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HOW TO COUNT CUTE!
Chinese girls do this thing called “cute counting.” Actually it’s called
(pronounced “da tou tie de ke ai zhi shi”), which can roughly be translated as “cute faces for big-head photo stickers.”
It’s a game in which girls try to outcute each other by counting with their hands. They do it when they’re taking pictures of themselves in photo booths, especially for photo stickers. The numbers are meant to help you remember how to make different faces when you’re taking the photos.
Cute counting probably originated in Japan, but the trend has been taking over Chinese cities for the past three or four years and Chinese girls of all ages have been trying to outcute each other ever since.
In these photos, our friend Yang Lei—her English name is Shine, her Chinese name means “sunflower,” and her friends call her Panda Girl—shows us how to count cute.
Yang Lei was a finalist in the 2006
Mongolian Cow Sour Yogurt Super Girl Contest—China’s version of our
American Idol or the UK’s
Pop Idol. Last year’s final episode of
Super Girl reached an audience of 400 million people, making it by far the biggest TV show in the history of TV shows. Yang Lei is also the cutest girl in China.
See more or Yang Lei in Shanghai Super Girl on VBS.tv
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Shanghai Super Girl
Anonymous, on Sep 28, 2009 wrote:
do we really need another hello kitty kitsch? |
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Anonymous, on Jan 16, 2009 wrote:
you’ve missed the first character (照 - zhào). it means "illuminate, take a picture". |
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Anonymous, on Nov 25, 2008 wrote:
sometimes i wish i weren’t asian.. |
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Anonymous, on Nov 8, 2008 wrote:
:D omg! awesome~
oh btw "mongolian yogurt "aka moon milk brand #1. ranked" etc, is a brand name like "illy milk #2" - many stars are sponsored this way, competition is fierce ~ its a hippy-hippy-cool trend to become the next so-called "chiquita fruit girl" :D
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wow! i remember sitting at a shang hai cafe (summer 2004) with some fellow american homie/ratpack "lol" watching a mimic impressionism of some over 99+ "cool" poses circulating throughout The Central Nation (zhong guo btw) !harlairous! There’s "The VOGUE" face, "hear see speak not face", "kawai face", and the all popular "smiling gun pose" ^___^
Y.L is sooooo cute, i’d like to volunteer to be her friend also :D
now if only "THEY" *cough* beijing mongolian autocrats would let there be a true "SHANG HAI SUPER GUY" (han male) competition - that would be something ... something indeed
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Anonymous, on Oct 24, 2008 wrote:
Ding quaqua |
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