https://www.scmp.com/rss/511621/feed Yingjie Wang formerly worked as an investigative fellow reporter for NPR affiliate Southern California Public Radio in Los Angeles. She holds a master's degree in journalism from the University of Southern California. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com An old man decided to drive a pink plastic car on the road, and it amused many people in Tianjin in northern China. The man drove the toy car slowly on the highway, causing drivers to make a detour around him. Pedestrians stopped to let him pass. "It was fortunate for him that there were no traffic police nearby," said a witness. The ridiculous sight of the vehicle made people laugh. However, some people worried about the danger this man put himself in. "He could easily have been involved in a... https://www.scmp.com/posties/kids/eye-news/article/3225909/old-man-drives-pink-toy-car-busy-highway-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/posties/kids/eye-news/article/3225909/old-man-drives-pink-toy-car-busy-highway-china?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 21 Sep 2022 10:00:11 +0000 A man in China has refused to pay child support to his former lover for their daughter, arguing in court that as the woman knew he was married but kept the child — she should pay for it. On Monday, a local court in eastern China’s Jiangsu province publicised its ruling on the dispute about who should bear the cost of raising a child born out of wedlock on their WeChat account. The man in the case, surnamed Zhang, met the woman, surnamed Yan, in 2017 while married with three children and began an... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3190829/she-knew-i-was-married-man-china-refuses-pay?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3190829/she-knew-i-was-married-man-china-refuses-pay?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 04 Sep 2022 06:00:19 +0000 A video of an eight-year-old Chinese girl learning how to surgically suture under the supervision of her doctor father has gone viral on mainland social media. Last week, the girl’s father, surnamed Xie, from Liuzhou in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, southern China, posted the video of her practising suturing on a piece of pork skin. The video has since been liked more than 100,000 times on video platform Douyin. In the video the girl, whose name was not divulged, can be seen gazing... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3190701/go-it-young-girl-8-year-old-china-performs?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3190701/go-it-young-girl-8-year-old-china-performs?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 03 Sep 2022 06:00:20 +0000 A father who hid in his son’s room after sending him to kindergarten for the first time became a social media sensation in mainland China. On September 1, the traditional start date for kindergartens, primary, and secondary schools in China, a father from Xuzhou, Jiangsu province in eastern China, walked his son to kindergarten for his first day. However, when he arrived home, the father went into his son’s room and began crying while holding his son’s framed picture. The scene touched the boy’s... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3191148/hes-grown-so-fast-father-china-cries-and-hides?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3191148/hes-grown-so-fast-father-china-cries-and-hides?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 03 Sep 2022 04:00:19 +0000 The parents of a one-year-old boy badly burned in an accident have shaved their heads and donated scalp tissue for skin grafts their son urgently needs. The story of the boy, named Kangkang, and the plight of his family from Cangzhou, northern China’s Hebei province, has been picked up by mainland media and moved millions of people in China. On Tuesday, the mother volunteered to donate her scalp tissue for her injured son and shaved off her long hair. “I’m going to donate my scalp to Kangkang... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3190980/i-will-give-him-anything-parents-shave-heads?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3190980/i-will-give-him-anything-parents-shave-heads?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 01 Sep 2022 10:00:27 +0000 A Chinese boy who made headlines after giving 30 vials of blood to see if he was a bone marrow match with his mother who has leukaemia, has successfully undergone transplant surgery, his father has said. Cao Xuanyi, a 10-year-old boy from Anhui province in eastern China, endured extensive and painful preparations since March this year, before the operation which was undertaken on Monday. The boy’s father, Cao Song, 33, posted a video on Douyin asking his son just before the surgery: “Are you... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/social-welfare/article/3190694/ants-biting-all-over-body-chinese-boy-endures?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/social-welfare/article/3190694/ants-biting-all-over-body-chinese-boy-endures?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 31 Aug 2022 01:00:14 +0000 International travel is nothing new in an age of relatively affordable air travel, but imagine journeying all the way from Europe to China on horseback. It’s a reality for Xu Zhixian, 32, from Heze in Shandong province, eastern China, who began his intercontinental journey earlier this year and which he documents in regular video posts to the delight of his social media followers. Starting at Lalin in Spain on February 20, Xu has already reached the Netherlands, a journey of more than 2,500... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3190355/he-has-naughty-streak-chinese-man-travelling?