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Moha (膜蛤), literally "admiring toad" or "toad-worship", is an internet meme spoofing Jiang Zemin, former president of the People's Republic of China. It originated among the netizens in mainland China and has become a subculture on the Chinese internet. In the culture, Jiang is nicknamed ha, or "toad", because of his amphibious resemblance. Netizens who moha (worship the toad) call themselves "toad fans" or "toad lovers", or "moha magicians" which is a wordplay of mofashi (魔法师, magician) in Mandarin.

Another nickname for Jiang is "elder" or "senior", for he once called himself an "elder" or "senior" when he was berating a Hong Kong reporter Sharon Cheung who questioned him. A video clip recording this event has been spreading widely on the internet since 2011, especially in 2014, when Hong Kong was experiencing a period of political instability. Initially, netizens extract Jiang's quotes from the video and imitate his wording and tone, for parody and insult. However, as the culture develops, some imitations have taken to carry affection toward him. The quotes for imitation has also evolved to include what he said during his presidency, and in his personal life.

Culture characteristics
Moha culture is characterized by the imitation of Jiang's words. Toad lovers leave comments online using his wording and tone in response to anything that could evoke the image of him, e.g. news coverage about him, or a photo of someone wearing black-rimmed glasses (which Jiang always wears).

Material
The materials of moha usually come from three famous videos about Jiang called "Three Pieces About Toad" (蛤三篇). In the first video, Jiang lashed out a Hong Kong reporter Sharon Cheung when he met with Chee-hwa Tung, Chief Executive of Hong Kong at the time. And the second is recorded when Jiang came back to China United Engineering Corporation (Jiang worked at there for some years), and Jiang recalled his experience in the video. The last is that famous interview by Mike Wallace, one of the most famous reporters all over the world. Toad lovers usually extract some sentences from these video for spoof like "too young, too simple, sometimes naive".