February 20th, 2010

“My dad and my mom” - The record of two lives become one…

Posted by peter

In late 2009 I learned about a remarkable story. It is the story of a couple who lived in Shandong province, told by their son Jian Bo, a renowned photographer, who works at China’s State Council News Office where he heads the Art Photo Library. In 1974 he began to record with his camera the life of his parents. In December 1998, a collection of these photos became the subject of an exhibition at the China National Art Gallery. His parents were there to cut the ceremonial ribbon whereby the exhibition was declared open. The exhibition was celebrated by the media as one that “moved the capital and stirred the entire nation”. That year, Jian Bo’s collection of photos was awarded the grand prize in an international competition of photos documenting traditional folk life and customs.

In the spirit of these pages — to tell my cnounters with and the stories of ordinary Chinese people — I’ve decided to publish this story here. I’ve attempted to contact Jian Bo to ask for permission to do so, but have not received a reply. I hope that when he finds out he won’t object to my sharing his story with all of you.

To view the original Chinese version, please follow this link. Jian Bo’s blog site is here. (为了看看原中文版的故事，请点击这个链接.)

And now, here is the story of Jian Bo’s parents….
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  1. Terry Says:
    February 20th, 2010 at 1:12 pm

    A most beautiful and touching story and incredible photography as well.. Thank you for sharing this Peter.

  2. Paul Noll Says:
    February 20th, 2010 at 9:25 pm

    As we reach near to our 55th year of being one and in our 80s we can well relate to this charming story of honest work and love. Thank you Peter for sharing the lives of these two delightful people.

  3. Dana Says:
    February 21st, 2010 at 11:59 am

    Thank you very much Peter. It would be great to ask this couple how they managed to stay together for so long and be so happy together. In our days when couples seem to break up due to the smallest differing in opinions that would be probably a good advise.

  4. MC Says:
    February 21st, 2010 at 12:17 pm

    So touching that I want to love my wife more!

  5. Andreas Says:
    February 21st, 2010 at 2:45 pm

    Thank you for sharing. This story is in such sharp contrast to what we witness in the big cities, greedy business, no spirituality, no long term view, no trust. Will the good values die away with the old generation? Will the (few) idealists be just swept away or converted to the “new way”? Any optimists out there?

  6. 王皓 Says:
    February 21st, 2010 at 5:20 pm

    一段真实中国老百姓的生活和故事，耐人寻味。

  7. Erma King Says:
    February 21st, 2010 at 9:05 pm

    I admire your website , it has of lot of information. You just got one perennial visitor of this blog.

  8. TC Says:
    February 21st, 2010 at 9:48 pm

    Good sharing. Hope there will be more writings about these ordinary people, but touching stories. As you said, we need to value more our common points, instead of criticizing our differences, we need to enjoy more each other company, instead of hating adn killing.

  9. Peter Schindler Says:
    February 22nd, 2010 at 7:41 am

    Hello my friends, thank you for your comments. I’m very happy that this special story also touches you.

    Terry - when are you going to come to South-West China? I don’t think I’m going to make it to Beijing any time soon…

    Paul - really hope go meet you and Bernice one day.
    All my friends, please visit http://www.paulnoll.com for a wealth of information about China and thoughts about life!

    Dana - well, unfortunately this couple has passed away, but thanks to their son, they do live on in a way. Many of the photos speak volumes about how to make relationships work…

    MC - oh my, what an incredibly nice thing to say!

    Andreas - well, there is one optimist out there right here, my little self!

    王皓，红红，我就是希望让人家多理解中国老百姓的生活！

    TC - one usually fights what one doesn’t know. The spirit of these pages is to make China more familiar…

  10. Alan Morgan Says:
    February 22nd, 2010 at 9:54 am

    This almost brought me to tears they remined me so much of my own parents my Mum being a little older than my Dad and worked hard all their lives to support their large family of 7. My wife is also a little older than me she being born in the year of the Ox and me the Rabbit.
    Alan

  11. Peter Schindler Says:
    February 22nd, 2010 at 7:34 pm

    Dear Alan, I’m very happy to hear that this story touched you, too. What’s nice about stories like this is that they remind us that there are many wonderful people in the world, except for we tend to get to know only a few….too few…

  12. Graham Elsom Says:
    February 23rd, 2010 at 9:02 am

    Wonderful!

