“Sleeping Sister” in Spring Festival Gala Audience Goes Viral

"Sleeping Sister", a Chinese woman caught on camera sound asleep in the audience for the annual Spring Festival Gala.

From iFeng & China.com:

Spring Festival Gala’s “Sleeping Sister” goes famous on microblogs, sleeping soundly at the show

As the Spring Festival Gala for the 2012 Year of the Dragon was being held in an festive atmosphere, netizen microblogs [on Sina Weibo and Tencent Weibo exploded with a Spring Festival Gala "Sleeping Sister". In the midst of an audience engrossed in watching the Spring Festival Gala, a female audience member was sound asleep in her seat.

"Sleeping Sister", a Chinese woman caught on camera sound asleep in the audience for the annual Spring Festival Gala.

In the above video, currently one of the most popular on leading Chinese video sharing website Youku, the host expresses incredulity that she could fall asleep in such a situation, in such a festive big show, where everyone around her is excitedly enjoying the show, happy to be able to be part of the live audience.

Comments on NetEase:

网易福建省漳州市网友:

Not bad, only one person fell asleep.

小意儿 [网易北京市网友]:

Being able to fall asleep at the show, just goes to show the quality of the Spring Festival Gala…

君维 [网易河南省网友]:

Please accept this “best audience member” award.

网易青海省网友 [兔子耳朵长长]:

She’s not considered bad, because she more or less saw the Spring Festival Gala, whereas I didn’t even watch it at all and just played cards, because we knew early on that the Spring Festival Gala show is just some garbage.

网易广西南宁市网友 [封尘子]:

A boring/pointless show.

网易新疆伊犁州伊宁市网友 [西游记最经典]:

Show how this Spring Festival Gala was the worst ever.

网易广西南宁市网友:

The old woman had a tiring day, and just as she was thinking she could finally rest, her filial children forced to attend the show. Poor her.

觉醒中国人:

Politics simply blind those idiots without education. The entire television program to me is just wasting a huge amount of taxpayers’ money to hold a large scale political performance, without any meaning, all packaged in hardware, entertainment kidnapped by politics, harmonized. Many of the performers are high-ranking military officials, CPPCC members, with double identities, so what entertainment can they provide us poor naive people? It is a tragedy of mainlanders’ consciousness. This is a historical regression.

ALsong [网易辽宁省抚顺市网友]:

I fell asleep so many times watching it…

ss210 [网易广东省广州市网友]:

The Chinese New Year’s Gala is just a song and dance version of Xinwen Lianbo, what’s worth watching!?

cqhyc [网易重庆市南岸区网友]:

Good thing I didn’t watch the Spring Festival Gala… especially if it was like this even being there in the audience… Every year it is those same faces [acts]. I got tired of it long ago.

网易北京市网友:

Her sleeping shows that she’s mentally awake. The other people may be awake, but they’re mentally asleep.

Anyone remember this guy “Laughing Brother”?

From QQ:

“Laughing Brother” watches the Spring Festival Gala for the 15th time, criticizes “Sleeping Sister” for wasting ticket

"Smiling Face Brother" attends the Spring Festival Gala for the 15th time.

Called the most niu Chinese New Year Gala audience member by netizens, “Laughing Brother” [or "Smiling Face Brother"] once again appeared on CCTV’s Spring Festival Gala this year, it being his 15th time watching the Spring Festival Gala in person. With regards to the appearance of “Sleeping Sister” in the audience of this year’s Chinese New Year Gala buzzing on the internet, “Laughing Brother” believes live audience members should cherish the Spring Festival Gala ticket they have and respect the performer’ performances.

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  1. She can sleep on a sofa, but not the one I’m sitting on. (On the internet, /or/ irl)

  2. Probably finished a 14-hour shift working for 1000 RMB a month.

  3. The commenters have it right: the Gala is f*cking retarded and boring as hell to watch.

    It’s so over the top in terms of being propaganda that only and infant would be amused. Then again, jingling car-keys can do that job as well……

    Don’t get me wrong, they’ve had impressive acts, like the troupe of deaf girls who did that amazing performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD0HY-NXXO0

    Problem is that act was done in 2005 and it’s still the highlight…. Like finding a rose in a dung heap.

  4. More protesters are shot in Sichuan and this is the main thing within Chinese peoples intellect right now. Sadly, even if they knew what was really going on I think ‘sleeping sister’ would still be more popular.

    • You tell’em Nelson!!

        • It isn’t really sad, ShanPao, it’s just the way it is. Lady GaGa and LOLCats are more popular than the Occupy Movement. What can you do?

