Burningpaper was pushed through his front door early on Saturday, but smoke alarms alerted the family and they managed to extinguished the blaze with a garden hose.
Global Times adds that street vendors have been arrested for selling paper models of the iPhone 5 as part of an environmental clean-up campaign against burningpaper ancestral offerings for the upcoming Tomb-Sweeping Festival in early April.
It was the equivalent, if not of burning Thornfield Hall to the ground, then at least of ripping down the paper which Mr Hague had spent a year laying over its most jagged cracks.