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From vagrant to Fashion Show Manager
Xi Li Ge - from a vagrant (left) to a Fashion Show Manager
Remember Xi Li Ge (Brother Sharp)? The hunky vagrant in Ningbo, Zhejiang province.
This 35-year-old Chinese man, who is recognised for his great fashion sense, has been offered a job as the Fashion Show manager at an eco holiday resort in Shunde near Guangzhou.
Xi Li Ge, whose real name is Cheng Guorong, will be paid 3,000 yuan (RM1,500) a month if he proves his capability during the one-month probation period starting this month.
Xi Li Ge waving to the audiences while performing a catwalk fashion show on stage
According to China News Net, Cheng arrived at the resort on Friday night. He was accompanied by his family and his professor uncle.
The uncle said many people have shown their concerns for Cheng, and suspected that the employment was a publicity stunt by the resort.
"To us, it is most important that Guorong be independent and able to intergrate into society again," he said.
Cheng, however, is happy that he could settle down and put an end to his wandering life on the streets.
"I am just a normal pathetic person. It was the Internet that rescued me from the streets and I am grateful to the netizens who had lent their helping hand.
"I do not know anything about fashion and don't understand why people said I am fashionable," he wondered.
Xi Li Ge (centre) and his family
Xi Li Ge shot to fame after a photo of him wearing a rag-tag but well co-ordinated overcoat on top of a leather jacket, was posted on the Internet.
The picture caused an uproar with netizens naming him the Handsome Beggar, Beggar Prince and Handsome Vagabond.
Cheng, who had minor mental problems, had lost contact with his family after he left home for work in 1997.
Since then, he had been roaming the streets.
After his story was widely reported in China, he finally reunited with his family and returned to his home in Tuo Ling, Jiangxi.
Xi Li Ge - from a vagrant (left) to a Fashion Show Manager
Remember Xi Li Ge (Brother Sharp)? The hunky vagrant in Ningbo, Zhejiang province.
This 35-year-old Chinese man, who is recognised for his great fashion sense, has been offered a job as the Fashion Show manager at an eco holiday resort in Shunde near Guangzhou.
Xi Li Ge, whose real name is Cheng Guorong, will be paid 3,000 yuan (RM1,500) a month if he proves his capability during the one-month probation period starting this month.
Xi Li Ge waving to the audiences while performing a catwalk fashion show on stage
According to China News Net, Cheng arrived at the resort on Friday night. He was accompanied by his family and his professor uncle.
The uncle said many people have shown their concerns for Cheng, and suspected that the employment was a publicity stunt by the resort.
"To us, it is most important that Guorong be independent and able to intergrate into society again," he said.
Cheng, however, is happy that he could settle down and put an end to his wandering life on the streets.
"I am just a normal pathetic person. It was the Internet that rescued me from the streets and I am grateful to the netizens who had lent their helping hand.
"I do not know anything about fashion and don't understand why people said I am fashionable," he wondered.
Xi Li Ge (centre) and his family
Xi Li Ge shot to fame after a photo of him wearing a rag-tag but well co-ordinated overcoat on top of a leather jacket, was posted on the Internet.
The picture caused an uproar with netizens naming him the Handsome Beggar, Beggar Prince and Handsome Vagabond.
Cheng, who had minor mental problems, had lost contact with his family after he left home for work in 1997.
Since then, he had been roaming the streets.
After his story was widely reported in China, he finally reunited with his family and returned to his home in Tuo Ling, Jiangxi.
