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Post by Lotus Eater on Sept 10, 2006 20:32:02 GMT 7
Dear teacher and class, Today I went on a trip with the waiban. It was for the foreign teachers in this university, so there were 4 Foreign teachers and 10 members of the waiban and their families. We had a nice day. The weather was very good. We drove in a bus to a place called Pucheng about 2 hours outside my home town. it was a nice trip. When we got to Pucheng - after only one wrong turn - we went out of town again to the mountains and saw the biggest Tang Dynasty tomb - Qiaoling. View of Qiaoling The way is guarded Guardian animal - this one can fly in the air, swim in the water, walk on land and judge the character of people. View from the top of the mountain - one other FT climbed with me - and the FAO sent the youngest (adult) member of their team to protect us!! Symbol of the Emperor - originally used as a public notice board at junctions of major roads - people could write their grievances, suggestions etc on it. Lunch - the early courses - any clue what the green vegetable with the red 'raisins' on top is? Picture of it on tree follows. And the answer is - mugua - woodfruit. After a very flash lunch we went to the Pucheng Museum - which is also a Confucian Temple. I love the way they forget to mow the roof. Ringing the bell in the temple Stone carved hitching posts for horses. Close up of one of the hitching posts - I loved the shape and the use of the striations in the rock. The littlest members amusing themselves Children at the museum
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Post by Lotus Eater on Sept 11, 2006 13:56:54 GMT 7
I forgot to mention it was apple, corn and cotton harvest time. Only managed to get a reasonable picture of cotton dryng beside the road. Truckloads, cart loads, 3-wheel bicycle loads of apples were being taken to the juice factory. On the roadside groups of women were sitting wrapping (or unwarapping) the apples in brown paper. I really enjoy watching the seasonality of stuff here. Cotton drying.
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Post by George61 on Sept 11, 2006 14:40:37 GMT 7
Is it cotton, or Kapok?? I'm never sure about this.
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Post by Lotus Eater on Sept 12, 2006 18:04:03 GMT 7
I asked today - they said cotton - to be made into cloth.
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Post by Mr Nobody on Sept 13, 2006 23:59:09 GMT 7
The fruit has me. Never seen anything related to it. Part of the fig family at a guess? weird.
and the emperor. Not sure what part of him it is representing.
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Post by Lotus Eater on Sept 14, 2006 7:08:29 GMT 7
Burke!
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Post by George61 on Sept 14, 2006 14:30:16 GMT 7
The fruit is really a pear variety. I have seen them before.........I think!!
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Post by Lotus Eater on Sept 14, 2006 17:12:20 GMT 7
The dictionary translation of mugua says pawpaw (papaya for the people who haven't been taught proper English). But no way are these pawpaw.
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Post by Crippler on Sept 21, 2006 9:20:28 GMT 7
Look a bit like breadfruit....
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