Chinese tourist stirs anger after child urinates on floor at Forbidden City in Beijing
- Incident upsets social media users as worker says there are 14 public toilets on the site
- Popular tourist attraction was visited by 8.1 people over Lunar New Year holiday
Photographs of a Chinese tourist letting her infant son pee on the floor of the Forbidden City in Beijing have stirred up anger on Chinese social media as users criticised her behaviour.
The popular blog “What Beijingers Don’t Know About Beijing” posted the images on Thursday alongside the caption: “There are so many public toilets in the Forbidden City they didn’t use, and they threw the used tissue paper on the floor afterwards too.”
Many people criticised the woman.
“This is a spoiled child, he will be doomed in future,” one said on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like service.
“The kid may have been desperate to use the toilet and his mother may not be familiar with where the toilets were,” said another.
A worker at the tourist attraction told news outlet Beijing Time on Thursday that there were 14 public toilets on the site, and that additional temporary ones were added during the peak tourist season over the Lunar New Year holiday.