In 2010, a young Chinese man named Yao Jiaxin hit a young woman named Zhang Miao with his car. Noticing her memorizing his license place number and afraid that she would cause him trouble, he took a knife and stabbed her eight times until she died before fleeing. He was later put on trial, convicted, and executed in 2011.

From NetEase:

Family of the victim in the Yao Jiaxin Case demands restitution, gets in fight with lawyer of Yao’s father

February 8th after 11am, Xi’an, Yao Jiaxin victim Zhang Miao’s father Zhang Pingxuan, Zhang Miao’s husband Wang Hui, and lawyer Zhang Xian arrived at Yao Jiaxin’s father Yao Qingwei’s home prepared to demand the 200,000 Yao Qingwei previously offered. In 2011, Yao Jiaxin’s father Yao Qingwei’s offer of 200,000 yuan was refused by Zhang Miao’s family. With regards to this, Yao Qingwei said “the 200,000 was borrowed and has already been returned, and since they already refused it, I have no obligation to give it again.” At the scene, Wang Hui and Yao Jiaxin’s father Yao Qingwei’s representative lawyer got into a fight, and were taken away by police.

February 8th at 11am in the morning, Xi’an, Zhang Miao’s father Zhang Pingxuan, Zhang Miao’s husband Wang Hui, and lawyer Zhang Xian arrived at Yao Jiaxin’s father Yao Qingwei’s home prepared to demand the 200,000 yuan they had previously rejected.

Photo is of February 8th, of Zhang Miao’s relatives waiting downstairs to demand the 200,000 yuan they had previously refused.

Soon, Zhang Xian (front), who had previously remarked on weibo that he wanted to come see the face off, also arrived at the residential complex where Yao Qingwei lives.

Arriving at Yao Qingwei’s home demanding restitution, Yao Qingwei’s lawyer Ma Yanming (right) and Zhang Miao’s husband Wang Hui (left) got into a physical altercation.

Yao Qingwei’s lawyer Ma Yanming (left) tries to convince Zhang Xian (right) to leave the residential complex where the Yao family lives.

Zhang Xian being forcibly taken away from the scene by police.

As Zhang Xian is being taken away by police, he doesn’t forget to wave to the surrounding crowd and media from the patrol vehicle.

After Wang Hui, the husband of the “Yao Jiaxin Case” victim Zhang Miao, was taken away by police, Zhang Miao’s father Zhang Pingxuan was unsuccessful in getting the 200,000 yuan and left Yao Qingwei’s home.

From Youku:

Comments from NetEase:

网易江苏省苏州市网友:

Today I saw on other discussion forums a statement, which I’m reposting here: Finally understand why Yao Jiaxin committed murder at the time, as it is now clear [the victim] was unusually troublesome [demanding and unreasonable, as evidenced by her family].

jakeyhrj [网易四川省成都市网友]:

Wow, first,
I really feel sympathetic with Yao Jiaxin’s father right now.
Zhang Miao’s husband is really inhuman.

巴蜀汉 [网易重庆市网友]:

Totally shameless, they already compensated you guys with a life, and you still come demanding money!

wsfxnzzx [网易宁夏银川市网友]:

Rural people are very troublesome, Eight Stabs [nickname for Yao Jiaxin] was right.

wapty [网易重庆市网友]:

In the face of all this ugliness, I don’t feel like expressing a point of view.

黄石道人 [网易山东省青岛市网友]:

Already demanded a life, now demanding money, that’s just insisting on being shameless!

网易浙江省嘉兴市手机网友:

When someone robs you, they ask, “Do you want your money or your life”. Does the Zhang family not even understand this rule? I can’t watch any further.

网易香港网友:

If someone commits murder, then they must pay with their life, but when that life is given to you, then they have no obligation to give you money, a life for a life.
So you now going to demand money is too shameless.

