Yikes. I'm a little ashamed to admit I had to look this up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers

Yikes. I'm a little ashamed to admit I had to look this up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign Hopefully this blog post's author was unaware of the hundred flowers campaign. In any case it's very helpful of you to point this out so this meme doesn't get passed along by those of us ignorant of this bit of history.