The above title is a more or less direct translation of a fairly widely used (I think) chengyu. In Chinese it's written as 杀鸡给猴看. The meaning is to scare those who would consider engaging in foul behavior by punishing someone else to an extreme degree. For example, the government has started to crack down on rumor weibo accounts (the Chinese twitter), jailing people who make up wild accusations and rumors to gain popularity. One story recently made the news when a couple of guys who started a rumor mill weibo account received a sentence of several years in jail Slippery slope? Maybe. No tabloids? Definitely. Better society? debatable...

Maybe I'll start posting a new chengyu every week. That wayI'll start posting on here regularly even though I may have nothing new to report. Also, it will help spur me to learn a new chengyu every week, which isn't a bad thing.

That's all for now. Here's a picture of me studiously reading a (big) book of Chinese medicine. Ta ta.






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