Nearly 50 years after she featured on the renminbi banknote, a woman who became known as “one yuan girl” is back in the spotlight due to a recent viral video of her.
An influencer in southwestern China’s Guizhou province posted the video on November 26. It featured 65-year-old Shi Naiyin.
Shi is an ordinary peasant woman of the Dong ethnic minority in Congjiang county, Guizhou.
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However, her nickname, “one yuan girl”, is known nationwide.
At the age of 16, Shi went to the market in a town near her village with her friends. She was wearing Dong people’s traditional clothing, including a pair of eye-catching silver earrings.
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