When Qinyang Meng bent her back to a 90-degree angle, eyes looking skywards, she had unwittingly kick-started a viral trend.Called the “blue-green waist challenge”, Chinese social media users began posting their attempts at performing the dance Meng made famous at the 2022 CCTV annual Spring Festival Gala. The challenge took off in part thanks to the comically failed attempts that people posted on Bilibili, China’s YouTube-like platform.The 29-year-old dancer from Henan, in central China, said…
