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Coronavirus: the Chinese deceive boredom on social networks

2020-02-27T22:24:19.458Z


A marathon in your living room, fishing in the aquarium or even dancing on the balcony ... In China, everything is good for spending time in recent days.


When you are prohibited from doing any outdoor activity, what can you do for your day? This is the question that many Chinese are asking, no less than 220 million of them are still in quarantine or unable to travel at the end of February.

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While waiting for the situation to unfold, the population is showing fabulous creativity. Many of them share funny and offbeat videos on the Weibo social network, such as that of a man fishing in his living room aquarium, of patients dancing with doctors in a hospital in Wuhan. , or… chocolates returned in their box with cotton swabs. So many clips that have gone viral in recent weeks, as shown in this video published on the popular WeChat app.

Likewise, the Douyin network (the name of the Tik Tok application in China) is overwhelmed with more or less strange and more or less funny images, but all of which have in common being produced by Chinese people who try, as they can, to kill time. Here are a few :

For less creative people, there remains the possibility of playing sports… while staying at home! This is the option chosen by a certain Pan Shancu: marathon runner by trade. And the latter was not satisfied with a few quick turns around the living room table as would have done the common man. Pan Shancu ran 66 kilometers in circles in his bedroom and living room. All in 6 hours 41 minutes. The latter admitted that his head was spinning during the first kilometers but it seems that the vertigo eventually passed, leaving the runner to take up his incredible challenge.

In another vein, others preferred to move their bodies to music: a video posted by the daily South China Morning Post shows residents of Sichuan province dancing behind the glass of their apartment.

And this is just a brief overview of how several hundred million Chinese people have been trying to keep themselves busy for more than a month, until they can resume a normal life. Perhaps also a way to keep a social bond, as this video published on Twitter at the end of January by the Asian correspondent for the American channel NBC News shows: you can see residents shouting at each other from their windows "Jiāyóu!" , that is to say, "hold on!"

Source: lefigaro

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