Oddity 9 Green vegetable is called "Bitter Vegetable".

Thin green featherlike overlapping vegetables, like vanilla, are grown in the southern part of the province. Its name comes form old old customs but not from its taste.

In early winter, washing lines in Yunnan are laden with drying "qing cai" (green vegetable), a popular type of fine-leaved cabbagebut gained its reputation from traditional medical folklore, which holds that bitter foods have a cooling effect on the body’s internal heat. At Da Lu Shan, Simao County, there's even a festival every January to commemorate this distinctive vegetable with prizes for the heaviest specimens!