18 interesting facts about Kunming

1. People 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 bats in the market

2. Young girls are called ‘ old lady’

In Xiaguan and Chuxiong call unmarried girls (normally from fourteen to eighteen years old) ‘old lady’. It is said that such address embodies intimacy and goodwill to wish her good health, which has become a customs.

3. Pies are called ear piece

Ear piece is one of Yunnan special-flavor foods. It is made of rice in shapes of thin pies. Apart from ear piece. Rice noodle, flat rice noodle and so forth are local favorite non-staple food.

4. Automobiles move in clouds

Roads wind up along colossal and precipitous mountains fog spreads are over the top of mountains making one feel being places upon 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 show one in capable of running the household.

6. Trains go abroad not inland

There was a narrow railway of 46.2 km 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 . how ever. By than Yunnan hadn’t even domestics railway.

7. Straw hats used as cooker covers.

Hardworking and honest countryman weave everyday 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, ‘weather varies within a circumference of then lis and winter comes once it rains. Even in the same area, one often sees rain here and sunshine in another place.

9. Girls wear flowers in all seasons

As the capital of the province, Kunming city has a state of ecstasy as ‘ the whole year us February and march while endless flowers and twigs are at all times, 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 country side. Cobbles as a building material makes wall neat and creates a unique local architecture.

11. Green vegetables called bitter vegetables .

Green vegetables are grown in up southern part of the province that is a kind of thin featherlike overlapping vegetables like vanilla. Its name comes from old customs but not from its taste.

12. Bamboo used as smoking pipe

Smoking is smoking bag is called tobacco tube which is a typical local smoking utensil used mostly in Yunnan.

13. Tea leaves sold in piles.

The Junpo minorities In luxi county of Dehong prefecture sell tea leaves by piles instead of using scales.

14. The same dress for four 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 an chewing tobacco so that most marries or unmarried females 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 lower than that of automobiles on the railways across certain precipitous relieves in Yunnan

17. Toes show outside

Some people from the mountainous area 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