Diggingtochina’s Weblog

It’s summer on a mountaintop in Hebei province near the remains of the Great Wall. About 20 mostly elderly farmers are still getting by growing crops and raising chickens. The chickens roam the village and the roosters defy stereotype by making a noise all through the night, not just at dawn’s crack. So how do the farmers know which chickens are theirs? Apparently they don’t – it’s the chickens who know which farmer belongs to them.