China has hipsters too

       I did not know exactly what hipster is in class because it is an American pop word. The dictionary definition is formal and doesn’t make sense to me. Then I searched ‘poseur’ and the definition of it remind me of a Chinese pop word. I had a rough imagination of hipster in my mind.

       After class, I talked to my American friends. They tired to explain hipster in more details. I realized hipsters like to wear vintage and retro style, they don’t like new technology, and they don’t like popular music or movies. Hipsters may do this on purpose, they may use money to show they hate material.

       Then I read an article called China has hipsters too. This article gives a Chinese pop word of hipster: wenyi qingnian, or wenqing for short, literally meaning "cultured youth". Suddenly, I clicked into place. That’s totally make sense! Wenyi qingnian is very popular in China now. “As the country's middle class swells in number and its people discover the pleasures and disappointments of a life spent pursuing material comfort, there has come the emergence of a distinct counter-culture.” A typical wenyi qingnian likes poetry, novels, indie music, European cinema, taking pictures, writing blogs, cats, gardening, quilting, making dessert and designing environmentally friendly bags and so on.

       Actually, many of us tend to be like wenyi qingnian sometime. For instance, I sometime participate in some wenyi qingnian activities. We do some crafts, watch and talk about indie movies together. That makes ourselves feel happy and cool, feel that we are different with other people.

       To be a wenyi qingnian is not a bad thing. However, don’t use money to pretend that you hate money and are unique. A real wenyi qingnian should like the books, music and movies indeed.