# Chen Xiang 6:30 (陈翔六点半)

**Chen Xiang 6:30** (陈翔六点半) is a Chinese short-video comedy team and mini-series brand founded by director Chen Xiang (陈翔), operated through the Yunnan-based company Baoliao Jianghu Culture Communication Co., Ltd. (云南爆笑江湖文化传播有限公司). The team began daily short comedy sketches in 2014, entered the online film market in 2017 with a series of six revenue-sharing network films, and moved into vertical-screen short dramas in 2026.

| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Founded | First broadcast of 《陈翔六点半》 on Tencent Weishi on 8 January 2014; operating company established 29 October 2014<sup>[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E9%99%88%E7%BF%94%E5%85%AD%E7%82%B9%E5%8D%8A/66696213?fromModule=lemma_inlink)</sup> |
| Name origin | Chen Xiang's university filming crew took the name "6:30" because the dormitory electricity came on at 6:30 each morning<sup>[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E9%99%88%E7%BF%94%E5%85%AD%E7%82%B9%E5%8D%8A/66696213?fromModule=lemma_inlink)</sup> |
| Founder | Chen Xiang, a Badong native and graduate of Yunnan University's film program; CEO, director, and holder of 65.5% of the company<sup>[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E9%99%88%E7%BF%94%E5%85%AD%E7%82%B9%E5%8D%8A/66696213?fromModule=lemma_inlink)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[2](https://pitchhub.36kr.com/project/1679806682174212)</sup> |
| Network films | Six films from 《废话少说》 (21 April 2017) to 《疯狂代号》 (25 April 2025), with cumulative revenue-sharing box office above 60 million yuan<sup>[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E9%99%88%E7%BF%94%E5%85%AD%E7%82%B9%E5%8D%8A/66696213?fromModule=lemma_inlink)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[3](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E9%99%88%E7%BF%94%E5%85%AD%E7%82%B9%E5%8D%8A/20603400?fromModule=lemma_inlink)</sup> |
| Reach | Over 100 million followers across platforms; on Douyin 75.271 million followers and 1.207 billion likes as of January 2026<sup>[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E9%99%88%E7%BF%94%E5%85%AD%E7%82%B9%E5%8D%8A/66696213?fromModule=lemma_inlink)</sup> |
| Awards | 《重楼别》 named an outstanding online audiovisual work of 2019 by the National Radio and Television Administration; 《拳王妈妈》 won a second prize in Yunnan Province's 2022 television awards; named a "Yunnan Top Ten Positive Energy Online Account" of 2023<sup>[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E9%99%88%E7%BF%94%E5%85%AD%E7%82%B9%E5%8D%8A/66696213?fromModule=lemma_inlink)</sup> |
| Short-drama move | Entered the Hongguo short-drama platform in July 2026 with four series, led by 《不墅之客》 at a heat value of 39.03 million<sup>[4](https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_33568208)</sup> |

## Spoilers

### Plot

Chen Xiang 6:30 is a nightly anthology shot on the streets of Kunming, and each episode runs a few minutes. A typical one opens on a mundane standoff: two neighbors screaming at each other through a wall at midnight. The first half lets the viewer pick a side, judging who is the unreasonable one, before the final reveal rearranges the whole quarrel and shows that neither party, and possibly the viewer, was judging the situation correctly. In 《校长，请让我在留级300年！》, a student's absurd, desperate plea to be held back for three centuries sounds like pure nonsense until the reason behind it lands, and the joke becomes something closer to a small tragedy.

The reversals are not random. A team of four screenwriters mined internet hot topics and everyday pain points, so many episodes pivot on a genuine social anxiety rather than a punchline. 《等我女儿找男朋友我也这么干》 plays as a comedy about a father meeting his daughter's boyfriend, then turns on the marriage-and-bride-price economics that Chinese audiences argue about constantly; the laughter stops being comfortable exactly when the episode wants it to. Another episode builds an apparently ridiculous contest, then reveals it as a hoax staged by 双喜 to fulfill a dream for his grandfather, who suffers from dementia: the absurdity was an act of love all along. During the COVID-19 pandemic the show produced topical episodes such as 《线上办公第一天，老板被员工玩崩溃了！》, in which a boss tries to impose order on remote work and is systematically dismantled by his own staff, closing with pandemic-prevention end cards.

