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    Chen Jia

    There's a vid if you follow the link.
    That's how you play with fire! Incredible footage shows man blowing out 15 candles by punching the AIR

    Video captures the 27-year-old snuffing out all candles in 10 seconds
    Reports say that he has practised Shaolin kung fu for more than a decade
    He can also break wooden stick and a nine-pound stone with bare hands

    By JULIAN LUK FOR MAILONLINE
    PUBLISHED: 07:09 EST, 13 October 2016 | UPDATED: 09:45 EST, 13 October 2016

    This is the incredible moment a young Chinese man manages to extinguish 15 candles with air punches.
    Chen Jia, 27, can be seen punching out the candles in less than 10 seconds in the clip.
    The footage was uploaded to Chinese video sharing site Miaopai on October 12.
    Impressive man puts out candles by using the air from fist pump


    Chen Jia, 27, is about to use inner energy to punch out the 15 candles placed in front of him



    He reportedly deployed a Shaolin move named 'Sun Ray Fist' to give air punches repeatedly
    Chen comes from China's Henan province which is the birthplace Shaolin martial arts.
    Shaolin Kungfu is known as China's largest school of kungfu.
    Chen said that he was often challenged by people who thought his skill was either 'fake' or 'impossible'.
    In order to prove the authenticity of his stunt, another man wearing a black shirt, who was thought to be a reporter, is seen giving punches to the air in the video. However, he fails to put out the candles.
    In the latter part of the video, Chen can be seen breaking a candle and a wooden stick by using a knife-hand strike.
    He even manages to break a stone weighing almost nine pounds into two with his right hand.


    Amazing moment: All fifteen candles were blown out in less than ten seconds


    Another man is seen giving punches however he fails to blow out the candles

    Chen said he mastered the technique four years ago and had practiced kung fu for a decade.
    Chen told reporters at China News that he used a move called 'Sun Ray Fist', one of the 72 Shaolin Arts to punch out the candle.
    The technique involves use of 'qi', a form of inner energy, to extinguish the candle lamp placed at least eight steps away, according to a Chinese government website that introduces national martial arts.


    Chen chops a candle (left) before cutting a wooden stick in half (right)



    Impressive skills: He was also filmed breaking a pebble in half using his bare hands

    Chen claimed he had recently gained another skill from the 72 Shaolin Arts - to break rock with bare hands.
    The reporter from China News took him to the park in order for him to showcase his stunt.
    With a few punches, Chen managed to break a stone, weighing four kilograms (8.8 pounds), into two.
    Onlookers stopped to watch his performance.
    One witness, surnamed Zhao, doubted his claim and gathered two more stones for him to break apart.
    'He also broke those stones,' Zhao said.
    To maximise his hand strength, he practices doing push-ups using his fingers every day.
    He also claims that he can do a handstand using one single finger.
    This isn't the first case of videos showing people extinguishing candles with a punch.
    Amir Khan, a famous boxer, punched off eight candles in just a single punch.
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    The article is calling this Kung Fu, but I'm going to post this here.

    There's a vid after the link.

    WATCH A KUNG FU MASTER SQUEEZING INTO TODDLER SHIRT IN DEMONSTRATION OF SUOGUGONG
    Posted: Oct 17 2016, 2:50am CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr, in News | Also on the Geek Mind



    Watch a Kung Fu Master Squeezing into Toddler Shirt in Demonstration of Suogugong
    Credit: Xinhua

    Meet the weirdest Kung Fu skill: Suogugong, the art of body shrinking.
    If you think Kung Fu, Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan come to mind. You would not imagine to see a Kung Fu master who shows off how he can squeeze into a toddler's shirt. Well here it is. Watch a Kung Fu master how he puts on a tiny shirt and even sticks beer bottles under it to demonstrate the art of Suogugong. Suogugong means body shrinking.

    To make his body smaller, this Kung Fu master is dislocating his bones. According to Xinhua, well-known Kung Fu master Wang Baohe trained this rare Kung Fu skill over the past 60 years.

    Watch below a performance of this weird Kung Fu skill. This definitely helps to sneak through small openings, but I am not sure what else it is good for in combat.