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3190355/he-has-naughty-streak-chinese-man-travelling?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 29 Aug 2022 01:00:36 +0000 Millions of people in mainland China have been entertained by a series of videos about the daily trials of a man looking after his 16 nephews and nieces and two daughters during the summer school holidays. The series began on June 28, and ended on August 22, when the video poster, Gong Lingjun, 35, from Chongqing, southwestern China, uploaded his final episode in which he bids farewell to his nephews and nieces as the holidays draw to an end. “This year’s summer vacation is coming to an end, and... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3190147/most-powerful-uncle-universe-who-splurges-us8800?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3190147/most-powerful-uncle-universe-who-splurges-us8800?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 26 Aug 2022 01:00:17 +0000 A cute video of an eight-year-old boy in China expertly deboning and cleaning fish to help his father sell midnight snacks has gone viral on mainland social media. The video from Monday showed the boy killing and cleaning fish for his father at a barbecue restaurant in Zhaotong, Yunnan province in southwestern China. In the clip, the child, stooping down with his knees slightly bent, skilfully descaled and deboned the fish on a chopping board resting on a tin bucket. After cutting the fish... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3189994/kid-chef-material-video-boy-china-expertly?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3189994/kid-chef-material-video-boy-china-expertly?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 24 Aug 2022 10:00:12 +0000 Videos of a man converting a truck cabin into a “princess bedroom” to take his daughter on the road have gone viral in mainland China, with more than 110 million views on Weibo alone. Earlier this month, a woman, surnamed Hu, posted a video on her Douyin account of her and her husband, both 24, taking their four-year-old daughter on their coal freight truck, with the cab decorated with floral bedding, drapery and stuffed toys on the dashboard. In the video of the family from Qujing in... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3189903/what-sweet-dad-man-china-turns-truck-cabin?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3189903/what-sweet-dad-man-china-turns-truck-cabin?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 24 Aug 2022 01:00:27 +0000 A video report about a young girl eating human hair to gain attention who ended up in hospital has gone viral in mainland China with millions of views on social media. On Sunday, Lizhi News reported that the nine-year-old girl presented at a local hospital in Suqian, Jiangsu province, eastern China, with symptoms including nausea and vomiting. The gastroenterologist in charge of the girl’s case, Zhao Chengguang, discovered a hairball weighing almost 1kg in the girl’s stomach. “The hair was mixed... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3189749/poor-child-doctors-china-find-1kg-hairball?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3189749/poor-child-doctors-china-find-1kg-hairball?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 22 Aug 2022 10:00:21 +0000 A dog in southwest China died this week after it went on a hunger strike for two days following its master’s death from an illness, according to the man’s granddaughter. The village dog who was over 10 years old had accompanied the old man since it was a puppy. It spent its final two days laying next to the coffin, not eating, drinking or even moving. In its final moments, the dog also fulfilled a dying wish of its owner by visiting a family home that the man’s oldest son had recently renovated,... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3189521/they-are-reunited-heaven-dog-dies-after-going?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3189521/they-are-reunited-heaven-dog-dies-after-going?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 20 Aug 2022 01:00:27 +0000 An elephant at a Chinese zoo showcased his intelligence and delighted visitors when he returned a shoe that a child had accidentally dropped into his pen. After the boy dropped his shoe into the enclosure, the elephant picked it up by wrapping his trunk around it before returning it to the boy’s outstretched hand. Visitors to the zoo in Weihai in Shandong province in eastern China on August 14 applauded the animal, and the boy grabbed a handful of grass to feed the elephant as a reward. The boy... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3189303/some-bananas-next-time-adorable-scene-chinese?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3189303/some-bananas-next-time-adorable-scene-chinese?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 19 Aug 2022 01:00:22 +0000 It’s a classic prank, but still amusing nonetheless. In eastern China, four men decided they would pay their wedding gift, totalling 6,888 yuan (US$1,015), in coins. On August 13, in Yantai, Shandong province, the men took a bag containing 42kg of coins – which required two people to carry – to their best friend’s wedding, according to a viral video posted by a girlfriend of one of the men. The woman, surnamed Fei, said they hoped to add a bit of humour to the wedding with the prank. “There was... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3189214/wacky-gift-chinese-groom-receives-42kg-loose?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3189214/wacky-gift-chinese-groom-receives-42kg-loose?