In today's trending news, China's quest for world's largest drum, woman who tried kissing a snake gets bit in the face, student athletes take fighting crime into their own hands, and a Chinese village uses tap water to create frozen waterfall.
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Workers clean the surface of what is said to be the world's largest drum. [Photo/CFP] |
Guangxi bids for Guinness record of World's largest drum
Chinese in south China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region are claiming that this bronze drum is world's largest bronze drum ever made. It measures at 4.2 meters in diameter, 2.6 meters in height.
The gigantic drum took the effort of 20 workers sacrificing more than six months to complete.
On Jan 16, the drum will ship to Guilin city, Guangxi for a review by the Guinness Book of Record for the title of the world's largest drum.
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Twenty workers spent more than six months to complete this drum. [Photo/CFP] |
In our next story, a Chinese woman takes a snake bite right in the face.
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