It’s being used to describe 1 from the new building of People’s Daily to expensive 2 weddings full of millionaires,and the new gold-colored iPhone.
In Chinese “tu” means 3 ,and “hao” means rich.To say someone is tuhao is to 4 they come from a poor 5 background,and have made it rich quick—but don’t quite have the manners to 6 it.
“Tuhao” is 7 an old word—dating back perhaps as 8 as the Southern Dynasty 1,500 years ago—but 9 has always meant something rather different.During the communist revolution,from the 1920s to early 1950s,it was widely used to refer to landholders and the gentry(乡绅) who would often do bad things to those 10 them.
This new usage of the term 11 in September after a widely-shared 12 about a rich,but 13 man,who went to a Buddhist monk for advice, 14 to be told how to live a more simple life.The monk replied 15 with the phrase “Tuhao,let’s be friends!”
Chinese 16 users are highly creative in their use of language,and are 17 inventing,and reinventing words as a way of getting past censorship(审查) rules.But in this 18 ,its popularity seems to be down to the fact 19 it encapsulates(概括) China’s changing society so well—many people laugh at those with wealth,but are 20 jealous.
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