By Jenny Li, Epoch Times | October 5, 2015
Last Updated: October 5, 2015 11:27 am
Men sport China's latest fashion trend of "weeds that grow on head," in a video from Chinese news outlet Peng Pai. The deeper Chinese meaning of the weeds connotes walking, unkept grave mounds. (Screenshot from Peng Pai)
China’s latest fashion trend has concerning connotations for anyone familiar with traditional Chinese culture.
People are sporting what they call “weeds that grow on head.” The small, clip-on plastic plants make it look like the wearers have weeds growing out of their heads.
In traditional Chinese culture, the word for a grave mound is “grave head.” Combining the characters “weeds” and “head” ties to the phrase “weeds that grow on the grave mound,” which is a symbol that a family has neglected to care for an ancestor’s grave—a bad sign meaning either the family has died or the family values have declined.
In context of traditional Chinese culture, the latest trend connotes these walking weeds have become walking corpses.
The trend is also taking place around National Day, which celebrates the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) takeover of China. A Chinese news outlet, Peng Pai, published a video asking “what kind of weeds grow on your head?” It says the most popular “weeds” are small CCP flags. And where do the little flags go? On the grave mound, of course.
So, maybe it’s a good sign. Since it’s the CCP’s National Day, these walking weeds could simply be an early sign of what persecuted human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng revealed in his recent open letter, who predicted the CCP will collapse in 2017.
Gao wrote, “I want to solemnly assure you all that all the crimes against humanity taking place in China today will without exception be judged. At the end of 2017, a special tribunal will be set up for this.”
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1871979-chinas-weeds-that-grow-on-your-head-fashion-or-prophesy/
