"A Taiwan writer who aimed to kiss the land across China and make a jigsaw map using soils collected in each place filled his first bottle after kissing the ground in Xiamen, Fujian Province for nine seconds. Huang Hong-cheng planned to spend five years walking across the country and kiss the land in every province and municipality, the Modern Express reported today. Dressed in a coir raincoat and wearing a bamboo hat, Huang kneeled down and kissed the land for nine seconds. "Xiamen is the first stop of my mainland tour. The first kiss tasted like success," Huang said. Huang shot to fame in Taiwan after he spent two years and 43 days to kiss the land in 319 villages and counties in Taiwan and collected the soil. He made a map of Taiwan using the mud. He intended to make a mainland map the same way and invite celebrities on the both sides of the Taiwan Straits to sign their names on the map and pray for the Chinese nation." [Shanghai Daily] more ›

In remembrance of the now past Qixi Festival (China's Valentine's Day, kinda) here's a very cute video by some young couple who managed to film themselves kissing at each and every Expo Pavilion. The concept sounds gross and PDA-y, but the way they decided to go about it was actually pretty adorable and sweet (and, I guess, the Taylor Swift soundtrack helps). I especially love the handshake for the DPRK Pavilion. more ›

Shanghaiist recently caught on to Forestry University’s attempts to clean up its campus’ ‘lovebird problem', but by what standards does this smooch patrol hold itself? Well, by employing hall monitors whose job is to ruin the mood (in high school we would have been so good at this job), the Communist Youth League has unloaded a heavy task on student volunteers- as if their classmates didn’t hate them enough already - to curb any public kissing, hugging, or even sitting that seems to suggest anything other than “Let’s just study together until we get married ”. However, rather than openly chastising couples and causing everyone involved to lose face, the monitors are instructed to ‘stare silently’ at the canoodling students until they regain their sense of public decency. According to Shanghai Daily “patrol members had been assaulted, either verbally or physically.” Perhaps that’s because couples mistook the monitor’s silent gaze as voyeurism. more ›

Her boyfriend told a doctor that her left ear cracked while they were kissing. The woman later found she couldn't hear anything with that ear. more ›