Last Updated on 2017-05-10 , 1:29 pm

Do you act differently when you’re overseas? Because the country that we’re travelling to is different from our homeland, be it the culture, language or way of living, we tend to put on our best behaviour so as not to offend any locals.

However, recent news has been spreading about a China tourist that offended thousands of Japanese because of his greed.

Last Friday, this China tourist apparently decided to visit the Kiyomizu shrine in Kyoto, Japan. Nothing wrong with that, of course. Except that he decided to jump into the sacred shrine, fully-clothed ready to collect the sacred water into his water bottle.

Absurd and rude? Many people seemed to think so, and even his own countrymen are lamenting about his behaviour.

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The Kiyomizu shrine in Kyoto has a 1,200-year-old history in which it is open to the public to collect water or to visit. The water is divided into 3 streams from the roof where visitors are able to collect using special cups that are provided.

According to the heritage of the shrine, each of the streams represents different meanings. One stream signifies longevity, the second stream is said to provide success in school and the third is said to give luck in finding love.

Though each of the streams symbolises different significance, tradition dictates that visitors should not drink from all three streams as it is considered greedy and would bring about bad luck.

Doesn’t seem like the China tourist got the message though as he inconsiderately went to collect water from all three streams into his bottle. The action done was said to be incredibly disrespectful and offensive to both the Japanese locals and foreign tourists.

The way he jumped into the shrine and waded around to collect the water is also really unhygienic, don’t you think?

Having seen a rise of rude occurrences from China tourists, a series of measures were announced to prevent more incidents from happening.

Remember the time where China tourists decided to open plane doors and helped themselves out? Marked as the most important rule, the government has placed “no interference with any public transport” as the number one law on the list.

Other rules include no damages to be done to any historical attractions or public grounds after news surfaced announcing that China tourists had trashed Shanghai Disneyland before it was opened and defacing the Everest base camp by graffiti.

The government hopes that by having such rules, it would prevent similar incidents from happening. Any infringement would result in a ban and/or punishment if the action is deemed unfavourable.

Bad behaviours by China tourists will result in being blacklisted and banned from travel as a part of the new law. Details of the offender and offence made will be kept for a period of 1-5 years depending on how severe the action was.

Hopefully, they would learn to behave properly in both their country and other travel destinations in the future!

This article was first published on goodyfeed.com

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