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China Daily via Reuters
Wang Xianxiang carries two buckets of water with his eyelids during a provincial festival for migrant workers in Shaodong County, Hunan province, Saturday.
BEIJING – Wang Xianxiang’s talent is an eyeful.
The 42-year-old fireworks maker from the central Chinese province of Hunan was photographed last weekend performing his signature trick: Suspending two water buckets with a combined weight of 9 pounds on plastic hangers hooked to his eyelids for a minute.
China Daily via Reuters
Wang says he is hoping to increase the amount of weight he can carry with his eyelids.
Wang entertained local migrant workers at a provincial festival near his hometown of Liuyang Saturday.
“When I first started it was extremely painful,” Wang told NBC News about his unique talent, “but after a lot of practice it’s just uncomfortable today.”
Among other talents he’s developed for the show? Having two men wrap a metal wire tightly around his neck while he talks to the audience, which he says has been in the thousands.
Wang, who is married with two children, said he has been doing his eyelid trick for five to six years and started doing it purely out of boredom.
But as he increased the weight on his eyelids, he started to train – practicing for 30 minutes each morning and two hours at night.
Wang’s family initially frowned upon his hobby, but slowly came around as his stature grew within the community.
When asked what his aspirations for the future were, Wang kept it simple. “I can currently hold 4.5 pounds on each eyelid, I’d like to push that to 11 pounds per eyelid.”
He was optimistic that he could accomplish that eye-popping feat by the end of the year.
NBC News’ Le Li contributed to this report.
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And all this time I thought it was from masturbating.
That must come in handy.
Hole-e-smokey, good one.
he needs to stop that before he rips his face off. that is just disturbing
As a masturbator I could'a been a contender. Wuz robbed by a dose of the clap though.
Chinese cosmetic surgery is becoming increasingly popular as "the beautiful people" strive to overcome the social stigma attached to the epicanthic fold.
What a freak; doesn't he have anything better to do with his life?
3 billion people and this is the best they can come up with.
Now that is just plain stupidity.
This is inspirational! How about if we have weight lifting in which a man uses his erect penis?
Probably only young men could participate in this. It would be called the Pecker Lift.
I bet women of all ages would be enthralled!
Great, now you have me wondering just how much I could lift...
you guys need to check out Tenacious D. they have a cock push-up skit on their first studio album that is pretty funny
Years ago I picked up over 200lbs with mine. She was ugly and I was intoxicated.
You're talking about "Iron Groin" gung fu where they drag weights around with their penises. I've never heard of "Iron Eyelid" practice, though. Not sure it has any martial applications. Ha!
Beyond stupidity.
When the weight finally rips his face off I'll just say I told you so.
Anything to take their minds off their sh*tty Communistic existence.
It is irresponsible to print stupid stunts such as this. We have enough idiots already without someone trying
this. Young men are just dumb enough to try and copy this fool. And how is this news we need to know ?
By Ed Flanagan, Producer, NBC News you should be ashamed. You obviously should not have this job.
The man should have better things to do.
@ Ines-1159800 - if the idiots try it and kill themselves that is great...isn't it?? We don't want them breeding ya know.
he has been told by his government that this is a perfect remedy for pink eye.
Now that's a career choise....,
I won't be impressed until someone drags a Hummer with his hemorroids.
Haaaaahahahahaha Brilliant!
What kind of people do this sort of thing. And WHY????
That hurts just to look at it.
Wonder how much moutai he drank before he thought this up?
I can blind fold them with dental floss...
More original than trying to lift something with something else. Impressive!
Sleep........................Sleep........ your eyes are getting heavy...
5000 years of civilization wasted on these people.
And out of all the ppl in China, this is newsworthy because...?
He should have a spot on Guinness World Record just like other "nuts". This is not surprising at all when there others out there doing what they do best - fire eaters, nail eaters, sword swallower, etc, etc. Believe me, there are lots.