Farmers Dry Grains On Public Roads, Motorists Inconvenienced

Grain drying on public roads in China.

From Sina:

Public road becomes a place to dry grain in the sun—-Dangerous!!!

On the Chengdu’s Shuangliu county to Xinjin public road, and on the Xinjin to Meishan public road, local villagers have started to place millet on the road to dry it, making the road which was never wide in the first place even narrower, with some parts now only wide enough for one car to pass.

What’s more is that drying grain on the roadside is not only dangerous for the villagers but also creates serious hidden safety problems for cars. This is because when two cars pass each other, if the cars tyres drive over the grain and an emergency situation occurs, applying the brakes is utterly useless, and is bound to lead to a tragic traffic accident. So for the safety of others and yourself, prohibit the drying of grain on public roads; and at the same time ask the road administrators to strengthen patrols, so that as soon as it is found that someone is drying grain or other things at the side of the road it can be resolutely prevented; guaranteeing a clear public road and safe vehicle passage.

Grain drying on public roads in China.

Grain drying on public roads in China.

Grain drying on public roads in China.

Grain drying on public roads in China.

Comments from Sina:

君十平轮”

Traffic accidents are a common occurrence because of things being dried on the road.

张忆蒙:

Someone will do something about it once an accident happens. Why is it that people never seek to prevent certain things, and always act surprised when an accident finally happens?

武当传人:

What’s the big fuss about, China simply has a lot of people.

武当传人:

The road administration people are all sleeping.

武当传人:

Just how many people does China have? How many people die in traffic accidents in a year? If China has 1.4 billion people then a million people dying doesn’t count as very many.

林肯总统:

This is so dangerous, it’s definitely not allowed in the USA.

廉正公署:

There is a limit to human lives; so if someone dies because they were drying grain on the road then they got what they deserved.

廉正公署:

What China has most is people, “so it isn’t a big deal if a few die”.

克林顿夫人:

People dying is something that happens all the time, but a lot is caused by themselves, drying things on the road is very dangerous, if you lack a little bit of awareness then you put your life in danger.

克林顿夫人:

Chinese people’s lives aren’t worth anything so they don’t value them.

吹落的松针:

Really, what do you want me to say? The lives of Chinese people are “worth less than a pig’s.”

飞雪连天2:

Villagers are uncultured/uneducated, but does that mean our law enforcement officers are supposed to turn a blind eye?

当代鲁迅:

It’s hard for peasants too, the proper places to dry grain were sold off by village leaders ages ago, so where are the peasants supposed to dry their grain?

meiling1149:

Actually this is what peasants are like…, they don’t have a building they can dry grain on, so of course they will use the road, besides public roads are paid for by them, and drying grain is just for a short amount of time, it’s not all year… I support, not oppose, this…

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  1. I see this all the time. Nothing surprising.

  2. meh if its only like once a few months or so, i’ll support this, my reason is like the last comment.

    • The particles and substances from combusted petroleum products are HIGHLY TOXIC!!!

      There are reasons why there are STRICT REGULATIONS in some of the developed countries why it is not allowed for farmers to grow anything within a certain distance from the car roads to the field that is becoming human food!

      Nobody wants cancer so this is not only a matter of traffic safety on the car roads!

  3. China is only for the rich.

    I’m sure the people in the cars will be happy when all the grain rots from being damp. NO FOOD FOR YOU!

  4. That is how you get thing cheap:
    dry grain on the public road
    wash car on public road
    gut and sell fish, chicken on the public road
    etc

  5. Apart from the obvious safety hazard to people being involved in traffic accidents I am amazed that no one else is worried about the food safety.

    There is no way I want to be eating anything dried on the road considering the deadly chemicals and fumes that are in the car and truck exhaust. Not only that but when I am in China, especially in the country the agricultural equipment is old and in poor condition so the amount of pollution generated is massive.

    Drying food in an area that will expose it to that pollution is absolutely insane

    • ……. By that logic you shouldn’t -live- in China. Look at the AQI. Anything you breath, eat, fuck, or touch is likely polluted.

      • Australian China Fan (aka 8 Inch fat tool)

        It’s not just my logic, it is factual reality.

        And NO I would not live in such a polluted place, a short visit every so often is enough.

