"When Daidai realised her father was too old to slaughter two pigs for a traditional community feast in the run-up to Chinese New Year, she turned to social media"

Stephen McDonell for the BBC:

"Can anyone help me?" she asked on Douyin, China's version of Tiktok, at the end of last week. "My father is old. I am worried that he can't handle these pigs."

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So many responded that traffic jams have brought roads in this part of rural Chongqing in south-west China to a standstill