On December 2nd, the editorial department of "Biting Words and Phrases" released the top ten popular phrases for 2025. 'Resilience', 'embodied intelligence', 'Su Chao', 'cyber reconciliation', 'digital nomad', 'guzi', 'prefabricated XX', 'human feeling', 'XX basic, XX not basic', 'from calm and effortless, hurried and crawling' were selected. Although this is an annual routine release and other organizations participate in the selection, almost every time a popular phrase is released, it can attract enthusiastic participation and feedback from the public. This is a very interesting thing. In today's technologically advanced world, we have a wide range of ways to document the world: reports, videos, and social media content of varying lengths are all continuously generating 'current archives'. But while people have become accustomed to using images and data to capture the times, taking an annual inventory of "what words are popular this year" seems like an especially "old-fashioned" approach - returning to the simplest path, using words as clues to re outline the emotional ups and downs, conceptual changes, and social textures of this year. In terms of 'essential needs', we don't actually need these words to tell us what has happened in the past year. But similar selections continue to emerge, and people are still eagerly watching. To some extent, this can also be attributed to a "historian tradition", which is not only about recording things, but also about refining and "weighing", picking from big and small events separately, arranging their positions according to their respective places, and forming an implicit interpretation of history. This selection clearly demonstrates this point. "Embodied intelligence" and "sense of life" are obviously hot spots in science and technology. "Su Chao" and "Cyber Reconciliation" are cultural and sports phenomena. "XX is basic, XX is not basic", "leisurely, carefree, in a hurry, rolling" and "prefabricated XX" are hot spots in the Internet. Rather than being purely based on objective indicators, this is a subjective intention: to put language fragments from different fields into the same framework, forming a cross-section that can represent "how Chinese people speak this year". This may not be an exact ranking, but it is using carefully selected words to build a window for the public to see the multiple facets of the times from technology to culture, from life to emotions. That's why this list is more like a compiler's "observation and judgment", an annual narrative carried by language, just like ancient words carved on oracle bones - a few numbers, but with a meaning of every word is precious and not easy. People watching this kind of list not only verify whether they are "keeping up with the trend", but also have the meaning of observing whether the institution's judgment and self perception are consistent. Everyone has a definition of the quality of a year, and when institutions provide an "annual sample", people instinctively compare it with their own life experiences to see which ones match and which ones are unexpected. The ranking thus becomes a public reference, allowing individual feelings to find a place in the grand narrative, and also making people realize that they are not only a part of the times, but also have the possibility to participate in writing. Years later, these popular phrases are likely no longer popular, but they will become unique imprints, a texture of the times preserved in the hustle and bustle. Taking words as history and observing the world through language, the final record of the popular language list is not only the changes in language, but also a certain definition of people at that time, a kind of view, attitude, and consideration towards the past. And the meanings behind these may have more reference value in the future than the vocabulary itself. (New Society)