From 7:30am to 5pm yesterday,"ten thousand" (a figurative amount meaning "more than anyone can be bothered to count") residents of Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province queued up in the city center to take part in a local annual tradition.
In the city famous worldwide for its unique Chinkiang (Zhenjiang) Vinegar, locals have been lining up for the past 20 years to collect free soy sauce offered by a homegrown manufacturer with a long history in the region, the queuing and jostling apparently becoming a beloved sign that the new year season has well and truly arrived.
Participants have to bring along their own receptacles to fill up with the black gold, which is doled out from giant vats - but with people promised as much soy sauce as they carry home, there's no shortage of people out to take advantage of the company's generosity and get the most soy sauce they can.
Some families were pictured making young children haul bottles while one man reportedly made off with 350 liters of soy sauce single-handedly. How he accomplished this impressive feat of tightfistedness is anybody's guess.
[Images via ChinaNews]
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