China boy, 14, acts like ancient scholar, turns bedroom into museum of artefacts

A 14-year-old Chinese boy who turned his bedroom into a small history museum and spoke like an ancient scholar has attracted an army of followers online.

The secondary school student from central China’s Henan province, Xie Zhaoyutong, loves ancient Chinese history and literature and has filled his bedroom with his antique collections.

A recent video of Xie passionately introducing his collections went viral online. It attracted 837,000 likes and 40,000 comments.

Xie collects pottery, china, bricks and coins from Chinese dynasties, stretching back over 3,000 years of Chinese history.

He is able to randomly pick up any item from his collection and tell its story.

  

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