Nomination Award of Daily Life

Cattle Market in Central China

Sun Aiguo(China)



A cattle is important in farming in the Chinese rural village, and also is goods to bring fortune. Business in cattle can get increment. The bargaining place is named cattle market, held during the day of the country fair trade.¡£There exist particular customs in the market. The vendees and the venders' do not talk about the price face to face, they deal business through the broker. They gesture their price by fingers instead of speaking. The native people are honest and the cattle market is unique.
Nowadays, there are fewer people who feed the cattle as the mechanization of farming and the process of modernization come into the rural lives. The cattle market, which is special in farming economy, would be disappearing.
1¡¢ The cattle market is held during the period of village trade collection at the countryside, riverside, in the hurst or any other open space. The vendees and the venders from the around villages gather together here. The amount of the cattle can reach thousands in the large market.
7¡¢ The price is secret, which only the broker knows. They use figure language to quote the price, which is called 'Bima Zi' in the cattle market. They extend fingers to gesture the price. The 'Bima Zi' is sheltered from the clothes or any other things in case of to be seen.
8¡¢ Bargaining under the cloak of the straw hat

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