Meet a 59-year-old woman
who has not cut her hair for 35 years in Yunnan, southwest China.
Gu Meiying has started
growing her hair in the last century, when she was just 24 years old.
Since that time her mane reached a staggering 2m 50cm! However, such
a treasure needs a special care.
First Mrs Meiying simply tied her hair behind her
back, when it became too long, she plaited her mane
in a single braid which she wears as a turban or just wraps
it around her waist.
She said: “I always treat my long braid like a
treasure and talisman. I think growing hair is like maintaining life so I
haven’t cut it.”
Even when she was
offered a 19,000 yuan (N596,100) for her unbelievably long braid Mrs
Meiying refused. The old woman hopes to get into the Guinness Book of
World Records.
The world’s longest documented hair belongs to
Xie Qiuping, also Chinese, at 5,6, when measured on May 8, 2004
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