China's National Language Resources Monitoring and Research Center recently published its annual list of the top 10 Chinese internet buzzwords of 2021. 

The center collected language resources from online forums, news portals, "danmu" (comments over videos) and elsewhere. Based on this large cyber corpus, the 10 most popular internet expressions were selected from nearly 1.1 billion "danmu" and around 350,000 posts.

These expressions reflect Chinese people's experiences over the past year.

Let's take a look at the top 10 Chinese slang expressions used on the internet in 2021.

#The Age of Awakening

2021 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC). The hit TV series "The Age of Awakening" tells the story of the CPC's founding, explaining why the Chinese people chose the Party and how the early Chinese communists explored the truth and saved the nation. This award-winning TV series has proven to be highly popular among younger viewers, achieving a rating of 9.3 out of 10 on China's IMDb-like platform Douban.