Overview

Changsha Restaurant Fight Video, also known as Haidilao MMA or Jiang Yan Fight Video, refers to a viral video showing the transwoman influencer Jiang Yan beating a man in a restaurant in Changsha, China. The clip went viral in October 2024 on the Chinese social media platform Weibo and later on X / Twitter and Reddit after it was reposted on other sites, sparking redraws and memes of the altercation.

Background

On October 12th, 2024, Weibo user @通天書生諸葛臥龍 (The Scholar Zhuge Wolong)^[1] posted pictures and videos showing a physical altercation between a woman and a man at a restaurant in Changsha, China. In the post (seen below), the user alleges the man said offensive remarks about the woman's birth city and her companions, provoking her to start the fight. The footage captures the woman striking the man multiple times with her heels. The post amassed roughly 1,000 likes and 150 comments in two days.

The video was widely spread across other social media platforms on the same day, going significantly viral on X after X^[2] user @wengenguyi4 posted a video and screenshot of the altercation in the Changsha restaurant on October 12th, 2024. The video (seen below) received over 61 million views and 108,000 likes in two days.

The second part of the public freakout video in which the two fight outside on the ground was also reposted numerous times on X, such as a post from X^[7] user @MyLordBebo on October 14th that received over 106,000 views and 270 likes in 11 hours (shown below).

🇨🇳 LGBT FIGHT:A fight broke out during a LGBT gathering in Changsha, China. The trans woman claims the Hong Kong gay man insulted her hometown Changsha, calling it ugly and poor.It escalated when HK man threw food, so she mete out justice.OHH MY GOD1/ pic.twitter.com/QPlZnIa5zQ

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) October 14, 2024

According to an article posted by Dimsum Daily^[3] on October 14th, 2024, the woman in the video is a transgender influencer, Jiang Yan, who physically confronted a man who claimed to be a lawyer from Hong Kong. The article alleges the incident took place at a Haidilao hotpot restaurant "regarding issues of regional discrimination."

Developments

Jiang Yan's Response

On October 13th, 2024, X^[4] user @totorology posted a thread translating some of the text messages sent by the trans influencer Jiang Yan on Weibo about the fight in which she alleged the man started insulting her and her friends for being Hunanese (people born or native in Hunan, China) and called her home city, Changsha, poor, ugly and other derogatory words. The tweet (seen below) amassed more than 2,800 likes and 300 reposts in a day.

Online Reactions

Jiang Yan's fighting video also sparked memes and jokes on social media in mid-October 2024 as people created redraws and photoshopped versions of a still image of her beating the man on the ground.

For example, on October 13th, 2024, X^[5] user @adinduhhh compared a screenshot of the fight with the "Wu Song Beats the Tiger" Chinese ink painting (seen below), amassing more than 175,000 likes and 28,000 reposts in a day.

Also on October 13th, X^[6] user @stwrryy posted a redrawn version of the fight replacing the individuals with Jujutsu Kaisen characters fighting (seen below). The post received roughly 970 likes and 40 reposts in a day.

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