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From an online "weight-loss hack" to protective manicures: The humble bean that connects harvest, community and home in Shandong_我的网站

A |     6月26日，以“技展风采 公益续航”为主题的2026年温州市福彩代销者(销售员)技能比武大赛圆满举行。

B | 全市9支代表队、45名福彩一线精英选手齐聚赛场，展开技能大比拼。浙江省福彩中心党委委员、副主任邱丽敏对温州福彩连续两年举办技能比武的品牌实践给予充分肯定。    

    A farmer harvests green beans at a vegetable production base in Yantai, East China's Shandong Province, on August 21, 2024. Photo: VCGA viral internet joke about eating raw green beans for weight loss has recently put the humble vegetable in the spotlight. After news reports that a guy lost weight following food poisoning caused by undercooked beans, Chinese netizens jokingly dubbed them a "forbidden weight-loss hack." Others took the joke even further, asking — tongue firmly in cheek — exactly how undercooked the beans needed to be to achieve the "best weight loss effect."
For residents of East China's Shandong Province, however, green beans have never been a miracle diet food or an internet meme. Instead, they are an unmistakable sign that summer has arrived — and, for many families, the beginning of weeks of eating them, giving them away and wondering how on earth there are still more waiting to be picked.
The season of endless beans 
For Zhao Qian, a Shandong native, summer has always had a familiar color: green.
"When I was little, the moment different bean dishes started appearing on the table day after day, I knew summer had arrived," Zhao told the Global Times. "No matter how many we ate, there were always more. It was as if the vines kept producing beans overnight."
A Chinese saying goes, "Eating beans in summer is better than eating meat." Heat-loving green beans have been cultivated in China for more than one thousand years. Originally introduced from abroad, they gradually found a permanent place on Chinese dining tables thanks to their versatility, nutritional value and ability to fill hungry stomachs, according to an article published by People.cn.
Today, with the rise of greenhouse farming and an increasingly sophisticated cold-chain logistics network, fresh vegetables are available year-round across China. The old rule of eating produce only in season has largely given way to year-round abundance. Yet in Shandong, China's largest vegetable-producing province, green beans remain inseparable from summer. More than an endless seasonal harvest, they have become the taste of home for generations of locals.
One of Zhao's strongest childhood memories wasn't eating the beans, but preparing them. 
"Every summer, the adults would hand me a basin full of freshly picked beans and ask me to strip off the tough strings along both sides," she recalled. "I'd sit on a little stool and work through the whole pile. It looked like an easy job, but after peeling bean after bean, my fingertips would start to hurt. By the time I finished one basin, there was always another one waiting."
For many families in Shandong, summer means an endless cycle of picking, eating and sharing green beans. In vegetable gardens, rows of trellises are soon covered in climbing vines. When the peak harvest season arrives, the beans need to be picked almost every day before they become old and fibrous. Those that cannot be finished at home are packed into bags and given to relatives, neighbors and friends.
"Your family has beans, and so does mine, but we still give them to each other," Cao Yu, a Shandong native who grew up on the Jiaodong Peninsula in East China, told the Global Times on Wednesday with a laugh. 
A plentiful harvest also brings what locals jokingly call "bean freedom" to the dinner table. Sesame-dressed beans, braised beans with pork ribs and, above all, bean-filled steamed buns — a dish mentioned by almost every Shandong native interviewed by the Global Times. For many people, these dishes are no longer simply seasonal food, but the familiar taste of summer, family and hometown.
The hands that harvest summer 
Behind the seemingly endless harvest is another busy summer ritual — picking. For many elderly farmers, harvesting green beans means spending hours each day moving from one trellis to another, reaching through dense vines and picking bean after bean by hand.
A nail salon in Jining, Shandong Province, recently went viral after offering free "bean-picking manicures" to residents aged 60 and above. Instead of fashionable designs or glittering decorations, the salon applies thicker, longer nail extensions that make it easier to pinch and snap off the beans while protecting fingertips from pain. A coat of colored polish is added simply to help conceal stains left by vegetable sap, according to video clips circulating on Chinese social media platforms Douyin and Sina Weibo. 
The salon owner, herself the daughter of farmers, said thumb injuries and damaged fingernails are common during the bean-picking process. In videos posted on her Douyin account, many elderly women said the manicures made picking beans much easier. Even more amusingly, some older men initially refused to get a manicure, only to change their minds after hearing enthusiastic recommendations from the "grandmas' group."
For perhaps the first time, beauty took a back seat to practicality, and a manicure became another way of caring for hardworking hands.
While the internet continues to joke about undercooked beans as a shortcut to weight loss, doctors stress there is nothing amusing about eating them raw. Liang Jiajing, a clinical nutritionist at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, said raw or undercooked beans contain naturally occurring toxins that can cause nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea, but the toxins are destroyed through thorough cooking, according to a Jimu News report. 
The internet may remember green beans as the latest viral "weight-loss hack." In Shandong, however, they tell very different stories — one of overflowing harvests, bags of beans exchanged between neighbors, family recipes passed down through generations, and hardworking hands that quietly bring the harvest to the table. Long after the online jokes fade, the taste of summer — and of home — remains.
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C | 针对本次大赛及今后工作，她提出三点希望：一要守公益初心、筑合规底线，让每个网点成为公益宣传阵地；二要精业务技能、优一线服务，将工匠精神融入日常运营；三要促成果转化、树福彩样板，系统总结优秀经验并下沉至基层网点，为全省福彩高质量发展输出“温州经验”。随着启动装置手印的按下，大赛正式进入竞技环节。上午的技能实操专场率先开考，重点考察选手“极速打票、精准操作”的基本功。根据规则，27名销售员分三轮上机比拼，每轮9人，需在8分钟内完成竞速打票与听打答题，团队最终得分取三名选手有效成绩的平均值。现场选手指尖翻飞，充分展现了扎实的业务功底。

D | 转入下午综合素养专场，比拼内容跳出单一操作层面，融合福彩政策法规、公益知识、客户服务等内容，采用主题演讲、现场答题的形式开展考核。参赛选手们结合自身从业经历，将温暖的福彩公益故事、日常服务中的心得体会娓娓道来。不同于实操的速度对决，这一环节更考验从业者的知识储备、临场应变能力。经过全天的激烈角逐，赛事评选出个人以及团队的一、二、三等奖。在个人赛中，乐清逐梦队陈自勉获得技能实操一等奖、苍港领航队王招文获得故障排查一等奖、鹿城匠星队林如意获得主题演讲一等奖。

E | 林如意表示，“很感谢这次比赛给我们的机会，我们在比赛过程中以及在准备比赛过程中都学到了很多，以后我也会主动传递福彩公益理念，积极参与公益实践，继续回馈社会。”而在团队赛上，平泰善联队获得一等奖，苍港领航队获得二等奖，乐清逐梦队获得三等奖。

F | 平泰善联队的郑巧忠坦言，“我来自33037421站，很感谢温州福彩举办的这次活动，也很荣幸参加这次比赛。在比赛开始之前，我们领导也给我们进行了培训，感觉学到了很多。福彩取之于民、用之于民，以后我们也会用心服务好购彩者，坚持福彩公益初心。

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