Tuesday, December 05, 2000, updated at 09:19(GMT+8)
Life
Man in Guangxi Can "Dance Ballet" with Fingers
A man can bend simultaneously four of the fingers of his each hand in the direction of the back of his hand at 180 degrees.
The man, by the name of Zhou, is now a clerk of a company in Nanning, the capital of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. He can bend by turns his forefinger, middle finger, third finger and small fingerof each of his hand at 180 degrees towards the back of his hand. He can do all this easily and without any pain.
He says that he was born in Nanning and that neither his parents nor his brothers can "dance ballet" with fingers the way he does.
A person who can bend his fingers as Zhou does is rare across the country, according to doctors with Guangxi Medical University.