Chinese Women Use “Graveyard Meditation” to Cope with Divorce
A group of Chinese women recently made headlines after being photographed while lying in shallow graves on the outskirts of Chongqing City. It was revealed that they were taking part in a bizarre ritual called “graveyard meditation” which allegedly helps them cope with divorce. Graveyard meditation is the brainchild of Liu Taijie, a 30-year-old divorcee who […]
Chinese Street Cleaner Has Donated $25,000 Over the Last 30 Years to Put 37 Disadvantaged Kids Through School
Zhao Yongjiu, a 56-year-old street cleaner from Shenyang, China, recently won the internet after it was revealed that over the last three decades he has helped fund the education of 37 impoverished children by donating most of his monthly salary. Every day, the kindhearted sanitation worker leaves his home in Shenyang, China’s Liaoning Province, at 4:30 in […]
Chinese Farmer Spends 16 Years Sudying Law So He Could Sue Chemical Company That Polluted His Land
A Chinese farmer with only three years of school under his belt has dedicated the last 16 years of his life to teaching himself law, hoping to bring down a state-owned chemical company that has been polluting his village and affecting his livelihood. Wang Enlin, from Yushutun village, in China’s Heilongjiang Province, will never forget that day […]
Man Sprays Insecticide in Ear to Kill Trapped Cockroach
After several attempts to remove a cockroach that had crawled into his ear while he was sleeping, a Chinese man decided to kill the intruder by spraying bug spray into his ear canal. The 60-year-old man from Chengdu told doctors that a cockroach crawled into his ear on February 1st. He could feel it wiggling around […]
Chinese School Creates “Grade Bank” That Lets Students Borrow Grades to Pass Exams
In an effort to ease the intense pressure that its students face in China’s notoriously rigid exam-based education system, a school in Nanjing has created a “grade bank” that lets students “borrow” grades so that they can pass exams, and then repay them in subsequent tests. Oh man, I wish we had something like this when I […]
Man Cycling Home for Holiday Realizes He Has Been Going in the Wrong Direction for Over a Month
A migrant worker hoping to make it back home for the Chinese New Year realized he had been riding his bike the wrong way for over a month, when a police crew stopped him for cycling on the side of an expressway. The unnamed man was apparently working in Rizhao, China’s Shandong province, but after spending […]
China’s Increasing “Bride Price” Makes Marriage Virtually Impossible for Poor Bachelors
The shortage of women caused by China’s one-child policy, combined with the country’s economic boom over the last two decades have made marriage a grim prospect for poor men in rural regions. These two factors have bumped up the “bride price” to hundreds of thousands of yuan, sometimes even millions, obscene amounts that most men can’t […]
Chinese Students Are Forced to Take Tests Outdoors in Thick Smog
A school principal in China’s Henan province was recently suspended for making young students take tests outdoors in smog so thick that they could barely see their papers, despite receiving orders to close the school. On December 20th, 480 students from the No. 1 Middle School in Linqi town, Linzhou, were forced to take their […]
China’s ‘Mistress Killer’ Helps Cheated Wives Deal with Adultery
‘Mistress killer’, ‘China’s top ladies’ detective’ or ‘Terminator of extramarital affairs’ are just some of the nicknames that Zhang Yufen has earned during the 15 years she has dedicated to helping cheated wives gather evidence on their husbands’ affairs and helping them exact revenge on their mistresses. Zhang Yufen’s war on adultery is fueled by her […]
Chinese Businessman Spends $25 Million Setting Up Sanctuary for 150-Strong Wolf Pack
A 71-year-old businessman from China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region has earned the nickname “The Wolf King” after dedicating the last nine years of his life to raising 150 wolves of 8 different species, in a valley that has now come to be known as Wild Wolf Valley. Yang Changsheng discovered his passion for wolves in 2007. He […]
Lonely Grandmother Seeking Stand-in “Daughter” for All-Expense Paid Vacation
China’s incredible development over the last three decades has improved people’s quality of life, but today, loneliness and depression are the two biggest problems of the country’s rapidly aging population. This issues were recently brought to public attention by the heartbreaking plea of a 63-year-old woman looking for a young girl to accompany her on […]
Young Entrepreneur Undergoes Plastic Surgery to Look Like Chinese Billionaire Jack Ma
Jack Ma, founder of internet giant Alibaba Group, has one of the most recognized faces in China, but he’s not exactly famous for his good looks. Still, that hasn’t stopped on young entrepreneur from spending a small fortune on plastic surgery just so he could look more like the popular billionaire. Huang Jian, a young man […]
Chinese City Opens Awesome Five-Star Public Toilet
People generally avoid going into public toilets, unless they absolutely have to. Most of them are dirty, uninviting places, but that’s definitely not the case with this recently opened five-star public restroom in Chongqing, China. Public toilets are hardly-ever news-worthy topics, but after seeing photos of this new five-star facility in the Bishan district of […]
City Comes Together to Buy 32 Tonnes of Potatoes in One Day to Help Farmer in Need
In what can only be described as a touching display of kindness, the residents of a neighborhood near Shenzhen, in southern China, came together to help a total stranger sell 32 tonnes of potatoes in a single day, after he was rejected by a local wholesale market. 60-year-old Ma, a potato farmer from Qinghai Province, in northwest […]
Chinese Farmer Invents Kidney Stone-Removing Bed for His Wife
Seeing his wife go through the excruciatingly painful process of passing kidney stones, a farmer in Jiangxi Province, China, created an ingenious bed that flips over and vibrates to help dislodge the stones. Zhu Qinghua, a 52-year-old rice farmer from Jiangxi had been thinking of ways of helping his wife since 1993, when she had her left kidney removed […]