From Sina:
The internet’s latest celebrity: Documentary portraits of the “Tanghulu Xi Shi”
“Tanghulu Xi Shi” ["Sugarcoated Haws Beauty" or "Candied Fruit Beauty"] has become famous at the Jiaotong University campus. She was the subject that everyone had to discuss every day on Jiatong University’s BBS. Why was she famous? Actually, there’s no need to discuss this question on the internet, just go take a look and you will understand, “because her youth, sunshine, and person has a kind of beautiful character that is different from the peddlers one usually sees”. A youth, pretty, fashionable girl, selling candied fruit. In less than one year, this girl named Kang Xiaohan (康晓菡) quickly became famous throughout Xian’s Jiaotong University, and was nicknamed “Tanghulu Xi Shi” by the male students.
Recently, I went to the sidewalk on the west side of Xian Jiaotong University’s south entrance, to take a bunch of documentary photos of Kang Xiaohan. The candied fruit Little Kang sells are all freshly made-to-order, and you can see how she makes them. Young pretty “Tanghulu Xi Shi” Little Kang loves life and fashion, and has earned the approval/endorsement of the university students her age. University students passing by will warmly greet her, and she has made many university student friends. Young Little Kang likes to dress up like other people her age, is also very fashionable, and listens to downloaded songs on her mobile phone when she isn’t busy.
This story is similar to the story of the pretty girl working on a Shanghai bus.
Comments from Sina:
d518ld:
She really does look very likable, if I ran into her unprepared, I would really buy one or two just because of her [appearance].
anbaobao_gaga:
For university students to carve out a career, one really needs to have some intelligence and appearance, two things becoming one.
Xian’s cold noodles are already famous, will candied fruits become more famous after today?…
hw19494.:
May this hardworking sister’s business explode!
bohukuer:
Many things are actually very beautiful.
如风7777:
Men’s hobbies are girls, I refuse to believe that there is no one prettier throughout all of Jiaotong University than someone selling candied fruits, [they] truly have nothing better to do, intentionally creating hype.
前途在哪呢:
Who cares if it is hype…[she is] still better/more impressive than those girls who are [given money monthly to be the mistress of rich men]!~
喜之郎cc:
Real or fake it is just another thing to talk and laugh about. What we are eating are just candied fruits, don’t hurt your studies just to look at people…
gzfengjiang:
Be careful of the chengguan coming.
zjsddtc:
Those who can stay low-key are the ones who are truly high-class.
lostblue:
What can you do, the internet needs to have someone [to talk about].
See also: “‘Candy Haws Beauty’ made Popular via Chinese Internet” (ChinaHush)
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I feel sick. What a patronising story!
Uh huh, jeeze.. good story..
First.
A model worker. She doesn’t look like someone selling candid fruit. Hers clothes are good looking and she have Samsung (Anycall) phone. Too expensive for street peddler.
Her pimp must be very proud.
This caught me off-guard and I lolled.
She looks good, and she sells candy haws. She’s successful doing it because of good looks and a good personality.
We certainly MUST make her out to be some hooker out to make some cash from us. Please, tell us who her pimp is.
Good god, you people. It’s a nice story. Let it go as one.
What she is selling is not candied fruit but loneliness.
I’d ride her like a stolen vespa.
i LOLed, like a stolen Vespa eh? make that 2 of us :)
The two of you together would ride her like a stolen Vespa? How hideously kinky!
Very Pretty Girl – China does have some beauty marks to be proud of.
What an odd story. I find it strange that people in China (mainly men) find it strange that pretty girls might do normal or lower-class jobs.
And the way that the original poster mentioned her fashion sense about 20 times (which looks no different to the fashion sense of pretty much every girl of her age in any Chinese city) proves that he’s never chatted to her. Just perved over her from a far.
What this woman sells is not candied fruit, but loneliness.
This pattern is sooooooo overrated, lol.
Haha!
it must be the pimp who wrote this story…trying to get some publicity!!
WTF. She’s cute, but she’s not a “beauty”.. man, what kinda fuckin low ass standards do mainland Chinese people have?
she is a pretty girl although not a beauty. But she is very youthful and nice. There are a lot of beauty slut but
she is different.
I’ve seen better in Xi’an, but I support her efforts nonetheless.
It is because everything here is about looks and money. Hard to find a more superficial society today. “How can such a pretty girl be a street vendor??”. Basically Chinese people don’t care about anyone apart from their own family so in order to care (just a bit) for some outsider they either have to own a lot of money or be physically attractive. This story actually fits nicely with Chinese modern thinking. The most ridiculous thing is if people don’t realise that there probably are 50 million other good looking Chinese girls without a (worthless) university degree who works these kinds of jobs.