网易山东省青岛市网友:

The notion of a life for a life needs to be changed. The injury that Yao caused is not as simple as giving a life for a life. This didn’t happen to you, so you will never feel what they feel. If that were the case, then corrupt officials could just give back the money and not have any legal responsibility.

网易江苏省网友 [lhyua8]:

Their son’s life is lost, and you want them to give you money? When they had promised to give money, it was in exchange for their son’s life. Now that their son has been forced to bite the bullet, you want them to give you money?

yishenganyi [网易辽宁省大连市网友]:

They wanted a life and now they want money too. He killed someone, and paid for it with his life, that’s fair. Yao has also served as a warning for everyone. I really don’t know what should be done in the future when encountering this kind of situation.

网易广东省深圳市网友:

Money is truly something people are obsessed with! No matter what, just looking at Zhang Miao’s husband’s big fat waist and Zhang Xian’s mentality of going there to watch the fuss makes me really disgusted!

网易浙江省嘉兴市手机网友:

Yao Eight Stabs, you can rest in peace now. You’ve used your life to prove that [rural people] are troublesome.

网易青海省西宁市网友:

Pay for a life with a life, pay for a debt with money. Yao Jiaxin has already been executed, what else do you want?? When the court was passing judgment, you were so self-righteous. This 200,000 was Yao Jiaxin’s parents trying to use 200,000 to save their son from death. The victim’s family didn’t want the money, only wanted Yao Jiaxin’s life. The rest of us were filled with righteous indignation, so much that the people’s anger would not be appeased if he [Yao Jiaxin] didn’t die. Now that Yao Jiaxin has been taken out and killed, both sides are made equal. So for the Zhangs to now fucking run to the Yao Jiaxin’s parents and cause trouble, they should be stabbed 80 times!! ~~ Create a Yao 80 Stabs! No one will feel sympathy for the Zhang family! You brought it upon yourself, who would care~

纯天然奥特曼 [网易广东省广州市网友]:

Looking at the comments, Chinese people are truly sad. The attitude towards Yao Jiaxin back then, and the attitude now. Haha…

无所谓111 [网易上海市闵行区网友]:

An unspeakably greedy rural person, coupled with a lawyer made famous by causing rumors, have shown me once again human nature’s ugliness, dirty to the extreme.

网易广东省东莞市网友 [dersary]:

According to the country’s laws, the victims family of course have the right to demand civil compensation/restitution! Criminal murder and civil compensation do not conflict with each other, nor is there such a thing where one can pay money to purchase a life!

lxg84726 [网易重庆市网友]:

Since the Zhang family has already rejected Yao Jiaxin’s father’s 200,000 in restitution, this is an act of relinquishing one’s interest, which has the force of law, therefore you have no grounds for again demanding this money afterward — You can’t go back on this as it is against both reason and law. Here I ant to remind the Zhang family — Watch your behavior, don’t let the world’s people go from sympathizing with you to despising you.

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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.

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.

Comments from Sina Weibo:

虞燮嘉：

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

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. However, I admit I was startled by it.

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.

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Mutual resentment between Hong Kongers and mainlanders is nothing new, and has been both long-standing and widespread. Many Hong Kongers look down upon mainlanders as being crude and uncivilized, while many mainlanders in return chafe at Hong Kongers’ arrogance and sense of superiority.

Last month, a video of Hong Kongers and mainlanders arguing on the Hong Kong subway circulated online. What began as mainlanders eating on the Hong Kong subway violating the subway’s rules immediately expanded to all sorts of resentments by both sides. Controversial Peking University professor Kong Qingdong’s subsequent public rant that “many Hong Kongers are dogs” only escalated things further.

Recently…

On Sina Weibo:

@港女廚房: A group of Hong Kong netizens donated money to print a full-page advertisement in today’s Apple Daily newspaper:

Translation of the above Hong Kong advertisement:

Do you want Hong Kong to spend $1,000,000 HKD every 18 minutes raising “double negative” children? ["double negative" refers to when neither parent is from Hong Kong.]

