County Magistrate Feng visits the Long March team
and asks how the survey is going |
County Magistrate Feng and the Long March team |
County magistrate personally comes to inspect survey
results |
Unraveling the packets of paper-cuttings |
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Magistrate Feng asks the young girl why she is learning
to make paper-cuttings
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Malianqian village |
At 6am the team arrives at a Sha'anbei villagers home
amidst the smoke of the stove to begin their work |
The troops head up the mountain |
Village cadre and the survey team |
The survey team from July 1, 2004 |
The village's Party secretary explains the situation
of families in the village |
The women have brought their "flowers" |
Survey team member Gao Yanmei is sure to bring paper-cutting
scissors with her |
Team leader Yang has abundant experience in grassroots
cultural work |
A elderly villager and a young "Red Army soldier" |
Photographer Hei Jianguo chatting with a villager |
Images are an important way for the women to preserve
their culture |
Distributing red paper and scissors |
The woman are scared that others will say their paper-cuttings
are no good |
Only after the kids have grown up has she had time
to make paper-cuttings |
Understanding the lives of villagers |
If their wives have respect, then the men are also
happy |
The old woman says she does not have any paper-cuttings |
Embroidering shoes is a traditional craft practiced
by the women of Sha'anbei |
Lighting the stove to make breakfast |
The women are busy making paper-cuttings, so the children
go home with the men |
Showing her paper-cuttings |
The village mayor knows who in the village can make
paper-cuttings like the back of his hand |
The old woman can not only make paper-cuttings, but
can also sew coin purses |
Showing off her favorite paper-cuttings |
Walking through the village visiting households |
Discussing survey experiences in the middle of the
village road |
Exhibition Director? Survey Director? Camera-man? |
One paper-cutting, one set of hands, one world |
"There people here to collect paper-cuttings!" |
She is sure to wash her hands before making paper-cuttings |
A woman making paper-cuttings |
The women of Malianqian village making paper-cuttings
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A woman making paper-cuttings |
Samples |
An assembled paper-cutting |
In the books in the bag in the dresser are her paper-cuttings |
Washing her hands before displaying her paper-cuttings |
As the women show off their paper-cutting skills,
the men are busy chatting amongst themselves |
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3 generations of men
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The local men like to smoke their own tobacco, but
the planting, care, and harvest is all done by the
women
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Xiao Xiong having a smoke
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The young man turns nineteen this year. He says
he wants to find a Beijing wife.
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This young fellow says he can make a "double
happiness" paper-cutting
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Impromptu folk songs
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This is the village master at singing "daoqing"
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Feng Shanyun has a good understanding of Yanchuan
culture |
Singing "daoqing" |
A performance of the "Yangge" dance |
A tired survey team member |
"Hala" noodles are what the people of Sha'anbei
take care of their honored guests. It means that they
wish for you to stay longer |
"American," "Chinese," "northwestern
Chinese" |
The women take a group picture |
