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What does COS’s Yuanji mean?

It means remote stamp collection. Remote stamp collecting means you give your photo to your friend and let your friend take the photo to take photos with others.

Cosplay is the abbreviation of Costume Play in English. The narrower interpretation of cosplay is to imitate and dress up characters in the virtual world, also known as role-playing. As a result, a new meaning has been derived on the Internet, and it is often used to describe "people pretending to be a certain type of person."

The origin of cosplay

An abbreviation for the English "CostumePlay" proposed by Nov. Takahashi. His inspiration for this came from the International Masquerade Ball in San Francisco, USA, and his passion for cosplay expressed in an article published in Japan's "MyAnime" magazine (1982) triggered the Japanese cosplay movement in 1982-83 .

But in a broad sense, the real birthplace of animated cosplay is definitely the United States in the Western Hemisphere. Because whether it is the costumes of Greek priests that existed around 1000 BC, or the group of people who later co-created the two great Greek epics "Iliad" and "Odyssey" who were active in 8 BC The great bards of the century were actually playing the roles of others.