Snake King gears up for Chinese New Year

AP Television News Zisiqiao village, Zhejiang province, China - 28 January, 2013 1. Close up of snake's head 2. Mid shot of snake moving AP Television News Zisiqiao village, Zhejiang province, China - 29 January, 2013 3. Mid shot of snake inside glass cage 4. Mid shot of snake attacking camera AP Television News Zisiqiao village, Zhejiang province, China - 28 January, 2013 5. Mid shot of worker teasing snake and being bitten 6. Mid shot of snake moving over a glass surface 7. Close up of the snake moving towards camera 8. Mid shot of Snake Museum worker holding two snakes 9. Close up of a sign reading "Watch out for poisonous snakes" in English, Chinese and Korean 10. Mid shot of tourists holding snakes and chatting 11. Low shot of tourists swapping snakes 12. Close up of snake's head 13. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Zeng Zhongliang, tourist "Next year is the year of snake. According to the China's tradition, snake is regarded as little dragon." 14. Close up of a snake being held by a man 15. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Yang Dechang, first snake breeder in Zisiqiao village "Both me and other villagers in Zisiqiao, we love touching snakes. They're smooth and beautiful. Snakes have made a great contribution to humanity. So we should protect and love snakes. See how agile this one is." 16. Tracking shot of Yang and Snake Museum worker walking into a snake breeding room 17. Mid shot of worker pulling live snakes out of a breeding box 18. Mid shot of various of snakes on the floor 19. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Zhu Liangfa, 66-year-old, worker at the Zisiqiao Snake Museum "I've never been bitten. I've been bitten by non-poisonous snakes for many times but not even one by the poisonous ones. With the non-poisonous snakes, we use tools and we have to be more careful." 20. Mid shot of Yang extracting snake poison from the snake's mouth 21. Close up of the snake's teeth 22. Close up of Yang's face 23. Mid shot of Yang talking while holding snake 24. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Yang Dechang, first snake breeder in Zisiqiao village "In the old days, my family made a living by fishing. Back then, ZIsiqiao village was the poorest area in the Jiaxing vicinity, in Zhejiang province. Life was difficult for people during that time, so we started hunting snakes, selling snakes and breeding snakes." AP Television News Zisiqiao village, Zhejiang province, China - 29 January, 2013 25. Mid shot of snake alcohol bottle 26. Mid shot of worker putting a snake into the alcohol bottle 27. Mid shot of worker putting the cap onto the bottle 28. Close up of snake's body 29. Mid shot of snake's body in the basin 30. Various shots of snakes in alcohol bottles 31. Various shots of worker putting snake powder into machine to produce traditional medicine pills 32. Various shots of worker operating the pill-making machine 33. Mid shot of pills pouring out from the machine to the plate 34. Close up of red pills 35. Wide shot of shop selling snake products 36. Close up of box of traditional medicine made of snake powder while being opened 37. Close up of pills 38. Mid shot of woman putting the box back onto counter 39. Mid shot of snake gallbladder wine 40. Mid shot of counter 41. Mid shot of snake oil cream 42. Close up of woman's face 43. Close up of woman's hands pinning snake skin to a polystyrene panel 44. Wide and pan right of a workshop of dried snake meat 45. Close up of Yang Xiubang's face 46. Close up of Yang's hands pinning snake skin 47. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Yang Xiubang, Zisiqiao villager and owner of a dried snake workshop "The market nowadays is different. In the past, we looked for the market. But now, the market is looking for us. We do not need to worry about selling our products." LEADIN STORYLINE: You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/a5f123c6a63baa61335fec73def49af2 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork