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Q: Have you ever been left speechless in China?
Well, have you? Today I was, and by my GF of all people.
We were both standing on an observation platform looking at the Yongjiang river traffic (mostly barges) when my feet got a bit cold and my nose started running some. I got facial tissue out and blew it dry. So far, nothing out of common practice, right ?
Wrong! my GF started yelling at the top of her lungs' air supply telling me and all in the vecinity how gross I was, and my repulsive behavior almost made her loose her lunch. The proper etiquette in China is either spit it out, or cover one side of
the nose with a finger and blow air out hard with the other side. But blowing your nose using a paper tissue is definitvey a N O - N O here.
Whow ! What will Landers or Vanderbilt ladies wil reply to that?
9 years 24 weeks ago in Health & Safety - China
You're sick. I mean, using tissue, that is deranged. What's next, using sarcasm?
You are disgusting! WTF! Next you will tell us you went to the bathroom to piss! Go back to your own country you sicko.
Lord_hanson:
In all seriousness I don't know what the big deal is. I have seen loads of my students blowing their noses with tissue paper.
You are such a damn dirty pig! Next you will tell us you wait in lines... don't kick small animals and don't scream loudly into your phone.
You are a degenerate scurvy shyster bastard!
Yes, I am left speechless constantly in China... even after 8 years.
I think Scandinavian, Lord Hanson and Robk have all been a little hard on you, though it must be said, you really are a disgusting piece of human garbage. I think your wife would have been perfectly within her rights to have pushed you off that platform and dropped rocks on you. Blowing your nose. Whatever next? You're probably a member of ISIS, you monster.
On CCTV, one of the most recent public awareness spot explains that emptying your nose in a paper tissue is the right thing to do, it's civilized, etc. I would expect that your girlfriend goes thermonuclear if you show her that spot, loosing face, calling you xiao xi guay...
If you make the mistake of marrying that girl then you will find yourself a regular on here complaining about her , her mother and whoever.
I know the other posters are joking around but I think you are missing the obvious. A woman that treats you like that simply based on something so insignificant holds no respect for you.
I have met many expats who seem to marry problem women because they use culture as an excuse for her behavior or family trouble.
Ignoring warning signs means you can't blame anyone else but yourself.
Such selfish behaviour.
Denying the Chinese around you from sharing your flem.
That glob of snot could have fed a stray dog for a week. But no.... you saved it for yourself 
I always carry around a lightweight cotton handkerchief in my pocket. Chinese people look at me funny when I use it to blow my nose, but I just ignore them and put it back in my pocket (to their disgust).
ScotsAlan:
Thats even worse. You re-use your hankies!! I bet you have to wash your own hankies. I cant imagine an ayi staying in your emply after you present her with your jewel encrusted snot wraps to clean :-)
Quinn68:
I alternate every other day between my two remaining hankies. Different colors so I know which one is clean.
Where's your gf from? A remote rural town where people wipe their noses with their sleeves?
"In a huge forest you've got to have every kind of bird imaginable" A Chinese saying goes...
Eorthisio:
Lol, I have seen many native Shanghainese from the middle class blowing their nose on the pavement.
It has more to do with the North South divide than city and countryside, Southerners tend to be more civilized than Northerners, and by South I mean Guangdong, Guangxi, ..., not Shanghai.
Yes, I am speechless each and every single time when talking with local people, speechless in front of so much stupidity and narrow mind. Ignorance has no limits here.
That's why I reduce my interactions with them to the absolute minimum.
