如何呢又能怎rú hé ne yòu néng zěn

如何呢 is a slightly bookish “so what?”, and 又能怎 means “and what can I do?”. Together they sound calm and a little defiant: the problem is real, and you decide not to suffer over it.

It is self-mockery more than giving up. The joke is the grand, unbothered tone about a small, ordinary problem.

It is current. People use it about their own small troubles, in chats and captions, usually with the problem first: 下雨了，如何呢，又能怎. About a friend’s real problem it sounds cold, so keep it for yourself or for bad luck you share.

It comes from 歌手2025, Singer 2025, a singing contest on Hunan TV. In the episode of June 6, 2025, the singer 单依纯 (Shan Yichun) performed her own version of 李白, a song by 李荣浩 (Li Ronghao).

Her version turned the song into an electronic track with game references and repeated spoken lines. Red Star News lists 如何呢，又能怎 among those lines. Hashtags about the performance trended on Weibo that same night, and opinion split: some loved it, and one well-known critic called the new spoken part embarrassing.

About a week later, people were fitting the line to their own lives. On June 14, 36Kr described versions by students, teachers, office workers and new mothers. In December 2025, the 汉语盘点 list of the year’s top ten internet phrases included it.