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Smit & Palarczyk > [CHINA.GUANGDONG 25.195]
'New Year pig.'

	New Year should be a happy time for everyone in China, so even the animals have their dwellings brightened up by a piece of red paper, as here in Penfeng, a village near Huaji. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [CHINA.GUANGXI 25.273]
'Waiting for hot water.'

	At San Wang Miao, a village of the Miao mountain tribe, cooks are waiting till the water boils during a New Year temple-fair. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [CHINA.GUANGXI 25.393]
'Cormorant-fisher-2.'

	South of Yangshuo a fisher on the Li River makes use of trained cormorants. The birds are not able to swallow caught fish as a result of a cord which is tightened around their neck. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [CHINA.GUANGXI 25.292]
'Surrounded by village elder-2.'

	A shaman pupil and his mother are surrounded by village elder in their temple during a New Year festivities at San Wang Miao, a village of the Miao mountain tribe. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [CHINA.GUANGXI 25.448]
'West River at Wuzhou.'

	In Wuzhou cable operated trolleys are used on an inclined plane for loading barges on the West River (Xi Jiang). Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [CHINA.GUANGDONG 25.111]'
'Gifts to the gods.'

	A shrine with incense-sticks (left) is disseminating its fragrant smoke in front of the Buddhist Guangxiao Temple at Guangzhou (Canton) while worshippers are adding new sticks. On the right a worshipper is handing a bunch of flowers to a temple-guard as a gift to the gods. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [CHINA.GUANGXI 25.266]
'Shaman of Miao tribe-2.'

	At a village 20 km east of Hexian a shaman of the Miao mountain tribe holds a ritual sword and has his cheeks pierced by a golden pin. The yellow papers at his belt are fu-talismans, the burnt rests of which can be used as a medicine. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [CHINA.GUANGXI 25.412]
’Dredging for gold-1.’

	At Daning,northeast of Hexian, a barge is dredging the Fujiang River for gold. The larger stones are ending up as conspicuous pebble-bars in the riverbed. The smaller stones and grains of gold are trapped in ribbed boards. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [CHINA.GUANGXI 25.360]
'Yulong River-1.'

	Against a background of eroded lime-stone mountains, fountains of bamboo line the Yulong River near Chuanyan village west of Yangshuo. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
[CHINA.GUANGDONG 25.195]
'New Year pig.'

New Year should be a happy time for everyone in China, so even the animals have their dwellings brightened up by a piece of red paper, as here in Penfeng, a village near Huaji. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [CHINA.GUANGDONG 25.195]
'New Year pig.'

	New Year should be a happy time for everyone in China, so even the animals have their dwellings brightened up by a piece of red paper, as here in Penfeng, a village near Huaji. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
[CHINA.GUANGDONG 25.195]
'New Year pig.'

New Year should be a happy time for everyone in China, so even the animals have their dwellings brightened up by a piece of red paper, as here in Penfeng, a village near Huaji. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
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