This last week China has been on holidays. At least, the students haven't had class, and many Chinese people have used these days to travel, mainly to visit distant relatives. This is so because 1st of October, National Day, aniversary of proclamation of the People's Republic by Mao in 1949, and also Zhong Qiu Jie (中秋节), the Mid-Autumn Festival. The 15th day of the second month of Autumn, according to Chinese traditional Lunar calendar (this year, 6th of October in Gregorian calendar), coinciding with the brightest full moon of the year, China celebrates on of its major festivities. With this pretext, we decide to go somewhere close to Beijing, and the choice was Cuan Di Xia, a small town, some 80km west of the city, with is presented as an example of cultural tourism and historical preservation.
The village combines old style four-sides traditional houses with the remains of maoism. Here, Marta and me reflect on the inscription on the wall: 'Use the thought of Mao Zedong to arm our brain'.
Cuan di xia enjoys the rare privilage of being a sort of 'pillow' for Buda. As you can see in the pictures, the silloute of the mountains reproduce the profile of a sleeping Buda...more or less.
The people in the hostel invited us to join them in their Mid-Autumn celebrations: eating yue ping, the traditional 'moon cakes', bananas, nuts, drinking some tea and beer, and most importantly, sit around a round table (as round as the moon) to talk, toast, and make friends.
Cuan di xia enjoys the rare privilage of being a sort of 'pillow' for Buda. As you can see in the pictures, the silloute of the mountains reproduce the profile of a sleeping Buda...more or less.
The people in the hostel invited us to join them in their Mid-Autumn celebrations: eating yue ping, the traditional 'moon cakes', bananas, nuts, drinking some tea and beer, and most importantly, sit around a round table (as round as the moon) to talk, toast, and make friends.
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