    Kung fu means in Chinese any study, learning, or practice that requires patience, energy, and time to complete. Master Baohe's body-shrinking skill hits that original definition of Kung Fu head on. It wasn't until the late twentieth century, that Kung Fu was used mainly to refer to martial arts fighting.
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    Tongue fu

    I'm trying to imagine a practical application of this and everything that comes to mind is rather prurient.

    There's a vid behind the link...

    Don't try this at home! Unbelievable moment Chinese man stops a rotating fan with his TONGUE

    Footage shows man stopping fan blades with his fingers and his tongue
    After seeing similar performances, the man started practisting the stunt
    He can also put a spinning drill into his nostrils without getting hurt

    By JULIAN LUK FOR MAILONLINE
    PUBLISHED: 13:43 EDT, 3 November 2016 | UPDATED: 14:09 EDT, 3 November 2016

    This is the jaw-dropping moment when a daredevil Chinese man tried to use his tongue to stop a fast rotating electric fan.
    The 62-year-old, named He Kuimin, could be seen sticking out his tongue while leaning towards the home appliance.
    Incredibly, he successfully stopped the turning fan by putting his tongue between the blades.
    Moment man called 'fan man' sticks tongue perilously into fan


    Eye-opening: A man stunned the internet after he stopped a turning fan with his tongue


    Incredible: He Kuimin, from Hunan, stuck out his tongue and leaned towards the rotating fan

    Posted by Sichuan News Broadcast to Youku, a video-sharing platform in China, the footage shows the fan was placed in the middle of a room as the man made the attempt.
    It had been turned on and the white blades were moving at high speeds.
    Before he put his tongue into the fan, He Kuimin roared and stuck two of his fingers into the spinning blades.
    The blades immediately came to a brief halt.
    Afterwards, Mr He withdrew his fingers and the fan resumed working.
    The skill is thought to be 'Diamond Finger', which is one of the 72 stunts from the Shaolin Kung fu in China.
    Mr He can be heard breathing deeply after the performance.
    Then, Mr He grabbed the fan with his right hand and stuck out his tongue
    He pressed one button on the electric fan, a move believed to slow down the speed of the fan's movement.


    Jaw-dropping: The fan had been turned on and the white blades were moving at high speeds


    How does he do it? Incredibly, Mr He stopped the rotating fan by sticking his tongue in them
    Then he slowly leaned towards the fan and used his tongue to stop the blades.
    A noise can be heard clearly before the three blades were brought to a stop.
    He Kuimin is originally from Hunan Province but now lives in Guangdong Province.
    The video also shows another favourite act of the 62-year-old man who started practicing different stunts since his retirement, according to a Xinhua report.
    He can be seen putting an electric drill into his nostrils.
    It appears that his nose remained unhurt after he stuck a four-inch-long spinning drill into both nostrils.


    Another stunt: Mr He is also able to put a four-inch-long spinning drill into his nose
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    I'm trying to imagine a practical application of this and everything that comes to mind is rather prurient.

    There's a vid behind the link...
    Well Im all for sexual kung. At least until the cost of Viagra goes back down.

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    Extraordinary Superhuman Abilities

    I only cut&pasted the qigong guys and two Japanese martial artists. If you want to see the other 11, follow the link.

    15 Less-known People with Extraordinary Superhuman Abilities
    Unbelievable Facts 5 days ago

    While reading superhero comics book, we often fantasize that how wonderful it would be if we could possess even one superpower. Sometimes, for some of us, this dream comes true. All over the world, there are quite a few people who actually possess extraordinary superhuman capabilities such as the ability to generate heat with hands or the ability to run forever. In this article, we have made a list of 15 less-known people with extraordinary superhuman abilities.

    1. Liew Thow Lin is a real life “Magneto” and can stick metal objects on his body. He is popularly known as “Magnet Man”, “Magnetic Man” or “Mr. Magnet”.

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    Magneto is a very well-known fictional character associated with X-men comics series. He has the ability to control any metal object. Liew Thow Lin from Malaysia has a similar superhuman capability. Even though he cannot control metal objects like Magneto, he can stick up to 36 kg of metal objects (each object weighing 2 kg) to his body without any adhesive. He can also pull a car using this ability. Liew discovered his ability to stick metal to his body at the age of 60 when his tools started getting stuck to his body.

