The Chinese are very financially responsible as a rule, so I think that is what is at the foundation of my story for today. It is VERY common to view laundry hanging out to dry in China. For a country with all of the wealth that China has, you would expect to see many clothes dryers, but that isn’t the case.
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n the picture to the left, you can see where someone tied a cord between two trees by a street and used that as their clothes line. I wouldn’t recommend using this approach, because that bus going past it may spray exhaust all over the nice clean clothes!
On the college campus where I taught, it was very common to see the student’s clothes hanging outside their dorm windows to dry. As you can see from the photo, there is even a clothes hanging rack outside the dorm window.
In most apartments there is an enclosed balcony with clothes hanging lines in it. That is what I had at my apartment at the university, and in some of the other places I lived I had a folding clothes rack.
I salute the Chinese for not wanting to have large utility bills, and opting to air out their laundry!