Bee Bearding
Guo Bingguo, 55, smoked a cigarette to keep the bees away from his face and lips as he attracted nearly 1.1 million bees to his body.
Bee bearding is the practice of wearing several hundred honey bees on the face.
Beekeepers who raise bees for honey and wax have existed since ancient times.
Beekeepers have always allowed bees to rest on their bodies to demonstrate how comfortable they were with bees and to show their ability to work with bees.
During the 19th century bee bearding became quite popular in the freak shows common at carnivals and fairs that traveled across America.
In the 1830s a Ukrainian beekeeper named Petro Prokopovych is said to have started the modern practice of allowing large amounts of bees to sit on the face.
As a teacher Prokopovych established a famous beekeeping school in Ukraine that operated for 53 years.
Prokopovych also became a bee tycoon owning over 6000 bee colonies and becoming very wealthy.
Nowadays, the Guinness Book of Records includes a world record for most "pounds of bees worn on the body."
In 2009, a beekeeping couple in China went so far as to get married while they were covered in bees.