Officials Threaten To Demolish All Graves Not Painted Green

From NetEase:

Kunming Yiliang cadre request villagers to paint graves green, otherwise demolished.

Summary: Yunnan province Kunming city Yuliang county was recently discovered by reporters to have painted a layer of green paint on the gravestones lining the mountains on both sides of the highway between the county seat and Goujie. The villagers explain: “Over 10 days ago, the local government department notified everyone in the village with a bullhorn, requesting that every family either paint a layer of green paint on their graves or use green cloth to cover their graves, otherwise the grave will be demolished.”

Comments from NetEase:

网易河南郑州网友:

Middle of the night, for each time you ding me a corrupt official dies!!!

网易美国/加拿大网友:

Who says there is no God, who says there are no angels! Too ingenious! Too imaginative! My God!

网易云南昆明网友:

Such a mystical country, even ghosts are controlled by [government] policy, how mystical!

网易广东广州网友:

I bet it is because they are afraid of airplanes or satellites photographing barren/bald mountains. If they had the money, it wouldn’t just be graves, but the entire mountain would be painted green.

网易广东网友:

I want to ask which law gives them the right to blow up graves?

网易河南郑州网友:

The local leadership’s relative probably is in the business of selling green cloth!

网易山西太原网友:

After death, one green hat for each person. [“To wear a green hat” is like your wife cheats on you.]

网易山西太原网友:

It isn’t the first time green paint or green netting has been used to make the land green, supposedly to avoid satellite spying, to whitewash the local government official’s achievements.
For government officials who live off of taxpayer money to force the ordinary common people to do such a meaningless/bewildering thing is truly a wonder.
Wouldn’t it be better if government officials could use just 50% of this “intelligence and wisdom” to do something practical for the ordinary common people?
Why bother wasting precious national resources to do these fake things, using such despicable methods to raise the area’s official’s “green political achievements”?
Where did the fine tradition of seeking truth from facts go? It is difficult to imagine, these public servants, are they able to really serve the people?

网易山东网友:

This is the most unbelievable thing to have happened since the creation of the high level animal that is humanity, please watch the greatest archeological discovery of 3016 (The Heavenly Kingdom’s Mysterious Green Graves).

网易广东深圳网友:

Archeology experts remain bewildered by this, why did past people paint gravestones green? Could it have been the custom at the time, or was there some other special meaning? Experts checking documents have verified that none of them have any record of this. So just what exactly is the reason for this? Please continue watching “Decode – The Heavenly Kingdom’s Mysterious Green Graves”.

网易广东深圳网友:

The Heavenly Kingdom’s officials are not satisfied with merely controlling the ordinary common people, they won’t even let go of the ordinary common people who have died…

网易辽宁网友:

With this kind of ridiculous thing, should we apply for a Guinness world record?