我想这个穿着红色衣服的男孩已经被续了。
In this sentence, the word "续" means life-prolonging, and when people say this they usually mean that someone was being life-prolonged to somebody instead of someone was being life-prolonged by somebody. Why?
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8It's a very long story.– StanJun 18, 2016 at 12:08
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@Stan Please explain :D, I am so much confused with it!– skygateJun 18, 2016 at 13:21
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1As I have another long answer to finish I can only give a brief summary here: 2009, in Chongqing province of China, a 13 year old boy wearing a red dress played erotic asphyxiation to death – although the fact was simple, it's extremely shocking to the conservative local. Then an urban legend formed: it was an evil black magic that Jiang Zemin the Elder wanted to prolong his life. After that, 续命 had become an Internet slang in China (mostly in a joking sense).– StanJun 18, 2016 at 13:38
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1You're right, the grammar here is confusing. It might be interpreted as an abbreviation of "被（长者用来）续（命）了", but it's not necessary to be too serious about Internet slangs.– StanJun 18, 2016 at 14:25
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2Excited! This is the first Elder related thread I see on this site. Stay young, stay simple! +1s– ArcheosudoerusJun 18, 2016 at 15:30
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It's a Chinese (political) joke. It has been told that a boy is killed to lengthen the former (×2) chairman, Zemin Jiang. But it's not proven to be true yet. It's alright to used chatting with people of new generations in China. And it has somehow become a meme among them.
When people say 续命、续一秒、+1s , they are also talking about that.
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"But it's not proven to be true yet." Are you serious? Such a superstition thing is of course false.– StanJun 19, 2016 at 6:17
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2Western scientific journals may have a square and rigid mindset, but that is no excuse for further spreading the abuse. The day I see a newspaper write "Jinping Xi" or "Zedong Mao", I will just ignore it as a product made by complete idiots, who have nothing to contribute on China issues.– user4452Jun 19, 2016 at 18:41
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2Informal standard: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(Chinese) TL;DR: do not change naming order, don't use hyphens, don't use CamelCase, don't change anything at all.– user4452Jun 19, 2016 at 19:04
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1You guys are off topic, aren't we talking about the Elder? Mike Wallace called the Elder
Jiang Zemintoo. What is to point to argue about it?– skygateJun 19, 2016 at 23:57 -
1@skygate If Mike Wallace called that then it should be that way. Because he is much "higher" than us. Jun 20, 2016 at 2:21
If we say『续』，it is only used on Jiang Zemin the Elder when we refer to one's life is lengthened. For other people, it should mean that his life time is given to the Elder.
被续 is a China internet meme.
A hasty investigation and verdict on a mysterious death of a (kid in Chongqing) had spark many speculation back in Jiang Zemin authoritarian era.
One of the ridiculous speculation/conspiracy theory is about making use of black magic to prolong(续命) the life of some prominent figure, where the kid is the "sacrificial lamb". I.e. "我想这个穿着红色衣服的男孩已经被续了."
China netizen think the conspiracy theory is damn funny :
- Chinese is a communist country, where some superstitious should be eradicated by the communist party itself.
- It is related to a story in Chinese popular literature "The Three Kingdoms", where a prominent character attempt to use magic to prolong his own life.
So China Netizen keep making fun of the ridiculous 续命(prolong another life) with sarcasm, thus some come out with 续命一秒 (prolong the life by 1 second). Thus 续命一秒 become a sarcasm for some vain action.
