Why are the Chinese afraid of wind?

[studentyoung]

Come to think of it , actually I very much enjoyed riding on those 1kuai GZ buses with uncomfortable wooden bench-seats & all the windows wide open & very, very strong draft blowing throughout the vehicle.

Ah ~ ~! 1kuai GZ buses with wooden bench-seats! Oh~ ~! It's like yesterday once more!!!!!!! It really makes me smile!

My point is: ALL the passengers were Chinese and no one objected to it, nor did anyone ever reach out to close the windows.

All? I guess leeyah is still too young and strong to understand what is 弱不禁风, and he hasn’t suffered from anything like migraine or rheumatalgia. No one objected to open windows on buses doesn’t mean everyone accepts or likes a strong wind blows directly on s/he. At least three of my classmates in my college suffer from very strong carsickness, and their cases would get even worse if a sudden strong wind blows on them in a car, bus or train. i.e. they are very likely to vomit very heavily at once. However, they might feel even more uncomfortable, if they want to vomit but can’t vomit anything out of their stomach. (By the way, I don’t like to use air-condition in the office, but I dare not to object it, for my colleagues can’t do without it in summer. 无奈。 )

On the contrary they seemed to enjoy it as much as I did.

Perhaps that’s because some of them never tell you how they really feel.

Cheers!

[imron]

If I am feeling carsick, I always feel better when I wind down a window and feel the wind in my face.

Just because a person had a stroke when they were driving with the window down, doesn't mean that the wind caused the stroke. Correlation != Causation.

[leeyah]

I guess leeyah is still too young and strong to understand what is 弱不禁风, and he hasn’t suffered from anything like migraine or rheumatalgia. No one objected to open windows on buses doesn’t mean everyone accepts or likes a strong wind blows directly on s/he. At least three of my classmates in my college suffer from very strong carsickness, and their cases would get even worse if a sudden strong wind blows on them in a car, bus or train. i.e. they are very likely to vomit very heavily at once.

Oh, I'm old enough to know all about the symptoms you mentioned, but thank you . It's just that I'm very sporty and yes, I do take care of my health very much. And yes, I have seen Chinese people suddenly start to vomit, seemingly for no obvious reason: once it was on an evening ride on 177 1kuai bus, a guy, thrityish, left his seat (the window was closed because it was one of those chilly January evenings of unusually cold spells in GZ in 2008, you'll surely remember). He rushed to the litter bin and started to vomit, and for quite a long time too. Othertimes it was in the mornings: streets littered with sporadic vomit stains (?), and I also I witnessed people vomiting after lunch hour in the middle of the day, in the middle of the street, and no wind blowing at them. Anyway, I'm still wondering what might have caused these sudden bouts of nausea in them. Street food?

If I am feeling carsick, I always feel better when I wind down a window and feel the wind in my face.

I've had problems with travel-sickness when I was a child, and yes, opening the windows and letting the wind blow in my face would help enormously. So imron could also be right in his view on the causation/correlation of stroke.

Guess we are really not the same even though we may not look much different at first glance (definitely: same, same but different)

[imron]

Anyway, I'm still wondering what might have caused these sudden bouts of nausea in them. Street food?

More likely too much to drink.

[renzhe]

Just because a person had a stroke when they were driving with the window down, doesn't mean that the wind caused the stroke.

Not the stroke, but a stiff neck, surely. Especially if it's all sweaty from baking in the sun for hours.

[leeyah]

Anyway, I'm still wondering what might have caused these sudden bouts of nausea in them. Street food?

More likely too much to drink.

Up North maybe, but in Guangzhou? I never saw men drink anything but tea there, or maybe I didn't look in the right places.

And how about women? Once I saw a woman come out of her shop in one of those narrow winding old-town streets and vomit on the road. Just like that. An MSG overdose maybe?

Oh, and there was this man with the illegal cart-stove who would cook late night meals (from 11PM) hidden behind the bush opposite a busy bus stop in Tianhe. It smelled delicious, but I wasn't really sure about the hygiene. Anyway, I noticed this when I saw a guy go right into the bush and come back with food in his hands. (and I WAS starving!)

Oh, I miss GZ so much.......