Thread by @bonbonruru, since people were interested in #randomyinzhengfacts, gonna compile a thread of them [...]

since people were interested in #randomyinzhengfacts, gonna compile a thread of them

note: these are based on my memory because i honestly can't remember which interviews/fan accounts i heard/read these from so yeah. if any rly interest you ping me and i can try to dig up a src

-the name "yin zheng" was given to him by the head of his previous company, supposedly bc yz's handwriting is awful, which rendered signatures of his real name (谭峻鹏) incomprehensible. of the names offered, yz chose 尹正 because it has exactly 9 strokes, his favorite number

-idk if you've all noticed by yz really, really loves the number 9. his other favorite numbers are 3 and 6 (you will notice, they also happen to add to 9). this is why his racing name is Nine's, why his number used to be 6 before he switched 9.

he felt it was fate that his debut film's character was in love with a character called Miss Nine (A'jiu). he's also posted on weibo when he's gotten things related to 9, e.g. #9 microphone on a show, key to room 66 in a hotel room (flipped over to look like 99), etc

-his mom is also a cat owner, and primarily raises exotic shorthairs. one of them, xiao yi, was actually picked up for her by yz. when he went to go buy cat food, the shop owner offered him the cat for free because its fur color was unappealing so no one would buy it

-while now more known for being a thorki shipper, yin zheng used to be a huge captain america fan, going so far as to use photos of c-evans!cap as motivation for work out and considering buying a replica of his motorcycle helmet

-his alcohol tolerance is ok but not great. the craziest thing he's done while drunk was arrange rides for all his friends & buy them breakfast after a night out. his friends praised him for staying clear headed despite drinking so much but the reality was he had no memory of it

-(he also once drunkenly posted a douyin video where he sang to the gunpla box he had on his toilet bc he heard your voice sounds better in the bathroom. he deleted it after he sobered up though lol)

-he also put gopros up around his house and got totally shit faced to see what he was like when drunk so he could better act out those scenes in the future, but after he watched the footage the next day he realized he could never do that stuff on camera lol

-the first time he confessed to a girl was in middle school. he got this really pretty wooden box to give to her; however, when the girl opened the box she screamed and ran away because he'd put a bug in it, so his first confession was a failure.

-he has a very poor sense of direction. there're lots of fan accts of him getting lost at the airport, incl. his manager joking that they though they'd lost him, and his staff having to run after him/grab him to pull him in the right direction

there's also a story from a fan who said her friend saw yz at a store, and yz came up to them to ask for help because he couldn't remember where his car was parked

-he once handed peaches to fans who saw him at the airport. the fans hadn't asked for anything but apparently yz felt bad that he didn't have any gifts prepared so stuffed two peaches from his bag into their hands. the fans were very ??? abt it lmao.

(when he is prepared he's given little snack bags to fans)

-his nickname from middle school to university was 毛毛 (fuzzy). he kept his hair long-ish back then and his friends said it made him look like sully from monsters inc (also nicknamed 毛毛). it's still how his school friends refer to him

(photo: yz @ conservatory graduation)

he actually used to go on singing variety shows under the name 大少毛毛 (young adult maomao), and it was his username on weibo and QQ lol

-yz's motto is 诚实, 善良, 勇敢 (honest, kind, courageous), often shortened to 诚善勇. part of why he admired shang xirui as a character was because he felt sxr embodied the "honest + courageous" parts of his motto to an extreme yz felt he could never achieve himself

-he's admitted he can't be as open on his weibo now as he was before debut, but he does try to share his thoughts on his weibo, even though half the time when he posts abt one of his interests (anime, mobile games, motoGP, etc), half the comments are just 'idgi but

'

-he's kept all his old posts going back to when he first opened his weibo acct in 2010 public, even though there's literally a tjp supertopic which is p much just fans ribbing him for how ridiculous he was then (fans are also aware both yz + yz'z mom know of the tjp supertopic)

-he said he was much better at humanities than math during school. he got a 35 on his math exam, so spent a month being tutored by the teacher. afterwards, he thought he pretty much got it, but on the exam fell for every single one of the trick questions and bombed it again

-this isn't really a random fact but i just need to share that this dumb baby actually uploaded photos of his work visa to thailand (for shooting <last flight>) and his driving license onto his public weibo

-he often wears a black t-shirt with his fanclub logo printed in yellow/gold. he did a giveaway of the shirts once and posted a photo showing he had washed/dried the shirts so fans could wear them immediately upon arrival lol

-there was a period when he got into sumo + was watching the matches of yokozuna hakuho. recently, he's said he's following <hinomaru zumo>, a manga/anime about sumo wrestling.

-like almost every other male celeb, yz collects sneakers, but UNLIKE other celebs he specifically collects sneakers that have featured in animanga series(namely, Slam Dunk) bc his weeb tendencies run That Deep

-instead of pronouncing the "B" in B站 (the nickname from video hosting site bilibili) like the letter B (bi1), he instead pronounces it like 笔 (bi3) for unknown reasons. his weird pronunciation of it has become something of a meme amongst yz fans

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