Commentary
Every December in recent years, quite some people in China shouted: “no foreign festival” (bo yao yang jei) to tell people to boycott Christmas, which is increasingly regarded as a national shame. However, this year, such voices almost died out due to China’s reversal of its Zero COVID policy after the “White Paper Revolution.” It plunged the country into panic, with no one caring about non-survival matters like Christmas. Therefore we don’t have Tweets like “no foreign festival this year, but we have many Tweets of ‘yang la’ meaning ”positive,“ short for COVID-19 Positive (in Chinese, ”foreign“ and ”positive” have the same pronunciation).
