China funny pictures: 2008

Big is beautiful

Growing too fast ?

Where will China stop ?
(ph S T Leret)

giant chinese sculpture

Where is the birdy ?

chinese dream

The birdy ?

Phallic park

This pillory, called "The Pillar of the sky" was built in the amusement park of the city of Changchung. This would be the biggest phallic totem of the world.

"Legend says that a cruel empress was terraced by a shaman whom erected a totem in the shape of penis to remind her that she should respect the men (and their attributes)" said park director Cheng Weiguang. "Today it symbolizes the continuity of the message of our ancestors illustrating happiness and prosperity ... "

A mother visiting the park with her son, said that for her it was just a pillar, it could very well be the symbol of anything, that she could't care less !"

Giant Salamender

This man is holding in his arms a giant Chinese salamander, an extremely rare species of amphibian. Despite that it probably shared its existence with dinosaurs, it is now near extinction. This big tadpole can reach the size of 1.80 meters.

Chinese Catwoman

chinoise liliputienne

Adult games

Bao Xichung, the chinese giant is playing with his very freindly neighbourg

Giant chinese slippers

Curious slippers

Giant chinese vegetables

Chinese bigwig

A farmer in southern China is proud to show his latest harvest of sweet potatoes.

Conquest of the moon cake

21 August 2007, a final check on the largest moon cake of China freshly baked in Shenyang, in northeast China. The moon cake, measures 8.15 meters in diameter, 20 centimeters thick, weighs 12.98 tonnes and has 10 different flavors. It was created with 12 tons of flour and baked for 10 hours.

Not a mobile phone

Mr Tan hopes to enter in the Guinness Book of Records after having built, as he claims to be, the largest mobile phone in the world. The phone is almost 1 meter high - or 620 times larger than the original model - and weighs about 21 kilos, and is an exact copy of a mobile phone manufacturered by Nokia. Mr. Tan says that the giant phone has all the features, including a camera. However, it does not vibrate when it rings and has no battery.

Giraffe women

Giraffe Women

The country of "Giraffes women" (also known as Padaung) is Burma but originaly they would have come from Yunnan in China or from Tibet. From the age of 4 the women of the Karen tribe places a ring around her neck every year. From the age of 14 to 30 the coils are added every three years. Gradually the length of the coil and weight presses the clavicle and the rib cage, which results in appearance of a long neck. However, the neck doesn’t realy extend. Otherwise at the age of 100 the old Karen woman would look like that...

Karen villages are already marketed as tourist attractions in Thailand's northern provinces, where there is a sizeable population of Karen. The women, who had originally come from neighbouring Myanmar (Burma) to Thailand as refugees, were reportedly lured to a border camp where Thai businessmen created a village to serve as a tourist attraction, or "human zoo".

A big lady

A big lady

Yao Defen, the tallest women in the world stands in front of her house in Shu Cha in the North-East of China (34 years old in 2006). She mesures 2m36.

giantesse chines

19 years ago she was diagnosed with Acromegaly – a disease resulting from a tumour on the pituitary gland causing it to pump out excess growth hormone.

giant chinese woman

Thanks to a documentary being made for a British Television programme, two of the leading doctors specialising in Acromegaly have offered to help De-Fen for free.
The doctors and the television production team have been raising money for De-Fen’s recovery and future. Yao was finaly operated with success in Shanghai in 2007. the site to help Yao Defen.

zeng jinliang the tallest woman on earth

The biggest of all

Zeng Jinlian (曾金莲; 26 june 1964 – 13 february 1982) is the tallest woman who ever existed. At the moment of her death at the age of 17, in the Hunan, she was 2,48 m tall.

The giant of inner mongolia

Weird the smallest man meets the tallest of the world

Big and small are beautiful

Bao Xishun, the tallest man in the world, 56 years old and 2,36 m high welcomes the smallest man, He Pingping, 19 years old and 0,72m. (ph. A.P)

Bao Xishun has passed with success all the Guiness book of records tests and became the tallest man in the world by natural growth in 2006 (The Ukrainien Leonid Stadnyk is said to be taller (2m53) but his growth is due to a medical problem).

The tallest man in the world is chinese

Too tall to live in the city of Shenyang where he did his classes, Bao Xingchung had to go back to his native village of Chifeng in Inner Mongolia in 1973. 30 years later, he finaly came out of the desolate plains to become a national celebrity. Here visiting Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.

Bao Xishun the tallest man in the world

With his wife Xia Shujuan, 29 years old, 1,68 m, during their wedding. (Photo Reuters, Luciana Whitaker).

A well-matched couple

The chinese giant with his wife

The hand of the giant.

The usefulness of giants is no secret. Thanks to the length of his arm Bao Xishun saves a dolphin who had swalled a bath towel.

basket tall

Running high

Good evening ming

Yao Ming (Chinese: 姚明) (born September 12, 1980, in Shanghai, China) is a professional basketball player who plays for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA) since 2002. Yao was the only child of his parents, 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) Yao Zhiyuan and 6 ft 3 in[2] (1.90 m) Fang Fengdi, both of whom were former professional basketball players.

Yao Ming is currently the tallest player in the NBA, standing at 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m). He's actually one of the tallest basket-ball player in all history with Gheorghe Muresan (2,31 m), Manute Bol and Shawn Bradley.