Acupuncturist Shows His Olympic Spirit
News June 27th, 2008
This acupuncturist shows his Olympic spirit in a creative way!
Wei, a 60 year-old Chinese acupuncturist from Guangxi province, showed his patriotism for the upcoming Olympics by piercing his head, face, chest, and arms with 2008 decorative needles in five different colors.
The event broke his previous Guinness Record of 1790 needles set in 2004. Wei also hopes to share more about the history of acupuncture to the world.
Initially inspired after reading about a Canadian who had set a record for inserting 420 needles in his arm, Wei felt that it was 鈥渘ot much compared to our centuries-old acupuncture,鈥� and began experimenting with piercing his own body with needles.
On January 13, 2007, Wei had also paraded through town with 800 needles in his forehead and even put on skates and skated around the streets to show he was not in pain and alright.
I wonder if he went out with the Olympics tattoo guy afterwards!
Via Weird Asia News, who got it from this Chinese language site.
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