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Billy

12-11-2006 12:14 AM

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Gate Lion

Billy

12-11-2006 12:17 AM

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Do you know the male or female?
Lion with a wall is male standing the left side of gate. Lion with a small kid is femake.

Billy

12-11-2006 12:20 AM

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Inner door

Billy

12-11-2006 12:23 AM

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The door with bats
Ceiling

Billy

12-11-2006 12:25 AM

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The Opera Platform

Billy

12-11-2006 12:28 AM

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Ceiling
It is not a glass ceiling. So I think you can break the ceiling. :)

Billy

12-11-2006 12:31 AM

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Sun watch

Billy

12-11-2006 12:34 AM

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Stone

Billy

12-11-2006 12:42 AM

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Zhenfei Well
Zhenfei, the wife of emperor, tried to help him to reform the court. Cixi empress, the mother of emperor, found that the reform would influence her status. Cixi punished Zhenfei and sent her to the narrow well. After one year, her bones were moved out.

Billy

12-11-2006 12:49 AM

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Fire Jar
Almost all buildings were made by brickes and wood. Some bulidings got fire and burnt. So many jars were put to save water. There were heating oven under the jars in winter to prevent from icing.

Billy

12-11-2006 12:52 AM

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Office of Emperor

Billy

12-11-2006 12:58 AM

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Stone step
It is the largest step in China. I heard that it took over one year to move it from one close mountain to place.

Billy

12-11-2006 01:01 AM

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Yard

Billy

12-11-2006 01:04 AM

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Another office, but not mine. Heehee

Billy

12-11-2006 01:07 AM

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Red & Yellow

Billy

12-11-2006 01:10 AM

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Garden

Billy

12-11-2006 01:13 AM

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Overhead view from one moutain of the Jiangshan Park

Billy

12-11-2006 02:06 AM

ZhouZhuang

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Zhouzhuang, one of the most famous water townships in China, situated in Kunshan City which is only 30 kilometers (18 miles) southeast of Suzhou. It is noted for its profound cultural background, the well preserved ancient residential houses, the elegant watery views and the strong local colored traditions and customs. In the Spring and Autumn Period (770 - 476 BC), Zhouzhuang was a part of the fief Yaocheng and called Zhenfengli. After being donated to Full Fortune (Quanfu) Temple by Zhou Digong, a very devout Buddhist, in 1086 during the Northern Song Dynasty (960 - 1127), Zhouzhuang got its present name as a memorial of the donor.

In an area of half a square kilometer (124 acres), 60 percent of the Zhouzhuang's structures were built during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, which is from 1368 to 1911. Taking the most convenient form of transport in Zhouzhuang, a gondola, we will present some of the breathtaking sights one by one.

Billy

12-11-2006 02:10 AM

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The Double Bridges (Shuang qiao): Zhouzhuang is surrounded and divided by lakes and rivers, 14 stone bridges cross the rivers, showing distinctive views of the water-town. Twin Bridges which comprise Shide Bridge and Yongan Bridge are the most famous and is considered the symbol of Zhouzhuang. Built in Wanli era (1573 - 1619) of the Ming Dynasty, Twin Bridges is in the northeast of the town. Shide Bridge is east-west and has a round arch, while Yongan Bridge is north-south and the bridge arch is square. Crossing the two crisscross rivers (Yinzi Creek and Nabeishi River) and connecting at the middle, Twin Bridges look like a Chinese old-style Chinese key. In 1984, 38 canvases of the notable painter, Chen Yifei, were exhibited in a New York gallery of Armand Hammer, chairman of Occidental Petroleum Corporation. 'Memory of Hometown' which depicts Twin Bridges was one of the items on display and has gained the world's attention for Zhouzhuang. The painting was chosen to be the first-day cover of the United Nations' postage stamp in 1985.

Billy

12-11-2006 02:13 AM

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More pix of double bridge

Billy

12-11-2006 02:15 AM

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Taiping Bridge

Billy

12-11-2006 02:18 AM

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River

Billy

12-11-2006 02:21 AM

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Fuan Bridge: Located at the eastern end of Zhongshi Jie, Fuan Bridge was built in 1355 during the Yuan Dynasty. The unique trait of the Fuan is the consummate combination of the single-arch bridge and the bridge towers which have , are used as tearooms, restaurants and stores, and are good places to appreciate the views while taking a rest.

Billy

12-11-2006 02:26 AM

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Buildings & river

Billy

12-11-2006 02:29 AM

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Quanfu Bridge

Billy

12-11-2006 02:31 AM

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Nanhu Park

Billy

12-11-2006 02:33 AM

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Fishing

Billy

12-11-2006 02:35 AM

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carriage
Old gate

Billy

12-11-2006 02:38 AM

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Bamboo rail

Billy

12-11-2006 02:39 AM

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Opera Platform

Billy

12-11-2006 02:41 AM

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Opera performance

limey

12-11-2006 02:47 AM

Fantastic images Billy! Thank you so much. I love the water city, and the pictures of the nine dragon wall, and the relief carving between the longest steps. Thanks again!

xoxoxoBruce

12-11-2006 03:42 AM

ZhouZhuang makes me think of Holland. I wonder if they had ice skates too?
Thanks, Billy. :thumb2:

glatt

12-11-2006 09:05 AM

I also have to comment on ZhouZhuang. It's beautiful. I love the canals. Reminds me of Amsterdam or Venice. It would be fun to kayak through them.