Hong Kong people have had enough!

• Because we understand that you are victimized by poisonous milk powder, we’ve tolerated you coming to panic buy milk powder;
• Because we understand that you have no freedom, we’ve welcome you to “travel freely” to Hong Kong;
• Because we understand that your education is backwards, we’ve shared our educational resources with you;
• Because we understand that you don’t read complete [traditional] Chinese characters, we’ve used crippled [simplified] Chinese characters below:
  “When coming to Hong Kong, please respect local culture, [because] if it weren’t for Hong Kong, you would all be doomed.”

Strongly demand that the government revise the Article 24 of Basic Law!
Stop mainland “double negative” pregnant women from limitless invasion of Hong Kong!

On Sina Weibo:

@叶落孤舟: “Had Enough! Collection” Ever since Hong Kong’s “Apple Daily” newspaper printed the [locust] advertisement, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen netizens have one after another posted images in response, and soon various major cities one after another also expressed their unwillingness to be left out… Tianjin version / Chengdu version / Chongqing version / Xiamen version / American version, then a Naruto version, a time travel version, and finally a dove version!! Netizens are such geniuses!! (Images from the internet)

Translation of the above parody:

Do you want Beijing’s migrant population to continue increasing?

Beijingers won’t tolerate it anymore! [have had enough!]

• Beijing has already accommodated 20 million migrants.
• Beijing has already accepted 478 thousand children that came along.

But!
You still ruin Beijing’s culture, disturb Beijing’s order, push up Beijing property prices, have too many children who then take their gaokao collect examinations here, eat Beijing’s food and drink Beijing’s water and still curse Beijing as worthless. So please do us a favor, Go build up your hometown first, then come build up Beijing.

Strongly demand that the government revise the law!

Stop the endless influx of migrants into Beijing!

Translation of the above parody (which was written in Shanghainese dialect):

Do you want to spend 4 billion RMB every year subsidizing the migrant population?

Shanghainese can’t take it anymore! [have had enough!]

• Because you’ve come to make money, we’ve accommodated 17,566,700 migrants;
• Because you’ve come to establish a home, we’ve accepted 380,000 migrant children;
• Because you want to be filial to your parents, we’ve taken in 159,500 migrant seniors.

But!

• We have to put up with you ruining our culture;
• We have to put up with the accusations by your fellow villagers;
• We have to put up with the uncivilized behavior of your fellow villagers.

Strongly demand that the government revise the law!

Stop the endless influx of migrants into Shanghai!

Translation of the above parody:

Do you want to take out your wallet and spend another 990,000,000 yuan to foot the bill for the water company?

Guangzhou people have had enough!

• Because you wanted to speed up the city, we took out 700 million to build the BRT.
• Because you wanted to look new to welcome the Asian Games, we took out 300 million to foot the bill.
• Because you to do lighting projects, every year we have to take out 130 million.

Only except

• Some people take our money and eat, drink, and live large having us pay for it.
• Some people hold legislative hearings that then become price increasing hearings.
• Some people the moment they hear feasibility reports they begin passing the buck.

Strongly demand the government to amend the law!

Guangzhou people are not fish that anyone can do with as they please!

Translation of the above parody:

If you’ve come,
then you’re one of us [a Shenzhen person].

Shenzhen welcomes you!

• Because we’re all people who have left home, we welcome you;
• Because this is a circle that Grandpa Deng drew for all of us [as an SEZ], we welcome you;
• Because you the driving force behind Shenzhen’s development, Shenzhen welcomes you;
• Because you are the reason behind Shenzhen’s glorious 30 years, Shenzhen welcomes you;
• Because we want to tell all the people in the world, we’ve used “ying ge li shi” [English] below:
  Welcome to “Hometown Shenzhen”.

Warmly welcome everyone struggling to make a life for themselves to Shenzhen!

