A Chinese Buddhist uses kung fu to pull eight cars with her hair in her last
stunt before having it shaved to become a nun.
Buddhist monks and nuns: instantly we visualise serine beings, deep in meditation, draped in blistered orange robes all with shaven heads. Not Zhang Tingting though. This fifty-two-year-old nun is a Chinese Buddhist martial arts expert.
Zhang, whose Buddhist name is Shi Deyu, started her kung-fu training at the age of 17 but took up a monastic lifestyle two years ago. Despite tradition dictating that her head should be shaved, she decided to keep her locks. As a result she's been denied official recognition for her orders.
Zhang believes her hair is instilled with special powers, giving her the ability to not only slice through paper with her plait, but also support great weights. Over the years she's taken part in a number of hair-raising challenges – pulling vehicles for up to a hundred metres.
