A factory technician earning 12,000 yuan a month refused to give his girlfriend his salary card after she said it would make her feel secure. She stopped talking to him for three days.
Red king crabs have exploded across the Barents Sea, wrecking seabed ecosystems, yet restaurant prices keep climbing. The answer lies in brutal Arctic fishing conditions, tight quotas and a supply chain built on risk.
A widely shared Chinese essay revisits Harvard's decades-long research on happiness and distills it into three everyday habits. It lands at a moment when Chinese readers are rethinking what a good life actually costs.
A Chinese tech blog explains why post-run stretching and recovery decide whether you keep running or quit. The advice is simple, cheap and aimed at beginners who gasp after two minutes.
A vocational-college sophomore claims he made roughly seven million yuan in three years by cutting livestream highlights into short clips. The story has China's internet debating whether the model is genius or a lottery win.
A new study finds two inherited Neanderthal gene variants boost height and muscle mass in modern carriers, and they are most common in South Asian and East Asian populations. The work helps explain lingering physical differences between people today.
Zhou Hongyi, a well-known Chinese tech entrepreneur, broke his left knee falling from a bouldering wall about three metres up. The accident has focused attention on the fast-growing sport and the risks that come with indoor climbing gyms.
A wave of Chinese writers and app makers is pushing 'duan she li' — the practice of cutting clutter, discarding excess and leaving behind mental baggage. It is less about empty rooms than about reclaiming control.
World No. 1 Sun Yingsha lost 1-3 to Thailand's Orawan Paranang at the 2026 WTT China Grand Smash, exiting in the women's singles round of 32. The upset has Chinese fans debating pressure, parity and the rise of Southeast Asian table tennis.
A White House reporter's question about JD Vance's weight loss put Chinese pickled cabbage, or suancai, in the global spotlight. We look at what the dish really is and whether fermentation can actually help you shed pounds.
A fitness diary posted on a Chinese forum this week drew hundreds of replies from ordinary gym-goers. It reflects how a growing share of Chinese men now train for how they look, not just how strong they are.
A long, candid post from a married man on Hupu's lifestyle board argues that intimacy is about comfort and experience, not just 'hardness' — a rare, practical conversation in a space where the topic is usually a joke.
A wave of candid posts from Chinese men in their thirties is drawing millions of readers, revealing quiet anxieties about marriage, money and loneliness. The threads offer a rare window into how ordinary people weigh family pressure against their own timelines.
A quiet genre of Chinese online writing trades celebrity gossip for everyday wisdom about regret, aging and small habits. Its popularity says something about how millions of readers are looking for calm.
Chinese swimmer Qin Haiyang won the men's 50m breaststroke at the 2026 Swimming World Cup stop in Baku, touching in 25.67 seconds. It was his second 50m breaststroke title in a week after winning at the Asian Games.
A playful question on a Chinese basketball forum asks whether users would accept a hundred million yuan if the clock stopped every time they closed their eyes. The thread, and the broader forum culture around it, shows how Chinese social platforms blend money, mortality and humor.
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