          The Chinese internet has been pretty boring the past few days. There’s always something of a lull during the CNY holiday. There was some chatter about China’s Got Talent right before CNY hit though. Wonder if chinaSMACK will cover that.

          • exactly. Lady Gaga is “by definition” a EMO American Cunt. All she does is ass and brain fucks a bunch of emo and gay 16 year olds. That’s her duty, her job. (LMAO this bitch tries to talk to the president about some gay bullying bullshit and Obama was like bitch I’m trying to pimp fuck Ahmadinejad here get out of my face). LMAO. Basically she means jack shit in the overall scheme of things. Let’s not even get started with the problem in America. But of course you are gonna get these Americunts go nuh uh, it’s different. We got freedom and democracy and we own the rights to fucking with everyone because we are Americans and world wide trend is such as Americans can teach these other faggots a thing or two.

            back on topic tho. I lauff at you cunts for even sitting in front of tv to watch this. No matter whether it’s with you gay ass wife or not. I’ll get a BJ from HongJian before that.

            You all suck. Fuck this emo ass life it’s is pointless.

          • Oh and Tibetans. Are. Religious. Faggots.

          • Capt. Wed – we are not all Americans on here… just wanted to clear that up…thanks… agree with your points on watching the show though, except I would also add the advice to grow some balls and self harm, after all thats what your doing to your intellect by watching this shit. Ok, you can return to your male on male BJ with Hongjian.

    • They are just annoying seperatists.

      I doubt that Han people would give ANY fuck about them being shot dead, after they attack a police station and raid Han shops because they cant bear that they have to bear to see Han people celebrating Chinese Spring Festival on “their turf”.

      Seriously, 山炮, are you a damn retard or something? Do you really think that Chinese have ANY sympathies with these ethnic “protestors”?

      • Most undoubtedly the Tibetans were protesting the crappy Han produced CNY Gala. Resisting with their eyes taped open, they were murdered before muttering the last words of PLEASE DON”T MAKE US WATCH THIS SHITTY EXCUSE FOR ENTERTAINMENT AGAIN!

        • You’re right. The CNY gala was fucking retarded as usual, or even more so compared to previous years.

          But somehow, this evolved into a traditional annual laughing stock for some (vast majority actually) people, and so it achieved the legendary level of being “so bad it’s good”.

          Yeah, from what I heard by some other people; their families were just waiting for this fucking gala to be aired, so they could just laught the fuck out of that shit while making dumplings, so that they may also feel hipster like Hanhan and Liu Xiaobo for some days in the year, instead of shouting TGV5!!!1111 the entire time the other month around…

          But somehow the mountain chinks didnt think so, since I doubt that they are progressive enough to understand the concept of “being hipster”, and instead took it as fat chance to Fight Da Powah. Welp, at least they know that concept good enough…

    • Also this:

      http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/25/world/asia/china-tibetans-violence/index.html

      “Tibetan exile movement calls for international intervention after violence

      New Delhi (CNN) — The Tibetan government-in-exile has called on the international community to take action to halt violence in western China that has reportedly killed several Tibetans and left others wounded.
      “The Central Tibetan Administration urges the international community to not remain passive before the current situation,” Lobsang Sangay, the head of the government-in-exile, said in a statement Tuesday. “It is high time for it to intervene to prevent further bloodshed.”"

      HAHAHAHAHAHA

      WESTERN WORLD, FUCKING TRY IT! TRY IT!!!!

      We will fucking kill you, urinate on and rape your cold, dead bodies, fucking shit eating americunts!

      • There’s something wrong with you man.

      • Hongjian, if you were a grain of rice you wouldn’t have the skills to impersonate a fucking maggot. You tried to come across with a serious point but ultimately ended up with the urinating on corpses rant. So you failed. You go and plough some other Anorectal abscess you dried up pile of cum.

        Btw, i never said I sympathise with them, I also never said you or anyone else should sympathise with them and am certainly not an ‘americunt’ – far from it indeed.

        • “You tried to come across with a serious point but ultimately ended up with the urinating on corpses rant.”

          Ok, this was below the belt-line. I apologize.

          How about:

          We will fucking shoot you shit-eating americunts with your women, children and elders in the head at point blank range while they are curled in fetal position hiding in the corner of their bedrooms and crying for mercy. And we wont get ANY jailtime for this but only suffer a slight demotion and worse pay-check!!!

          Shit. Doesnt flow good enough. But I guess now it’s nice and clean, alright?

