Interesting Facts About Yunnan!

1. Eggs Sold In Bundles - People in Longlin County of Baoshan area are used to tying egg vertically and horizontally up into a bar with rice straw and sell them in bars in the market. 2. Young Girls Called " Old Lady " - People in Xiaguan and Chuxiong call unmarried girls (normally from fourteen to eighteen years old )"old lady" . It is to address embodies intimacy and goodwill to wish her good health , which has become a customs 3. Pies Called " Ear Piece " - One of Yunnan's special -flavor foods . It is made of rice in shape of thin pies. 4.Automobiles Move In Clouds - Roads wind up along colossal and precipitous mountains . Fog spreads all over the top of mountains making one feel being placed upon clouds in fairyland 5. Key Hung On Waist-Belts - The Dai women in southern Yunnan like wearing long skirts with silver belts on which keys are hung . It is a rule that only married women are allowed to hang keys . Because wearing a belt with keys shows one in capable of running the household 6. Trains Go Aboard Not Inland - There was a narrow railway of 464.2 kilometers long from Kunming to Hanoi in Vietnam at the end of Qing dynasty which was the first international railway in the province . It was constructed by the French from 1903 to 1910 and cost more than 50,000 people's valuable lives . However , by then Yunnan hadn't even a domestic railway. 7. Straws Hats Used As Cooker Covers - hardworking and honest countrymen weave every day necessities shoes , fans , hats , baskets , cooker covers and so on with bamboo and paddy stems 8. Raining Here But Sunning There - Yunnan possesses a plateau climate like a changeable kid's face since rain and wind come and go without one knowing . A saying goes like this , " Weather varies within a circumference of ten lis (Li is a Chinese unit of half a kilometer ) and winter comes once it rains " . Even in the same area , one often sees rain here and sunshine in another place 9. Girls Wear Flower In All Seasons - The weather is like that of eternal spring  in most regions of Yunnan . As the capital of the province , Kunming city has a state of ecstasy as " the whole year of February and March with endless flowers and twigs are at all times " , therefore , it is named as " Spring City " in China . Fresh flowers can be seen in any season and floral industry becomes a main economic industry here 10. Non-Slanting Walls Built With Cobbles - People draw on local resources to build houses along river bands in the countryside . Cobbles as a building material makes wall neat and creates a unique local architecture 11. Green Vegetable Are Called Bitter Vegetable - Green vegetables are grown in up southern part of the province that is a kind of thin feather-like overlapping vegetables like vanilla . Its name comes from old customs but not from its taste 12. Bamboo Used As Smoking Pipe - called "Tobacco Tube " which is a typical local smoking utensil used mostly in Yunnan. Its length is from a half to one meter while its diameter varies from five to ten centimeter. People put cut tobacco on the bamboo tube , the lower part of which in filled with water , and smoke . Gurgling sound is heard when one smokes from bamboo tube mouth . 13. Tea Leaves Sold In Piles - The Jinpo minority group in Luxi county of Dehong prefecture sell tea leaves by piles instead of using scales 14. The Same Dress For The For Seasons - The weather in most part of Yunnan is always like that in spring and the alternation of seasons is not obvious . So people dress themselves without distinct seasonal characteristics 15. Girls Hang Tobacco Bags - The Lisu minority girls have a habit of smoking and chewing tobacco that  they hang tobacco bags on their waist belts . They present bags to one another with respect on the occasion of union to show kindness and intimacy that gradually becomes a necessary entertainment to their guests 16. Automobiles Move Faster Than Trains - The speed of train is much slower than that of automobiles on the narrow railways across certain precipitous relieves in Yunnan. 17. Toes Show Outside - Some people from the mountainous areas wear straw shoes with holes all year round since the four seasons are mild 18. Three Mosquitoes Make Up A Dish - There are non poisonous mosquitoes with long legs in Yunnan .They look so big at the first glance that outsiders say " three mosquitoes make up a dish " for fun

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