woodcutter Posted March 6, 2013 at 01:38 PM Report Posted March 6, 2013 at 01:38 PM Sorry to raise this topic, but I hope that the truth behind this is better than the rumours. Several of my students - and Chinese students mainly - are under the impression that infants, in one form or another, are regularly consumed in Guangdong province. I doubt this is true. However there are some places in East Asia where consuming umbilical cord is not unknown. Also, there has also been a scandal in the Korean press (and elsewhere) about horrific infant based ingredients in Chinese medicine - not that the Korean press are very objective. Now, although in areas where famine happens there is likely to be a certain amount of cannibalism, and this has probably happened in some places at times in the past in China, can it really be the case that dead infants - the method of supposed procurement is not clear to me - are sometimes eaten in Guangdong? Some other sites seem to suggest this is a "blood libel" against the Chinese, but if it is merely something of this sort it seems to be directed at Guangdong people rather than the nation as a whole. The students from that province that I know did not protest much though. The topic was mentioned in a previous North versus South thread but I couldn't find a proper discussion about it - sorry if there has been one.
skylee Posted March 6, 2013 at 02:33 PM Report Posted March 6, 2013 at 02:33 PM There is this thing -> http://zh.wikipedia....ia.org/wiki/紫河车 Not sure if this is what you and/or your students are talking about.
gato Posted March 6, 2013 at 03:25 PM Report Posted March 6, 2013 at 03:25 PM Why are you using such a small font?
roddy Posted March 6, 2013 at 03:52 PM Report Posted March 6, 2013 at 03:52 PM Jesus, I'd just recovered the will to live from the last time this nonsense was posted. I'll fix your font, your gullibility is your own problem. No, Skylee, he actually needs to ask if people are eating babies. And you thought mainlanders just pushed up property prices. Anyone who turns up 'evidence'* for this is going to have to send it to the proper authorities. We have more important rumours to spread. *Variously, there are some 'performance art' fake photographs from a decade or so back, and various reports of placenta / embryo eating. 2
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