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Chinese netizens are known for coming up with strange and creative terms(术语) for people and things making the news and they spread like wildfire.
From “skinny blue mushrooms” to “melon-eating masses”, the BBC takes a look at what has caught their imaginations this year.
Sichuan Trump
US President-elect Donald Trump is known as “chuanpu” by mainstream media outlets.
But the conspiracy theory(阴谋论), spread on social networks Weibo and WeChat, is that Trump was born in 1946 in Sichuan when his father set up a business in China.
It’s nonsense of course, but that hasn’t stopped some locals from viewing him as “the pride of Sichuan” — though his recent speech attacks against China.
Prehistoric powers
National swimmer Fu Yuanhui not only won a bronze medal at the Rio Olympic Games, but also scored a win with viewers in China in a TV interview.
When told she could fight for the final, Fu pulled a funny face and said, “I have used all my prehistoric powers to swim!”
‘Prehistoric powers’, or “honghuangzhili”, was soon used as a term for an unstoppable force, while Fu became an internet darling.
Skinny blue mushroom
One man’s misfortune in love turned out to be a goldmine for netizens, when a man from Guangxi province uploaded a video of himself talking about his loneliness while his girlfriend was away.
“Unbearable, I want to cry,” he moaned – but thanks to his heavy accent, it ended up sounding more like “skinny blue mushroom”.
“Lanshouxianggu” was then shared more widely and took off as a meme, mostly as a way to make fun of the southern Guangxi accent.
Melon-eating masses
The fullest expression of this term is “themelon-eating masseswho don’t know what’s really going on”.
Its origin is unclear, but netizens often use this — sometimes derogatorily(带贬义地) — to describe a passive group of bystanders at a major incident or event.
