Chinese Woman Faints After Accidentally Breaking $26,500 Jade Bracelet at Jewelry Market
A woman visiting a jewelry market in China’s Yunnan Province passed out after accidentally dropping a jade bracelet worth 180,000 yuan ($26,500) and splitting it in half. The unwritten rule of “you break it, you buy it” is usually ignored by business owners when customers accidentally break beverage bottles, clothing items or other mundane products, but when […]
Five-Storey Building in China Has a Road on Its Roof
Photos of a five-storey building in the Chinese city of Chongqing have been going viral on social media, for the simple fact that the building in question has a flat roof that also doubles as a road that cars actually drive on. Before we go into details about this particular architectural oddity, it’s worth mentioning […]
“China’s Hottest Grandpa” Is Not Your Average 81-Year-Old
Retirement usually involves slowing down, taking it easy for a change, but not for 81-year-old Wang Deshun. For him, it’s all about commercial photo shoots, parading bare-chested on fashion runways and brushing shoulders with Chinese superstars. He is “China’s hottest grandpa” and the man praised for changing the country’s traditional view of old age. Wang Deshun’s life changed […]
Chinese School’s Football Field Has a Tree Growing in the Middle of It
Students at Beijing’s Yucai High School have to be very careful when playing football on the school’s well-maintained field. That’s because it has a 100-year-old tree growing smack in the middle of it, and keeping their eye on the ball too much can result in a painful collision. Building a football field around a tree sounds […]
Disabled Pensioner Dedicates His Life to Building Secure Mountain Roads for Isolated Village, Out of His Own Pocket
76-year-old Zhang Jiwen is almost completely deaf, but he has two able hands and a strong desire to help those less fortunate. Ever since 2012, he has been carrying building materials up a mountain in Fuling Forest Park, near the city of Chongqing, and building safe walking paths leading up from the modern road at the […]
Chinese Boss Pays Employees $15 for Every Kilogram They Shed
Wang Xuebao, the head of a investment consulting firm in Xian City, China, recently made international news headlines after he set up a cash reward system to motivate his employees to lose weight. The employees of Xian Jingtian Investment Consulting in Xian, China’s Shaanxi Province, have the opportunity to earn 100 yuan ($15) for every […]
Chinese Scientist Passes 71,000 Volts of Static Electricity Through His Body to Test Human Limit
For years, experts have suggested that 50,000 volts of static electricity is the highest threshold that the human body can withstand, but one Chinese scientist recently proved them wrong by passing 71,000 volts through his body and living to tell the tale. Liu Shangshe, an academic at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, in Beijing, recently […]
Elderly Chinese Man Lives in Secluded Mausoleum Preparing for His Eternal Rest
After losing his entire family a long time ago, a Chinese doctor built his own mausoleum in the mountains of Hunan Province and has been living in it ever since, waiting for his eternal rest. 92-year-old Liang Fusheng had a beautiful family once, but he lost both his wife and his three children to disease, years […]
Woman Installs Card Reader to Make Sure Her Husband Comes Home by 9 PM
The photo below may not seem very interesting at first glance, but the story behind it definitely is. That little round gadget is apparently a card scanner installed by a Chinese wife to make sure that her husband doesn’t come home later than 9 pm. When their husbands don’t come straight home after work, some women […]
Man Pays 200 Strangers to Act as Guests at His Wedding, Ends Up in Jail
What was supposed to be the happiest day of their lives turned into a complete nightmare for a young couple in China, after it was revealed that the groom had hired 200 random people to act as his friends and relatives at the wedding. The groom, known only by his surname, Wang, and his fiancee, […]
The Brave “Spiderman Cleaners” Risking Their Lives to Keep China’s Mountains Trash-Free
With millions of Chinese visiting the country’s sacred mountains every year, keeping them trash-free is incredibly difficult. Luckily, that’s where the Spiderman cleaners come in. These dedicated men an women risk their lives on a daily basis, rappelling down steep cliffs to reach plastic bottles, bags and various other garbage thrown there by uncivilized tourists. […]
Chinese City Installs Automatic Pedestrian Gates to Prevent Jaywalking
Authorities in the Chinese city of Wuhan have recently equipped busy intersections with automatic pedestrian gates that only open when the traffic light turns green. The measure is aimed at preventing jaywalking, which has become a serious problem in many urban centers across China. Chinese officials have been cracking down on jaywalkers for years. Jaywalking in […]
Chinese Man Spends 36 Years Chiseling at Three Mountains to Bring Water to His Village
Driven by a desire to improve the living conditions in his home, Huang Dafa, chief of Caowangba, a small village hidden deep in the mountains of Guizhou Province, China, spent 36 years digging a 10-kilometer-long water canal through three mountains. The Chinese legend of Yu Gong speaks of an old man whose house was separated from the nearest […]
Man Gets Back at Noisy Upstairs Neighbors with “Building Shaker” He Bought Online
Fed up with the constant noise made by his upstairs neighbors, a man in China got his revenge by giving them a taste of their own medicine. He bought a device known as a “building shaker” online and left it on for a whole weekend. A resident of Xi’an, China’s Shaanxi province, the man – known only […]
Ocean Park Charges Visitors $145 for the Chance to Scoop Polar Bear Poop
An ocean park in Wuhan, China, has come up with an original way to learn more about animals and makes a small profit in the process. For a fee of about $145, visitors can learn more about animals by cleaning their pens and preparing their feed. The Wuhan Haichang Ocean Park recently made international headlines for […]