**The signature experience, the one fans describe hunting for, is the planted foreshadowing in episodes like 《邻居半夜吵架究竟是谁没素质？》: on rewatch, every line that seemed like filler turns out to be a loaded gun.** The series stages this by keeping the first viewing honest. The setup is played completely straight, on real Kunming locations with TV-drama production values rather than cheap sketch-comedy staging, so the viewer has no reason to suspect a trick. Then the last thirty seconds re-cut the meaning of everything said before. Taiwanese fans single out exactly this pleasure, calling the "套路" (the scheme, the con the episode runs on you) its defining feature and admitting they rewatch episodes specifically to catch the seeds of the reversal they missed the first time.

The shorts also grew a socially conscious streak. Sketches on empty-nest elderly care, loneliness, and family obligation drew emotional responses rather than laughs, and the production team credited these episodes with converting casual scrollers into loyal followers.

From 2017 the team extended the formula into one feature-length web film per year: 陈翔六点半之废话少说 (April 2017), 铁头无敌 (June 2018), 重楼别 (July 2019), and 民间高手 (end of 2020). Each applies the same reversal-driven storytelling to a longer narrative, and the Douban scores climbed from 6.0 for the first film to 7.0 for the third, with 重楼别 placing in the 2019 web-film box office top ten.

### Characters

The show runs on a fixed repertory cast playing recognizable screen personas, and part of its fan appeal is that these "grassroots" characters are played by trained professionals. 妹大爷, the grumpy, deadpan elder, is played by 应宝林, a national first-class stage actor widely regarded as the ensemble's finest technician. 毛台, the blustery would-be society big brother, is played by 邰光远 (credited in some sources as 邮光远), a national second-class actor at the Yunnan Repertory Theatre. 闰土 is played by 何闰刚 (also credited as 李洪刚), who led a Yunnan political-department art troupe quyi team, graduated from Yunnan Arts University's comedy directing program, and is one of the show's screenwriters. 蘑菇头, with the unmistakable bowl cut, is played by comedy-trained 黄晓飞. 腿腿 was played by 纪文君, a former Yunnan TV host. Around them rotate 冷檬, 球球, and 猪小明, each with a settled comic identity that lets a two-minute episode skip all exposition.

### Interpretations and controversies

The show was repeatedly accused of vulgarity in its early years, and in 2017 it was reportedly punished by platforms, including a Toutiao account score reset from 100 to zero and suspected blocking on QQ Space. Chen Xiang's response became part of the show's identity: "现在这种风格我不觉得低俗，这就是生活", he said, rejecting the "vulgar" label and positioning the series as a values-driven "屌丝喜剧" about real life. In late 2019, Tianjin Motie Entertainment sued the producers over the September 3, 2018 episode 《跨越了六年时空的爱情》, alleging it plagiarized the literary work 《童话进行时》 and seeking about 820,000 yuan in damages. The team also tried and struggled to convert fame into commerce: its May 2023 Douyin livestream-selling debut drew 5.507 million viewers but sold only 1.844 million yuan of goods, a gap analysts attributed to an entertainment fanbase that watches but does not shop.

### Sequels, spin-offs, and adaptations

Beyond the four annual web films, the brand spawned the short drama 六点半日记 and the animation 六点半变变, making it one of China's most complete short-video IP families.

