Quanzhou still retained quite a bit of it's old-world charm with it's antique architecture everywhere.
A rather famousKwan Ti temple in Quanzhou.
Beside the Kwan Ti temple is one of the oldest mosque in China, built in AD 1009.
Quanzhou is famous for bridges, and you can expect to find bridges like this in every corner of the city.
West Street in Quanzhou city is a very old district, as one can see from the condition of the shophouses along the sides of the street.
The front gate of Quanzhou Liyuan Opera Experimental Troupe, the troupe which I had longed to pay visit to...
... but it was empty inside. Perhaps I went at the wrong time?
Shophouses at Zhongshan Road in Quanzhou; as one can see, the buildings are really quite old.
Zhongshan Road in Quanzhou don't look quite different from it's Xiamen cousin, in my opinion!
Nanyin (one of the most ancient musical forms still existing in China now) performances like this take place in various parts of the city every night.
Nanyin is still popular among the older folks of Quanzhou.
This street here is full of shops selling dog meat, mutton and goose meat steamboat; it's hard to find an empty table in these shops on a cold winter night!
Having steamboat by the side of the road on one cold, windy winter night.
The patrons here seemed to be enjoying themselves even though they were not sheltered from the cold winds by any walls or ceiling.
3 comments:
Quanzhou has this old-time charm.
Your posts make me think of going to China again.
Yes indeed, but how long will the charm last is unknown. I remembered years back while crossing the big bridge into Quanzhou cities, there're pavillion-like pillars adorning both sides of the road, but now I no longer see them. Hopefully other old architectures will not just go away with time as well!
.. so good leh.. can go there. So u saw any liyuanxi performance?
Who u went with ah?
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