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POV: Me after Sichuan hot pot

This lion is breathing fire from the wrong end. But then again, it's not really a lion. It's two blokes fire-breathing and face-changing, both traditional Sichuan performance arts in southwest China, apparently.

The face-changing art, known as Bian Lian, is especially famous for its lightning-fast mask changes. It's a Sichuan fever dream, and we're just living in it.

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