Hainan Rendez-Vous, China’s largest annual yacht show is a must-attend exhibition for the world’s marquee auto and high-end consumer brands.
The event now faces a huge crisis following 3 posts last night on hugely popular / influential microblogging site Sina Weibo.
Post 1:
It’s said that there’s a high-class prostitute that made 600,000 RMB there in only three days, and there have been 2100 condoms found in the last party… And also it’s said that a man was discovered with HIV and the girls he has relations with in the past two months all went to Sanya… Police in Sanya sent forces to the rendevous and the husbands of “Da S” and “Xiao S” (two celebrity girls) appeared there too, all the people were taken to urine analysis… (shared)
Post 2:
The Hainan Rendevous has got really popular now… even Chinese overseas know and discuss on the extravagance, orgy, rape, drugs, AIDS and escort girls there…It’s hard to tell how many future wives are involved in this Rendevous. Later, we need to ask “have you been to 2013 Hainan Rendevous” before marrying a wife. So men are the most miserable victims of the event!
Post 3:
It’s reported online the Rendevous in Hainan is in fact a mass promiscuous party, with a number of stars involved. It was spread online that models and “GaoFuShuai” (young rich) are gathering in Hainan for an orgy. A party was held on a 45 meter long yacht with 200 private jets for transportation, and purchase orders valued at 1 billion RMB in total have been placed in 3 days, even many A-list stars are present there.
So far, there have been over 1 million people talking about this and tens of millions of people have seen what they have said.
Durex has also jumped on the bandwagon with the below image posted on their weibo page.
The rough literal meaning of the above is ‘the sea and sky merged together as a beautiful view’.
‘海天’ are also the first two characters of the event name.
The funny double meaning is that the last character ‘色’ changes the meaning from ‘beautiful view’ into ‘erotic’.
No matter if true or not, the image of the Hainan Rendez-Vous in the common peoples’ eyes is now that of an orgy for rich people (Despite some people having tried to prove it’s not true with evidence). Personally, I believe it’s a “masterpiece” of some buzzmakers, or rumor spreaders, perhaps for somebody appearing in the pictures. Anyway, the damage is done.
At time of posting the official site of the event was down.
Author: Philip Qian