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    March 1st, 2010 at 10:32 pm

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January 1st, 2010

A small New Year’s wish…

Posted by peter

If I were a cloud,
I would stop flying high in the sky,
Instead, I would choose to change into rain drops that alight on the world of men.
If you ask me why,
Please look upon the verdant lands of life,
And that would be my answer.

If I were a river,
I would stop rushing toward the ocean,
Instead, I would choose to irrigate the dry wheat fields of Shaan’Xi [province].
If you ask me why,
Please listen to the joyous laughter of my uncles, the farmers,
And that would be my answer.
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  1. lindawm Says:
    January 2nd, 2010 at 9:25 am

    I’ve always wondered about these slogans and if 1) it may make more sense in chinese…. 2) if anyone actually reads and follows them.

  2. Paul Noll Says:
    January 3rd, 2010 at 2:10 am

    Peter: Ass usual you hit the right theme. See:
    http://www.paulnoll.com/China/Eclipse/Humor-sign-scenes-01.html
    and
    http://www.paulnoll.com/China/Eclipse/Transportation/Road-signs-scenes-01.html

  3. Peter Schindler Says:
    January 4th, 2010 at 10:26 am

    Hello Linda,

    while I’m obviously not a native speaker, they don’t seem to make any more sense in Chinese. As to whether anyone reads them, I get the impression not.

    Hello Paul,

    good to hear from you! Glad you like the theme…how can we possibly imagine what it is like to live in the Chinese countryside?

    Peter

  4. Andreas Says:
    January 4th, 2010 at 9:03 pm

    Slogans, poems, sayings, stories, quotes, you name it. Who are we to judge. Is the so-called West really better? May be a bit more sofisticated, we call them “Mission Statements”, “Policies”, etc. but the essence is the same. Cheers.

  5. Peter Schindler Says:
    January 5th, 2010 at 9:02 am

    Hello Andreas, well, I was thinking about that when I wrote the essay: perhaps it is really just a matter of degree and sophistication? I suppose the main difference is one of respect: the tone of many slogans (标语 biaoyu) in China suggests no respect for those the intended to read and follow them.

    By the way, I do not mean to judge what is better and what is worse. In fact, I always read the Chinese slogans with a shrug until one Chinese mentioned that she’s sick of them. Of course, 1 person hardly makes a trend, but it’s what started me thinking…

  6. Phyllis Says:
    January 5th, 2010 at 5:14 pm

    To my brother of 8 years younger, I still wonder if I should encourage these unbeaten optimism and faith in the goodness of people, or expose him earlier to the harsh facts of life, thus directing him towards an irreversible loss of innocence. Maybe innocence is an exclusive luxury to those leading or opting for a sheltered life… much to one’s regrets

  7. Peter Schindler Says:
    January 6th, 2010 at 8:16 am

    Helly Phyllis,

    or is it a bit like rain and sun shine? I’m always amazed how my friends in Perth (where the sun so often shines) crave cold weather and rain. And how I, when I used to live in Austria, craved sunshine and heat because it rains and is cold so much of the year. In other words, how can one appreciate innocence if you haven’t experienced the harshness of life?

  8. 王皓 Says:
    January 25th, 2010 at 4:21 pm

    Peter您最近好吗？又是新的一年来到了，我们还没有找到合适的机会再见面，很想念您，希望您一切都好，还有嘉敏。


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November 29th, 2009

The mountains are steep and forbidding…

Posted by peter

Shan Qiong Shui Jin Yi Wu Lu, Liu An Hua Ming You Yi Cun (山穷水尽已无路，柳暗花明又一村). Thus goes a Chinese saying: “The mountains are steep and forbidding, the rivers deep and ferocious, will I ever get out of here? Suddenly, there are calm willows swaying in the breeze and myriad flowers blooming in fine fields. And look!, there is after all another village.”

