Don’t stop the music! Young teacher becomes super popular after turning boring daily exercise into a fun dance session (and she even joins in)
- The 27-year-old boogies along with 300 students daily at a school in China
- Pupils say they are now looking forward to working out because of the dance
- New trend sees teachers leading hundreds of pupils to dance in the country
To be a good teacher in China, one has to be a good dancer, as it seems.
A new trend is sweeping through schools in the country which sees teachers and headmasters demonstrating upbeat dance routines in front of hundreds of students.
The latest star teacher to lead the national movement is 27-year-old Wang Lihong, who has managed to turn the boring daily exercise at her school into fun festivity loved by usually rebellious teenagers.
Wang Lihong (centre) busts a move with hundreds of pupils every day on the playground. The enthusiastic educator is a music teacher at the No.3 School at Ju County in Rizhao city, China
Ms Wang has become super popular among her students after choreographing a lively mass dance routine and boogieing away on the playground with youngsters every day.
‘At the beginning when [the students] first tried to learn the routine, they seemed to lack energy and their backs weren’t upright. But now they are vigorous and spirited,’ Ms Wang told Pear Video.
The enthusiastic educator is a music teacher at the No.3 School at Ju County in Rizhao city, eastern China’s Shandong Province.
She dances with more than 300 eighth-grade students, who are about 13 years old, and has been doing so for around two months.
The 27-year-old teacher has become super popular among her pupils. She says the dance routine has made her students, who are around 13 years old, vigorous and spirited
Apparently, the teacher also shares the same name as the ‘King of Chinese pop’, Wang Leehom, which further boosts her popularity among boys and girls.
Pupils are now looking forward to the workout session between classes.
‘I always remind myself the movements before I start dancing and I always dance passionately,’ one female pupil said.
Traditionally, pupils around China are required to do radio callisthenics every morning, in which they move their arms, legs and torso in a rhythmic, synchronised way to music broadcast through a loudspeaker.
‘Compared to the radio callisthenics in the past, this [dance] is unique and full off personality,’ the pupil added.
The school’s headmaster said teenagers need curious and new forms of exercise to help them build a habit of working out.
Ms Wang is the third ‘dancing teacher’ that has gone viral in China.
Zhang Pengfei, the headmaster at the Xi Guan Primary School in Linyi county, Shanxi province, was the first educator to lead the trend.
The 40-year-old shot to fame in January after dancing with some 700 pupils in a ‘ghost shuffle’ routine simultaneously.
Zhang Guannan, a PE teacher in Pingliang, Gansu province, followed suit last month with videos showing him salsa-dancing to viral hit song, Dura, with about 400 students.