About a thousand princelings—sons and daughters of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party—gathered for a Chinese New Year celebration at a Beijing film studio on Feb. 3, the Chinese Internet portal Sina reported. But one significant official was a no show.
A princeling, Hu Muying, the daughter of a former president of the Chinese Regime’s mouthpiece Xinhua News Agency, spoke favorably about a fellow princeling—Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping.
Hu praised Xi for taking down “tigers” and “flies,” earning one victory after another in the anti-corruption campaign last year.
While “tiger” is a jargon for high-ranking CCP officials, an official in the lower party echelon is nicknamed a “fly.”
One important “big brother” was a no show at the gathering.
Big Brother
Zeng Qinghong, a former member of the Politburo Standing Committee (currently the seven men at the top the Party hierarchy) was a “big brother” to the princelings, a title going back to the 1980s, according to an article published in September 2014 by Boxun, a Chinese-language news website based outside of China.
His father, Zeng Hong, was a revolutionary and a former Minister of Interior. His mother, Deng Liujin, was once the head of a nursery in Yan'an, a city in the Shaanxi Province in northwest China. Also nicknamed “Mother Deng,” she raised up many princelings, according to Boxun.
