Wearing a ponytail and a black suit, the headset line naturally extends down the neck to the neckline, the eyes are sharp, watching around vigilantly at any time, and the hands are always in a fist-clenched state... Born in Zigong, Sichuan, 21-year-old female "bodyguard" Zhang Meili has recently become popular on the Internet and has also been on the hot search. Her sharp eyes and sassy posture have aroused heated discussion and praise from many netizens, calling her "the most sassy female bodyguard". However, there are also netizens who are "worried": can girls be bodyguards? There are even people who worry about her life's events, "Girls as bodyguards, can you find a boyfriend?" ” Recently, Zhang Meili, who is in Huairou, Beijing, was interviewed by Red Star News and told about her hardships and persistence along the way to pursue the "bodyguard dream".
Zhang Meili in the security mission
In fact, Zhang Meili is not her real name, but her pseudonym after entering the industry. She has a boyish personality from a young age, likes martial arts films, and her favorite idols are jet Li, Zhen Zidan, Jackie Chan and other kung fu stars, and has a martial arts dream. After graduating from the Chengdu Sports Institute majoring in Sanda, she resolutely drifted north despite her parents' objections and agreed on a three-year period.
Today, when I was a child, "dreams shine into reality". After officially entering the industry, Zhang Meili also had a deeper and more professional understanding of "bodyguards". Up to now, she has completed more than 10 security tasks arranged by the company, and her ultimate dream is to become "China's first female bodyguard". For love and the "personal problems" that everyone cares about, she said, let nature take its course, in recent years, she will not consider talking about marriage, and want to work hard for a few years to talk about her career...
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It is an honor to be followed on the hot search
Don't pursue "short-lived", and use praise and questioning as motivation
Recently, the post-00s "female bodyguard" Zhang Meimei has become popular on the Internet, because the topic of "female college students graduating as private bodyguards" has been on the Internet hot search.
In many videos on the Internet, you can see the daily life, training and work of Zhang Mei, her sharp eyes, skilled moves, and cool posture, which have made many netizens like her and trigger heated discussions, calling her "the most sassy female bodyguard".
Zhang Meimei in training
Red Star News reporters saw on a number of short video platforms that the beautiful videos about Zhang were mainly based on the mission site and training scene, of which only one task scene video was played more than 2 million times and liked 26,000 times. Many netizens commented: "The temperament is commendable" and "the eyes are the most lethal"... But there are also netizens worried, girls as bodyguards, can it work?
For the sudden "popularity", Zhang Meili said in an interview with Red Star News that she was very happy and honored to get the attention and praise of netizens, but she also remained sober. Now is the information age, and sudden popularity will soon become a cloud of the past, replaced by other information. Therefore, she does not pursue such a "short-lived flash", or insists on doing herself well.
As for the netizens' praise, worry and questioning, Zhang Meili said that these are regarded as encouragement, as the driving force of their "bodyguard" career, and encourage themselves to achieve "unsuitable and impossible in the eyes of others".
Life——
Since childhood, he has broken his wrist with a boy
Admitted to the Sports College Sanda major, work-study contact with the security industry
On November 24, Zhang Meili was at the Tianjiao Special Guard Training Camp in Huairou, Beijing, and as an assistant teacher, she was cooperating with the instructor to carry out training tasks.
Zhang Meili told Red Star News in a telephone interview that "Zhang Meili" is actually not her real name, but her pseudonym after entering the "bodyguard" industry, mainly for the consideration of protecting personal privacy.
Born in May 2000, Zhang Meili grew up in Donghu Town, Fushun County, Zigong City, Sichuan Province, because her parents worked outside the home for many years, she and her brother were raised by their grandmother, and they were also considered to be left-behind children. She confessed to the Red Star News reporter that her academic performance was average, but she did farm work and housework since she was a child, and her physical fitness was still good. When she was a child, many boys were not her opponents, so she also earned a nickname of "Hercules".
In the second year of junior high school, the teacher saw that she had great strength, fast response, and good speed, and suggested that she learn physical education and take the road of physical education students in the future. Eventually, she was admitted to Fushun No.1 Middle School to attend high school and began professional athletics training. Different from other girls' hobbies, she is more boyish, likes martial arts films, likes jet Li, Zhen Zidan, Jackie Chan and other kung fu stars, and has had a martial arts dream since childhood.
