As China’s ‘check-in culture’ intensifies, its time to set some limits

Nobody knew how the tree grew popular online, but for about two months, villagers near Xian, the capital of Shaanxi province, found drones flying over their wheat fields. One video captured a tree in the middle of a farmer’s field, just as the fog was about to dissipate, “like an ink painting”, Beijing News said. Then people began flocking to the area to take photos. It was the only tree in hundreds of acres of wheat field. The tourists called it the “lonely tree” and said that after seeing i...

By Phoebe Zhang