Escape from the British Museum—tale of a teapot returning to China goes viral

The unlikely story of a teapot that “escaped” from the British Museum has turn out to be successful on social media, highlighting (in a unusual manner) the clamour for Chinese language objects housed on the august London establishment to be returned to their unique house. The three-part video sequence Escape from the British Museum tells the “story of a Chinese language cultural relic escaping from the British Museum and in search of a approach to return to its homeland”, says a YouTube blurb marking the discharge of episode one in August. Within the sequence, the jade teapot (bear with me) turns into a girl who asks a Chinese language journalist to assist her get house. In line with the Guardian, two social media influencers, who go by the nicknames Pancake Fruit and Summer season Sister, are behind the sequence which has racked up greater than 370 million views on the Douyin video-sharing platform. An animated, full-length model of the unusual cultural heritage yarn is seemingly within the pipeline which ought to please followers of the teapot saga.