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Processed by: richwarm (2021-03-18 22:16:02 GMT)
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You can listen to the fairly long video below for a recap of what happened on Weibo recently and the history it invokes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kLcUUHWxMY
王刚蛋炒饭,中国连一个厨子都容不下吗?金刚川,管虎,黄秋生,五条人,强国已正式进入“每天抓特务”时代|稳的一批,千秋万代

There's an entry here on CDT:
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/space/Egg_fried_rice
EGG FRIED RICE
dàn chǎofàn 蛋炒饭
What is said to have killed Mao Zedong's oldest son, Mao Anying. The younger Mao, who had studied abroad in Russia, volunteered to fight in the Korean War and was assigned to be Peng Dehuai's Russian translator. According to legend, Mao Anying cooked fried rice with eggs in the daytime, against military regulation. The eggs were a rare delicacy at the time and had just been sent to Peng Dehuai from Kim Il-sung. Spotting the smoke from the fire, an American plane dropped napalm on the site. Unable to escape, Mao perished in the flames.

Regardless of the truth of the story, Mao Anying did in fact die in 1950 when his camp in a Korean cave was napalmed.

Netizens credit egg fried rice for saving them from North Korea's fate as a country ruled by dynastic autocrats, since it destroyed Mao Zedong's heir. On Baidu Tieba, one user wonders:

Boqilai (@勃起来): I heard that, if it weren't for egg fried rice, you wouldn't be able to get online today; if not for egg fried rice, you would be sent to the countryside to for reeducation as a poor farmer...? (June 11, 2012)

听说如果没有蛋炒饭,你今天上不了网;没有蛋炒饭,你现在会在上山下乡插队落户接受贫下中农再教育 。。。。。????[Chinese]

Weibo users need only write "if it weren’t for egg fried rice" to invoke the alternate history China has avoided.

https://pt-br.facebook.com/notes/rose-tang/thank-you-fried-rice/862723830512406/
You may be wondering why you see photos of fried rice on November 25 all over Chinese social media. The special occasion is the Chinese Thanksgiving Day, or the Fried Rice Festival, celebrated by the Chinese around the world. It’s the 65th death anniversary of Mao Zedong’s eldest son Mao Anying who died in bombings by the U.N. forces in the Korean War on November 25, 1950. Legend has it that Mao Junior was eating egg fried rice in the Chinese army’ s headquarters in late morning as other troops had ducked into bomb shelters when the U.N. bombers approached. [....]

https://globalvoices.org/2015/11/25/chinese-netizens-have-their-own-version-of-thanksgiving-rice-with-egg-day/
Very few people know that just like the United States and Canada, China also has a Thanksgiving Day — albeit an informal one. Indeed, netizens invented the holiday a few years back as political satire commenting on the death of Mao Anying, former Chinese leader Mao Zedong's eldest son, during the Korean War (1950-1953).

Fried rice with egg is the traditional meal. Why? Because Mao Anying was killed by an air strike during the Korean War when he was reheating the rice for a late breakfast, according to historical literature on Mao Anying and the Korean War written by former People's Liberation Army solider Wu Lijin. It is believed that the smoke from the fried rice alongside burned apple peel caught the enemy air force's attention and led to the bombing.

For those who celebrate the Chinese Thanksgiving on November 25, they believe that had Mao Anying survived the war, China would have become like North Korea. Hence, they use the occasion to express their thanks to the “enemy” air force.

This year, many Chinese netizens moved to Twitter — which is technically unavailable in China, but uncensored if you can circumvent the official block on the service — to celebrate the Chinese Thanksgiving Day. Participants published messages for the day and photos of fried rice under the hashtags #蛋炒饭节 (Rice With Egg Day) or #中国感恩节 (Chinese Thanksgiving).
Diff:
# + 蛋炒飯 蛋炒饭 [dan4 chao3 fan4] /egg fried rice/"...if it weren’t for egg fried rice China would be ruled by dynastic autocrats..."/
# + 蛋炒飯節 蛋炒饭节 [dan4 chao3 fan4 jie2] /Fried Rice Festival, November 25, death anniversary of Mao Anying, celebrated by Anti-Maoists who believe his death avoided an autocratic China/
# + 中國感恩節 中国感恩节 [Zhong1 guo2 Gan3 en1 jie2] /Chinese Thanksgiving, November 25, death anniversary of Mao Anying, celebrated by Anti-Maoists who believe his death avoided an autocratic China/
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+ 蛋炒飯節 蛋炒饭节 [Dan4 chao3 fan4 jie2] /Fried Rice with Egg Festival, informally observed annually on November 25 as the anniversary of the death in 1950 of Mao Zedong's son Mao Anying, by people who are grateful that Mao's grip on China did not extend to a second generation (The younger Mao died in an American air raid in Korea, and, according to a popular account, his death was the result of cooking fried rice with egg, which produced smoke detected by US forces.)/
+ 中國感恩節 中国感恩节 [Zhong1 guo2 Gan3 en1 jie2] /Chinese Thanksgiving, another name for 蛋炒飯節|蛋炒饭节[Dan4 chao3 fan4 jie2]/
By MDBG 2024
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