Xunhua

Why came to XunHua? To see the Yellow River, the mother river of China.

The Bridge of Yellow River in XunHua

Now I can see why our ancestors called it "Yellow" river.

Local people grow hot peppers.
Because their peppers are so delicious, their products are shipped out nationwide.

The houses local people live in

The mosques local people go to.
I found that their mosques are often confused with Buddha temples.

An old lady working	A sales girl smiled at me		A group of men taking a break
A school boy singing out loud on his way home		A lady voluntarily shared her taxi with us

循化住民大部分是信奉回教的撒拉族人。我們在巷弄裏溜達時，曾被請到一個人家中參觀。
老夫妻倆搆着高高的葡萄架，採了幾串下來，款待陌生的遠方遊人。
Most inhabitants of Xunhua are Muslim. When I was wandering amongst the alleyways behind local homes, an elderly couple invited us in to chat. In their home grew tall grapevines. They climbed up a ladder to pick a few bunches of grapes to satisfy travelers' curiosity.

離開循化，小鵬到蘭州搭機囘珠海。我則繼續前行. . . .
I parted from my travel companion here. She went back to Zhuhai and I continued on my own...

途中休息上厠所
The public bus would stop whenever someone needed to use the "natural restroom".

中途轉車，需要在路旁站着等候，不知車子何時會來。
"Bus stops" were unmarked areas where people stood, sat or squatted on the side of the road. They were easy to miss if you didn't know where to look for a bus stop.

等車時看到殺羊場景
At the bus stop, I saw a butcher killing and skinning a sheep,
a common livestock in the Xunhua area.

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