The night of NanLuGuXiang

The night of NanLuoGuXiang

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February 5th 2009
At the third night of Spring Festival ( Chinese Traditional Holiday ) , I walked in NanLuoGuXiang where is a typical HuTong (narrow alley) preserved well by local authority in recent years and with 650years history. I rarely take a walk in this kind of HuTong for a long time since I moved in my apartments. The air was fully filled with gun smoke of fire cracker and ground covered by the red litter ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more