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I don't know the language.

That is in French.

Trip to ZhanJiang City, Guangdong
 

It is my 1000 post there. I feel very happy to have the good time here.

The weather is not good, So the pix not so beautiful. And I am a new shutterbug.
The Ancestor Lei was a famous official in Zhnajiang. He did many important things there. There are many tales about him.
You ask for the original pix if you like.

Congratulations on 1000 posts Billy!!!

Congratulations, is Ancestor Lei one of your ancestors or is that a customary title for famous dead people? :3eye:

The latter.

Stone people
 

It is reported that the statues were made in the 10th century. There were five statues, but now one is lost and one lost its head.
The archeologists cant explain why they were made and who made becasue there is too little resource about them.
The statues are very simple. The time, rain, wind and human made their faces not so clear because the stone is vesuvianite.

He still kneels down although his head is gone.

They kneel down under the big trees for ages. Their skin also become green.

The stone people look like they were designed to hold something in their lap that fit into that hole in the bottom or is that for some other purpose?

The one without a head looks like his hands broke as well, showing that there is a matching hole in the hands. Looks like they held a flagpole or a tentpole. If there were five, perhaps there was one for each corner and one for the center.

Hundred-year-old bell & the reproduction

The words on tablet were written by KangXi, one famous Qing Dynasty Emperor.

Billy, for the bell pictures, do you mean that the second picture is the first bell's "replacement?"

A "reproduction" is supposed to look exactly like the original, and that second bell doesn't look very much like the first.


As always, wonderful pictures!

Maybe a really big stick of incense?

I agree...some kind of poles. :thumb:

Mt. Huangsha Tour
 

I went to Mt. Huangsha (Yellow Mountain) in company tour. It is famouse by its strange pines, stone, cloudy sea and warm spring.

The first pic is the No. 1 pine in Mt. Huangshan. Its name is Welcoming Guest Pine because it looks like hands to welcome guests.
The second is Seeing-Off Pine.

Lover's Pine
Black Tiger Pine

Harp Pine
Comity Pine. It has many big and small trunks.

Very nice! The trees are like bonsai without pots!

Wolf, you are totally right. The pots are the stones. All the pins have lived in the stones more than 1,000 years old.

do they prune the trees like bonsai trees are pruned (trimmed?) They have very unusual shapes.

Welcome back Billy, we've missed you!

The "Seeing Off" pine is my favorite. :thumbsup:

I agree......seeing off.
But the Comity (committee?) pine intrigues me.
Nice pictures Billy, thanks. :biggrin:

Without checking a dictionary, I think Comity means friendship or community togetherness?

Social Harmony.

For some reason I'm reminded of that episode of The Prisoner where Number 6 is declared unmutual.

No one pruned them. The shapes were made by the large wind on the high mountain. The wind would cut the small upwind trunks. So they are what they are now.
I think it should be community togetherness

Do you mean upwind branches? :)

Rock
 

The first rock is like a downfallen ancient men's shoe. So it is called that Man Shoe Rock in Basking.
The second top rock is like a pair of ancient women's shoe. So it is called that Woman Shoe Rock in Basking.

ShiXin Peak
Finger Rock

The Thumb Rock
The Bamboo Shoot Rock

The Lotus Peal, highest peak in Mt. Huangshan.
The Lotus Bud Peak

The Chinese Brush Pen Rock. It has a good Chinese name, but I cant express it in English.
The Tower Rock.

My God, what beautiful landscapes. Thank you for sharing them with us.

Those mountains must get a lot of rain/snow/fog to provide enough moisture for the trees on the rocks. Very beautiful. :thumb:

This is awesome. Billy, what is the foundational rock of these mountainscapes? Granite? The eroded surfaces just seem so...well, eroded...for something like granite.

You're used to relatively young granite, els. I forget all the numbers, but the upthrusts in China occurred way before the Rockies.

Of course, the Chinese rock could be basalt or something like that.

I love the lyrical nature of the names given to these features. In America, our names don't mean shit.