May all Shenzhen people a happy new year and all your wishes come true!

Note: Shenzhen is a young city whose population is all “migrant workers” from other parts of the country.

Tianjin

Chengdu

Chongqing

Gulangyu, Xiamen

Translation of the above parody:

Do you want America to have 1 Chinese amongst 100 people to be their neighbor?

Americans have had enough!

• You have no democracy, we do, and so you come here?
• You have no freedom, we do, and so you come here?
• We have no corrupt officials, you do, and you will bring them with you!
• We have no corruption, you do, and you will bring it with you!

Strongly demand that the United States government reenact the Chinese Exclusion Act!

• You denigrate our culture, and yet you come to study our culture?
• You disparage our lifestyle, and yet you come to enjoy our lifestyle?
• You attack our export of universal values, and yet you build Confucius Institutes everywhere on United States campuses?

Think the United States isn’t good? Then go back to China!

Naruto

Time Travel

Dove

From NetEase:

Hong Kong media prints full-page anti-mainland pregnant women advertisement

February 1st, a large “Hong Kongers have had enough!” advertisement appeared in a Hong Kong newspaper, expressing a position against mainlander pregnant women going to Hong Kong, as well as making fun of mainlanders as locusts, demanding that the authorities stop the “invasion”. A Hong Kong resident says this reflects some Hong Kongers’ views, especially certain local pregnant women who have been affected, but the metaphor used is extremely impolite, and doesn’t represent the majority of Hong Kongers.

Comments on NetEase:

网易北京市网友:

“If it weren’t for Hong Kong, you would be screwed” — Arrogance like this is breathtaking.

河北沧州人 [网易北京市网友]:

They’re right in their criticisms, because when there’s always some people who believe it is good there and do everything they can to go there, how can they not develop a superiority complex? Look at the content, it’s all a kind of despising and disdain. Sigh, the belief of our country’s people is to squeeze themselves into wherever they think is good. Where’s the ambition? If you’re worth anything, then first build up your current home, and one day, they will do everything they can to come here. Then, we can post this kind of advertisement, and we’ll feel differently then.

网易广东省肇庆市网友:

If going to Hong Kong to give birth didn’t come with a Hong Kong birth certificate, I bet it would reduce the number of mainland pregnant women going to Hong Kong to give birth by 99.9%!

ddcat0228 [网易北京市网友]:

As a Chinese person, very ashamed~

风流大河蟹 [网易浙江省宁波市网友]:

Some Hong Kongers are simply dogs, support Professor Kong.

我有我感受 [网易广东省东莞市网友]:

The mentality of Hong Kongers is already nearing perverse. First, after returning [to China], the central government had sought to change the law, but it was the Hong Kongers’ Legislative Council who unanimously sought so-called democracy and freedom, to let people who didn’t have Hong Kong parents to obtain Hong Kong residency rights. Hong Kong delivery rooms are about to go bankrupt. Several years ago, the former Chief Executive even said again that Hong Kong’s birth rates keep dropping and encouraged mainlanders to compensate. Well then, now there are more and more mainlanders, where the number of mainland children being born in Hong Kong are even more than Hong Kongers. Now Hong Kongers want to blame us, saying we’re coming to steal their resources, that we’re locusts, haha, fuck, what is going on? Now you think there are too many mainlanders, right? Well, that’s because your government doesn’t know how to regulate, how is it mainlanders’ fault? Ask your Legislative Council, what’s wrong with you Hong Kong people? The power has always been in your hands, so go change the law, stop pretending.

凌波伊布 [网易福建省厦门市网友]:

First: “Please respect local culture.” This indeed should be the case. Just like if you went to live temporarily in someone’s home, you have to live in accordance with the host’s living habits, rather than having them accommodating you! Second: “If it weren’t for Hong Kong, you’d all be screwed.” To the person who expresses this kind of opinion, I only want to say that without people like you, our country would still slowly but steadily become strong and powerful!

