助我破鼎zhù wǒ pò dǐng

破 means “to break” and 鼎 is an ancient bronze cauldron. In the meme, the cauldron is the hard thing in front of you, and breaking it means getting through.

It works before any hard task: an exam, a deadline, a long run. Post it before the task and ask friends to wish you luck.

It comes from 哪吒之魔童闹海, the animated film known in English as Ne Zha 2, which came out at the Spring Festival of 2025. In one scene, Ne Zha and his friend Ao Bing are trapped in a huge magic cauldron, 天元鼎, and break out of it together.

Sources differ on the exact words. The national language monitoring center, which put 助我破鼎 on its list of the top internet phrases of 2025, says it is the line from that scene. A review of the film quotes Ne Zha’s shout at that moment as 给我破, “break!”.

The center says people use it to cheer themselves on and to show they will not give up.