Nathan Chen is a Chinese American. He was born and brought up in America. Nathan Chen can't speak Chinese as fluently as Gu Ailing. He basically speaks English. Nathan Chen's culture and education are Western-style, and he knows little about China culture.

Nathan Chen's early experience.

In 2002, Nathan Chen followed his parents to watch the figure skating competition in the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, and became interested in ice sports. However, Nathan Chen's first game was not skating, but ice hockey. He often plays ice hockey with his two brothers. Nathan Chen's mother was afraid of his injury and asked him to switch to figure skating.

In 2003, Nathan Chen began to participate in figure skating competition. In the following years, he participated in competitions of all ages in the United States. In order to improve the level of figure skating, Nathan Chen also took part in ballet classes and dance dramas, such as Nutcracker, Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty. The social evaluation of Nathan Chen's success benefits from his innate talent and independent, free, reasonable and hard training.

Known as the "King of Four Jumps", Nathan Chen is the first figure skater in the world to complete five four jumps in one event, and completed six in PyeongChang Winter Olympics. Judging from the difficulty of technical movements, the stability of performances, the content of programs and artistic expression, Nathan Chen and Yuzuru Hanyu are equal, and the only thing he lacks is competition experience.