Metal hooks weighed down with milk pots skewered the flesh of men’s backs as tridents pierced their cheeks and tongues.

Visitors view dragon dances at the Spring Festival temple fair held at Badachu Park in Beijing on Feb 3, 2025. [Photo by ...

Visitors observe an AI couplet-writing machine creating Spring Festival scrolls at the AI-themed temple fair at Wukesong Wanda Plaza in Haidian district, Beijing, on Feb 2, 2025. [Photo by Geng Feifei ...

A humanoid robot gyrates to pulsing music at a shopping mall in Beijing, part of an exhibition harnessing artificial ...