Beijing - Temple of Heaven

The sign is too long to fit into this caption ... basically this is the "Firewood Stove" in which a "clearly washed and shaved" calf was burned, before the main ceremony to welcome the God of Heaven. After the ceremony all offerings and ceremonial items were burned, watched by the emperor in a ritual called "watching the burning".

Down and out in Beijing

May 1st 2009
My allergies were back again. Not as bad as in Bangkok, so they didn’t make me look strange, but I woke up in the night in Yanshuo with my whole back driving me crazy with itching and with large welt-like rashes on it again. It made it hard to sleep, so I dug around in my first-aid kit and found some of the left-over anti-histamines, the ones the first Bangkok doctor prescribed me and the seco ... 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

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