How Staying Home Made These Chinese Learn New Skills!

Over the past month, Chinese netizens made a daily average of over 1 billion searches for coronavirus-related information on Baidu. The trending keywords on Baidu, ranging from tips on virus protection to cooking recipes.

A surging number of the eat-at-home population is keen to know how to improve their cooking skills. Recipes for cabbages, steamed buns and potatoes were among the most-searched words.

While staying at home may not be ideal, everyone stuck inside should take it as an opportunity to learn new skills, whether it be in the kitchen or any other activity that can get you moving or thinking.

Then you might be thinking… What "skills" have people been busy developing or improving recently?

Some have learned curling

Others have gone fishing… indoors

Learning to pick up the lion dance

People have also been increasingly wary of ordering takeout, hence the surge in cooking recipe searches on Baidu to improve their kitchen skills!

Cold noodles:

What you see other people do:

Vs. reality:

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Cooking with a rice cooker:

What you see other people do:

Vs. reality 

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vs. reality

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Hoo~~

The barbershop was closed, people could not go out. Many men's hair is getting longer.

DIY haircuts have also become popular:

But now that people are starting to go back to work, what do you think the office will look like?

Source: weibo

Editor: Crystal H

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