## Name and origins

The name comes from Chen Xiang's student days. He recalled that during university he was already shooting student works, and "the school turned the power on at 6:30 every morning, so our filming crew took the name '6:30,' and the name has been used ever since."<sup>[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E9%99%88%E7%BF%94%E5%85%AD%E7%82%B9%E5%8D%8A/66696213?fromModule=lemma_inlink)</sup> Chen Xiang left a stable television-station job in 2014 to found the team, which grew from a small student group into a specialized content company of more than fifty people.<sup>[5](https://www.jierimeishi.com/zh/douyin/cxldb001/chuangsiren.html)</sup>

The brand has two dates attached to its start. The Baidu Baike entry records a first broadcast on Tencent Weishi on 8 January 2014, when the team launched the program of the same name.<sup>[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E9%99%88%E7%BF%94%E5%85%AD%E7%82%B9%E5%8D%8A/66696213?fromModule=lemma_inlink)</sup> Douban lists the 2015 miniseries 《陈翔六点半》 with a first broadcast of 8 June 2015 in mainland China, an episode length of 8 minutes, and a rating of 8.6 from 4,545 users.<sup>[6](https://movie.douban.com/subject/26425504/)</sup> Early on, each episode ran about one minute and was published on Weibo around 6:30 each evening; Chen Xiang told a Jiemian News reporter in 2015 that the videos played on 42 platforms to an audience of 18 million, with 4.8 billion cumulative plays across platforms.<sup>[7](https://www.jiemian.com/article/782210.html)</sup>

## Format and cast

The sketches are shot live on location in high definition, use television-style production, and dramatize everyday life with exaggerated humor and, typically, an unexpected reversal at the end.<sup>[8](https://baike.yaotaichi.com/cxldb001.html)</sup> The core short-video series updates daily, with segments of 1 to 7 minutes, no fixed cast or characters, and small-plot household-comedy formats.<sup>[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E9%99%88%E7%BF%94%E5%85%AD%E7%82%B9%E5%8D%8A/66696213?fromModule=lemma_inlink)</sup>

**Recurring performers.** The team built a stable ensemble with distinct stage personas: Zhu Xiaoming (猪小明) as the naive everyman, Wang Zha (王炸) in tough-guy roles, Qiuqiu (球球) and Leng Meng (冷檬) in glamorous and aloof female roles respectively.<sup>[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E9%99%88%E7%BF%94%E5%85%AD%E7%82%B9%E5%8D%8A/66696213?fromModule=lemma_inlink)</sup> The cast also included Run Tu (闰土), Mo Gu Tou (蘑菇头), Mao Tai (毛台), Wu Ma (吴妈), and "Mei Daye" (妹大爷), played by Ying Baolin (应宝林), a national first-class stage actor who had appeared in productions such as Hu Jun's version of *Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils*.<sup>[8](https://baike.yaotaichi.com/cxldb001.html)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[6](https://movie.douban.com/subject/26425504/)</sup> In 2018, cast member Liu Jie (刘洁), known as Tuitui (腿腿), was killed in a slashing attack.<sup>[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E9%99%88%E7%BF%94%E5%85%AD%E7%82%B9%E5%8D%8A/66696213?fromModule=lemma_inlink)</sup>

## The network film series

The turn to feature-length online films came through a chance online contact. In 2016 the team met iQiyi staff through QQ chat, learned the revenue-sharing online film model, and flew to Beijing to study it; the first result was 《陈翔六点半之废话少说》, released exclusively on iQiyi on 21 April 2017, which earned 13.11 million yuan in revenue sharing and placed in the year's top five.<sup>[9](https://www.sohu.com/a/332208833_226897)</sup>

| Film | Release date | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 陈翔六点半之废话少说 | 21 April 2017 | 84 min |
| 陈翔六点半之铁头无敌 | 11 June 2018 | 96 min |
| 陈翔六点半之重楼别 | 11 July 2019 | 101 min |
| 陈翔六点半之民间高手 | 30 December 2020 | 117 min |
| 陈翔六点半之拳王妈妈 | 18 February 2022 | 117 min |
| 陈翔六点半之疯狂代号 | 25 April 2025 | 95 min |

Release dates and running times as listed by Baidu Baike's film-series entry.<sup>[3](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E9%99%88%E7%BF%94%E5%85%AD%E7%82%B9%E5%8D%8A/20603400?fromModule=lemma_inlink)</sup> For 《铁头无敌》, two accounts of its revenue-sharing box office circulate: a Sohu industry report gives 30.87 million yuan, while a fan-maintained timeline gives 23.71 million; both agree it set a series high at the time.<sup>[9](https://www.sohu.com/a/332208833_226897)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[10](https://www.jierimeishi.com/zh/douyin/cxldb001/dianying.html)</sup>

