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She started a viral trend for her back-bending dance moves, now Qinyang Meng explains what it took
- Qinyang Meng has been dancing since she was 5, and has performed at the CCTV annual Spring Festival Gala three times
- She said the move is part of a character that has evolved to become a huge part of her life
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When Qinyang Meng bent her back to a 90-degree angle, eyes looking skywards, she had unwittingly kick-started a viral trend.
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Called the “blue-green waist challenge”, Chinese social media users began posting their attempts at performing the dance Meng made famous at the 2022 CCTV annual Spring Festival Gala. The challenge took off in part thanks to the comically failed attempts that people posted on Bilibili, China’s YouTube-like platform.
The 29-year-old dancer from Henan, in central China, said her follower numbers grew by 800,000 across her social media platforms during the following few days after the show.
Meng said she was pleased by the support and attention the dance received.
“I, as a dancer, feel that it is worth the year’s effort to be liked by people for my character in a good piece of work,” she said in an interview with the South China Morning Post. “This honour should belong to our entire crew.”
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