Huang Hong-cheng kisses the ground in Xiamen, Fujian Province for nine seconds.

A Taiwan writer who aimed to kiss the land across China and make a jigsaw map using soils collected in each place filled his first bottle after kissing the ground in Xiamen, Fujian Province for nine seconds.

Huang Hong-cheng planned to spend five years walking across the country and kiss the land in every province and municipality, the Modern Express reported today.

Dressed in a coir raincoat and wearing a bamboo hat, Huang kneeled down and kissed the land for nine seconds. "Xiamen is the first stop of my mainland tour. The first kiss tasted like success," Huang said.

Huang shot to fame in Taiwan after he spent two years and 43 days to kiss the land in 319 villages and counties in Taiwan and collected the soil. He made a map of Taiwan using the mud.

He intended to make a mainland map the same way and invite celebrities on the both sides of the Taiwan Straits to sign their names on the map and pray for the Chinese nation.