Bunny99

      and if you crack the hidden code – don’t call that phone number!

  • Pong Lenis

    I want to see it too! Please send me a few samples!

  • Pong Lenis

    Have you ever looked close at a US$ note? It’s pure beauty!

    http://www.drunk-fu.com/money/xxx/xxx/files/page16_1.jpg

  • KaKa

    i had a number 2 yesterday that looked like jesus… going to show that if you really want to see something you will find…

  • Daniel Gershon

    山炮 ShanPao , you are probably a Dutchman. “Afrikaner” Rockspider. What the hell are you doing in China? Go back to your own country you Phucked up!

  • Pierre

    Mao actually killed 30 millions people, who is enough stupid to put him on a bill ?

    He’s not much different from Hitler or Staline

  • 2300548590.qq

    great findings :)

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