Essence of the Year
At this time when it is customary to run year-end retrospectives, literature and art magazine Yaowen Jiaozi, as usual, recapped the language development in the year in its list of the 10 most popular Chinese buzzwords. Renmin zhishang, shengming zhishang, meaning “people first, life first,” and zhibo daihuo, meaning “live-streaming to sell goods,” made it to the 2020 list.
Huang Anjing, editor in chief of the magazine, said compared with previous years, this year there were more popular words to choose from as the whole country was involved in the fight against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic. There have been more unexpected events and more exemplary individuals this year, giving rise to a variety of new concepts and words.
