Decoding ancient times

A tour guide at the National Museum of China is becoming popular through his approach to artifacts, Wang Ru reports.

People listen carefully to a tall man as he introduces ancient China to them - and they occasionally burst into laughter.

As a tour guide at the National Museum of China, Yuan Shuo has become popular since he started providing knowledge about the exhibits in his own style, under the online name "Hesenbao". Yuan has more than 3.84 million followers on Sina Weibo, China's Twitter-like platform, and he has presented four paid lectures on Zhihu, a Chinese knowledge-sharing website, with one such talk attracting 8,470 people.