Pictures of China

[Randy W]

Ever wonder why Chongqing locals are so fit? Just take a look at this pic!😂
📷XiaoHongShu/wenlvjun
#Chongqing #travel #fit

from iChongqing on Facebook
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[Randy W]

If you are traveling to China, you have to take a trip to the cities in the south of the yangtze river! If you feel that life is too depressing, come to Wuzhen for a few days. You will feel peace and calm immediately. Just watching this small bridge and the river flowing underneath, you will find that living in this world is worth it! 
#ChinaTourwithCici  #chinatravel #乌镇  
#zhejiang province

from Cici Wang on Facebook 
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[Randy W]

If you come to Shanxi province, you must visit Mianshan mountain, an underrated 5A scenic spot, where roads and buildings are built on cliffs, there are more than 300 large and small attractions, and it is also the birthplace of the "Cold Food Festival" of the Qingming Festival! The beauty of nature. 
#ChinaTourwithCici  #chinatravel #china

from Cici Wang on Facebook
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[Randy W]

🇨🇳 Maijishan Grottoes is one of China's four major grottoes. It's carved into the precipices/cliffs with 221 caves, fully displays the wisdom of China's ancient talents. I can't imagine how they digged the grottoes and build Buddha statues on the cliff this high at that time without any lifting equipments. It's absolutely an unparalleled feat. 
#ChinaTourwithCici  #chinatravel #china

from Cici Wang on Facebook 
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[Randy W]

Travel back in time with Tom Hutchins (1921-2007), the pioneering New Zealand photojournalist and photographic educator, as he ventured into a closed-off China in 1956.
📗 Dive into the pages of 'Tom Hutchins: Seen in China 1956' and explore a world that was once hidden from most of the world.

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Seen in China, 1956

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‘I secretly celebrate this first success in doing what I had come to China for—photographing in my own way and on my own terms these people who number a quarter of mankind.’ This quote is from [New Zealand photographer] Tom Hutchin's [1921-2007] unpublished typed manuscript titled 'The Bridge at Shumchun', about his crossing into China from Hong Kong on 9 May 1956. Encumbered with a suitcase and camera equipment he was anxious about the formal restrictions for entering Communist China which was then closed to most of the world.

'On the platform there are many people waiting to cross the other way, waiting for the train back to Hongkong' he wrote. 'No one seems to mind having their pictures taken, and the attractive girl who sends off my cable from a raised bureau in the middle of the platform blushes and smiles with charming embarrassment as I focus closely on her, and a few smiling people gather to watch.’ […]

Tom did not stay long in Canton (Guangdong), which is the area most of New Zealand's early Chinese migrants came from, because he planned to come back later, and did so in September. By then, however, the Chinese authorities thought he was asking too many difficult questions and cut short his six month visa by six weeks.

Tom was in China as an independent free-lance photographer, and although he was Chief Photographer at the Auckland Star, the liberal evening newspaper dropped him when he heard late in April 1956 that the People's Republic of China had finally issued him a visa. This was New China's first nervous period of opening up to foreigners, when the Cold War was firmly in place. Although New Zealand did not go so far as the United States, which banned its journalists and photographers from visiting China, it toed the Capitalist world's anti-Communist US line. […]

 

 

[Randy W]

Haidilao, China’s most popular hot pot brand, has opened its first-ever store in a university canteen in the northwestern city of Xi’an. With only three employees, including the chef, the campus store only offers basic services.

Read more: https://ow.ly/3b9v50PW6Ay

from the Sixth Tone on Facebook
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[Randy W]

He is very keen on Hanfu and has a deep love for this kind of clothing with Chinese traditional cultural characteristics. Whenever I see the beautiful women in Hanfu, their beauty and the elegance of Hanfu blend perfectly, bringing endless appreciation and enjoyment to people.

from Fuwei Cai on Facebook 
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[Randy W]

【Happy 1310th birthday of Leshan Giant Buddha】 On the evening of November 8, the launching ceremony of the 6th Leshan Giant Buddha Tourism and Cultural Festival and kicked off at the Leshan Giant Buddha Cultural Square. During the night, beautiful fireworks continued to bloom in the dark sky, and citizens commemorated the 1310th anniversary of the Leshan Giant Buddha. Leshan Giant Buddha, a sitting statue of Maitreya Buddha, 71 meters high, is the largest cliff stone carving statue in China. The Leshan Giant Buddha was excavated in the first year of the Tang Dynasty (713) and completed in the 19th year of the Zhenyuan Dynasty (803), which lasted about 90 years.

from Cici wang on Facebook
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[Randy W]

Different shots of the Mount Emei, one of Chinese Buddhism's four sacred peaks and a UNESCO World Heritage site.

