Portrait of an LBX

Jour 144 (12/02/10)

Luxi(芦溪)

Province du Fujian(福建省)

Etant donné la journée crevante d’hier, nous faisons aujourd’hui la grasse matinée. Lorsque nous sortons, les filles du patron de l’hôtel insistent pour nous accompagner, de peur que l’on ne trouve rien: ni où manger, ni quoi voir. Nous réussissons, non sans mal, à nous en débarrasser, pour aller prendre quelques baozi sur une étal du marché encore très animé, puis partons vers le tulou le plus proche.

Marché de Luxi (1)

Marché de Luxi (2)

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By Evan

Ok, this will be a short one, just to let you know that we haven’t died in a horrible rice wine / fireworks accident over CNY.

As I write now, we’ve crossed the border of Guangdong from Fujian, which is arguably the most colorful province we’ve visited so far (in really tight competition with Zhejiang). We’re currently sitting deep in Hakka (客家) territory in an old town called Chayang (茶阳镇), with an old section that seems to have once been very beautiful but is just rotting to pieces before everybody’s uncaring eyes. Other than that, these Hakkas have a unique (that I know of) tradition of hanging red lanterns (红灯笼) over their doors with the family’s last name printed on them. Very cool, but I digress. (more…)