Lesson 7: Very foolish and naive

Gillian Chung, aka Ajiao, one of the Hong Kong celebrities involved in the 2008 Edison Chen sex photos scandal, made a public statement saying she was “很傻很天真”.

阿娇
a’jiāo
Ajiao, Gillian Chung’s nickname by which she’s more commonly known

钟欣桐 (traditional: 锺欣桐)
zhōng xīntóng
Zhong Xintong (Chung Yan-Tung), Gillian Chung’s Chinese name

天真
hěnshǎ hěntiānzhēn
very foolish, very naive

This phase has been used with “很黄很暴力” in online forums to form a mock antithetical couplet.

早上天真晚上很黄很暴力
Zǎoshàng hěnshǎ hěntiānzhēn, wǎnshàng hěnhuáng hěnbàolì.
Very foolish and naive in the morning, very perverted and violent in the evening.