Have Problems Staying Up Through The Night To Read? - See What Chinese Students 'Invented' | PHOTOS

 A Chinese university student has found an interesting way of staying awake when pulling all-nighters and writing essays.

Chen Tang, 20, had struggled to fit her workload into the daylight hours and together with her roommate Huang Lu, 21, sought a solution to her problem.

The two students at the Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University in Fuzhou, in Fujian province, in southeast China, took inspiration from ‘historic scholars’ to fight the urge to nap.

Chen remembered two famous Chinese scholars of legend who chose more painful methods to ensure their minds stayed alert.

One would stab himself with needles every time he started to fall asleep and the other would tie his hair to a beam in the ceiling so that it was pulled every time he started to nod off.

Huang, who posted the pictures of Chen said: ‘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.

‘As we didn't have a beam in our dorm, she used the clothes dryer and claims it worked really well.’

DailyMail