The grandson of Bing Xin, a prominent Chinese writer of the 20th century, spray painted her monument with offensive words denigrating his father who is involved in a messy divorce from his mother.
Li Jie, manager of a Beijing-based memorial hall built for Chinese celebrities near the Great Wall, told the Global Times yesterday the monument was immediately covered with a tarpaulin after it was painted on Thursday and the offensive graffiti would be removed as soon as possible.
The grandson, Wu Shan, wrote eight big red Chinese characters on his grandmother's monument that were meant to mock and shame his father.
Friends took picture of Wu defacing the edifice and posted them online.
Wu also pasted a printed leaflet on the monument accusing his father Wu Ping of keeping a mistress and failing to provide an appropriate divorce settlement for his mother who is in her 70s and suffering from cancer.
Li said Wu Shan, along with several of his friends, came to the memorial park and defaced the monument unnoticed by security.
"I did it to raise the public's attention of my mother's plight. I had no other choice," he told the Guangzhou-based Yangcheng Evening News.
He said that Bing Xin left multiple properties to her three children after her death in 1999 and his father still owns several of them.
He said his mother got nothing after the couple were divorced in 2006, reported the newspaper.
Wu Shan believed that his father's assets are worth of more than 10 million yuan ($1.57 million).
"He should give my mother two of the properties and 5 million yuan. My mother now wants only 3 million yuan, but he won't agree," the newspaper quoted him as saying.
"My father had an affair with his former secretary, who is 40 years younger than him. He didn't come to the hospital to see my mother even though she is critically ill," he said. "I was thinking of smashing the monument, but was stopped by my friends."
A man who claimed to be the father of one of Wu Shan's friends, told the newspaper that Wu Shan was dissatisfied that the court apparently did not take into consideration Wu Ping's extramarital affair.
"The concubine scandal was brought up during the divorce case, but the court did not consider it because of a lack of proof," he said.
Many Web users said that Wu Shan's defacing of his grandmother's monument was extreme.
Chen Li, a middle school teacher in Shandong Province, told the Global Times that although Wu Shan was seeking a fairer settlement for his mother, his actions went too far.
"He has also hurt Bing Xin's fans," she said.
Liu Bin, a lawyer specializing in damage and compensation with the Beijing-based Juntai Law Firm told the Global Times that Wu Shan might be forced to apologize and pay for the cleaning of the monument.
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