I thought I was imagining things. We were just about finished with a temple dedicated to Fuxi when I saw a score of oldish people hustling into the temple, orange sashes tied around their waist, all speaking Taiwanese, a language related to Mandarin about as closely as French is to Portuguese. I was only able …
After getting a ride back from Maijishan, Galen and I went to the temple dedicated to Fuxi. Fuxi is an ancient Chinese god/mythical ancestor who was the first at a lot of things in Chinese mythology. According to Chinese legends, Fuxi and his wife/sister, Nuwa, created all humans after a flood washed everyone else away. …
One of the reasons we chose to try to hitchhike our way across China is because we wanted to meet people and show folks back home the real China, in all its weird variety. When we hitched a ride from Anna, the spazzy girl I mentioned in the previous post, she struck us as one …
Anna was clearly interested in Galen, which made my asking for a ride easy. She had wanted me to ask. While we were weaving our way through the Buddhist caves at Maijishan, we were approached by three young women. This was nothing unusual; we had already twice been asked to take pictures with people since …