In March 2023, Zhang Jingchu's studio publicly announced that Zhang Jingchu had been admitted to the Directing Department of the American Film Institute (AFI) and posted an admission notice. Now, 44-year-old actress Zhang Jingchu has quietly realized the transformation, becoming an ordinary student on the other side of the ocean, and needs to complete a lot of study tasks and homework. On her Xiaohongshu platform, she will start live learning every three or five days, rarely communicate and interact with fans, and most of her state is typing and learning, and the live broadcast room is so quiet that you can hardly hear other sounds other than typing.
The Modern Express reporter noticed that in fact, such a "silent" live broadcast room has become popular among the student party and the public examination party, and many people meet in Pingshui and study together directly, and there are also many "over-age students". "By exposing yourself to the public eye, you can push yourself to complete your studies better. Respondents said that learning efficiency has indeed improved, and there is also a role in monitoring and encouraging each other.
△ Zhang Jingchu's live broadcast dynamics Network screenshot
After the age of 40, she became a student again, and she started a live broadcast to share her study life with netizens
"Why does Zhang Jingchu always write homework?" Searching for Zhang Jingchu's name on an online social platform will bring up such a related question. In the eyes of many netizens, there is little correlation between the two terms of senior actress and college graduate student.
Zhang Jingchu, who is in her 40s, traveled lightly, unlocked a new study career, and became an ordinary student, not wanting to get a diploma to "gild" herself, she takes her studies quite seriously. Zhang Jingchu used the live broadcast room to show his daily life to fans and netizens. Click on her Xiaohongshu account to see the traces of her recent live broadcasts. And the frequency of live broadcasts and the length of each time are also quite amazing. 12 shows were launched in March, and 10 were launched just over half of April. The short ones are three or four hours, and the long ones are up to nearly 10 hours.
In this live broadcast on April 2, Zhang Jingchu's immersive homework accompanied the live broadcast for 9 hours and 51 minutes. In the video, she can be seen holding the camera across from her, with a laptop and tablet in front of her. Most of the time, she was engrossed in staring at the computer screen in front of her, or writing or drawing, or typing on the keyboard. There is no delicate makeup, dressed daily, relaxed demeanor, showing his real state of study and life. When I am tired of studying, I will eat something to replenish my energy.
△ Learning live broadcast room scene network screenshot
Live learning, insisting on examination, "over-age students" are also "rolled".
Nowadays, such a "silent" learning live broadcast room has become popular among the public examination and postgraduate examination party. Whether it's 7 o'clock in the morning or 2 o'clock in the morning, you open the social app and enter keywords, you can see countless people "fighting" with a large number of learning materials, and a strong learning atmosphere can make you instantly infected.
Learning is no longer the preserve of young people, and the number of "over-age students" is gradually increasing. The 34-year-old mother "Little Bird" lives in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, and already has the certificates of first-class builder and first-class cost engineer, and still maintains the habit of studying every day.
"I've been studying since 2018, and I usually enrich myself by studying for certificates. Recently, I have been taking the social work certificate exam, and I am still groping. She told the Modern Express reporter that she believes that learning does not require too much preparation, nor does it need the so-called "sense of ceremony", and the most important thing is to do it when you think of it. Learning is all about being done in one go, and there must be no delay.
Now, in addition to doing her job, she also dedicates time to study every evening. "This length depends on the specific schedule of the exam, sometimes it is 1 hour, sometimes it is 4 to 5 hours. There is also the usual fragmented time, which may seem insignificant, but can be of great use when accumulated. She said.
Today, she turns on her camera every night to broadcast her studies live. Desktop computers, laptops, and study materials are placed on the table, making it look clean and tidy, and make it easier to concentrate. "On the one hand, it is to keep myself in the habit of studying, and on the other hand, it is also to record life. She loves learning, and changed the signature of her social account to "Determined to study until the age of 78.2." ”
△ Netizens "connected" live broadcast network screenshots
Connected live broadcast, daily punch in, they form a "learning partner" who does not know each other
In addition to these netizens who opened their own accounts to broadcast live, more people chose "online live broadcast". Randomly click on a learning live broadcast room, and you can see netizens studying in different environments, using their own live broadcast screens to form a "nine-square grid". The atmosphere is so quiet that you can hear even a pin dropping, which forms a strong contrast with the fiery and noisy pictures of other live broadcast rooms.
Quietness is the minimum requirement to enter the live broadcast room. Most of these live broadcast rooms come and go freely, and you can directly contact the owner of the live broadcast room to invite you to join the co-host and become a member of this temporary small team. In the live broadcast room, there will be relevant announcements and reminders to tell you the "rules" of this live broadcast room. Generally, the live broadcast room will ask the joiners to turn on the camera to make sure that you are indeed in a state of studying, and ask you to cover your face, and everyone will do their own things silently and without interfering with each other, as if they are staying in a common study room.
"I joined the learning live broadcast room mainly to write my graduation thesis. "Little T", who is studying at a university in Nanjing, is a senior and is facing the pressure of employment, but the most troublesome thing at the moment is to write a thesis. She told the Modern Express reporter that usually her roommates study on their own in the library, so she chose to write her essay in the dormitory where she was the only one. The opportunity to join the live broadcast room was that she inadvertently swiped netizens on the Internet to record her live broadcast life, and she felt that the atmosphere was very calming.
In her opinion, the most intuitive effect of the learning live broadcast room is that you will not be hot for three minutes when you pick up a book. "For example, when I am usually alone in the dormitory, although the environment is very quiet, I can't help but start watching short videos and reading novels. Then I talk to my friends for a while, and it may be evening all of a sudden, and the progress is basically zero. After entering the live broadcast room, there may be netizens who come to "watch" at any time, which will produce invisible pressure, so that "Little T" can focus on the tasks to be completed. Moreover, there will be daily check-ins in the live broadcast room, and the number of days that the check-in lasts will form a list, which is also the motivation for everyone to persevere.
"Everyone is from all over the world, and the purpose of entering the live broadcast room is also different. There are those who take the postgraduate examination, and there are those who take the public examination, and some people will change their names to the goal of the exam, just to remind themselves all the time that the goal is in front of them, and you must not slow down!" She told the Modern Express reporter that if she needs to take the exam in the future, she will continue to come to the live broadcast room to study, "This is a very slow-paced and very warm place." ”
Modern Express/Modern + reporter Yan Junchen