February 7, 2008: Breast feeding Father-in-Law (NSFW?)

Coign • Feb 6, 2008 11:31 am
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From the comments of the flicker site.

http://flickr.com/photos/doctorow/41376752/

I am a chinese, from the cloth I think it is a chinese thing. I think this statue is trying to show a very famous 'filial' event/legend in chinese history. In the old time in China, two most important core moral ideas: loyalty to the emperor and filial respect to your parrents. To educate the common people, a serie of legend/events including 24 stories are formalized.
This is actually one of them, I guess, it is #17 in this serie and story is a man name Cui, shannan, his grandma is very filial, and she breast-fed her 'mother-in-law' when she is too old to eat. I guess somehow the storyline is still there, but maybe the creator of the statue or the person made caption simply made a mistake.
The sequence of these events are not fixed, here is english version of the stories, the #10 is about this.
www.ruf.rice.edu/~asia/24ParagonsFilialPiety.html
And a painting for similar theme is here: (in chinese)
www.xywq.com/xiaojing/files/f-2/24x9-29.htm
Sheldonrs • Feb 6, 2008 12:06 pm
If you look at the plaque nearby, it reads:

"As my grandfather gets older, he may lose his mind and he may lose his wits.
But nothing can erase his love of big tits".
Shawnee123 • Feb 6, 2008 1:06 pm
Wacky!
Gravdigr • Feb 6, 2008 2:10 pm
Wow!!! I can't wait to get old!!
spudcon • Feb 6, 2008 3:25 pm
Could it be from Candide?
lookout123 • Feb 6, 2008 3:42 pm
wow, when will we be getting these new vending machines in the states?
Flint • Feb 6, 2008 4:10 pm
:::something about Clockwork Orange:::
Coign • Feb 7, 2008 11:29 am
I was linked to the breast feeding father-in-law from another site but today I checked out the rest of the that set. It is awesome. Start here.

http://flickr.com/photos/doctorow/41102153/in/set-925506/
xoxoxoBruce • Feb 7, 2008 11:38 am
Sure ain't Disney.
euphoriatheory • Feb 7, 2008 5:04 pm
Is that little boy in the background aiming a slingshot at the old guy? I can see the headline now...

Spry Youngster Overtakes Grandfather In Incestuous Sex Scandal!
Hilarious Ancilliary.