Can You Pass It?
A new craze involving a simple test to show how good your figure really is has taken China by storm.
The challenge has seen thousands of people post selfies to show whether they can touch their belly button by reaching around their backs.
Since Wednesday, the ‘belly button challenge’ has received more the 130 million hits and is now the number one trending topic on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter.
Chinese celebrities, including actresses Yang Mi, Zhang Jiani and Huo Siyan, have also got in on the act.
The challenge post claims that if you can complete the challenge, it proves you have a good body, but if you cannot, you need to lose weight.
Web users claim they have learned the conclusion from a ‘scientific study from US’.
And it’s not just women with tiny waists jumping on board the trend.
One selfie of a man with a beer belly successfully completing the challenge has gone viral in China.
Experts say that the challenge does not necessarily mean that you have a super-fit body, but that you have long arms or are very flexible.
One fitness instructor said that he could not do the challenge.
Xie Wei from Nanjing in eastern China told People’s Daily Online: ‘I can’t do it either. There are three factors for achieving it.
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