You are right. The rocks are grantie.
I never thought you all liked these pictures. I took these photos for you. But my colleagues say what I took are trash. I feel strange. I just want to record what I see. Must I take the portrait pictures? I think my trip is not certify that I come there, but what I see and get. So I try to take the landscape pictures.

I like landscape photos much more than portraits.

Your landscapes are beautiful Billy - keep up the good work.

There are different reasons to take pictures, Billy. Some to show that you were at a place, and also pictures with and of your friends on the trip, are certainly fine ... but many of the best memories of a trip is of what you saw there. By taking these pictures you have memories of them, and you are also allowing us to see what you thought to be beautiful or interesting or even funny.

I like your pictures just fine!!

Oriental tourists, particularly the Japs, take millions of pictures of themselves and their travel companions in front of attractions worldwide. I've seen them set up a tripod and set the camera timer then run around in front and pose, countless times, if traveling alone. I guess it's a cultural tradition.

I've taken thousands of pictures of scenery and man made attractions with no people in them. Often I had to work at it and be very patient but I think it's worth it. Your pictures are great, Billy! :thankyou:

I often will wait for quite a while to get a shot with no people in it.

Stairs to Sky

One Line Sky Road. The road has a nice name, Romantic Lucky Road. I cant understand its meaning. I guess: meet up right people on the road in the hard climbing; or encounter the romantic lucks after climbing this road. Whatever, hope you all have the romantic lucks after see the pictures.
The upper stairs are very narrow, from there the sky looks like a thin line. The stairs are very steep.

Who carved the stairs and when? They are wonderful! I suspect we would have built something over the rock (probaby a cable car) rather than carve the stairs directly in the rock. I like it your way better. It lets man be part of the landscape. I really like the view of the bottom of the stairs way down below in one of your pictures on the page before this one.

Billy, the pictures are AWESOME. If your buddies, don't like the pictures, tell them don't look at them. Sheesh.

As for landscape pictures, I too have taken thousands of pictures with no people in them. They remind me of the part of my trip that had no people in it. If I traveled to a park or wilderness like you've shown us here, the WHOLE POINT would have been to see some things without people being the focus. It's only natural to also take a picture of it too.

I love the pictures, Billy. Thank you for taking and posting them. It feels like I get a little vacation with you when I look at them and read about them.

Billy, the pictures are AWESOME. If your buddies don't like the pictures, tell them "don't look at them". Sheesh.

As for landscape pictures, I, too, have taken thousands of pictures with no people in them. They remind me of the part of my trip that had no people in it. If I traveled to a park or wilderness like you've shown us here, the WHOLE POINT would have been to see some things without people being the focus. It's only natural to also take a picture of it too.

I love the pictures, Billy. Thank you for taking and posting them. It feels like I get a little vacation with you when I look at them and read about them.

Billy, I'm a long time lurker and first time poster just so I can say to ignore your colleagues! These are great pictures and I've enjoyed all of them you have posted. You have a good eye, just take pictures of what you like. Please keep them coming, I've enjoyed this virtual trip to China.

Oh, hi Cellar. I like you too. :)

Welcome gtown! Know any of our other folks from Austin, or did you just wander in here by chance?

hi G!

Naw, we just string cables to hang on to. :mg:

Beautiful Billy.
Hi gtown. :)

The mountain was found and climbed more than 2000 years. I cant check for the specific carved time. Almost Chinese famous mountains were carved this style stairs in old time. It is hard to take things to mountains. The food is very expensive on the peak hotels because all the grocery are backpacked by men.

My family is of the same mentality - if a photo doesn't have people in it, it's "like you were never even there," according to my mother. Both her and my father go out of their way to ruin fantastic landscape and building photos by (rather awkwardly) injecting anyone available into the image. :mad2:

Someone from Austin sent me a pic of the day link that started my long-time lurking, but no idea if they are regulars. More than likely irregulars with this group. ;)

Naw, we just string cables to hang on to.
Half Dome, Bruce?

It wasn't me, I swear! :) Though I arrived through a locally posted IOTD as well, so it's always possible we know some of the same people...