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Coming up, young people are putting away their mindfulness apps and finding peace in a pile of plastic beads.
It's called Pindou, and it's one of the latest offline obsessions taking over offices and weekends across China.
We'll look at why a generation is picking up tweezers to unwind.
After that, every year, millions of Chinese parents stay up late wrapping textbooks for their
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If you've walked past a handcraft store recently, or perhaps even scrolled through your social media feed,
well you've probably noticed a new trend taking over young people's free time.
Pindo, these tiny colorful plastic beads, once a niche DIY hobby, have exploded into a craze amongst the younger generation.
From office workers unwinding after work to students killing some time on the weekends, everyone seems to be picking up the tweezers
and poking the beads into the templates.
But what exactly is Pindo and why is everyone doing it these days?
Yeah, it's not a Chinese thing because I was on the internet and I saw people Here in China,
it is also described as The pattern is completed, the beads are ironed, so they slightly melt
and then fuse together into a finished design.
That's why it's also called Fuse Beads.
It's kind of like Lego?
Yes, I also want to mention it.
This kind of trend or the whole artistic is, I think, aligned with some of these pixel-styled Lego or Minecraft.
Yes, Minecraft too, yes.