The Wildcats of Hiroshima, who live in Tokyo, Japan, open the Himalayas every Wednesday night and connect with two friends in Beijing and Osaka to record podcasts.
Hiroshima Wildcat is currently a travel self-media practitioner living in Tokyo and an overseas anchor who joined the Himalayas Global Story Program.
In the Himalayas, there are many Chinese anchors living overseas like Hiroshima Wildcats, who are all over the world in France, Britain, Germany, Sweden, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, the United States, Canada, Australia, Brazil and other places; they come from all walks of life, including financial white-collar workers, architects, international students, full-time mothers, journalists, doctors of medicine, poets, hockey coaches, etc. They record life in a foreign land with their voices, show Chinese culture to the world, and heal nostalgia in Chinese podcasts.
In the third year of the epidemic, the world was invisibly divided, and "returning to normal" and "re-seeing the world" became the common aspirations of all mankind. These Himalayan Chinese anchors living overseas have built small bridges for this era on the riverbed of the Internet, so that people at home can see it, and people who go to the country can see it back. In the world of sound construction, people reconnect in another way, not only the switch of the mind is turned on, at the same time, in these wonderful chemical reactions due to Chinese culture, more people can get out of the geographical isolation and re-snuggle in the warmth of the "four seas".
Disseminate Chinese excellent culture with professional content
Tian Xiaojun, a hockey coach based in Los Angeles, said: "In the Chinese circle, the Himalayas have been very popular in recent years, because they can hear Chinese at any time and feel closely associated with the motherland and compatriots. ”
Tian Xiaojun, 63, a native of Jilin and a former member of the Chinese men's national ice hockey team. In the 1980s, the Chinese men's ice hockey team won the Asian championship and the second place in the world Group C competition. After becoming an ice hockey coach, he formed and led the "Jilin Baihe Forestry Bureau Roller Skating Team" to win the Asian championship for two consecutive years. Tian Xiaojun, who now lives in Los Angeles with his family and is still working as a hockey coach, led students who won the best rookie award in last year's NHL league.
Himalayan overseas Chinese anchor Tian Xiaojun
From decades of training and teaching experience, Tian Xiaojun has summarized a series of original teaching and training methods, with remarkable results. In 2016, Tian Xiaojun began to focus on the cultivation of Chinese ice hockey players, and moved his original ice hockey training method to the Internet for free online teaching.
"I am concerned about the professionalism and popularization of voice communication in Himalayas, so I regard this place as an important position for my own online teaching." Coach Tian, who is an old flower armour, started his anchor career with the account of "Tian Xiaojun says hockey _THPro". He tells the story of his hockey career through audio and shares his original ice hockey training experiences and methods.
"Since the content was uploaded to the Himalayas, I have gained a lot of friends, many of whom have come to become confidants, students or fellow travelers. My horizons have become more and more open, and my life has become colorful. "From coach to anchor, Tian Xiaojun teaches not only ice hockey, but also not only the audience.
Many of Tian Xiaojun's friends are his hockey students and parents in Los Angeles, many of whom are Chinese descendants, some of whom cannot speak Chinese or write Chinese character Chinese s.
"My students come from all over the world and they are used to listening to my hockey podcasts in the Himalayas." Tian Xiaojun said, "I will tell my own growth story in the program, advocate the ice hockey training concept of self-training, and pass on our national spirit of self-reliance and hard work in China to my overseas students." ”
Enhance mutual learning among civilizations from a deep humanistic perspective
The overseas anchor group active in the Himalayas is more like a bridge of cultural communication and mutual learning at home and abroad, they use audio programs to disseminate Chinese voices to the outside world from the perspective of Chinese, while also presenting their own country and region's insights to domestic audiences in a complete and multi-layered manner, so that listeners can browse the humanities around the world in their leisure time. In this process, overseas anchors also maintain their psychological ties with the motherland.
In 2011, Beijinger Hiroshima Wildcats, with a dream of traveling the world, quit their Jobs at Microsoft and decided to start a sojourn life in Japan. At that time, he had already passed the age of establishment, starting from studying in language school, studying abroad, working in restaurants, and finally working as a tour guide for JTB travel agencies, and gained a foothold in Japan.
This job allowed the Hiroshima Wildcats to accumulate a large amount of text and image material from all over Japan. In June 2021, he joined the Himalayas Global Story Project to launch a Japanese podcast called "Tell the Truth about Japan".
