16 minutes ago, BonVivant said:I was not around but I had an idea it was dried beans. Took this photo in Zhaoxing, a nice little village surrounded by rice terraces. Dong people in Zhaoxing hang all kinds of vegs outside to dry.
Zhaoxing. Know it well, but haven't been for about 18 years.
Yes. The ethnic minority people of Guizhou, Hunan and Guizhou, among others, are renowned for their drying pretty much everything. The daikon in Number 3 is from western Hunan not far from Zhaoxing.
I had seen the dried beans many times before, but never before knotted so intricately into these pillows.