网易上海市手机网友:

The problem needs both sides to work together to solve. Even if one side wins the argument, it’s useless. If there’s a problem, put it on the table and let everyone think of a solution. Mutually yelling at each other only shows that people have different positions because of different perspectives and points of view. Wouldn’t it be better to work together as one to solve the problem? Why waste time like this?!

网易广西桂林市手机网友:

Because we understand you got rich first, we’ve tolerated you coming to the mainland to invest, having us work like animals for you, and letting you curse us as “northerners”; Because we understand you lack affection [for us], we’ve chosen to use less in order to give you more help; Because we understand you don’t know where you’re from, we try to tell you who is good and who is evil; Because we understand you are very realistic, we won’t beat around the bush when telling you: “Hong Kongers, if you didn’t have us, you guys would be nothing!

网易广东省手机网友:

What does Hong Kong owe you? To say something fair, Hong Kong’s success today is mostly because of British rule! Could China have done it?

网易广东省手机网友:

I think the direction of the discussion is completely wrong. Mainlanders going to Hong Kong to have children is of course wrong. But who is wrong is definitely not the mainland, but the Hong Kong government’s inappropriate measures in response and the many profit-seeking clinics. Since Hong Kong has already provided this kind of channel, it can’t blame others for using it. What is even more wrong is this advertisement being so obvious in expanding the issue and directly pointing at all mainlanders, even using “crippled Chinese characters”, “locusts” and other attacks.

网易江苏省盐城市手机网友:

Kong Qingdong said it right, some Hong Kong people are simply dogs, simply bastards… you think you are so superior?? Ignorant… makes me laugh…

网易广西手机网友:

Who can appeal to the mainland public to boycott visiting Hong Kong? I’ll be the first to support it.

From NetEase:

Hong Kong cracks down on “double negative” pregnant women going to Hong Kong to give birth

According to a Ta Kung Pao report, Hong Kong is cracking down on “double negative” pregnant women [for whom neither parent is from Hong Kong] going to Hong Kong to give birth, launching large-scale inspections and enforcement activities, raiding “child-birthing apartments” specifically serving mainland pregnant women.

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Note: Certain photographs below may be graphic to some viewers.

From Tiexue:

Live pig chopped in half in Vietnam, bloody scene condemned

January 28th, Nem Thuong village in Vietnam’s Bac Ninh province, local villagers held a ceremony on this 6th day of the lunar new year, to commemorate 13th century anti-imperial general Doan Thuong. Doan Thuong is also regarded as the village’s guardian deity.

Every year on the 6th day of the first month of the lunar year, thousands of the village’s residents will hold a ceremony/festival.

One of the controversial ceremonial activities is the splitting of a live pig. Because the scene is extremely bloody, it has been denounced by many, and even the local government has called for an end to this ceremony.

From Tiexue:

小鸡撞地球:

The level of a nation’s civilization can be judged by how it treats its animals.

拔都1119:

Makes sense, like how Canada slaughters baby seals, little Japan slaughters dolphins and whales, these countries are indeed barbaric and uncivilized.

snowydingxi:

Seems like the more developed a country is, the more benevolent it is towards animals. When I was small, I didn’t understand why the Iman in the Hui Autonomous Region would recite scripture as he slaughtered chickens and sheep, but now I understand. We must have a measure of respect and thanks for the food we eat, especially the life with flesh and blood.

usercatt:

I’ve learned something. Turns out developed countries are more benevolent towards animals. Looks like hunting whales, hunting seals, slaughtering bulls are all displays of benevolence towards animals. But towards people is different, which is why the world is full of war, pissing on the corpses of the enemy (American soldiers), torturing Guantanamo prisoners of war, roasting prisoners of war on a fire (Canadian soldiers), truly developed countries of universal love.

