In today's trending, a little match girl appears in Shanghai, beehive man makes his own costume, ants steal old woman's savings, and man pays for van with huge stash of small notes.

A "little match girl" sits with matches before her at the bund area in Shanghai, Jan 12, 2016. [Photo/Xinhua]

Little match girl appears in Shanghai

A girl has appeared in Shanghai costumed as the character in Hans Christian Anderson's story "The Little Match Girl", handing out boxes of matches to passersby, reported cfp.cn on Tuesday.

It is a performance art event initiated by a "Love Wardrobe", a non-profit organization to call attention to children in the mountainous areas during cold times.

"Many children in mountainous areas suffer from the cold like her. They need your help," reads one side of the matchbox. On the other, a QR code is printed that if scnned, leads to a site where you can donate one set of warm winter clothes for charity.

In our next story, meet the real life costumed "superhero" who collects beehives.

Huang Guoxue in his self-designed working costume, Jan 11. [Photo/Chengdu Business Daily]

Meet the incredible beehive man

Looking at this costume might remind you of chemical or biological hazard suits or those well-armed super heroes in movies.

But the daredevil wearing it is making money out of encountering what most people are too terrified to touch or even get close to: bees and honeycombs.

Huang Guoxue, 41, from Sichuan province, learned to pick up honeycombs since he was around 10. Because the honey and comb are good fat-free protein and are hard to get, he has been making good money out of this dangerous occupation.

Through the years he designed a hermetic costume, an outfit connected to gloves and headgear, and a breathing channel made out of a plastic bottle. He also attached some sharp iron teeth to the bottom of his shoes so he could climb trees better.

Another indispensible tool in his 'career' is a secret antidote medicine that his father, a rural doctor, created and passed down to him. With it he survived many serious attacks from bees.

"That medicine is effective.....but I won't tell the ingredient. On average I collect around 60 honeycombs every year. The largest one I ever got is 1.7 meters high, 35 kilograms in weight. It was so gigantic that I had to cut it into two halves to take it away in my car," Huang said, as reported by Chengdu Business Daily.

In our next story, ants steal a woman's fortune.

The box in which the money and the cashbooks were kept. [Photo/chinanews.com]

Ants eat 40,000 yuan in banknotes

An elderly woman in Nanping, Fujian province was shocked to find out that her precious savings had been eaten by a nest of ants.

She sent a report to police saying her forty thousand yuan and bankbooks, which are the money her children gave her for retirement, were stolen on Sunday, reported chinanews.com.

The woman said the money and bankbooks were wrapped in plastic bags and kept in a wood box on the attic of the second floor. She opened it once or twice every year to check.

However, she found all the things were gone, and there was nothing in the box but an ant nest, despite the fact that the money was still there at the beginning of 2015.

Police saw no proof of a break-in so they dug the ant nest open and found ragged plastic bags and anti-counterfeiting gold wire of the banknotes. It shows the ants were the thieves who ate up both the money and the bankbooks.

The money and banknotes are eaten by ants. [Photo/chinanews.com]

In our final story, man pays for van using tiny notes.

Employees count about 87,000 yuan ($13,229) of change at a car dealership in Zhanjiang, South China's Guangdong province, Jan 11, 2016. [Photo/CFP]

Man pays for van with tiny notes

A man drove a truck full of small banknotes trying to buy a van from a car dealer in Zhanjiang, Guangdong province on Monday, reported Zhanjiang Daily.

The money was kept in more than ten boxes with the face value of one jiao (0.1 yuan), two jiao, five jiao and one yuan. The sales manager Gu Liyuan said "I've never seen this much cash in my life."

According to the man, he sells food and snacks in bulk to retailers in counties and villages then retailers sell the goods to customers. Since the goods are at a very low price, he receives lots of small notes.

Though the law says banks cannot refuse small banknotes, some banks refuse to help him change the money into high-value notes due to the large amount of his small notes.

He claims buying a van is one of his ways to spend the small notes.

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