        • fuck off. you know what you are? white trash.
          white trash like to complain china has so many factory. cause so many pollution. fuck you! who want the stuff from the polluting factory. white trash cosume 80% of the resource on the earth.

          • “White trash” is a term with a specific meaning. You can’t just make one up to suit your feelings or argument. It’s not allowed.

            Not to mention “white devil” sounds cooler. Or if you’re in an Ahmadinejad mood: “great white satan.”

          • “Ahmadinejad mood: “great white satan.””
            Alikese you just made my day

  6. Its only dangerous if there aren’t any signs laid out beforehand warning drivers of the change in road conditions.
    Driving hazards and damaged grain asides, only in China is this allowed to happen.

  7. oh china….land is scarce!

    and how nice of them to put the grains on the outer lanes!

  8. ideas:
    doing donuts in the millet
    millet surfing
    hit the millet with a mallet
    a millet lane for cars whos brakes stopped working and need to come to a gradual slow down
    shanzhai millet vanilli music group

    on a side note, i dont think millet is the main obstacle in the “guaranteeing a clear public road and safe vehicle passage.” on most roads in China.

  9. In a Sheriff Bart from Blazing Saddles tone, “Where the chengguan at?!??

    Oh. They must not jack up other countryside farmers. I’d suggest not driving over the grain as it’ll be used anyways, and likely end up in something you consume. Solution: don’t go to the countryside. Let em dry their grain and live in poverty, can’t win against the 700,000,000 of them, so no point in trying.

  10. chinese rednecks, they do this shit everytime, if a motorcycle guy by chance pass by those grains he is gonna loose grip on the tires, and even cars.

    but o well, these rednecks just wanna dry their grains. stupid

    • I was just going to say, one of the original Chinese posters mentioned ‘this is definitely not allowed in USA’, it really wouldn’t get to that stage since people would just drive over it and mess it up. Why don’t people drive over it in China? I saw this happen all over SEA in places like Laos and Vietnam even with two wheels the villagers woudn’t keep laying it out on the road…

  11. Once after a rain storm in Shanghai I dried my socks on the tip of the Oreintal Pearl Tower.

    Not one pigeon complained.

  12. yeah this happens everywhere, its not a big deal. where else are they gonna dry the grain?

    I have a solution! Maybe all these ‘motorists’ should just stop buying cars and clogging up the roads in China…..

    • There are a multitude of machines, some industrial in use for decades and some primitive and in use for centuries, to dry grains. Do some research. Something as simple as a broom and a smaller open space plus manual labour, works. These are just lazy fucks who want to spread out massive amounts of grain to the minimal depth over the most amount of open space, and go play mahjong.

      Happens everywhere. What kind of shitholes have you restricted your travels to?

  13. its a vicious cycle, maybe not in this case, but it could be a situation where the govt built over some farmers lands that was used to dry grains, social payback. Im all for it.

    If its not the case, since when did Chinese care about being an inconvenience to strangers? nothing new

  14. perhaps they can just level the grain up by a frame and board? so its easier to spot and u bump onto it before u roll onto the grain?

    just a thought..

  15. lol

    an accident would be lolzy

  16. slow down to a safe speed, move your vehicle into the correct position and drive over this shit. I do this EVERY time I see this. Understand that the government realizes that they have a tenuous grasp on the reigns of power in this country. They are scared shitless of the peasants and will do nothing to oppose them. So, the only way to change peasant behavior is to provide them with negative consequences for their obstinate stupidity. RUN OVER THEIR FOODSTUFFS. Eventually, these fucking idiots will get the picture. “Roads……..Cars…………..Fields……….Grains…….”

    • I’d suggest leaving anything with grain out of your diet. :)

    • The infinitely more likely outcome would be that these peasants will sell their tire crushed dirty grain at a discount and consumers will taste your solution in their mouths and learn the consequence of their obstinate stupidity. STOP RUNNING OVER FOODSTUFFS. Eventually these idiots will learn “Roads… Cars… Fields… Grains… Simple Solution… Dirt in Mouth”

  17. I’ve been living in the countryside for more than 30 years.The harvest season is coming soon…For most farmers,this year,the number of shaichang(flat area for drying grains) is dwindling.So the concrete roads in the village become the best choice,even the playground of the grade school.Luckily,my family bought another big house which is over 200 m2 and has eight rooms in the village,and it has a large yard.

