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Hucksters, peddlers and vendors around the streets and small lanes

Wednesday, 12. 3. 2008  –  Category: Arts, Entertainment & Culture, Issue One, cover story, latest_stories, shantou highlight

Clothes-dyer

(clothes-dyer)

Another “drug drum seller” came soon after the pedlar turned to the back street. This time, the drum was bigger but less fancy than the former one and gave out a sound like “pu, pu, pu”. He was the “clothes-dyer”.

Because of the nature of the job and the habit of smoking while working, the hands and chins of the clothes-dyers always had some dyed marks, making themselves very dirty. He carried his stuffs on his shoulder with a shoulder pole, on which one side was a wooden case with kinds of dye stuffs and the other was a bamboo crate with a forging hearth and a pan, yelling “Clothes dyeing” as well as swinging his drum.

People usually have their clothes repaired and dyed when they were worn out. Thus, clothes-dyeing became a small business which can serve simply and efficiently just in front of the client’s house by firing up the forging health and starting the dyeing process.

Index:

1. Recycling scrap metal and toothpaste shell
2. Facial threading
3. Foot bucket and waist bucket selling
4. Renew bucket bottom
5. Castration of roosters and pigs
6. “Pen” selling
7. Drug drum
8. Clothes-dyer
9. Fish sauce and soy sauce selling
10. Repair forging hearth or change the windows
11. Repair copper pots, galvanized pots and metal pails
12. The Verdigris Plaster Medicine
13. Snacks in the evening

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