Chinese university students have resorted to tying up their hair to
the ceiling using clothespins to prevent them from falling asleep
while studying. Every time the students try to nod off, the pins pull
back their hair, jerking them awake.
The technique, according to Kotaku, a local publication, became
popular after two students at the Fujian Agriculture and Forestry
University in Fujian province uploaded pictures of themselves on
Weibo. Chen Tang, 20 and her roommate Huang Lu, 21, had been
struggling with a huge workload and needed a quick fix to fight the
urge to nap.
They had tried the regular methods - caffeine, push-ups and cranking
up the air-conditioning - but none of that worked. That's when they
decided to hit the history books for a solution. Chen and Huang read
about two famous Chinese scholars who practised extreme methods to
keep their minds alert.
One would stab himself with needles every time he started to get
drowsy, while the other would tie his hair to a beam in the ceiling so
that it pulled every time he nodded off. Chen saw merit in the second
method and decided to give it a try.
"Chen is so keen to succeed that she decided to give the hair trick a
try, as you can see her hair is more than long enough," said Huang,
who posted the pictures online. "As we didn't have a beam in our dorm,
she used the clothes dryer and claims it worked really well."
Chen said that the trick helped her clear her mind. She plans to use
it more often in the future. "The preparation is boring, but the
hanging hair practice makes it interesting and I really feel much more
energetic by studying this way," she said.
After Huang put up the pictures, the hair-hanging technique seems to
have gone viral. Weibo is now full of photographs of Chinese students
emulating Chen. Some of them used clothespins and others used scarves.
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