Boys as Qigong Street Performers on the Beijing Streets

Boys as Qigong Street Performers on the Beijing Streets
Boys performing throat-locking with a metal chain. Goh Chai Hin/AFP/Getty Images
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On March 14, 2007, two boys from Zhoukuo, Henan Province were performing Qigong next to a bus station north of Bawangfen, Beijing, in their efforts to ask passers-by for money.











Boys giving a performance. (Goh Chai Hin/AFP/Getty Images)
Boys giving a performance. Goh Chai Hin/AFP/Getty Images

Boys performing "throat-locking" with a metal chain. (Goh Chai Hin/AFP/Getty Images)
Boys performing "throat-locking" with a metal chain. Goh Chai Hin/AFP/Getty Images

Boys performing a qigong performance of sword-swallowing. (Goh Chai Hin/AFP/Getty Images)
Boys performing a qigong performance of sword-swallowing. Goh Chai Hin/AFP/Getty Images

Boys performing a somersault with one hand. (Goh Chai Hin/AFP/Getty Images)
Boys performing a somersault with one hand. Goh Chai Hin/AFP/Getty Images