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 18 Aug 2022 01:00:09 +0000 The story of a homeless single father and his daughter who sell balloon dolls at night and sleep outdoors during the day spotlighted the challenges faced by families in China with financial troubles. According to the video posted on Douyin on August 13 by a woman, surnamed Wang, the daughter is around five years old, dresses in a pink dress, and occasionally wears some of the balloon creations for fun. The father decorates his luggage with balloon dolls that he tries to sell to people who are... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3189035/dad-gives-all-his-love-homeless-single-father?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3189035/dad-gives-all-his-love-homeless-single-father?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 17 Aug 2022 01:00:21 +0000 A false kidnapping report highlighted the harsh reality of a ride-hailing driver in eastern China who had to take his daughter on shifts with him because there was nobody at home to take care of her. The man, surnamed Cui, from Zhejiang province, often allowed his daughter to sleep in the boot of his car while he worked. On August 4, one of his passengers noticed movement coming from the boot and she called the police and reported Cui for kidnapping. When the police arrived, Cui showed the... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3188919/i-am-not-kidnapper-single-father-china-nearly?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3188919/i-am-not-kidnapper-single-father-china-nearly?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 15 Aug 2022 10:00:17 +0000 A lighthearted stainless steel plaque that a father gave to his wife after the birth of their daughter, continuing a romantic tradition for the couple, went viral on the mainland Chinese internet as an example of a real-life romantic comedy. The plaque read: “Congratulations on having a baby girl! Giving birth to a child is awesome, Zhang Yingxiao! August 2022.” The message was made slightly more humorous by the fact that their daughter was born on July 31. A picture of the new father, Li Siru,... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3188106/she-going-roll-her-eyes-chinese-internet-pokes?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3188106/she-going-roll-her-eyes-chinese-internet-pokes?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 13 Aug 2022 10:00:22 +0000 While technically a vehicle, a man’s decision to outfit a go-kart as a pink plastic car and take it on the road amused people in China who smiled at his childlike whimsy. In the video, the middle-aged man is focused on driving but is also clearly pushing the limits of road safety and appears particularly vulnerable driving next to full-sized sedans. According to the August 5 video posted on Douyin, China’s TikTok, the man from Tianjin, a coastal municipality in northern China, drove the pink toy... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3188656/can-i-drive-license-man-china-goes-viral-driving?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3188656/can-i-drive-license-man-china-goes-viral-driving?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 13 Aug 2022 06:00:24 +0000 A brave five-year-old girl nicknamed Lele from central China has come to represent defiance in the face of a physical disability that left her without a nasal bridge. In one video shared by her mother, surnamed Zhang, the little girl from Henan province was playing outside alone. When her mother asked her why, Lele responded: “No child wants to play with me because I look different from them.” But rather than feeling sorry for herself, Lele told her mother: “Do not feel bad, mum. Let people say... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3188651/do-not-feel-bad-mum-chinese-girl-5-no-nasal?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3188651/do-not-feel-bad-mum-chinese-girl-5-no-nasal?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 12 Aug 2022 10:00:13 +0000 A video of a father in China distracted by his phone while caring for his baby son not noticing his child had been playing with his faeces has had more than 220 million views on Weibo. The footage is from a surveillance video from August 4 in Changchun, Jilin province, northeast China, and shows the father at home using his phone while his nine-month-old son sits next to him eating his own excrement. According to the baby’s mother, surnamed Huo, the child was left at home with his father while... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3188524/poop-eating-baby-takes-bite-and-shivers-video?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3188524/poop-eating-baby-takes-bite-and-shivers-video?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Aug 2022 09:30:22 +0000 A delightful video of a man filming himself at a matchmaking event, and then forgetting to edit himself telling his friend to ditch the function, racked up millions of views on mainland Chinese social media over the past few days. On August 7, the 28-year-old man known by his profile name “Student Ai Gao” recorded himself at a matchmaking gathering in Jinan in eastern China’s Shandong province to prove to his mother that he had been making an effort to find a wife. In the video, the man, who had... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3188366/done-shooting-lets-go-eat-mans-fabricated-video?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3188366/done-shooting-lets-go-eat-mans-fabricated-video?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Aug 2022 10:00:20 +0000 A video of a one-year-old baby chewing up a wooden table leg to ease teething pains has gone viral in mainland China, with more than 120 million views on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like platform. The baby, from Xuchang in central China’s Henan province, was gnawing on a wooden table leg and would not stop, even when his mother tried to move the baby’s head away from the “chewing device”. As the mother, surnamed An, explained, the boy would chew on anything except for the various teething toys she... