Meet China’s One and Only “Spider Woman”
Luo Dengping has become famous as the only woman in a group of “spider men” who climb vertical cliffs of up to 100 meters high, without ropes or safety equipment of any kind, for the entertainment of tourists in China’s Guizhou Province. Men of the Miao people, in Southwest China, have been free-climbing steep cliffs for […]
Unlicensed Vet Removes Noisy Dogs’ Vocal Chords on the Side of the Street
A self-proclaimed veterinarian in Chengdu, China, is currently under investigation for operating an unlicensed “clinic” on the street, and charging around 50 – 100 yuan to remove the vocal chords of noisy dogs. Why would any dog owner want to remove their pet’s vocal chords, you ask? In this particular case, most of the shady […]
Mysterious Cliff in China Lays “Stone Eggs” Every 30 Years
If you’ve never heard of an egg-laying mountain, you probably don’t know about Chan Da Ya, a mysterious cliff in China that reportedly lays perfectly round or oval stone eggs every 30 years. Located in Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Region, China’s Guizhou Province, Chan Da Ya – Mandarin for “egg laying cliff” – has been […]
Chinese “Guardian of Dogs” Has Rescued Over 700 Strays in the Last 8 Years
Zhou Yusong is known as the “Guardian of Dogs” in his home city of Zhengzhou, China’s Henan Province. The kindhearted man has spent the last 8 years of his life rescuing stray dogs and offering them a home at his animal protection center. It all started in 2008, when Zhou Yusong, when he noticed an […]
Woman with 12.4-Centimeter Eyelashes Sets Guinness Record
To say You Jianxia has long eyelashes would be a gross understatement. The average person’s lashes are between 0.8 and 1.2 cm-long, but the hairs growing on the edges of this woman’s eyelids reach a whopping 12.4 cm. That’s nearly 5-inches! The 2018 Guinness World Records category for “world’s longest eyelashes” was one of the most popular, […]
Doctor Performs Colonoscopy on Himself to Better Understand Patients’ Pain
In order to better understand what his patients go through, Dr. Feng Zhuo, a deputy director of the Proctology Department at a Shanghai hospital, recently performed a 15-minute colonoscopy on himself. Ask anyone who’s ever had a colonoscopy and they’ll tell you that it’s one of the most painful and uncomfortable things they’ve ever experienced. Despite sedation being […]
The Chinese Town Where Crickets Are Worth Much More Than Gold
Cricket fighting has been popular in China for thousands of years, and with the country in full economic boom, fans of the “sport” are investing more money into it than ever before. One town in particular has built an entire industry around the genetically-superior crickets living in the surrounding fields, and for good reason, as […]
Artist Creates Life-Size Chinese Vases Out of Folded Playing Cards
65-year-old Zhang Kehua, a retired mason from Qianjiang, China, has a very unique skill – he can assemble realistic Chinese vases out of thousands of folded plastic playing cards. We’ve seen people create all kinds of impressive structures by expertly stacking playing cards, but what Zhang Kehua does is on a whole other level. The Chinese […]
Chinese Cop Sets Up Retirement Home for His Old Police Dogs
Bai Yan, a kindhearted police dog handler from Hangzhou, recently melted the hearts of millions of Chinese after it was reported that he had spent the last 7 years and around 1 million yuan ($150,000) on a retirement home for police dogs, where his former “comrades in arms” could live out their golden years in peace. 55-year-old […]
Chinese Doctor Puts on Opera Makeup to Help Patients Relax
Bai Shufang, a doctor at a vitiligo hospital in Beijing, China, has been dressing up as a traditional opera character, complete with elaborate facial makeup, as a way to make her patients feel more relaxed. After noticing that many of her patients had trouble opening up to her about their condition, which affected her ability […]
Chinese Football Club Paints Stadium Gold for Good Luck
A top-tier Chinese football team recently painted their whole stadium from their traditional color, blue, to bright gold, in order to change their luck. It may sound stupid, but they don’t care, because it actually worked! Last month, after a dismal run that saw their team win a single home game in four months, the Guangzhou R&F football […]
Parents Suspect 28-Year-Old Son Is Too Handsome to Be Theirs, Turn Out to Be Right
A Chinese mother was left heartbroken after a DNA test showed that the child she had raised for 28 years was not her real son. Her ex-husband became suspicious and demanded the test because he couldn’t understand how the boy had turned out so handsome. The young man’s mother, referred to only as Zhang by […]
Chinese Man Proves That Eating 54 Ice Creams in One Sitting Is Not a Good Idea
A 44-year-old man from Quzhou, China’s Zhejiang province, was recently hospitalized with severe kidney problems, after eating a whopping 54 ice creams in one sitting, and washing them down with ice water. The man, surnamed Zheng, was at his home, on July 15, when he began to feel the effects of the heatwaves that have been sweeping China for […]
Doctors Remove Over 200 Stones from Woman’s Body in a Single Operation
Surgeons at Guanji Hospital, in Hezhou, China, recently spent six hours removing over 200 stones from a woman’s gallbladder and liver, some of them the size of small eggs. The patient, a 45-year-old woman known only as Ms. Chen, had apparently been experiencing abdominal pain for over a decade. When she first went to a hospital […]
Chinese Family Has Been Living with an Open Beehive in Their Living Room for 12 Years
The sight of a single bee buzzing around is enough to drive some people into a frenzy, but one family in China has somehow been living with an entire beehive in their living room for 12 years. They even collect the honey from it and sell it for a small profit. Remember the BEEcosystem, that […]