Chinese gawking

It's not hard to draw a crowd in China.  The Chinese love to stop and stare at anything - or more likely to see what everyone else is staring at.   Sometimes when I see a crowd of people looking at something I wonder if they really know what they're supposed to be looking at.  One day I'm going to stop and stare at something random - like the top of a tree - and see how long it takes for me to draw a crowd.

Today, however, it was a sad scene.  There was a dead body (covered in plastic) in the middle of the street.  There was a bridge nearly over the body so people stopped on the middle to look down and along the stairs on both sides.

It was a big crowd.  A police van was next to the body directing traffic around it. These people were gawking at a body, under a piece of plastic, and a police van.  Nothing was happening, everything else was cleaned up. I assume there was a vehicle of some kind on its way to pick up the body - maybe they wanted to see if they could catch a glimpse of the whole body and not just the hand sticking out from the plastic. Something I've discovered from personal experience is that the Chinese have no shame in their gawking - whether it's at a white person, a black person, or a dead body.