The series shifted themes year by year: the value of time, a hard-head kung fu premise, Yunnan opera (滇剧) in 《重楼别》, and table tennis in 《民间高手》, whose plot centers on an amateur team chasing a late grandfather's lost championship dream.<sup>[11](https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_10674282)</sup> Producer Luo Yi (罗义) said the table tennis element came naturally because Chen Xiang had won a school championship in the sport as a child, and that the first four films kept an average Douban score above 6.4.<sup>[11](https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_10674282)</sup> 《重楼别》 was named an outstanding work in the National Radio and Television Administration's 2019 selection of online audiovisual works, and 《拳王妈妈》 won a second prize in [Yunnan Province](https://www.edgepedia.org/yunnan-province)'s 2022 awards.<sup>[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E9%99%88%E7%BF%94%E5%85%AD%E7%82%B9%E5%8D%8A/66696213?fromModule=lemma_inlink)</sup> A 2021 industry report counted 《重楼别》 among the year's network films scoring above 6 on Douban.<sup>[12](https://wyb.chinawriter.com.cn/attachment/202202/28/4de88655-2a23-423a-8210-0d81b20f072a.pdf)</sup> 《民间高手》 was the series' first two-platform release, on iQiyi and Youku with per-view payment rather than membership-only access.<sup>[10](https://www.jierimeishi.com/zh/douyin/cxldb001/dianying.html)</sup> 《疯狂代号》, made for about 3 million yuan, passed 10 million in revenue sharing.<sup>[10](https://www.jierimeishi.com/zh/douyin/cxldb001/dianying.html)</sup>

## Business and ownership

The operating company, Yunnan Baoliao Jianghu Culture Communication Co., Ltd., was established on 29 October 2014 in Kunming, with Luo Yi (罗义) as legal representative.<sup>[2](https://pitchhub.36kr.com/project/1679806682174212)</sup> The team raised an angel round of 1 million yuan in April 2015 from angel investor Liu Jun and Xianfeng K2VC, and an A round of 10 million yuan from BAI Capital in July 2016.<sup>[2](https://pitchhub.36kr.com/project/1679806682174212)</sup> Shareholding at registration was Chen Xiang 65.5%, Tibet Xianfeng Changqing Venture Investment Management 20%, and Luo Yi 6.5%.<sup>[2](https://pitchhub.36kr.com/project/1679806682174212)</sup> In 2017 the team's total revenue reached 18 million yuan, with monthly advertising income of about 1.5 million yuan.<sup>[4](https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_33568208)</sup>

## Audience scale

The team's following grew steadily across platforms: over 20 million followers全网 by early 2020, with the sketches playing on 42 platforms and averaging 73,000 likes per short video on the Zhuashua app.<sup>[13](https://www.jiemian.com/article/3984674.html)</sup> A 2016 industry PDF listed the account at 190 million followers.<sup>[14](https://23813463.s21i.faiusr.com/61/ABUIABA9GAAg3Mr2gwYo8Z3fuwU.pdf)</sup> Baidu Baike places the cumulative全网 follower count above 100 million, with Douyin at 75.271 million followers and 1.207 billion likes as of January 2026, and cumulative short-video views exceeding 10 billion.<sup>[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E9%99%88%E7%BF%94%E5%85%AD%E7%82%B9%E5%8D%8A/66696213?fromModule=lemma_inlink)</sup>