And so I felt when I arrived, late on Tuesday afternoon in Kongdang, a hamlet by the Dulong River. Driving for nine hours west in the direction of Burma on a ninety six kilometre long dirt road from Gongshan, a small town in the upper reaches of the Nu River valley, I was wondering all along whether and what kind of dwellings I would find at the other end. Kongdang, the seat of the Dulong River Township government, proved to be not as enchanting as the Chinese poem suggests: there are no forests of peaceful willows and no fields of blooming flowers, only a few sleepy houses, one dilapidated hotel, a police barrack and a handful of ruggedly clad farmers milling about in the village’s only street. But seeing the crystal clear, rapidly flowing waters of the Dulong River that are a kaleidoscope of blue, green and frothy white, and recalling as well the day’s memories of utter remoteness and untouched nature, I was not only delighted to have arrived, but enchanted by the loveliness of this remote corner of China.
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  2. Frances Says:
    November 29th, 2009 at 11:55 pm

    Thanks for sharing this Peter. I agree that driving is a great way to experience life, esp in such beautiful terrains! (I will start my driving lessons in the coming month here in Chengdu, finally!)

  3. Peter Schindler Says:
    November 30th, 2009 at 6:59 am

    Hello Frances, good to hear from you. A driving license at last…so you can begin to explore the beautiful Sichuan countryside…hope all is well!
    Peter

  4. Phyllis Says:
    December 1st, 2009 at 3:46 am

    Another beautifully written blog, and the opening few paragraphs are very incidentally timely … wanna say thanks for the article

    a bumpy journey is a great learning process, the condensation of one’s appreciation however has to wait till the end of the test hopefully without much residual effect from any damage

    look forward to sharing my story in future. Merry Christmas and best wishes from your homeland =)

  5. Peter Schindler Says:
    December 1st, 2009 at 7:05 am

    Hello Phyllis, thanks for the wonderful comment! Will you be going home for Christmas or stay in Europe?

  6. Paul Noll Says:
    February 25th, 2010 at 4:39 am

    One day China will wake up and find themselves knee deep in trash. I keenly remember some epic trips taken in China by some crazy drivers. One where the speed was 180 KPH. And that was by a policeman not on duty.


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October 1st, 2009

Culture crash…

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A recent driving trip of mine to Tibet ended in Yunnan’s Shangri-la.   From there I returned to Hong Kong by plane.  My flight from Shangri-La to Kunming was scheduled to depart at 8:55am. The driver of the taxi that took me to the airport was a burly Tibetan fellow with a comfortable smile and an infectious laugh. The ride from my hotel to the airport was to take all but 10 minutes.

At the south-end of Shangri-La town there sits a large stupa at the centre of an expansive round-about. As we approached it, I expected the driver to turn right and whirl around it counter-clockwise (as is the custom in right-hand-side driving countries). Instead, he turned left and swung around it clockwise. Even though there was no traffic coming at us, I cried out in alarm, “What are you doing? Aren’t you supposed to go the other way round?

“No, in the mornings we’ve got to go around it this way,” he assured me with his warm smile.

As he said it, I recalled that Tibetans circle all holy things, including stupas, clockwise. “From when to when is this rule in effect?” I asked him incredulously.

“No ‘from’. Just before 10am,” he explained.

“And what if an infidel should come the other way round?” I couldn’t resist pursuing the argument to its inevitable conclusion.

“There might be a crash,” he said with a dead-pan face.

