Chizi

Chizi was born in Henan, China.^[12] At primary school, he moved to Beijing with his family.

After dropping out in his final year of high school and spending several years unemployed, he stumbled upon the Beijing Stand-up Comedy Club (北京脱口秀俱乐部) online and joined in 2015. After four months in August, he debuted in a bar as stand-up comedian during an "open-mic" session. From there, he was invited by Li Dan, a stand-up comedian, to join Tonight 80's Talk Show [zh] and later became one of its recurring guests.^[5][14][15] In 2017, he participated in the production various stand-up comedy-centric television programmes in China such as Roast! (吐槽大会) and Rock & Roast (脱口秀大会).^[13]

In January 2019, after the third season of Roast!, Chizi announced on Weibo that he would not return to the show.^[16][17]

In January 2020, due to financial dispute, Chizhi proposed a termination of his contract with his managing agent, Shanghai Xiao Guo Culture Media. Both parties entered into an arbitration proceeding.^[18] On May 6, he accused on Weibo that China CITIC Bank had acquiesced to Xiao Guo's request for his bank transactions details without his approval. On May 7, the bank admitted that the matter was not done in accordance to the regulations and fired the branch manager involved in the unauthorized disclosure of customer's information.^[19] On August 12, the contract was terminated peacefully.^[20] The matter was settled out of courts and Chizi agreed not to discuss about the contract termination publicly going forward.^[17] In March 2021, CITIC Bank was fined CN¥4.5 million by the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission due to the unauthorized disclosure.^[21]

On November 16, 2020, Chizi was signed to mplus (萌扬文化).^[11] On December 9, he hosted his first in-person stand-up comedy show.^[17]

In November 2021, he shut down his Weibo account, where he had 4.7 million followers.^[22][23]

In February 2023, while touring North America, he touched on topics that were sensitive to China, incl on Uhygur, Covid policy and Chinese censorship system. He was being blacklisted on various platforms in China.^{[24][25][26][27]}

In 2022, he opened a stand-up club in Shanghai, which was shut down after roughly a year following reports of uncensored performance content. He staged a comeback tour across Asia in 2026.^[28]

Chizi was married to Zhang Le (张乐), a director of Roast!, until their separation in 2022. The marriage had not been publicly disclosed until 2023, when a former employer of the couple revealed it online while accusing them of failing to pay staff wages for a project aborted by Chizi's blacklisting. The employer also alleged that Chizi's marriage had broken down due to his affair with influencer Li Huiyue (李惠玥), better known online as Dou De'er (豆得儿). Li responded by condemning Chizi for deceiving her, stating that she had been unaware he was married when they were together.^[29]