Every year on Chinese New Year, CCTV broadcasts its New Year’s Gala, a singing contest often called the Spring Festival Gala. This year four beautiful women appeared on the show, and you’ll probably be surprised to find out their day job – they’re all in the army. There’s just something about military girls that draws Netizens like moths to a flame, and sure enough they got social media buzzing.
The lovely ladies who performed on stage at this year’s Gala are in fact female soldiers who belong to the Guangzhou army. Of course this is real life, not a magical girl anime, so these sexy peep-hole cheongsams aren’t their usual look – you’re more likely to find them in military uniforms. Yang Qian, Yang Ting, Yang Miao, and Yang Man are often called the ‘Four Sisters’, but another surprise is that while they all coincidentally share both a surname and striking good looks, they are not actually blood-related.
However, while they are real military members, they won’t be doing battle on the front lines. The girls belong to a division of the army known as the ‘art corps’, whose members are made up of singers and performers, and whose job is to keep up morale among the troops. They’ve all studied performing arts since they were around five or six years old and officially enlisted in 2008, and now take to the stage around 150 times a year at various troop garrisons.
Peng Liyuan, the wife of current Chinese president Xi Jinping, is perhaps the most famous alumni of the art corps. She enlisted at 18, and boosted soldiers’ spirits with her stunning voice on the front lines of the Sino-Vietnamese border conflicts during the 1980s. She also rose to national fame after appearing on the very same Spring Festival Gala back in 1982, so you might want to keep an eye out for these singing sisters in the future.
As always happens with pretty girls from unlikely professions, they’ve received a lot of attention, and not all of it positive. Of course there were the expected responses of:
They’re really beautiful. The soldiers must be happy to see them.
I want to be a soldier too!
On the other hand, some people have been questioning the role of the art corps, and wondering if it’s really such a happy-clappy group as it portrays itself to be.
Isn’t an ‘arts soldier’ just like a geisha?
The system of having art corps is a problem. I feel sorry for the female soldiers.
Of course this is the Internet, where everyone’s a critic, so for now just enjoy the eye candy below.
Source: Aol News
Images: Sina Photos
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