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But while he loves
the attention, he claims that he’s not your usual busker, he’s just doing this
to make his dear mother happy.
74-year Li Yinglai
says that his 96-year-old mother always wanted a daughter, but only had two
sons.
When he was 60, he
decided to do his best to make his mother’s wish come true by putting on
colorful women’s clothes and accessories and going out into the streets to show
off his girly dance moves.
He apparently made
quite an impression, as he’s been doing it every weekend since.
“I
do this for my mother,” Li said in an interview, two years ago. “My mother
has no daughters, and I want to make her happy by wearing women’s clothes. I’m
happy to wear women’s clothes, and I can make others happy too.”
Li,
who is not married, has no children, and has never held a steady job in his
life, spends most of his time looking after his 96-year-old mother. On
weekdays, he wears your average manly clothes, but when the weekend comes, he
paints his nails, puts on one of his many traditional attires – which now
outnumber his regular clothes – a pair of earrings, bracelets, rings and a
wacky pair of glasses, and heads to Green Lake Park to dance and pose for
pictures with fans and tourists.
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