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My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

CHINA | Friday, 5 July 2013 | Views [309] | View Larger Image

Harvesting season, the streets of Shaxi village are empty and fields a hive of activity. Friends family and neighbors all join in to cut and sow the crops before rainy season starts.

Farmer guides his flock of geese over the cobble stones of the Yujin Bridge, an ancient bridge that is part of the 1000 year old traders Tea Horse Road which led from China through India, the Middle East and into Africa.
The sun is about to drop and the farmer is keen to get home for supper having spent the previous 10 minutes firing stones from a sling shot to hurry the geese up as they swam in the river below.

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Not the image of Chinese mass producers I had pictured, what a nice surprise!
Farmer separates barley from chaff (the protective casings on the the grains) in a straw basket.

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My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

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