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By August, the Kungnaissu plain has become withered and yellow, the sheep have moved on to other pastures, and the fields have become one vast floor for drying grain. After the autumn harvest, the children play in the stacks of corn, guarding what will be the community's staple food for the winter.
Uighur children at a remote elementary school in Kashih, Sinkiang, study both Mandarin Chinese and their mother tongue. Does the mixture of seeing the Uighur script used for their Islamic religious writings and the Chinese characters used on the train schedules create a burden for them in learning, it may be wondered.
"The blue, blue sky/the boundless plain/the wind sweeps over the tall grass/revealing the sheep and cattle." The lines from the old poem paint a vivid picture of the Mongolian plain. These two brothers have driven their sheep out early in the morning and keep watch over them as they nibble the grass. For them, life couldn't be simpler.
These two brothers are carrying sickles and bamboo baskets to cut grass on the hillsides, not to beautify the environment, but to supply fodder for their family's only piece of livestock, a donkey, which it keeps to work in the fields.
Thatched, earthen buildings like this one are scattered about the Mongolian plain in Shensi. For travelers like me, they may serve as a hotel (as it says on the wall), but for the Han Chinese who have immigrated here to stay, these buildings mean home.
In the Waitan district of Shanghai, a little girl is made up with a red dot between her eyebrows like an Indian princess. Besides making her look cuter, the mark can ward off evil, protect her from harm and attract good fortune, her mother says.
Uighur children at a remote elementary school in Kashih, Sinkiang, study both Mandarin Chinese and their mother tongue. Does the mixture of seeing the Uighur script used for their Islamic religious writings and the Chinese characters used on the train schedules create a burden for them in learning, it may be wondered.
"The blue, blue sky／the boundless plain／the wind sweeps over the tall grass／revealing the sheep and cattle." The lines from the old poem paint a vivid picture of the Mongolian plain. These two brothers have driven their sheep out early in the morning and keep watch over them as they nibble the grass. For them, life couldn't be simpler.
These two brothers are carrying sickles and bamboo baskets to cut grass on the hillsides, not to beautify the environment, but to supply fodder for their family's only piece of livestock, a donkey, which it keeps to work in the fields.
Thatched, earthen buildings like this one are scattered about the Mongolian plain in Shensi. For travelers like me, they may serve as a hotel （as it says on the wall）, but for the Han Chinese who have immigrated here to stay, these buildings mean home.
In the Waitan district of Shanghai, a little girl is made up with a red dot between her eyebrows like an Indian princess. Besides making her look cuter, the mark can ward off evil, protect her from harm and attract good fortune, her mother says. （photos and text by Lo Chi-chih／tr. by Peter Eberly）
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