A mother in eastern China poured water on her primary-school-aged son multiple times as a form of punishment after he doused his classmates at school, sparking applause online. Nearly 6 million people on Douyin viewed the clip of the mother dumping water on her son, who was standing outside their housing block in Zhejiang province. Identified by her Douyin account name, @lanxichen, she instructed her son to stand closer to their second-floor flat window while she continuously poured water on him from a small basin.
Despite her son’s protests, she insisted on carrying out the punishment. When the boy began screaming “No!”, she asked him: “Why not? Didn’t you say this was fun?”.