A tube of frozen fruit jelly. A roll of candy with comic strips hidden inside. A glue bubble toy that smelled like pure plastic and childhood recklessness. None of these exist on shelves anymore. But on RedNote, they’re getting the archival treatment.

A growing wave of creators, accounts like: 童年回忆-初, 大乖, and 铲铲时光机...are cataloging discontinued snacks, toys, and stationery from 1990s and 2000s China with the kind of detail you’d expect from a museum database: texture, taste, smell, packaging design, price. It started as Chinese Dreamcore nostalgia content. Now it’s becoming something closer to a crowd-sourced cultural record of an entire generation’s coming-of-age.

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This editorial from Wonderland does exactly that. Shot by photographer Alexander Yeung, the images blur the line between fashion photography and classical Chinese painting. The result feels less like a photoshoot and more like a scroll come to life.

Soft washes of color. Haunting silhouettes. Figures that seem to emerge from mist, like characters from Liaozhai, the classic collection of strange tales in which spirits and mortals briefly and beautifully intersect.

It’s a reminder that “New Chinese Style” doesn’t have to mean obvious motifs or literal symbols. Sometimes it’s in the mood. The restraint. The space left for the viewer to wander.

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At first glance, this feels like another “bizarre China” viral moment. But zoom out, and it sits squarely within a broader Gen Z shift: turning wellness into something visible, shareable, and slightly ironic.

In recent years, Chinese youth culture has rebranded exhaustion into aesthetics, think “lying flat” (躺平), “letting it rot” (摆烂), and the rise of sleep-tracking apps that gamify rest. This competition pushes that logic further: if productivity can be optimized, why not sleep?

Yet there’s a quiet contradiction. The most radical part of the event isn’t the scale, but more about the enforced disconnection. In a hyper-connected environment, choosing to not engage becomes a form of resistance. The “no phone” rule transforms sleep from passive recovery into an active stance against digital overstimulation.

In that sense, the event echoes global trends: from offline clubs in New York City to silent retreats in Japan, but with a distinctly Chinese twist: collectivized, competitive, and visually optimized for social media.

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