A woman in eastern China who was catching cicadas one evening with her husband accidentally fell into a sewage manhole, while the spouse, worried about her safety, immediately climbed into the shaft to keep her company. The couple were successfully rescued by firefighters shortly afterwards, the Dazhong Daily reported. The incident unfolded in Dongying, Shandong province, on July 15 when the couple were catching cicadas in a green belt in their residential community. It is a traditional summer...
An unconventional weight-loss remedy of drinking a mixture of an external-use constipation medication with tea has trended on Chinese social media, sparking doctors to warn the public not to try it after receiving some emergency cases. The extreme slimming method has captivated social media in recent weeks because of claims that it has the remarkable effect of helping people shed 4kg of weight within just two days, Shangyou News reported. In some viral videos, influencers squeeze a glycerin...
When a man in China went travelling and helped a Taiwanese tourist take pictures, they chatted casually only to find out that the tourist was a long-lost relative of the man’s family. This incredible experience was shared on social media by the man, Chen Jie, who lives in Shanghai, the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald reported. In early July, Chen took a business trip to Yunnan province in southwest China. During a break from his work, he travelled to Lugu Lake, a famous tourist site. At 6am on July 9,...
In China, many heartbroken women are spending thousands of yuan on services that claim they can help win back former lovers, with the first rule being “no contact with your ex”. A 28-year-old woman, using the pseudonym Wan, said she had paid a “relationship coach” 3,500 yuan (US$500) for a month of 24/7 coaching to win back her ex-boyfriend who recently broke up with her. The coach used an initial free 90-minute phone call as bait, concluding that Wan’s relationship had ended not because her ex...
A drink-driving suspect in central China faked his death with the help of his family to evade prosecution before fleeing south. Prosecutors in Anyang, Henan province, recently revealed the case to mainland media outlets, sparking widespread online attention. In January last year, the man, surname Si, was arrested for drink-driving. Police later discovered that he had previously been penalised twice for driving without a license while intoxicated. He was released on bail pending...
A tenant in a residential block in southern China called the police, reporting a smell resembling corpses in their building. It turned out that the odour was actually coming from a neighbour cooking with Guangdong’s traditional stinky vinegar. On July 14, a woman in Guangdong province, surnamed Chen, posted about someone calling the police to check on her home. She stated: “My neighbour thought I was cooking a dead body,” while tagging “the power of stinky vinegar.” The neighbour reportedly...
A man in eastern China was stunned to discover that his family’s battered dining table was in fact a Qing dynasty (1644–1912) honour board commemorating an ancestor’s success in the imperial examinations. Xu, a villager in Anhui province, shared the unusual story in an online video on July 12, which subsequently went viral on mainland social media. The footage shows a dark-red wooden table scarred by decades of use, with cracked edges and a faded surface. Yet two carved Chinese characters –...
The Chinese social media was shaken by a Good Samaritan deed that ended in tragedy when an elderly farmer died in a car crash shortly after receiving kind help from an influencer. The influencer, who has dedicated himself to helping farmers in central China’s Henan province and has 84,000 followers, posted a video of himself assisting an 81-year-old farmer on June 25. The influencer, surnamed Zhang, bought all the vegetables the elderly man was selling. The farmer, surnamed Jing, gave Zhang a...
A courier in eastern China has been celebrated as a hero after bravely charging into a burning flat three times to extinguish the flames before collapsing from smoke inhalation. An Erpei, 21, from Hangzhou, had just returned to his rented flat after a late shift on June 25, when he heard a fire alarm while washing dishes. As he fled the building with his girlfriend and family, An noticed the blaze coming from an unoccupied flat on the third floor. Security guards and property staff were already...
After playfully sneaking onto a train and being transported away unexpectedly, a deaf and non-speaking man from central China was finally reunited with his biological family recently – following 35 years away from home. On June 11, Lei Zeqing joyfully reunited with his father, older brother, and sister, who made the journey from their hometown in Henan province to Shenzhen, in southern China’s Guangdong province. Lei was overwhelmed with excitement to finally see his long-lost family, for whom...