Yax Lizard
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| A Yax Lizard, features the Komodo Dragon. | |||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 亞克蜥 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 亚克蜥 | ||||||
| Literal meaning | Yax Lizard | ||||||
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The Yax Lizard - Yà Kè Xī - is a mythical creature named after a Xinjiang musical dance program Happy life Yaxshi (former name The Party's Policy Yaxshi) in the CCTV Spring Festival's Gala 2010. It was supposedly a Komodo Dragon. The name is derived from "Yakexi" (simplified Chinese: 亚克西; traditional Chinese: 亞克西; pinyin: yà kè xī), which is the Mandarin transliteration of an Uyghur term (Uyghur: ياخشى；Uyghur romanisation：yaxshi；Cyrllic Uyghur：йахши) meaning 'good' or 'great'.
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It's mainly called Yax Lizard (simplified Chinese: 亚克蜥; traditional Chinese: 亞克蜥; pinyin: yà kè xī) or Jacques Lizard (Chinese: 雅克蜥; pinyin: yǎ kè xī).
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Han Han said that Yax Lizards live in the area between Gurbantünggüt Desert and Irtysh River, north to Dzungaria, Xinjiang. They eat snails and even mice. They also arrive the riverine area of Irtysh River to eat dead fishes, river crabs, frogs and so on every year from April to June. To demonstrate their dissatisfaction towards Chinese government's propaganda, some netizens name the species as "Yakshit" by the Chinese character's pronunciation.
