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President Xi Jinping made reference to this phrase while delivering his report at the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. “Never forget why you started, and you can accomplish your mission. The original aspiration and the mission of Chinese Communists are to seek happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.”
Never forget why you started, and keep our mission firmly in mind.
This catchphrase is part of the “The Wandering Earth” script and gained popularity as the Chinese sci-fi movie shot to fame. Traffic officers have since adopted it as a slogan to promote traffic safety. Internet users, however, have created their own parodies.
All roads lead to health, but sleep comes first.
If taken quite literally, the sentence means a lemon that turned into a monster. But it’s an expression for being jealous. The phrase, however, has evolved into a self-mockery expression, to voice one’s envy at other people’s wisdom, wealth or love relationship.
The love between Gina and Lang Lang has transformed me into a green-eyed monster.
The phrase “Feel so high” went viral after an eponymous song became an unexpected hit. With its hilarious melody and lyrics conveying excitement and happiness, the song gave comedy vloggers something to chew on.
I feel so high as if my life has reached its peak.
It refers to someone who doesn’t follow the rules but always surprisingly succeeds.
This guy’s a beast! He won another prize.
The playful phrase is homophonic to yu ni wu guan, or “it’s none of your business” in Mandarin. People prefer to use it as a funny substitute to express their discontent with someone poking his nose into others' business.
-Why are you still single? -It’s none of your business.
"Hardcore” originally refers to a powerful, rhythmic style of rap music. Now it has been extended to "core part, core member" which means powerful, doughty or domineering.
The "hardcore" editor can efficiently finish a draft before the upcoming deadline.
"996" refers to a work schedule commonly observed in a number of Chinese internet companies. It derives its name from the requirement that employees work from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. every day, six days a week.
You might say goodbye to your life if you work through the 996 work schedule.
The Weibo hashtag #The Five-Starred Red Flag Has 1.4 Billion Flag Guards# launched by China Central Television has become one of the most popular in the country's history after the Chinese national flag was thrown into the sea by radical protesters in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), igniting nationwide outrage.
The Five-Starred Red Flag Has 1.4 Billion Flag Guards!
It refers to a kind of minimalist living attitude, one that abandons unnecessary things – physical and nonmaterial – to live a simple life.
Removing all the encumbrances you got at the end of 2019 is necessary for your minimalist living next year.