Hucksters, peddlers and vendors around the streets and small lanes
Written by: editorWednesday, 12. 3. 2008 – Category: Arts, Entertainment & Culture, Issue One, cover story, latest_stories, shantou highlight
Castration of roosters and pigs
(Castration of roosters and pigs)
In the past time, it’s common for people in downtown to raise chicken and pigs at home for eggs and the meat used as ancestral sacrifices.
Citizens hire a castrater to castrate their roosters and pigs, like removing the testicle of the rooster, in order to prevent them from losing weight during the brunst season.
The castrater is also a vet for cats and dogs. He always rides a bicycle, attaching different kinds of small knives and pliers to his waist as a characteristic of his identity, travelling around the city streests and looking for business.
Index:
- Recycling scrap metal and toothpaste shell
- Facial threading
- Foot bucket and waist bucket selling
- Renew bucket bottom
- Castration of roosters and pigs
- “Pen” selling
- Drug drum
- Clothes-dyer
- Fish sauce and soy sauce selling
- Repair forging hearth or change the windows
- Repair copper pots, galvanized pots and metal pails
- The Verdigris Plaster Medicine
- Snacks in the evening
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December 23rd, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Hey snacks in the evening are still a major feature of Shantou life - 夜宵! One of my favorite things about life in Shantou.