Two people detained in China for allegedly damaging Great Wall with excavator

Two people have been detained in China after allegedly damaging a section of the Great Wall in the northern Shanxi province with an excavator, according to state broadcaster CCTV.

Authorities in Youyu County said they received a report on August 24 that a gap in the wall was created in Yangqianhe Township, CCTV reported.

After an investigation, police found a 38-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman had used an excavator to breach the wall in order to create a shortcut to pass through, causing “irreversible” damage to the integrity and safety of that portion of the wall, the broadcaster said.

ChannelSix,

Goddamn Mongolians!

RickyRigatoni,
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Now China is once again open to Mongolian invasion. Glory to the khanate.

wtypstanaccount04,
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When you really need that shortcut

burningmatches,

Shortcut to prison

makingStuffForFun,
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This is interesting. China over the years has destroyed so many of its ancient buildings, for the simple reason as a road overpass at times, that this seems almost laughable.

pastermil,

found the armchair expert!

makingStuffForFun,
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I’ve been there many times over 25 years. Particularly about 20 years ago it was at the worst I saw. Massive, beautiful buildings, one i saw they claimed was close to 1000 years old, literally being destroyed for a shitty exit lane for a road. I can’t even describe the scale of the loss of history the world will never see, over the recent decades.

stopthatgirl7,
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Yeah, but if you try to tear down an ancient building because it’s in your way with no permits or permission, it’s not really gonna go well for you in ANY country.

speedbeef,
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https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a294fc16-97b6-4a0e-a212-071aad5a653b.jpeg

Blastasaurus,

The area, known as the 32nd Great Wall, is one of the surviving complete walls…

*was

Deceptichum,
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Hey hey hey, you can’t go destroying Chinese cultural artifacts, that’s the parties job!

WtfEvenIsExistence,

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Olds

破四旧立四新

Destroy the Four Olds and Cultivate the Four News

旧思想 旧文化 旧风俗 旧习惯

Old Ideas, Old Culture, Old Customs, and Old Habits

Hell yes, fuck the culture. Hail Chairman Mao. Lets destroy all of the culture! /s

iridaniotter,
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They’re not about that anymore.

Deceptichum,
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True. Now they’re about destroying other cultures that aren’t Mando speaking Han northerners.

iridaniotter,
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Incorrect, they’ve never been about that.

Deceptichum,
@Deceptichum@kbin.social avatar

Hahaha you’re funny, a liar, but funny.

kurosawaa,

Mao and most of the other early communist leadership were southerners. Most of the early KMT was made up of southerners too. I think westerners have this misconception that “Mandarin” is a northern language, but the standard Mandarin spoken in China is largely artificial, and has been a separate language for governance and education for centuries. No one in China back in 1949 would have thought of Standard Mandarin as representing “Northern” Chinese culture, even though it is based on an aristocratic dialect of Beijing Mandarin.

Some of the most endangered languages in China are natural forms of Mandarin in northern China, because it so similar to Standard Chinese and the government has no protections or cultural programs for them, unlike the southern languages like Wu, Minnan, and Cantonese.

China is a complicated country and it’s sad to see these misconceptions repeated ad nauseum in English media.

authed,

Sounds fair

Ram_The_Manparts,
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Yes, I agree. They should be detained.

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