我和小夥伴都驚呆了 [wǒ hé xiǎo huǒ bàn men dōu jīng dāi le] Expression.
My little buddies and I were all dumbfounded. 小夥伴 [xiǎo huǒ bàn] “little buddies” is often used to describe a kid’s friends his or her age. This sentence went viral after being used by an elementary school student in an essay to describe his/her and his/her little buddies’ reactions to a “rumored” origin of Duanwu aka Dragon Boat Festival featuring the Communist Party of China (1921- ), Kuomingtang aka the Chinese Nationalist Party (1912- ), and Qu Yuan (343-278 BCE). The excerpt of the essay was posted by the student’s Chinese teacher on Sina Weibo in 2011 and the sentence went viral in 2013.