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Circus artists Quoc Co, Quoc Nghiep set new world record

They walked the 40-cm wide and 10-m long surface and climbed up and down 10 steps in 1 minute and 55 seconds. The brothers made the record at their first perfomance so they did not need to do it again. Co, 34 years old, and Nghiep, 38 years old, said that the record making at this time will a milestone that closes their successful career. In 2021, the acrobat brothers set a new world record in head-to-head balancing in Catalonia, Spain. The Vietnamese artists, with Nghiep balancing atop Co’s head, climbed 100 stairs in 53 seconds at Girona Cathedral, the same venue where they set their previous record of 90 steps in 52 seconds in 2016. Co started circus training when he was four, while Nghiep began at five. The two went professional in 1999. Their head-to-head balancing act got them into the top three finalists on Britain’s Got Talent in 2018. The Guinness World Records invited Vietnamese acrobat brothers Giang Quoc Co and Giang Quoc Ng...

The unique Kin Chieng Booc May festival of the Thai ethnic group

The festival is also known as Cha Chien or Xang Khan, meaning “singing and dancing to celebrate under the cotton tree”. The Thai ethnic people regard the festival to be a communal cultural activity in which everyone in the village has the right to participate in and enjoy the event. The festival is divided into two separate parts. The ceremonial part consists of rituals involving worshiping the gods, the essential prose told by a shaman about the establishment of the village, thereby praising ancestors and people with meritorious services. The festival part is a system of 26 to 50 acts performed by a shaman, or “guests”, such as chopping firewood, farming, sword dancing, sweeping the home, and playing the flute. Indeed, it is thought that each activity involves a god from Muong Troi coming down from heaven to participate. Furthermore, there is a part that involves playing traditional musical instruments such as gongs, khua luong, drums, boong bu, and flutes. A number of ...