A good example of Chinese thinking concerning this subject is that every job application must be accompanied by a photo,, God knows you can’t hire an average looking person!! I love when I am in the room and my boss or the other employees finally have discovered that the beauty they hired with no real qualifications is utterly worthless at the job. It has happened more times than I’d like to admit but my boss still doesn’t get it.
I have heard several of the HR people say stuff like “She is too darkskinned,, we don’t want her”, “He is too short to be a receptionist” and my favourite: “That guy is black,, he can’t possibly be a teacher here,, he will scare all the kids and parents away”.
the picture on resume is pretty standard of all east asian countries.
I don’t get why people go like “pretty street vendor”, or “pretty bus fare collector lady”.
i don’t find any of them pretty at all, they’re just young girls.
maybe the gender imbal makes even unattractive ladies attractive. and leads to even the ugliest of the ugliest acting like a total britch in china.
You wouldn’t think it’s special if while on some street in Paris, Tokyo, or New York, the person selling some snack, or the hawker or peddlar along the sidewalk happened to be a cute or attractive person?
Come to think of it, I’ve been to all of those cities and none of the street hawkers were particularly good looking. Not a single one of the thousands I saw.
I might, but I definitely wouldn’t take stalker photos and circulate them around the internet, including on semi-proper news sites.
It’s all about unbalanced ratio of girls and boys in Xi’an Jiaotong University which is a college of Engineering, Science and Business Management. It’s said there are seven boys for each girl in XJTU. It must suck to be one of the six boys. My college’s situation was not much better from XJTU’s but fortunately a Normal school is across the street.
Ministry of Education must do something to increase the number of female students in engineering/natural science schools in China. How about a different cutting score of admission in Gaokao? Some schools have special fellowships for girls but that’s far from enough.
And plus 10 points in Gaokao for good looking girls? Plastic surgeons would make a killing then.
ROFL
“Want to find a young, beautiful, fashionable street peddler? Try the chinaSMACK personals.”
I am more interested in the 糖葫芦 (candied haws)…
She looks very light skinned for standing out all day in the sun selling that stuff…
Hmmmm, could Xian be the number one city for Mei nv in China?
Those guys sure are creative with their nickname eh?
“Wow, she’s beautiful!”
“Yeah, and she sells sugarcoated hawes”
“She’s like a…um…some kind of…uh….”
“Like a…. um….”
“Like a sugar coated hawes beauty!”
“Yeah!”
I like those little candy apply clones – except for the seeds. And while she is pretty from what I see in the pictures nothing special as far as looks.
China has tons of pretty girls doing menial labor. Just go to any restaurant or other service industry and you see them. Young girls didn’t go to high school or college waiting tables etc.
But by the time they hit 25 they look 45…
Shes poor but trying to move up. Shes looking for a husband by flaunting her goods outside a university.
amateur video interview below. her answer to the reporter’s question how her sudden fame had influenced her life: “too many reporters coming to interview me every day, i don’t even have time to mind the shop!”
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTI2ODY3MDI0.html
Totally boring interview.
They should just stick to pictures of her.
No personality.
wtf is so special about this….
The more I think about this, the stranger it is. Do these people walk around with their eyes closed? Is this the best example of a ‘beauty’ they could find? In the video she isn’t even that pretty- average.
These students need to get a life and stop wanking over 17-year-old girls that they would never be able to take home to meet the parents.
Maybe some guys who are in Internet cafe needs to get some real sunlight and see the real world instead of rating street vendors:P.
Candied Fruit Beauty! Hilarious nickname for the young lady. I love it. Honestly, reading and translating posts I find here on ChinaSmack has done wonders for my Chinese, not to mention my funny bone.
There must be millions of anonymously attractive women in China doing ordinary jobs… there was the traffic policewoman, the tour guide in Sichuan, the Mao girl from several years ago… when oh when will someone discover a young woman selling pickled eggs and name her “pickled egg girl”? Or perhaps a handsome young man for a change?
China, I sing your praises.
There is that “shao bing shuai ge” or “pancake gorgeous” if you like. Google it, his name should be Bao Jianbing. He has a fan club like… well, a few brigades?
Thanks for that Max! I found the fellow, he is handsome enough I suppose, but if his ambitions include opening a store cleverly called “帅哥烧饼的店”, I am afraid he is aiming a bit too low. His story is certainly tragic then uplifting enough though, with his mom dying and him not being able to take the 高考, so you’d think some internet “marketer” would be steering him in the right direction.
Yup… she’s a cutie… no big story here.
Pinches chinos pendejos
she looks fruity not beauty. but i wouldn’t say no to her candy woot woot