The Grass Mud Horse is a Chinese Internet meme and kuso parody based on a word play of the Mandarin profanity cào nǐ mā (肏你妈), which literally means "fuck your mother".
Homophonic puns are commonly used in Chinese language as silly humor to amuse people, and have become an important component of jokes and standup comedy in Chinese culture.[1] Grass Mud Horse is one of the made-up "Baidu 10 Mythical Creatures" created in a hoax article on Baidu Baike in early 2009, whose names all come from obscene puns. It has become an Internet chat forum cult phenomenon in China and has garnered worldwide press attention, with videos, cartoons and merchandise of the animal (which is said to resemble the alpaca) having appeared.
In the 2022 COVID-19 protests in China, Shanghai residents led "Grass Mud Horse" to protest on the streets.[2]
^The pun also rises: how the humble pun revolutionized language, changed history, and made wordplay more than some antics. 1 October 2011.
^"白紙革命》廣州人怒唱「光輝歲月」 上海「草泥馬」上街". Liberty Times (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 28 November 2022.
The GrassMudHorse is a Chinese Internet meme and kuso parody based on a word play of the Mandarin profanity cào nǐ mā (肏你妈), which literally means "fuck...
internet character GrassMudHorse (cǎonímǎ 草泥马) a trickster candidate because of its duplicity in meaning. Cuffe argues the GrassMudHorse serves to highlight...
Baike "articles" initially began with "Four Mythical Creatures" (The "GrassMudHorse", "French-Croatian Squid", "Small Elegant Butterfly" and "Chrysanthemum...
publishes the Grass-MudHorse Lexicon, a wiki-based directory of Chinese Internet language. The project is named after the GrassMudHorse (cǎo ní mǎ (simplified...
Llamas. Andes portal Alpaca Cama, a hybrid between a llama and a camel GrassMudHorse, a parody originating from Mainland China in 2009 that features the...
Détournement Kuso Miso Technique Meng, Bingchun. "From Steamed Bun to GrassMudHorse: E Gao as alternative political discourse on the Chinese Internet Archived...
political ideology. *Cao ni ma - 草泥馬; cǎonímǎ, "a horse made from mud and grass"/"mud-grasshorse" for 肏你媽; cào nǐ mā, "fuck your mother", used in mainland...
Chinese characters are pronounced or written, as illustrated in the Grass-MudHorse Lexicon. Parody generators are computer programs which generate text...
the most observed occasion in the country. 草泥马 style (literally, "GrassMudHorse Style"), was uploaded onto YouTube and other Chinese websites by the...
pronoun in an impolite context). "Chun" is Li Yuchun's first name. GrassMudHorse River crab (Internet slang) Baidu 10 Mythical Creatures 网络文化观察:"春哥"是怎么来的...
father, Park Chung-hee. A few weeks later, "草泥马 style" (literally, "GrassMudHorse Style"; the Chinese characters are a homonym for a vulgar slur) was...
9783034304351. Meng, Bingchun (孟冰纯; 孟冰純; Mèng Bīngchún). "From Steamed Bun to GrassMudHorse: E Gao as alternative political discourse on the Chinese Internet."...
with only a toy alpaca hiding his modesty – with a caption『草泥马挡中央』 ("grassmudhorse covering the middle"). The term possesses a double meaning in Chinese:...
llamas, and Chinese Internet users sharing images of the river crab and grass-mudhorse due to double-meanings of their names allowing them to "subvert government...
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The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-03-12. "Cui Weiping (崔卫平): I Am a Grass-MudHorse". China Digital Times. Retrieved 2009-03-13. Wikiquote has quotations...
the species as "Yakshit" by the Chinese character's pronunciation. GrassMudHorse River crab (Internet slang) Jia Junpeng Very erotic very violent "党中央的政策亚克西"...
believe the instruction follows the official embarrassment over the "GrassMudHorse" and the "River Crab". Industry observers believe that the move was...
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code words, metaphors, or plays on words. For example, the phrase "GrassMudHorse" (Cao Ni Ma) is commonly used by netizens as a pun on a homophonous...
images often relating to other Chinese internet memes, such as the GrassMudHorse. The damaged external wall insulation cladding was removed after the...
appearing around populated areas. The game's unofficial mascot is the GrassMudHorse, (alpaca in the English version), which in-game, is a popular mount...
eggs per blood meal. The eggs are laid on the grass in a salt marsh; the larvae live in the intertidal mud of the salt marsh for one or two years, preying...