Perhaps it was the potato itself, the cooking over hot coals or the joy on the faces of the women peddling their bounty. It was the best sweet potato I've ever eaten. The women sell the potatoes and hard boiled eggs for about 20 cents each. I'm not really sure to whom they sell. Most foreigners would be disinterested in the ash-covered potatoes, but they would be missing out. I guess domestic Chinese tourists would be their target market.
The women live in or around Ping'an Village, in the Longsheng (Dragon's Backbone) Rice Terraces in the Guilin area of Guangxi Province. The rice terraced farms in this area are about 800 years old. Most of the people who live and work there are from the Zhuang and Yao minority ethnic groups. The hats the women are wearing are part of their Zhuang traditional clothing, as are the black jackets with blue sleeves. The women pictured range in age from 70's to 90's.
The women live in or around Ping'an Village, in the Longsheng (Dragon's Backbone) Rice Terraces in the Guilin area of Guangxi Province. The rice terraced farms in this area are about 800 years old. Most of the people who live and work there are from the Zhuang and Yao minority ethnic groups. The hats the women are wearing are part of their Zhuang traditional clothing, as are the black jackets with blue sleeves. The women pictured range in age from 70's to 90's.
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