A high-speed train from Chengdu takes about 40 minutes to reach Emeishan, a county-level city. And then a 10-minute taxi to Mount Emei. Went there once, the view was absolutely stunning. 

#ChinaTourwithCici  #chinatravel #china #sichuan #cicihometown  #LeshanCity #四川省乐山市  #emeishan  #mountemei

from Cici Wang on Facebook 
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[Randy W]

The French custom officer and amateur photographer Jules Itier took images in the 1840s that are part of the earliest surviving body of photographic materials of China.

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from Photography of China on Facebook
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Jules Itier

 

[Randy W]

 

Red Yarn from the "Shiota Chiharu: The Soul Trembles" exhibition

 

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Edited November 17, 2023 by Randy W (see edit history)

[Randy W]

贵州肇兴侗寨
Zhaoxing Guizhou

from 王智贤 on Facebook
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Zhaoxing Travel Guide - How to Plan a Trip to Zhaoxing

from China Highlights

Situated in southeastern Guizhou, Zhaoxing is one of the largest Dong minority villages in China. It lies in a basin surrounded by mountains with a small river passing through it.

Zhaoxing enjoys a critical geographical position, as Guilin can be reached in the southeast through Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, with Guiyang and Chongqing in the northwest being accessible through the county-level city of Kaili.

The village is a real masterpiece of the Dong nationality, with theater stages, singing platforms, and grain barns. There are five drum towers, which are the village's special symbols, and they appear as five lotus flowers scattered in five naturally formed villages.

 

[Randy W]

Welcome to Tengwang Pavilion, one of the four famous buildings in China. I'm waiting for you in Nanchang!

from Cai Fuwei on Facebook
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[Randy W]

On 9/18/2023 at 7:09 PM, Randy W said:

I immediately noticed the camel traffic light when I saw these photos. It's at the Mingsha Mountain Crescent Spring Scenic Area in Dunhuang City, Gansu Province. In view of the intersection of camel walking routes, tourist walking paths and vehicle driving paths in the scenic area, the Mingsha Mountain Crescent Spring Scenic Area has designed the camel traffic lights to guide the people, vehicles and camels to ensure safety and orderly traffic in the scenic area. I wish I have time to travel here.

from Cici Wang on Facebook
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The cave paintings of Dunhuang, a former Silk Road outpost in northwestern China, are spectacular to behold. Bordered on all sides by the windswept desert, these centuries-old masterworks stand testament to the faith and fears of the traders who passed through Dunhuang.

But there was another treasure hidden in Dunhuang: its manuscripts. In 1900, the Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu, a resident of Dunhuang’s Mogao Grottoes, stumbled upon a concealed cave while clearing away accumulated sand. This hidden repository — now known as the Library Cave — yielded over 70,000 artifacts, including Buddhist scriptures, documents, embroideries, silk paintings, and ceremonial objects dating from the fourth to the eleventh centuries.

Hao Chunwen has spent years trying to decode the thousands of manuscripts uncovered in Dunhuang. Now he wants to involve scholars from other fields in the work.

During the recent World Conference on China Studies, Hao spoke to Sixth Tone about the current state of Dunhuang studies, the challenges facing the field, and what makes these manuscripts so unique. The interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.

Read more: https://ow.ly/4iIc50QeTQE

from the Sixth Tone on Facebook
 

 

 

[Randy W]

Dunhuang's place on the Silk Road  

Here is a map of the Tang Dynasty at the height of its power. It's crazy to see that long arch going westward which simply highlights the importance of the Silk Road at the time. The Tang is always associated a Golden Age in Chinese history, however, like all dynasties, the Tang would fall after internal and external conflicts.

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