Preparing to depart |
The survey team is composed of several women |
Yanchashi District is located on the banks of the
Yellow River. Its primary product are red dates and
it has a total population of 6-7 thousand |
Outside the district government building |
The district government's yaodong office |
The district is considered in the middle of the economic
ladder in the county |
Party Secretary explaining the district cadres support
of the project |
Party Secretary and his right hand man |
Yanchashi District |
The district middle school |
The principle informs the team that the school has
specially created an art class that teaches paper-cuttings |
Student's artworks |
Student's artworks (detail) |
detail 2 |
Xiao Xiong interviewing the teacher of the art class |
The team distributes survey forms to the principle |
Third grade to sixth grade students from the entire
district attend the school |
Long March survey team |
Water is as valuable as oil here |
Drying huanghuacai |
A Sha'anbei home |
Hanging paper-cuttings in windows is not just for
New Years |
People of Sha'anbei refer to paper-cuttings as "cutting
flowers" |
A saved paper-cutting |
Scissors can be found throughout the homes of Sha'anbei
residents |
Women will save the paper-cuttings that they feel
like happy with |
All the women save their paper-cuttings in the pages
of old books |
In the bag under her elbow is hidden all of her saved
paper-cuttings |
Presenting her paper-cuttings |
All her paper-cuttings are present |
The "Mapping of Yanchuan County Paper-cuttings"
is the largest cultural project in Yanchuan to date |
Even men are participating in the survey |
While making her paper-cutting, the woman tells a
story about aboriginies living in the mountains
Filling out the survey form
|
While making her paper-cutting, the woman tells a
story about aboriginies living in the mountains
Filling out the survey form
|
Aside from being skilled at paper-cuttings, seventy
year old Grandma Feng from Huijuyuan village is also
skilled at embroidery |
Grandma Feng has over 34 people in her family |
Grandma Feng as Long Marcher David Tung, "Why
is America attacking Iraq? That's no good!" |
The Long March team stayed the night at Grandma Feng's
home |
Survey team member taking a picture |
Much housework to do after seeing off the survey team |