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3188294/quirky-china-toddlers-teething-baby-chews-table?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3188294/quirky-china-toddlers-teething-baby-chews-table?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 09 Aug 2022 10:00:23 +0000 A nine-year-old boy in China is being called a hero for having calmly performed CPR on his mother after she was knocked unconscious and seriously injured in a car accident. On July 19, in Hefei, Anhui province in eastern China, the boy’s mother was riding an electric bicycle to pick up her son when she was involved in a car accident and knocked unconscious. A video of the incident taken by a passerby showed the woman lying on the ground at a busy traffic intersection with her electric bike next... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3186107/hero-9-year-old-boy-china-performs-cpr?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3186107/hero-9-year-old-boy-china-performs-cpr?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 25 Jul 2022 01:00:22 +0000 A 27-year-old woman in China has been diagnosed with severe anxiety as a result of relentless pressure from her parents to find a man and get married. The story has been picked up by Chinese news outlets and gone viral on mainland social media, receiving 260 million views on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like platform. The woman, from Jinan in Shandong province in eastern China, recently went to a local hospital after experiencing a panic attack with difficulty breathing, numbness, and twitching limbs,... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3186046/woman-27-develops-severe-anxiety-causing-body?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3186046/woman-27-develops-severe-anxiety-causing-body?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 24 Jul 2022 01:00:23 +0000 A Chinese woman’s proud online video post about becoming a grandmother at age 36, has started a heated national debate about early marriage and parenthood, with more than 240 million views on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like platform. On July 11, the woman, surnamed Zhang, posted a video on Douyin of herself outside a maternity ward waiting for the birth of her grandchild in Nanyang, Henan province, central China. “Welcome to the new life,” Zhang captioned the video. “Hope that all of the efforts are... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3186298/grandma-36-woman-china-triggers-early-marriage?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3186298/grandma-36-woman-china-triggers-early-marriage?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 23 Jul 2022 01:00:27 +0000 A Chinese boy has become an internet sensation after he was filmed angrily pointing out errors in an educational video about China’s Long March rockets in a planetarium. Eight-year-old Yan Hongsen went to a planetarium with his father on July 16 in Lhasa, Tibet, an autonomous region of China. During the visit, the boy noticed that a science education film played for visitors contained numerous inaccuracies, such as confusing the Long March 3 rocket with the number 5 rocket. “What are they... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3185801/chinese-boy-goes-viral-after-he-storms-out?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3185801/chinese-boy-goes-viral-after-he-storms-out?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 19 Jul 2022 09:26:50 +0000 A man who supports his daughter’s family has demanded his granddaughter adopt his surname as the price of his support. The man’s daughter, from Shanghai in eastern China, called a local family conflict resolution programme on July 16 to complain about her father’s demands. “I have recently been hounded to death by my father,” the woman, whose name was withheld to protect her identity, told a mediator. “My child is already 10 years old, but my father insists on changing her surname to his, or he... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3185729/elderly-man-china-demands-daughters-child-take?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3185729/elderly-man-china-demands-daughters-child-take?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 19 Jul 2022 01:00:23 +0000 Two mosquitoes have helped police in China catch a burglar after they bit and drank his blood which was then used in DNA testing to find him. On June 11, in Fuzhou, Fujian province, southeastern China, a thief broke into a residential compound at around 1pm. The thief stole several valuable items, according to a report released by Fuzhou Public Security on its WeChat account. The door was closed from the inside when the police arrived, and they discovered the thief had entered the apartment from... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3184991/police-china-use-dna-blood-dead-mosquitoes-bit?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3184991/police-china-use-dna-blood-dead-mosquitoes-bit?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 16 Jul 2022 07:00:19 +0000 Sometimes “man’s best friend” needs a helping hand, especially when it’s a 13-year-old Samoyed in southern China who needs a bit of help walking up the stairs to get home. A video of a woman from Nanning, in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, strapping her beloved pet to her back and carrying the dog up the stairs after taking it for a walk moved many people in China. The woman, surnamed Tang, said that she often takes the family dog downstairs for walks, but it struggles to walk back... