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No one was grumpy, it was just sunny today.<\/p>\n
From top to bottom:<\/p>\n
– Me on top of Xian’s city wall with a view of the outer city<\/p>\n
– Dad in front of an enormous bell (this is \/the\/ bell, used for sound effects on tv and said to cure deafness, etc.)<\/p>\n
– The mascot for the xian world horticultural expo<\/p>\n
– An herbalist rabbit (from the ‘forest of stone tablets’ which is a place that has all the great ancient works of Chinese literature carved in stone for posterity)<\/p>\n
– Some more handy animals.\u00a0 I asked our host Dr. Li for explanation about these but didn’t get an explanation other than “you like frogs!\u00a0 I bought you a frog!”<\/p>\n
– Tasty farewell dinner with Shenqing Li who I failed to photograph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
No one was grumpy, it was just sunny today. From top to bottom: – Me on top of Xian’s city wall with a view of the outer city – Dad in front of an enormous bell (this is \/the\/ bell, … Continue reading