    And no,I don’t think that the peasants are airing their millet in the pictures,but rice.Millet is usually planted in northern China.

  18. I hate this site because of its foolish comments.

    I,a farmer,have been living in the countryside for more than thirty years.The harvest season is coming…Most villagers are thinking where they’ll air their grains.The number of shaichang(flat ground for drying grains) is sharply dwindling recent years because of unclear reasons.I can say,the farmers are forced to sun their grains on the concrete roads.

    Luckily,I bought a big house which is over 300 m2 and has 8 rooms and a large yard in the village.So I don’t worry if I can snag a good shaichang this year.

    And no,the peasants are not sunning their millet,but rice.Millets are usually planted in northern China.

    • Continuing to visit a site you hate suggest you need to find a hobby, I’d suggest Couch Potato Anonymous as a solution if they weren’t too lazy to organize a meeting.

      Congratulations on your newly purchased magic house, which expanded from 200 square meters to 300 square meters in 20 minutes, it must be an amazing place, though I imagine fencing it might be a bitch.

  19. Only in China do you see this kind of stupidity and complete disregard for other people.

    • Only behind anonymity do people make these kind of sweeping, retarded statement.

      • I don’t really see anyone displaying their names, so be quiet. I have traveled a lot (20 countries/4 continents) and I’ve got to say, you WILL NOT see this shit anywhere else.

        Don’t call things retarded just because you disagree with them. Learn how to argue points. This is a typical Chinese way of arguing, attack the person, not the point.

        • Well, first of all, you’re wrong. I’ve seen shit _like this_ all over.

          Travel to South America, Africa, and other countries in Asia – not just a hop jump n skip around europe train stations. This is much more common in poorer areas of developing nations than you’d think, sometimes not to the extent they actually dump it across the street, but similarly ignorant uses of public facilities – definitely.

          • Been to a few African countries, been to 5 other Asian countries. Never seen this.

            And I have been to many Euro countries, and did way more than your assumed “hop and a skip though,” but two pretty extensive trips throughout. Don’t assume.

        • It’s pointless to engage in reasoned discourse when faced with willful ignorance. Only in China? Instead of admitting your comment as prejudiced hyperbole and move on, you stubbornly dig in.

          If you have something meaningful to say then perhaps people will argue the points with you, but maybe I’m just whistling dixie out of my ass because it’s the “typical Chinese way”.

  20. Not all farmers endanger drivers by drying their harvest on highway, otherwise it would be completely covered. Some of them are too selfish and inconsiderate to distinguish between what’s public and what’s private. Their behavior is comparable to throwing garbage away and spitting on the street, smoking in the public, and carving on tourist attractions, which are common and disturbing.
    However I feel this scene is less often now as before.

  21. This is where the government should step in, if people don’t want rising food prices associated with the extra processing, then set aside extra space/subsidy for farmers and in the mean while, collect the grains from the road and only give them back to the farmers after they pay a fine.

  22. That’s the China I like. Always something new.

  23. Wow this is why I dont buy anything from china

  24. This explains that subtle black tar/diesel flavoring in my Chinese rice!!

  25. The worst thing i saw was when i saw animal skins being dried on Shanghai roads in pudong

  26. We do this too in Viet Nam, Cambodia, Lao and Thai Lan ….etc.
    No big deal!

  27. Are you kidding? There are clearly two lanes (one going each way) and I doubt there is that much traffic that it is a problem. The picture sure doesn’t show congestion…

  28. Everytime I see this, I drive over the grain. It is fun. Then I like to stop and watch the farmers come out. I wait for them get to my car, and I stand there and pee on the grain, before I drive away. This is so much fun. Please let them do this. I would be sad to miss this activity.

  29. People park their motorbikes on walkways as well. Its common for people to have innovative shanzhai ways to get their shit done.

  30. This would be shocking if it had not been going on for the last 50 years in China. ZZZZzzzz

  31. Actually the the inner grain (groat) and bran should be mostly protected from contaminants by the husk.

    Although no doubt when they are crushed and sieved some of the contaminants will mix with the groats, but not many.

    Stop worrying.

  32. shanzhai music group should actually be called millet vanillet

    and the members of the group would mullet styling mallet wielding millet smashers

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