This and the parent comment are weird romanticized (and uninformed) notions of simple country farmers who are scraping a living, country peasant style, trading

This and the parent comment are weird romanticized (and uninformed) notions of simple country farmers who are scraping a living, country peasant style, trading stories on their grizzled/smiling faces as they keep a 100 year old family tradition alive. The Wuhan market in question was a professional concrete block building with heavy trucks bringing in stock and organized stalls with fluorescent lighting and walls. I'm sure they value the concern for their primitive social networks as they pay each other on Alipay and swap family stories on Wechat.