Who Said There Were No Jobs?

April 25, 2011 at 8:15 pm

From a recent posting in the Situations Vacant ads in the city of Xinyang:

West Jiuhua Mountain scenic spot is hiring full-time tea-leaf pickers.

A prospective employee has to be a woman with no sexual experience, has a bra size of at least C, and has no scar or wound visible on her body with a uniform.

Ten C-cup virgin tea-leaf picker candidates helped kick off the traditional tea culture festival on April 16, which continues until mid-May.

If you’re thinking of applying, there are some specific duties:

Tea-leaf pickers will be required to collect “mouth lip tea” during the harvest season. They must clean their mouths and bodies on time every day and work out often. The daily pay is 500 yuan, or $75.

More generally…you know, as a bit of background…

The so-called “mouth lip tea” comes from a legend that tea leaves used to be picked by fairy maidens with their mouths. When boiling water is poured onto these tea leaves, fairy maidens will ascend amidst steam into the sky. Tea made from these leaves has refreshing aroma and taste and can even cure diseases.

It is also said that at the beginning of the last century, some Chinese tea sellers experimented with the idea of “tea in front of breasts.” Virgins at the age of 16 were asked to start picking leaves in the middle of the night and put leaves into their clothes between their breasts. When they finished their work before sunrise, the leaves should have absorbed enough of the virgins’ body scent, and could make great tea.

You don’t get jobs like that down the local dole office, do you?