Saturday, January 11, 2025

九曲

We came to Wuyishan prepared. The Shanghai Museum East displayed the whole length of a four century old scroll painting of the famous "nine bends," a sandstone landscape full of gnarly scholars' stone-like mountains full of temples and travelers. Nothing could really look this loopy, surely? But I wanted to confirm! 

This scene near the start is the closest I managed to correlation of what we saw and what the painter depicted. Not too much of a stretch! 

I'll let some other scenes of the two-hour journey speak for themselves...

And so it goes...