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Hunan

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It was in December, and it was in the Hunan province, so it's cold and dark and it's constant rain and sleet. You can now, if you go to China, you can buy photographs of the moment where the sheet was pulled off this giant statue, the six metre high bronze statue, and at the same time the sun suddenly came out and the moon came out, and they both shone upon the statue at the same time.

from No Such Thing As An Edible Jockey, 2017-04-07 at 00:06:35 ยท read transcript

Other times Hunan came up

  1. The organizers are called the SWAT team. Very good. Yeah, other weird festivals. Yeah? There's a vaguely similar festival, a bee-wearing festival in the Hunan province in China, a festival where you wear bees. Which is, I would say... What do you mean by wearing bees? Oh, like having a bee beard, we talked about that. Exactly, and you do it by hanging the queen bee next to your face, basically.

    No Such Thing As A Pub Full of Corgis, 2022-03-18 ยท listen

  2. In Texas, they have a similar mosquito festival in Clute and they have a mosquito legs competition as well, separate for children and adults and the organisers are called the SWAT team. Very good. Yeah, other weird festivals. Yeah. There's a vaguely similar festival, the Bee Wearing Festival in the Hunan province in China, a festival where you wear bees, which is, I would say... What do you mean by wearing bees? Oh, like having a bee beard, we talked about that. Exactly.

    418: No Such Thing As A Pub Full of Corgis, 2022-03-18 ยท listen

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