{"id":417978,"date":"2026-04-30T07:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/417978\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T07:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:44:09","slug":"tibetan-herder-goes-from-internet-darling-to-tourism-ambassador-now-romantic-film-actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/417978\/","title":{"rendered":"Tibetan herder goes from internet darling to tourism ambassador, now romantic film actor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Five years after Tibetan herder Tenzing Tsondu was hailed as \u201cChina\u2019s most handsome man\u201d for a seven-second video clip, he is now a romance film actor who dreams about more experiences in the wider world.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Known by his Mandarin name Ding Zhen, he gained overnight fame across the nation, after a travel photographer\u2019s seven-second clip showing his pure smile went viral in November 2020.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The account he newly registered on a social media platform garnered two million followers in one day.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Many people marvelled at his \u201cinnocent smile and unsophisticated eyes\u201d, and wished for him to \u201cstay pure and not become an influencer\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A poster for the film Sumpa Kingdom, above, which stars Ding Zhen. Photo: Sina\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4547a743-89eb-4fae-a584-d9253c43b38f_e7efb0ff.jpg\" title=\"A poster for the film Sumpa Kingdom, above, which stars Ding Zhen. Photo: Sina\"\/>A poster for the film Sumpa Kingdom, above, which stars Ding Zhen. Photo: Sina<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The 19-year-old was soon hired as a tourism ambassador by his hometown, Litang county in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture, southwestern China\u2019s Sichuan province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five years after Tibetan herder Tenzing Tsondu was hailed as \u201cChina\u2019s most handsome man\u201d for a seven-second video&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[16539,35462,5560,197056,1089,1657,3388,20049,49156,197061,3426,184,146,197054,22327,31592,7186,879,878,197060,197053,197049,197046,197048,177265,85,2069,10180,75436,197050,8757,123,46,231,197058,89483,193944,167566,31919,93887,197055,740,166984,78683,1860,20915,70580,67900,28351,17994,91517,8075,197045,18618,197051,1943,50303,86839,2321,17809,197052,197057,197059,101653,197044,2012,197047,71794,1769,2059,2403,179761],"class_list":["post-417978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-actor","tag-anniversary","tag-beijing","tag-beijing-international-film-festival","tag-children","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-clip","tag-cupid","tag-ding-zhen","tag-dreams","tag-economy","tag-entertainment","tag-everlasting-love","tag-eyes","tag-fame","tag-farmers","tag-festival","tag-film","tag-garze-tibetan-autonomous-prefecture","tag-guarantee","tag-handsome","tag-heartthrob","tag-herder","tag-hometown","tag-il","tag-industry","tag-influencer","tag-influx","tag-innocent","tag-insurance","tag-internet","tag-israel","tag-lifestyle","tag-litang","tag-luck","tag-lucky","tag-magic","tag-make-up","tag-mandarin","tag-memories-beyond-horizon","tag-movie","tag-movie-star","tag-photographer","tag-popular","tag-poverty","tag-primary","tag-pure","tag-reality","tag-romance","tag-romantic","tag-school","tag-sensation","tag-showbiz","tag-showbusinbess","tag-shows","tag-sichuan","tag-smile","tag-social","tag-soul","tag-speaks","tag-sumpa-kingdom","tag-tenzing-tsondu","tag-tibet","tag-tibetan","tag-tourism","tag-tourism-ambassador","tag-tourism-industry","tag-tourists","tag-video","tag-viral","tag-yaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}