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Quirky China: Epic chopsticks stunt, province may restrict burning ancestor paper and man gets social media boot for mannerisms
- A man in eastern China lifted an egg with 4.6-metre-long chopsticks without breaking the shell
- Shanxi is considering regulations on the paper objects Chinese people burn to honour their ancestors
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Alice Yanin Shanghai
This week in China, a man got his 15-minutes of fame for picking up an egg with gigantic chopsticks, one Chinese province may be calling an end to an important tradition, and a man looking for love gets banned from Weibo for his strange mannerisms.
Not breaking eggs
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A cook from eastern China is being called “number one iron chopsticks” after he used a pair of gigantic chopsticks to pick up an egg from the ground without breaking it.
Zhao Wenqi’s handmade chopsticks were 4.6 metres (15 feet) long, weighed 14kg (31 pounds) and were made primarily out of iron, along with a small amount of wood.
The 50-year-old is not new to performing extraordinary feats of chopstick expertise. In the past 17 years, he has performed on dozens of television programmes, both domestic and international.
Zhao admitted to spending more time practising his chopsticks skills than the time he spends on his full-time job.
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The chopsticks were the sixth pair made by Zhao. His first pair were 0.95 metres (3.1 feet) long and he increased the length of the chopsticks every time he made a new pair.
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