    When scientists at the University of Technology in Malaysia examined Liew, they found that his body does not contain any magnetic field. The credit goes to the high level of friction present in his skin. The abnormally high level of friction makes his body super-sticky providing a suction effect. Similar kind of ability is displayed by his three grandchildren proving that his sticky skin is genetic.(1,2)

    2. The internationally renowned Kung Fu, Tai Chi, and Qigong grandmaster Zhou Ting-Jue can generate extreme heat using only his hands. He can also stand on thin sheets of paper without falling through it.

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    Zhou Ting-Jue is an 89-year-old grand master of Kung Fu, Tai Chi, and Qigong. He is famous all over the world for his amazing ability to channel his inner Chi to generate heat through palms of his hands. The heat generated by him is quite close to boiling point. He is also well known for his ability to shift his body weight from his legs to his chest due to which he can stand on a thin sheet of paper without going through it.

    Zhou Ting-Jue is also a healer and claims that through his Qigong treatments, he can dissolve tumors, heal severe chronic injuries, and successfully treat “incurable diseases”. In the past, he had treated Dalai Lama, members of the LA Lakers basketball team, Olympic athletes, celebrities, and dignitaries. His achievements have earned him huge respect in China where he is known as “The Jewel of China” and “Treasure of the Nation”.(source)

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    12. In Japan, a man who calls himself a modern-day samurai warrior can slice a speeding bullet in half. His seemingly superhuman feat has been videotaped, and the camera had to slow down by 250 times for viewers to watch the movement of his sword.



    Japanese laido master Isao Machii can move his sword so fast that he can cut a speeding bullet in half. For normal people, it is impossible to even view a bullet fired from a gun. But laido master Isao Machii can not only watch the bullet shot from a pistol, but he can also cut the bullet in half mid-air. His sword movement is so fast that it is impossible for a normal human eye to catch the act. So, he was filmed at a firing range outside Los Angles with a special camera. The film was then slowed down 20 times for the viewers to watch the act.

    Isao Machii also holds many Guinness World Records for his katana skills. Some of them are “Most martial arts katana cuts to one mat (suegiri)”, “Fastest 1,000 martial arts sword cuts”, “Most sword cuts to straw mats in three minutes” and “Fastest tennis ball (820 km/h) cut by sword”.(1,2)

    ...

    15. Mas Oyama, a karate master, would fight live bulls with his bare hands during his martial arts demonstrations. Occasionally, he would kill them with a single blow, earning him the nickname “Godhand.”

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    Mas Oyama was a Korean karate master who spent most of his life in Japan and founded the Kyokushin Karate. Along with his karate skills, Mas Oyama was also known for fighting bulls bare-handed. He used to give a public demonstration of bull-fighting and had battled 52 bulls in his lifetime. Out of the 52, he had killed 3 bulls instantly with just one strike. This seemingly impossible act earned him the name “Godhand”.(source)

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    Nasal tire-inflating qigong

    Just when you think you've seen all the qigong stunts...

    This will blow your mind! Incredible footage shows Kung Fu fan inflating a car tyre using his NOSE

    A man showcased his unique talent to pump up a flat tyre by his nose in China
    He blew the air through a long rubber pipeline and filled up the tyre in minutes
    He claimed to learn this by himself and has been practising for 10 years

    By Tiffany Lo For Mailonline
    PUBLISHED: 11:24 EST, 7 March 2017 | UPDATED: 11:30 EST, 7 March 2017

    This party trick could come in handy if you find yourself landed with a tyre blowout in the middle of nowhere.

    Newly surfaced footage shows a man with bizarre ability to inflate a tyre by his nose in the city of Xi'an in northwestern China.

    Onlookers are shocked to see him put a tube in his nostril and blow air to inflate the rubber ring in just a matter of minutes.

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    Tong Junhai claimed to learn this special talent by himself and has been practising for 10 years


    A game of nose: Tong put the pipeline into his nostril and positioned to a half-squat pose

    The video was taken in Huancheng Park where a 'team of talent' showcased their unique skills in front of the public on February 25.

    Tong Junhai, 44, boasted to have a massive lung capacity, so much so that he can inflate a car tyre with a few blows of his nostrils.

    One member of the public did not believe him and attempted to try it himself by using his mouth.

