原载于路透社
编译： 徐菲远
In a short online video, a Chinese man with a round face and a buzz cut pops open a beer cap with a single chopstick.
After a sip, he quickly lifts the bottle to his mouth while giving it a few sharp turns.
Hebei Pangzai's real name is Liu Shichao. The odd job labourer hails from Zhengyuansi, a nondescript village where everyone knows everyone.
Thanks to the internet, Liu now has over 130,000 followers on Twitter, drawn to his beer-drinking clips. This week, he even had three new American friends visit him in his village.
His claim to fame was an old video of Liu's shared on Twitter in August. It went viral, gaining 12 million views.
In the video, Liu opens a beer bottle with a chopstick, mixes the beer with several other liquors, including baijiu, a potent Chinese liquor made from grain.
He lights the concoction, uses his finger to carry off a bit of the flame to light his cigarette, then drinks the whole thing.
He said he knew something was up when he first got hundreds of new followers on Kuaishou, a short video-sharing platform popular among people in small Chinese cities and the countryside. All of them wrote their comments in English.
After some internet sleuthing, Liu got onto Twitter, which connected him to an audience outside of China.
He declined to say how exactly he logs on to Twitter. While software to circumnavigate China's Great Firewall is not technically banned, it remains a murky legal area.
Liu first got onto Kuaishou in 2016.
"One of the first videos I saw was a brick-breaking video," he said. "Those videos looked fake, and I thought I could do a real one."
So he did.
He also started making the drinking videos, and later, cooking videos.
At the peak of his fame on the Chinese internet, he had more than 400,000 Kuaishou followers. When he held live broadcasts, he could earn up to 300 yuan($42.62) on a good day.
As for his current fame, Liu remains sceptical about becoming a career influencer.
"You can't depend on this for a living. This is just for when I have some free time."
在一则简短的在线视频中，一个圆脸短发的中国男子用一根筷子弹出啤酒瓶盖。啜了一口之后，他迅速将瓶子举到嘴上，同时急转了几下。
他的全名是刘世超（音），来自一个河北一个不知名的小村庄。
多亏有了互联网，刘现在在Twitter上已有超过13万“粉丝”，这得益于他的喝啤酒片段。近日，甚至有三个新的美国朋友在他的村庄拜访了他。
刘的出名来自于2019年8月份在Twitter上分享的旧视频。它大受欢迎，播放次数高达1200万次。
在视频中，刘用一根筷子打开啤酒瓶，将啤酒与其他几种酒混合，包括白酒（一种用谷物制成的中国烈性酒）。
他点燃了混合液体，用手指拨了一点火焰点燃了香烟，然后喝光了所有液体。
他说，当他第一次在快手上获得数百名新的“粉丝”时，他知道有什么事情发生了。那些人都用英语写评论。快手是一个短视频共享平台，在中国小城市和乡村地区的人们中很受欢迎。
经过一番探索，刘进入了Twitter，这使他与中国以外的观众建立了联系。
他拒绝透露如何登录Twitter。尽管防火墙软件的使用在中国并没有受到技术方面的限制，但它仍然是一个模糊的法律领域。
刘在2016年首次接触快手。
他说：“我看到的第一个视频是一个砍砖头的视频。” “那些视频看起来很假，我觉得我可以做一个真的。”
然后他做到了。
他还开始制作饮酒视频，后来制作烹饪视频。
他在中国互联网上达到顶峰的时候拥有超过40万个快手“粉丝”。在他进行现场直播时，一天的收入可以达到300元（约合42.62美元）。
虽然拥有目前的声望，刘仍然对成为职业网红持怀疑态度。
“你不能以此为生。我只是有空的时候做。”