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  1. Alan Morgan Says:
    October 1st, 2009 at 4:18 pm

    Hi Peter
    The standard of driving and rules continue to defeat me here in China if it were me driving I am sure I would have had many accidents but as I use a local driver who I trust emplisitly I feel very safe.
    Alan

  2. Ben Says:
    October 1st, 2009 at 9:33 pm

    :)

  3. Peter Schindler Says:
    October 2nd, 2009 at 7:46 am

    Actually, I’ve driven a good 80,000km in China, and I’ve never had a genuinely worrying moment. All that’s required is to think for oneself rather than rely on rules and all is fine…a bit like when driving in Rome. In fact, in many ways I enjoy driving more in countries that don’t blindly rely on rules :-) Perhaps that’s because to me driving is like breathing…the most natural thing ever… breathe…

  4. Phyllis Says:
    October 4th, 2009 at 6:02 pm

    the challenge is to discover the un-written and invisible ‘rules’ in cross-cultural exchanges … ;p
    hope all is good for you and your loved ones.

    greetings from Zurich, Phyllis

  5. Peter Schindler Says:
    October 7th, 2009 at 1:40 am

    Hello Phyllis, indeed, that’s true…and, in fact, driving in a country is usually a very good way of discovering “the personality” of the people of a country. Swiss traffic feels Swiss because the drivers are (mostly) Swiss; Italian traffice feels Italian for the same reason; and this is true of China as well…

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  7. Paul Noll Says:
    February 22nd, 2010 at 11:21 am

    I do enjoy so much your blogs, it reminds me of so many similar episodes we have encountered in China. It is so sad that so many visitors to China never see the real China other than their 5-star hotel and made-to-order shows just for touring groups. The rarely get to see the real people of China. But it is the same for many visitors to the USA. They get to see Las Vegas, New York, Miami, and think they saw the USA.


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August 30th, 2009

A day lost in Gang Tuo…

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“Alright, let’s go and find a place for lunch. But let’s make it a quick one. We don’t wanna end up way behind in the queue,” I conclude after having considered for thirty minutes or more Jo’s suggestion that a meal would be a good thing by now.

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We had arrived in Gang Tuo at 9:15 in the morning. (Where is Gang Tuo?). Now it is 12:30. And no one has as yet any idea as to when we will be able to get going again. We had set out from Dege in northwest Sichuan. (Where is Dege?) at 7am on our way to Changdu, our first overnight stop in Tibet. (Where is Changdu?). We had reached the border between Sichuan and Tibet at 8:15 after crossing the Yangtze, already wide and deep here in its upper reaches.

Leading to the border, the valley was wide and the road excellently paved. A few hundred meters after crossing into Tibet, the situation changed dramatically, however.
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August 2nd, 2009

Found in translation…

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My friend couldn’t contain his giggles as he sat down to have dinner with me in a Hong Kong restaurant. “I just bought the funniest of books,” he declared and proceeded to pull it out of his bag. The book is called “More Chinglish: Speaking in Tongues” and is a collection of poor English translations of Chinese words and sentences. Even though my friend was born and raised in Hong Kong and therefore must have seen countless such examples, he couldn’t help guffawing over the gems in the book he had just acquired. Here is a particularly funny one:

(You must know that traditionally Chinese was and still is, as in this example, written right to left.)
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  1. Beijinger Says:
    August 5th, 2009 at 8:31 pm

    I think you have got the conflicting point of Chinese mentality; in one hand they are trying very hard to maintain/promote Chinese tradition or things purely Chinese, in other hand they are crediting the belief “that everything foreign with high quality”.
    The practice of “fake it until you make it” is very popular in China.

  2. Paul Noll Says:
    February 22nd, 2010 at 11:12 am

    Peter: I have made a collection of amusing signs found in China. One in particular is “Toilet’s.”
    http://www.paulnoll.com/China/Eclipse/Humor-sign-scenes-01.html


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July 1st, 2009

Customer service of a different kind…

Posted by peter

Yesterday, when I was on my way to a China Mobile shop in Chengdu, I saw an Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) branch that was emblazoned with the lovely green logo that identifies this countryside bank. As the taxi drove by, my head swivelled around because I have fond memories of ABC.

