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Welcome to Linda's and Garr's China pictures. |
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| The last inhabited subterranian house in this part of Luoyang. These pictures look down into the central courtyard. The family of the 80+ year old lady who lives there has wanted to move her into a modern home, but she believes that her underground home contributes to her longevity. Her family, as well as we Elderhostelers, were visiting. Individual rooms are dug horizontally into the ground off the courtyard. |
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| Here we are at the courtyard entrance, at the bottom of the stairs. The top of the wall is at ground level. |
| The lady who lives in the underground house. |
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| One of the walls in the courtyard is the home to numerous pigeons. |
| A bedroom in the underground house. |
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| The kitchen in the underground house. |
| The kitchen in the underground house. |
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| Another room in the underground house. |
| Yet another room in the underground house. |
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| One of the neighboring underground houses that has been abandoned. |
| A clinic next to the underground house in Luoyang. Birth control, acupuncture and massage are provided. |
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| Master Liu, the masseur, and Linda. |
| Sunday evening we had a very interesting presentation about Chinese follk music and its history. It was given by Mr. Li and his students. One of the students, 12-years old, plays a bamboo flute. |
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| Another of Mr. Li's students, 15 years old, plays the Piba (Pee Bah). |
| Student and piba continued. |
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| Another of Mr. Li's students plays the 2 string Chinese violin. |
| Mr. Li demonstrates the 2 string violin. The sounding box at the bottom is covered with snake skin. Did he say it was cobra? It was some dangerous snake at any rate. |
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| When accompanyment was needed, Mr. Li's nephew played on the electronic piano. As you can see he is rather young but he plays as though he's been doing it for decades. He's amazing!!! |
| Another of Mr. Li's students, 8 years old, plays a 20-string zither. All his students who played for us were very good and we enjoyed listening to them. |
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| Mr. Li and his nephew. |
| Mr. Li demonstrates a clay flute. |
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| Mr. Li tells us about and plays a smaller version of a type of flute that we saw and heard in the Miao villages of Langde and NanHua |
| Mr. Li's nephew played a few songs for us. |
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| (Left to right) Mr. Li, who gave the talk; Mr. Li, his father, who some of us met on Peony Square that morning; and, of course, our speaker's nephew, Mr. Li most junior. |
| (Left to RIght) Mrs. Li, wife or sister-in-law of our speaker, Linda, Mr. Li Senior, our speaker's nephew, our speaker, Garr, speaker's brother and nephew's father. |
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