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/china-personalities/article/3185438/woman-warms-hearts-china-pooch-pack-carry?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/china-personalities/article/3185438/woman-warms-hearts-china-pooch-pack-carry?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 16 Jul 2022 04:00:21 +0000 Two calligraphers in China, just three and eight years old, have astounded people with their mastery of the ancient and highly skilled art form. A series of videos featuring three-year-old Gao Yubo and his eight-year-old cousin Gao Yuxuan, from Qiqihar in Heilongjiang, northeastern China, practising calligraphy with large writing brushes went viral on mainland social media this month. The mother of three-year-old Yubo, surnamed Miao, said her son and Yuxuan began to do calligraphy after being... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3185090/boys-aged-3-and-8-captivate-china-amazing?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3185090/boys-aged-3-and-8-captivate-china-amazing?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 16 Jul 2022 01:00:13 +0000 A social media post in China reminiscing over the 2008 Beijing Olympics has sparked a worldwide search for the foreign owner of a lost memory card full of images of the man. According to the original post on Xiaohongshu, or Little Red Book, a Chinese social networking and e-commerce platform, the poster, Luo Xia, accidentally took the SD card in an internet cafe in Beijing where he went to watch the Olympic Games alone in 2008. “I took someone else’s SD card by mistake while uploading images in... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3185287/do-you-know-man-global-search-under-way-mystery?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3185287/do-you-know-man-global-search-under-way-mystery?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 15 Jul 2022 01:00:20 +0000 Videos of a man carrying his paralysed wife on and off a truck and taking care of her daily needs, including cleaning, changing her clothes, and exercise has brought many people in mainland China to tears. The man, Nie Jianwen, 39, is a truck driver from Longnan in Gansu province, northwest China. According to Nie, his wife, Cao Yingying, suffered a brain haemorrhage in 2020, leaving her paralysed. He has been working as a truck driver based in Shanghai since 2007, thousands of kilometres away... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3185238/shes-my-first-love-videos-devoted-truck-driver?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3185238/shes-my-first-love-videos-devoted-truck-driver?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 14 Jul 2022 10:00:13 +0000 Hysteria over pole dancers has erupted on Chinese social media again, this time after a video of two men performing at a water park while children are playing in a nearby pool was published online. On July 2, a brief and grainy video posted on Douyin shows two shirtless male performers wearing shorts pole dancing next to a pool in a water park in Dezhou, Shandong province in eastern China. The brief video is only 37 seconds long and is taken from quite some distance making it very hard to... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3184143/pole-dancing-hysteria-hits-chinese-social-media?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3184143/pole-dancing-hysteria-hits-chinese-social-media?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 09 Jul 2022 10:00:18 +0000 Videos of an eight-year-old girl in China running for the first time in two years after she was paralysed below the waist in an accident have received more than 160 million views on Weibo and brought many people to tears. The girl, named Anqi, is from Xiangtan in Hunan province in central China. The videos show different stages of her recovery over the last two years in which she is seen participating in gruelling rehabilitation exercises and finally running. Anqi had a spinal cord injury in... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3184580/videos-chinese-girl-running-first-time-being?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3184580/videos-chinese-girl-running-first-time-being?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 08 Jul 2022 07:00:14 +0000 After 33 years of identifying as a man, Chen Li, whose name has been changed to protect his identity, was told he is biologically female after having a chromosome analysis test. Chen, who comes from a small town in southwest China’s Sichuan province, had surgery to correct irregular urination during puberty. Since then, for more than 20 years, he had experienced recurrent blood in his urine. When Chen experienced abdominal discomfort that lasted for more than four hours, a doctor diagnosed him... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/gender-diversity/article/3184464/man-china-who-thought-he-had-urinary-problem?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/gender-diversity/article/3184464/man-china-who-thought-he-had-urinary-problem?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 07 Jul 2022 10:00:27 +0000 A video of a person abandoning a puppy in the middle of a busy road has gone viral in mainland China, sparking a heated debate about animal abuse and triggering a police search for the culprit. In the video, taken by a dash cam of another car, posted on June 29, a driver opens a car door and drops a white puppy in the middle of traffic while idling between other cars on the road in Guangdong province, southern China. The face of the pet owner cannot be seen in the clip. The abandoned dog then... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3184338/animal-cruelty-video-heartless-person-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3184338/animal-cruelty-video-heartless-person-china?