    However, he swiftly failed to inflate the ring.


    Tong performed in a talent show in a local park last month - to inflate a car tyre by his nose


    Before: The flat tyre is connected to a rubber pipeline, allowing Tong to put it in his nostril


    After: Tong discovered his special talent when he did a physical checkup in school

    Tong, dressed in a traditional kung fu outfit, then showed off his capabilities and put the pipe to his nose.

    He set himself to a half-squat position and blocked one of his nostrils with his thumb.

    Taking a deep breath and blowing all of the air out through his nostril and into the pipe, the tyre slowly started to inflate.


    The video showed the special talent Tong has, drawing audiences gathering around to watch


    The audience could not believe their eyes as the car tyre went from flat to pumped up

    Tong told Anhui Television that he discovered his huge lung capacity during a physical checkup at school.

    'My PE teacher got scared and when I get older, I saw people using their noses to inflate a tyre. Maybe I can try it out too?' he said.

    He taught himself and has been practising for 10 years after his failed business.
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    Wth!?!?!

    Just when you thought you've seen everything...


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    Well, that's super practical...

    You'll have to follow the link to see the embedded vid.

    SPOILER The extinguishing pipe is a fire hose. One of the 7 people is a kid and another is a baby. END SPOILER

    Kung fu master inflates balloons through extinguishing pipe
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    An impressive video has emerged a kung fu master inflating ballons until they burst through an fire extinguishing pipe. The footage, captured in Meishan, Sichuan Province on May 30, shows the man blowing through an extinguishing pipe while seven people stand on it to make the balloons at the other burst.
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    Wu Song

    We almost ran an image of the snake-through-nose trick on our cover many years ago. It would've been eye-catching for sure. We didn't go with it, but used the image in our DVD Extreme Kung Fu Qigong. You can see it on that cover, right over the word 'DON'T'


    Snakes alive! Kung fu master shows off his creepy skills by pulling a venomous serpent through his mouth and nose

    Kung Fu master Wu Song showed off his snake charming talents in Chendu
    He pulled a snake through his mouth and nose and lifted buckets with his eyelids
    Said he began practicing at 12 years-old and was taught by several masters
    Mr Song now hopes in his future that his son will master the same talents

    By Rachael Burford For Mailonline
    PUBLISHED: 10:48 EDT, 20 June 2017 | UPDATED: 11:01 EDT, 20 June 2017

    A Kung Fu master has shown off the stomach churning skills he has been practicing since he was a child.

    Wu Song, from Chengdu, China, appears to be able to charm snakes to slither through his nose and mouth and carry buckets of water with his eyelids.

    A creepy video, filmed on June 19, shows him casually pulling the small serpent through one nostril and out of his mouth.


    Wu Song, from Chengdu, China, appears to be able to charm snakes to slither through his nose and mouth

    Mr Song said he began practicing the strange skill at the age of 12, but did not say how old he is now.

    He claimed several Kung Fu masters taught him how to train the 'venomous' serpent as a child.

    'This snake is a poisonous snake, the biggest difficulty is to tame it,' he said.

    'Snakes will judge everything with their sense of smell, it is difficult for it to get used to my smell.'


    The Kung Fu master showed off his stomach churning skills in Chengdu, China on Monday


    Mr Song is also able lift heavy objects, such as buckets of water, using only hooks hanging from his eyelids

    Mr Song's odd talents don't stop at snake charming. He is also able to lift heavy objects, such as buckets of water, using only hooks hanging from his eyelids.

    He now hopes that his son, Xiao Yong, will train as a Kung Fu master. However, Xiao was not enthusiastic about going into training.

    He said: 'Ordinary people cannot do it. In order to inherit the techniques, I should practice a lot. To be honest, it makes me really uncomfortable.'


    Mr Song said he began practicing his strange skill set at the age of 12
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    More on Wu Song

    You gotta follow the link for the vid. This guy has it going on.