      • Instead of the “Han He-man” image you are try to post I keep getting this mental picure of you as some fat little dweeb of indeterminite age, could be anywhere between 15-50.[correct me if I'm wrong]
        You certainly talk a good fight, but as is usual with your arguments I think you have nothing to back it up. You don’t appear to have any compassion for anyone [including your fellow Chinese]. But thankfully I think that is all you will ever be. Some useless sack of skin pouring his bile onto the screen. Enjoy your life, I think you deserve it.

        • This guy is a typical internet tough guy. All bark no bite. I bet his mother works at a massage parlor and has to give some fat bastards a massage with a “happy ending.” Damn, I’d be mad too.

          Jokes aside, it is very obvious that he is angry at his own life, and the easiest thing to do is blame it on others. The fact of the matter is Hongjian, that nobody cares about you, not even your own people. All you preach is unity….but I don’t see any….do you?

          • You guys need to stop taking Hongjian so seriously and get past the artificially constructed persona he uses to bait people. You guys keep trying to shame him and put him down thinking it’ll get him to stop when he’s just laughing at how you guys are so hung up on it.

            When someone has such is so over-the-top so consistently and so impervious to what others say, it’s an intentional performance and not a genuine reflection of the person’s real positions. It’s done for effect, not as expression.

            You guys ever notice how he actually makes points in his comments but often just tacks on some belligerent and inflammatory name-calling and remarks for fun? It’s a form of trolling. He’s probably laughing his ass off at the people who throw a fit because he included the word “Ameri-cunt”.

            He’s not “trying” to come across with a serious point. He often does have a serious point. He’s actually trying to see who is can’t see past the blatant hyperbole. If that wasn’t obvious before, that should be obvious with his follow-up comment.

      • oh wow… someone is angry… seriously why? WTF is going on with you? you are just giving Chinese people a bad name here, that’s about all you are doing I’m afraid!

        • No. It is you fucking piece of shit chinks who are so ultra-submissive and defensive against the scum from the west, that are giving the Chinese a bad name – a bad name, sounding like the scream of a raped nanjing girl who can only use her tears and cry as weapons when some fucker sticks a bayonet in her vagina after gangraping her for days, re-assuring herself, according to typical chinese AQ logic, that even if she now has her womb being pierced by a 15.75 inch Type 30 bayonet and about to bleed to death, she is still “morally right” of being the defenseless victim killed by the immoral predator, and that the “world will know justice”, totally ignoring that after her death, noone ever will think of her as the one in right, but instead look to the descendants of her murderers as being the good guys all along, since they are so civilized, honest and rich as compared to the descendants of herself, who experienced just one rape after another, and remained poor and weak throughout the ages, offering to be the eternal target for new predators to prey on.

          If something is giving Chinese people a bad name, are you fucking peace-loving, western cock craving, americunt worshipping, and liberal traitors and fucktards, who seek acceptance with the whites by appearing like the stereotypical submissive self-hating hanoi whore plus token chink, who is only saying what your white overlords want to hear.

          If something is NOT giving Chinese people a bad name, are people who are blasting you fuckers and your white masters with piss wherever and whenever they encounter them, who take proper courtesy and civilization not as reason to not fucking wish death upon all whites and americunts, and who are the first to throw the stone, when these ‘people’ are to be mass-genocided for good. For short; people who have the spine and take the basic human-right for themselves to hate and scorn.

          • Ummm…..I really did understand that last paragraph, I mean I got the gist of it, but it kind of decended into incoherency. I think your key board must have been spayed with phlemb and….other bodily secretions as you typed it.
            Please remember not to drink and post, or smoke crack or whatever it was.
            Maybe some exercise after the new year would do you good and I would definitely see a doctor about getting some decent anti-depressants were I you.

          • @Hongjian: The funny thing about you Hongjian is you speak more like a white person than white people do.

            My God, I wish I could send all the Chinese that want to learn English to your school.

            By the way… you do happen to be using the ‘white cunts’ language. That’s a bit shameful… I suggest you dumb it down a bit as your grammar and slang is just too good to be from an actual Chinese, and seems to suggest you actually care about the language.

            Your attention to detail within the oppressors language is admirable.

            As to your Nanjing reference I also read the book ‘the Rape of Nanjing’.

            Perhaps you shouldn’t mistake Japanese for Americans.

            It would be well for you to know that the American military actually ‘helped’ the Chinese on quite a few occasions during the pre-communist era. Mao was known to be a great admirer of America in fact, and never forgot how America helped ‘him’.

            Saying all this, I’d rather like to point out I’m not American, and in my mind they are a bunch of cunts (just kidding, about the bunch of cunts part).

