During planting and harvesting season, the Hani farmers in the terraced mountain rice paddies of Yuanyang County live in these tiny, thatched-roof huts (田篷) set among the hundreds and thousands of paddies on each mountain.
May
07
2010
07
2010
Photo: The Bongs of Yunnan
One starts seeing these massive...bongs (煙筒)...pretty much upon entering Yunnan province. Holding them at a slant, the men (never the women!) smoke cigarettes or pipe tobacco (煙絲), pulling the smoke through the water that sits in the bottom of the cylinder. On our last trip here, most of these were made of bamboo, but now they unfortunately seem to be trending toward metal or plastic.