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Coffin Inn, China’s Death-Themed Hotel
This is possible the closest thing to death you will ever experience. Not for the fainted hearted, Coffin Inn is situated in a graveyard in Lishui town, Jiangsu province of China.
Jiao Meige, the owner of the soon-to-be Coffin Inn came up with the idea after her plan of using the land for farming was rendered useless due to the tombs on it.
It only costs 50 yuan ($9.70) a night for thrill seekers. The details of your stay at Coffin Inn follows:
‘The night begins with the guest taking his dinner, followed by a hot shower at the service centre.’ Then a journey into the dark and mysterious begins with a service attendant leading the guest on a 15-minute walk to the inn, with only an oil lamp for lighting. Ms Jiao said: ‘When he reaches the white, solitary concrete building, the guest will be led into the dark inn. ‘He will be invited to lie down inside a big, black coffin-like box.’ After ensuring that the guest is comfortable, the attendant pulls the lid over the coffin and leaves. Ms Jiao said ventilation is provided through appropriate holes but ‘don’t expect any air-condition or fan.’ For the rest of the night, she added: ‘All the guest has for company will be the occasional howls of the stray dogs. ‘There are no services in the night, and the guest has nowhere to go.’ Heart patients and mentally ill patients will not be allowed to sleep in. They have to be accompanied by someone healthy. - Electric New Paper
Sounds pretty spooky, the type of things that drives people insane? Although its safety is questionable, what happens if the person needs to go to the toilet during the night, or even worse, he has a nightmare?
For those that still dare to try it out, the hotel will be opened early next year and reservations can be made online.
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The Electric New Paper
Smallest Teapot in the World
Wu Ruishen (吴瑞深), a 74 year old Chinese master at pottery has made the world’s smallest teapot! The teapot weighs in at a mere 1.4 grams and was revealed to the world at November 15! Wu Ruishen is a very famous pottery artist in China who specialise in teapots. You can find his artworks in many musuems around China.
It’s great that the teapot is so small, but how are people going to drink tea from the teapot?
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Asian Pop with YeinJee via Japundit
Images from Dayoo
tbA Spotlight: Survival
This week’s spotlight is not about music or short film, in fact it’s not even a video! BUT, it will be just as good as any other tbA Spotlight articles, if not better! I stumbled on to this magnificent piece of humour and i’m sure it’ll bring you as much laughs as it has brought me!
Here it is:
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China’s cave-school
In Ziyun county, China’s Southwest province of Guizhou, Children attend class at the Dongzhong (literally meaning “middle of hole”) primary school at a Miao village. Possibly, it’s a new technique to improve the children’s learning? Nonetheless, it’s a cool experience for any primary school student!
The school is built in a huge, aircraft hanger-sized natural cave, carved out of a mountain over thousands of years by wind, water and seismic shifts. - Reuters
It’s a great idea for saving construction cost, but is it safe? As Reuters have said, the cave was made from seismic shifts meaning earthquakes. Lighting seems to be an issue too, it looks like their teaching in the dark.
Then again, a cave-school is better than no-school, but detention will definitely be more scary now! The basketball court looks great, the kids look happy and their getting great exercise, that’s all that matters right?
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Reuters via One Inch Punch
tbA Spotlight: Dragon Ball - Nakagawa Shoko
With all the Dragon Ball news going on at the moment i couldn’t resist posting this music video. Yes it’s Shoko again, but she doesn’t have a guitar this time so it’s all good! Anyhow, she actually act like Bulma in this video and goes around searching for Dragon Balls. It’s a pretty nice music video to listen and watch.
For those true Dragon ball fans; Yes, it is the ending song for the Dragon Ball series.
World’s biggest bridges in Asia
Connecting the world’s most populated continent isn’t easy, that’s why three out of the six world biggest bridges are in Asia! This structures, not only shows off their countries architecture skills, but is also a sign of power. C’mon, a huge structure that’s made of cold, hard metal would intimidate anyone! Right?!
6.Humber bridge
Located in Kingston-Upon-Hill, UK, the bridge was completed in 1981 and spans 1,410 meters (4,626 feet). It towers over the Humber estuary which is formed by the Trent and Ouse rivers. It is also the oldest bridge out of the six.
5.Jiangyin bridge
Located in Jiangyin, China, the bridge was completed in 1999 and spans 1,385 meters (4543 feet). The bridge crosses Yangtze river to connect Jiangyin and Jingjiang.
4.Tsing Ma bridge
Located in Hong Kong, China, the bridge was completed in 1997 and spans 1,377 meters (4,518). The bridge is named after Hong Kong’s Islands: Tsing Yi and Ma Wan.
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The 10 hardest Chinese characters ever
If you thought learning Chinese is hard, well… you can decide for yourself after reading this article. Here, below is the 10 hardest Chinese characters ever! These characters are taken from the Kangxi Dictionary, a dictionary published in 1716.
They look pretty hard, and they’re harder to write. Most Chinese wouldn’t even know how to write, pronounce or know the meaning behind these words, and it’s been said, some suffer seizures just be glancing at them. Yes! These are the 10 hardest Chinese words!~
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