1. Bamboo tubes are sold as pots for cooking rice. In areas such as Xishuangbanna, people can often see bamboo tube rice cooked in bamboo tubes instead of pots.

2. Milk is sold as fans. Dengchuan Bazi, Eryuan, Dali, produces a kind of fan-shaped curd flakes made of milk through a special process. It is commonly known as "Rufan" locally.

3. Everyone loves Yunnan Crossing Bridge Rice Noodles. Yunnan Crossing Bridge Rice Noodles are characterized by their white rice noodles, exquisite ingredients, good combination of meat and vegetables, oily but not greasy, and delicious taste. Suitable for all ages.

4. Straw hats are used as pot lids. Straw hats are a craft that all ethnic groups in Yunnan are particularly good at. Straw seats, straw mounds, straw curtains, and pot lid hats can be seen everywhere.

5. Rice cakes are called bait cakes. In ancient times, rice was cooked in the Central Plains to make cake-shaped dry food and snacks called "bait", which are easy to carry and eat.

6. Eggs are sold tied with grass. The roads in Yunnan's mountainous areas are bumpy and rugged. Villagers go to the streets to sell eggs and wrap them with grass to prevent the eggshells from cracking and to facilitate the sale.

7. Three grasshoppers on one dish. People in Yunnan eat moss, fungi, bamboo worms, bee pupae, and fried grasshoppers. They look weird and taste crispy and delicious.

8. Chickens steamed in earthen pots with holes are sold. It is said that in ancient times, chefs used earthen pots with holes to steam "steam pot chicken" in order to brag to the county magistrate, and it had the meaning of "cultivating righteousness". It was later widely spread among the people and became a Yunnan dish.

A famous product among them.

9. Love is expressed through songs. The ethnic minorities in Yunnan are good at singing and dancing. During festivals and celebrations, singing is indispensable. Young people often start their love affairs with antiphonal songs.

10. Bamboo tubes are used as cigarette pouches. Yunnan is rich in bamboo resources, and bamboo chimneys are the most distinctive. The smoke passes through the bamboo tube that stores water, and when inhaled, it emits a rhythmic gurgling sound, which moisturizes the throat and has sound, color and taste.

11. The fish boundary in Xingyun Lake is at the junction of Xingyun Lake in Jiangchuan, Yunnan and Fuxian Lake in Chengjiang. Although the water is connected, the fish in the two lakes do not interact with each other. The herring in Fuxian Lake in the east and the yellow croaker in Xingyun Lake in the west are called "boundary fish".

"Stone" is the boundary, and you will turn around at this point.

12. The bride should wear sunglasses. The bride should cry when she bids farewell to her parents before the wedding. She should cry very hard when crying.

Therefore, your eyes will be swollen from crying on your wedding day. Wearing sunglasses can cover your swollen eyes.

13. Men carry dolls when they go out. The mountains in Yunnan are high and the slopes are steep. Men carrying dolls on their backs are not only safe and reliable, but also show their true qualities.

14. Wear the same clothes in all seasons. Kunming is known as the "Spring City". The average annual temperature is between 21 degrees and 10 degrees. "Wearing clothes randomly in all seasons" has become a major feature of Kunming.

15. Marble heads are sold as paintings. The marble texture is fine, smooth and moist, and the patterns are bright.

Marbles with exquisite compositions and colors are called natural stone paintings. They have high artistic appreciation value and are sold as "stone paintings".

16. Trains are not as fast as cars. Before the emergence of standard-gauge railways, Yunnan had meter-gauge railways at the beginning of this century. Due to the many peaks, valleys, ravines, and holes, the trains traveled winding mountains and were sometimes not even as fast as bullock carts, with speeds of only about thirty or forty kilometers per hour.

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17. Stones are born outside the sky. In Yunnan, you can see strange peaks and rocks towering on the high mountains and ridges in various shapes and forms.

18. Flowers bloom all year round. Yunnan is known as the “Kingdom of Plants”. Flowers bloom all year round in Yunnan.

Extended information: "Eighteen Monsters of Yunnan, trains are not as fast as cars." Among all the "Eighteen Monsters of Yunnan", this is one of the most widely spread.

"Trains are not as fast as cars." To a large extent, this saying originated from the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway.

Construction of the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway started in 1901 and was completed in 1910, which took 9 years.

The total length from Kunming to Haiphong is 854 kilometers.

Among them: 465 kilometers in Yunnan (Kunming to Hekou); 389 kilometers in Vietnam (Lao Cai to Haiphong).

Project cost: 158,466,888 francs.

Road construction workers: more than 64,000.

The Yunnan-Vietnam Railway has been running for nearly a century. On this century-old road, trains are still rumbling forward. From the China-Vietnam Railway Bridge at the mouth of the river to the south, roaring all the way, they can reach the port city of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam day and night.

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A few years ago, there were not many places in our country that had direct railway connections with foreign countries. In the north, there was only the China-Russia Railway, and in the entire southwest, there was only the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway.

If we talk about who was earlier, the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway is of course the ancestor.

Yunnan is the province with the earliest "international railway" in China. This "first in China" may seem incredible to many people, which is why there are "Eighteen Strange Yunnan" trains that cannot connect domestically to foreign countries.

"The three-dimensional climate of Yunnan is suitable for the growth of cold and warm types of plants. In this plant kingdom, the four seasons are evergreen and flowers are always blooming. It is not difficult to imagine that flowers are always blooming in spring, summer and autumn, and in the cold weather, the camellias stand proud of the snow and frost.

The plum blossoms are in full bloom, and they are in full bloom. The flowers of Yunnan cannot be measured by flowers, plants, or pots, nor can they be measured by pieces, blocks, or gardens.

It has to be measured kilometer by kilometer, and calculated from mountain to mountain. It is true that the flowers in Yunnan are all over the mountains and plains. They don’t care about people’s appreciation and admiration. They bloom as soon as they want in 365 days.

It is endless and endless. As the saying goes: "Flowers are always available all year round." Yunnan people are proud of flowers, and they regard flowers as their industry. This should be attributed to the diversity of Yunnan's climate and geographical environment.

The large area in central Yunnan with Kunming as the center has a world-famous "spring-like climate all year round". The climate is diverse and the environment is diverse, so there are 26,000 important plant species in the country, and Yunnan alone has 13,000 of them.

There are all kinds of flowers in Yunnan, or they can all be found. The most famous ones are the eight famous flowers: camellia, rhododendron, primula, magnolia, lily, orchid, gentian, and green wormwood, which are big trees growing in the dense forests of Gaoligong Mountain.

Rhododendron, a flower cluster consists of more than 20 bell-shaped flowers with a diameter of 6 cm. The diameter of the cluster can reach more than 25 cm. There are not many rhododendron trees with a diameter of about 1 meter, and the circumference of some trees is as high as 5 meters.

The 600-year-old "Azalea King of the World" is still blooming.