Some scenes from the recent vertiginous trip to China's northeast, strictly in sequence except this map from the museum dedicated to the neolithic Hongshan culture in Chifeng, which conveniently shows all the places we went in black, starting with Dalian at the bottom and winding up in Shenyang at the far right. ... There's a story to each pic. Ask!
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A map which happened to show all the places we went, at the 红山文化博物馆、Hongshan Culture Museum in Chifeng, Grand water display and a more mysterious coastal veil near 大连 Dalian. Classic holy mountain scenery at 医巫闾山 Yiwulüshan and unique mountaintop outcroppings at 克什克腾世界地质公园阿斯哈图石林景区 Heshigten Global Geopark. Silkworms fried to perfection at a restaurant near Yiwulü. Contrived jade dragon worship and big sand dunes at 玉龙沙湖 Yulong Sand Lake, a few hour north of 赤峰 Chifeng, with a view from our hotel window. An enteprising espresso-tuktuk at the entrance to Chifeng's Hongshan Culture Museum and a scene of the red mountain (=hongshan) which gives it its name. Models of pagodas at the 辽代历史文化博物馆 Liao Dynasty Cultural Museum (starting with the wooden pagoda south of Datong which we saw nine years ago), also in Chifeng, and a live v-logger in rented Qing dynasty kit holding forth among peonies at 喀喇沁王府, a Mongolian prince's mansion. One of a myriad fossils - this a bird-like feathered dinosaur named after Confucius - found in the Jehol Biota near 朝阳 Chaoyang, a town (at 3 million the smallest we stayed in) whose Liao dynasty pagoda is accompanied by a steady stream of circumabulators. (You might recognize it from the scale models in Chifeng.) Somewhat clunky cherubs graced the lush landscaping of the housing complex we stayed in in 沈阳 Shenyang, whose 东福陵 tomb complex for the founder of the Qing dynasty I remembered from my first Shenyang trip. A diaorama of the Hongshan people from the 辽宁省博物馆 Liaoning Provincial Museum doesn't tell us what they're worshipping. Some of the offerings at a seafood hotpot place. And one more view of the fossiliferous neolithic and Liao-shaped Northeast, from our Korean Airlines Flight out.
