Interesting news about gaokao

A mother burns incense to pray for her child to have good results in the this year at a Confucius Temple in Harbin, Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, on June 5, 2016. [Photo/IC]

Parents burning incense causes fire

Last year, nearly 1,000 parents burned incense in front of a tree they believed would give good luck to their children to sit gaokao, on June 2.

But the burning incense caused a nearby roof – along with hundreds of ribbons tied to a tree - to catch fire. Fortunately, the blaze was quickly extinguished .