China Cultural Chronicles November 29, 2012
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- pedestrian chic
- Shennongjia Nature Reserve, China (Unesco Tentative)
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- mandala, baby! 6 to 12
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silk scarf, over 2 meters long!
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- The Holy Family in China
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One of the rarest treasures we found in Asia: The face of a Chinese bed with Christian decoration, probably from Fujian or Zhejiang.
- Labrang Monastery 11
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- Feeding her baby
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Poor woman in Tibet, taking care for her baby.
She is sitting near a Monastry, begging for som money. - Tibetan woman
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This Tibetan woman are sitting at, a monastry trying to sell some food.
- Bareback horse race, Tibet 2012
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Very much away from any tourist trail, a local horse race festival.
Horse racing is an activity beloved by Tibetan people, for it is not only an assemblement for leisure time and exchanging farming experience, but also a show of horse racing spirit of local people.
The Horse Racing Festival, originally an ancient Tibetan harvest festival, is celebrated in large parts of the Himalayan region, showing that despite 50 years of Chinese rule parts of Tibet's cultural identity remain.
Long-distance galloping: Participants are mostly local youngsters who grew up on horseback. They wear colorful garments instead of Tibetan robes. There is no saddle on the horse to lighten the weight and also prevent a rider being dragged along by the horse if he becomes unseated.
www.thingsasian.com/stories-photos/3438 - Terracotta Army
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Terracotta Army, Xi'An, Shaanxi province, China
The Terracotta Army is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BC and whose purpose was to protect the emperor in his afterlife.
Current estimates are that in the three pits containing the Terracotta Army there were over 8,000 soldiers, 130 chariots with 520 horses and 150 cavalry horses, the majority of which are still buried.
The Terracotta Army was discovered on 29 March 1974 to the east of Xi'an in Shaanxi province by a group of farmers when they were digging a water well.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army - Restored Zhongzheng Dian complex at Forbidden City
Photo taken on Nov. 27, 2012 shows the restored Xiangyunting (Pavilion of Fragrant Clouds) in the Zhongzheng Dian (Hall of Rectitude) complex at the Forbidden City, Beijing, capital of China, Nov. 27, 2012. Restoration of the Zhongzheng Dian complex has been completed in a six-year protective project. The complex, a Tibetan Buddhism shrine in the Forbidden City, was burnt down by a fire in 1923. [Xinhua]
- Scenery of Taklimakan Desert in China's Xinjiang
Photo taken on Nov. 17, 2012 shows the scenery of Taklimakan Desert in the Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture of Bayingolin, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The Taklimakan desert, China's largest desert, is located in the center of the Tarim Basin south of the Tianshan Mountains, covering 337,600 square kilometers. [Xinhua]
- Breathtaking sceneries of Four Girls Mountain
Located in the Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, the Four Girls Mountain consists of four adjacent peaks, covered with eternal snow. Its name stems from a local legend that the place was once slammed by chilling northern winds and in order to protect the local residents, four beautiful girls turned into four peaks to shield the place from the blows. Just like four girls, the charming peaks are white as ice and pearly colored as jade, spanning an area of over 2,000 square kilometers (200,000 hectares) and earning it the nickname of the "Eastern Alps." [Photo/blanca.com.cn, Xinhuanet]
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