Back in Shanghai, and what are those bags?
Made it back to Shanghai after a fantastically busy week. Melbourne, to Oxford for a workshop, back to Melbourne, then on to Shanghai while trying to catch up with work and even go on a date. As a result, I ran out of time, leaving the house a complete disaster and forgetting lots of things including toothbrush and the all-important deodorant.
While I was being screened in quarantine for a runny nose (honesty is the best policy), I was checking out the passengers coming into the country, and it struck me how often Chinese bring in these bags of goods. Nothing wrong with bringing home stacks of stuff, but there’s a particular style of bag – like a heavy-duty plastic bag – that you always see in these situations. What are those things called? Do they have a name?
those bags are everywhere, even made it to the runways of fashion week a few years ago. I’ve heard them called “chinese peasant bags.”
I call them rice bags, but I’m not sure if that’s correct. I had a couple once but they disintegrated halfway through a move, so never again!
well, they are called: plastics knitting bags.- 塑料编织袋
Its nick name is 蛇皮袋 (snake-skin bag), but sometimes it is “formally” called 红蓝白手提袋 (red-blue-white handbag). Usually it is pretty cheap. Traditionally it is used for moving home or storing things at home, but to many Chinese people’s surprise, Louis Vuitton adopted this idea and developed their own snake-skin bags in 2007.