"Global Story Project" is a recruitment program initiated by Himalaya for anchors in major cities around the world, which has long recruited Chinese content creators living in various countries around the world to become Himalaya anchors, so that users can hear the world through podcasts.
Himalayan overseas Chinese anchor Hiroshima wildcat
At present, the Hiroshima Wildcat has two relatively fixed dialogue partners" "Beijingers in Osaka" and "Bagua", and also opens up listeners to join the audio live broadcast room at any time to fully communicate and interact. Each issue, the three Beijingers chatted with chinese audiences about Japanese topics of interest to Chinese audiences, from Michelin restaurants and hot springs in Japan to video games and wagyu beef.
"Tell the Truth about Japan" is not only a rough introduction to Japan's travel destinations, it will take you into a historical scene, restore the humanistic causes of social phenomena, and help the audience travel with knowledge. The friendliness of the audio platform for deep humanistic content also allows the Hiroshima Wildcats to use Himalaya as their main platform for content output.
"I hope that through my sharing, I can let the domestic audience, the Chinese in Japan, and even the Chinese in the world realize what Japan is like now, and provide a decision-making basis for everyone's travel, study abroad, and life."
While telling the audience about Japan, the Hiroshima Wildcat, like all its overseas compatriots, is also concerned about everything in the country through the Himalayas, saying: "The main role of the audio program is companionship, it can connect me with the motherland." Compatriots living overseas will learn about some domestic information through various channels, there are many top experts in various fields in the Himalayas, which will bring you some very accurate and interesting knowledge sharing, even if you are abroad, you can also learn the latest news in China, or what everyone is paying attention to, especially the reasons and thinking behind some news events. ”
At present, the Hiroshima Wildcat plans to start a new round of circumnavigation after the epidemic has stabilized, and uses the Himalayas as the main front to chat with listeners around the world about "The World Tells the Truth" with sound.
Himalayan overseas Chinese anchor Mo Xiaoka
Moxiaoka, also from Beijing, in order to let the children have a closer to the natural growth environment, quit his job as an editor of a well-known travel magazine in 2019 and moved his family to the small city of Grasse in southern France.
Known as the "capital of perfumes", Grasse is only a 20-minute drive from the southern French town of Cannes, but Grasse is more like a small, relict and independent village. Leaving the tense work rhythm in China, Moxiaoka opened a new southern French country life, writing books, learning French, building houses, taking children, and doing podcasts.
Under the influence of the radio host's grandmother, Mo Xiaokada is a young woman in literature and art. As early as 2015, she moved the audio of her college campus anchor to The Himalayas and became one of the early content creators of the platform. After going to France, she had many years of background in travel magazine work, and opened a podcast called "A Year in Provence" to chat with listeners about life in southern France. Being an anchor in the Himalayas also allowed her to find a more comfortable way of life.
"Thanks to this era, many small bridges have been built on the riverbed of the Internet, and even if they are far away from their homeland, they still have switches in their minds that can be connected at any time." Mo Xiaoka said, "As an audio content platform, Himalaya brings overseas Chinese not only entertainment and entertainment, but also a sense of cultural belonging. Being an anchor in the Himalayas is both a process of dialogue with yourself and meeting people with different stories. For overseas Chinese who go to China and nostalgia, the spiritual and emotional value brought by Chinese audio cannot be quantified. ”
Himalayan overseas Chinese anchor Nian Boat
Lyon, 400 kilometers away from Grasse, the voice of the post-95 architectural designers reading the ship is also echoing through the Himalayas on the European continent.
He graduated from the National Higher School of Architecture in Größle And after his work, he started a podcast called "Meet Europe, Listen to the World". Like the Hiroshima Wildcat, he also joined the Himalayan Global Story Project. In the program, Nian Chuan shares the cultural differences and interesting things he encountered in Europe. He hopes to let the audience understand the real Europe, and at the same time share his work, life and thinking with more Chinese students in France to help them better integrate into the local culture.
"Audio is more friendly to deep content. I want my podcast to expand the horizons of domestic listeners as another way for them to get information. I am also very happy to be able to let friends in France and Europe hear our Chinese voices by doing podcasts. Nian Boat said.
