Research on the Process of Seeking ‘Da Zi’ and the Trend of Moderate Interaction of Young People

Recently, a new type of Chinese social relation ' Da Zi ' relationship has exploded on Chinese network platform, which means a temporary community of people with a common hobby or common purpose. Based on in-depth interviews with 12 young people of different genders, ages, identities, and regions, this study focuses on the reasons for finding the ' Da Zi ' relationship, the classification and the flexibility of the ' Da Zi ' relationship, the social mentality of the young people and so on, the research findings are as follows:

Firstly, in Chinese young people’s eyes, the ' Da Zi ' relationship can be divided into two types :an alternative of friendship or the construction of idealized relationship. And there are 3 reasons why young people seek for the ' Da Zi ' relationship : accurately meet the diverse needs, quickly and time-saving achieve expectations, and seek comfortable social relations. We can consider the ' Da Zi ' relationship as 2 types : the event-related Da Zi and the interest-related Da Zi, and they can be further divided.

Secondly, the ' Da Zi ' relationship has good flexibility and has the potential to be transformed into friendships or stranger relationships. On the continuum of relationship strength between ' Da Zi ' and other forms of social interaction, ' Da Zi ' can find any position between strangers and friendship. The schematic diagram of ' the flexibility of the Da Zi relationship ' is formed by the crossing of the two dimensions of the depth of the existing emotion-righteousness embedding and whether the interest demand expectation is clear.

Thirdly, the phenomenon of the ' Da Zi ' relationship popularity reflects the moderate interaction social mentality of Chinese young people, which is the positive reconstruction of social relations by Chinese young people.