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China Postcards: Pictures of the Yellow Earth By Xu Yong

In the photos album, "Childhood On Loess Plateau", I record the lives of those innocent and naive children living deep in the loess plateau. Known as a place where the loess is the thickest in the world, the region is also the hometown of the Chinese ancestors and birthplace of the Chinese culture. The living conditions in the loess plateau are hard to endure, and the childhood of the Chinese children is totally different from that of those living in the coastal region of China. The most cheerful occasion for the poor peasants there, as in other parts of China, is the Spring Festival. Every Spring Festival, every household would ardently decorate its home and put exquisite paper cuts on windows. Farmers in colorful costumes organize their own parades to neighboring villages for exchanging New Year Greetings. The carnival is in sharp contrast to the stable, lonely and hard routine life in the Yellow Earth for most of the year. The name of the Yellow River is also originated from the Yellow Earth. Accordingly, the Yellow Earth is considered by many the synonym of China. The poor transport means and the inaccessibility to information solidifies the evolution of productive methods and people's lifestyles. Farmers in the regions still cultivate lands with manual labor and the harvest relies heavily on the unpredictable weather. The grandest sacrificial ritual in the plateau is the rain-praying ceremony. Every year before the spring planting, the farmers throng atop hills to offer sacrifices for the Dragon King, the legendary Rain God, for favorable weather and a bumper harvest in the coming year. In China, the Yellow Earth usually refers to the loess plateau in the country's northern part. The plateau is acknowledged as the birthplace of Chinese nationality. The tomb of Emperor Huang, said to be the ancestor of the Chinese people, still locates on the northern Shaanxi province. Geographically, the loess plateau is situated in the central part of North China with an area of thousands of square kilometres and its altitude averaging between 800 and 1,100 metres above sea level. The place is one of China's driest regions partially due to over cultivation and soil erosion. For past centuries, people in the region developed a special cave dwelling, or "Yao Dong". They dig into the sunny slope of the hills till they finish an arch-roofed cave.
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All Photographs of the Loess Plateau Copyright Of Xu Yong, China. July, 1996

Five young Chinese children stand on the yellow earth near their cave dwellings.

Five young Chinese boys of the loess plateau by trees in China postcards picture.

Chinese Children Of Loess Plateau In School Of Yellow Earth

Group of Chinese school children of Loess Plateau singing near their school in the yellow earth.

Chinese teacher and pupils in school classroom in yellow earth cave in China loess plateau.

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All Photographs of the Loess Plateau Copyright Of Xu Yong, China. July, 1996

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Picture of Chinese man and woman with baby in arms standing outside their yellow earth cave home in the Loess Plateau

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A Vietnamese Wedding with ancient customs western style. Ceremonies at the home of the bride followed by registration of the marriage at "la mairie de Creney-pres-Troyes" then a service at the catholic church, "Pont Sainte Marie". In the evening a party was held at the Community Hall to celebrate the happy event.

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China Pictures from the Shaolin Temple show building construction work for a World Heritage Listing, working in shifts over 24 hours to complete the Shaolin Temple Buildings. Where the workers had come from is unknown but from observation, they were very experienced in the skilled work they were doing.

Picture of building work at the Shaolin Temple.

The teenage building worker and the kung fu student are of similar age but as can be seen from the pictures of hands, their lifestyles are completely different. The kung fu hand forms demonstrated by the kung fu student in the pictures of hands, seem to develop hands of steel!