Received the below story, which indeed did tickle me, from our friend Dr. Weimin Mo.
Hi, Ben:
I believe you may feel tickled to hear this story. Around the Thanksgiving holiday, quite a few Chinese agreed online to name November 25, the Chinese Thanksgiving Day because Mao's son Mao Anying was killed on 11/25/1950 during the Korean War. People say Chinese should give thanks that he was killed and that his only brother was a mentally sick person. Otherwise, China would have become West Korea [Ha! "West Korea."] and he would have succeeded Mao Zedong and sat in the throne ruling China like Kim of N. Korea.
For celebration, people suggest that all Chinese should eat fried rice. The story has it that during the Korean War Mao Anying was working as an interpreter in headquarters. When the UN bombers came and air raid siren was whining, all personnel were ordered to take shelter. However, Mao Anying, like many other China's high-ranking officials' children, out of his habit of being privileged, refused to follow the order. Instead he went to a nearby makeshift house to cook fried rice. [Ha, silly Anying!] The cooking smoke coming out of the chimney caught the attention of a South African A-26 bomber. The airmen dropped napalm bombs and killed him with another officer. [Ooh, napalm, that's gotta hurt. Fried Anying.] That's why we should eat fried rice instead of turkey.
Wish you a Merry Christmas.
Weimin
Boy oh boy, did he look like papa.
Hi, Ben:
I believe you may feel tickled to hear this story. Around the Thanksgiving holiday, quite a few Chinese agreed online to name November 25, the Chinese Thanksgiving Day because Mao's son Mao Anying was killed on 11/25/1950 during the Korean War. People say Chinese should give thanks that he was killed and that his only brother was a mentally sick person. Otherwise, China would have become West Korea [Ha! "West Korea."] and he would have succeeded Mao Zedong and sat in the throne ruling China like Kim of N. Korea.
For celebration, people suggest that all Chinese should eat fried rice. The story has it that during the Korean War Mao Anying was working as an interpreter in headquarters. When the UN bombers came and air raid siren was whining, all personnel were ordered to take shelter. However, Mao Anying, like many other China's high-ranking officials' children, out of his habit of being privileged, refused to follow the order. Instead he went to a nearby makeshift house to cook fried rice. [Ha, silly Anying!] The cooking smoke coming out of the chimney caught the attention of a South African A-26 bomber. The airmen dropped napalm bombs and killed him with another officer. [Ooh, napalm, that's gotta hurt. Fried Anying.] That's why we should eat fried rice instead of turkey.
Wish you a Merry Christmas.
Weimin