菜刀向鬼子们的头上砍去:

Killing through abuse…

Uncivilized monkeys.

xigongda2009:

Sigh…such a cute pig gone like that.

也看也说:

Nature has always had a food chain, and man having to kill certain animals to survive can be said to be right and proper [a given]. But in nature, only man feels “cruelty” and “pity”. So, fulfilling the scientific law of the food chain in a manner that is acceptable by the vast majority of people is I think what man should choose to do. No matter how “cruel” animals are when hunting and killing, it is still within the scope of their natural instincts. As for man, man can choose to go with his instincts when starving, but when there is no lack of food and clothes, then perhaps man should choose a more humane way of ending an animals life. After all, it is all to cater to human society’s characteristic of kindness that there are animal protection organizations, that there are calls for alleviating the suffering of animals during slaughter and butchering. And this chopping of a pig in half on the streets, as well as the cruel mistreatment and killing of animals in various places around the world, that long ago exceeded the natural hunting and killing instincts of any animal in nature, is worth us considering eliminating as the world’s dominant species.

Only one thing to say: You can use various justifications to defend your abusive killing, but then you’ll just be farther and farther from human kindness.

迷失的狼群:

Vietnamese are just fucking barbaric people. Back then we gave them weapons to fight the Americans, but then they climbed onto our heads [turned on us]. Vietnamese are the same as Japanese. Deserve a fucking [beating].

理智亡命徒:

Compared to our slaughtering methods, they seem to be a bit cruel.

特罗巴:

Softly asks: The last photo, what are the MM doing???

小麦响叮当:

This is their memorial ceremony, a traditional custom that has been passed down, so even though it is a little bloody, them having it [tradition/culture] is still better than not having any at all, unlike us, where various memorial ceremonies have all been labeled superstition and suppressed/erased.

a1999hwm:

I wish the LZ would delete that splitting/chopping photograph. It’s too bloody, and would be bad if seen by children!

问非琐答:

Heavens! If one day they were to capture us as prisoners of war, Would they do this to us?

還我钓鱼島:

Judge the matter on its own merits, we can’t recklessly spout whatever we wish just because its Vietnamese monkeys. What difference is there between using a knife to stab and using a knife to chop? Who is more cruel than who? Seems to me chopping is a little more efficient/quick (depending on skill and strength). Those who have slaughtered a pig before all know, that the moment you stab it, it will still struggle for a bit before finally dying.

sssahyc:

The monkeys have hacked/chopped the Japanese, hacked the bananas, hacked Uncle Sam, and hacked the PLA, much less hacking pigs? Everything to them is just passing clouds…

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From NetEase:

Business owners throughout the country set off firecrackers hoping for a good year

January 29th, the first day of work and 7th day of the new year following the Spring Festival long holiday, business owners and shop owners one after another lit fireworks and firecrackers when opening their doors for business in hopes of good fortune in the new year.

That day, Wuhan deployed around 20,000 sanitation workers to sweep up firecracker litter. According to the city management bureau statistics, from 8-10 in the morning, 840 tons of “fireworks for opening the door on business in the new year” were detonated.

Jinan city in Shandong province, on the first day of work following the Spring Festival long holiday, many work units and companies lit fireworks in accordance with traditional customs for good luck.

Jinhua city in Zhejiang province, firecrackers being set off for luck in front of several businesses.

Several work units and companies in Dalian set off firecrackers for luck on the street in front of their homes.

January 29th on the 7th day of the new year, the first day of work following the Spring Festival long holiday, several Wuhan business and store owners one after another lite fireworks and firecrackers for an auspicious new year.

A Shanxi province Taiyuan business owner lights firecrackers in front of his door. Photo: CNS Wei Liang.

Jinan city of Shandong province, on the first day of work after the Spring Festival long holiday, many work units and companies lit firecrackers in front of their doors in accordance with tradition for good luck.

Dalian sanitation workers cleaning up firecracker fragments.

