Ok so I’ve posted up a few weird stories, notably all from our friends in the Far East. However this one just strikes me as being odd, very odd. It appears to be yet another prime example of the Government in China covering up what it sees as a flaw, or at least the local county officials appear to feel that way.

Villagers in South West China will be waking up to the sight of not a brown and barren mountain but rather a vividly painted green one. And I mean vivid, it’s about the same shade as the Hulk. When asking the workers who were spraying the mountain what the reason for all this was, it appears that they weren’t given any reason. In fact upon further investigation, nor did the people who were supposedly in charge at the Fumin County Forestry Department. All they said was that they were just obeying orders from the top.

The best guess has been that the 470,000 yuan (£34,000) paint job appears to have been part of an effort to make the country green. Very green. Although it seems they misread the memo translating “environmentally green” to “colour green”. That or according to confused local villagers, an attempt to bring better Feng Shui to the region considering how the Forestry departments offices actually face that side of the mountain.

Now correct me if I’m wrong but doesn’t Feng Shui revolve around Mother Nature and the way of balancing energies in an environment so that it gives good health and fortune? Spray painting a mountain green really doesn’t seem to be very natural at all. I guess that’s China for you.

Source: New York Times