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Are you up on what the hundreds of millions of Chinese netizens are talking about? Take a moment and get the rundown of what’s hot, what’s trending, and what’s drawing the most buzz on the Chinese blogosphere.
‘Great Wall of Garbage’
Net users are joking that visitors built a "Great Wall of Garbage" over the National Day holidays, when some 356,600 people visited the Great Wall's Badaling section in Beijing from October 1 to 6 - leaving behind 109 tons of garbage for cleaners to bag up and carry down on their backs, The Beijing News reported Monday.
Net user Suiyuansuixi said that the actions of the visitors have caused Chinese people to lose face to their ancestors, while Net user Laomo991 said that visitors should have been asked to carry their own garbage down to trash cans instead.
Net user Xunshouweiren said that a greater volume of garbage has contributed to the higher ticket price to the site as more cleaners need to be hired to keep the area tidy.
"No wonder the entry tickets are so expensive now - people need to change their bad habits before they can complain about the high cost," said the Net user.
But other Net users said that it was unfair to blame the garbage problem on inconsiderate visitors, saying that all scenic spots see a lot of waste produced over holidays as the sites become far too crowded with people.
"It's not right to say that these visitors are up to no good because they produced a lot of garbage," said Net user Yixisi Liu. "There is so much garbage because there are too many visitors."
Net user Shuangzidelaoshu added that visitors were not responsible for all of the 109 tons of garbage, saying that companies which make products with excessive packaging are also at fault.
Forced black swan photo
A middle-aged woman dressed in black jumped a fence at a Chongqing park on Sunday to get her picture with two black swans, sparking criticism from onlookers and Chinese Net users.
The woman, who even threw her umbrella at the swans to force the pair of birds to stay together long enough for her to snap a photo, has been mocked for her actions by Net users who said that "she should try to block a bear" and that "not even a crow would want a picture with her."
Others mused that they were confused over why the black swans didn't bite her while sarcastically wondering if she would have asked for compensation from the park if they had.
Net user Shuofangzhiyue said that the woman was lucky to have gotten away with what she did without a penalty, saying that elsewhere, such as in Australia, she would have risked a AU$50 ($47) fine for her behavior.
The news also prompted Net user Renshengshizi_youhuanshi to call on visitors to "love animals," asking them "not to disturb them with such photography antics."
Global Times