Lei Day orange, Kahoolawe is gray, Kauai is purple, and Niihau is white. In the same order the flowers are lehua, lokelani, 'ilima, kukui, kauna'oa, hinahina, mokihana, and a pupu shell. Niihau is the only island without a plant as its symbol. Lei Day in Hawaii incorporates various ethnic traditions, other than their own. Throughout the history of the holiday, natives have struggled between preserving Hawaiian culture and integrating foreign traditions on the special day. This has brought tension to the day of celebration, but over the years has meshed into part of the festivities. Although many different ethnic groups such as
Mo lei tau referred to the genre as "Silly Talk", a label that Chow was happy to accept. "Mo lei tau" (Jyutping: mou4 lei4 tau4) is a Cantonese term which may be loosely translated as "with no source", but is generally used to mean "makes no sense". The original phrase was "mo lei tau gau" (無厘頭尻) which literally means "cannot differentiate between head and tail". However, in Cantonese the word (Jyutping: haau1/ commonly mispronounced as "gau1") that means end of spine is often mispronounced as a vulgar word 𨳊 for penis. To avoid saying the word "gau", the phrase is cut to "mou