## Recent changes and the move to short dramas

**Departures and costs.** From October 2025 the team's situation declined: Mo Gu Tou stopped updating after his last video in October 2025; Mao Tai disappeared from team videos and Run Tu's videos were removed from the official account from February 2026; Qiuqiu's contract expired and she left in April 2026. In May 2026, Wu Yanjie (吴艳杰), the actor who played Wu Ma, died of pancreatic cancer at 68, and in June 2026 the 83-year-old Ying Baolin, who played Mei Daye, also died.<sup>[4](https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_33568208)</sup> The team's horizontal-screen model remained expensive, with each short costing 40,000 to 80,000 yuan to produce, while platform traffic shifted to vertical-screen short dramas and the completion rate of horizontal content fell to 18%. A livestream commerce debut on 18 May 2025 drew a peak of 5.5 million concurrent viewers but generated only 1.84 million yuan in sales, insufficient to cover production costs.<sup>[4](https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_33568208)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E9%99%88%E7%BF%94%E5%85%AD%E7%82%B9%E5%8D%8A/66696213?fromModule=lemma_inlink)</sup>

**Entry into vertical short dramas.** In January 2026 the team returned collectively to Chen Xiang's hometown of Badong for the first time to shoot location shorts promoting local tourism.<sup>[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E9%99%88%E7%BF%94%E5%85%AD%E7%82%B9%E5%8D%8A/66696213?fromModule=lemma_inlink)</sup> On 10 July 2026, a verified Chen Xiang 6:30 account appeared on the Hongguo short-drama platform with four series: 《不墅之客》, 《圆谎公司》, 《爱神求我谈恋爱》, and 《铁牛之恋》. 《不墅之客》, a 16-episode suspense comedy, led with a heat value of 39.03 million; its footage had been shot in 2023 and re-edited for vertical viewing.<sup>[4](https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_33568208)</sup> The trade press read the move as evidence that a team with a complete script, filming, and cast system can cross from short sketches to serialized drama, and as a sign that lifestyle comedy, not only revenge-and-comeback plots, can find an audience in the short-drama market.<sup>[4](https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_33568208)</sup>

## References

1. [陈翔六点半（中国短视频创作团队）, Baidu Baike](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E9%99%88%E7%BF%94%E5%85%AD%E7%82%B9%E5%8D%8A/66696213?fromModule=lemma_inlink)
2. [陈翔六点半, 36Kr Pitchhub project profile](https://pitchhub.36kr.com/project/1679806682174212)
3. [陈翔六点半（陈翔执导的系列网络电影）, Baidu Baike](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E9%99%88%E7%BF%94%E5%85%AD%E7%82%B9%E5%8D%8A/20603400?fromModule=lemma_inlink)
4. [沉寂一年，陈翔六点半带着四部剧上了红果, The Paper (短剧内行人), 13 July 2026](https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_33568208)
5. [陈翔六点半创始人陈翔导演创业故事](https://www.jierimeishi.com/zh/douyin/cxldb001/chuangsiren.html)
6. [陈翔六点半 (2015), Douban](https://movie.douban.com/subject/26425504/)
7. [一分钟一集的幽默原创迷你剧 如何做到48亿次播放量? Jiemian News, 2015](https://www.jiemian.com/article/782210.html)
8. [抖音网红陈翔六点半，个人资料简介, 瑶台百科](https://baike.yaotaichi.com/cxldb001.html)
9. [从陈翔团队的"进化"看网络电影行业的变革, Sohu / 数娱梦工厂, 7 August 2019](https://www.sohu.com/a/332208833_226897)
10. [陈翔六点半网络大电影全集盘点](https://www.jierimeishi.com/zh/douyin/cxldb001/dianying.html)
11. [专访制片人罗义：2021年首次开启双平台付费点播, The Paper](https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_10674282)
12. [2021中国网络电影行业年度报告 excerpt, 中国艺术报 supplement](https://wyb.chinawriter.com.cn/attachment/202202/28/4de88655-2a23-423a-8210-0d81b20f072a.pdf)
13. [全网粉丝量超2000万，陈翔六点半凭什么越做越大? Jiemian News, 14 February 2020](https://www.jiemian.com/article/3984674.html)
14. [Account follower ranking PDF listing 陈翔六点半 at 1.9亿](https://23813463.s21i.faiusr.com/61/ABUIABA9GAAg3Mr2gwYo8Z3fuwU.pdf)

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