Huang Xun
Huang Xun (黄勋, Xun Huang), an acquaintance of Zhang Zhehan. Since late 2022, he has been promoting the unapproved song releases on different music platforms and commenting on the super3 Instagram posts. He has also met Zhang Sanjian in person and posted about it to his various social media accounts.
Born in 1991, he attended the Shanghai Theatre Academy and graduated in 2014. He worked as a stage actor and director in Shanghai before starting an MA course at Birkbeck, University of London and Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 2021[1]. He returned to China in late 2022, before moving back to London. He graduated in 2023 with his production Blossoming (You Undo Me), a musical, later shown also at Edinburgh Fringe[2].
Relationship to Zhang Zhehan
He was a student at the Shanghai Theatre Academy in a similar timeframe to Zhang Zhehan. He entered STA in 2010, while Zhang Zhehan entered in 2008.
His Instagram contains one photo of himself with Zhang Zhehan from October 4, 2017.
Photo posted to his IG account on October 4, 2017
In 2017, he set up a performance art education institution in Shanghai, 上海艺丁点儿. In April 2020, Zhang Zhehan filmed a promotional video for the school and guest taught a class there.
Activity timeline
He first appeared when the iTunes ZSJ song promotion started. In late December 2022, he visited a karaoke place in Shanghai with Zhang Sanjian and three other people. In September 2023, he picked Zhang Sanjian from the Heathrow airport, then accompanied him in London for a few days.
- December 16, 2022: he posted an IG story showing an iTunes chart with the first unapproved song release, "Melancholy Sunshine". He tagged the Super3 Instagram and called Zhang Zhehan "his talented baby". This story was then turned into an IG post, along with screenshots of two tweets mentioning the song and a ZSJ photo. On that date he followed the Super3 IG and was followed back.
- December 24, 2022: he posted another IG story showing an iTunes chart containing the second unapproved song release, "Knight Errant". He also shared a selfie with a masked Zhang Sanjian.
- December 25, 2022: he posted multiple IG stories with Zhang Sanjian and two other friends at a karaoke place in Shanghai.
- December 26, 2022: he posted a photo with Zhang Sanjian and other people at the karaoke place. The post also included a video of ZSJ singing from the night before.
Social media accounts
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/xun2580
- Weibo: https://weibo.com/u/1878353154