Teacher savors chance to walk Shakespeare's favorite streets

It was a rare sunny day when 57-year-old Li Jing'ang arrived at Stratford upon Avon in the United Kingdom. The town is the birthplace of William Shakespeare, regarded as the greatest British writer and dramatist in the 16th century and Li's favorite literary master.

Along with some 30 tourists from China on April 4, Li was gently holding his breath as he walked through the wooden house where Shakespeare once lived. He was amazed that the house was so well preserved.

For Li, this moment was his "dream come true". Li, a former English teacher from a county in Shandong province, became a popular figure in the country in 2013 for collecting trash in Beijing and chatting to foreigners in fluent English and eagerly teaching pedestrians oral English.