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  • Fans enjoy a long history of about 3 thousand years in China.<br />
The Chinese Fan is the part of the principal section of traditional Chinese folk custom that became part of the social status for the Chinese people.
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  • A daily women talk beside the red banners, from the past Spring Festival, hanged on each side and top of the door, creates the symbolic gateway on the house and add meanings of joy, luck and passion, with written messages that are usually intended to keep the bad spirits away and bring luck into the house.<br />
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Some also stick directly on their door the image of the "door god", as ghost catchers, to make sure that bad spirits could not get into the house.
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  • Hong Sheng Temple
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  • Old woman washes a chicken to cook.
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  • Lady playing a traditional chinese violin, a handmade erhu.
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  • Old man at Daxu Ancient Village at Guangxi Province, China.
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  • Old man with bycicle walks through the ancient Cha Tang Village, at Guangzhou periphery. Guangdong, China.
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  • Old woman walks through Cha Tang Village, at Guangzhou periphery. Guangdong, China.
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  • Lion traditional dance presentation at ancient Cha Tang Village, at Guangzhou periphery. The Chinese Southern Lion dance originated from Guangdong state, the homeland of the Chinese southern style lion. The Chinese southern horned lions are believed to be mythological Nians.<br />
Guangdong, China.
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  • So closely bound up that is hard to say where one begins and the other ends. Historical figures are made into gods and myths are recounted as history, and those that inhabited the ancient texts, are alive and well in the 21th century.<br />
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A diverse heritage has given rise to a body of stories that is a vital part of Chinese life, and these tales are still the subject of numerous retellings in many forms. Books, opera, film, painting, festivals, as figures of speech, the myths of ancinet china live on the lives of ordinary Chinese people everywhere.
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  • Chinese opera survived the passing of the centuries, the coming and going of dynasties, and has many strong female roles, though for most of its history, no females to play them. Women in China, especially of the upper class, had to observe very reserved and controlled conduct, and for the most part confined themselves indoors. It was only in the beginning in the 1930s, it became acceptable for women to perform in the opera.
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  • Young women dressed with traditional colors for celebration, crossing through the gray walls of Cha Tang Village, at Guangzhou periphery.
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  • Young Chinese woman shows an old kitchen of an ancient house, nearby Yangshuo town.
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  • Chinese man at Foshan street.
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  • Longji terraced rice fields are built along the slope winding from the riverside up to the mountain top. This farm engineering on hills dotted with ancient minority villages sees terraces rise up to 1000m high.<br />
The terraced fields were mostly built during the Ming Dynasty, about 500 years ago.
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  • Hiking the Moon Mountain. Yangshuo, Guangxi Province, China.
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  • Yulong River
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  • Li River landscape, at Guangxi Province.
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  • Artist performing a traditional lion dance at Wong Fei Hung Museum.<br />
The Wong Fei Hung Lion Dance team presentation includes stilts over 10-12 feet in the air, with the lion jumping from stilt to stilt. Foshan is known as the birthplace of lion dancing.
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  • Baomo Garden at Panyu District.
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  • Until the early 1930's was still possible to find a large majority of women in middle age living with visible effects of the Lotus shoes practice, where the feet were heavily bandaged to limit their growth. Known as Lotus shoes, this social practice began in the Chinese court in the twelfth century, then reproduced by the peasant masses who imitated the elite.<br />
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This subjection of women, very painful and disabling, generated a high-cost mental, social, and that somehow reminded me of the beauty standards that are still imposed by our actual society on women, eight centuries later.<br />
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At the image, a delicate healthy feet on sandals.
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