    'Kung-fu master' carries buckets with his eye sockets while playing instrument through his…
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    Incredibly bizarre footage of a "kung-fu master" in China carrying buckets of water by attaching them to his eye sockets, while playing some kind of musical instrument through his nose at the same time. The video, filmed in Chengdu, Sichuan Province on June 10, shows the man - named Wu Song - attaching the buckets to his eyes by metal hooks, before smoking two cigarettes and playing a Chinese instrument called a Suona through his nose.
    I think this is Wu Song too, just misspelled by the reporter - sloppy considering the hero that the name Wu Song evokes. :roll eyes:

    Kung fu master puts hooks in eye sockets to pull three people on a cart
    15:00, Sat 10th June 2017
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    A bizarre video has emerged of a kung fu master pulling three people on a cart using hooks lodged in his eye sockets. In the footage, captured in Chengdu, Sichuan Province on June 10, the man called Wu Yong pulls the cart for five metres.
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    Cao Yanyou

    This is one of those 'I'd have to see the wrench in person' deals. If it was a cheap China-made wrench, it probably wasn't too hard. But if it's a hardened steel wrench, it would be impressive. Gotta give him cred for doing it backhand at least.

    There's a vid behind the link.

    Man uses kung fu to straighten bent wrench in China
    By Ben Hooper | Aug. 25, 2017 at 2:13 PM

    Aug. 25 (UPI) -- A kung fu practitioner in China showed off his skills with an unusual stunt -- using strikes from his bare hand to straighten a bent wrench.

    The video filmed Aug. 13 in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, shows Cao Yanyou using the back of his hand to strike a bent wrench.

    Cao shows physical pain after the first strike, which does not appear to make much progress, but subsequent hits eventually straighten out the bent piece of iron.

    Cao said he has been practicing kung fu for 30 years.
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    Slightly OT

    I've seen glass eating performed as a qigong trick before. Never thought of it as pica before, just a dumb party trick.

    A very pane-ful problem! Chinese man is addicted to eating GLASS and relies on his 'iron teeth' to smash it up before swallowing it down with water
    Liu Zundun, 71, said his strange hobby has proven to be a fantastic party trick
    Footage of his unique 'talent' shows him taking a chunk out of a glass with ease
    He claims it has been 32 years since he started eating glass
    By SONIA RACH FOR MAILONLINE
    PUBLISHED: 12:27 EDT, 14 September 2017 | UPDATED: 13:52 EDT, 14 September 2017

    An elderly Chinese man has been given the nickname 'Iron Teeth' because of his bizarre addiction to eating glass.

    Liu Zundun, 71-year-old, said his strange hobby has proven to be a fantastic party trick and his friends and family ask him to 'perform' all the time.

    Footage shows him taking a chunk out of a glass with ease, chewing on it as if it were any other edible substance and then swallowing it down with water.

    Liu Zundun is seen showing his bizarre 'talent' as he takes a chunk out of a tumbler with ease


    He can be seen chewing on the glass as if it were any other edible substance

    But for all his love of tumblers and beer glasses, Mr Zundun states that he does not drink alcohol, saying he would 'rather eat a glass than drink from it.'

    'Whenever I visit my hometown, my relatives never believe me when I say I don't drink,' he said.

    'I tell them I'll eat glass instead, and they take a sip of alcohol for every bite I take.'


    The 71-year-old says he would 'rather eat a glass than drink from it'


    A chunk that has been taken out of the glass
    What is Pica?

    Pica is an eating disorder that is characterised by the desire to eat items with little or no nutritional value.

    This can include stones, sand, paint and dirt.

    It is most common in people with learning disabilities and during pregnancy.

    It can cause a range of complications if the person is eating something that is poisonous or indigestible.

    The person can also damage their teeth and be infected with parasites.
    It is likely Mr Zundun suffers from a condition called Pica which is the desire to eat items of little or no nutritional value.

    It can cause serious complications however in this case, Mr Zundun claims to have never felt any discomfort in his stomach during the years he has had this odd diet.

    He says the only complication is that he relies on one hard tooth to bite the glass as the others have weakened in his old age.

    It has now been 32 years since he started and his friends call him 'Iron Tooth' as a result.

    The native of Daqing City's Sartu District in north-eastern China's Heilongjiang Province said he is even asked to perform at weddings.

    This is not the first case of Pica to make headlines. Other reported cases around the world include a four-year-old Autistic boy, from England, called Marco Slawycz who couldn’t stop eating plastic.

    In India, a labourer confessed he consumes a plate of gravel a day and is addicted to eating sand.

