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Here are translations of some of the posts by Luo Huazhong (the Kind traveler) about their idea of Tang ping (lying flat).
These posts came from their now deleted Baidu account, screenshots and transcriptions of which you can find in various places by using a search engine. I started with machine translation and then went through and fixed the machine’s mistakes. There are certainly some things I got wrong, and I will continue to edit this post with further corrections, but even in its messy form this is a really beautiful bit of thought!

Also available in PDF form with an imposed option. https://printedbybugs.com/pdfs/tangping/

Lie flat is justice

I haven't had a job for more than two years, and I haven't felt like anything is wrong with using all my time for play. The pressure mainly comes from people around you comparing you to others or the traditional values of elders. They are everywhere. Every time you see hot news topics, they are about celebrities in love, getting pregnant and other “fertility” innuendo. The National People's Congress does not need to be like “invisible creatures” pressuring you to change your mind.

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I can just sleep in my own wooden barrel and bask in the sun like Diogenes, or I can live in a cave and think about “Logos” like Heraclitus. Since there has never been a movement of thought that exalts human subjectivity in this land, then I can make it for myself. Lying flat is my movement of the wise. Only lying flat is the measure of all things.

Because I’m not going to be performing any labor, I am able to only eat two meals a day, noodles + eggs in the morning, rice + vegetables and eggs in the evening. On weekends, I can go to a restaurant for chicken chops and rice if I feel like it. For me, solving the problem of food is to solve everything. My monthly expenditure is controlled within two hundred Yuan, and I can work for one to two months a year.

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I hate life lived for the sake of steel and concrete and “traditional family values”. People shouldn't be so tired. People should pursue a simple life, so I always do things very slowly, because I don't need to do things for anyone. I sometimes hide somewhere to watch and laugh at those busy people…

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Why should people find excitement for an obviously meaningless existence?

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Lying flat is the only objective truth in the universe. Rest, sleep, or death, the moment when a life full of desire and excitement becomes still and disappears is the embodiment of true justice. I choose to lie flat, and I am no longer afraid.

My position is not positioned by anyone. The ashes enter the sea and the soul floats to the universe. I'm just passing by. When the time comes, it will be another trip.

Cats have subjectivity, but people don't. When will the alienated world die out?

That's right, health is also important. Just after climbing the mountain, you can go swimming in the lake when the weather is a little hotter. I have been soaking in it almost all summer. It is essential to keep exercising.

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I have an actor's certificate, and when I'm in a good mood, I still go to Hengdian to lie down. In short, I just lie down in a different way: life is to lie down.…

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躺平即是正义

两年多没有工作了，都在玩 没觉得哪里不对，压力主要来自身边人互相对比后寻找的定位和长辈的传统观念，它们会无时无刻在你身边出现，你每次看见的新闻热搜也都是明星恋爱、怀孕之类的 “生育周边”，就像某些“看不见的生物”在制造一种思维强压给你，人大可不必如此。 我可以像第欧根尼只睡在自己的木桶里晒太阳，也可以像赫拉克利特住在山洞里思考“逻各斯”，既然这片土地从没真实存在高举人主体性的思潮，那我可以自己制造给自己，躺平就是我的智者运动，只有躺平，人才是万物的尺度。

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由于不需要劳动，我一天可以只吃两顿饭，早上是面条+鸡蛋，晚上的时候可以米饭+蔬菜和蛋类，碰上周末心情好可以去餐馆吃鸡排饭，对我来说 解决食物问题就是解决一切，每月的花销控制在两百以内，一年可以工作一到两个月。

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我厌恶那种一辈子为了钢筋水泥和“传统的家庭观念”，人不应该如此劳累，人应追求那种简朴的生活，所以我做事情总是特别慢，因为我不需要为任何人做事。 我有时会躲在某处看着那些忙碌的人发笑...

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人为什么要给明明毫无意义的存在找一些亢奋呢？

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躺平才是宇宙间客观的唯一真理，休息、睡觉或是死亡，充满欲望和亢奋的生命体静止和消逝的瞬间才是真正正义的体现，我选择躺平，我不再恐惧。

我的定位不被任何人定位，骨灰入海，灵魂飘向宇宙，我只是匆匆过客，时间一到就是另一趟旅行。

猫的主体性，人却没有，异化的世界何时消亡？

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没错，还要有一个人好身体，刚爬完山，天气再热一点就可以去湖里游泳，我几乎整个夏天泡在里面，坚持锻炼是必不可少的。

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我办有演员证，心情好的时候还会去横店 躺，总之就是换着方式躺，人生就是躺躺躺...