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 07 Jul 2022 01:00:16 +0000 A reclusive middle-aged man who appears to have abandoned his former life to live in a cave and study has become a social media sensation in China. On July 2, a man, surnamed Liu, recorded a video of another man in a tattered shirt sitting in a cave, smoking and reading a book while taking notes with his spare hand in Neijiang, Sichuan province, in southwestern China. Liu was visiting friends in the region and they went for a walk to see the caves in the nearby mountains, where they found this... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3184208/modern-day-hermit-china-discovered-living-alone?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3184208/modern-day-hermit-china-discovered-living-alone?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 06 Jul 2022 01:00:25 +0000 A video of a woman catching a cheating husband and his lover in the act has gone viral on mainland Chinese social media. On June 26, a woman, surnamed Li, 41, from Langfang, Hebei province, northern China, smashed the window of a car in the street with a brick, drawing a crowd of onlookers. In videos posted online, Li stopped the car in which her husband and his lover were sitting and began yelling at her husband who was in the driver’s seat. “She can only be a lover as long as I still have our... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3183779/shameless-crowd-cheers-wife-china-who-catches?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3183779/shameless-crowd-cheers-wife-china-who-catches?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 02 Jul 2022 07:00:16 +0000 A five-year-old girl filmed using a 500,000 yuan (US$75,000) camera for her homework has received more than 180 million views on Weibo in China due to the striking contrast between the large size of the equipment and the small figure of the girl. In the video posted on June 26 by the child’s father, Zhang Ruixin, the girl, nicknamed Meng Meng, is seen panning the camera which is almost the same size as herself, and adjusting the focus on two turtles climbing onto the river bank in Guiyang,... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3183856/cute-video-five-year-old-daughter-chinese-photo?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3183856/cute-video-five-year-old-daughter-chinese-photo?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 02 Jul 2022 01:00:23 +0000 A 46-year-old man, surnamed Wang, from Shanghai was sentenced to 15 months in prison for abandonment after he severely neglected his sick father, who eventually died. Furthermore, Wang did not organise a funeral after his father’s death and allowed the body to decay, only to be discovered when his neighbours called the police because of the smell. Wang’s father, who was 74 when he died on September 23, 2021, suffered from hypertension, diabetes, and other chronic diseases. In his last six days,... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/social-welfare/article/3183525/jail-chinese-man-who-woefully-neglected-sick-dad?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/social-welfare/article/3183525/jail-chinese-man-who-woefully-neglected-sick-dad?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 29 Jun 2022 11:00:01 +0000 Police in northern China arrested twin sisters accused of routinely switching their passports to help one another leave the country dozens of times. One of them, Zhou Mouhong, is married to a Japanese man, but when her visa to leave China was denied, she turned to her sister, Zhou Mouwei, whose visa to Japan was approved, for help, said the police in an announcement about the case. Because the twins, from Harbin in Heilongjiang province, look remarkably similar, Zhou Mouhong was able to pass off... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3183361/police-china-arrest-twin-sisters-who-used-each?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3183361/police-china-arrest-twin-sisters-who-used-each?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 29 Jun 2022 01:00:18 +0000 A family in eastern China filed a police report after their two-year-old daughter mysteriously fell to her death from the eighth floor of a residential building. It happened after the toddler was taken to that floor because she was accidentally left behind in a lift by her nanny. According to the June 14 surveillance footage from Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province, the toddler, nicknamed Little Cherry, was left in the lift by her nanny, surnamed Wu. The woman was engrossed in her mobile... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/social-welfare/article/3183223/police-china-investigate-death-two-year-old-girl?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/social-welfare/article/3183223/police-china-investigate-death-two-year-old-girl?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 28 Jun 2022 01:00:13 +0000 It’s an ancient exercise normally associated with India and while it’s popular among hipster urban white-collar workers in China, yoga has made a surprise – and expert – appearance among seniors in a remote mainland village. About 200 kilometres from Beijing, tucked away in Yugouliang village, a group of senior yoga exponents perform highly difficult movements belying their advancing years. The average age of a Yugouliang resident is mid-60s. A video of them exercising has attracted a lot of... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3182937/elderly-rural-chinese-who-embrace-ancient-art?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3182937/elderly-rural-chinese-who-embrace-ancient-art?