Migrant Worker

A few days back, I noticed that a couple of Kunming blogs covered the 18 Oddities of Yunnan aka Yunnan shiba guai or 云南十八怪. I’ve been collecting real-life photos of these “guai” occurances for a while, but for some reason it never occurred to me to post them up here.

So here goes nothing!

Eggs are sold in grass-chains 鸡蛋用草串着买

This was taken in Xinjie village market, Yuanyang township. Our bus got in at the crack of dawn, and as we climbed uphill through town (it’s built on a mountain), we saw dozens of grandmothers with heavy bags of produce heading in a certain direction. After following them to the market, we got to watch them set up. The area is fairly isolated and very little Mandarin is spoken, especially among the women. Yi and Hani people make up the bulk of the population, and it was clear that many were bargaining with sign language.

Find an official list of the oddities here in Chinese and here in English