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Chinese tour guide dubbed ‘Mama Moon’ speaks 11 foreign languages and refuses to retire after 25 years
Videos of Xu Xiuzhen, 77, speaking different languages with foreigners in 2018 brought her instant fame. And to this day, she is still working at the scenic spot selling water, postcards and headdress flowers after nearly 25 years, she told the South China Morning Post.
Xu, also known as “Mama Moon,” has been working as a tour guide and vendor in Yangshuo, a county and resort town in southern China’s Guangxi region since 1998, when the area became famous with foreign backpackers and organised tours.
Xu’s village is located at the base of Moon Hill, a popular tourist destination famed for a moon-shaped hole at the summit.
As a result of the massive influx of foreign tourists, many locals switched from farming to running small businesses catering to the tourists. One of them was Xu.
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