Ancient Egypt Temple Vandalized by Chinese Tourist Graffiti

The “Ding Jinhao Was Here” on the Egyptian Temple, Shameful! After netizen @空游无依 saw words like this on a relief carving at Egypt’s Luxor Temple, he said this was his saddest moment in Egypt. Ashamed and unable to show his own face. “We tried to use tissues to wipe off this shame, but it was very difficult to wipe off, nor could water be used, as this is a 3500-year-old historical relic.” Don’t forget, when you go abroad, you represent China!

“XXX was here” appears on thousand-year-old Egyptian temple, Chinese tourist claims he was “so ashamed and unable to show my face”

Evening Paper report. “The saddest moment in Egypt, so ashamed I couldn’t bear to show my face.” This microblog post from netizen “空游无依” quickly stirred up heated discussion. He saw someone carve “Ding Jinhao was here” in Chinese characters on the relief carving of the Luxor Temple in Egypt, and felt shocked and ashamed for how carelessly a fellow countryman vandalized a historical relic thousands of years old. Many netizens uniformly expressed indignation at this, crying out “Ding Jinhao, you’re about to become famous!” Experienced tour guide Mr. Zhang, who has led tours in Egypt multiple times, said damaging and smuggling relics across the border already violates local laws, and one could go to jail if it is caught considered serious.

According to the description by “空游无依”, he found the characters inscribed in the most inner hall of the Egypt’s Luxor Temple, on the left wall of the right hallway. “We tried to use tissues to wipe off this shame, but it was very difficult to wipe off, nor could water be used, as this is a 3500-year-old historical relic.” This morning, this reporter contacted “空游无依”, and he further explained that he traveled to Egypt on May 3rd and took this picture when he toured Luxor on May 6th. “When we saw this, nobody said a thing. At the time, the whole tour group felt especially ashamed. The tour guide too did not want to poke the wound, so he led us away. I saved this picture and posted it on my microblog because I wanted to remind everyone not to take damaging historical relics so lightly. I didn’t know it would spread so quickly.”

Netizen “VicHo”, who has traveled to Egypt before, sighed and said, “Was that freshly carved/scratched on? Last year when I went to the Luxor Temple, I didn’t see it, or perhaps it’s because it wasn’t on the main paths… The temple reliefs in Egypt are nearly all this exposed, and after seeing so many, one almost can’t help wanting to reach out and touch… Sometimes, I feel bad for these ancient relics, but at the same time what can you do…” Today, famous microblogger “蜡笔小球” made information about the identity of “Ding Jinhao” that he had searched for through his microblog, claiming that he [Ding] was a middle school student from Nanjing. Many netizens said bluntly that if this is true, they hope the kid and the parents will apologize for this.

“In the past, there were fewer Chinese tourists to Egypt, and their characters were relatively higher, and I’ve never seen a tourist behave this way. There are very rarely tourist police near the Luxor Temple, probably because they never thought something like this would happen,” experienced tour guide Mr. Zhang said. The “was here” behavior is a bad habit of some of our country’s tourists, and they probably didn’t consider that doing something like this is seriously damaging historical relics.

“There are a lot of uncivil behaviors like this out there. For example, there is a Chinese-language sign outside the Louvre Museum indicating that urinating and defecating wherever one pleases is prohibited, and I keep seeing Chinese people picking/damaging flowers at Dutch flower shows. I’m really embarrassed sometimes,” Zhang says. In the past, at most what happened were Chinese people getting fined for smuggling historical relics across the border, and travel agencies would remind tourists before departing to be careful of buying historical relics, but they didn’t think to remind customers to not carve words [leave graffiti]. “Actually foreign laws are very strict. If you’re caught, it’s very likely that you’ll be fined, and if it is serious, your may even go to jail. I’m not kidding you.”

Source: Chinasmack

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But his studies took a new direction after a 5cm long tumour grew on his forehead. Doctors told him they could not operate on the tumour because of its location. So Wang has incorporated it into his Qi routine.

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A 68-year-old rural woman who went to the city for the first time in her life wasted 98 tons of water over two months by flushing the toilet in her son's home, the Dalian-based Bandao Morning Post reported on March 26.

The lady, surnamed Song, flushed the toilet almost every five minutes because she found it interesting, the paper said.

Song told the paper that she thought flushing the toilet was different from running water, and didn't cost any money.

Song was brought to Dalian, a city in Northeast China's Liaoning province, by her son in January to spend the lunar Chinese New Year and has stayed with him ever since, according to the paper.