          • Hi, man you are soo angry, and yes I believe in peace, love and education and all that matter, I do not believe that insulting people is a good way to make the world go round… It’s funny how you just assumed I was a Chinese girl “western cock craving, americunt worshipping, and liberal traitors and fucktards, who seek acceptance with the whites by appearing like the stereotypical submissive self-hating hanoi whore plus token chink, who is only saying what your white overlords want to hear”… you have absolutely no idea! Actually I’m a French woman and married to a Chinese man for the last 10 years and living in China…. oh and I do not believe I’m an overlord, never have. I believe however that opening your mind through unbiased journalism and through a fair education can give anyone the chance to have a discussion on topics as simple as this one without any insulting in the argument. You are entitled to have your own opinion but give yourself a little credit, you can only make yourself credible if you can back up your argument without insulting half of the planet… Also I think you should consider anger management therapy!

          • Who shat in your weetabix?

          • Please send Hongjian batteries for his vibrator – he needs to release some tension

          • See above. You guys need to develop a Hongjian translator. All he’s saying is that he shouldn’t be seen as giving Chinese people a bad name for simply being defiant and resentful over legitimate historical victimhood.

            The problem of course is that most of what people are pointing at as giving Chinese a bad name is his hyperbolic expression, not necessarily his points. His response is to conflate his intentionally inflammatory behavior with the Chinese right to be defiant and resentful (“hate and scorn”).

            Guys, Hongjian isn’t really a raving lunatic pounding fiercely on his keyboard. You’re underestimating him. His overall position really boils down to wanting Chinese people to be more assertive about their own interests and not let others bully them. Just as it doesn’t mean Chinese people never do, it’s also not that crazy of an exhortation. Hongjian sees the world as inherently hostile and people need to look out for themselves and their interests because others surely won’t. That’s his basic premise. All of the “anger” is really just an exaggerated act. Stop falling for it. New people I can sorta understand but some of you old timers need to snap out of it.

          • O.K, O.K I can get that comrade Honk might just be raising “some ” legit points here, but don’t expect me [or anyone else for that matter] to pander to someone whose idea of an argument against supression of minorities is to act like a whiny little bitch about the misdeads of foreign powers against china in the past [combined with a distubingly fetishistic description of the weapons used and the methodology of rape]. Then to turn around and spit abuse at all and sundry. Respect might be easier gained by reasoned argument than throwing a hissy fit.

          • I’m making new Year resolution- I’m not reading these comments anymore. Bye.

          • Oooooh who rattled your cage?

          • weiner, no one said you have to respect him. I’m just saying you’ll be less angry if you see through his act. Personally, he’s an obvious caricature of prejudice and hate, whereas there are countless other people here who aren’t. The latter are more worrisome.

          • Hongjian boy. . why do I get the feeling you’ve got a 15.75 inch Type 30 bayonet hidden away in your closet??

      • lmao, inferiority complex much?

        How does it feel, to think of yourself lesser than these “Americunts” you hate so much?

        ;)

      • Textbook mad.

    • i agree, the thing is these information that you are talking about, such as protesters being shot, are not available to everybody, you have to go out of your way to look for them. News in this country is unfortunately majorly made of these kind of piece of information in order to hide what is truly going on… It’s sad, indeed, but I hope it will improve some how…

  5. This year’s gala kinda sucked. They revamped the stage with moving blocks, which was impressive. But the content itself was…eh. Yang Liping’s peacock dance was nice (how is this woman 53?!). The Dragon-Phoenix dance was nice. And that’s about it.

    Oh, and where were all the token minorities this year? All the minorities that appeared on the show seemed to be there by their own merit. That’s just not acceptable. More of this, please, CCTV:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y17Nyo2Xd_4
    Those Mongol folk sure know how to put on a show!

  6. At least there was less, and not so obvious, propaganda this year. It wasn’t so sickening or laughable to watch. However, many of the performances were. The magic tricks were ‘obvious,’ even to a non-trained eye. The comedy sketches were re-writes of old material, not that funny, and went on for far too long.

    The biggest let-down of the evening was Wang Fei’s performance that, although live, unlike other singers who mimed, was far below par. I am a bit of a Wang Fei fan, but she sang out of tune and looked really awkward and uncomfortable.

  7. I thought the gala was pretty meh, but they always are every year.

    There’s always someone sleeping through these things anyway. Not much to get excited about.

  8. OUTRAGEOUS! OMG! This is SO going viral!

    whut?

