Extraordinary people in China

Editor's note:

Have you ever thought how your life would be if you were armless? Being a pianist would probably come last on your list. But what if you had a pair of hands deformed with 15 fingers? Will you be able to triumph over fate’s adversity?

Life is once only, sometimes seemingly so isolated that we almost lose faith in our existence. But after a second thought, it should come to you that not everyone can win on the life’s altitude of how much we can achieve, but everyone could be the champion on the life’s vastitude of how unique each and everyone could be. The entirety of life’s possibilities – be it soul-inspiring grace, fate-defying courage, heart-wrenching misery, and sometimes down-right weirdness or brain-dead stupidity -- holds us in awe that life could truly be so different. Then we take a good laugh at the fools and strive on our roads.

So, here China Daily web-editors compile a package of the extraordinary people in China.

 

Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things

Teacher in a wheelchair	Miner digs underground home	Father's cure for sick son is 2,000 km bike rid	Sailing miles on plastic for a cause
Farmer defends his turf with rockets	Every step he takes	China's young spend 73 hours with tigers	'Art monk' has his own take on Buddhism
Diver sets world record in waterfalls	Calligraphy student, 89, in university for 24 years	Eighty-year-old university hopeful	World's shortest man thinks big

People with Unusual Talents

Girl, 14, on fast track to Peking University

Chinese man with no arms plays piano with toes

Peasant inventor working on new 'miracle machine'

An exercise in balance

Down-right Weirdness

Woman trembles with cold under scorching sun

Pica suspected in girl who excretes nail

104-yr-old sisters, world's oldest twins

Woman keeps 2.5-meter-long hair

Henan native vying to be world's tallest

Brain-dead Stupidity				Heart-wrenching misery

Video Selections:
Miraculous safe landing after car crash tumble	Toes tripping on the keys	Bodyguard stands tall for top celebrities	Body parts model: The parts outweigh the whole