"Now, I still do stunts every day, a lot of stunts, my hair is duang~duang~duang~, my hair is dark and thick, because I do stunts..."
Just when the Spring Festival holiday is over and many people still don’t understand what “duang” is, on the morning of February 26, “what does duang mean” has become the number one hot search term on Weibo. If people who don’t know the truth search on Baidu, they are likely to see a netizen’s spoof video about Jackie Chan.
“When I first learned that I wanted to shoot a shampoo commercial, I actually refused. I told the director that I refused because, in fact, I had no hair at all... The director told I said, after the stunts were added, my hair was very dark, shiny and soft... After a month of adding the stunts, my hair became dull. Later I also found out that they were fake and made of chemical ingredients. Now, I still add the stunts every day. , added a lot of special effects, my hair is duang~duang~duang~, my hair is dark and thick, because of me, added special effects..."
In fact, the video originated from Jackie Chan's endorsement of a certain brand of shampoo in 2004, but was criticized The industrial and commercial departments crack down on counterfeiting. Recently, this advertisement was once again dug up and parodied by netizens, and it also completed the "divine synchronization" with Pang Mailang's "My Skateboard Shoes". "Duang" is therefore closely linked to the explanation of "adding special effects", and it has become the first hot word on the Internet after the 2015 New Year. Not only that, after the vast number of netizens brainstormed and speculated on the semantics, origin, and extended meaning of the word, now "duang" has not only been created to write, but has also been "made into sentences" in various ways.
In the middle of the night on February 26, Jackie Chan himself posted a concise and clear "duang~~" on Weibo, which attracted nearly 10,000 retweets and comments in just 20 minutes. Looking at the comments left by netizens, everyone is "keep up the good work" and use "duang" to their fullest. For example, "When I was first asked to comment on you, I actually refused. Let me tell you, I refused because I don't know how to comment at all. Just tell me, add stunts after the comment, and comment duang~duang~ Duang~, my comments are fake, they are fake, they are stunt comments, they are elements of random comments, they are stunt comments, duang~~”
Where does duang come from?
So before duang became popular now, had we heard of it? A reporter from Zaobao found that on the "World of Warcraft" game forum called "Azeroth National Geographic", as early as 2009, a netizen posted a question asking how to write the word "duang". The poster named mimimo said that "duang" is an onomatopoeia, similar to "哐". But he couldn't write well, and his colleagues laughed at him and said that his calligraphy skills were in vain.
The first reaction of many people is: There is no such word, because when typing "duang" in Pinyin input method, only similar pronunciations or split words such as "Du'ang" and "Dang" will appear. There are also enthusiasts who carefully read the pinyin index of the Chinese dictionary and said with certainty: duan is followed by dui, and there is absolutely no duang!
However, the absence of this word does not mean that there is no such sound. Netizens were wondering how to pronounce "duang" and "duang" without any sense of violation. Netizen Andilec was the first to propose, isn't this just a word with "duang" and "duang"? There are onomatopoeias for southern accents.
Onomatopoeia has been recognized by many people. For example, some netizens said: "The sound of a thin man falling: pia! The sound of a fat man falling: duang!" Another example is a netizen's sentence: "Once upon a time, there was A boy named Sima Guang happily smashed a vat, "duang! duang! duang!" Some people even suggested that Alipay should replace "xiu xiu xiu" with "duang duang duang".
The netizen named tiantianan is obviously a storytelling fan. He recalled that often when there was a competition on the school field or when the two armies went to war, the storyteller would say, "I only heard three gunshots of duang duang duang, and all the soldiers said one word." Line them up and a general will emerge from them."
But isn’t this “dang”?
He also explained that dang and duang, in Foley, both refer to the sound of cannons or slamming doors, but duang sounds duller, like using big tree trunks to hit the city gate during an siege. It's the sound of duang, and the sound of hammer hitting is dang dang dang.
Then the question is, if "duang" is really an onomatopoeia in a dialect, which dialect does it come from?
Henan people said: We have it! Duangguo means "intentional" in Henan dialect.
Hunan people said: We have them too! Duang is the sound of country cymbals. And biang is the onomatopoeia of spring springing up after being pressed down.
There are many others who are also faced with audio and wordless. For example, bu (second sound) is the sound of farting; gyu (Ge Yu Lian pronounced) is the sound of a punch that is often heard in kung fu movies; and biang is similar to the beating of gongs and drums (Shaanxi friends may disagree, biang In fact, there are words, but in simplified Chinese there is also the 42-stroke word "biang" (which I'm afraid not many people can write), the word "bia" when something hits the ground, the word "biu" when a bullet is fired, etc. In fact, these are also commonly used words for special effects.