And thus we discover that the average Chinese farmer is an insane, hornet-eating, white-feather-carrying, adept-at-smoke-directing, living surrealist poem:

“I was reminded of something I witnessed when I was in China: how to hunt a hornest nest.

The hunter needs a piece of string, a white feather, a banana flower, and a grasshopper. He then waits for a hornet to land. He then clips a grasshopper on a bamboo pole and puts it on a banana flower. While the hornet is busy eating bits of the grasshopper, the hunter ties the feather around the abdomen of the hornet.

As the hornet goes away, all the hunter needs to do is to follow the white feather from afar to locate the nest.

He then fumigates the nest with smoke from a fire, and eats the larvae.”

— Estrella Chang