World's tallest man weds in China
Afp, Beijing
A decades-long search by the world's tallest man for a bride finally came to an end on Thursday when the Chinese herdsman married a woman who barely stands up to his elbow. Bao Xishun, who stands 2.36 metres (seven feet nine inches), wed sales clerk Xia Shujun in a traditional ceremony in the grasslands of northern China's Inner Mongolia, where both are from, Internet portal Sohu.com reported. Photos showed Bao, 56, dressed in a sky-blue silk robe, beaming as he sat next his 28-year-old bride just before the nuptials were pronounced. Xia is just 1.68 metres tall but said when her courtship with Bao began early this year that their height difference was not a problem. "Xia said that as they got to know each other she stopped noticing how tall Bao was and was moved instead by his thoughtfulness," China's official Xinhua news agency reported in March.
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Bao Xishun, 56, a herdsman listed by the Guinness World Records as the tallest living man (seven feet eight inches), with his bride Xia Shujun during their wedding ceremony at Genghis Khan's Mausoleum on the outskirts of Erdos in north China's Inner Mongolia region yesterday. PHOTO: AFP |
