CATDOLL: An 80-year-old woman is fascinated by the second dimension and wants to play Cosplay with her granddaughter

This year, Xiao Li, a girl who studied in Japan, returned to her hometown in Changchun, Jilin Province for the Spring Festival. Unexpectedly, she found something that surprised her as soon as she entered the house: her 82-year-old grandmother actually shared the same hobby as her - Cosplay. She even expressed her so-called "last wish" to participate in a Cosplay competition with her granddaughter. And everything the 80-year-old grandmother did was just to get closer to her granddaughter and get into her granddaughter's life.

The 80-year-old woman has almost forgotten her pinyin, so it is hard to learn the ACG culture by herself, but Grandma Li has extraordinary perseverance. Xiao Li's mother said that a few days before Xiao Li returned to China, Grandma Li often talked with her mobile phone, sometimes for a whole day. The family was worried that the grandma might have Alzheimer's disease. After taking the mobile phone, they found that the old lady was using the voice search function of Baidu on her mobile phone to look up some words that no one could understand. After further questioning, they found that the old lady was trying hard to learn the ACG culture that her granddaughter liked in order to have more common topics with her granddaughter.

Xiao Li was brought up by her grandmother, and they have a very deep relationship. However, as Xiao Li grew up, especially after she became fascinated with Japanese culture, the generation gap between the grandparents and grandchildren became deeper and deeper. The grandmother said that her granddaughter used to stick to her, but after she grew up, they had fewer and fewer topics to talk about. Sometimes she couldn't understand some of her granddaughter's words. Since she knew that her granddaughter liked Japan's two-dimensional culture and Cosplay, she wanted to learn more about it so that she could have more topics to talk about with her granddaughter. Seeing that her granddaughter was about to come back during the Spring Festival, she was anxious to "study hard and practice hard" every day. The grandmother also said that in order to learn about the two-dimensional culture, she also learned to watch anime on Bilibili and post bullet comments. "At the beginning, many words popped up that I had never seen before, such as 'high energy', 'fat times', etc. I didn't understand what they meant at all, and the bullet comments were very fast and passed by in a moment. Later, I held the phone in my hand, and when I saw a word I didn't understand, I quickly said it to the phone, and the explanation of the word immediately came out. At most, I could search more than a hundred times a day," said the grandmother with a proud smile.

Xiao Li's family expressed their support for grandma's new hobby. Xiao Li's mother said happily that since grandma became fascinated with the two-dimensional culture, she has become younger. She used to sit on the sofa when she had nothing to do, sometimes for a whole day, but now she lives a fulfilling life every day. It is really a blessing to have such a grandma at home who is willing to understand the culture of young people. In fact, the elders and young people may lack sufficient communication. It is most important for both sides to know and understand each other more. Young people should not always immerse themselves in their own circle. Communicating more with their family may bring different gains.