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Asia » China » Yunnan » Chuxiong February 24th 2013

Shuangbai is one of the less visited county in Chuxiong region, if not for the tiger-dance festival...there wouldn't be any development I would say!but once they discovered there still some villages practised this ancient tiger-dance and decided it needed to be protect and preserve by....made they perform in any occasion the government wanted. so it became a dancing team for celebration in the county nowaday. now you seldom see they perform it in their village(perhaps one wouldn't get pay now but....it wasn't for the money before someone said they needed to be protect and preserve?!?!)where they belong, and...tradition....supposed to be protect and preserve....was dead or...been transformed manipulately. anyways...with more tourist facilities. that was great for me...as lodging are better and in reasonable price, almost all the guesthouse charge only 40 yuans for a single roo... read more
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Asia » China » Yunnan » Chuxiong May 6th 2011

The biggest news for last week should be the dead of Bin Laden, kind of wried feeling when heard Obama spoke about the killing, the attacked, the death...from the mouth of the Nobel peace winner with a smiling face, just feel strange! Anyway...the news didn't raise much eyebrow for the people in this part of China, here perhaps they were more concern about the price of the vegetable, many places in China where vegetable is in full bloom but no one want it. "it will cost me more if I hire someone to harvest the cabbage" a farmed said to the reporter, the result was he brough in a bulldozer to crush all the vegetable in the field! I will blame it to our classic and standard Chinese mind..."the Greed". when something is good for sale ... read more
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