Woman spends 902 days in the toilet

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Mee Yan Leong sat down on the bowl in her bathroom on March 25, 2009. The 58-year-old woman claimed that she ‘felt a force holding her down’ and said she did not understand why she felt compelled to stay in the tiled bathroom.

She also told hospital staff she was scared of leaving the loo in case neighbours sprayed water at her or threw stones.

During her stay in the bathroom Leong lived on porridge, bread and biscuits prepared by her husband. Leong only leavs her seat 18 times to shower, after almost 1000 days her husband finally gave in, calling up the emergency services before she was forcibly removed from the bathroom.

They had to come into my flat, hold her down, then wrap her in a towel before using a wheelchair to take her to the hospital," said Kian.

Mee Yan Leong is now receiving treatment in a nearby mental institute.

Woman cuts off son's penis because she wanted a girl

A woman in Yancheng, a city in the eastern Jiangsu Province was given a five-year jail term for cutting off her five-month-old son's penis because she always wanted a daughter, the Jinling Evening News reported today.

The 23-year-old convict, Xiao Meng, gave birth to her son Yaya last March. Her husband surnamed Zhan and mother-in-law recalled that after Yaya was born, Xiao Meng often talked to herself: "I wish it could be a girl."

Zhan told the newspaper that his wife often slapped the baby and clutched him by the neck. However, he thought she was suffering postnatal depression and didn't worry too much.

The court heard that on August 15, 2011 Zhan's mother heard the baby crying. She rushed into the room and found Yaya's penis had already been cut by Xiao Meng with a pair of scissors.

Yaya was sent to hospital immediately. His life was not in danger and he can pee normally after treatment in Shanghai. But doctors said it is almost impossible for him to regain productivity.

In the court, Xiao Meng admitted that she bought the scissors and cut the penis on her own and she did this only because she wanted a daughter.

Zhan told the paper that Xiao Meng used to say that a son would be a big burden because the parents are responsible to buy him a house and get him a wife.

Cage dogs of Hong Kong

Hong Kong, one of the world's richest cities, is abuzz with a luxury property boom that has seen homes exchanged for record sums.

But the wealth of the city has a darker side, with tens of thousands priced out of housing altogether and forced to live in the most degrading conditions.

These pictures by British photographer Brian Cassey capture the misery of people - some estimates put the figure as high as 100,000 - who are forced to live in cages measuring just 6ft by 2 1/2ft.

Yan Chi Leung is mentally ill and lives in the 6ft by 2.5ft wire cage at the bottom of this stack of three

Kong Sui Kao, 64, sits in his home in a room with 19 other cages

The city is one of the planet's most densely packed metropolitan areas, with nearly 16,500 people living in every square mile of the territory.
Unscrupulous landlords are charging around US$200 a month for each cage, which are packed 20 to a room, and up to three levels high.

The lower cages are more expensive because you can almost stand inside them, but the conditions are no less squalid.

All this in a city with more Louis Vuitton shops than Paris.

Tai Lun Po, 79, has lived in the cage he is sitting in for an extraordinary 30 years

Eight-year-old Lee Ka Ying lives in a 6ft square 'cubicle cage home' with her mother

Yan Chi Keung eats takeaway outside his wire cage home - there are no cooking facilities

Tai Lun Po walks to the bathroom which he shares with the other residents

Occupants must share toilets and washing facilities, which are rudimentary. Many of the apartments have no kitchens, forcing their impoverished residents to spend there meagre incomes on takeaway food.

The cage homes have been a running scandal in Hong Kong's housing market for decades, yet rather than disappear, they are on the rise.

As the world economic crisis has lashed the city a former British territory whose economy is focused on financial services, more have been forced to turn to them for a place to stay.
The alternative is life on the streets.

Mr Yan smokes a cigarette amid his neighbours in his cage flat

Tai Lun Po walks the corridors of his Mongkok Hong Kong cage home

Tang Man Wai, 60, a retired restaurant worker, is forced to spend what little money he has on take-away food

A building in Mongkok that houses cage people, sometimes squeezed twenty to a room

One cage dweller, Cheung, who lives in Sham Shui Po, told the Asia Times Online he endures appallingly cramped and fetid conditions.

'The temperature inside the cages can be two to three degrees higher than what they are outside,' he said.

'It's really uncomfortable, and sometimes I cannot sleep until after 5 in the morning.'
Cockroaches, wall lizards, lice and rats are common. 'Sometimes I am worried if lizards or cockroaches will crawl into my ears at night,' said Cheung.


News Source : Daily Mail