3 Chinese curses

I fell sick and failed to blog for three days and what do I read when I come back?

Terrible Curses.

The three most terrible curses in Chinese are (in order of gravity):

(1) Harm-Kar-Ch’an (Death to your family, may your gfamily line become extinct)

(2) Lu Bay Hoe See (May you have a terrible painful violent death)

(3) Peh Moe Boe Kar See (Obviously your parents fail to teach you manners)

The third may appear mild in contrast to the first two but raised in a family with Confucian values (conscious or subconscious), which most Chinese (regardless of religion) would be unless they were adopted at a young age by non Chinese, it’s a terrible insult to a Chinese when the parents are blamed for his or her mistakes, errors or sins. It would be terribly poot how (lacks filial piety) to have one's parents blamed or cursed.

I see certain similarities in Malay culture as well, like being accused with the offensive word of ‘biadap’.

The first one, as one commentator in a previous post mentioned, is likely to get one killed for mentioning it, because it’s such a horrendous curse directed at the target as “May your family become extinct” implying death for all a la genocide.


We are talking of a Nazi wishing ‘Harm Kar Ch’an’ to Jews, or ultra right wing Zionist Israelis to Palestinians, Hutus to Tutsis, and to some extent, Japanese to Chinese (during WWII), or Hindus to Muslims (and vice versa) in India-Pakistan especially during the partition, etc.

It’s such a vile, vicious and venomous Chinese curse which would only be used by an equally vile, vicious and venomous Chinese. The evil of such a curse is unbelievable.

And it’s all the more terrible when the curser is already an old man who is almost at the end of his life to wish such an evil curse on many generations of innocents including the young and yet unborn. And he dares to call himself a Buddhist. How vile, how vicious, how venomous! How evil.


In all my life, while I know of that curse, I have never heard anyone say it out (not aloud anyway).

Just wondering whether we should invoke the second curse but I believe we should refuse to because then we would be descending into the same gutter with an evil barbarous bullshitting bastard wakakaka.