What is the meaning of the word "awkward dance" in Chinese?

Awkward dance itself means: Awkward dance, also known as battle, is a professional term for street dance, commonly known as fighting dance, referring to the comparison of each other's dances, which is dominated by breaking, because breaking is inherently used for awkward dance, a kind of dance, very explosive, infectious, and gunpowder flavor.

Web Awkward Dance Meaning: Awkward Dance is a negative term used to tease people who can't dance with self-absorbed hand-waving after it has been distorted by the Internet pop culture and following the trend. As a network term is often used in some of the unruly, hilarious, horse-riding, self-contained species of dance PK, and even some people directly explain the word as "embarrassing dance".

Early on, the term "awkward dance" was used in Taiwan. A few years ago, there was even an online game called Awkward Dance Online. The game was billed as a sequel to "Dance Dance", and "Awkward Dance Online" was the name of its Taiwanese service.

But on the mainland, "awkward dance" only started to become known in 2016. The reporter checked the Baidu search index, at least until July 2016, the Baidu search index is 0, that is to say that before this time no one has searched for the word "awkward dance".

In May 2016, a children's drama called "Dancing Daughter Dofala" provided countless emoticons for the term "awkward dance," and also exposed many netizens to the term "awkward dance.

In this magic-themed drama, which netizens have described as "five minutes of viewing, two hours of embarrassment," the young actors have strong magical powers, but they "dance at the drop of a hat," and each spell builds up its power by dancing, and each move is preceded by a dance. Every spell builds up by dancing, and every move is preceded by a dance. In an online video, Wang Nima, the editor-in-chief of Baozou Comics, teased that they had "invented a whole new genre of dance - the awkward dance".

And so, what netizens understand as "awkward dancing" has begun to deviate from its original meaning. "People who don't know how to dance twist their bodies, making the scene awkward" became the understanding of many people for this term.

Since then, the spread of "awkward dancing" has been fueled by webcasts of square dances.

In February and March 2017, a few uncles and mothers in Zhengzhou People's Park created their own "anticlimactic swaying cramp dance" that became a hit on the Internet. With the magic dance, exaggerated movements and fierce expression, this square dance team through the live dance and get attention, by the netizens crowned "awkward dance group" title.

For this "heavenly group" dance, some media described it like this -- "Some people put up their thumbs and forefingers, like holding two pistols, some people are half squatting, and their hands follow the beat to swing down, like fertilizer for wheat seedlings, and some people follow the beat to swing down. fertilizer, there are people following the beat constantly twitching "electrocution", someone dancing in the middle of imitating the movements of monkeys ......"

Square dance uncles and mothers for the "awkward dance "added a more graphic footnote. And netizens seem to be very receptive to such an understanding. Immediately, many new words with "awkward" appeared. Some netizens refer to chatting awkwardly as "尬聊" and singing awkwardly as "尬唱". Recently, the Chinese version of "Late Night Dining Hall" has received poor reviews online, and some netizens have called Huang Lei's performance in the drama "awkward cooking.

Some netizens think the humor is just a new way of expression, and there's nothing wrong with it, but others think it's not very understandable.

Chen Peng, director of the communication department at Nankai University's College of Liberal Arts, said in an interview that with the development of the Internet, there are more and more online languages forming. "Netizens can form a very large social circle on the Internet platform and form ****ing literate language."

He also said that such language has its own life cycle. "There's a lot of such language that just pops over and doesn't settle down." Such language, he argued, "can be left to fend for itself as long as it doesn't pose an impactful influence on our social life or moral bottom line." "But some measures should be taken to correct the language that has an impact on our social life and moral bottom line."