A giant face mask was put on a mountain that resembles an elephant's trunk by eight farmers in southern China, breaking the Guinness World Record for the largest cloth face mask.

The video, filmed in the city of Yingtan in Jiangxi Province on January 31 shows eight farmers climbing up the peak to hang an around 13-metre-long and 9-metre-wide cloth face mask on the trunk of the elephant mountain.

The size of the mask is reportedly similar to the size of 10,000 ordinary face masks stitched together.

According to reports, it was an event held by the Mount Longhu Scenic Area to promote the attraction and pandemic prevention measures.

However, some Chinese netizens thought the event was meaningless. One person commented on China's Twitter-like social media Weibo: "Is pandemic prevention work not busy enough for them or do they have too much cloth?"

The video was provided by local media with permission.

为进一步打造江西鹰潭象鼻山游览区知名度，夯实龙虎山全域旅游品牌影响力，1月31日，龙虎山景区开展“吉象喊你戴口罩”微倡议景区接力活动。景区倡导疫情防控从自身做起，带好口罩安全出游，在象鼻山游览区给“象鼻”佩戴“世界上最大的布口罩”，并成功申报吉尼斯世界纪录。

活动现场，一个巨大的布口罩缓缓铺开，吉尼斯世界纪录官方委托专业第三方进行现场测量，并给与认证。这块口罩长12.828米、宽9.178米，是接近一万个普通口罩的大小，而且完全按照真实口罩的标准定制，是目前世界上最大的口罩。

伴随着一阵阵战鼓声响，最大布口罩在8名药农帮助下，在象鼻山崖中穿梭，为“象鼻”佩戴，这种通过固定在山顶的长绳飞舞山间的方式是古代龙虎山先民采药的方式。在象鼻山高台栈道玻璃观景台上，前来观景的游客兴奋的大声呐喊祝福，期望来年万象更新、吉象如意，两条长达15米的巨型条幅也从象鼻山顶缓缓降下，上书：龙虎仙境 吉象天成。

龙虎山景区还采用“隔空喊话”的方式，成功发起话题“吉象喊你戴口罩”并喊话三清山司春女神：“疫情防控很重要，出门口罩不能少！我是吉象我先戴，女神女神戴不戴？”
（视频由江西台提供）