北京迷笛音樂節上，行為藝術家韓冰現身，發起遛白菜活動。韓冰稱，現代人的生活節奏快，精神壓力大，沒朋友可以傾訴，有個朋友也不見得能幫你清除寂寞。“遛白菜”真的沒啥可好奇的，大白菜寂寞，又有隨時被丟棄的危險，人也如此，說白了，“遛白菜”，其實“遛”的是自己。

Lonely teenagers in China who feel life is pointless and who struggle to find friends have taken to befriending the lowly vegetables as the perfect, undemanding companions.

在中國，寂寞的青少年們開始跟廉價的蔬菜做朋友，把它們當做完美的、不求回報的好伙伴。這些青少年普遍覺得生活沒有目標，又苦于找不到朋友。

And the sight of them out 'walking' the cabbages in a bid to battle loneliness is the latest way of meeting someone new - as cabbage walkers use their weird pets as a way to start up conversations with each other.

最近，通過遛白菜來排遣寂寞成為他們結交新朋友的一種方式，遛白菜的年輕人之間可以用白菜來挑起話題。

A group of youths were recently photographed walking cabbages at a music festival named the Midi Music Festival in the Chinese capital Beijing.

最近在北京舉行的迷笛音樂節上，有照片拍到一群年輕人在遛白菜。

Lui Ja Chen, 17, and one of the cabbage walking youths, said: "I feel I can transfer my negative thoughts about myself to the cabbage, go for a walk with it and come home feeling better about myself.

17歲的陳璐佳（音譯）是其中之一，她說：“我覺得自己的負面情緒可以轉移到白菜上，遛著白菜走一圈再回家讓我感覺好多了。”

"If I see someone else it's easy to start up a conversation with them about their cabbage, and they are better than dogs as they don't bark, or start fights with other cabbages. It doesn't even need feeding, or leave a mess on the pavement.

“如果我看到其他遛白菜的人，我們可以從白菜聊起來，而且白菜比狗好多了，它們不會叫，不會跟別的白菜打架，它們更不需要喂，當然也不會污染街道。”

"In fact afterwards, I can throw the cabbage away and feel that I have tossed my feelings out with it."

“事實上，遛完以后我就可以把白菜扔了，然后感覺我把不好的情緒跟它一起扔掉了。”

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