This Lantern Festival, villagers in Nanchuan, China carried out a 500-year tradition - throwing molten iron against a wall to create showers of fireworks. The act, called 打树花 (da shu hua - or beating a tree for flowers), looks dangerous. But the throwers insist that it's not as long as you're not afraid to die.
Source: Diagonal View
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