What are the "copycat" and "copycat Spring Festival Gala" that are often mentioned on the Internet now?

Shanzhai Xinyi

1. Refers to manufacturers suspected of counterfeiting or counterfeiting third-party products. The literal meaning of "shanzhai" is as follows: - in a Shanzhai, escaping from government management. The word "shanzhai" comes from the Cantonese language, which means those territories that dominate the mountains and are not under official jurisdiction.

2. In layman’s terms, it refers to piracy, cloning, imitation, etc., an industrial phenomenon initiated by private IT forces. Its main characteristics are counterfeiting, rapidity and civilianization. The main form is starting from small workshops and quickly imitating famous brands, involving different fields such as mobile phones and game consoles. The terms derived from this include copycat phones, copycat stars, copycat Bird's Nest, etc. Another aspect of this culture is that it is good at skirting the edges and often walking on the edge of industry policies, causing controversy.

3. In other industries, "shanzhai factories" mostly refer to informal workshops that supply upstream accessories from regular factories, or rough manufacturers that produce products with low cost and unstable quality. "There is a jargon saying, 'This kind of product can even be made by a copycat factory,' which often means that the design, technology, and production threshold of this product are already very low." A vice president of a lighting company told reporters. Now, even movies have copycat versions of "Painted Skin" and "Sword Butterfly". The word copycat has gradually appeared in some applied writing articles.

4. Time spanned to the end of 2008, the copycat phenomenon caused by copycat phones spread to the entire Internet. Counterfeit celebrities, copycat Dream of Red Mansions, copycat Baijia Forum, etc. all made no secret of their challenges to elite culture. Subsequently, The Shanzhai phenomenon was unexpectedly featured on CCTV News Broadcast. This was the first time that the official expressed its opinions on the folk phenomenon, and it officially entered the era of the whole people.

The origin of the Zhai Spring Festival Gala

It was reported on December 10, 2008 that the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, which has been held for 25 years, is in full swing. However, not long ago, a netizen, Lao Meng, asked this question They challenged the traditional "New Year's Eve dinner" and claimed to hold a "copycat Spring Festival Gala" to be broadcast live on the Internet on New Year's Eve. Not only did he put up a slogan on his car that said, "Challenge to the CCTV Spring Festival Gala and send New Year greetings to people all over the country," he also "swaggered through the city" and found an office to form an organizing committee at the request of netizens. In a short period of time, nearly a thousand programs signed up to participate in the "Copycat Spring Festival Gala". Seeing the scene getting bigger and bigger, Lao Meng simply opened a website called "China Copycat TV" and titled it CCSTV (CHINACOUNTY SIDE TV Chinese Copycat TV). TV) to report the latest progress of the party to netizens.