Chang Long Circus Show (Part 1): on Chinese People

The Chang Long Circus show located in Guangzhou is the most famous circus show among Hong Kong people and mainlanders. Last week, I went there to see it. The performance was spectacular. No doubt about that. But that's not what I want to talk about.

The show made me think about a lot of things. The first thing is the manner of Chinese people, especially those from mainland China.

At the very beginning of the show, the following rule was announced repeatedly in three languages - Mandarin, Cantonese and English:

"During the show, please do not take pictures with the flash as this will put the life of the performers at risk when they are doing acrobatics in the air."

The message is very clear. No flash - or someone will get hurt.

No matter how selfish you are, if someone will get hurt or even die because you use the flash, I believe you will just turn off the flash or even better put your camera away for a while.

However, when the acrobats were doing dangerous tricks in the air with all lights turned off, I saw a lot of flash blinking everywhere. I mean everywhere.

Chinese people are notorious for having no respect for rules of any kind. Yes, I know that. But we are talking about lives of human beings here! Mainlanders, what were you thinking when you were taking those photos? Everything has a limit. Selfishness is no exception. But you mainlanders have set an unprecedentedly high standard there.

Shame! Shame on you! Shame on you - those photo-takers. You make me ashamed of being Chinese.