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 26 Jun 2022 07:00:13 +0000 Results from China’s one-size-fits-all university entrance exam, the gaokao, have gradually been made available to anxious students all over the mainland since this year’s exams finished on June 8. On June 23, the gaokao results system became available that night in Sichuan, southwestern China, and 55-year-old Liang Shi, China’s famed “King of gaokao”, received his score for his 26th attempt. But sadly he fell short of the desired score to enter his dream school, the Sichuan University. With a... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/china-personalities/article/3182980/see-you-next-year-chinas-king-gaokao-fails?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/china-personalities/article/3182980/see-you-next-year-chinas-king-gaokao-fails?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 24 Jun 2022 11:00:22 +0000 A Chinese woman’s complaint about feeling uncomfortable during a topless medical examination by a lone male doctor has garnered 130 million views on Weibo and generated heated online debate about the one-week suspension the doctor received. On June 17, a 26-year-old woman, surnamed Wang, from Zhangjiakou in Hebei province, northern China, went to the radiology department of Huailai County Hospital for a chest X-ray. She was asked to remove her top and bra by the male radiologist whom she said... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3182823/womans-anger-over-topless-hospital-x-ray-male?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3182823/womans-anger-over-topless-hospital-x-ray-male?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 24 Jun 2022 01:00:27 +0000 A viral video showing a human trafficking victim – who was snatched from her home as toddler – dressed in a traditional Chinese wedding gown appealing for help to find her birth parents has prompted an outpouring of emotion in mainland China. Bai Xuefang, 24, began her seven-year quest to find her biological parents in 2015. On June 19, in her latest move to find them she recorded a video of herself dressed in a traditional Chinese wedding gown, holding a photograph of her as a three-year-old... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/social-welfare/article/3182485/chinese-child-trafficking-victim-sold-us150?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/social-welfare/article/3182485/chinese-child-trafficking-victim-sold-us150?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 22 Jun 2022 01:00:16 +0000 Police in China helped to recover part of 120,000 yuan (US$18,000) a teenager stole from her mother that was needed for an operation and went on a shopping spree. The mother, surnamed Jia, and her husband, surnamed Li, called police in Baoding, Hebei province in northern China, to report that their 14-year-old daughter had spent the money on an online shopping spree on paid gaming accounts, mobile phones, clothes, and food. The money had been set aside to pay for surgery to fix a protruding disc... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/social-welfare/article/3182398/teen-girl-china-steals-us18000-meant-sick?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/social-welfare/article/3182398/teen-girl-china-steals-us18000-meant-sick?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 21 Jun 2022 01:00:24 +0000 Alarm bells are ringing on Chinese social media after a man was defrauded out of 1.43 million yuan (US$210,000) after making an online purchase of just 741 yuan (US$110). On December 31, last year, the man, surnamed Han, from Dalian in northeastern China’s Liaoning province received a phone call from someone claiming to be a customer service representative for an online shopping platform. The person informed Han that because he bought a bottle of vitamin C pills on the platform and several... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/social-welfare/article/3182127/man-losing-us210000-over-us110-refund-shocks?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/social-welfare/article/3182127/man-losing-us210000-over-us110-refund-shocks?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 20 Jun 2022 01:00:19 +0000 A video in which a college graduate who wed her cousin tells a doctor that she has had four failed pregnancies and three unsuccessful in vitro fertilisation attempts has sparked a heated online debate about inter-family marriage in mainland China. On June 1, Star Video - a popular self-media platform in mainland China - published a video showing a doctor consulting a woman in northwestern China’s Gansu province who had been struggling to conceive a healthy baby. According to the video, when the... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/gender-diversity/article/3182064/find-sperm-donor-chinese-doctor-shocked-find?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/gender-diversity/article/3182064/find-sperm-donor-chinese-doctor-shocked-find?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 19 Jun 2022 01:00:19 +0000 Earlier this year, 67-year-old Tang Huaxiang suffered a stroke which wiped his mind clean of everything except the memory of his beloved wife Wei Shenlian. Wei, who is two years her husband’s junior, remembers the terrible moment on February 18, like it was yesterday: “It was late at night, he suddenly had a stroke, causing him to forget everything, even his own name. I was then the only one he recognised.” Tang spent about 40 days in hospital in Liuyang City, Hunan province in southern China.... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/article/3181790/total-recall-chinese-wife-nurses-stroke-stricken-husband-back?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/article/3181790/total-recall-chinese-wife-nurses-stroke-stricken-husband-back?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 18 Jun 2022 10:00:15 +0000