Feb
16
2010
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Jours 132~137: Escale à Xiamen et visa à Hongkong

Jour 132 (31/01/10)

Anxi(安溪)-Xiamen(厦门)

Province du Fujian(福建省)

- 90km -

Le but aujourd’hui est de pédaler jusqu’à Xiamen (厦门), appelée aussi Amoy. Nous faisons alors tout pour y arriver le plus vite possible. Lever tôt, petit-déjeuner tôt, et nous repartons sur la départementale.

Vieilles maisons sur le bord de la route (1)

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Feb
16
2010
0

Jours 129~131: A la découverte du thé Tieguanyin

Jour 129 (28/01/10)

Datian(大田)

Province du Fujian(福建省)

Avec un petit mal de crâne, nous nous réveillons contents d’avoir passé cette soirée marrante avec ces lbx de la police. La nuit a été bonne, même si je me suis réveillé au milieu de la nuit sur un lit plein de flotte. J’aurais apparemment mal fermé une bouteille d’eau… J’ai même fait un cauchemar mettant en scène les autorités chinoises: un gars me tendait un questionnaire d’enregistrement pour laowai, sur lequel étaient marquées, en français, deux questions subsidiaires: « Quel est le peuple le plus beau du monde? » et « Comment appelle-t-on le fait de sortir de la merde de son cul? ». Les bonnes réponses étaient: « les Chinois » et « Chier ». Comment le cerveau réussit à fabriquer des rêves aussi cons?

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Feb
02
2010
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Photo: Mr. Huang the Younger

The younger of the Messrs. Huang serves us tea in his father's home in rural Anxi County (安溪县) in Fujian province. We spent most of our time in the family's home with the younger Huang, a soft-spoken man who came off as embarrassed by the family's financial condition. Mr. Huang is using some of the family's roughly 100,000 yuan/year ($14,638) income from the tea farming and production business to build a boxy, cement, steel and brick home next to his father's traditional courtyard home. "The style is popular these days," he told us. Despite the new home's bland outward appearance, the younger Mr. Huang hopes its location directly on the provincial highway will bring in more business, allowing him to provide for a better retirement for his father and mother.

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Feb
02
2010
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Photo: Mr. Huang the Elder

The elder of the two Messrs. Huang pours us tea in the family's country home built into the hillside of a small village in Fujian province's Anxi County (安溪县). Sent to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution in 1969, Mr. Huang built his own house and decided to remain in the village once the tumultuous period ended, becoming the village's first farmer of tieguanyin (铁观音, Iron Avalokitesvara) tea, the county's specialty. The generous elder Huang invited us into his home for dinner, an overnight stay and breakfast, an offer which we gladly accepted.

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