Build a bridge of communication at home and abroad with cross-cultural integration
In addition to the interpretation of exotic cultures, the wisdom and experience of life that combine Chinese and overseas cultures is also one of the common directions for the creation of overseas anchor groups. Xiao Fan from Puyang, Henan Province, is such an anchor.
Growing up in Zhongyuan Oilfield, Xiao Fan once worked as a large-scale event planner at Shanghai Television. In 2010, he moved with her German husband and two children to Regensburg, Germany, a beautiful ancient capital on the banks of the Danube River.
When I first arrived in Germany, everything started from scratch, from "high-end white-collar workers" to "housewives", and there was a big gap in the psychology of the wolf. So she started blogging, talking to the outside world and talking to herself.
In her blog, she shares the lives of the two children in Germany, as well as the different parenting concepts and educational methods in Germany and China – advocating nature education and advocating the cultivation of children's nature outdoors. Her unique concepts and reading methods have attracted the attention of thousands of readers, and she has gradually grown into a cross-cultural parenting expert in continuous creation and communication.
Himalayan overseas Chinese anchor Xiao Fan
In 2015, Xiaofan opened an anchor account in Himalayas to share the essence of German education with mom listeners at home and abroad through Himalaya, becoming the first practitioner of knowledge payment. As a parent-child parenting mentor, Xiaofan has opened a paid video lesson "Zero Basic Parent-Child Painting Class" and a parenting podcast "19 Lectures on Parenting for German Mothers" in the Himalayas, and has now obtained a good income in the Himalayas.
As a content creator and deep user of Himalaya, Xiaofan believes that Himalaya has built a good traffic support and revenue sharing system for anchors, and the accompanying and rich content supply in multiple scenarios allows users to wander in the world of spiritual food anytime and anywhere.
"Sharing my parenting experience in the Himalayas, I have the feeling of being an 'ambassador for Sino-German cultural exchanges', which is my pride and mission as a Chinese." "I hope that through my sharing in the Himalayas, I will show my wonderful life in Germany and the image and appearance of Chinese in the new era; I also hope that through my audio programs, I will pass on my parenting experience to more Chinese mothers living at home and abroad, help them better raise children and grow themselves, and reflect the due value of a Chinese living overseas." ”
Himalayan overseas Chinese anchor button
At the other end of the Atlantic, two beautiful female school anchors in the United States are creating a popular science program "Big Brother Loves to Think" for young people in the audio world.
Anchor Button is a journalist based in the United States, from Chengdu, currently living in Los Angeles, Fordham University Master of Communication, Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts Industrial Design Undergraduate; Anchor Rabbit is a long-term financial practitioner living in New York, Fordham University Cellular and Molecular Biology Ph.D., Wuhan University Master of Biology.
After two years as anchors in the United States, their connection with domestic audiences has deepened, and they have had deeper interactions with overseas Chinese.
Their audience includes domestic fans, overseas Chinese, and even Malaysian Chinese who have joined their listeners. They have similar feelings with hockey coach Tian Xiaojun, "Overseas users have a great demand for local and native languages, which also makes Chinese content on the Himalayas very popular among overseas Chinese groups." ”
Himalayan overseas Chinese anchor rabbit
They hope that "Big Brother Loves to Think" can play a bridging role among overseas Chinese and domestic audiences. Button said: "Overseas Chinese and domestic netizens sometimes have places that cannot understand each other, domestic netizens will have misunderstandings about overseas Chinese, and many overseas Chinese do not know much about what is happening in China because they have not returned to China for a long time." Rabbit and I are relatively gentle and neutral, willing to understand some of the things that happened. If our program can help people improve mutual understanding, it will be meaningful. ”
Compared with the older generation of Overseas Chinese, contemporary overseas wanderers have more diversified living conditions and life pursuits, but what remains unchanged is the national feelings linked by blood. In a foreign land, they know the meaning of their hometown better and cherish the voice of the motherland even more. In their respective fields, they interpret the communication and integration of Chinese culture and world civilization, and their programs have become the "hometown of the ears" of overseas users on the Himalaya platform.
At present, there are already 13.5 million content creators on the Himalaya platform, and overseas Chinese anchors are the new force that is rapidly rising. With the help of the Himalayan platform, Chinese people around the world gather in the world of sound, build a spiritual back garden with the same roots and origins, and let Chinese culture live and flow in every corner of the world.