What's the deal with the big rural fairs where touching hands is commonly used?

Touching the hands of the transaction is mainly in the price. The so-called "touching" trade means that buyers and sellers don't use their mouths to haggle during the trade. Instead, they use a more subtle method, in which each side extends a hand and puts it into a sleeve or covers it with a straw hat. This is the equivalent of a deaf-mute playing sign language, and the price is negotiated through a number of special gestures. When a deal is struck, the deal is done, but when a deal is not struck, no one else knows the price.

The older generation is familiar with these signs, which many of the younger people have not yet seen, let alone understood the meaning of the various gestures while touching their hands. Here the farmer also briefly describes a few:For example, when the buyer pinches the seller's index finger, this means that this is 1, while pinching the index and middle fingers is 2, pinching the index, middle and ring fingers is 3, and so on is 4 and 5.And if it is more than 5? In fact, it's easy to manipulate as well, with the thumb and pinky sticking out at 6, the thumb and index finger splitting at 8, and so on.

The fact that our ancestors created the way of trading by touching hands is thousands of years old and reflects the wisdom of the ancients. This not only protects the interests of the seller, but also the buyer. After all, the bazaar was full of people and livestock dealers. If other buyers or sellers know the transaction price, it is easy to disrupt the trading market.

In the past, the prices of large animals such as cows, sheep and horses were also relatively high. In addition, there are many roads and the water is very deep. If you are not careful, you can easily suffer losses. Therefore, this peculiar way of trading was widely used in the rural cattle trading market in the past. But today, there are fewer and fewer people raising cattle, horses and mules in the countryside, and the market price is becoming more and more transparent, so this unique way of trading is also basically gone.