There are many versions of the Eighteen Monsters of Jiangnan, and the following is the popular version.
The first monster: bamboo tube as a tobacco bag
The second monster: straw hat as a pot cover
The third monster: this side of the rain and that side of the sun
The fourth monster: four seasons of the same clothing
The fifth monster: the train is not as fast as the car
The sixth monster: the train does not pass through the country to foreign countries
The seventh monster: the old milky way faster than the monkeys to climb the mountain
The eighth monster: a more piece of the back of the shoes than a piece of the monkey
The Eighth Oddity: One More Piece at the Back of the Shoe
The Ninth Oddity: Toes Exposed in All Seasons
The Tenth Oddity: Eggs Sold on a Tether
The Eleventh Oddity: Poop Called Bait
The Twelfth Oddity: Peanuts and Fava Beans Sold on a Counting List
The Thirteenth Oddity: Three Mosquitoes and a Plate of Vegetables
The Fourteenth Oddity: Four Bamboo Rats in a Sack
The Fifteenth Oddity: Pine Feathers Wrapped in a Tree Pine hair twisted to sell
Sixteen strange: the girl called the old lady
Seventeen strange: the little monk can fall in love
Eighteen strange: carrying a doll to fall in love
Yunnan eighteen strange is the local natural conditions contributed to the culture in the embodiment of folklore and folklore.
1, hats against the wear
This monster is said to be "against the wear of hats" of this ethnic group - Hua Wa Dai. "Flower waist Dai" is a common name for the Dai living in the Yuanjiang, Xinping area, as each Dai women's attire on the most eye-catching is an embroidered colorful girdle, and the name "flower waist Dai".
Gathered in the Yuanjiang and Xinping counties of the small Bo young people's attire with the beauty of the description is not too much. The black skirt is divided into two sets of inside and outside, the waist band several circles, colorful belt waist, black short jacket slant lapel long-sleeved, cuffs wrapped in red, collar rolled silver bubble, red scarf tie head, and finally is the "anti-dress hats".
2, flowers as vegetables
On an edible plant, people generally only consider to eat its roots, stems, leaves, fruits, seeds, etc., but not much consideration to eat its flowers. Therefore, the Yunnan people make a fuss about the flowers as vegetables to eat, it is rightfully become a strange thing. Yunnan people eat flowers of the custom of ancient times, has been continued to the present day. According to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming Institute of Botany, ethnobotanical research office survey, Yunnan people of all ethnic groups often eat as many as 160 kinds of flowers. Kunming people, most of them ate a yellow flower and flour, eggs together, fried in oil into a cake, commonly known as "yellow flower poop".
3, the egg bolted to buy
"Eggs tethered to the mountain grass" is curious to hear, but also do not feel solid. If you go to the Yuanyang, Luchun, Jinping and other mountainous areas to go, that "eggs with grass tethered to sell" phenomenon can be seen everywhere.
First several roots of hay tied together at one end, the bunch of grass into a radiating claw-like, in the "claw" into an egg, with a grass cross-bundle together, the equivalent of letting a number of "fingers" to hold the egg tightly. So this time, one by one bundled tightly, until the string. Tied up, some of the bar shape, some like ice candy gourds, at first glance, thought it was some kind of folk crafts.
4, the girl four seasons to wear flowers
Yunnan flowers, can not be used with a flower, with a plant or with a pot to calculate, and can not be used with a piece, with a block or with the garden to estimate. Yunnan flowers, once open crazy, to a kilometer by kilometer to measure, to a mountain by mountain to calculate, that is really full of mountains. Yunnan flowers, do not care about people's appreciation and admiration, three hundred and sixty-five days, want to open on the open, once open on the boundless, endless.
5, three grasshoppers a dish
Yunnan people eat grasshopper is a dispensable small food, just out of a kind of food and need, and grasshopper big.
The grasshoppers will be caught and concentrated, and then poured into boiling water, buckle the lid of the pot, increase the fire, the grasshopper from greenish-yellow to brown, then fished out for drying, and remove the wings, prickly feet. When consumed, usually fried in vegetable oil, crispy and delicious, is a delicacy to accompany wine and hospitality.
6, straw hat when the lid
South eighteen monsters, straw hat when the lid". At first glance, and then think, straw hat is a shelter from the wind and rain, how can when the pot cover to make? This is to say that its thick.
