
China’s newest trend is old selfies
Tencent's selfie app Pitu turns you into a Chinese teenager at the turn of the century
The latest trend for China’s selfie-taking millennials? Nostalgia.
The filters, called “Youth Portraits from My Past Life”, dressed users up in vintage Chinese fashion from the 1910s and 1920s -- when ladies donned the traditional cheongsam (known as qipao in Mandarin), and men wore either long Manchu robes or Western-style suits.

The time-limited filters were released to mark the anniversary of the May Fourth Movement, which saw thousands of college students in Beijing rally on that date in 1919 to protest against the Treaty of Versailles. Many were outraged by the Allied Powers’ decision to transfer German territory in China to Japan.
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The “Past Life” filters are no longer available now. But a number of other time-travel filters still exist, including these ones that turn you into an ancient imperial concubine:

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