Sundae

12-11-2006 09:12 AM

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I also have to comment on ZhouZhuang. It's beautiful. I love the canals. Reminds me of Amsterdam or Venice. It would be fun to kayak through them.

Is this a typo? Should be "It would be fun to sit beside them with a beer and a good friend?" surely?

Again, Billy, great photos. The detail on the palaces is magnificent. I totally agree with Bruce and Glatt, ZhouZhuang is beautiful - do many Western tourists visit there, or mainly Chinese?

glatt

12-11-2006 09:19 AM

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Is this a typo? Should be "It would be fun to sit beside them with a beer and a good friend?" surely?

Oh, crap. I should proof read a little better. You're right, of course.

skysidhe

12-14-2006 01:20 PM

Fremont Troll of Seattle, WA, US

http://aycu30.webshots.com/image/310...4885224_rs.jpg

You guys really need to go see some of these....NSFW on this site!
http://haha.nu/funny/strange-statues-around-the-world

http://aycu32.webshots.com/image/831...4085227_rs.jpg

xoxoxoBruce

12-14-2006 09:20 PM

Good link, skysidhe. Thanks. :thumbsup:

skysidhe

12-14-2006 09:22 PM

Oh your welcome!:D

Billy

12-20-2006 02:07 AM

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I went to Shanghai Art Museum one weekend and happened to see the Oil Paiting there.

Unknown Day
It is interesting that there is the "action". Heehee

Billy

12-20-2006 02:12 AM

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King Kong
Pet

King Kong? So funny. I thought I was lost in a Panada world.

Billy

12-20-2006 02:14 AM

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Their Victory

Yours, guy? Bush? Victory in Iraq? Or next country?

Billy

12-20-2006 02:16 AM

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Legend - Chaos

Billy

12-20-2006 02:18 AM

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Mirage

Billy

12-20-2006 02:20 AM

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The ocean

Billy

12-20-2006 02:21 AM

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Mountain

The artist created a wonderful world. I think that's why we all like the art.

Billy

12-20-2006 02:23 AM

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It is yourself in mirror
Express weekend

Billy

12-20-2006 02:25 AM

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Soul Dance

Billy

12-20-2006 02:27 AM

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Enchanted Wall

I don't understand the paintings.

Billy

12-20-2006 02:32 AM

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Woman in the Brisk of Break-down

Undertoad

12-20-2006 06:53 AM

Their Victory

This is from a famous (in the USA) picture, raising the flag at the island of Iwo Jima. The USA won a very tough battle there, and it is considered an important point in the war against Japan.

warch

12-20-2006 04:48 PM

I dig the enchanted wall paintings the most, they seem foggy, mysterious, the more you look, imagine, the more you may see.

A friend who just got back from Asia was talking to me about how wierd it was to have both the subdued, kind of epic aesthetic of traditional (in her case Japanese) images and objects, contrasted with the explosion of acidic pop culture media. I kind of see that in this exhibition, too.

hey Billy, we are going to have an exhibition of Chinese photography here in Minnesota next year. some of the artists are Liu Xiaodi, Jiang Jian, Zhang Xinmin, Luo Yongjin, Zhou Hai, and Lu Yuanmin- documenting contemporary life and the rapid changing, urbanization in China. Are these artists famous at all? Have you heard of them?

kerosene

12-20-2006 06:13 PM

Wow, Billy. These photos are all so amazing! Would you mind if I used one or two of them for reference when I decide to start painting again? Not the paintings, but the photos, like the opera performance? Thank you for sharing these.

Billy

12-20-2006 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by case

Sure. I would like send you the original photos if you need them.

Billy

12-20-2006 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by warch

hey Billy, we are going to have an exhibition of Chinese photography here in Minnesota next year. some of the artists are Liu Xiaodi, Jiang Jian, Zhang Xinmin, Luo Yongjin, Zhou Hai, and Lu Yuanmin- documenting contemporary life and the rapid changing, urbanization in China. Are these artists famous at all? Have you heard of them?

I have not checked the related information about them. I think you are the good artists.

Billy

12-20-2006 06:38 PM

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Facial Expression of Beauty

Billy

12-20-2006 06:46 PM

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Potrait of A Chinese

Billy

12-20-2006 06:57 PM

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Prisoner

Prison Break? I like the show.

Billy

12-20-2006 06:59 PM

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From Where is the Pickhead
From Where is the Brick

Billy

12-20-2006 07:02 PM

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Bajiao if Li Shan
Xu Wei's Book of Flower

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