    And Emma Thompson, also from England, started chewing bath sponges at the age of three before discovering she liked the taste of kitchen ones better.
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    Taierzhuang qigong stunts?

    I'm posting this on the Qigong Challenges & Stunts thread because it's the only reference to Taierzhuang on the forum. What is it about this place that there's such a focus on qigong?

    Also copying it to the 2018 Year of the EARTH DOG thread because it's a CNY thing.

    Actually, I just like the clunky translation.

    The Sixth Grand Temple Fair of Taierzhuang Ancient Town Was Grandly Held.

    Between the New Year’s Day and the Lantern Festival, fantastic performances of various kinds will be held in Taierzhuang Ancient Town, including ten-thousand-lantern display, fire dragon and steel sparkle dance, folklore show parade, spring festival flash mobs, overpass busking, stunts performed by rare talent, Shaolin Kungfu and many other eye-catching shows. All of these festive events will definitely provide you with a pleasant sense of the Chinese New Year atmosphere!



    Throughout the festival, tourists may enjoy the dazzling and glorious fire dragon and steel sparkle performances at the Fu Xing Square—steel sparkles are splashed into the sky and instantly rain down like meteor showers; shirtless dragon dancers perform wildly with all kinds of skillful twists and turns, both brilliant to the mind and pleasant to the eye. In addition, visitors will undoubtedly feast their eyes with various kungfu performances like Shaolin 8-part Internal Kungfu, Praying Mantis, Kids Kung Fu (Tong Zi Gong), traditional Shaolin Boxing, hard Qigong, pictographic boxing, Shaolin Eighteen Weapons Grand Contest. Besides, folk tourism teams consisting of stilts, Bei Ge dance (a form of Chinese folk dance in which an adult carries a kid on the shoulder), bamboo horse dance and dragon dance thread their way through streets and lanes, presenting one fire festive parade after another. The Spring Festival flash mobs at both the West and East Gate of the ancient town will give the tourists a great impression as well



    From the second to the fourteenth day of the Chinese lunar January, our ancient town will be star-studded, inviting a dozen of figures including Liu Lanfang, Hou Yaohua, Li Jindou, Chen Hanbai, Fang Qingping, HeYunwei, Liu Ji and so on. They will present the audiences with a special performance for thirteen consecutive days, with a special show thrown by a star each day, accompanying you with joy and happiness throughout the holiday.



    Between February 8 to March 2, awesome performances will delight you at the Temple of Emperor Guan: sideshows, martial arts, acrobatics and Qi Gong are performed by experienced artists on the Buyun Bridge; traditional folk exclusive skills include Golden Bell cocoon, steel bar neck-wrapping, blade-mountain lying, stone-breaking on the chest, human pyramid, fire eating and fire breathing, contortion, Diabolo juggling and acrobatic flips. All these breathtaking performances will surely be mind-blowing and enjoyable to our guests.

    During the legal holidays, the whole street is covered with man-made snow along the river from Leisure Inn to Lan Ting *****house Musem. The mix of the antique, classic buildings and the beautiful snow is bound to impress any visitor with the fortune to enjoy the scenery. No other place is more suitable for the tourists to take photos.



    When the night descends, visitors have the privilege of appreciating the colorful, gorgeous lanterns of different shapes and styles. On this year’s lantern show, we have themes related to the coming dog year like “Celebrating the Auspicious Dog Year” and “Fortune Dog Greeting”; as well as the combination of both fashion and traditional folklores as “Coral Sea” and “Best Wishes”. The multi-colored, glamorous lanterns will be a feast to your eye when lit up.

    We look forward to your staying here at the Taierzhuang Ancient Town from the New Year’s Day to the Lantern Festival, welcome!

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    Hold the phone...Lan Ting *****house Musem?
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    I don't even know what's happening here

    It's an embedded vid so you must follow the link.

    CHINESE CULTURE
    Kung fu master shows off balancing skills on giant sword edge

    Kung fu master Li Wei showed off his skills by walking on a 2cm-width blade of a 15m-long, 5m-high and 1.5-ton sword. Li wowed spectators as he performed balancing tricks at the sword’s tip in Mianyang, Sichuan Province.
    This skill is so practical...
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