Well, if it's not the Wuhan miracle again, then it's the Wuhan effect. Because of the deadly Coronavirus disease outbreak, some people have stopped greeting each other by shaking hands. In a short video clip I've seen, someone even declined to shake the hand of the supposedly most powerful woman in the world; the chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel. Some Chinese in Wuhan have come up with what is termed the Wuhan shake; whereby a person uses his feet to touch the feet of another as a form of greeting. Americans use elbows instead in the elbow pump and Indonesia's President Jokowi simply uses the customary Indian greeting, Namaste. I was just wondering why the Chinese in Wuhan don't just greet each other with 作揖 zuoyi, the customary classic Chinese fist and palm salute often seen in kung fu movies. The etiquette is said to be more than 3000 years and had been created by the Duke of Zhou in early West Zhou Dynasty (BC 1046-BC 771).
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