7, more than one piece of the back of the shoe
Go to the suburbs of Kunming, rural women are wearing a large flower cloth shoes, this shoe is shaped like a dragon's head of a boat, commonly known as the "Dragon Boat Shoes". Different from the general shoes, the dragon boat shoes on top of the heel more than a "" shaped cloth. This piece of cloth on the heel of the shoe is for the convenience of wearing shoes, similar to a shoe puller that comes with the shoe. With a hand grabbed the piece of cloth and lifted it in a smooth manner, the shoes were put on. Also for decoration, for aesthetic good-looking.
8, bamboo tube as a tobacco bag
Bamboo tube as a tobacco bag, said strange and not strange, bamboo lush tobacco, bamboo smoke in a piece.
9, water and fire as a god to worship
The worship of water and fire from ancient times, Yunnan minority areas have retained the ancient worship of fire and water legacy. Water is the source of life, water can live to life, but also can be destroyed in the roaring between, perhaps it is the water of this nourishment and destruction of the same, so that childhood mankind on the water has a love and fear of feelings, through the myths and legends to give the extreme nature of the water to the God's spirit, praying for the water to mankind to bring peace, abundance and happiness. Therefore, there are myths and legends about water worship all over the world is a matter of course. In Yunnan, there are many temples of the Dragon King worshipping the God of Water, and some are the God of Thunder, the God of Lightning, etc. The God of Water in Lijiang's Black Dragon Pool is worshipped by the Dragon King, the God of Thunder, and the God of Lightning.
10, the four seasons of the same dress
For the first time to Kunming, the city gave them one of the first strange feeling, I'm afraid that the streets of the various types of wear. In the middle of the day, some people wear light shirts and skirts, others wear sweaters and trench coats, and there are even people wearing cotton coats or cotton undershirts, a variety of cold and hot, hot and cold, so that people are dazzled.
11, the house air cover
Kunming four seasons of warm, sunny, one can not distinguish between spring, summer, fall and winter.
12, there are words do not say song to generation
In Yunnan's ethnic minorities, the use of song to convey love, song to determine the lifelong affairs, can be said to be numerous.
13, poop called bait block
"Bait block" is specifically referred to as food made from pounded rice, "Shuowen Jiezi" explanation: "bait, powder cake also". "The words of bait are as firm as a jade pearl." In the production of rice first steamed, then pounded and processed to maintain the original tendons of rice gravy, made of food that is "bait".
14, the train is not as fast as the car
Because of the mountainous terrain in Yunnan and Guizhou, the train has to climb the slope, but also through a large number of tunnels, curves can not be driven faster, so the train does not feel as fast as the car.
15, stone long outside the cloud sky
Shilin seems to be nourished by the essence of the sun and the moon, such as bamboo growth, Shilin's great power and atmosphere, the peak of the halberd, the blade of the sword piercing the clouds, the trend of Senran Lorelei, the cloud sky for the broken, the blade has not seen the residual. Stone why will grow and forest? This area is located in the center of the east Yunnan plateau karst landscape, is the development of typical karst landscape, called "karst landscape". Shilin County, 62% of the territory for the limestone cover, is a typical karst area, that is to say, Shilin's "growth", mainly due to the role of water, surface water and groundwater as a relentless carving knife, 270 million years, a knife, a knife, a knife to the soluble limestone carved into a forest pattern. Therefore, it is not that the rocks emerge from underwater and then slowly grow taller into the clouds and grow into forests, but due to the dissolution and erosion of water over the years and make it into forests.
16, tofu burned to buy
Tofu's ancestors in China, the Chinese first invented tofu, however, rummage through the recipes, "burned tofu" this flavor, but "canon is not contained, the spectrum of nothing to remember", the earliest can be said to be "unique to Dianyi, and other countries are not". To be precise, you can "burn to sell" the tofu is mainly "Diannan tofu", because of its unique production process, without the use of brine and well water to point tofu's sake.
17, the zip line faster than the boat
Yunnan river water is fast, the boat ferry to go down the water ramps, dangerous and time-consuming and laborious, the zip line in a flash.
18, how high the mountain water long in
A sentence to say all the geographic features of Yunnan, deep connotation, inclusive of a wide range, referring to the quasi-Yunnan Jieling stretches, springs and streams flow map, "the mountain has a terraced dam with the sea, the Valley of the Red River Ridge has a spring," the picture is wrapped up. How high the mountain, how high the water" unique geographical phenomenon, said the Hani terraces. Mourning mountain spring bubbling, gurgling water, contains a very rich water resources.
Eighteen monsters is to say that its incomprehensible strange phenomenon is more.
