Vision China----A small town

^JB^ -- Both horticulture and horticulturists are very good words and your use was correct for your grandparents.

Saying that they are gardeners is more casual. Of course, someone might then ask... Hmmm, what do they grow? And then you could say, "Why, they grow ornamentals." Very Happy

You could get a good conversation going with that gambit. Wink

I would be interested in the ornamentals they grow. Anything like this??

http://www.venuscomm.com/Penjingchoices/penjingscans/Landscape5.jpeg

My confusion was that the garden you showed us looked (to me) like a home vegetable garden. But, now I think it is what I would call a "market garden." Those vegetables are to be sold and could be considered as agriculture, just as you said, although we could still say that those gardeners were horticulturists too... but hoping to make some extra cash.

Here is an "allotment" garden in England. I think these can be leased from the local council both for home use (horticulture) or for market produce.

http://www.woodley-tc.gov.uk/images/location_photos/allotments_large.jpg

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Here is a photo of my grandpa's garden taken from the third floor of their house:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/RobertWoo/garden.jpg

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That's nice... plants on every floor. Are those trees on the street? I can only recognize a few plants... looks like a rose & a fuschia on the 3rd floor, a lily on the second.

Is the black fabric for sun screens? They must enjoy having views from such a height and I'll bet the neighbors enjoy seeing their plants from the street.

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^JB^ -- i ought to have chimed in earlier with how enjoyable your thread is. I was going back through the pictures, when i noticed that you had described one building as the temple of Guan Yu. I was flabbergasted. Was not Guan Yu a real person, who lived during the fall of the Han dynasty? I have not read, but am familiar with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. I certainly know who Guan Yu was, and that he was a great warrior, if he did in fact exist. Was he not a retainer of Liu Bei, in the north?

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Hi there, JB (I can't find those upward facing arrows around 'JB' on my keyboard...)
Where was I? This thread is wonderful!

I'm wondering if you can tell us what the atmosphere is like among people right now with all that controversy about Japan and its crimes during the WW II. If it's too much of a digression, that's ok, perhaps there's a thread on it elsewhere already. In fact, there should be! If there isn't, I'll start one.

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Piffka wrote:

That's nice... plants on every floor. Are those trees on the street? I can only recognize a few plants... looks like a rose & a fuschia on the 3rd floor, a lily on the second.

Is the black fabric for sun screens? They must enjoy having views from such a height and I'll bet the neighbors enjoy seeing their plants from the street.

The tree is plum blossom tree (I am not sure with the name)
Yes, that is a sun screen. SO CLEVER! Razz

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Setanta wrote:

^JB^ -- i ought to have chimed in earlier with how enjoyable your thread is. I was going back through the pictures, when i noticed that you had described one building as the temple of Guan Yu. I was flabbergasted. Was not Guan Yu a real person, who lived during the fall of the Han dynasty? I have not read, but am familiar with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. I certainly know who Guan Yu was, and that he was a great warrior, if he did in fact exist. Was he not a retainer of Liu Bei, in the north?

Hi Setanta Very Happy

You are perfectly right about the history (You are always right :wink: )
Yes, Guan Yu was real. And he was also an important figure of the historic novel---The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Actually "Three Kingdoms" is a period after the fall of Han Dynasty. Liu Bei was a far descendant of the Han's royal famliy---Liu. And he became a warlord joining the contest for the control of China immediately after Han lost the legitimacy assisted by his two loyal sworn brothers---Zhang Fei and Guan Yu.

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Yes, Zhang Fei was a fearsome warrior as well, was he not? They were in league against Tsao-Tsao, n'est-ce pas?

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dagmaraka wrote:

Hi there, JB (I can't find those upward facing arrows around 'JB' on my keyboard...)
Where was I? This thread is wonderful!

I'm wondering if you can tell us what the atmosphere is like among people right now with all that controversy about Japan and its crimes during the WW II. If it's too much of a digression, that's ok, perhaps there's a thread on it elsewhere already. In fact, there should be! If there isn't, I'll start one.

The "^" is on the same key as "6", "shift" + "6"

Yes, that is digressed too much Smile

I think it is the time to open a topic of that issue since I have been reading, listening, and watching about it from different ways of sources for nearly two weeks. Thanks for reminding dagmaraka. I will do it just in Asia section Smile

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/RobertWoo/hollow.jpg

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a fine view there - birds on the wire in front of verdant hills...

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Yes, ossobuco, this photo is just about a beautiful view. Smile

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I love this thread, ^JB^

^o^
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Joe(I like the way the stones are stacked in the walls)Nation

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Some feeling of prehistoric era? ^_^

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River is also a symbol of Southeast China.
I am glad that the water of my hometown is amazingly clean :wink:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/RobertWoo/river.jpg

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<back to visit again>

Thank you, ^JB^

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Sorry for the long delay Confused

I am here to post some of my last photos in two days.

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Sadly, EVEN, in this small town, the gap between the poor and the rich is conspicuous

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/RobertWoo/poor.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/RobertWoo/richh.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/RobertWoo/rich.jpg

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Will there always be "the poor" and "the rich" do you think? They are everywhere.

I was talking to a friend of mine about this and she thinks that the rich and the poor switch roles with every reincarnation, while the normal not-rich, not-poor types (like us) are more likely to actually make some headway in our karma cycle. Wishful thinking, perhaps?

Good photos, ^JB^. Very evocative.

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I really like your picture of the bamboo grove. I have bamboo in my back yard, but it's in a container so it won't take over my whole back yard.

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