Thursday, 27 October - Pingyao to Taiyuan (1/2)

Looks like another small walled town	Screen in first set of rooms showing feng shui	Tiny shoes worn by ladies with bound feet	Some clothes from Ming dynasty	Models showing part of one of the festivals	Some old furniture	Grinding machines	Farming tools	Example of beautiful carved doors
School was set up inside the areas	Set of rooms to do with the marriage ceremony	Funeral ceremony	Showing coffin	Mourners	Area within walls never finished as Japanese came so now a garden	Examples of money and bank notes when bank first set up	Plan of the residence	Burning or make pictures
They seem to have no concept of how wide they are	Maize stalks being taken home to dry	Cabbages being transported	Puncture	George looking in surprise at new wheel	I can now put old one back in boot thinks George	Lorries overtaking us while puncture being fixed	Sheep seem to be on correct side of road unlike some of the Chinese drivers	Lunch in Jinci
Jinci	Entrance at Jinci temple	Explanation	Mirrored hall	Some old trees	Stage at rear of mirrored hall used for Beijing opera	Bronze Song figures	Sainted mothers hall	Rare song dragon