It was a good two-and-a-half years ago that I spent many months in Beijing preparing for my epic driving journey through China in Miss Daisy (see www.ontheroadinchina.com/nokiadiscoverchina). One of the myriad preparatory tasks was to open a bank account since it would not have been wise to carry tens and tens of thousands of Yuan in cash with me. If it had been overseas, an international credit card would have been the obvious choice, but in China that would not have gotten me very far, certainly not in the country side. The question then was: which bank? China has many banks, some small, some medium sized and a few large ones such as Bank of China and China Construction Bank. The mother of them all is Agricultural Bank of China. It had, when I checked last, 400,000 employees (that’s after having been trimmed down substantially in the past ten years) and branches nearly everywhere, even in the remotest corners of the country. ABC’s smart green logo brightens up even the dimmest of places. ABC was to be my bank.
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June 13th, 2009

My wife is three years young today…

Posted by peter

We – Olimpia, Luo Sang, Gary, Anne, Lei and I – prepare to leave the Yading Nature Reserve [Where is the Yading Nature Reserve?]. A man approaches Gary’s car. Gary rolls down the window. They talk. I see Gary shaking his head. I wonder what the man wants. Does he want to collect a parking fee? He comes over to my car. I roll down my window. When he sees me he says “But you’re not the driver…” I reply, “Yes, I am. What’s up?” He says he’s to tell me that “you have a severe case of altitude sickness”. In less than a heart-beat, my body floods with adrenaline and I know who he’s talking about: Angie is mortally ill. My eyes fill with mist. I jump out of the car and run as fast as my legs will carry me over to Gary’s car. I yell, “Angie is suffering severely from altitude sickness, I must go ahead first. Don’t try to follow. Please drive safely. The drops are steep.” I dash back to my car, apologise to Olimpia and Luo Sang that this will be a rough ride, but that they needn’t worry. My lungs heave. I breathe in fear and breathe out urgency. I talk to myself, “I must get to Angie. I must get there now.” And then “Don’t drive too fast, you have other lives in your hands.”
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  1. Cindy Says:
    June 13th, 2009 at 7:09 pm

    Wow! has it been 3 years already? Angie looks great in the photo! Thank you for the reminder to celebrate life!

  2. peter Says:
    June 14th, 2009 at 7:47 am

    Hello Cindy,
    how lovely to hear from you…I forgot that you’re subscribed to my blog! Well, well, wasn’t that a scare then? And I still recall vividly all your support…you went to collect all our things at the hotel, right? Thank you!!!
    Yes, Angie’s totally fine, in fact, she’s been fine ever since she took off in the plane from Zhongdian…
    Take care, Peter

  3. Linda Says:
    June 14th, 2009 at 11:18 am

    Well writtened piece - I felt I was right there with you. You’ve captured the intensity of the moment. Yes, we should all celebrate everyday that we have with the ones that we love.

  4. Keith Says:
    June 19th, 2009 at 3:32 pm

    That is a very moving story Peter, I didn’t know about it.

    Give our love to Angie.

    (And it is heartening to know that you have a, well, heart, after all!)

  5. Peter Schindler Says:
    June 19th, 2009 at 3:57 pm

    Linda, thanks for your comment….!

    Keith, how does the saying go? Who needs enemies with friends like you?

  6. Nino Natividad Says:
    June 26th, 2009 at 11:00 pm

    Wow! THis is very nice. Good luck!

    Nino Natividad

  7. Pixi Says:
    September 1st, 2009 at 5:43 pm

    Hi,

    I am a human rights advocate in my country but I contact you regarding a different matter, the rights of animals and cruel practises in China. I ask that you visit the follwoing web site and spread the message about what is happening in your country:

    http://www.peta.org/feat/ChineseFurFarms/index.asp

    These cruel practises are barbaric and must stop.

    I sincerely hope that you will look at what is happening play your small role and bring shame to those people who perpetrate such obscene cruelity onto animals.

    Regards, Pixi

  8. Paul Noll Says:
    February 22nd, 2010 at 11:24 am

    I do hope some day we can meet. I see so much of myself in you. At 80 it is harder to do many of the things I still want to do and see.


