Sinlung /
20 August 2011

Odd Chinese Sleeping Positions

There are many types of sleeping positions from the conventional to the bizarre, but as long as they get to sleep, people don't seem to care

Odd sleeping positions

A traveller sleeps while waiting for his train at the Beijing Railway Station on the eve of Labour Day holiday. This is the time when millions of Chinese travel to major cities to enjoy cultural attractions or return home to visit relatives and friends.

Odd sleeping positions

A migrant worker rests his head on his construction hat and a soft-drink bottle as he sleeps in front of a construction site in central Beijing.

Odd sleeping positions

A passenger sleeps on an overnight train from Yangzhou to Hankou in Wuhu, eastern China's Anhui province.

Odd sleeping positions

A man takes a nap in the sun on his motorized tricycle in Beijing.

Odd sleeping positions

A man selling furniture sleeps atop items for sale at an outdoor market in central Beijing.

Odd sleeping positions

A vendor naps at a pork wholesale market in Changzhi, Shanxi province.

Odd sleeping positions

A worker takes a nap surrounded by ducklings at a duck farm on the outskirts of Jiaxing, Zhejiang province.

Odd sleeping positions

A migrant worker sleeps on the back of his motor tricycle, under a mosquito net with his wife and son, on the pavement of a street in Hefei, Anhui province

Odd sleeping positions

Mothers take a nap near a school as their children take the National College Entrance Exams in Beijing June 7, 2011. About 9.33 million students make a start on China's national college entrance exams or "gaokao" from June 7 to 8, a fiercely competitive test that is seen as make-or-break for getting ahead.

Odd sleeping positions

Chinese school children sleep at their desks during a noon break at a private elementary school for the children of migrant workers in Shanghai

Odd sleeping positions

Parents of freshmen sleep on mats laid out on the floor of a gymnasium inside a university campus in Wuhan, Hubei province.

Odd sleeping positions

People wait outside the Beijing West Railway Station early morning

Odd sleeping positions

Migrant workers who have collected materials for recycling nap in their carts along a street in Taiyuan, Shanxi province

Odd sleeping positions

Children of migrant workers sleep on a desk in a classroom at a primary school in Hefei, Anhui province June 1, 2011. The education of the children of migrant workers, who number 240 million in China, is one of the top concerns of the Chinese State Council, Premier Wen Jiabao said during an online chat with Internet users in February.

Odd sleeping positions

Rescue miners rest at the site of the flooding accident of Wangjialing Coal Mine, located across both Xiangning county and Hejin city, in northern China's Shanxi province

Odd sleeping positions

A man sleeps next to chickens he will sell at a poultry market in Shanghai.

Source: Agencies
Photos: Reuters

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