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| "Ancient City
Pingyao" has two sides, the tourist sector--mainly the central north-south
street (shown here) and two east-west streets--and the residents' sector,
which comprises most of the smaller lanes. If you don't like tourist sites,
you'll find plenty in the residents' lanes. |
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Qing
Xu Guan, a Taoist temple. See more photos here. |
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Cheng
Huang Temple. Don't let the tourist vehicles scare you off. Just get there
early in the morning. More photos here. |
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| The spirit of the
Confucian Temple has been killed by overzealous restoration and pandering
to souvenier-hunting hordes of tourists. Fortunately, the other temples
haven't been attacked yet. |
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Inside
one of the halls in the Confucian Temple. |
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Er
Lang Mio. Get a closer look here. |
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The
Residential Sector |
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| Most of the residences
are multi-family compounds, formerly the single-family mansions of rich
traders, aristocracy and government officials. Most of these compounds have
a separate wall inside the main gate which is supposed to prevent evil spirits;
and most of these walls have the ideogram "fu" (good fortune)
that you can see in this photo. See more shots of residences here. |
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See
more Pingyao people here. |
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One
of the very few trees in Pingyao, it is 1,200 years old. |
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| The new Pingyao
surrounding the walls of ancient Pingyao. This quickly growing city has
both very noticeable poverty in neighborhoods like that shown above, and
growing wealth in a smaller, more sophisticated sector. The sprawling apartment
complex in the photo is only one of many going up in Pingyao and all of
the other cities I visited. |
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Signs
of the changing times in new Pingyao, just outside Ancient Pingyao's wall. |
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On
the road: from Pingyao to Taiyuan. The road is filled with these malevolent
22-wheel road hogs. More photos here. |
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This
mural is at ZhenGuo Temple, outside Pingyao. For photos of that temple,
visit this
page. |
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More
photos of Shuanglin Temple here. |
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