The bird everyone linked to Xi Jinping

CCP leaders including Xiinping himself are famously superstitious. They consult influ masters, psychics, try to avoid unlucky numbers, redesign buildings, you know, and are obsessed with uh this witchcraft, extend their longevity politically and physically. And speaking of omens, there's one thing Xiinping fears the most at the moment. Let me talk about the death of a bird. And right when the Hong Kong fire was dominating online discussions, something strange happened in Beijing and people noticed a bird died. Um, yeah, a bird died. So on December 1st, the Beijing Zoo posted a very unusual announcement on social media and it reads something like this. Pingping the crested ibis who achieved the miracle of living nearly 40 years has p peacefully completed its legendary life. Pimping's life is like a thick historical chronicle recording China's 40 years 40-year journey of bringing the crested ebis or ibis back from the brink of extinction. It is a small but brilliant chapter in our wildlife protection story. A long solemn tribute to this bird. This is the bird. This is ping ping. Of course, people's imaginations exploded. Why? Why such a long tribute to a bird? Well, Chinese netizens immediately sense this wasn't just an orbituary. This was an omen. Almost instantly, people connected pimping the bird to pimping the person. Xiinping because everything about this bird symbolically points to Xiinping. Why? Let me give you the there are five reasons actually six reasons. Okay, six reasons why this bird reminds people of Xiinping. First, the bird's name is Pimping. The exact ping in Xiinping. And it's also the kind of childhood nickname Chinese parents use like pimping, Mingming, Maymay, Dong. Shiin Shiin might have been called Pimping as a kid. Okay, so same name. And second, the bird came from Shangshi as Xiinping's ancestral home. Third, the bird is completely white. And you know Xiinping's surname, she in its traditional form contains the characters for white and feather. So white birds have long been jokingly associated with she. He is white feather and this is a white bird. Fourth, the ibis has a red crown and red feet, which many netizens said represents the red regime. Fifth, pimping lived almost 40 years or or exactly 40 years, which is roughly 120 to 150 human years equivalent. And everyone still remembers Xiinping telling Putin he plans to live to 150. And the final eerie detail, the bird's caregiver is named Mao, the same Mao as Mao Zaong. You know, she idolizes Mao and fashions himself as Maoong 2.0. So when a w feathered bird named Pingping died under the care of someone named Mao, everyone understood the message. No one dared say it openly, but the symbolism was unmistakable. But here's the bigger picture. Modern China is no longer a place where people speak openly. Decades of censorship have forced people to develop a coded language, a whole ecosystem of euphemism to talk about forbidden subjects. So Xiinping's name is so sensitive that he reportly has over 200 banned nicknames or words that people use to refer to him. But here's the thing. You can censor speech. You cannot censor fate or the fate of this bird. You cannot censor omens. You cannot censor the public's imagination. And you know that there's um famous prophecy about a white feather bird. You remember I I've told you about this. This is from a famous prophecy book called Tanu where it illustrates the ending of every dynasty. And the last one depicts five birds uh flying across mountains or mountain peaks. Four birds were black. one is white and then the white one uh splashed blood against the mountains. So basically the the the last bird, the white bird died. The the f the first four birds flew by. The last one died hitting the mountain peaks and the last one is a white bird and people didn't understand what it means until Xiinping came to power. He is the fifth CCP leader. this text that says the white bird died on the mountain peak. So um people generally associated this prophecy um with Xiinping. So online people began celebrating the passing of the white feathered bird named Pingping. People are saying Pingping is dead not because of the bird itself but because of what its death symbolizes. So in the context of everything happening in China, the Hong Kong fire, political instability, disappearing officials, this omen hit people like a thunderclap.