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Street in Si Jiu

Miller Weighing Product

The miller charges by the pound. The miller weighs the product and calculates how much to charge.

Miller

The miller is getting something. The customer is checking out the machinery.

Customer of Miller

The customer is getting ready to have his grain mill.

Dog Meat

This restaurant serves dog meat. It seems to be a pretty popular dish.

Modern Building

On the main street, this a fairly modern triangular building on the corner. On the side street notice the old buildings and street surface.

Building

This building is six stories high with no elevators. As I understand it, in China, in apartments or condos they only put elevators in building eight stories or…

Bridge in Si Jiu

Old Woman

4-9 Clinic

People’s clinic in 4-9

Snake Trap

When I took take photo it was on the side of Bei Feng Shan (North Point Mountain). I assume it was a mouse trap. I was wrong. It…

Dormitory Style

When living in a one room apartment one stuff overflows. Lack of storage space becomes a problem. I must say this is a family room because it has…

Tea Leaves Drying

This is how they dry tea leaves before toasting. Long beds of tea leaves with hot air from the weather being drawn over them. When they are dried…

Tea Factory Dormitory

This dormitory is for factory workers and their families.

Stove

At the  tea factory, this is one of the stoves in use. It uses wood for fuel. Then again, most of China still uses wood.

Washing Vegetables

Preparing dinner, she is washing vegetables under a faucet. The faucet is connected via PVC to a larger PVC which is connect to a storage tank up the…

Outhouse at Tea Factory

This is the outhouse at the tea factory. Notice that it is built over a big deep trench. While I am sure there is another bathroom, I am…

Tea Factory Dormitory

At the tea factory, the workers are given a place to stay. The bachelor is allowed one room; the families I do not know. This is a bachelor…

Tea Factory

In the middle of the national park, I ran into Paen Fon tea factory.  They grow, harvest and cure their own tea leaves.

Bird in a Cage

Chinese have a particular fascination for birds. Birds appear in Chinese mythology such as: The Red Bird is the power of the south. The Phoenix is the emperor of all birds….

Hot Afternoon Sun

In the hot afternoon sun, the tea factory work rests. Meanwhile, the wife prepares dinner. In the background, you a can see the tea plants.