HSK 3 Chinese Listening Comprehensible Input/Classic Chinese Romance Drama

In this video, I talk in slow Chinese about this super popular TV drama from 2001 that has had a huge impact on Chinese youth culture for the past two decades. I remember everyone was watching it and talking about it back when I was in middle school. It was a massive hit in Mainland China. Since then, it has been remade once more in China, and four other Asian countries have also created their own versions of this drama. The tragic thing is that the female lead from the 2001 version of Meteor Garden (《流星花园》) passed away in 2026. I enjoy bringing you bite‑sized pieces of cultural information so you can get to know China while learning the language. This is what I call a baseline cultural reference — something you should at least know a little bit about. 竹子