Dalian sanitation workers cleaning up firecracker fragments.

Shanxi Taiyuan, many business-owners set off firecrackers for good luck, while female sanitation workers sweep up firecracker litter.

A passerby rides past the leftover fragments of firecrackers in front of a financial company on Wenhua Road in Zaozhuang city of Shandong province.

Hubei Wuhan, burning husks of spent firecrackers.

Renmin Road in Dalian’s Zhongshan district, several businesses set off firecrackers for good fortune.

Zhejiang province Hangzhou, a scavenger collects the large boxes of spent fireworks.

Comments from NetEase:

网易杭州主管 [网易浙江省杭州市网友]：

Did that guy in the third photograph set off an atom bomb?

lbg224522 [网易广西南宁市网友]：

The same festive welcoming of the new year in the past used only 1/10th of the fireworks and firecrackers used today, is polluting the air considered progress?

cqsi0621 [网易重庆市网友]：

Poor sanitation workers…

网易江苏省徐州市网友: (responding to above)

Selfish, how about at least giving the ayi [female sanitation workers] a red envelope…

邵嘉琪 [网易吉林省网友]： (responding to cqsi0621)

Actually, these paper husks/shells can be sold for quite a lot of money!

不要智商低得让我看不起 [网易广西南宁市网友]：

Right hand condemning those polluting the air. Left hand holding a lighter lighting the most polluting firecracker. A smile on one’s face.

街市花园 [网易四川省遂宁市网友]：

Seeing the ground covered with firecrackers, all I see is pollution.

哄哥高唱 [网易北美地区网友]： (responding to above)

Not only is it polluting the air, these poisonous chemical substances will enter surface and underground water, directly polluting water sources.

暂时在这个地球流浪 [网易黑龙江省大庆市网友]：

Doing business without considering how to better operate and instead counting on these superstitious things, might as well just shut down the business.

信念重要吗 [网易山西省太原市网友]：

Taiyan Yingze Street Xinjian Road intersection. Don’t know if it was PICC or what company, but they were even more crazy with the firecrackers.

xinlinxue520 [网易英国网友]：

It’s okay to light fireworks, but you guys should clean up your own trash afterward.

lixin100 [网易山西省太原市网友]：

Strongly demand that [firecrackers] be prohibited next year, this year’s air pollution was truly unbearable!

网易湖北省武汉市网友： (responding to above)

Not only is it air pollution, it’s also the noise, and the fire hazard, fuck.

陶自高[ 网易上海市网友]:

These fireworks and firecrackers are most revealing of the nature of Chinese people. Always congratulating oneself, completely disregarding others, and definitely not sharing with others. No matter from what perspective, all of this is inferior culture. But just like what Lu Xun said, a tumor has grown on our heads, and instead of thinking of how to excise it, we do everything we can to prove how good this tumor is.

后羿之徒 [网易江苏省网友]： (responding to above)

Indeed it is a cultural weakness/inferiority. Holidays have not involved firecrackers for a long time now. Yet Spring Festival is full of firecracker noise without regard for day or night, making it unable for me to sleep soundly. I personally oppose this kind of culture!!!

网易是我家 [网易北京市网友]： (responding to above)

What weakness/inferiority? Are you not Chinese? Are you a Westerner? Japanese? What nationality do you want to be? Problem is even if you become another nationality, they may not even recognize/accept you [as one of their own]. Not identifying yourself with your own people’s culture, you living is just taking up space.

shendemuyu [网易辽宁省沈阳市网友]： (responding to above)

Don’t make it more than it is, weakness is weakness and has nothing to do with this. Does not lighting firecrackers suddenly mean one is without weakness?

美人天下环球旅游 [网易北京市网友]： (responding to above)

A bunch of idiots, I’m rendered speechless by you guys.

太阳侠客 [网易四川省成都市网友]： (responding to above)

Take a look! This is the face of our country’s people!

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