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by StlSluggers » Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:10 am
Da shu hua. Translated: Beating the tree to produce flowers.
Gizmodo wrote:During the Lantern Festival last month, one village in China celebrated the same way they have for 500 years—by throwing molten iron at a wall to create showers of make-do fireworks.
The villagers of Nanchuan, China put on an hour-long performance each year called Da shu hua (beating the tree to produce flowers). The iron throwers are protected from all that molten metal by nothing more than a hat and a sheepskin coat. Is it dangerous? The throwers joked that it's not, as long as you're not afraid to die.
Pretty neat stuff. Crazy stupid, but neat.
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by Inukchuk » Tue Mar 17, 2009 5:22 pm
That was purty.
"And a hat."
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by thedude » Wed Mar 18, 2009 4:58 pm
That was pretty cool.
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