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"Cultural analysis"

I suggest removal of this paragraph. It's full of original research which are totally pseudoscientific.

Support - This belongs in an article on Chinese Superstitions, if any, definitely not here given its original and pseudoscientific nature. Shiyang (talk) 04:39, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - We are reporting on superstitions that are in the common domain (not original research), and we are reporting this as a pseudoscientific concidence, not factl. Please sign your comments Kransky (talk) 08:28, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

     Kransky - the SMH article is unfortunately wrong, the train accident was in zibo, quite a stretch from weifang, which itself is a stretch to be associated with "the" kite city in China. These popular superstitions have no basis in wikipedia except maybe in a supersititons article of its own. Shiyang (talk) 20:53, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fú is better translated as blessing or good fortune rather than auspiciousness (JíXiáng), while Wá may also carry the meaning of dolls. It's perhaps worth mentioning that they represent fire, water, air, earth and forests as well.

I know the official site translates "北京欢迎你 (Běijīng huānyíng nǐ)" as "Welcome to Beijing", but a more accurate translation would be "Beijing welcomes you[!]" Plus, it's more cuter, keeping in with how cute the Friendlies are! Axistence 13:27, 12 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The fuwa are being introduced as "little friends" (小伙伴), so I think "children" is more accurate that "dolls", although they do look very cute and cuddly =D

I'm not sure if they really do represent the Five Elements of Chinese philosophy, 金木水火土 (metal, wood, water, fire, earth). It was mentioned in a news article that the Five Elements were part of the inspiration, but they don't appear in the official descriptions of the five mascots. -- ran (talk) 23:35, 12 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Can someone add the meaning of the characters in their names (贝, 晶, 欢, 迎, 妮)? Are they simply the "represented ideal" values? DenisMoskowitz 18:00, 16 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

No, the five characters, when put together, sound like (but not entirely equivalent to) the phrase "Beijing Welcomes You". The five characters themselves are just "cute-looking" ones that were chosen to "feel" plausibly like the names of little kids. If you insist, the characters themselves mean "seashell", "radiant", "happy", "welcome", and "maid", but the meaning for the last one is completely obsolete and the character itself (妮) is used only for its phonetic value and its "female" radical nowadays, especially in names and such. So adding the meanings would be rather meaningless, if not misleading. -- ran (talk) 06:56, 22 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much. DenisMoskowitz 00:49, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The Official Mascot site takes a really long time to load. Can someone upload thier pictures to Wikipdeia? Wizrdwarts 00:02, 11 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have just uploaded them. Someone experienced please verify if the fair use tag is appropriate. -- Felix Wan 02:06, 11 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

They're adorable<3

Sixth Mascot

There is in fact a sixth mascot. [1]

Should it go here, or on the 2008 Summer Paralympics page?

Colargol

They look exactly like Colargol [2], or Barnaby bear. Hektor (talk) 19:41, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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