Ai Weiwei singing The Grass Mud Horse or Cao Ní Ma, a Chinese Internet meme widely used as a form of symbolic defiance of the widespread Internet censorship in China. It is a play on the Mandarin language words “fuck your mother”, and one of the so-called 10 mythical creatures created in a hoax article on Baidu Baike in early 2009 whose names form obscene puns. It has become an internet chat forum cult phenomenon in China through chat forums and has garnered world-wide press attention, with videos, cartoons and merchandise of the animal, which supposedly resembles the alpaca, having appeared. Cao Ni Ma, literally “Grass Mud Horse”, was supposedly a species of alpaca. The name is derived from a profanity (Chinese: 肏你妈/操你媽; pinyin: cào nǐmā), which translates to “Fuck your mother”[1] (See also: “Motherfucker” and “Mother insult”) Note that the comparison with the “animal” name is not an actual homophone, but rather the two terms have the same consonants and vowels with different tones, which are represented by different characters. READ THE FULL ARTICLE AND WATCH THE VIDEO HERE high-res →

Ai Weiwei singing The Grass Mud Horse or Cao Ní Ma, a Chinese Internet meme widely used as a form of symbolic defiance of the widespread Internet censorship in China. It is a play on the Mandarin language words “fuck your mother”, and one of the so-called 10 mythical creatures created in a hoax article on Baidu Baike in early 2009 whose names form obscene puns. It has become an internet chat forum cult phenomenon in China through chat forums and has garnered world-wide press attention, with videos, cartoons and merchandise of the animal, which supposedly resembles the alpaca, having appeared.

Cao Ni Ma, literally “Grass Mud Horse”, was supposedly a species of alpaca. The name is derived from a profanity (Chinese: 肏你妈/操你媽; pinyin: cào nǐmā), which translates to “Fuck your mother”[1] (See also: “Motherfucker” and “Mother insult”) Note that the comparison with the “animal” name is not an actual homophone, but rather the two terms have the same consonants and vowels with different tones, which are represented by different characters.

READ THE FULL ARTICLE AND WATCH THE VIDEO HERE


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