Step aside Paris, rural Chinese farmers put on fashion catwalk to sell vegetables

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The farmers have apparently picked up some catwalk tips, such as showing a solemn facial expression, not looking directly at the camera and slightly shaking their head while approaching the camera.

It starts with a woman holding a giant horn and saying, “let’s welcome our Village Flowers to come to the stage brilliantly.”

Rural women dancing in Hawaiian grass skirts on social media were trying to revive a limp vegetable market. Photo: Hunan Today “The first one [walking in the row] is my mother-in-law. I am the third one. All of us belong to a big family,” she said in the video as the narrator.Story continues“Our organic vegetables did not sell well. So I thought of using my Douyin account to promote the vegetables,” Xu said.Xu is one of tens of thousands of short video bloggers based in rural areas in China.

“Internet users use their fragmented time to watch countryside life. It has become something of a pressure relief,” Xing Yuan, a philosophy professor from Shanxi University, told state media Xinhua.

 

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