Gujiagou is a small hamlet in Wanquan County in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province. Hao, born in the village in 1981, lived there until he was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy in 2001.

Rather than try to reach the green, he chose to lay up.

Suppose we held our converse not in words, but in music; those who have a bad ear would find themselves cut off from all near commerce, and no better than foreigners in this big world.

I have a vegetarian brother