A Chinese internet surfer received a real surprise while visiting the southern door of the old village in Xi'an last Thursday, he saw one of his compatriots to go from tourist to tourist, lift her shirt with one hand and ask for money with the other hand.

He took two snap shots that he published the following Monday on the forum Tiexue.net, the second shot shows an employee in an imperial guard suit chasing the improper person, under the mesmerised watch of the foreign tourists.

The responses were quite virulent against the beggar; the internet users from Xi'an guaranteed that the old lady was not from their town.