To market, to market!

It's market day in Shaxi, a small village that once was on the Tea Horse Road where Yunnan tea was traded for Tibetan horses. The square is quaint and amazingly QUIET! I like it here! The market is in the newer part of town mostly under some metal shelters.

I saw the rug hat people and the black turban people and the woven bookmark with fringe draped across the head and held in place by a Mao cap people and the knit cap shaped like a squashed flower bud people and the animal skin on the back people and only one huge black half hexagon hanging off the back of the head person. Mostly it was the black turban people.

All these clothing distintions were only for the women. The men were drab in comparison.

I'll do my research and come up with proper tribal associations.

Twas a cool day!

written by

prrrrl on March 9, 2012 from Shaxi, China

from the travel blog: Yunnan, China

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