Click here to go to the website. Reuters Oddly Enough reported that the Chinese netizens have been abuzz about the upcoming Olympics' Fuwa mascots in relation to the recent calamities in China.
Quote from the article explained in details about the curse of the Fuwa:
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After a devastating earthquake struck Sichuan province last month, Internet users tied four of the five "Fuwa" mascots to the calamities that have struck China in the run-up to the Games, which begin in August. One Fuwa is a panda, the totem of Sichuan.
The others resemble a torch, reminding netizens of the protests against the international Olympic torch rally; a Tibetan antelope tied to widespead demonstrations in Tibetan areas; and a swallow that looks like a kite, linked to a deadly train crash in Shandong province.
The final Fuwa, sporting a fish, was left unexplained in the original superstition as a curse yet to come.
Unexplained, that is, until widespread flooding in southern and central China claimed dozens of lives in June.
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Whether all these so-called are true remains to be seen. However the netizens are strongly believing in these curses more than anything else. For me, it's just another piece of interesting news, or gossip. =D
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