Chinese Fun Fish

The small guy and the béluga

The four-year old boy named Yangyang swims with a beluga (a type of dolphin)in Qingdao Polar Region Ocean World in east China's Shandong province, 2007 Ph. China photopress.

The beluga kiss









Weird giant catfish


Spring 2007 an enormous fish is caught in Huadu's Furong Reservoir, South of China. The rumour quickly spreds on the web talking about a man-eating catfish ... It says that a human body was found inside the fish. The killer catfish was 3 meters long and the head alone was 1 meter wide.




Supposedly a few humans died every year in this reservoir under mysterious circumstances but no proff could link this with this big fish. Actually, specialist of the marine world identified the giant catfish to be a young whale shark !



A slice of chinese catfish ?

The only remaining mystery is to know how this shark, on the point of being extinct and of no danger to man (they are exclusively herbivores and they have not the teeth or other possibilities to attack other animals or humans) came from the sea to the reservoir ?






The chinese octopus sunbath

The dried spectre is a very appreciated Chinese delicacy.

Not fresh fish

Dead fishes from a fish farm after the passage of an heat wave in the South of China July 2006.

Miraculous fishing

A chinese fish farmer with some of his catfish bred on the outskirts of Hangzhou. Fish farmers are said to have turned to illegal veterinary drugs to keep fish alive in contaminated ponds. Source: D. Barboza. NYT, January 18, 2008

Giants Outside China

Although it is a little out off topic with China, here is (in comparison with Chinese giants), a few other famous and very tall persons around the world :




Leonid Stadnyk :

Leonid Stadnyk, born in 1971 in Podoliantsy Ukraine, appears in the Guinness Book of Records 2008 as the probable tallest living man in the world with a height of 2.57 m. Leonid began to grow dramatically in the age of 14 after a brain surgery, which would have stimulated the production of a growth hormone. He lives with his mother in his native village in Ukraine.

Leonid Stadnyck has stop growing since 2005. It is also said that he has the longuest legs and the largest hands of all.

Although this is not yet confirmed (he refuses to have his height measured by the Guiness book), otherwise he would replace Bao Xishun, a native of Inner Mongolia, which measures 2.36 meters and hold the Guinness record so far. (Wiki)

Robert Pershing Wadlow

Robert Pershing Wadlow (born on 22 February 1918 in Alton, Illinois, died on 15 July 1940) is an American who holds the official record of the tallest man ever. Wadlow reached the height of 2.72 m for a weight of 222 kg before his death at the age of 22.

His large size was attributed to a tumor in the pituitary gland. He was still growing when he died as a result of an infection caused by a brace poorly positioned. (Wiki)

Fedor Machnov

Fedor Machnov (1881-1905), a Russian in the time of the Tsars, 2.38 meters (himself claimed to be 2.88 m).








Fedor Machnov and his wonder boots

Big is beautiful

Growing too fast ?

Where will China stop ?
(ph S T Leret)











Where is the birdy ?












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












Adult games

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










Curious slippers










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.










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.








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.









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

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).




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.







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.








Yao is one of China's most recognizable athletes, along with Liu Xiang, both considered like real stars. (more about Yao Ming on wikipédia)