After professional training, in 2017, Zhang Meili was admitted to the Sanda major of Wushu College of Chengdu Sports University. "In the past, they just liked martial arts and longed for martial arts, but the conditions were limited, and they didn't really get in touch with martial arts until they were in college." Zhang Meili said that during her college years, she has participated in many intramural competitions and won awards.
During college, due to her family's poor financial situation, she paid for her tuition through student loans and earned living expenses and pocket money by working part-time on weekends. During this period, she worked as a cashier, a supermarket clearer, and a sports training assistant. At that time, he could earn an average of 3,000 yuan a month, which could fully support his living expenses of college.
In her third year of college, Zhang Meili was exposed to security work. "Strange to say, I was immediately interested." Zhang Meili said that other jobs feel very ordinary, but the security work is different, and the more she does it, the more she likes it, and even takes "bodyguard" as her first career choice in the future.
Zhang Meili said that the profession of "bodyguard" is currently considered an unpopular profession, but it gives professionals a sense of mystery, security and responsibility, which deeply attracts her. Therefore, she defines "bodyguard" as the most favorite and most desirable profession in her heart, which is what she wants to do in this life.
Chasing Dreams——
Her parents wanted her to find a stable job
Agreed on a three-year period, resolutely drifting north to chase the "bodyguard dream"
In June this year, Zhang Meili graduated from college, and she resolutely preferred the "bodyguard" profession.
Before choosing a career, she had consulted with her parents. "My parents were adamantly opposed to me being a bodyguard." Zhang Meili told Red Star News that her parents had never heard of "bodyguard" or a profession, and after knowing it, they simply thought that it was a male profession, not suitable for women, and hoped that she could have a stable career, such as civil servants, teachers and coaches.
However, Zhang Meili does not want such "stability" and wants to make her life more exciting. So, after much explanation, she finally persuaded her parents and agreed on a three-year period. In three years, if she does not work hard in the "bodyguard" industry to achieve results, she will obey her parents' wishes to return to her hometown to find a stable job; if she has certain achievements, she will continue her dream.
In August this year, Zhang Meili came to the Tianjiao Special Guard Training Camp in Huairou, Beijing with a dream to start induction training. She said she had planned to go to the camp when she graduated in June this year, but because she still had to repay some of the student loans, it was postponed for two months, and she did not enter the camp until August. After learning of Zhang Meimei's actual situation, Chen Yongqing, the head of the training camp, specially waived the related expenses such as study and accommodation.
Among the 40 trainees in the 51st session of the training camp, Zhang Meili was the only female student, so it was particularly eye-catching. On the training ground, she was not inferior to other male trainees. "After four years of professional training in Sanda, in the class, my fighting ability is at the middle and upper level." Zhang Meili said.
Zhang Meimei recalled that the two-month closed training program includes combat fighting, special driving, safety screening, psychological anti-stress and other training. Among them, the most difficult project is psychological stress training, the instructor will infinitely enlarge everyone's shortcomings, stimulate everyone's psychological potential, "let you collapse, let you decide to refute, resist, prove 'I can do'".
Until the middle of October, Zhang Meili successfully graduated and became a female "bodyguard". For this industry, she also has a more professional understanding. She said that on January 1, 2010, the "Regulations on the Administration of Security Services" were officially implemented, and "private bodyguards" were legalized. At present, the entire industry is dominated by men, with less than 10% of female workers.
In response to the question that "girls are not suitable for being bodyguards", Zhang Meili said that physical strength is the biggest threshold for women to be "bodyguards", and delicate thinking is the natural advantage of women. In addition, with the gradual popularization of the "bodyguard" industry, more customers have hired personal "bodyguards"; when the customers are women, male "bodyguards" may have many inconveniences, and women can play a gender advantage.
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More than 10 security tasks have been completed
Dreaming of becoming "China's first female bodyguard", I will not consider talking about marriage for the time being
When it comes to "bodyguards", many people will flash in their minds the image of action stars such as Jet Li and Jason Statham in film and television works, who are kung fu, heaven and earth, and almost omnipotent.
