Chengde Street Hawker Uses Balance Scales to Weigh Apples for Customer.
 The people must earn a living in whatever way they can. The Chengde street hawker selling apples could well have been a farmer selling some of his crop, or just a small Chengde retailer taking his business to the streets. I wondered whether his balance scales were accurate. A man or woman sitting on the pavement with a few apples on a bamboo skip, or even a piece of cardboard to act as their stall, can often be seen in small towns and indeed, even in some of the cities. If all their stock was sold during the course of the day, they would have earned only a few yuan.
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Street Wall of Chengde Hotel Hung with Chinese Paintings.
 But fruit is not the only thing sold on the Chengde streets. Hanging up in front of a Chengde hotel were several Chinese paintings so Zhong went to inspect them and talk to the seller, who was clad in a much needed long thick overcoat for the Chengde weather. As much thought is given to the inscription or title of a Chinese painting as to the detailed subject it portrays. "Cat And Dog On Chair", might be a Western inscription, but a Chinese artist might inscribe it as, "It Is Better To Be Friends Than To Be Enemies", and of course the Chinese painting would have the red seal of the artist.
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Stall Holders in Chengde Market Maintain Attractive Displays on Their Stalls.
 There was some protection from the winds in one of the Chengde markets we visited and one stall had a fine selection of nuts, peanuts in their husks, peanuts in their skins and skinned, and cashew nuts amongst them. After every sale, the Chengde stall holder reshaped the pile of nuts or stack of oranges, which had been disturbed, to make the display look attractive again.
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| The start of these personal webpages and the Vietnam pictures, followed a chance meeting with a young man named Hoang in 1979. Hoang was one of the "Boat People" from Vietnam who arrived in the UK. In due course I was given the responsibility of teaching him some English. A few weeks later I met his family and friends, and subsequently their families and friends, and friends and families, of friends and families.... and so it was that the ideas for the personal webpages began. |
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