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Welcome to Linda's and Garr's China pictures.
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A fancy restaurant we passed on the way back to
Luoyang.
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A graveyard we passed on the way back to Luoyang.
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Another graveyard we passed on the way back to Luoyang.
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Front gate at the "White Horse Temple" in
Luoyang. Seventy vegetarian Buddhist monks live here.
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(Left) Horse Statue.
(Right)Incense burner.
In 64 A.D. the Emperor dreamt of a 5 meter tall golden man.
He asked one of his ministers the meaning of the dream. He was told that
the man in the dream was the Buddha worshipped in the west. He sent two
men to India to learn about Buddhism. These men went to India and found
two Buddhist monks and lived with them for two years. They invited the
monks to come to China, which they did. They arrived in Luoyang, then
the capitol of China, with scriptures and statues
carried here by two white horses. The horses died from the exertion of the trip and the
Emperor named the temple for them. The monks are burried on the temple grounds.
During the cultural revolution (1966 - 1976,) the temple and Longmen Grottos were protected from
the Red Guard by the army
by order of Zhou Enlai.
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Male Lion (ball under right foot) at White Horse Temple.
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Female Lion (baby lion under left foot) at White Horse Temple.
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Garden at White Horse Temple.
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Linda and horse statue at White Horse Temple.
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A road side vegetable market in Luoyang.
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A ball on the pole with rods sticking out
is something that we saw all over China in the cities. At night they light up
like a skyrocket exploding in the night sky. Also
see a similar picture from Guiyang, in southwest China.
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Next to the New Friendship Hotel, where
we stayed in Luoyang, there was a "night market". Some of the
vendors, including this painter, were still there the next morning.
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Getting on the bus.
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On the bus.
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Dancers, incorporating flags with their movements, in Peony Square in Luoyang.
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This is the folk museum in Luoyang,
or just outside it.
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This is a watercolor demo in the folk museum
in Luoyang
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This loom is at the folk museum in Luoyang.
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At the folk museum in Luoyang we are shown a
shadow puppet. The puppets are made from leather.
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A shadow puppet show, complete with music and dialog.
This was a demonstration for us...
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...and so it was OK for Linda to go around the back
and get a picture of the puppet mistress at work.
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Shadow Puppet Show at the Folk Museum in Luoyang.
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No, I wasn't really going to give Linda a ride, but
we wanted it to look like that. This was in a courtyard at the folk
museum.
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One of many gift shops we saw. This one, at the folk
museum, had some shoes made for bound feet. They were for sale. Betty
holds them up here. Did she buy them?
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