In fact, the "bodyguard" in real life is not as omnipotent as imagined, and there are not so many guns and bullets. Zhang Meili introduced to Red Star News that the "bodyguard" in reality, first of all, does need good physical fitness, as well as professional skills in martial arts; secondly, it needs to be proficient in industry-related professional knowledge, and abide by the "bodyguard" professional standards, and finally must comply with the professional philosophy.
Zhang Meili routinely inspects the vehicle
"Bodyguards are not thugs, bodyguards are defensive, arming themselves with professional skills and wisdom to protect others." Zhang Meili added that the professional philosophy she learned and followed was "wartime protection first, peacetime service priority", that is, when encountering unexpected situations, the first thought and first action is to protect target customers and do basic service work when everything is normal. In most cases, the job of the "bodyguard" is mainly to protect the customer in a crowded environment, without external interference, without external interference.
At the end of October this year, after receiving a private "bodyguard" task, Zhang Meili used professional equipment to inspect the vehicle and found the monitoring device in a very inconspicuous place. This discovery also surprised the customer, because the other party did not expect that the plot of "being monitored + found to be monitored" in the movie would really happen to him.
This work achievement has allowed Zhang Meili and her team to be recognized by customers, and it is also her first achievement after leaving the division, which makes her confidence double.
The Red Star News reporter learned that Zhang Meili has completed more than 10 security tasks assigned by the company, and is now on standby, serving as a teaching assistant, communication and other related work in the training camp.
In order to let the public know more about this profession, Zhang Meili also filmed and produced some short videos to introduce the "bodyguard" profession, record the daily life and work of personal life, and share training experience and experience. She also regularly broadcasts live, teaching self-defense techniques that she finds more practical. "Not long after the live broadcast, I didn't have many fans, so I slowly accumulated it; I like to share it with everyone." She said that as long as you keep doing it, you will reap the rewards.
When it comes to short-term plans, she hopes to accumulate practical combat experience through intensive training, take root in the "bodyguard" industry, and quickly become an excellent "bodyguard". Then buy a suite in your hometown in Sichuan so that your parents and grandmother can live in a new house.
For the "personal problems" that many netizens care about, Zhang Meili said that when you fall in love, go with the flow, and meet the right one. However, in recent years, I will not consider talking about marriage for the time being, and I want to work hard for a few years. Her ideal partner tends to be self-motivated, attractive, and masculine of the opposite sex.
Her ultimate dream is to become "China's first female bodyguard", protect every customer, and take care of her relatives.
Family --
Parents respect their daughter's choices
From not understanding to no longer blocking, "as long as she likes, we support"
Zhang's beautiful father, Zhang Wenxiang, told Red Star News that he and his wife went out to work about the time when their daughter was about to enter elementary school, rarely returned home, and both his son and daughter were taken care of by their grandmother.
Because they rarely play mobile phones, Zhang Wenxiang and his wife still do not know that their daughter is on fire on the Internet. For his daughter to choose the "bodyguard" profession, he said that he and his wife began to understand very little, "after all, is a female doll", when the bodyguard should be a male occupation, and feel dangerous. Now that I think about it, although I still don't understand it in my heart, she has grown up and has her own hobbies and favorite jobs, and her parents no longer block it, "as long as she likes it, we will support it."
"Being able to bear hardships is very frugal, and it is humble and resilient", this is the evaluation of Zhang Meimei by her girlfriend Wenxin. Wen Xin and Zhang Meili are high school classmates, I remember that in high school, Zhang Meili spent most of her time reading, studying and training, basically did not go out to play, rarely went to a shopping party, and even rarely bought new clothes.
Not long ago, Wenxin saw Zhang Meili on the Internet, as a classmate and friend, she also felt very proud, and she was even more happy and relieved for Zhang Meili. She said that gold will always shine, Zhang Meili has a lot of shining points, meet this opportunity, let more people know and understand her; also wish her better and better, to achieve her dreams.
Red Star News reporter Yuan Wei provided a picture of the interviewee
Edited by Zhang Li
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