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May 10th, 2009

Between a rock and a hard place…

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In April 2008, Mr. and Mrs. Li’s daughter Xiaojing gave birth to a baby girl, prematurely but without major complications. Xiaojing’s family is from a rural corner of eastern Sichuan, but in 2007 her parents moved to Dongguan, less than two hours’ drive from glittery Hong Kong. Dongguan is a large city in Canton province which, with some justification, can be called the world’s manufactory. It is here that all (or nearly all) the stuff we buy cheaply gets made. For many in China, this is where dreams are born and made. Often it is also where they die.

Mr. and Mrs. Li had come to Dongguan in search of good luck and more income. They had decided to go there because in the rural neighborhood of their native Sichuan they found it nearly impossible to feed a family of four – themselves and their two daughters – and to save enough for the good schooling they hoped to give to their children. It was not an easy decision to leave Xiaojing and her sister behind but thought it would be best for them in the long run. And so Mr. and Mrs. Li went on their long journey to Dongguan where they found work in one of the countless factories there.
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  1. Terry Says:
    May 11th, 2009 at 3:07 pm

    a very touching story Peter, thank you.

  2. Peter Schindler Says:
    May 11th, 2009 at 3:12 pm

    Hello Terry, glad you’re still an avid reader…yes, a very sad story…one I really wanted to share…

  3. linda Says:
    May 11th, 2009 at 6:39 pm

    It is unfortunate that the news story spoke of a girl forced into motherhood too soon. When both parents work, it makes it difficult to teach and supervise the kids. The news story left many questions in my mind (what happened with the rapist/teacher? Adoption an option?).

  4. Peter Schindler Says:
    May 11th, 2009 at 6:43 pm

    Hello Linda,

    the story said that the police took DNA samples from both father and baby and that the rapist was arrested pending the results of the test. The story happened over a year ago and aliases were used so I don’t know more than this.

    There are over 2 million Liushou Ertong in China…

  5. A-gu Says:
    May 12th, 2009 at 6:56 pm

    I agree, very sad story. :( New to the blog but happy to read.

  6. CindyK Says:
    May 16th, 2009 at 2:36 am

    My heart goes out to the girl in the story and her family, and to all the 留守儿童.

    I am glad you took the time to post this story. The world needs to know about the conditions of life in China. The world needs to band together to help the people living there.

  7. Peter Schindler Says:
    May 22nd, 2009 at 9:23 am

    Thanks Cindy for leaving a note!
    Peter

  8. justinjiang Says:
    June 30th, 2009 at 4:53 pm

    It’s really tough for a 14 year school girl and her parents! irreparable damage has been done to the whole family. Thanks for posting this article for us to share bitterness.

  9. justinjiang Says:
    June 30th, 2009 at 4:55 pm

    It’s really tough for a 14 year school girl and her parents! irreparable damage has been done to the whole family. Thanks for posting this article for us to share the bitterness.

  10. Peter Schindler Says:
    June 30th, 2009 at 4:56 pm

    Hello Justin, I happen to be online. Yes, it’s a life so difficult that I cannot even imagine…Peter

  11. Paul Noll Says:
    February 22nd, 2010 at 11:23 am

    I do hope some day we can meet. I see so much of myself in you. At 80 it is harder to do many of the things I still want to do and see.


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April 25th, 2009

Wouldn’t that be something? (Part II)

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(Last week I wrote about the first part of journey from northwest Yunnan to Thailand. Now the story continues.)

After Dali, we make a brief stopover in Kunming on our way further south to the fabled rice terraces of Yuan Yang. These rice terraces, when in winter and early spring the rice has not yet grown so tall and strong as to hide the water in which it is planted, offer some of the world’s most spectacular sun rise views.


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  1. John Says:
    April 30th, 2009 at 1:15 pm

    Beautiful pictures of Yunnan. Although I’m from Kunming, I’m sorry to say I haven’t been to the places you’ve mentioned above.

  2. Tina Says:
    May 2nd, 2009 at 3:33 am

    I really like some of the pictures that you shared. Also your articles make for a great reading.

    Keep ‘em coming.

    Tina
    http://www.ekhichdi.com/fashion-and-styles/ballon-fashion-dress-show


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