Chinese online commentator calls police after being threatened for criticising 'backwards' Lunar New Year custom, China News
February 22, 2021 A handout photo. The ritual lives on in some rural areas South China Morning Post A Chinese blogger has asked for police help after claiming he was being cyberbullied for criticising the traditional custom of kowtowing to the elders during Lunar New Year. Huang Zhijie runs an influential account called You You Lu Ming (a line from an ancient poem that means roughly “the calling of the deer”) on several platforms. On Saturday (Feb 20) he posted on WeChat that he had been physically threatened and his family had received numerous menacing phone calls after he described the...
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