A controversy over a waterfall has cascaded into a social media storm in China, even prompting an explanation from the water body itself.

A hiker posted a video that showed the flow of water from Yuntai Mountain Waterfall - billed as China’s tallest uninterrupted waterfall - was coming from a pipe built high into the rock face.

The clip has been liked more than 70,000 times since it was first posted on Monday. Operators of the Yuntai tourism park said that they made the “small enhancement” during the dry season so visitors would feel that their trip had been worthwhile.

“The one about how I went through all the hardship to the source of Yuntai Waterfall only to see a pipe,” the caption of the video posted by user “Farisvov” reads.

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    Really? Because what I’m seeing is an article from the British Broadcasting Channel and a thread full of people using this story to make sweeping generalizations about China, in English. I suppose it’s possible, but I gotta say I find it a little hard to believe that this thread is full of Chinese nationals, as you’re claiming.

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      this thread is full of Chinese nationals, as you’re claiming.

      Where was that claimed?

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        Right here?

        And it’s still the Chinese people making a big deal about this.

        I’m talking about what people in this thread are saying, and in response they said it’s Chinese people making a big deal about it, so naturally that would imply that this thread is full of primarily Chinese people.

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          15 months ago

          They said it’s Chinese people IN CHINA making a big deal about it, which is what this article is about.

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            And I’m fine with that. What I’m less fine with are people in this thread, about a BBC article, exploiting a local issue about water management to paint an entire country as being full of liars. If Chinese people want to make a big deal out of it, that’s their business.

            Nobody in this thread cares about it for the story itself. They care about it because it gives them an excuse to push their agenda.

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              Fair, but Flying Squid didn’t say anything negative about China. He just said that it was Chinese people who made this incident known internationally.

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                I never said that he did.

                I don’t see how this point matters. Yes, Chinese people shared the story, because they cared about it. I still think it’s a non-issue personally, but people care about all sorts of things, and I’m sure I could find some celebrity gossip with a wider spread. Perfectly fine with all of that.

                Then the BBC reports on it internationally, and people on here use it to spread a narrative that China is a nation full of liars. Am I repeating myself? I think I said that part already. That’s the only thing I’ve taken issue with. I fail to see how what you’re saying, that Chinese people originally shared the story, has anything to do with that.

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                  I fail to see how what you’re saying, that Chinese people originally shared the story, has anything to do with that.

                  It doesn’t really. The issue is that you incorrectly stated he claimed that it was Chinese nationals in this thread that made a big deal about the waterfall, which he did not.

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                    OK but putting that aside can we agree his other point is totally valid, prople in this thread using it to attack all China or all chinese are absurd, awful, and immoral?

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                    I said that to make the point that what they said was irrelevant to what I said, unless this thread was full of Chinese people.