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Anyang, for starters…

Anyang, for starters…

This is the first page of the Show Us China website ~ Let’s see how it goes… Edit: Here, you’ll find a collection of images from a day out in a small town called Anyang, in Henan, eastern China (not to be confused with Hunan, in Central China). Here, I took photos around the city gate for a while. These photos are of that stroll. It should be noted though that Anyang is also home to an amazing museum dedicated to the history of language, with a special focus on Chinese. Here, many thousands of years ago shamans would carve the first Chinese characters onto the scapula of animals like sheep and into turtle shells, then throw them into fires as a method of divining a notion. . . This is also the area where the Duke of Zhou was imprisoned. Around a fire one night he was scratching the ground with a stick, as is done, it was then and there he first wrote the lines that would become the images of the trigrams that surround a full image of the classical Yin-Yang. That was peaceful and interesting place to visit as well. Perhaps I’ll get some photos up of the park that is now in the place where that happened… Until the next edit, enjoy these~