Yu County overnight trip, 2024/10
Sparks fly at the dashuhua performance.

Yu County overnight trip, 2024/10

A big set of photos from two days in Yu County and the surrounding area—old towns, castles, temples, villages, and the dashuhua performance.

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Day One

We visited Nuanquan ‘Warm Spring’ Town for a walkabout, checking out the spring, the snacks street, castles and temples in the town, and then took in the dashuhua performance.

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The ‘warm spring’ had dried up.
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Snacks street.
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We bumped into our local lantern-making friend Master Dong, who gave us a quick tour of his 400-year-old house.
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The original site of the dashuhua performances. (You can see the iron still stuck to the wall)
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The new site of the dashuhua performances.
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Day 2

We walked through Yuzhou Ancient Town to see the temples, large gates, and Nan’ansi Pagoda, heading on to White Horse God Village for a quick hike, and finishing with a look about Jimingyi.

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Yuhuang Pavilion.
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We saw drumming, dancing, and singing.
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One of the big gates.
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Impromptu pet shop?
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Nan’ansi Pagoda.
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White Horse God Village, a rural village with rammed earth walls around tumble-down houses.
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White Horse God Temple. The one person we met in the whole village said the temple is falling down and no one cares.
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Fading frescoes inside the temple.
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Starting a tour of the courtyards and temples in Jimingyi Ancient Town.
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The east gate in the walls of Jimingyi.

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