Kneeling on the ground at Gulangyu Island in Xiamen, East China’s Fujian province, and keeping his lips on the ground for nine seconds, a Taiwan man then collected his first jar of soil on the Chinese mainland on Monday, Xian Dai New Express, a Jiangsu-based newspaper, reported Tuesday.

Huang Hongcheng kisses the soil on Gulangyu Island, Xiamen, East China’s Fujian province, on March 21, 2011. [Photo/kb.dsqq.cn]

The 43-year-old man, Huang Hongcheng, is a writer. He said he plans to kiss 34 provinces, 100 cities and 100 former residences of celebrities on the Chinese mainland in the next five years.

“Xiamen is my first mainland stop, and it was a success,” Huang said with a smile, wiping off the sand on his mouth. “The kiss on Xiamen took nine seconds, and I am going to add one second each time when I am visiting more places.”

Huang became famous in Taiwan for kissing and collecting soil from 319 villages and towns in Taiwan in 2006, a tour that took him two years and 43 days to finish, and then he made a map of Taiwan with all the soil he had collected.

He said that together with the Taiwan map he made, he would make a map of China with the collected soil.

Huang graduated from the Law School of Taiwan Soochow University and once hosted TV shows and published a few books.