  9. At CCP executive meetings half of the auditorium sleeps.
    So, New Year Gala seems to be more interesting.

  10. Yawn.

    Gone Viral? Talk about simple minds being easily amused.

    • And cute cat pictures with pithy misspelled phrases going viral doesn’t evidence simple minds being easily amused? At least this story going viral is revealing, evidencing a good deal of awareness, antipathy, even rejection of the propagandic undertones and motivations behind the year’s biggest television program. What makes it viral is not that people of simple minds find it funny that someone fell asleep at a show, but that someone asleep at this particular show represents and reaffirms what they think about the show, so it resonates with them.

  11. It’s funny that they mention this, because every time I’ve seen a politician on TV, he looked like he was asleep, his eyes appeared closed, and yet usually they’re smiling. Just goes to show what it takes to be in the government: you have to be happy and ignorant.

  12. A Chinese story about a Chinese lady who falls asleep in a Chinese New Year Gala gets picked up by Chinese media and Chinese people comment about it. Then a few Chinese nationalist Nazis suddenly go off the subject and slam America? Simple minds dumb things down to the simplest factors. When your brains overcome your animalistic emotions, let us know. The world is waiting for you to grow up a little. What, 50 more years for these uneducated primates to evolve?

    • ROFL

    • SO says a true America living in China. LMAO. When you stop being such double think fascists that’s when I stop being whatever it is in you mind that you paint me as.

    • The world is right here and they’re saying they’re sick of your bullshit and your school playground racket. All everyone really wants is graduate from 5th grade but instead we’re all held back because NO CHILD GETS LEFT BEHIND. *tsk tsk* USA.

    • SIEG TTSCHINA!!!! (this is how deutschländer pronounce it)

      GOTT STRAFE AMERIKA!

      song of the comment:

      Rainald Grebe & die KdV – China

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1B-rBQRqdU

      bonus points for all those who can understand the awesomely butthurt racist undertones of the lyrics.

      • Nothing funnier than a foreign educated chinese patriot…

        The joke is on you, in fact your whole life is a joke.

        I bet you went to college abroad for a couple of years (or you are still there) and somebody saw your sorry excuse for a penis in the shower. It probably became the campus joke. After you realized that all your chinese female friends would rater be with foreigners (yes Hongjian, your mother too) you became the unstopable Chinese internet patriot. In real life you sit in the corner and smile while people mock you….

        • Geh wech, Jude.

          Klau’ jemanden anderes sein Judengold.

          • Ja ja deine mutter….ist eine hure.
            Meinst du bist der einzige das deutsch sprechen kannst? Du bist gar kein Chinese oder? Du hure nazi penner. Bitte sag mir das du in europa wohnst??

        • Resorting to the “I have a bigger penis than you” argument pretty much puts you lower than Hongjian. I don’t think Hongjian is even trying to troll you and you’re serving yourself up to him voluntarily.

          • Who the fuck asked you for your opinion? You the fucking UN peacekeeper? Why do you feel compelled to explain to everyone what Hongjian really means?

          • No one asked for my opinion. I gave my opinion just as you have. Sounds like someone has awfully thin skin though…

          • hes a guy with a small penis as well

          • you should know

          • i was talking about anon?i guess you see everything as a personal attack on you

          • guangjo, you’ve been pissing on HongJ ever since he made the crude jew jokes. Unacceptable yes, but he wins if you allow him to goad you. I generally ignore mostly everything he says because most of his ideas just sounds evil sometimes. when you allow a slur to penetrate you, you have already given that person your power. these utterances would never be made publically, so take heart. people who only have courage online are pussies is in real life. this is the only place they are able to unleash the anger of being rejected and bullied their whole lives.

          • I’m sorry Hess. Nothing personal.

            Epuff -you are right.

            Hongjian- fick deine mutter du hurensohn

    • All we need to make this page complete is some disparaging remarks about blacks, gays, and jews.

  13. Finally! An actual individual in China!

    She had probably be looking after her daughters kid day and night for over a year and any chance for sleep was just to good to miss.

    More power to her.

  14. I once witnessed a hedge. If I make a video of it will that go viral too?

  15. She slept through the gala, but she can watch it again and again and again in the repeats on TV

    To me it was all a haze, I remember waking for a moment to see guys in white coats all pointing in the same direction, then slumping into sleep again. I woke again momentarily to see a guy with vertically combed hair smiling excessively, then I must have passed out.

    I still have bad dreams – I think I may have been abducted by extra-terrestrials (or perhaps I was watching the military’s New Year Gala)

    Happy New Year!

  16. The question is why isn’t everyone else sleeping – have you seen the show?

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