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[edit] Who Really are the Five Mascots?
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The five official Olympic mascots were created to represent a combination of traditional Chinese symbols, favorite animals, ideals and sports.
The characters' names are Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying, and Nini. Together, the names form the sentence "Běijīng huānyíng nǐ" which means "Beijing welcomes you".
These creatures are known as Fuwa, or "good luck dolls." But if you continue reading, you'll find that they are anything but.
Presenting... the Curse of the Fuwa:
The claims appeared first in the wake of the earthquake that devastated Sichuan Province last month, with people pointing out that one of the Fuwa, Jingjing, is a panda, the animal native to Sichuan.
Jingjing, a panda. The panda is native to Sichuan Province, the site of a terrible earthquake on May 12, 2008. Official figures (as of July 6, 2008 12:00 CST) state that 69,197 are confirmed dead, including 68,636 in Sichuan province, and 374,176 injured, with 18,340 listed as missing. The earthquake left about 4.8 million people homeless, though the number could be as high as 11 million.
Huanhuan, the Olympic flame. The 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay was run from March 24 until August 8, 2008. In many cities along the route, the torch relay was met by protesters representing a range of political issues, particularly those related to China's human rights record, the recent unrest in Tibet, the war in Darfur, China's support to regimes in Myanmar and Zimbabwe, North Korean defectors, territorial disputes over the Spratly and Paracel Islands with Vietnam, Falun Gong persecution and the political status of Taiwan, resulting in violence at various locations. These protests, which ranged from tens of thousands of people in San Francisco, to effectively none in Pyongyang, have forced the path of the torch relay to be changed or shortened on a number of occasions.
Yingying, a Tibetan antelope. Linked to the unrest in Tibet: "According to the non-government Save Tibet website, the Tibetan people are denied most rights guaranteed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, including the rights to self-determination, freedom of speech, assembly, movement, expression, and travel. Elliot Sperling, an Associate Professor of Tibetan Studies at Indiana University, in a statement to the Human Rights Watch, also detailed human rights violation in Tibet. The Tibet Justice.org claims that according to UN Development Programme data, Tibet is ranked the lowest among China’s 31 provinces, and is ranked 153 out of the 160 countries on the Human Development Index.
Amnesty International has stated that political prisoners are often beaten and tortured, and sometimes summarily executed."
Nini, a swallow whose headgear design is modeled after a kite. Blamed for the China Railway train T195 accident, a major train collision that occurred on the morning of April 28, 2008, in Weifang, the "kite city." The collision killed more than 70 people and injured hundreds more.
An alternate theory is that Nini is a locust, and associated with a locust plague that infested Inner Mongolia in June 2008.
Nini, a swallow who looks like a kite, has been tied to a deadly train crash in Weifang, known as 'kite city', in Shandong Province on April 28.
Beibei, a fish. Over 1.6 million people were forced to evacuate their homes when the worst floods for 50 years swamped much of southern China.
A famous quote about the event read: “I am in Shenzhen. There is heavy rain for two days and no sign that it will stop… now the curse of the last “fish” has proven correct. What shall we do?” said a post by yellow_hades on Tianya, a popular online forum.
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