Yunnan is known as the "Kingdom of Plants", bamboo resources are extremely rich, people use bamboo to build bamboo buildings, bamboo hats, bamboo mats, and even use bamboo tubes to carry water, when the pot to cook rice, cooking, especially bamboo to do the bag of smoke is amazing. Bamboo pipe water filtered smoke not only maintains the mellow aroma of dry smoke, but also eliminates the smoke in the scorching, moisturizing the throat, and there is the sound of grunts, with which to smoke, can be described as sound, color, taste all complete.

The second strange eggs with grass string to sell

Yunnan mountains and roads, commodities in transit security is always a problem. Local people use straw to tie the eggs into a string to sell, not only to solve the problem of easy breakage of eggs during transportation, but also to facilitate the buyer and seller fair pricing, and the children, extremely convenient.

Third strange straw hat when the pot cover

Yunnan all over the grass and trees, people use these raw materials woven into home life essential curtains, hats, pot cover, straw raincoat and straw pier, as well as a variety of chic crafts. First came to Yunnan to outsiders often similar in appearance to the straw hat and pot cover mixed into one thing, mistakenly thought that Yunnan people use the straw hat as a pot cover. With grass woven into the shape of a straw hat pot cover, because of moisture absorption, no steam water fall, has a good insulation and air permeability function, both to the steamed food added fragrance, but also make the meal in the hot weather is not easy to deteriorate, extremely practical.

The fourth strange tofu hairy to sell

Yunnan weather is hot, not easy to save fresh food, many people in Yunnan also love to eat stinky tofu, simply just made fresh tofu covered with straw for a few days, until hairy to become stinky tofu, only to get to the street to sell. It is said that during the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Kangxi tasted the stinky tofu in Yunnan, and was so pleased that he named it "Qingfang Stinky Tofu". As a result, the stalls of stinky tofu in central Yunnan, southern Yunnan and western Yunnan are spread all over the cities and villages. Stinky tofu can also be fried, deep-fried, steamed or pickled into curd, Yunnan is a unique flavor of local delicacies.

The fifth strange vegetables called bitter vegetables

Dianzhong, south of Yunnan, a warm climate, abundant rainfall, evergreen, green vegetables throughout the year, a variety of varieties, so in the mainland is known as the green vegetables do not have the characteristics of identification, but the taste of the identification criteria. Therefore, any green vegetable with a slightly bitter flavor is called bitter vegetable.

Sixth strange rice poop called bait block

Yunnan abundance of rice, in order to go out to carry dry food, Yunnan people will be steamed out of the rice ball pounded and kneaded into a cake, called "bait block". It can be fried, boiled, pan-fried or deep-fried (see Yunnan snacks).

Seventh strange broad beans sold in piles

Yunnan in the old days, backward commodity economy, not many market transactions, scattered throughout the province's rural markets, especially prevalent in barter transactions, buyers and sellers rarely use scales, agricultural products are heaps, bundles as a unit of sale, peanuts, broad beans and other agricultural products is no exception, but also a number of piles to sell.

Eighth strange three grasshoppers a dish

Yunnan people are extremely rich in food sources, people not only eat a variety of different animals and a wide variety of meat and a variety of wild vegetables, but also eat moss, bamboo worms, bee chrysalis and numerous wild mushrooms, crispy fried grasshopper is a common meal in the meal of the good wine. Because of the Yunnan grasshopper is big, not a few can be piled into a plate, so that "three grasshoppers a dish".

The ninth strange straw when the belt

Yunnan economic backwardness in the past, the masses live in poverty, in the countryside when the straw belt is a very common phenomenon. Now the economic development, the masses have a greater standard of living, grass when the belt has long been a historical relic.

The tenth strange toes outside the shoes

Yunnan mountains, high and dangerous, and the warm climate, climbing and running often sweaty feet. As a result, grass shoes and sandals made of cloth with toes exposed were once a popular favorite footwear in Yunnan due to their coolness and convenience.

The eleventh strange pine hair twisted to sell

In Yunnan many trees, Yunnan Pine is the most common, the forest is covered with its fallen leaves. People will be these leaves around the twisted into a pine hair bun, used to make a fire to burn rice, also used to barbecue ducks, a unique flavor. Therefore, the old Yunnan urban and rural markets can be seen everywhere in the pine hair twisted to sell the scene, until now individual counties and townships on the market still have this market scene.

The twelfth strange this side of the rain that side of the sun

In Yunnan's strange mountains and rivers, diverse and complex climatic environment, "a mountain divided into four seasons, ten miles of different days," "the mountain before the rain, the mountain after the sunny days" is a very common natural phenomenon. Especially in the fall, this side of the rain on the other side of the sun also became a mountainous region of the natural landscape.

The thirteenth strange girl called the old lady

Yunnan many ethnic groups, customs are different, the mainland people called his wife sister sister-in-law, in some places in Yunnan is called "Auntie old lady".

The fourteenth strange back doll love

The past Yunnan ethnic minority areas of marriage customs colorful, in addition to the A note marriage, marriage, some ethnic groups prevailed after the marriage back to the mother's home, until there is a doll and then fall husband's family customs, "carrying a doll in love," has become a strange landscape.

The fifteenth strange more than one piece of the back of the shoes

Yunnan women are good at embroidery shoes, in order to facilitate the wearing of shoes and shoes, often after the cloth shoes to do a "shoe pull", and in the shoe on the pull of a carefully embroidered flower, the Yunnan people call it "Shoes Yi-Pai". It is both practical and decorative, making the shoes more beautiful and chic.

The sixteenth strange four seasons of clothing with wear

Many places in Yunnan is summer without heat and winter without cold, especially Kunming, known as the "Spring City" of the reputation of the average annual temperature of 15 degrees Celsius, the average monthly maximum temperature and the average monthly minimum temperature of 21 degrees Celsius and 10 degrees Celsius, whether it is spring, summer, autumn and winter of which season, the streets of Kunming can be seen everywhere in the men, women and children dressed in a variety of seasonal colorful clothing, "four seasons mess! Wearing clothes" is a major street scene in Kunming, and the northern people's clothing seasons clearly formed a sharp contrast.

The seventeenth strange train is not as fast as the car

Yunnan in the quasi-rail (gauge 1.435 meters) train before the emergence of as early as 1910 on the opening of the meter gauge (gauge 1 meters) train, but because of the mountains and rivers, peaks and gullies and holes in the obstacles, the road is rugged and difficult to travel, the train speed of only 20 to 30 kilometers per hour, not at all comparable to the mainland's train speed. In addition, Yunnan also had a slower inch rail (gauge 0.72 meters) train, in the uphill, even people can not run. In contrast, the speed of the car in Yunnan is faster than the train, coupled with the car road than the train road less around some of the road, so people go out in a hurry to do things, the car has become the preferred mode of transportation.

The eighteenth strange train does not pass through the domestic foreign

Yunnan border mountains and valleys are deep and difficult to walk, although more than 2,000 years ago, the Qin Dynasty period on the construction of the five-foot road, the end of the Qing Dynasty, the French built in Yunnan Kunming to Haiphong, Vietnam, the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway, but until the 20th century in the 1950s, Yunnan is still not a railroad connected to the mainland, so the past in and out of Yunnan, more than a detour to Vietnam. So in the past, Yunnan was mostly accessed by detouring through Vietnam. Even the illustrious Yunnan Governor General Cai E, in 1915, in order to oppose the restoration of Yuan Shikai as emperor, can only take the train by the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway from Vietnam to sneak back to Yunnan. As a result, the early years of the train does not pass through the domestic pass through foreign countries, it is also called a strange