Good-looking beggar reunites with family
08 03 10 - 00:50 A male beggar whose rugged looks were compared to a Japanese movie star and whose clothes were described by Internet bloggers as coordinated and fashion-conscious is no longer a mystery to the public.Family members reunited with the vagabond-looking man last week after several years on the streets in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province.
Nicknamed "Brother Sharp" for his clothes, Cheng Guorong, 34, checked out of Ningbo Mental Hospital where he was admitted after he gained publicity for his looks, Guangzhou Daily reported Sunday.
Cheng, a native of Shangrao, Jiangxi Province, is the father of a 10 and 11 year old.
He became a hot topic on the Internet after a Japanese website said he looks like pop star Hiro Mizushima.
In one photo, Cheng is dressed in multiple layers of clothing, including a full-length coat over a shorter jacket, along with a shirt, sweater and heavy snow pants. His thick hair is soiled and he walks down a street looking like a character in a Mad Max movie.
The beggar became a media topic after a factory owner took his picture last month outside Tianyi Plaza in Ningbo and posted it online.
The British newspaper, The Independent, carried a photo of the beggar on Thursday and described him as "walking with a model's measured gait, and wearing a rag-tag but well coordinated overcoat on top of a leather jacket."
There was speculation that Cheng served as a solider in Nanchang, Jiangxi in 1998, and went to Ningbo to work in 2002.
His fiancéwanted to meet Cheng in Ningbo, but she was killed in a car crash. After the accident, Cheng was in shock and was fired.
A college student at Zhejiang Institute of Finance told his father that "Brother Sharp" looks like his neighbor's brother Cheng Guosheng in hometown in Shangrao.
The local media then contacted Cheng Guosheng, who brought his 60-year-old mother to Ningbo last week when the beggar brother was admitted to a mental hospital with the help of local government officials.
The younger brother said the beggar went to work in Ningbo in 2002, and lost contact with the family in 2003.
The younger brother also said his big brother was not aware that his wife and father both died in car accidents.
"My big brother is reserved and has a strong sense of self-respect. He thought he did not make lots of money so he had no 'face' to contact the family," the younger brother said.
The beggar brother was mentally healthy when he left home at 23, but hospital staff said he is now insane.
"His mental status is stable but there are signs of insanity," said Liu Tanglong, director of the medical branch at the mental hospital. "He does not like to communicate with others but he likes to write down his answers on paper. He said he does not want to be famous."
Family members took "Brother Sharp" out of the hospital on Friday, even though doctors suggested he needed observation.
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