China's vast territory and many ethnic groups, so the country has a lot of "eighteen monsters, such as:
Chongqing eighteen monsters
House like blocks along the mountain cover, the three volts of hot pot amusing
The ride did not have to walk fast, air conditioning fans at the same time to sell
Back up the stick full of the street stand, Ms. like to show the knee
p>Chongqing folk also circulated the "Chongqing eighteen strange" saying that seventy years old called "girl child" is not strange, eighty years old shouting "child" is very comfortable, the man dyed hair installed "foreigners", women's navels outside the clothes, talking in a hurry like a race, "speech" and more and odd, "spicy hot" the hotter the more to sell, do not eat small noodles uncomfortable, climbing slopes, climbing the hurdles as a small dish, riding in a car The car is not as fast as walking (traffic jam), the roadside look (look around) is very pleasant, the stick (Lifu) is looking for the street to buy and sell, and so on.
The Eighteen Monsters of Chaoshan
The Pirate's Treasure
The Tongue Mirror
The Train Road is ten miles away from the station
The wall of the painted corner is a brick
The Riding House is sheltered from the rain and the sun
Qinqi, chess, calligraphy, and painting make up their own school
The King of Thailand, the King of Chaoshan
The red piece of the front of a wooden boat
A water cloth is carried with the boat.
A water cloth to carry with you
Groundnut leaves to protect the country
Sea water flooding well water is not bad
To honor the gods, you have to drag them bad
August to become a god fast
Live crabs and arkshells are not bad
Congee is the most favorite medicine as a dish
Buy "Yes" don't "
Buddhist and Taoist worship together
Kung Fu tea is so strong that it's strange
Guangxi's eighteen strange things
The embroidered ball is the biggest, the horse is the shortest, and men and women fall in love with each other in a singing stage
Sacrificing an ant on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and the centenarian is able to fetch firewood
The straw hat is covering the ground, and the paddy is planted outside the clouds
It's not called the South China Sea, it's called the North Sea. It is called the North Sea, and the mangrove trees on the seashore are also pregnant
Elephant trunks drink water from the mountains, and the rice noodles are eaten in three different ways
The dumplings are so big that they look like piglets, and the stones are sold as treasures
The coffins are sold in the gift stores, and the streets are full of kicks
The mountains are in the city, and the buildings are outside, and the skunk holes in the Leye River are in clusters
The thousand-year-old copper drums are still beating, and the murals on the mountain of Huashan are very hard to guess
Nanning
Flora and grass in all seasons, fruit trees all over the city
The streets are full of kicks, and umbrellas cover the heads of bicycles
Gourds, fruits, and vegetables are roasted and sold, and one kind of food is popular all year round
The rice noodle dish isn't bad at all, but if you want to eat duck, you can go to the countryside
Gourmet food records are broken fast, and the friends of friends aren't foreigners
Talking with an end sound, and the small ball is always broken.
Playing poker on the go, gambling and guessing
Namba sandals are real, and they are still out in the middle of the night
Tickets to the party are sold at a discount, and the folk songs can make extra money
The Eighteen Monsters of Liuzhou
The water is wrapped around the bridge of Longcheng, and the stones are sold as treasures
Coffins are sold in the gift store
The high-topped roofs are used to make the coffins, and the high-topped roofs are used to make the coffins. The "high-topped" cars drive all over the city
Throatpaste and toothpaste are famous, and cabs start at only three dollars
Dog meat hot pot is really enjoyable, and snail rice noodles have become a brand
The two horses are no longer there, and the stage is set up under the Yufeng Mountain
"Liujiang River "
Oil tea is sold by the wind and rain bridge, and the rice cake is really not bad
Boyfriends are "snakes" and women are "abductors". "
Mahjong under the tree on the street, chivalry and heroism in Liuzhou
The Eighteen Monsters of Guilin
(01) The mountains look like a million things, and the blue water carries them
(02) The mountains are in the city, and the buildings are outside
(03) The old tree hugs the stone and loves it
(04) The painting and calligraphy are carried in the wind tunnel of the stone carvings
(05) The stone carvings are carried in the wind tunnel.
(05) Fish Hawk Fisherman's Bamboo Row
(06) Osmanthus Blossoms in August
(07) Eggs and Duck Eggs Sold by the Day
(08) "Master Ba's" Songs Never Fail
(09) Catted Chickens and Six Dogs The "yellow" favorite
(10) Famous Bridges of the World Gathered Together
(11) Spicy Sauce and Bean Curd Sold as Treasure
(12) More Tourists than Local Boys
(13) Western Street Full of Foreigners
(14) Horse Meat and Rice Noodle is a dish
(15) The buses don't need to take out money bags
(16) The landscape sets up a big stage
(17) Dog meat friends aren't bad
(18) The King's City is the only one that shows off the purple and gold belt