Origin… When people around us asked: what did you do in Cyberfair?  Our answer would often made others dubious, because Mother said: “food market is nothing but someone sell vegetable and meat, very common!? How can it be researched?” Sister said: “food market is dark and stinking, does it worth researching?” Uncle said: ”there is nothing worth to be recorded in food market, it is very difficult to find historic data!”

“Food markets are everywhere, there is nothing uncommon, how can it be counted as sight-seeing industry?” .When we first entered Jhunshan Market, our feet stepped on the wet and slippery floor board, our noses smelt fishy smell of fish and meat, led by dark lighting, we passed one stall after another, our heart also hesitated along with it……

But, the teachers still continued to lead us to go forward, they reminded in a low voice not to cover our noses, we should respect the sellers, we should wear shoes with soles not worn-out so as not to wet our feet, as we went along we gradually discovered…  The uncle who sold vegetable treated people cordially, he would also occasionally send his regards to us, when we interviewed him, he would patiently listened to our unsmooth questions, and would also sat beside the road to tell his stories on vegetable selling after packing up the stall; the uncle who sold grocery always slinkingly put quite a few preserved eggs more in the preserved egg bag we bought, the fish stall keeper taught us to be honest and kind in conduct ourselves……

Such touching made us enter food market one time after another, although we had to write working record, although after hearing the moving stories we had to type literal drafts. But, we understood at last why would we research the food market……      We would record our personal experience and process of longtime observation, let more people know the zealousness and  perseverance of stall keepers in food market to their job, let more people willing to approach food market, experience the most precious interaction between people. I believed, entering food market was like pressing close to your being and life.

   

The story of us and the market is about to begin……