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									<font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Guo Chengyi </font><font size="+1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">郭承毅 </font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">of Nantong in Jiangsu Province used artificial fibers to make this kite. It is 150 centimeters square.  The eighteen arhats </font>十八罗汉 <font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">are worthies who have achieved enlightenment in Buddhism.  There is also a set of martial arts techniques developed at the Shaolin Temple in Hubei Province that are said to have been developed based on the positions taken by the statues of the eighteen arhats.</font></div>
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